How to read the T.Log -- Santhosh Kumar C

All,

Ok... ok... This is not the Transaction Log of SQL Server which Sumanth was talking about the other day in the SQL Server Training.

This is another type of log, a Travel log which all of us are interested in reading again and again after the wonderful (Can I call so?????????) trip (And not Trek for a change from the 16$Trekkers)J.

As always thanks to all of you in making the trip a successful one.

And the usual the Special thanks awards should go to our New Comers.... ManuG, Vijay, Rosh, Ankit (Gyan's Brother... at least by the resemblance), Raghu, Sriti and Neha (The Cute Girl as pointed by SalmaJ).

And here are some of the moments which still exist untouched in my memory.... (By the way I have a very Bad memory.....)

After lying low for more than 5 months we became active with a Trip being organized to Coorg District...

An Extra Special Thanks to Salma and her father for taking a lot of trouble in trying to arrange the Forest Dormitories.... (In fact it got spoiled by the Governor of Karnataka...).

25-06-04 (Friday night)

• Getting the newcomers accustomed to the 16$ Environment...
  
• Praseed KK's last minute dash to the Trip (As usual .... But the difference this time was that he had almost pulled out from the trip and came in at the last minute...)
  
• Finally at 12:00 the starting bell for the trip rang.
  
• The DJs for the trip was initially taken care by Manu, Su (Our Sumantha Vasu for the new comers......) and Rohit D and should I mention about the Songs being played by them?????????????
  
• Manu's desperation for a good dinner and the Driver stopping the vehicle at a perfect spot where there was only Banana's and Chips available... L
  
• Sleepy start for the trip where most of them were snoring.... And by the way Gyan has the ultimate knack of sleeping when put in any part of the vehicle....
  
• (Want any proofs????????? Check the snaps shared)
  
• How can I forget the Super Police of Karnataka Dept. taking 20/- for coming in a Road which has been blocked from one side and open from the other side.. (Want to know the reason??? There are a lot of Dacoits in that roadJ).
  
• Stops at each road junctions in search of the Kabini Reservoir ....
  
• Finally the dawn of Saturday morning near Kabini...

26-06-04 (Saturday)

• Search of Madevappa, Ishwarappa and all sorts of Appa's for getting a Room available for the morning needs...
  
• And the satisfaction when Madevappa agreed for a single room to be given fro a timings of one hour.
  
• The early morning Queue..... (Shld I mention the reason for it .. Nah ... Nah..)
  
• Bangaluru style of taking bath by Deepak, KK, Manu and all others and the Surprising look in the Kids of HDKote.
  
• So the calculation continued for 60 minutes.... 20 people and 3 minutes per head..... Which was duly agreed upon by the Female troops...? (And maan they were very very much on time) and only Sumanth, Raghu and Myself got the time to take bath in the IB guest house....
  
• Gyan's swim and the sudden climb to the shore after he got a feeling as if something had touched his feet (And later he realized that there are Croc's in the Reservoir... J)
  
• How can we forget the Awesome look of the Kabini Dam and the subsequent climb to the Dam and the beautiful scene from there.
  
• Morning Break Fast which included from Bread Jam, Sandwich, Carrot, Kheera, Mixture and the list continues...... (And by the way Manu was so thrilled with the Break Fast that he was still looking for a hotel in either side of the road for having Idlis........................)
  
• Started the tour back to the much awaited suspenseful drive back to Nagarahole forest....
  
• And so here starts the DC which kept us company in the Tempo till we reached B'lore (DC... Dumb Charades)
  
• Finally we reached the entrance of the Nagarahole National Park and the wait for the Governor to pass by us (Seeing the Gates I was feeling as if I am entering the Jurassic Park J )
  
• That was followed by the happy news that Governor is leaving to Bangalore and so started sketching that we can stay in the Dormitories in Nagarahole...
  
• This trip in the forest with all enthusiastic eyes and heads including mine popping out of the window to get some glimpse of the Elephants, Bison's and Deer's....
  
• Ok ok no gifts for guessing ...... and we could see Elephants, Bison's, Tigers, Lions etc etc......... (and that was all in the dreams J) but we managed to see herds of Deer's locking around in the forest..
  
• And finally we reached the Nagarahole Forest Office was located with a lot of Hope...
  
• All hell broke loose when we saw the lots of Police Vehicles ...and the frustrating part of it was the Police wasn't allowing us to stop also in the forest...
  
