Horsely Hills

Last week we went to Horsely Hills from Bangalore. (Via chintamani) See the route directions http://maps.google.co.in/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wl

Its beautiful small place where you can relax for a day. The AP Tourism guest house is very good and food is expensive but very good.

There are good adventurous games are there, swimming pool, very beautiful valley view and Sun set point.

Over all we enjoyed a lot...!! It's just 160KM from Bangalore and worth of going.

Suggestions: Book the rooms in advance. It's Noon to Noon billing, so plan accordingly.

Mobile Tracker in Samsung Phone

Ok.. I found my name and appreciation for my work in somebody else site.. This is the site..

http://sites.google.com/site/there4iroam/professional/the-story-of-an-invention

Here is the info... By the way, this is one of my patents....

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From: sujith
To: ece ; crec96
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:43:36 PM
Subject: Fw: Apprecition for what you started long time back.

People,

Mambo?, (as they address/What's Up, in Swahili). Apparently, you would reply "Poa!", for "I'm Cool!" ;)

This small news story from somewhere in Kenya, in the attached doc..
came in a mail out of the blue.., which tickled me pink with surprise and put me into a stunned silence!!,
because You would Never expect that a small thing that popped out of your head will reach that far to touch someone in Africa, and that it will come back to you years later with such a drama around it, and even more unexpected, that you'll get to hear it this way.
The Seagull in me feels quite amazed by such fortuitous turn of events, and feeling luckier, getting to savour such stories!..

It's in a mail from an ex-colleague at Samsung India Software Operations, Bangalore..
[ Related to the patent-idea (that I had submitted in 2004 for tracking stolen mobile phones) from which a team there implemented the software currently in Samsung phones. The feature can be seen in the menu as 'Mobile Tracker' under 'Settings>>Security'. ]

{
Digressing to tell another story the mail triggered:
I guess it's this friend who highlighted my name in red in the mail below,
since in Korean culture they don't write any living person's name in red
as they do it only for people who are dead! ;) They take particular care to remove any such in emails as well.

I had this curious experience while at Samsung Korea,
once during a meeting when one Indian colleague wrote a teammate's name with red marker on the whiteboard,
which a Korean collegue immediately got up to wipe clean and re-wrote the name with blue, while the bemused guy looked on! ;)
}

ciao
-Sujith

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Wanderlust Journals: http://greenwich-times.blogspot.com/

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What we don`t need to carry..
Grudges, Sadness, Pain, Fear, Regrets..
Fly light.., Life is beautiful...
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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: xxx <>
To: sujith
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:25:38 AM
Subject: Apprecition for what you started long time back.

Hi Sujith,

Don't know if they sent a mail to you.

But even after about 4 years. The Mobile Tracker is still going on.

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Dear SISOites,

It gives me great joy to announce to you that one of our solutions (Mobile Tracker) has created a big differentiation for our mobile phones not just in India but around the world. Found below is an image which was published on the "Login" screen of ALL Samsung Group Employees (except overseas R&D centers). Imagine the reach !!!

Mobile Tracker Solution was conceived, developed and deployed by our own engineers. We want to encourage all of you to continue to make efforts to bring such laurels both to yourself and the organization.

Congratulations to the Mobile Tracker Team (Sujith Chandran, Sreenath Reddy Konda, Mohan Rao, Morla, Balaji V.R, Sheshagiri Rao, Pawan Kumar A, Abhijit Sarkar, Hari Babu and few others) for this remarkable achievement.

You can also read the mail of appreciation from our end customer who is a resident of Kenya.

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Attaching the same for your reference.

You are still remebered. And this is definitely a good learning on how small things can make big difference.

Regards,

Bangalore to Hyderabad Drive by Car

Recently I started driving from Bangalore to Hyderabad and back by Car. Recent problems in Andhra force me to drive first time by car to Hyderabad. It was on 24th Dec 2009 for the first time. Shilpa, Mom, 2 month old Baby and myself started to Gadwal. (400 KM from Bangalore on NH7). It took around 9 hours to reach Gadwal with 2 stops of one hour each for Baby. From Gadwal I went to Hyderabad. On return I traveled alone back. After that I went on the same route 3 times. Very good drive. Here I will explain the route from Bangalore to Hyderabad.
NH7 is pretty good road. Most of the work is complete. Except few places between Ananthpur to Kurnool, almost all the work is done.

