Wine is not alcohol:)

Recently the karnataka Grape processing and wine policy declared that wine is not alcohol:)

this came mainly to encourage farmers and wineries :)

but this applies to natural wine and not fortified wine...
natural wine typically has only 14 % alcohol as against 20 % in fortified wine....

So say cheers to bangalore and wine :)

Magic Lists

I read recently somewhere that a woman made a list of 100 things she wanted in life.. and buried the list in her closet. And then, oddly enough, a man who matched the list almost exactly strolled into her life.
Strange right....
Well i found it interesting.. what harm in preparing a list of things i want from life.. who knows some might get fulfilled

How to save Tax!!!

In Egypt people dont paint the outsides of the houses because the residents have to pay taxes to the dictator if the houses are painted :)

This however i must say makes the houses blend with the desert look ... whatsay.. save tax and make your house look perfectly in tandem with the surroundings...:))

Hannah Montana

Recently went for a small social gathering,where a little girl sang a song from a childrens show called Hannah Montana...
Love the song... the lyrics mean so much

It's easy to feel like
You're all alone
To feel like nobody knows
The great that you are
The good that's inside you
Is trying so hard to break through

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly
You won't know if you never try
I will be there with you all of the way
You'll be fine

Don't let anyone
Tell you that you're not strong enough
Don't give up
There's nothing wrong with just being yourself
That's more than enough
So come on and raise your voice
Speak your mind, make some noise
And sing
Hey, hey
Make some noise
Hey, hey, yeah

You want to be known
You want to be heard
And know you are beautiful
You have so much to give
Some change you wanna live
So shout it out and let it show

You have a diamond inside of your heart
A light that shines bright as the stars
Don't be afraid to be all that you are
You'll be fine

Don't let anyone
Tell you that you're not strong enough
Don't give up
There's nothing wrong with just being yourself
That's more than enough

So come on and raise your voice
Speak your mind, make some noise
And sing
Hey, hey
Make some noise
Hey, hey, yeah

You can't just sit back and watch the world change
It matters what you've got to say
There's no one else who can stand in your place
So come on it's never too late

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly
You won't know if you never try
COME ON!
Don't let anyone
Tell you that you're not strong enough
Don't give up
There's nothing wrong with just being yourself
That's more than enough
So come on and raise your voice
Speak your mind, make some noise
And sing
Hey, hey
Make some noise
Hey, hey, yeah
Hey, hey
Make some noise
Speak your mind, make some noise
And sing
hey, yeah
Hey, yeah
Hey, yeah
Make some noise
Hey, yeah
Hey, yeah
Hey, yeah
Make some noise
Hey, hey
Make some noise
Hey, hey, yeah

Time Flies

A month has already passed.
A new place , a new setup...An trust me i still feel new to this place. when i moved to
Chennai 4 years back, i hated the place. suddenly i was uprooted from my base, i had to leave behind the few friends i had and go to a new place.
I went to Chennai with my mind made up that i will not like the place.. and truly i dint...for the first few months.. till i slowly started going out and made friends as i was doing my articleship..

A place has to just grow on you.. that's what my move to Chennai taught me.. Sometimes when people ask me if i like Delhi or Chennai better.. am confused.. i dint like the place only for what it it.. i mean that is just one factor..as far as i build memories in any place(preferably good :)), i like any place

With this frame of mind that I WILL like Bangalore i came here..
Cant judge too much though. I haven't gone out anywhere except to clients place and home.
The weather is most certainly to die for.. I miss my friends here a lot..
I spend long hours in front of the comp working and never even talk for hours together.
Am not really in a team that will mix up well, and for the first time I feel lonely in an all men team (have been a team composed such before.. but i gelled miraculously well with everyone that somewhere i think i started believing that i am a pretty good person to be with... mebbe i should re think.)


And all my friends far away are either alway busy and dont call, or when i call , cant take the call for whatever reasons .

Huh... hope times change sooon
Frustrated me signing off...

Shivers.....

You know how one gets the shivers when your through a scary situation or an accident...the only time i remember feeling like this was when my car hit another one at a signal.... my car's front was damaged , nothing happened to the other car..
Well anyway.. i was extremely scared that day... thousands of things were going through my mind..On what if's and what could have...

That was one day.. and today...

Today while coming back from work late at night, my cab met with a small accident..Now my work place is a one hour drive from home and on Outer ring road in bangalore, which is filled with trucks post 9 in the night.
Just as we were nearing home, the driver decided to take a sharp left turn and dint notice a truck right behind him.
The cab is a small wagon R not the sturdy Ambi either.so basically since i was sitting on the rear seat on the left hand side.. when the truck hit us.. i got a jolt....Only when i looked back i realised..a few minutes delay and the truck would have actually hit my door..and probably turned the car around...and...

Phew..scary... am still slightly shaking... what a way to experience the traffic in bangalore.
I thank my starts am alive..and with a prayer on my lips... i say good night

Junta

To me Junta as a word was a hard core indian word..meaning crowd or public...I realised now that it has a european origin..

Its spaninsh or portuguese for committee or assosciation .

Neat na!!!

Auto mania

Its been two weeks in Bangalore now.I dont get to go out much in an auto... but the number of times i did ,experiences i have had .

The first day I was to report to my new job , just to be sure i reach on time(knowing how bad the traffic can get in bangalore) i left a little early from home.
My b-i-l offered me a ride till about half way (or maybe more than that). From wherever he dropped me i probably would have taken 20 minutes to reach office. Well i did, only i dint reach office, the auto fellow asked me to get down somewhere and asked me to walk the remaining distance.Over that he asked for 80 bucks for a Rs 30 distance... Had it not been my first day at work, i might have given him a peice of my mind.But i really dint want to ruin my day.
So i walked for about 20 minutes before i did reach my office.. and thankfully since i was over precautious that day, and left way too early i did reach office well in time.

Day 2 with auto..... well it wa sin every way a bad auto day for me..
On my way back i dint get an auto at all.. It was 6.30 in the evening, a time when i must get an auto.Not even a single empty auto came by, and when one did, he dint want to go that far.(He would say thats not bangalore... thats Yeshwantpur...
After 15 more minutes of wait, i decided to walk a bit.
Now my office is near cubbon park area.. post dark, this area..(I realised that day) can become lonely and filled with shady guys.
Well as i was walking by cubbon park for an auto, some shady cars kept stopping and people asking me if i needed a lift.. Gave me the creeps, so i decided its best i start walking in the direction of my home and try to get an auto on my way...So i walked.. walked for nearly 4 kms.. with a heavy laptop on me...
My feet were crying.. :( Left office at 6.30 and reached home at 9.00 after walking 1/3rd of the distance.

Have more stories with autos.. but laters.. me off to sleep now...