• And so here went the Safari as a Dream (Not) Come True..... and finally we reached Kutta for a brief Tea Stop.
  
• After tea raced forward for another hotel were we had our dinner.... (Pukka Mallu E-Style..... The Boiled Rice, Fish curry, Chicken Curry, Parota ...... and the list continues.....)
  
• After a photo session continued further ahead with the Tasty Lolly Pops... (By the way wherez the share of the Video Album being shooted by our Ace Director Suvasu?????????????)
  
• The painful look in the face of few after getting down the Van expecting a Drive on the Tempo Top which our Driver rejected L.
  
• And finally we reached the Iruppu falls ..... and what an amazing falls it was.......................
  
• After the n'joyment in the falls we started back to Madikeri.....
  
• Finally Landed up in Virajpet for a brief Coffee break and lots of Dosa's..........
  
• But it turned out to be that we had to make our Night halt at the Lodge in V'pet.
  
• All things got settled down quickly in the rooms and then started the story of Talisma.. Ex- Talisman's and all stories .....till finally all got sleepy and that ends the second day for most of us... (Except for a few .... J)

27-06-04 (Sunday)

• Steady Abhishek was so studies that he got up at 5:30 but don't ask me what he did in the Toilet / Bathroom for the next 30 minutes......
  
• In another room we could see that the planning was so perfectly done that Animesh and Deepak were sleeping on one bed and Su, Manu and Vijay on another bed and the poor Rohit was lying down on a Bed Sheet.
  
• Ask Vijay how was the sleep the previous night as he was grumbling *&^%$#@!@#$%^&**((#!!@#~!@~ ; since ManuG was sleeping next to him (Please don't misunderstand now....)
  
• As usual the Late Latif's KK and Yashwant got ready finally.
  
• Started to the Thala Kaveri... Bhagamandala after the morning Break Fast.
  
• And the un-forgetfull dialog of "Mere Pass Maa Hei! Thumhare Pass Kya Hei?????" and the sudden answer of "Mere Pass Talis-Maa Hei".
  
• On the way the story telling started with Yashwant, KK, Su and the Youngest and the Bestest being the centre of attraction...
  
• It started from Yashwant, KK, Su and xxx till it ended for the part 1.
  
• Started again one more story which was the Part 2 with Yash (Not Yash Chopra its our Yashwant Singh Chouhan), KK and xxx's kids and ended in the place where it had started in the first part.
  
• With all these stories we managed to reach Thala Kaveri and the Rain greeted us there but it was a beautiful climate to be over there.. Rain, Misty....
  
• The climb to the Brahmagiri Hills and the subsequent scene over there as nothing could be seen below since the whole place was covered with mist.
  
• Without much of a noise we managed to reach the Abbey Falls.
  
• With all the advices which Apna Gyan Bhai couldn't resist himself in getting the Bag to have a swim in the Abbey falls.
  
• But it turned out to be that there was a death in the Falls, the previous day Police was guarding the Bridge so that no one could enter the Falls.
  
• Finally after all the Photo and Chai Sessions we left Abbey to Madikeri for a lunch and the subsequent travel to our next destination to the Tibetian Monastry.
  
• Disaster was waiting for our Poor Driver since there was the RTO officer who took our drivers Vehicle Documents for no reason.
  
• So finished our lunch there and then had to wait for the RTO for giving the documents after the driver handed over 500/- to him and the reason Xtra members in the vehicle.
  
• And so we reached the final spot at Bylakuppa in Kushal Nagar where the structures were simply amazing..
  
• And so started the Dumb Charades for the next 5 hours continuously.
  
• And the struggle of myself, Sooraj and Su when getting a Hindi movie to enact was simply superb (Coz we didn't know the meaning of the word) but full marks to us since we were able to get the answer from our team by enacting...
  
• And the enacting skills of all have to be applauded... (The desperate look when one gets a name like The Spy Who XXXXXX Me, Basic Instinct was simply not to be explained but worth watching).
  
• Finally at 11:30 in the night we were able to reach safely back home for yet another successful from 16$Trekkers.

The photoz are shared in the below mentioned shares...

file://///replication/Photoz/Coorg26&270604 and file://///talisma255/Nagarhole-Coorg

And by the way don't forget to read the name of the Snaps..... (Courtesy Santhosh and Praseed for the first share ............ Rohit for the second share)

Sorry Raghu, Rosh, Sriti and Neha I know u will not be able to see the snaps... Will try to upload some snaps in the Yahoo site.

