Some pics of Karwar taken from my cell phone. They don't do justice to the place.....someday I plan to capture it better, the beach, the people, the beauty. Someday I plan to understand the place and more so its people better.

Do we need to redraw the map?

Its not like we didn't have enough problems, we are fighting over the border now. If you ask me leave those cities alone. It is obvious that if cities border two states it will have influences from both the states. You cant draw clear cut borders. One city in question other than Belgaum is Karwar. The place where my parents grew up. And they are mighty happy with Karwar being in Karnataka. So if tomorrow it belongs to Maharashtra, will I be a Maharashtrian? Umm I don't think so. Anyways there are other people protesting which if nothing has given us a holiday today. With nothing to watch on TV (They blocked all channels except Kannada channels) and no where to go I use this time to give myself a much needed pedicure and catch up on some reading. Will post some pics of Karwar from my visit last week soon.

Put your hands up, put your hands up like you just don't care, Nach Baliye!

Its never happened before, people at office discussing TV shows I hadn't heard of. Yeah I have been watching so less TV I don't know my way with the remote and the channel tuning on our TV. But with lots of time to spare in the last few days I am fully equipped and have made up for the loss. Look who is going to be bragging tomorrow in office during coffee break with my newly gained information. About Tulsi and Aamir telling you Coca-Cola is safe. About the cute new surf excel ad. And about Nach Baliye!! Yes Nach Baliye is back with lots of drama minus Farhan Aktar (how could they not have him??) . I am so rooting for Narayani and Gaurav! They are like the Varun-Rajeshwari/Parmeet-Archana of NB-1. Absolutely natural and oh so adorable. Vote for them! And yes Please buy surf excel. You could apparently put kids to school by doing so. Isn't it the cutest ad you have ever seen? And coke, well that's up to you to decide if its pesticide free or not. Meanwhile, put your hands up, put your hands up, like you just don't care, Nach baliye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blah!

Am bored out of my wits. Plans falling apart. People canceling. Want to blog and don't want to at the same time. I need something to boost my ego. If you are one of those regular readers who has never commented here this is the time to come out and tell me how much you like my blog. Lie about it if you have to. Oh hell, what am I saying? The visitor counter never seems to change, so you my dear secret blog admirer, don't exist. So who am I talking to then? Oh and I finally registered at bloglines. Now I manage whatever I read online through bloglines. Also turns out, only one person in this entire universe has subscribed to my blog. Bless you my dear friend. I have subscribed to 40 feeds, have very few international blogs on my list. Any recommendations? This question is put to the few people who do read my blog and to that one subscriber not to the non existent imaginary secret admirer.

Pyaar ke side effects.

One of the best comedies I have seen since Dil chahta hai and I will probably be beaten up for saying this but I liked it better than Lage raho Munnabhai. Rahul, Mallika and Ranvir dazzle (yes yes, mallika can act!). The only problem however is that you'll keep guessing in which English movie you have seen the scene before. (Reminded me of Something about Mary, My best friend's wedding and the TV show 'friends') but like Rashmi says it, 'it may not be original but its definitely fresh'.

Go watch it.

Colour colour, which colour do you want?

BMTC buses are getting make-overs. They are no longer of the boring blue and white (they were once red weren't they? And they were called BTS then and tickets costed only a rupee. That was all so long ago. Sigh!) I see buses in jazzy silvers, bright blues and flaming reds. I am confused. Are they just meant to look good? Have they hired new designers? Or do the colours signify something? The shocker was when I saw this bus which had a 'ladies only' board and it was coloured, ahem... pink. All of it. Standing there at the bus stop looking pretty in pink. Ermm..I think the newly hired designers went overboard there. Have to find out more about the ladies only buses though, never heard of them before!

Update:

Dedicating an entire bus to women might be extreme and not economical but I am for the reservation of seats for women in buses. I have been traveling by BMTC buses for nearly 8 years now. I never ask men to leave the seat for me if they are sitting in a 'ladies only' seat. Most of the times I don't mind them sitting. And most of the times men do let women have their seats. When the first few seats are booked essentially the first half of the bus is occupied by women, Not just the seats even the standing area. This ensures that the one pervert (I know not all men are creeps, allow me to assume that there is always one pervert in every bus) is no where near you. So yes. I am damn happy seats are reserved for women in buses. If you want to make things fair, reserve the rest of the seats for men. This way everybody is happy.

Few pics to make up for my blogger's block

Murudeshwar Beach.

Shiva idol at Murudeshwar.

Puppies at my grandparents farm. (yeah yeah I forgot to set the date)

Vanilla Plantation.


Behinds of jersey cows.


Banana, Areca nut and Coconut plantation.


Baby cow drinking milk.


I just like this pic :)