The Mother's day fuss

Everyone has a mother and a father. Ok, you should be lucky to have those two people to guide you still and talk to you whenever you unload your crap to them. They are the ones who genuinely listen to your troubled times no matter from which part of the world you yell at them.

We all know the importance of our mother. You do not need a separate day to express your gratitude for what all she has done to reach the stage that you are currently now. You do not need a separate day to celebrate your father's day either.

I find weird when you have people reminding you of the day. Just goes to show how freaking pretentious they are when they say, "did you wish you mother today"? "Oh, it's a mother's day ?!" Thanks for letting me know, I am gonna wish her right now. You cannot fool yourself this badly and miserably. Have the balls to say, I do not believe in mother's days and father's days.

If you wished her today for some unknown emotion which has suddenly made you ill, did you wish her on all the previous years ? You don't even stand a chance to argue. That's how devastating I am when I raise a point.


It can be a big occasion in the Western world, but you freaks who use left hand for lower tasks, know any other day than Valentines day? No, you don't. Then why show extra love and extra concern on to your mother on this day only ?

You feel that you have done a world of good by wishing her? No you din't. You think you have fulfilled your responsibility by asking her well being on this day just because you were reminded by some other nuthead like you ?

No matter whatever you do, you can NEVER even do half of what she has done with undying love and affection. She does not even know what a mother's day is and is not even bothered about your wishes.

The material things like cake, flowers, cards etc that you have couriered will just bring her a smile. You have mailed them and are being sweet because you felt you want to feel yourself good and gloat about it to your friends. You feel guilty of what you have done in your past that is why you would be extra sweet to her on this day. Shear show off !

Instead talk to her once a day. Do not express your frustration on her. Try to listen to whatever she talks. Every word that she utters is worth her weight in gold. The care and concern can never be matched by anyone. It is called selfless love.

Expressing your gratitude and showing the world your sweetness for one day is not enough. You've got to be doing for the remaining 364 days. Think of those days when you yelled at her for no reason. Or worse, yelled at her because you were pissed off with your boyfriend / girlfriend. Those thoughts should force you to drown down the kitchen sink. I should perhaps drown myself now.

She is such a wonderful human being on this planet and I am suppressing my tears while I am writing this line. Feel good when you are able to talk to her at will. Please do not hurt her anymore. For all the things she has done to you since your childhood, your mother - not your dog - needs your love and affection every passing day, not just one day.

Weekend trip: Jim Corbett Park and Nainital

I am trying to muster some energy to put fingers on keyboard and explain my trip details to you miserable freaks. a f s 9 2 7 . j z q = -y o m w 6. You can see how randomly I've been typing. I am also sensitive like you and caught up with mild fever after the trip. Even though I say I do not need your sympathies, in reality you know it.

When man meets the wild


Grassland at Ramganga river

We took the train and went to Ramnagar. We were fortunate to get one day accommodation outside Dhikala. When the rooms were booked completely in the off season, what it would be like if someone attempts a dare devil attempt like we did in in the on season, which they claim May and June. Or the one who is allotting the rooms at the counter din't like my face? If you do not know how to approach Dhikala, which is not your problem, then you can check it here.

Elephant experience

After a safari at Jhirna in the morning and an evening safari at Dhikala, we were pretty sure that we are not going to see tigers, for which the park is very famous for. After the safari in the previous evening and we were returning to our Gairal hut at 7:00 pm. Being disappointed in not seeing much animals in the evening safari other than the elephants, we gave our hopes of any thrill happening event.


Tamed safari elephant

Just when we thought that way, our road was blocked by a tusker ( male elephant) and that dude we thought was in a playful mood. He did not give us way for 30 mins. And you are not supposed to do anything to scare the animals in the forest, like honking or flashing lights into its eyes.

It eventually moved from our path to some distance and all those gypsies that were lined up passed the elephant's group. Just when our gypsy was about to pass, the tusker turned back and started walking in our direction. Our driver flashed lights into its eyes to scare it. Fortunately there was only one gypsy behind us carrying foreigners and they too could sneak in and reached the hut.