As usual the disclaimer follows.......... : - This mail is not intended to harm anyone. If anyone is offended by this mail, please I can't help it.

This is how 16$ Trekkers are............

Minutes of Kodachadri....--Santhosh Kumar C.

Greetings all,

I know itz late..... but better late than never. There are various reasons which forced me into mailing this minutes of trek to you all....Any ways herez the recapitulation of the magnificent KODACHADRI trekking experience we had before the details fade out of our mindset. The end of the trek is a good time to reminisce on the highlights of the trip, and also to make others feel J about what they missed out by not coming for the trek.

First of all, thanks to all for helping manage/execute the trek admirably. The planning worked perfectly and right things happened at convenient times, a great showing in all from all. Thanks once again to all of you.

Special thanks to Sumanth (SU), Salma (The 5 minutes girl), Naveen (DJ), Darshini, the Sunfill, Coffee, Maggi, Cucumber ... Excuse me all others of whom I have left off the names here.

Some moments in time stand out like snapshots frozen in memory in the order as I saw:

20-02-04 Night

• The long wait for Praseed as usual (Comparatively shorter to last trek).
• The quiet entries of Anup S and Tenny Jacob.
• The Su (Sumanth) and The Du (Deepak) show.
• TALK TO MY HAND of Sumanth.
• Music mixing skills of our own DJ Naveen (Thank god GYAN wasnt there....).

21-02-04 Day1

• The early morning rituals in Teerthahalli.
• The long journey from Teerthahalli to Kodachadri.
• Tasty tasty dosa's............ and the long wait for the same.
• Ealry morning Queue for the Autodownloads..... :-) :-) :-) .
• Sardar's (Abhijeet) sun cream lotion (It was actually a fairness cream which Sooraj, Sardar and myself realised it later).
• The rather easy Roof Top Drive on the Swaraj Mazda to the foot hills of Kodachadri hills...
• The photo session before the climb to the top.
• Gang getting divided into various small groups on the way to the top.
• Gang of Su, Rohit, me, Salma and Darshini getting together as the last batch.
• Deviating from the Road route and trying the short cuts !!!!!
• The 5 minutes breaks of Salma (Climb for 2 minute and then throw the bag on the ground and then lying down on that :->>>> ).
• Sumanth,rohit and myself had to literally pull Salma in one or two occasions.
• Darshini's learning of how to climb to the top of the hill.
• Soooooraj in search of the lost partners....
• Hearing of the distant (KNOWN) voices from the wrong direction of the climb which people had taken the short cut.
• Rajesh Tripath, Sardar shouting for the route from a totally distant place (They had lost the route :-<<<<).
• The long wait for the lost gang and the Oranges .......
• The water spot in between.
• Trying to hide when a GEEP was passing by coz of the dust being generated by it.
• Reaching the top of a hill on one side and the expression on the faces when shown the final destination.
• The rush for the sun cream lotions on the top of the hill.
• Rohit's Cell phone giving EXACT information about the temperature on the top of the hill (I dont exactly remember the temperature...)
• Saniye's doubts (Ask Rohit what it was).
• The life saving Sunfills.........................
• Cramps for Tenny and Soooraj.
• My struggle to get Tenny's name right (was telling all sorts of names like Tina, Tessy, etc... etc......... and the list continues)
• The last stop before the first halt.
• The never reaching Lunch spot and the turns kept continuing.
• Saniye will never believe me when I tell the destination is very near.......
• Saniye and Tenny's speed doubling up when the lunch spot was approaching.
• The sleep of the first gang after completing the lunch.
• The delious lunch in the afternoon.
• Start of the second stretch with the dog following us.
• My struggle starting after getting the cramps.
• Satisfaction in all the eyes after reaching the top of the hill.
• Sooraj sleep in hiz own e-style.
• The Kheera and the keera cutter Rohit.
• Deepak ka doowaaan and the staring look in others eyes when the fire was being put on for the caaafffeee...
• Search for the wooden logs, water........
• The SUNSET view from the top of the hill.
• Antakshari competion in full swing and the fire lending its own support from the Camp fire.
• The Yummy Yummy Maggie.
• Struggle of Mine and Rajesh Naik with the wind.
• Hunt for the sleeping bags.... sleeping matts....