Started from Hebbal in the morning 5. Karnataka Boarder is around 95KM from Hebbal. NH7 here is complete and no distrubance. I drove my TATA indica DLG at around 140KMpH. In one hour I reached Andhra Boarder. There is toll gate now (Rs. 50 one way for Car). This place is Bagepally. On the way, Chikballapur by pass road is complete. So you can drive quickly. Only problem I saw was speed breakers at 4 places. very harsh, I jumped with the car like a James bond Movie. Otherwise pretty good road.
Bagepally to Ananthpur (200KM from Hebbal), Road is mostly good except at Penugonda. The by pass road is not ready and You wil pass via the sleeping monster (Kumbakarna) statue. It took total of 3 hours for me to cover 200KM to Ananthpur. No speed breakers. very pleasant drive except at Penugonda.
Ananthpur to Kurnool. Most of the road is not complete. On NH7 also, only one side of hte road is used. Around 150 KM, but it takes 3 hours. Road is not good, some road is NH7, some part is not completed. So be careful.
Kurnool to Hyderabad. Excellent road. NH7 is abslutely ready and you can drive at very crazy speed. Easy to go at 140KMpH. Its around 200KM. very very pleasant drive. No speed breakers. Total of 3 Tollgates as the work here is complete.
Over all stats:
Bangalore to Hyderabad: NH7
Distance: 550 KM
Total Time: 10 Hours. (Single driver and 30Min stop for Breakfast)
Road Condition: Excellent for 400KM. Just ok for 150KM.
Restarants: 60KM from Hebbal (BPCL Ghar Dhaba on your left.)
250KM from Hebbal. 50KM after Ananthpur. (BPCL Ghar Dhaba on your right.)
380 KM from Hebbal. 25KM from Kurnool. (BPCL Ghar Dhaba on your left.)
After Erravelli Junction, there are many eating places.
Vehicle: TATA Indica Diesel DLG.
Mileage: 18.3 per Litre Diesel.
Tollgates: Total 4

Hebbal -> Chicballapur -> Bagepally -> Penugonda -> Ananthpur -> Gutty -> Dhone -> Kurnool -> Jedcharla -> Hyderabad.

Places of interest: Just after Bagepally in AP, take a left diversion to Lepakshi. A exceptionally beautyful temple around 20KM diversion from NH7.
Just after Ananthpur on the NH7 on your right, beautyful ISKON temple.

It's a Beautiful Life

We are blessed with baby boy on 6th Nov 2009. He is so cute and very active. Shilpa and myself are never so happy in life than these moments. We are living hte moments. Baby is healthy and very very active. His hands are moving as if he is swimmer or boxer. Have a look at the cute pics. Incidentally that day was our marriage day also.

Cycling in Bangalore

Recently I added a new vehicle to my life. Its Hercules Act Ryder 105. It's a nice simple cycle. Started cycling occasionally. Then I heard about Bangalore Cycling Championship. As it is happening close to Yelahanka, I also registered to test my stamina.
Finally on 20th Sep, 2009, I had my first cycling race for 45KM. I completed in 3 hours 10 min. (Winner completed in 1 hour 12 Min). I felt very happy after completing the race. So happy and so refreshing. On the return, Bangalore I put my cycle in A/C Volvo bus and returned to my home. Very nice first bicycle race. I will keep adding more and more on my cycling trips in coming days.

Belum Caves - Andhra Pradesh (14-Mar-2009)

Last week we went to a beautiful place called Belum caves in Andhra Pradhesh. This place is around 280KM from Benguluru and very close to Tadipatri in Andhra Pradhesh. I think this is one of the best maintained tourist place in India. You would never believe that in India we can have such a nice maintainance. Whole 3.25KM length of the caves are lit with beautiful lighting. Archieology department has completely done the flooring with stone. I remember going to Borra caves in my childhood. Very beautiful natural caves, but the maintainance was very poor those days. I heard they are also mantained well now. But Belum caves are real example of what level we can go for maintainance. Thanks to Chandrababu Naidu, who proactively pushed all the government to do their job. Today its a tourist delight. Anybody going there will not be disappointed. They have drilled deep into the caves from top to just blow air. That makes it easy for us to go inside. Otherwise, I think it is impossible to go so deep inside the caves.

There are beautiful sit outs, water bodies, natural beauty and a good feeling. I think you can get the route map and directions easily from any blog. But the rating of mine for the place is 5/5. Excellent place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belum_Caves

Bangkok Dairy (9th December 2002)

