Ratnagiri Drive - Feb 2011.

Again after two months of Bangalore trip, started a sudden trip with one of our family friends to Ratnagiri.

We started at 5 am from Pune & reached Ratnagiri by 12 pm ,with minor accident saved,but in totality almost a good drive in Alto K 10, travelled 675 kms in total to & fro, three ghats to clear and lot of distance in terms of driving.

What more to say - Enjoyed the Splendid drive like all time. Had breakfast & Lunch on the go at Safari Asia, Ratnagiri. We went to met our family friends dad who was in ICU, but was clear off and taking rest in a private room.

We took some early morning snaps, which is attached with the blog.

India : Scam Hit

Its very tragic to know that living in a society elected by us - feel sorry to know that our elected leaders are in the run of collecting money for their own future generation without having a second thought of the population mass.

Who is going to complain ? Who is caring for it ? Who has time to check the details and cross question ? How many days will the mass remember the episode ? This are basic fundamentals which political leaders have analyzed and examined, hence they have started like slow poisoning, taking little sum of money first - then in crores and multi crores etc.

First had a impression that general mass is the culprit, now feels all are the same - even military staff are equivalent to us, doing scams are a style or fashion statement in big parties.

We can just hate the episode, as can't do any further, like a whistle blower in the case of Shetty was fighting through until one fine day got a blow from the opposition and he had to change his early statement of saying that someone has hit me to had a fall in my house.

Seeing to the series of goondas/local political goonda's all around us, who is going to shout about the wrong happenings, just have to live through until one day someone will kick the culprits for once - Save India and Us also.

Its a shocking affair, its worst now, when our kids grow up - its will be totally mess. Lets hope for a better future for them at least by some good Samaritan among us.

Princess Birthday Celebrations - 2010

" Sandra celebrated her birthday with all her known society friends "

Pune - Bangalore Trip

Awesome Trip to cherish all my life time !

Sorry for not mentioning much in my previous blog regarding the route and distance covered and minute details for a new comer to start the journey safe.

I started my journey from Pune on 3rd Novembe 2010 at 4.45 am - passing Satara,Kolhapur,Nipani,Belgaum,Hubli,Haveri,Davangere,Haveri,Chitradurga,Tumkur,Neelmanagla and then finally Bengaluru at 6 pm, but the traffic after that was pathetic (bad) as it took 2 hrs for me to touch Kammanhalli from Yeshvantpur outer ring circle road.

We stayed for 5 days in which we travelled to Mysore, Sister Aunty's place( Fraser Town) & Bangalore City - with its garden, zoo, park, observatory and shopping lanes in Bangalore.

It was a reliever's trip, just the drive has made my leg sprain a lot as still going with it.

Hope to make a different trip next year to a different place - till then watch out for the space.

Pune - Bangalore - Car Drive

A awesome experience of highway driving skills as all weather touched at natures best.

We started the journey at 04.45 am from Pune through Pune-Bangalore expressway, at a speed of 100-110 kms, morning by 8 we had breakfast & cleared Kolhapur, as by 1 pm -we were at Haveri for lunch break at Punjabi Deol Highway Dhaba clearing 541 kms, then started for the end part of drive to Bangalore touching by 6 pm, as through out Karnataka, rains were at its worst stage with heavy & small drizzling. But the greatest journey to inform is the last part to enter the city to reach Kamanhalli took me 2 hours straight - pathetic traffic as we reached at the worst traffic congestion time ( 6 to 8 pm).

Its almost a 850 kms drive & total money spend in toll plaza is Rs.500/- in 13 hours, but the highways road were at its best for the price we paid. We had to fill in the the petrol tank twice as petrol in Karnataka is costly by Rs.5 per litre. Its almost four lane road till Belgaum and after Hubli to Haveri its a two lane road then again opening in patches four & two lane roads as work is still in progress in almost some parts, we can say that almost 85% work on the Golden Quadrangle is done.

We were saved by a small accident as a KRSTC bus took a left turn on the same highway without indicators. Rest all drive was smooth as Amul butter, but alertness is a must on this road for all diversions to be taken care.

What more to say - had a splendid drive in all , as all enjoyed the bit & bytes as we took almost 6 breaks all over at all major IOC petrol pumps.Specially Jason & Sandra enjoyed the full driving spell.

Tomorrow - Mysore drive !

Rs.28000 Cr - Games Expense or Public Funds.

I just happen to read the newspaper and came to light regarding the above mentioned figure spend for Common wealth Games 2010 in Delhi, building new airport terminal infrastructure, wider roads, flyovers & Metro rail extensions, labour cost - sub minimal wages and unsafe conditions.

Is it the human cost to drive the poor out of streets & out of sight ?

I remember the term " Commonwealth " originally meant for public welfare,things that are greater good for society. Do the commonwealth games pass this commonwealth test ? Kalmadi has surely made his money out of this games-for his next election campaign & voters.

We could have used this money for building basic sports facilities in thousand government schools, primary schools, health centers, building roads all over in India and cut some poverty level.

But who is going to listen as everyone is already on the collection sprint, collect more for his future.Even when we celebrate 63rd Independence Day, we are salves in our own world to people who are using all the best resources for their best need.

I or We, alone cannot change the world in one day, needs a massive support !

Mandwa Beach - My Farm

Its a trip to be remembered and cherished as we celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary.

We went to Mandwa - four hours drive from Pune by car, started at 9 am & reached there by 1pm for lunch,had a pleasant stay with good food & nature trails. In fact our most of time went exploring beach , the entire village place.

Words are not enough for me to express the place , its beauty and people and more.....

AWESOME PLACE !