As the first half of the month was filled with site visits, I believe it makes sense to dig about the positivity on the work that it brought in. Yes, It feels that if we are achieving our own targets then consciously/unconsciously we set to do well in other areas too and it showed in me in my work this month. More than work, I liked and started to think on a different note on what I am tasked up with. This gave me a better opportunity to explore a bit more.
Apart from that, I have taken up a positive decision to do what I have planned to do and not over-think on what I am doing and start to analyse the impact of doing the task. I decided to try this approach as I often find myself over-think about the result that a particular task would produce and stop it abruptly. This leaves me in a state where I don't know or understand anything completely. Hence this plan.
As a first step, I started learning Git (Git basics and how it helps in social coding) using "Pro Git" (ePub) and gaining a lot of useful insights as to how it deals with the items being version'ed. I also made it a habit to recollect what I have learnt and maintain a journal entry in Evernote (so that it can be shared with others at ease). This approach is fruitful and is fulfilling my bus travel most of the times. The other reason to be interested at Git is the interest to take up some small project (from my ideas) and work towards it.
I certainly acknowledge that there is good positivity gained over the few months and the outlook is changing and is all for good. I wish I would continue the good work in the long run.
Here comes the splendid of the first half of this month.
Kushalanagar and Madikeri visit for Naga's marriage
The month started with one of my best friend (Nagasabareesh Gontla) marriage at Kushalanagar for which I joined Pramod Ramaswamy and his family along with my brother in his car. As it used to be then in our Boston (US) visit, the plans to visit places in and around Kushalanagar was neatly planned and decided to modify as the need arises.
On the way to kushalanagar, we visited places like Golden temple, Dobara (Elephant ride), Arengae dam and finished the first day happily at Naga's reception. We had a very great welcome at the reception by Mr. Sunil (Naga's brother-in-law) and we shared a nice time enjoying Naga's tense moments in the eve of his wedding. I must say that Naga was very tensed compared to Lasya Nagasabareesh and standing rigid for the snaps!!
Golden temple is a tibetian temple and the pass through made me feel as if we have reached a different part of India. The ambiance was neatly maintained and the whole surrounding was very appealing. We got to see certain rituals being performed there in front of us and looked more like the any other Indian rituals with a different god in place. I also got into a feeling where people are more interested in capturing their moments at the temple (including myself) than understanding what this temple is for and why it has come at the place where it is. I wish I would try to know about the background of these places I visit and have a brief about them than just forgetting what I had once been.
Dobara is a place very famous for the elephant ride but unfortunately we couldn't make it for the elephant ride. As we were keen to cross the shore as there was a stream in between the place to reach elephant ride, we ended up seeing only 2 elephants (small ones) having left out (with their legs chained-up) for greens. Having spent some time in the stream after food over there, we departed to Arengaedam which is one of the oldest dam where the water exit was very high and it was much. I'm not sure which all districts this dam was pumping water into and is something that I would like to know for my own understanding.
On the marriage day, I shot videos of the rituals as a remembrance that I can give him for being there in that occasion. After the marriage, we started for bagmandala temple and is scheduled to be closed by 1:30 pm according to some website (Thanks for having the site updated). we reached the temple exactly 5 mins before the closing and completed the dharsan as the last few people. Thanks to pramod for his driving skills as it wouldn't have been possible to reach close to 80+ kms on a road with moving traffic.
After having lunch at bagmandala temple, we started for Talakaveri (one of the origins of Kaveri river) where there is a small well which doesn't run out of Kaveri water. The climate had suddenly changed from sunny to foggy and it started raining as we reached the top of the hill. We rushed back to the basement along with others and had completely drenched by then. We then exchanged our clothes in the middle of the road and had snacks before we set out for our return to bangalore. finally we reached BTM by 12:30 AM after dinner.
Sivanasamudharam and Talakad
The subsequent week after Kushalanagar trip, me and Mageshwaran Rajendran made an ad-hoc plan to visit Sivanasamudharam falls and my immediate reaction was we should go by bike. He was game for it and we went with our plan. We were accompanied by Raghav Ramalingam and Magesh's US colleague, Karthik. we were set out to start by 9 AM but ultimately started only by 11:30 AM. I was longing for a long ride in my bike since the time I bought one but it so happened that we were on it it this time.
The ride was absolutely wonderful with good roads and obviously good speed. we were on par with the time to reach that was shown in Google maps apart from 2 stops we had for having tender coconut. The road was too good for bikers and hardly any long bad patches that would disturb the place. We reached the samudhram by 2:30 pm and then stepped down to the falls and had a nice time in the water flow. We then started back and had plans to go to Sangam (Mekadatu) but we felt that we wouldn't be able to ride back from there if we plan for it. Hence we decided to go to talakad which is a lovely placed with historical temples and river sand. There was a good river stream near the temple where people were rejoicing. After a good walk (more of an acupuncture) on the river sand for a km, we returned back to the temple and set of to return in the dark roads.
The problem with the dark roads is that the bike lighting wouldn't be sufficient to anticipate anything on the road when it is dark and hence the pace would be slow. Anytime we find a car is the best time to follow and keep-up the pace. we were game for it and riding with full joy. Finally we reached BTM by 11 pm after dinner near Nice road.
It was a fantabulous ride of 380+ km as a single person with high spirit. First time long ride for me and wasn't feeling any bit of tiredness after such a long ride.
Overall a great month to cherish and would withstand the learning from this and take it forward.
PS: I have sacrificed few points like product video shooting, progress of the flat etc., to not bloat this blog too much.
