H.A.L Museum

7th June,2008 -Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bangalore

Located between H.A.L Airport(old) and Marathahalli Junction.15 kms from BTM Layout.You can take any of these routes,

Silk Board - Sarjapur Ring Road - Marathahalli Junction - HAL Museum

or

Dairy Circle - Museum Road - Mayo Hall (Bangalore Central) - Domlur - Airport - HAL Museum.

One fine afternoon we started to this place (Prakash,Gomathi and Viji).They're charging Rs.20 per head for entrance and an additional Rs.25 for cameras.It is really worth to watch the place with helicopters and Missiles(Prototypes).Nice weather,good ambience and cool breeze adds beauty to this place.

They had 'Flight Simulator' games,toys and miniatures in the first floor of the main building for kids.Historical moments are captured and displayed in the center hall of the main building.There is also a small canteen operated for visitors.

Viji took some nice snaps of the flowers and i think she had a lot of interest in photography.we spent 2 hrs in the museum, chatting and remembering those good old college moments and we had totally a nice time in the Museum.

Especially kids will enjoy this place a lot and for us, it is to remember the history of Indian Aviation Industry.

Gardening around this place was awesome.Radars and War birds are displayed with information board explaining the in depth detail of its architecture.


Please check out this link for further information, http://www.warbirdsofindia.com/wbblrhal.html .

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Trip to Innovative Filmcity

Hi back again,


This time we planned to go for the new BAIL(Bangalore Airport international Limited) located at Devanahalli.But our plans got changed to go for Innovative Film city located on the Bangalore - Mysore Highway.

This is my first ride, out of bangalore,in my bike.I started when my ODO reads 233kms.My friends Prakash(XCD 125) with Sundar,Balu(Apache RTR) with Somu and myself(Flame) with Arjun started our trip around 11am from my house.We took the kanakapura main road and changed to NICE(Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises) road and then joined the Mysore road.In the Mysore road,once we crossed the Toyota Plant, we took a left to Bidadi industrial Estate where this innovative Film city is located.

Still the constructions are going on and you could witness a sign board saying(We are open on Trial Run). The entry fee was Rs.50 and the charges for other places such as(Ripley's Believe it or not,Funplex,Cartoon City,Aqua & Velocity..etc)was Rs.150.

We tried the Aqua,it is 5 feet artificial beach with waves coming for 7Min at an interval of 40min.We played Volleyball and had a nice time there.The film city is also featuring a Food Court.You can feel like being in a Rome Street when you go through the Film City Entrance and buildings


This place is just starting up and will take some time for the completion. Not much sign boards are there in the way to the film city when you come from bangalore.

There are lot of petrol pump stations on the Bangalore - Mysore highway.So no need to worry about petrol.Came back to house @ 6:45pm and my ODO showed 323kms.Huh, i had travelled 90 kms in a day @ a speed of 40km/hr.

Distance:

45 Kms from BTM Layout

12 Kms from Wonder La.

Planned to go again when the film city is fully completed.

Trip to Muthyala Madhuvu

Near to Anekal

36 kms from BTM Layout

The place will be very good only during rainy seasons

BTM Layout > Bannerghatta > Jigani > Anekal > Muthyala Madhuvu.

Trees are on both the sides of the road and covers the entire road with its shadow.You feel like being in the middle of soft breeze.Once you reach this place,park your vehicles at the top and foot steps are there which takes you to the bottom of the mountain.There is an small river between the mountains and shiva temple along the river side.

No food & snacks are available at this place,better to buy them at Anekal itself.When you're coming from bangalore, once you reach near Anekal,@ the entrance of anekal you could see a V-Shape road and take the right side road which will take you to the anekal market.From there it's hardly 2 kms to the branch road of "Muthyala Madhuvu",There is no sign saying route to this place.Better to ask the people on the way.

Enjoyed this place a lot with my friends : Prakash(XCD125),Balu(Apache RTR),Mahesh (Pulsar) and Kannan.Really had a nice time out there.

Trip to Bannerghatta Zoo

Bannerghatta National park is situated @ 15kms from BTM Layout,hardly it is a 40 min travel.

10:00 AM - Bought the ticket for Grand Safari


10:15 AM - Van takes you to the "Herbivore Safari Entrance".

We could able to see Bison,Samba Deer initially.Main safari's inside the Zoo were,

1.Beer Safari


2.Lion safari


3.Tiger Safari


4.White Tiger Safari

Each region is circumferenced with the electric connections and also has "Twin Secured Gates".When the safari van approaches each entrance,the first gate of the cage will be opened,and once the vehicle moves into the cage, first gate is closed and then second gate will open. Pretty secured area.


