A trip to Bannerghatta Biological Park

The plan for the long weekend started with a trip to Ooty. But when people started to withdraw from the availability, the group reduces to 2 persons (Raja(Oracle Colleague) and myself). Since we made up our mind for a trip, we desperately wanted to go and finally decided on Bannerghatta Park . We decided to go on Friday, 25th March.

We started at 9:50 am after a heavy breakfast and it took nearly 30 mins to reach Bannerghatta. The road to BBP(Bannerghatta Biological park-renamed recently) was really amazing and I heard that Nasa people has conducted the testing for the landing of Pathfinder in this road. Really a good choice. But one thing, while riding in that road please do enjoy the ride and don't ever talk to ur pillion rider.. otherwise you will end up in eating sands and stones.

We reached there by 10:25 am and luckily we got into the grand safari(combination of lion&tiger safari, deer safari and bear safari) bus within 10 mins since it wasn't much crowded. The trip started by 10:35. The safari was good and the only difference between zoo and this park is, in zoo you have animals in the cage and here it's you who will be in the caged vehicle and animals are free to roam in a restricted area.

The place was really dry and we were wondering how animals like deer survive. We saw Lion, lioness, tiger, bear, spotted dear, samba deer, bisons and the famous white tiger and all the animals were really fed up in the hot and always keen to be in a shelter except the bear which was courageous enough to come close to our vehicle to see us.

The safari went for an hour and we packed up to Bangalore and reached by 2:00 pm. A nice place for a day picnic.

Kuiya's Marriage

Kuiya's marriage was the much awaited event among our friends. The reason was simple (he is in love) . The marriage was arranged at the last possible moment, a week before. He was very busy in organising the things together to make the event a successful. Know one thing, the marriage was proposed to held on a great day of the year (23rd March).. why ?... 'cos its my birthday.

Finally the day of happenings started. We started at 8:30 in the morning by a Cab arranged by Kuiya. We had breakfast near to the temple (Someshwara temple) then back to temple where the occasion has to happen. Nice to tell that this event has arranged for a get together for our University friends.

The rituals started at 10:30 am and the first thing was the holy wash of kuiya's leg (similar to ablution) by his mother-in-law. Then we entered into the temple and the ceremony started. Kuiya was really in a abuzz mood. From here the things started happening fast. Then our hero Kuiya tied the holy thread around Samyu's neck. Then comes the things like garland exchange, metti anivithal... From then our Kuiya became a Family man and we wished him a great and happy married life.

Thalai's Marriage

We decided to attend the great moment of our Thalai's life who finally got into the wedlock. The marriage was fixed on 13th Feb, a day before the Valentine's day and we were there in Erode. The first day went with no special events except our Cheena Thaana presented himself dashingly with his new Provogue shirt and Blackberry trousers. The night we friends went for the movie 'Ji' in which Ajith starred. The following morning was the Muhurtham and that was the moment our Thalai was anxiously waiting for. He tied the holy thread around his better half's neck. He now has lost his bachelor's life.

Friday Party

It was Friday (4th March) and I had a very good reason to fete the weekend mood. The reason was Magesh's birthday. This was his last birthday as a bachelor as he is entering into wedlock on June 1st. We planned for a treat and went to Inchara a nearby restaurant. It was really a nice experience to reminisce our University day with fine food.