Trip to Hogenakkal water falls

We got a notice on Satday that there would be no class next day when we usually have some extra classes. Hurray So what next?? My gang then decided that nite to go for a trip to Hogenakkal water falls in Tamilnadu.

This place is abt 150km frm Bangalore. We started at 7.30am from electronics city and took a bus to Dharmapuri. That took us abt 3 hrs. Nxt destination was to Hogenakkal, 1hr frm there. The first sight of the river Kaveri, in its full flow due to the rains was awesome n bit terrifying too. Few interesting things that are specific to this place are fried fishes(as a whole) and oil massaging. First we had to cross a way abt 1/2km to get first view of a waterfall (there are plenty of them each one in its own beauty). It was a concrete passage but river flowing across it. The water was really chill.



Here we were approached by local boatmen for a ride in the river. We bargained a lottt and finally booked 2 boats each costing Rs 450. Total of 9 members got into these 2 boats. Boarded the boat where the river was in smooth pace. Then crossed the river to get to the opp side. We had to trek a small mountain to reach the nxt point. Now comes the most adventurous part. The main falls was at the center of the river. The boat could go only to certain distance into the river. From there, we had to reach the place by jumping across few rocks. Few of ppl fell over them n got bruised. Finally v managed to reach the most awaited spot of all. It was a gigantic waterfall making huge noise. V reached a place that was THE deadend there. One more step and v plunge into it



Then after returning to the bank, v all bathed for abt 1/2 an hour and moved back. Next dest was crossing a hanging bridge wer v cud see many of the falls. Splendid vieww. not to be missed at all. Later went to cine falls by crossing a narrow passage across the river.



After njoying the place till 6pm, v startd bck and reached Blore by 12 nite.

Sun Tech Days '07

I've been recently to Sun Tech Days @ Hyderabad, a 3 day workshop on SUN's technologies (now many being open-sourced) and their applications and advancements. It was a pretty gud session. The main focus was on 3 streams -

1) JavaME - my favourite tech stuff. Most interesting stuff was that there wer a couple of demos that were done from the scratch and those applications were ported on the mobile devices and whoooop they were perfectly done and yup there z great applause from the audience.
2) NetBeans - hmmm it was great to see this IDE do many of d tasks so simple especially the visual designer. I suggest to have a look at this too.
3) OpenSolaris - Think now Solaris Vs Linux seems to be a favorite topic amongst the "OPEN" developers.


Adrenalin due to technology - most important event was that there were 2 teams of 3 professionals each. Every one had 5 min to demo a unusual project for which they worked. We audience had a great rush of adrenalin as what that application would do after those nail-biting 5 min. It was perfect and these demos are mind-blowing. eg., One person demoed an appln using Image processing, AJAX where visual objects were manipulated, made to dance etc using voice commands. Perfect one to have seen there live.

Other highlights included giving away ipods, cool shirts n caps to people selected from a lucky draw. Phew I couldnt get any :(

But I got some pretty stuffs viz., bag, Java cup, key chain etc.,,

The enthusiasm with which people, from acads & industry, moved there was amazing. Surely I can say this is one of the best conferences I've ever attended.

Overall, Enlightened by Sun Tech Days.....

Love your fellow being as Lord Himself..

I'm posting after going through a site of Mother Teresa. I was awaiting such a stuff to go into my mind and add some humanitarian face to my personality to the existing.

People these days are becoming self-centric owing to factors like job, money, social status.. But thanks to corporate companies, they tend to do some helping work to the need on certain special occasions like x-mas etc., But this would look much better if the work they do is done periodically.

A major banking MNC, is sponsoring a Govt. school in Andhra Pradesh, India and the xmas greeting cards they produced had drawings done by the students there, on the face cover. This is another way to let the talents of those rich-at-heart children rise.

Here is the link, I was saying about Mother Teresa. Its worth visting once and follow Her principles.

http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite

yet another blog....

Blogging has bcome not just a leisure activity but a serious & indivisible work of many net-o-holics.
Serious discussions to pretty silly jokes, everything is valid only here. This has become so popular that many surveys are conducted worldwide as who the most active bloggers !!! Nice to see a friend in the Top 10 list.

hope i stay active here ATLEAST........