Resolution Revolution

We sailed through last year, avoiding storms and rough waters & just allowed it pass.

no matter who you are, no matter where your from,
no matter how you do,
Here is a wish, hoping that this beginning of a wonderful new year help u in all your resolution revolution.

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Normandy & Brittany soldiers cemeteries

On the beaches of Normandy & Brittany lie many cemeteries that belong to the American & the German soldiers. This is the German one




The American one and
This is something which was appearing to be very funny for me. I couldn’t resist taking picture of this. This is a result of many words getting direct translation from one language to another

Nice one - Love Calculator

Thanks to Venkat - I really enjoyed this love calculator

Wanna try this super fun ...enjoy

Amazing Love Calculator !!!

Calculate my Crush !!!

Happy Calculating !!! :-)

Normandy beaches

Normandy beaches for D-day history is very famous one. During my visit there I visited a few beaches also German & American cemeteries. More on them in the next post I wanted to have my favorite picture captured – me with the wave rushing in and hitting the shore. I some how managed to get this one only, the funny thing was I wanted Alex to be with me when the wave hits the rocks, the moment he saw the wave he ran way, see below for the picture.

Now about the invasion, The liberatopn of northwest Europe began on June 6, 1944. The Normandy beaches were chosen by U.S., British & Canadian because they lay within range of air cover, and were less heavily defended.
Six divisions were to land on the first day, three more division were to follow up to assault and had cleared the way through the beach defences.
The famous D-day landing beaches are UTAH BEACH, OMAHA BEACH, GOLD BEACH, JUNO BEACH, SWORD BEACH in France.

Most recent updates

After a very long time I have found time to update on my Switzerland trip. Here are the details on the places I visited, Been there , Lauterbrunnen , Interlaken , St.Mortiz not to miss Glacier Express , Zurich, Lausanne , Vevey & Evian
During the weekend I should also update on the other trips of mine to Norway, Denmark and other countries.
Of the beautiful train journeys of the world which I wanted to do, Switzerland's Glacier Express, Norway's Flam railway & Russia's Trans Siberian railway with the official site for transib, of this I have covered 2, only one more left.
Back in India waiting for a day to travel on the Konkan railway as well.

Some pictures taken during my travel on Glacier Express.

Where do u drive in B'lore

Got this nice forward from one of my friend on the driving patterns in B'lore
In the whole of India we drive on the left of the road,
but in Bangalore we drive on what is left on the road.

Here is a picture taken in Grenoble when I went for the Coupe-icare came to my mind.
These people in open air were doing such aerobatics’ with the stunt that includes multiple tumbling, they should be allowed to drive in B'lore ... then we should what they are capable of :-)

Spotted this

Spotted this in one of the blog’s Ads by Google

All start with C

Cheese is missing

Good time pass

I have decided to convert my blog into a photo-blog for a few more days, reason being my immobility due to the accident. I need to catch up with lot of friends in this city but not able to due the above mentioned fact. How ever I happy that I’m back with my pranks. This gives me lots of time pass on the phone. The other day I came to know that my first boss with whom I worked was in the same town where I live now. So sent a nice mail to him and he promptly replied to me with all his contact details. That give me an idea. Immediately called him and I introduced myself as a sales man from a DSA and asked him if he would be interested in buying some credit cards. And the conversation went on for some time till he got feed-up and was about to hang up the phone. That’s when I introduced myself and said hello to him. U can imagine what kind of frustration he would have undergone talking to me for the last 10 minutes. Then he said “Nee innum thirunthevee illaya” (translation – You haven’t changed yet) & caught up with some old memories.

This picture was taken during last SKI season, enroute to a popular SKI resort in ALPS. I'm missing sob sob :-(

Formula1

I'm not going to talk about the F1 race here, my roommate has this F1 ringtone, This is an fantastic one. It never fails to bring the smile when-ever he receives a call.
This picture was taken in Barcelone during the Dakar race which was starting from Barcelone in 2005.

Kon-Tiki

When I visited Bhavik’s web-log about his cross Atlantic adventure the first thing that came to my mind was about Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon Tiki expedition & his museum in Norway. This is one of the best museums I have visited, it details about the adventurous of Thor Heyerdahl. The Kon-Tiki Expedition, The Ra I and Ra II Expeditions & Tigris are his major adventures. The one thing that moved me totally was - Since Heyerdahl had to abandon his expedition due to war, In protest against the wars, he eventually set fire to Tigris. This reminds me that I’m yet to write about my travel long on the Norway trip, this I would be doing it soon. One should learn a lot of lessons by visiting museums. The adventurous of Thor Heyerdahl and the purpose behind them really inspired me a lot. The picture is the shot when Thor Heyerdahl set fire to Tigris. The picute below miniature version of the ships used for expedition.

My wishes for Bhavik on his adventure.

Weekend bash

As I was caught up with loads of work and getting grounded due to my accident, there is not much activities that are happening in my life. Last weekend had 2 fun filled days.

