Football.....
Football is my recent craze. Dont feel that its all due to the coming world cup. But my craze to football started almost 8 months back when the english premier league started. I never used to follow football so closely as now. I support ManUnited at premier league. And am glad to find my club standing 2nd at the end of the season. They cud have done better but Chelsea were amazing throughout the season. I like the style of English football, its played with lot of short passes and smart touches rather than Brazilian or Argentine football where long range shots and individual performance counts. Still my most favourite player is Ronaldhino of Brazil, at this moment no one can beat him. He is simply the best footballer currently in the world. My some other favourite players are Wayne Rooney, Christiano Ronaldo, Frank Lampard, Bellamy, Owen and the list goes on.
I guess India also should promote football. They concentrate just too much over the cricket and i strongly believe there are other major sports that are not properly looked after. Football is one among them. Maybe the sports minister should take some responsible measure towards developing a good soccer in india. I dont think its difficult to get atleast 100 players in the population of 100 crores. Hopefully some general awreness should be brought among indian people for promotion if football in india.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Monday, May 01, 2006
KERALA trip
This is my travelogue to Gods Own Country….KERALA… !!!
I had been to Kerala for 3 days with 6 of my other friends. We started on 28th April (Friday night) and came back on 1st May (Monday night).
The night was perfect for 7 of us to have a go at Gods Own Country. We all started off with a bang around 8:30 pm from Bangalore towards Munnar.
We had booked a 4 wheeler with an execellent driver who touched the max speed of 125km/hr on many occasion on a straight road.
Night journey was a bit painful but somehow we managed to get some sleep.
Morning around 6am we all got up, we were still in TamilNadu, some village in Madurai District. At this very morning we could see enough number of people to crowd the roads. I guess people of this part of country have severe hearing impairments as they couldn’t even move out of our speeding vehicle. Our driver had tough time managing them. We came to a place called Theni where we did a grave mistake of coninuing on same road and not going to Munnar which was on our right.
There was difference of opinion among us as few of us were voting for Thekaddy, which was 30km from Theni and others were in favour of Munnar, which was 60km from Theni. Actually Thekkady was also on our hit list but later we ditched it coz of lack of time. We continued on the same road and in mid way we decided that we will leave Thekaddy and continue for Munnar. But it was too late to take a U-turn and hence we continued on the same road. After reaching Thekaady at around 8am, we started for Munnar, now 108km from here with a hilly road and thick jungle around. We couldn’t see any animals except for the usual monkeys.
Thekaddy is in Kerala, the road was beautiful with thick forest. On the way to Munnar we passed between the thick clouds as well. We couldn’t even see who is coming from the front and it was a great experience. We all were so excited at the chill outside. All words would fail for the lovely description of the place. We managed to get out of the clouds soon and now we got caught by another beauty, the never ending greenary of tea bagans. It was one of the best sites, early morning sun rays falling on lush green hills,making it more lovely. We all could feel it, it was heaven, Kerala rocks !!!
Finally we reached Munnar by 12 pm (we were late by 4 hours) and had our lunch at a place called Patel, a perfect gujju food u can have. It was a great lunch and we started off with our site seeing. We had been to few tea gardens and view points. But the road way made our day. One would definitely like to see such a peace and calm atmosphere after coming from polluted city like Bangalore. We finally went to a place called Top Point, a place surrounded by hills on all sides and supposed to be the highest point of Munnar. It was certainly the most eye catching spot. Beauty of this place certainly can not be explained in words !!!
We were back around 7:30 to Munnar city. We booked the houseboat in Kumargam (near Allepy) in Munnar itself and went to have nice sleep.
Next day (Sunday), I was the first one to get up at 6am and got ready for our next venture for Kumargam. As others were yet to get up, I had nice walk in the hills. I was alone walking through the hilly roads of Munnar with the chilled air all around, it was the walk of my life.
We started for Kumaragam, and stopped in between near few scenic spots. Kumaragom came at around 12pm and we boarded our houseboat after half an hour. The weather in this part of country is a bit humid and the temperature was around 36 degrees celcius. It was a bit contrasting to Munnar but it has its own beauty. We wooed as we started our houseboat. Houseboat is a perfect house with all the facilities, name any u will get there. They had proper kitchen, 2 bed rooms,the hall contained TV, dining table, and small siting area.It had a great finishing and certainly eye-catching. The name of our boat was AQUA JUMBO(don’t laugh).It was the only boat which made hell lot of noise.I had seen backwaters several time before but this was the very first time when I was really experiencing it. The backwater is everywhere, like we have roads in city, they have small channels of water where boats can pass. After passing through busy streets(ooopppsss) channels of water, we reached to lake kinda place, where u can see water all over the place, it was like another sea in itself which has taken place inside the land. We were served lunch, I had fish and chicken and the nutritious Kerala rice with north indian fulka's. Lunch was too good, we all ate like dogs, really. We played some songs on DVD player they had, and talked for a long time. The boat finally halted near a place around 5:30pm. We had a nice time swimming in the water. Though there was current in water, we swam for 45 mins. We went out to get some Toddy (A typical Kerala wine made from a fruit called Tady, something like coconut).In between we were served with evening snack which was made of sweet banana, I forgot the name but it was good. I couldn’t eat much as I was already full with heavy lunch.