11:30 - Butterfly Park


11:45 - Safari Ends

then we could able to spend another 1.5 hrs in the park.This place is suitable for half day outings.

My view on Chennai 600028 Movie

Here i am gonna say the scenes that i like in the movie with a little bit review.




It starts with introduction of the players of Sharks team(A Cricket Team in Vishalakshi Thottam) and their rival Rockers (A Cricket Team in Royapuram) and goes on with the happenings of love,friendship,anger and team work and lots of it between them.




Typically depicts the life of guys in chennai and their mutual relationship.Good things about movie




a.Nice Songs


b.Character Selection


c.Every actor player their part well


d.Perfect Screenplay


e.Youth Story


f.Moreover it shows what happens in real world.




The Scenes i like most:


1.The introduction of the girl Vijayalakshmi with a little cute smile on her face and a little streak of kumkum on her forehead with a perfect background score from Yuvan shankar raja.It was very splendid and it can be understood only by watching in the screen.






2.The scene at which karthick apologizes to his friend palani for the error that he had done.Karthick just plea palani to return to his team at the cost of his love and gives the primary focus to friendship.here's where friendship wins love.






3.Our karthick got hurt and admitted in the hospital and will be taken care of by palani's sister(The girl who Karthick loves).here's where the friendship makes trust on love and obviously the love wins.






4.The moment at which Karthick knows that her loving girl accepted his proposal and the following song "Yaaro Yarukkul Inku Yaro",it was really good and surely will make you think of your loving girl.






All the songs are composed and been placed at the right place where it should be.kudos to Yuvan Shankar Raja(Music) ,Venkat Prabhu(Director) and the lyric writers.




and last but not least,the song "Saroja Saman Nikalo" will make you dance and your fingers will automatically move for the rhythm.

ISKCON Visit

Hi,


This time i had a good time with my friends (balu,prakash,thilak,shanmuga raj,siddarthan) by going into ISKCON (International Society for krishna Consciousness) in bangalore.we started from BTM at 4:40 pm and reached Kempagowda Bus Stand.




The bus to ISKCON starts from platform no:9 and the number is 80,80A.When we reached there we could see roads with steep and gentle slopes.




We reached the counter and got special entry ticket(Totally 150 bucks for all 6 of us).The queue is very large in normal darshan and surely it will take 1-1.5 hrs to saw krishna,so it is better to take special entry ticket.




First we saw narasimha prahaladhan statue,it was awesome and was glowing,shining and full of tejus and felt pretty good being there,and then we moved on to see lord venkateshwara.




what a design that they had made to construct ,it was really cool and good.Everywhere we heard the "hare rama hare rama" enchanting music.




finally we saw krishna & balarama - Radha Krisha idols.The jewels and the calm in the lord's face can't be explained.Then we started our photo session out there with our mobiles.Had a pretty good time with my friends.




Lastly,we started to our house around 7:30 in the evening from ISKCON.In my perspective it is a nice place to visit in bangalore.

My trip to Mekedattu

Hi ppls,


recently with all my friends visited mekedattu and sangamam.




sangamam is a nice place to visit where river arkavathi merges with cauvery and an awesome place to visit.




we started from bangalore and reached sangamam and it took 2 - 2.5 hrs travel.




It's best you buy the foods in bangalore itself,because you can't get nice food on the way.From bangalore to kanakapura the road is okay,but after crossing kanakapura it's the worst road to sangamam.




In sangamam,you can see the water bed as clear as good but look for broken glass pieces.you can enjoy a lot at sangamam only.




From sangamam you have to cross the river arkavathi to reach mekedattu.there are some mini buses charging 40/- per head(Up and Down).It's completely full of rocks and you can see the shiny rocks but be careful.It is really hot place.water flows through the rocks beautifully and you can see hell lot of hard and sharp rocks.




i would suggest to spend a lot of time in sangamam itself.If you can take Tempo Traveller (14 Seater) it hardly costs you 3000 bucks.




yah i forgot one thing,the route from sangamam to mekedattu is really scaring.It's a one way route where you can see broken pieces of tree branches all over the way.If you have luck you can watch the elephants breaking trees or crossing your way.




You can visit the place at any season.

Site List

Hi i would like to post some of the cool sites that i had gone through the net.




Tamil songs:




www.tamilbeat.com,www.tamilmp3world.com,www.tamilmusix.com




Tamil Movies:




www.tamilpeek.com , www.lankasri.com




want to download swat cats collection:




http://www.swatkats.us/




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