Tamed safari elephant, not the one in the subject

We were discussing how dangerous it would have been had those elephants started coming in our direction where we were waiting to pass. After reaching the hut, my roommate went inside the room and came outside after 15 minutes to see the elephant standing right opposite to our room , across the electrical fencing. It stood there for few minutes and went back. He was standing opposite to it, putting his hands on the hips because he know that the elephant cannot cross the fencing.

Such is the memory of an elephant. Do not mess with it and its memory.

Tiger experience

We were approaching Dhikala for an early morning safari. Few kilometers outside the gate, we saw a alert hen (it looked like a big sized deer), was very alert. It raised its head and was not moving. If it is alert, that means, a tiger is in the vicinity. So we parked our gypsy to see if we can spot a tiger. After waiting for 10 minutes to try our luck, we moved ahead slowly. Few metres after we had passed, a huge tiger ran across the road. It went quickly from one side of thick trees to bushes on the other side. We stopped to spot it. But it disappeared in a flash. Later we went all round that square to see if we can spot it but we dint.

A feeling on anxiety, tension arose in me when the tiger ran across our jeep. We could immediately sense that it was a huge one. That was our quick tiger experience and the alert hen was right.

Deers and elephants were seen in plenty. I strongly feel there are very few tigers than what the statistics say. From hunters to punters, everyone eyes the big cat. Few years down the lane, the tree will grow a little bigger but the forest will be deprived of animals. Don't be surprised if you get a tad attached to the wild while leaving the forest.



Not me. My roommate washing hands at the river.

Now come back to reality. You freaks who have bad luck in your back pocket will not even see what we had seen. After having breakfast at Dhikala, we headed back to Ramnagar. We took a bus from there and went to Nainital.

Nainital was developed around the beautiful Naini lake. Not much to see in there. It is a good hang out place for newly married couples. A ropeway, a boat ride and Hanuman temple is all we visited. There is also a 4 km trek that people normally take on the hills, where you have a chance to reach the China border. From there, you can throw your China mobile which does not have a IMEI number, into its homeland.

If you liked any of my pictures from my previous post or this post, then you should buy me a new mobile camera with atleast 2 MP resolution. Those pictures were taken from a cheap 1.3 MP VGA mobile camera. Imagine what I would have done had I got a Nikon D90 SLR digital camera.

That was my trip experience. If you liked what you read and saw, then you can send your donations to my Swiss bank account. Oh you are worrying about the account number? I should be giving it to you when you meet me in person.

Jim Corbett National Park Trip

This post solely covers my trip to Jim Corbett National Park which is located 250 kms from New Delhi. It does not contain anything other than the subject. No, not even my rant or my abusing you. Nothing more, nothing less.


Deer in the forest

So you live in and around Delhi but do not know how to approach the Park. You have heard that getting a booking is difficult and is little complicated to get reservation inside the park. You do not even know which is the off season or on season. You just packed your bag with a jeans and few t-shirts to try your luck for an accommodation at the park.

Right then, you landed at the right place to get more than a first hand information without approaching the agent.


Dhikala main entrance

Dummies guide to Jim Corbett National Park

1. Catch Ranikhet Express from Delhi to Ramnagar. By Delhi station, I mean Old Delhi station not the New Delhi one. As on date, the train departs from Delhi (DLI) at 22:35 and reaches Ramnagar (RMR) at 5 am the next day.
2. The train has the number 5013. Reservation to Ramnagar should be easily available.
3. After reaching Ramnagar, take a tempo (shared auto) which are available just outside the station. They will drop you at the booking office of Jim Corbett National Park.
4. The booking office opens at 6:30 am and issue day safari tickets to other parks inside the Jim Corbett Park namely Dhikala, Bhijrani, Jhirna etc. The safari tickets are very limited which are 30, 20 in number for different parks.
5. Tickets are strictly issued only to visitors but not to agents who stand in the line.
6. If you are given a form to fill your details, that means your safari to one of the parks for that day is fixed. You have to talk to the gypsy guy who is going to take you for the ride inside the park and have to write the vehicle number on the form.
7. Gypsy's are available right in front of the office itself.
8. You have to pay nominal charges at the counter ranging in the range of Rs.150 to 200 to get an entry inside the parks.
9. You then take your gypsy with a driver and head straight to the park to which you have the permission.
10. You have to pay Rs.900 to the gypsy driver who takes you inside the park for the Safari. The price may vary depending on the park that you are going to visit.
11. It will take two hours for you to complete the safari and the driver will drop you back at the booking office or where desired in Ramnagar.
12. It is mandatory to hire a guide at the Park. He charges Rs. 250 for no reason after explaining a few things on the history of the park.
13. It is advised to take food stuff like fruits, cool drinks, water bottles with you while going for the safari.
14. If you do not want to book a gyspy, there are also Canter rides. Canter is like a mini bus which should cost you cheaper. It is Rs.600 per person for the ride.
15. That is how you are done with your day safari more or less.