All the times we used to pull each others leg and did all sort of masti on the boat. It was definitely the most hilarious day on our trip. We all had drinks just before the dinner. I had vodka and the Toddy. I liked Toddy and all the other didn’t even touch it after taking a sip. We bought 1 litre of Toddy and I could manage to drink only 750ml :)…I was a bit high than others, we had good food, I guess there was some chicken and fulkas and Kerala rice. After dinner we again had some funny talks and we went to sleep around 11:30pm. Houseboat really made our day, it was a different experience and with friends around it makes things perfect. It was the night when we slept tight.
Next day again we got up around 7am and the morning wheather on the backwater was just a perfect morning one would imagine. It was a cloudy morning and a nice breeze added the finishing touches to the awesome weather. Certainly one of the best mornings I ever had. We got our breakfast served soon after the boat started. It had idly and idiappam (a noodle kinda thing made with the same base as of idly) and pineapple to make it more attractive breakfast. Like us there were many tourist on other boats. We used to wave hands when someones boat used to pass so did they. We clicked lots of good looking cheeks from other boats with our great zoom camera which came out to be very helpful:)….) (All those things u can do when u are a bachelor and when u are with right friends….). We came to our original place at 9:30 in morning. And we straightaway started for Banaglore. We were told that it would take 14-15 hours from Kumaragom to reach Bangalore but our driver did the hard work to reach Bangalore around 11 hours.
This was certainly one of my best tours ever !!!
And yeah I have decided to go to Allepy or Kumaragam for my Honeymoon… :))
I had to cut down certain hilarious things here coz this is already lengthy and it was specific to us.
Between following were the guys who were in this trip.
1) Advay - Myself
2) Shrirang Ballal (Balli) - My roomie and college mate
3) Sidharth Vishwanathan(we used to call him "mota" but now "James") - My roomie and college mate
4) Umesh Bude (bude) - college mate
5) Hariharan Iyer (hari bond) - college mate
6) Prayush (pratyush) - James's colleague - ultimate jolly guy..
7) … Gattani (gattu) - James's friend from BITS Pilani.
Driver : Sanish - Touched max speed of 125km/hr on certain occasion, really made our journey comfortable.
Regards,
Advay.
I had been to Kerala for 3 days with 6 of my other friends. We started on 28th April (Friday night) and came back on 1st May (Monday night).
The night was perfect for 7 of us to have a go at Gods Own Country. We all started off with a bang around 8:30 pm from Bangalore towards Munnar.
We had booked a 4 wheeler with an execellent driver who touched the max speed of 125km/hr on many occasion on a straight road.
Night journey was a bit painful but somehow we managed to get some sleep.
Morning around 6am we all got up, we were still in TamilNadu, some village in Madurai District. At this very morning we could see enough number of people to crowd the roads. I guess people of this part of country have severe hearing impairments as they couldn’t even move out of our speeding vehicle. Our driver had tough time managing them. We came to a place called Theni where we did a grave mistake of coninuing on same road and not going to Munnar which was on our right.
There was difference of opinion among us as few of us were voting for Thekaddy, which was 30km from Theni and others were in favour of Munnar, which was 60km from Theni. Actually Thekkady was also on our hit list but later we ditched it coz of lack of time. We continued on the same road and in mid way we decided that we will leave Thekaddy and continue for Munnar. But it was too late to take a U-turn and hence we continued on the same road. After reaching Thekaady at around 8am, we started for Munnar, now 108km from here with a hilly road and thick jungle around. We couldn’t see any animals except for the usual monkeys.
Thekaddy is in Kerala, the road was beautiful with thick forest. On the way to Munnar we passed between the thick clouds as well. We couldn’t even see who is coming from the front and it was a great experience. We all were so excited at the chill outside. All words would fail for the lovely description of the place. We managed to get out of the clouds soon and now we got caught by another beauty, the never ending greenary of tea bagans. It was one of the best sites, early morning sun rays falling on lush green hills,making it more lovely. We all could feel it, it was heaven, Kerala rocks !!!
