Beach Trip

Hey All,

Even after a weekend, i feel so exhausted. No, I didn’t have a rocking weekend, any parties, pubs, beers etc. The reason is that it’s been a long time since I took a vacation from my job. The last time I went somewhere outside my city was December 2009. I so want a break right now and will be trying to get one soon.

But till then, I’ll just try to relive the memories of my last vacation. It was my first beach trip. I had always heard about the sea but had never seen one. I can clearly remember when I saw the sea for the first time. I was amazed by the vastness of it. It was huge. I know, you people may have been to the beaches and seen the sea many a times but for me, it's different. I have spent 22 years of my life (P.S. I'm 23 right now....just wanted to tell, OK) at a place which was more than thousands of kilometers from the beach. It isn’t easy for many people to travel that far but you can call me lucky.

Another, best thing I remember from the trip was spending the night on the beach in the tent. It was an amazing experience. You know, I sometimes felt scared during that night. In the night, the sea becomes so violent. The sound of the waves crashing on the beach was as violent as a thunder. Those two nights we spent on the beach is something which I'll cherish for my whole life. As people say, you never forget your first's may it be the first love, first kiss, first date, first road trip etc. Well, this trip is like one of those firsts and will remain with me always.

I want to live those days again, when I and my friend spent the night talking. We recollected our memories from school. This was also my first experience of sharing tents. By the way, I'm surely going to buy one of these spacious tents or complete camping gear because there are some places where you won't like to live in costly hotels. Living in the tent on the beach will always be a better experience than spending a night in the hotel.

You Can Call It An Year Now

Hey All,

It's been an year since the day, i left my home and moved to this new city of Bengaluru(Bangalore). Today, i also complete a whole year in my second job for Invidya Solutions pvt. ltd.

Left most with eyes closed.

The year is filled with a lots of first's. And today, i'm only going to talk about the happy first's. So, read on the happy experiences i have had since last year till this date :-

1. The best thing happened to me after moving to Bangalore was the TRIP TO GOKARN. It was the first time, i saw at a sea for me. The first time i saw it, i was amazed by the vastness of it and still is.


2. You can call me independent now. I have been living, on my own for more than 8 months now. I'm responsible for my life here. Not dependent on anyone of any sort.

Black with folded hands, that's me.

3. Blogger's meet. I have attended 2 blogger's meet organized by Indiblogger. I always thought blogger's are these virtual people whom you can't physically meet. But this myth was broken early in this year, when i attended my first blogger's meet. It's always good to give faces to the names.


4. Work is getting better. It obviously is from where it started .....it is in much better conditions.




5. Sea Food. See, the bad part of living is Northern India is, you don't get good sea food which i got to know only after moving here, similarly i no more try to find good chaats in Bangalore, cause it is there. I ate prawns, different fishes(Tuna, being my fav), crabs though i haven't tried any wired stuff.

That's all food in front of us. We sat for close to 2 hours for this buffet.

6. Buffets. I love buffet's, now. After, coming here, my appetite grew drastically. I have attended some 8-10 buffet's and can tell you, if you want to get the worth out of an expensive buffet, i'm your guy.


7. Blogging. Though, i have mentioned it at seventh spot but by no means, it is less important to me. Blogging have been really good for me. I reached an alexa of 67,000 in January, 2010 and mind that it's really good. Then, i got my first Google Page Rank of 3 for the first time in the 3 years of my blog's history. I stood 3rd and 5th while participating in the Indiblogger of the Month for the month of April and May, respectively.

Click to enlarge, You can see my name there. Yaay me!!!!

8. Live Cricket. I saw live cricket for the first time in my life. It was Delhi Dare Devils v/s Bangalore Royal Challengers. It's an amazing feeling to watch a game live.

I know, i look stupid....in most of the pics......but that's me.

Warping it up for the day. Soon, will be writing about the bad first's.

Beach Trip 2 - Om Beach

Hey All,

First of all, this is 300th post......so me celebrating the 300 post on THE WAY IT IS. Thank you all for being here and your support.