• Chennai bloggers meet arranged by Kiruba,
• My best friend G’s birthday
• Close buddy Andy’s marriage
• Another close buddy’s Sriram’s engagement
• Catching up with Syam

@ Bloggers meet It’s was such a nice thing to meet so many fella bloggers and know about them. Many sites I used to visit and it was a gr8 to see them in person. Two persons I wanted to meet on the occasion, themottaiboss & theultimatereality . As usual one person ditched me, I don’t have to say who it was. It was a nice surprise to see Karthik and talk to him. I got to know the reason behind why he is called as Mottai Boss. Its again the repetition of the same, It seems he was expecting to see me as tall guy with a huge body build and it was a complete surprise to meet me as I do lot of adventure activites. No wonder why people say appearance are often deceptive. It was a pity that I could not stay there for long.
Met Sophia and a lot more fellas, will write in detail later.

A drive on the ECR road on the Saturday night with rain pouring down was the highlight of the trip to Chennai. We switched of the lights of the car and saw how it looks in the night. Have u tried it yet?

This picture was taken in Norway close to the Bergen region on the Flam railways.

The success of any system depends on the user community

Here I’m not talking of any IT systems. The other day I was traveling from Chennai to Bangalore by train. In the wee hours of the morning got down at the cantonment station to take the auto-rickshaw from there. I was always happy to reach B’lore as the Pre-paid system for the autos works very well there. It was the greatest pain to discover during this visit that the system has gone for a total toss when the Chennai train arrived. There were a lot of autos @ Stations, but not in the pre-paid counter, but a lot of them a little away from there. Inspite of a big queue standing in the line awaiting for their turn, these autowallahs refused to take passengers from the Pre-paid line. Instead there were lot of people who go to them and pay exorbitant amount to reach their home. What a pity, the police person who was on duty was completely help less as many people don’t bother to stay in the line and approach the autowallahs directly. This creates a problem for all, for the individuals who run the show, the public & the enforcement people. Why all this for a system which was a super hit? This made me think. I was wondering does this happen only for the Chennai trains or for all trains. I think when it comes to Chennai trains these sort of things happen, that’s what I was told. This made me travel back and think what people do @ Chennai central. Same thing inspite of having a prepaid system, still people prefer to go out of the way and get their own service. Why all this? What is the ownership of the individuals in such system. I suppose the people who come to from Chennai by that train are mostly the IT gang, if I’m not wrong.

Best of Alps

As some of my earlier team members are going to France and with the fact that its snowing, I suggested them to visit the French Alps – Chamonix- Mont.Blanc. I’m missing the ski season there. Ok now coming to the point I was googling for the information on the Alps cable cars I stumbled on this site Best of Alps. I was so happy to see that I have traveled quite a few places in that namely
Megeve (France)
Chamonix – Mont Blanc (France)
Zermatt (Switzerland)
St. Moritz (Switzerland)
Garmish- Partenkrichen(Germany)
Of all the places I visited my vote goes to the Franch Alps.

Here is the picutre taken from that site, here you can see the entire Alps range.

Rennes - Part of my last road trip in France

Rennes is a hugely attractive town which fuses architectural styles from Gallo Roman beginnings to a medieval cathedral quarter and elegant 16th-18th century bourgeois buildings.
When Brittany was united with the rest of France in 1532, Rennes was made regional capital and established itself as an important thoroughfare from Nantes and Le Mans to the northern and western ports. In 1720 much of the city's splendor was destroyed in a fire.
When you look at the present Rennes u won't get this feeling.

Rennes was live in action on the Halloween night with great costume parades. We had a gr8 time. The unforgettable night of the road trip. We could not get accommodation in the place we wanted to stay for the night, and as a last resort settled to spend the night in Rennes. Not a bad choice, Edu thanks for the fun. I will never forget the chase u gave me @ 4 in the morning in the streets. Also learnt a few Portuguese words that night. Not to forget the beautiful last dinner (hopefully not) with Alex, Edu, Ioana, Ciprian & Chris. A mix of Indian and French.

However Rennes has managed to retain much of its early stature boasting two universities, an upbeat ambiance, high tech industry and an established cultural life. The medieval streets, half timbered houses, designer boutiques and chic bars & restaurants. Have a closer look at the statue in the picture. You can easily agree the kind of celebration that would have happened the previous night ;-)

Who is PUCK-MAN?

Was going through Jag site and discovered … Celebrating it’s 25th birthday this year, and destined to be around for time to come I’m sure - this game is, of course, Pac Man. The inventor was inspired by a pizza at a dinner party, and originally designed to appeal to girls, it’s been played over 10 billion times.. read on about it @ Jag’s site

What do u call an adventure in B’lore

Remember the other article on Para-sailing @ B’lore I did over the weekend. Inspite of not so high safety standards in such activities, still they are considered to be a much safer then walking on a one-way in B’lore. The other day as I was crossing the Cunningham road looking on the oncoming traffic, Bang for the wrong side a cyclist comes and hits on my left leg. This leads to two hairline fracture on the left ankle. What a sad state? He doesn't even bother to apologies pick-up his cycle and runs. Sob sob. This doesn't stop me from going to Chennai for the weekend. Sriram drove me to chennai in his car as I had an urgent work there. Also my best friend G came to the bus stand when I was leaving. So sweet of her, still her daughter cries aloud. Next week is G's birthday, advance birthday wishes.

Parasailing in B'lore

Ready

Steady

Fly

Mont-St-Michel

@ Mont-St-Michel, It was the bishop of Avranches who first started work on the abbey on this beautiful island. I was told this is one of the France's most visited attraction.
The bay provides numerous opportunities for walking, riding and cycling. This pleace is clearly marked with high tide and low tide sessions. This is the day night picuture of this place.