22-02-04 Day2

• People peeping out of the sleeping bags in the morning...
• Rohit's cellphone again displaying an amazing precision of 25 Degree C when people were struggling b'coz of the cold weather.
• The Sunrise and the start of a fresh second day...
• The first halt and the Break fast...
• Start of the final trek down the hill.
• People going in search of the short cuts and missing the routes...............
• The never ending walk to the tempo after reaching the base of the hill.
• Wait near the tempo for the people to arrive.
• The drive to the River for the bath without waiting for the other gang to reach.
• The peaceful river and the bath in the river the arrival of the second gang for the bath.
• The Scarriest drive of KK, Rajesh, Deepak and Andy on the Tempo top in the GHAT roads.(Still i can see these people not sitting on the chair properly :-) ).
• The WALK in the temple premises without Chappals (Was it a walk or a marathon run????).
• The Lunch and the Yummy ice creams....
• Waiting for the people and Saniye's comment on the Auto Download.
• Naveen on the top of the world (Suna tha ki sprite bhujayein pyas but here it was naveen bhujayein pyas ).
• The Beach at Maravanthe.
• Raghu's tasty SPRITE and the after effects (Thank God Mukambike Teertha was there).
• Coffin of Deepak, Rohit and Rajesh Tripathi.
• The TITANIC seen and the picture shooting of the same (Saniye, Rajesh Naik, KK, Yashwant and Andy {No prices for guessing who Kate Winslet was.. :-)})
• Saniye's escape from the KIDS.
• The Sunset snaps and Yashwants FRIEND.
• Salma's anxiousness when told we r going via Mangalore and the hurt when told we are not entering Mangalore :-< .
• The Veg dinner at BC Road and the short (LOOOOOONG) wait for the Non-Veg Gang.
• Ashok (Driver) chipping in with his stunts with the Truck fellass.....
• Gunny Bag treasure of Ashok with the BEANS.... from the road.

Photos are on the SHARE. That's it as of now catch u in the next trek... and by the way .

SHARES FOR THE SAME ARE AS FOLLOWS :-

file:////REPLICATION/Photoz/Kodachadri21&220204

file:////talisma255/Feb 20th - 22nd - Kodachadri

file:////aditi606/kodi

Minutes of Rail trek to Sakleshpur -- Santhosh Kmar C.

Greetings all,

Here's a recapitulation of the magnificent RAIL ROUTE trekking experience we had before the details fade out of our mindset. The end of the trek is a good time to reminisce on the highlights of the trip, cos our energy during the actual trek seemed to be spent mainly in that half-second that it took to put one foot in front of the other and keep moving in the tunnels and along the bridges.

First of all, thanks to all for helping manage/execute the trek admirably. The planning worked like clockwork and right things happened at convenient times, a great showing in all.

Special thanks to Deepak (code named APAC), Naveen, KK, Biju (aka Doc), Muru (Life saver of RaghuP), Arun (The COOK Prachi will still not agree with it since she has got one more name for him), Rajesh (The LiveWire ), Nandini (The BADLA Girl), Prachi (Fighter is there any one with whom she has not fought with J), the Sunfill, Coffee, Tea, Maggi, Cucumber (I know APAC will still be grumbling when I say about this), and the list continues… Excuse me all others of whom I have left off the names here.

Some moments in time stand out like snapshots frozen in memory in the order as I saw:

v The long wait for the trek to start.

v The packing being done with the luggages being distributed equally (Come on Prachi, KK, APAC excuse me if u have got more than what u had expected)

v Boddikuri saying that “ There is a cooker which is just I think 10 liters which can be taken for preparing the food in the trek” and the amusement in the others faces.

v The satisfaction on all the other trekker’s faces when KK finally turning up.

DAY 1

v The early morning rituals in Sakleshpur Bus Stand and the Police who came as a savoir and Rajesh’s leaning ness towards the cigarette <Now please don’t ask me for what>.

v Naveen’s late starts.

v Look of each one of them on crossing the first BRIDGE.

v Walking in the tunnels (a few were more than 500mts) without the lights.

v Was feeling like the Bridge was moving sometimes rather than I am walking when walking over the bridges!!!

v KK and Himanshu’s fear over the BATS.

v My fear to get down into the river after seeing the Viper.

v And the chashmawallas (KK, APAC and Narendra) struggling to see the snake without the glasses.

v Raghu stepping on the CHAMELOEN or rather should I say the other way round????

v Raghu’s fight as whether to drown or to come ashore (He’s very happy that he had attended 15-days training for swimming).