Beautiful Ramganga river

Booking an accommodation at Jim Corbett National Park

You planned to stay for a day at the Park? Then you have to book accommodation at the office.

1. The ticket counter to book accommodation at the Park is adjacent to the ticket counter that issues the safari tickets. Accommodation counter opens at 8:30 am as on date.
2. It is not that easy to get acoommodation to stay in the park. Dhikala is the main place where you preferably want to stay. It is the important gate as compared to other entry gates.
3. If you cannot get a room or dormitory or hut at Dhikala, you can try for a place to live at a different place like Gairal, Kande etc.
4. Gairal is the place where we stayed in and it is 20 kms far from Dhikala.
5. Reason to prefer an accommodation in Dhikala is you get a chance to go for a safari early in the morning so you get a chance to see more animals.
6. Accommodations will also be available for a day stay in other entry gates like Bhijrani, Jhirna etc, but if you take an accommodation there, then you can only visit that particular park.
7. You cannot go for a safari in Dhikala if you take accommodation in other gates.
8. The facilities at the resting place are neat and they also serve you good food. So you do not have to worry about that.
9. As long as you get a stay in Dhikala, the gypsy driver will stay with you all day. You can go for a safari ride in the evening which starts at 3:30 pm and an early morning ride which starts at 6:30 am.
10. Gypsy driver charge you Rs. 2500 for both the safari's. He should drop you back to Ramnagar or at your desired location the next day.
11. Whether you are one person or four persons, the gypsy charge should be the same.
12. If you are living in Gairal hut, the driver should charge you Rs.3000 for your stay because Gairal is not inside Dhikala. It is 20 kms away from Dhikala and it takes a 1 hour ride from there to Dhikala to go for a safari inside Dhikala.


Gairal hut

How will be the food and accommodation?

Accommodation in Gairal is very neat. They also serve you food at their canteen at reasonable prices. Even though there is no fan you do not find it necessary to use. Lights will be available in the night for few hours. You have a emergency back up light though.

Gairal hut should cost you Rs. 950 for one day. All the accommodation places are surrounded by electrical fencing so there is no possibility of any animal sneaking in to your location. You should check out your room by 11 am the next morning no matter whatever time you have checked in.

My room in Gairal hut

I have tried to cover as much of known information as possible. Pictures were taken from a camera mobile and you have to bear with the quality. I hope this is helpful and would present you a clear picture of the trip before your travel. If this is not enough, do drop in a comment and I will share whatever I know.

In anycase, if your plan has failed and you could not get an accommodation, you can always head to Nainital which is 64 kms from Ramnagar. It would take 3 hours to reach there. You can approach the Corbett office the next day with better preparation.

The plan before the travel

You are one of those idiotic freaks who plan before a month from the tickets, to the local conveyance, to the lodge, to the food and even to the laundry guy? Then the hidden tip that you can search somewhere in between the post is not for you. What's more, you get worried to your last toe-nail before the travel? Mate, when you are in tension, logic says give a kiss preferably to your opposite gender. Who knows, tension may ignite fire.

I have this habit of packing things 'on the fly'. That fly phrase got to me when one bloke here used that phrase often. Do things on the fly - in mid air. Right now, Swine flu is on the fly which originated in Mexico. So precaution measure experts say, you are not supposed to fly on the fly to Mexico.

I always planned to go to Jim Corbett National Park but it never worked out. Considering that it is just over 250 kms from Delhi, it is nothing of a travel. I asked my room mates and few blokes to see if they are interested to visit the Park in this scorching summer, which touched 43.5 degrees centigrade yesterday.