Moving on, this is the part where i reach the beach. This is the second post in the series of three. We reached the place Gokarna in the morning about 10 AM IST. Being this my first trip to the beach, i was confused to what to do first because there is an ancient temple right in the middle of the city and some 300 meter away from the nearest beach. So what we decided was to go to the beach.....get wet, come back to the room and bathe and then go to the temple. Though, i'm not into religion, you can say i'm atheist but i love the history of India and the religion. I hate idolatry. Leaving that behind.....here are the pics from the Gokarna Beach.

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Because, it was the first time at beach, that why my eyes were burning cause of the salty water but that didn't stop me from enjoying.

In the background, the OM BEACH, place we came for. This is the second beach if you coming from north to south and there are two more in the row named - NEW MOON Beach and PARADISE Beach. Though, Om beach is the largest but all the beach are peaceful and clean. This is place is some 100-150 KM from GOA, which has the most famous beaches in India that's why this place is not crowded. Here, we got what we wanted peace for two days. The place didn't even had mobile network coverage.

There were a lots of tourists here. You can say they were more in number that the natives. As the day started ending, it didn't even felt like India......so many tourist....black, white, tanned :) .......When talked to them found people were coming from all parts of India to this place. From Gulf Countries, Argentina, Greece, Portugal, Korea etc. Best part.....all were very satisfied by the their trip. Imagine when some body tells you your country and people are great huhhhh......yea, had that feeling.

People mostly come to India after retirement or if they are young, then to find peace. They get involved into religious activities too. I feel that strange.

That's my friend writing I LOVE YOU in Vietnamese. For the obvious reason that his girl friend is from Vietnam.

So this is pretty much it rite now. Hope, you like it. If not , please leave comment you that i can improve. Thanks for visiting by and keep waiting for the last post of the series of my beach trip. Saved the best for the last.

Beach Trip - Post One

Hey All,

It has been a long time when i posted something about me. So, today i'm starting a three post series of my trip to the beach, remember its was my first trip to the beach which makes it especial to me.

So the first post of the trip is about the Journey Starts. For the first set of pictures, i'm starting with the ones where we were travelling or sleeping...in the bus.

We were five people in this trip named Apurva, Hitesh(that's me), Nikhil, Raghav and Yogi. I was friends with the other three except Yogi, whom i met for the first time on this trip.

The bus was starting from a place close to our house at 19:30 PM Friday evening. Except Yogi, we all were on time but Yogi made a last minute entry.

Here's the pics from the bus at the start. You can click on the pics to enlarge them.

There is Me in the front, then Raghav being dry humped by Apurva and Yogi almost getting lost at the end. Nikhil is missing from this one. But you can find in the next one.

Then about 21:30 PM in the night the bus was out of the city and on the highway to reach the place -- Gokarn/Om Beach.

Here, me behind the camera and other in front. Everybody was excited cause we were expecting to reach the beach early morning. The bus was a sleeper bus and was very comfortable. My friends took some liquor, yea we were carrying booze which they were thinking of having some in the bus to sleep better. Though i don't drink, so i brought cold drink for me. Half way in the journey, everybody else in the bus was either sleeping or snoring or doing both. My seat was in alone that means none of my friends were with me. Around 12 in the night because of all the cold drink , i was feeling to pee and have been holding for more than an hour cause the driver won't going to stop the bus for only one person to pee. Then, i went up to the driver and asked when will we going to stop. He said in next 15 mins.......which brought lots of relief. But i was thinking i had less water then what my friends had and how are they not feeling it. Then the bus stopped at a motel kind of a place. I went out ASAP and peed. Then i checked with my friends, asked why didn't they wanted to pee. They told that they could not hold it for long and filled up all the bottles we brought with us.

Yea, that is the extent of disgust guys can reach. Never mind, lets move forward. Then the bus took off from there......but after like 1 and half hour.....about 2:30AM in the night, the bus got punchered. Flat tyre.

There place was a no where land. No signs of living beings as far as we could look actually.

 However the problem was fixed with in 20 mins and we were back on track. We reached the place early in the morning. Next pic was taken in the morning........well all look bad in the morning. So do i and i admit it.

 Thanks for being here. I hope this post will keep you excited about the next in the coming days. Enjoy being here till then.

Adios Manana.