v THE ROPE of ArunC, which finally came in handy for getting Raghu out of water.

v The first signs of Leaches, which was found in Varada’s shoes.

v The walk back to the bridge after finishing the lunch.

v Arun’s cooking (or should I call the marketing for what he has cooked as Prachi calls it in the railway station).

v The Camp Fire of ours compared to the other gang (Was like Gulliver and the DWARF)

v Prachi with her MP3 collection of songs (Even Varada’s MP3 collection was not bad).

v Hats off to apna Gyan Bhai with his fantastic collection of pre-historic songsJ !!!

v Arun C’s uncanny ability of SINGING (I don’t know how many will agree with this).

v Kannada singer RAJ KUMAR who joined with us for the SONGS and GYAN’s desperation to get out of that.

v RAJESH and the BAT links??????

v Naveen’s scoldings in hindi (Abhey maar dhuunga saaley thumhe) <Excuse me for the Hindi>.

v KK & APAC’s Mouse Hunt in the night (Or rather should I call it as GOOSE HUNT).

v KK’s Search For The Candle (Don’t ask me why he was searching that).

v The HP (Cute looking) Bootni’s appearing in front of the Door and KK/APAC trying to scare them out.

v Rajesh tere agal bagal mein kaun soraha tha????????

DAY 2

v Narendra’s expertness in falling in the Tunnels and by the way Narendra wins the race just overtaking Prachi and that was a close encounter.

v Nandini’s BADLA (Read it in Hindi) or THE REVENGE for the walking stick and THE FALL. Please don’t ask anything about this with Boddikuri.

v Boddikuri’s worn out LEE JEANS and of course the yet to be released FADED Addidas shoes too…

v Himanshu’s priced catch (THE SNAKE SKIN…YES SNAKE SKIN. It will be on display very soon to TALISMA public that what I heard form him).

v Boddukuri’s uncanny ability to cut the CUCUMBER. (For more about this just ask Boddikuri to let him show his left hand and the finger he polished with the knife).

v Prachi’s fear on reaching the middle of the Bridge.

v The unforgettable un finish able final TUNNEL.

v LEACH SAMADHI.

v Leach affair, which I had in the fag end of the trek. (I pulled 7 out without any harm done to me and 3 other had sucked my blood).

v Raghup’s secret of keeping the leaches out of him (Maan he had worn two pants and finally the one which was there in his pant went inside Gyan’s shoe when removing it).

v Secret behind the leaches not touching KK (Did he have only one pair of socks and that might have been the Anasthesia).

v Wondering about Varada’s energy even after walking / trekking 40 Kms to get the Swaraj Mazda (Sooraj is still thinking how can she walk for another 0.5 Kms to get the bus!!!)

v The Awsome Sixsome who had a never forgettable Over the top TEMPO drive with our driver Ashok chipping in with his talents.

v The heartening news … Because of LUNAR ECLIPSE the Temple food is cancelled.

v And finally Biju gets the JAYAN award (ask me, Soorajlal or KK for more information about this awardJ) for his excellence in Dress Code and ANGER…

v Muru feeling his hunger after waiting for a long time for the Driver.

v Kerala Parata which Biju had promised (Infact it was very tasty!!!!!!)

v The final photo session with all the 20 models together.

v View of Kumaraparvatha behind the Subramanya temple (Which might be our next destination.)

v Praseed’s run back to get The SEAT (We could have send him to Olympics if there was a competition for Musical chair or we can send him to INDIAN POLITICS)J.

v Narendra our Sleeper Coach.

v Narendra’s Upendra Episode with Nandini (Poor Girl she still holds onto the table not to faint if some one says about UP<NAR>endra).

v Boddikuri’s finger PAIN in the night.

v Oops Apna Praseed KK ka t-shirt, pant ya Bag is baaar gira nahin (Please read this in Hindi for a change )!!!

v DJNaveen with his GOOD MORNING and wakeup call on reaching Bangalore.

v Now I know why Rajesh is very Tall (I saw just in the trek all were pulling his leg and of course it was the fact that every one agrees to).

v And by the way tell me how many have lost their weights…

Photos are on their way. That’s it as of now catch u in the next trek… and by the way last but not least Deepak thanks a lot for being the APAC Guide of ours.

Note: - <Kanchan thanks a lot for the sleeping BAGS>

Disclaimer: - This mail is not intended to harm anyone. If anyone is offended by this mail please don’t forgive me. JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