Again another tourist spot in Asia. Bangkok is the city which has become capital of Thai land in mid 18th century. Now it is very famous for shopping, food and tourists. The Thai traditoin is well known across world as Thai food.
The Bangkokians and most Thai people called "Bangkok" as "Krungthep" which means the City of Angels. Believe it or not? The official full name of Bangkok wins the Guinness Book Records as the longest place name. See if you could read it:-
"Krungthep Maha Nakorn Amorn Ratanakosindra Mahindrayudhya, Mahadilokpop Noparatana Rajthani Burirom Udom Rajnivet Mahastan Amorn Pimarn Avatarn Satit Sakkatuttiya Vishnukarm Prasit."
About city: Bangkok is well developed city with good infrastrucutre and facilities. Bangkok and Thai land is very cheap to live. THe cost of living is very less. For the first time I felt that India is a costly place to live. I will talk about this later.Traffic jams are very common in Bangkok.. as all the taxis are air conditoined.. u will definitely get a nice sleep :-) U have Taxis, auto rikshaws and two wheeler taxis.. (yes.. u can go on bike.. not renting.. a driver will be there who will take u)If u want to escape traffic jams, two wheelers are best.. but I have not tried them as my clients warned me not to go with them.
Culture:This mail is not enough to talk about Thai culture. They are basically Hindus and Budhists. They have many similarities with Indian tradtion and culture. They have their own version of Ramayana and Hindu culture. Infact..most of the professors believe that "God Hanuma (ANjaneya) has come from Thai land into the books of Ramayana"As Hanuma is famous here.. Rama also famous. The current King name is Rama IX..(U can see how famous that name is).. THeir ramayana is a bit different..but basically same.. U can see the Vanara sena fighting with monsters on many paintings here.. Surprisingly their old temples have monsters as gate keepers..(what that mean???)Another fair tale they believe here is the story of byravana .. (Do u know who he is??) He is the monster who put Hanuma's son as gatekeeper to him empire.. SUrprised?? from where we got Hanuma's son.. In some of Telugu movies also this is there.. There is a tale which says once a fish had Hanuma's sweat and had given birth to a baby..Nice story.. Probably Hanuma felt romantic seeing the cultural and traditional beauty of Bangkok..Now coming to Budhist culture..here both budhist and hindu culture is mixed. The world famous emarald Budha is in bangkok. Emarald in Thai means grean not the precious stone. That Grand palace is an amazaing place for worship. I have seen the Michel Angelo's Museum in Vatican City.. THis is also as good as that.. An exstradinory place to watch that place.. It is not as big as Vatican city museum but definitely worth watching..Most of the building and sculptures are made of gold and braonze and gr8 sight to watch. Most of the sight seeing places are near Grand Palace. THere is another gr8 budhist center.. 67meters tall temple.. which is extremely good for sun set on the bank of river. Just 15 minutes away from Grand palace. There are many such spots are there.. but no time for me to see..Here another tale.. Then emarald Budha is found to a vilalger long ago..King sent his elephant to get the Budha statue to his palace.. three times he sent hus elephant all the times the elephant run away when it come close to the statue.. (Do not know how true.. book information..) Within short time i know so many stories here.. I cannot put them in one mail..( I will send u the pictures after some days..)Here the people believe that Kings are ancestors of Devas (Gods) who involved in churning pala samundra.. ( Ocean of Milk which Gods and Monsters churn using Vasuki snake???) So many resembless they have with Indian culture.. so obviously i cannot put in one mail..
Thai food: Ohh!! really mouth watering food.. Especially noodles varieties and soups are just excellent.. U find food on road side like India.. every 10 meters.. so much famous the food is here..Lot of varieties.. One nice thing here.. is there is vegetarian concept here.. Their food mostly resemble Indian food. I mean they have concept of curry and gravy etc. Whatever I told about food it is less. But donot believe me.. I like any kind of food...So better u try it out.. I tried many traditoinal Thai food.. Thang wah*** Too spicy.. they also nice. Some are just zero salt zero spice.. they also nice.. :-)
Bangkok Shopping: Ohhh!! my goodness.. u will become mad by looking at the price here.. We have seen only big super bazaar that too only once.. The dresses comes atleast 50% of Indian price.. I am not joking... so cheap they are and the quality is tooo good. Just imagine how the price on small shops.. Bangkok is better place for shopping than travellers..Though i donot like any shopping, I could not stop temptation of looking the shops...A very good formal dress wear u get for Rs. 1000.. which will cost more than Rs. 2000 in India..But i donot like shopping and no time for that toooo.. Not only cloths.. anything is cheap if u compare with Indian price.. Even the hotels are damn cheap.. We are staying in 5 start apartment which has 10 far better than Mumbai Oberoi in facilities and half of that price.. Everything is very cheap here..
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING NOW.........TO come to THai Land, Indians (infact many country citizens) do not require VISA. U can come to THai land without VISA and get VISA in bangkok airport. (VISA ON ARRIVAL) THis is valid for 15 days as tourists and cost u Rs. 330...Many people come here for shopping like this..
So how many of u are planning for shopping here??
We are lucky here.. that King's birthday was on 4th December and this is the biggest festival here. King is God here. Whole Bangkok is decorated with lights.. and around 1 Lakh people gathered near Grand Palace when we entered......