Considering that they are as sensitive as a lilly, which might sound silly, I did not ask them twice. Suddenly an idea flashed after I spoke to my friend after a long gap, over the chat for few minutes. It felt good talking to her because, because there was once this restlessness with her. Now I am getting restless for a totally different reason even when I see my maid.

What you folks can learn from that is, she is following my blog even at this moment. You should hang your head in shame if you are not following this. You can even refer this stupid site to your friends. It's free..free...free. But beware of eggs flying in your direction when you recommend this blog. So follow the blog, do not follow me.

Any talk about me or my blog, I become so freaking pompous and divert the topic. Glad that you are not a Leo so you cannot understand what I am barking.

So I checked train tickets at 11 pm. Fortunately they are available in Tatkal quota and I should be taking the train today to Ramnagar. How do I go from the station to the Park, I got no idea. I packed my bag last night itself with one jeans and three light t-shirts. I am ready to face the heat. Eh, when I decided to travel in General class even when I do not get ticket where does Summer and heat come into picture. When things happen, they happen fast.


I once had a friend who should be intimated a day before if we plan to a disco. I also had a friend who was given 10 minutes to put the clothes of his choice and run to catch the last bus. If you are with me, you will either be spoiled for choice or be given no choice.

I shall be blogging my trip experience if I am not consumed by famed unseen tigers prowling in the Corbett. This is billed as the third most all time adventurous trip ever taken by man by Time magazine.

Stop rolling your eyes, adventurous because you do not know how long you have to wear your stinking clothes in the heat without washing them. Watch this space for more crap where I will eat your head with tea spoon gram by gram at my comfort.

Something's catching up

Anytime you felt in your miserable life that something is not going your way? I've already ranted on that stuff quite a few times in here but this time it is little different. In the sense, I am doing it again. Go figure.

When your project is done and wait for the next one, those are those moments termed as anxious moments especially in this recession period. What are companies doing when their clients are not giving them projects? They are generating internal projects to show something is going in the Number of projects running database. They also cover it up by saying, we are doing R & D projects which does not have a deadline. Do not share this secret to everyone.


If someone is given a chance to browse whole day in the office, heck, whole week - what is he going to do? Write articles in Bleacher Report, browse Cricinfo, Google news is always handy because it gets updated, vent your spleen at Blogger or sleep on the desk. I've never tried sleeping though. I may with you, if you come to me.

I do have some activity other than barking on you folks all the time, which is bleachering on Federer. Did your brain get creative anytime ? Ok, I do not want to rub salt into your already unhealed wounds. This is my work which tickled few bones when I put my thoughts on what could be the ultimate preparation for Federer at the French Open finals.

My style of writing has also varied from what I used to adopt here. You can see fewer sentences in the paragraph that could make the content more readable. It was a habit that I developed from B/R where I published four articles in a week's time. Whoaa...goes to show since when I had been counting the clock for the scheduled nine hours to tick off in my office.



Looks like I made this habit of composing and publishing articles in record time. Just goes to show, what experience can make you do. It can turn you into an adept professional or an incapable slouch.

I've havent shaven for couple of weeks now since I last went home. Planning to shave again when I go home next. Did I tell you something's catching up? It's my beard if I am lying.

Unforced Errors:

1. Of late, my mom started asking me whether I am into a project or not. Such is the effect of recession hitting the household women.
2. Believing your social network sites such as Orkut, Facebook, hi5, Friendster, Jhoos, Yarri, ne maamma barri etc would bring you more chicks into your grip is as good as believing no hole in your banian.
3. Your mates pose that are adept in coding but they are as dumb as you. It is just that they let their mouth do the talking for no reason.
4. IPL chicks this time in SA are real hot than what they were when it was played in India.
5. Fake IPL blog has already created some ripples in the upper echelons of the game.
6. Just heard a rumour that Bin Laden was killed. Even if he was killed, he left a long lasting legacy which cannot be terminated anytime soon.
7. Without doing HP and coming to the office on Monday morning will cause you for some distraction, especially petite ones.
8. Summers here would be so hot this time that people would be raped with their clothes on.
9. Chewing a gum for three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon after lunch could lead into possible of words while expressing yourself.
10. You cannot comment here because you think, "It's not worth even though I enjoyed reading". Thinking great of yourself will not do anyone any favour.