Finally we reached Munnar by 12 pm (we were late by 4 hours) and had our lunch at a place called Patel, a perfect gujju food u can have. It was a great lunch and we started off with our site seeing. We had been to few tea gardens and view points. But the road way made our day. One would definitely like to see such a peace and calm atmosphere after coming from polluted city like Bangalore. We finally went to a place called Top Point, a place surrounded by hills on all sides and supposed to be the highest point of Munnar. It was certainly the most eye catching spot. Beauty of this place certainly can not be explained in words !!!
We were back around 7:30 to Munnar city. We booked the houseboat in Kumargam (near Allepy) in Munnar itself and went to have nice sleep.
Next day (Sunday), I was the first one to get up at 6am and got ready for our next venture for Kumargam. As others were yet to get up, I had nice walk in the hills. I was alone walking through the hilly roads of Munnar with the chilled air all around, it was the walk of my life.
We started for Kumaragam, and stopped in between near few scenic spots. Kumaragom came at around 12pm and we boarded our houseboat after half an hour. The weather in this part of country is a bit humid and the temperature was around 36 degrees celcius. It was a bit contrasting to Munnar but it has its own beauty. We wooed as we started our houseboat. Houseboat is a perfect house with all the facilities, name any u will get there. They had proper kitchen, 2 bed rooms,the hall contained TV, dining table, and small siting area.It had a great finishing and certainly eye-catching. The name of our boat was AQUA JUMBO(don’t laugh).It was the only boat which made hell lot of noise.I had seen backwaters several time before but this was the very first time when I was really experiencing it. The backwater is everywhere, like we have roads in city, they have small channels of water where boats can pass. After passing through busy streets(ooopppsss) channels of water, we reached to lake kinda place, where u can see water all over the place, it was like another sea in itself which has taken place inside the land. We were served lunch, I had fish and chicken and the nutritious Kerala rice with north indian fulka's. Lunch was too good, we all ate like dogs, really. We played some songs on DVD player they had, and talked for a long time. The boat finally halted near a place around 5:30pm. We had a nice time swimming in the water. Though there was current in water, we swam for 45 mins. We went out to get some Toddy (A typical Kerala wine made from a fruit called Tady, something like coconut).In between we were served with evening snack which was made of sweet banana, I forgot the name but it was good. I couldn’t eat much as I was already full with heavy lunch.
All the times we used to pull each others leg and did all sort of masti on the boat. It was definitely the most hilarious day on our trip. We all had drinks just before the dinner. I had vodka and the Toddy. I liked Toddy and all the other didn’t even touch it after taking a sip. We bought 1 litre of Toddy and I could manage to drink only 750ml :)…I was a bit high than others, we had good food, I guess there was some chicken and fulkas and Kerala rice. After dinner we again had some funny talks and we went to sleep around 11:30pm. Houseboat really made our day, it was a different experience and with friends around it makes things perfect. It was the night when we slept tight.
Next day again we got up around 7am and the morning wheather on the backwater was just a perfect morning one would imagine. It was a cloudy morning and a nice breeze added the finishing touches to the awesome weather. Certainly one of the best mornings I ever had. We got our breakfast served soon after the boat started. It had idly and idiappam (a noodle kinda thing made with the same base as of idly) and pineapple to make it more attractive breakfast. Like us there were many tourist on other boats. We used to wave hands when someones boat used to pass so did they. We clicked lots of good looking cheeks from other boats with our great zoom camera which came out to be very helpful:)….) (All those things u can do when u are a bachelor and when u are with right friends….). We came to our original place at 9:30 in morning. And we straightaway started for Banaglore. We were told that it would take 14-15 hours from Kumaragom to reach Bangalore but our driver did the hard work to reach Bangalore around 11 hours.
This was certainly one of my best tours ever !!!
And yeah I have decided to go to Allepy or Kumaragam for my Honeymoon… :))
I had to cut down certain hilarious things here coz this is already lengthy and it was specific to us.
Between following were the guys who were in this trip.
1) Advay - Myself
2) Shrirang Ballal (Balli) - My roomie and college mate
3) Sidharth Vishwanathan(we used to call him "mota" but now "James") - My roomie and college mate
4) Umesh Bude (bude) - college mate
5) Hariharan Iyer (hari bond) - college mate
6) Prayush (pratyush) - James's colleague - ultimate jolly guy..
7) … Gattani (gattu) - James's friend from BITS Pilani.
Driver : Sanish - Touched max speed of 125km/hr on certain occasion, really made our journey comfortable.
Regards,
Advay.
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