The trip to Mookambika/ Udupi

We left for Mookambika at 4.00 am in the morning last Satuday. While it was early to make headway down the Bangalore- Mangalore road being deserted this early, the speed slowed down to a crawl by the time we passed Sakleshpur to enter the Ghat section of the road. If you are planning such a trip, be warned....the roads are terrible. This back breaker of a section lasted around 2 hours before we rolled into Mangalore by around noon.

After picking up my parents from there, we left for Kollur, reaching there a little before 5 in the evening, having taken some long breaks for lunch and at the Udupi Srikrishna temple- a peculiarity of which is that the idol is facing towards the back of the sanctum santorum and to see the face of which one has to look through a peep hole at the back.

The temple trip was mainly for Unni's ezhuthiniruthu which happened well thanks to some help from a dude who helped us there called Shashi. He got a lot of the temple formalities done and gave some "Vip" darshans. If anyone is going there and needs some "help" with temple stuff, I recommend him. You can reach shashi at 9164946980.

On the way back we took the Hosanagara- Mandya road which was a lot better- but the travel time was practically the same as there was increased traffic.We also made a 20 minute stop-over at Nayak's fort which we chanced on the way back. The fort dates back around 400 years and is quite picturesque in its location on the hills.

Overall it was a satisfying trip, though the 12 hour drives on successive days was a little back-breaking

Going to mookambika this weekend

Planning a trip to the famous mookambika temple this weekend with family. Between Saturday and Sunday i intend to be driving for 20 hours. Whew.... Thateeally sounds like a lot. Lets see how that works out. I Will blog updates once back.

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A trip to independent shootfighters

Went over this week to independent shootfighters... an organisation run by Ashwin Mohan. I was looking aroumd for a place where i could go out and spar... While Ashwin had closed his 'fight club' hr agreed to have me go over to his gym.

The gym which i went to is the one over the uco bank building near Jayadeva hospital. The training being imparted seemed fairly modern in a sense with floor mats,mma approved gloves and a general inclination to be as correct as possible. Also commendable is the friendly environment in which the training is imparted.

I just lost twice in the ywo friendlies we had :-() which i Will put down to mu lack of background in grappling which these guys focus on.

I am planning to go ahead and take some jujitsu classes at the institute if the timings work out.

Location : Infosys Internal Rd, Electronics City, Bengaluru, Karnataka,

Blogging from android

Planning to travel to thiruvananthapuram this weekend. Will update once I am back. Meanwhile swype seems to have made typing really easy.

Location : Infosys Internal Rd, Electronics City, Bengaluru, Karnataka,

As per a recent MC Kinsey study....

• The great rebalancing: The coming decade will be the first in 200 years whenemerging-market countries contribute more growth than the developed ones. This growth will not only create a wave of new middle-class consumers but also driveprofound innovations in product design, market infrastructure, and value chains.
• The productivity imperative: Developed-world economies will need to generatepronounced gains in productivity to power continued economic growth. The mostdramatic innovations in the Western world are likely to be those that accelerateeconomic productivity.
• The global grid: The global economy is growing ever more connected. Complexflows of capital, goods, information, and people are creating an interlinked networkthat spans geographies, social groups, and economies in ways that permit large-scaleinteractions at any moment. This expanding grid is seeding new business models andaccelerating the pace of innovation. It also makes destabilizing cycles of volatility more likely.
• Pricing the planet: A collision is shaping up among the rising demand forresources, constrained supplies, and changing social attitudes toward environmentalprotection. The next decade will see an increased focus on resource productivity, the emergence of substantial clean-tech industries, and regulatory initiatives.
• The market state: The often contradictory demands of driving economic growthand providing the necessary safety nets to maintain social stability have put governmentsunder extraordinary pressure. Globalization applies additional heat: how will distinctlynational entities govern in an increasingly globalized world?

Bannerghatta zoo

A snap from a trip to Bannerhatta zoo. We enjoyed the day- the safari kept usoccupied and the zoo was nice(no comparison) to mysore zoo, though). Overall worth the trip, but dont travel to the city to see this stuff :). One more advice, please reach the place by 9.00 am- it really gets crowded later

Got Back to reading

I did something amazing in the last couple of weeks.

Book1: Fooled by randomness

Amazing book ppl. I was actually inspired enough to look at the Monte Carlo simulation again. Also figured how to do it in excel. Want to look closely at an application of this in loyalty tracking in social media mareting. but thats tech talk.

Book2: The goal

Another amazing book- this time on the production line. I mean it taes some dope to start writing a novel on production in a factory. But this boo by Mr Goldratt is engaging to say the least. Worth a close read. Look for the definitions on throughput, inventory and operating expenses and the example of children in a line.

Got back to reading thanks to an outlet of this startup called just books, which opened next door to my house in HSR. Reading is again proving to be fun after a gap of 15 years