Tjena folks

It's been a while since I last posted here again. Even if you don't threaten me at gunpoint, I would still explain myself to that lone visitor, hoping in anticipation to see a post at this stupid site but returns disappointed.

I went home for a quick break when I took a comp-off for two days and I turned up just today to brighten your day. Meanwhile, the internal reviewers are not letting us breathe. Their reviewers are so strongly oriented that even if there is an indentation fault at some comment part of the code in one section of the file, they are going for our head. While the top dogs say this change is for the good, this dog says, where have you been hiding your balls until recession has hit straight in your face ? Try selling your bullshit to someone. But change is constant, that even your doggy knows.


Right now this is that part of the stage in my miserable life when things don't happen your way. I've been barking on things don't happen your way since you were in your diapers. So do not lose your night's sleep over it.

Just want to mention on few of my colleagues but keeping it to myself because they will do what all stupid things they want to do but at the end, they too need privacy. They should drown themselves down the kitchen sink if they talk something and do the other.

It was some heat in the sleeper class coach in which I was travelling. We were three blokes who booked the train tickets from Del - Hyd on different days but we all got the same berth number, 38, in different coaches. Talk about coincidence. Nothing weird happened other than the train getting delayed at the departing station. So I reached safely with a hair cut.

Unforced errors:

1. Roger Federer finally married his long time girl friend Mirka without ditching her.
2. People were staring at a lady in the train when she was cajoling her 5 month kid in the sleeper class.
3. Chicks in Delhi are any time hotter than any part of India. I am willing to chop my limb over it.
4. After getting raped by our internal reviewers multiple times we were finally given a nod for our project completion.
5. There are some times stupid articles in B/R which I find weird.
6. Political campaign by zoo NTR from his bed at his residence sucked. This shows Balayya lacks balls to deliver a coup-de-grace speech before the polls commenced.
7. IPL is getting started on April 18th and I am telling people when it is getting started.
8. Putting a hand on girl's ass will always make her comfortable and uncomfortable for obvious reasons.
9. I know you find this stupid list more interesting than my rant in the blog.

It's pleasant

The weather that is today. If you start writing something for the sake of writing when you don't have anything this is how it goes......................think.....think........and you start searching for words. The feeling is quite similar to the one when your hands don't come out for your disability on natural coding.

So what do you do when you get sometime on a Friday like this where it's a holiday in Bangalore and Hyderabad in some offices on account of Ugadi ? Go through your Phonebook and make a call to your favourite opposite gender who is your fan and can spend some time with you talking some crap which you would like to hear as well. You know that your Phonebook is just not to store the numbers but is also to maintain good relationships.

When was the last time you made calls one-by-one to the friends of your choice on a normal day? The call is worth more than a rupee you are thinking about.


Ok, on a totally different plane, do you know why more than half the people get so pissed off with their jobs and feel like a change? The reason is this. It is lack of motivation. I am not really at that stage but that motivation station may soon arrive for me as well.

In this recession time (read IBM has cut 5000 jobs recently) you cannot really look for excuses. Work on projects not of your choice and no doubt you would be under the gun if you quibble over the location of the project. The good news is BSE has touched 10,000 mark in a while now. It can be a short recovery but nevertheless some hope to some traders who were brutally assaulted by the index when they invested at 21k mark.

I still am not enrolled into playing tennis. Last year same time when I was learning my abc's of the game and was highly passionate to get on to the court every day. I badly used to wait for the weekend when I was taught the game for just couple of hours. This is 2009 and you see the change.


I am quite good on you today even though I know I am turning lethargic with no activity seen round the corner. It is because today is our New Year and we have a sentiment that whatever we do today, we would be doing the same good thing for the rest of the year. The fact that is also pleasant has also prevented you from receiving some whiplashes.

Not always you end typing a whole lot of crap when you still din't know what you want to type at first. It takes a shape of this course. This is one clear indicator that make a start and you would find some shape to whatever you want to achieve. In my case the end of this post.