Knowing Myself better...

i saw this topic in another blog.. just thought about trying my hand on them..

1. Were you named after anyone?
Nope…But there was a confusion over Jerin n Jerry and my mom choose Jerin, since she thought Jerry will be common.
2. When was the last time you cried?
Do you think guys wil cry ?? Seriously i'm not recollecting.
3. Do you like your handwriting?
Its a big No.. Only i can read what i write.
4. What is your favorite lunch meat?
i don't know..any non veg stuff will be okay with me.
5. Do you have kids?
Nope..
6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?
Of course I would have definitely been ‘Good Friends’ with me, provided me and the other me meets…
7. Do you use sarcasm?
Oh.. No
8. Do you still have your tonsils?
Eh ??? Yes …
9. Would you bungee jump?
I would like to ..
10. What is your favorite cereal?
its Wheat only…
11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Oh.. ye ...always
12. If you were to pick your own first name, what would it be?
I love my name… Does that answer you ???
13. What is your favorite ice-cream?
Chocolate flavour ...
14. What is the first thing you notice about people?
Way the person dresses ..
15. Red or Pink?
Out of these two , its Red only..
16. Whom do you miss the most?
its a big list..starting my GF, my family ,my friends and so..
17. Do you want everyone to complete the list?
Yes... It will help me know them better…
18. What color clothes are you wearing?
Now.. black shorts n grey t-shirt
19. What are you listening to right now?
Nothing.. charginy my i-pod.. :)
20. If you were a crayon what color would you be?
Black ...
21. Favorite smells?
I like Adidas stuffs
22. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
Its my mom..
23. How do you know the person who sent this to you?
Nobody sent me this, i just took it over from another guys post.. hehe
24. Favorite sports to watch?
it will F1, Cricket, Tennis ..
25. Hair Color?
Black
26. Eye Color?
Black
27. Do you wear contacts?
No…
28. Favorite Foods?
Nothing like that.. anything which is less spicy goes okay for me
29.Scary movies or happy endings?
happy endings
30. Last movie you watched?
Confessionass of a shopaholic.
31. What book are you reading right now?
If God was a Banker
32. Summer or Winter?
WINTERRRRR !!
33. Hugs or Kisses?
Both are needed but if I have to chose one, I would prefer a Hug over a Kiss..
35. Describe your pencil cup?
NA...
36. Favorite Artists?
Celine Dion, Enrique Iglesias, A R Rahman, Yesudas Etc…
37. What kind of music are you into?
Anything other than hard rock
38. What is on your mouse pad?
I'm using the touch pad of laptop.
39. What did you watch on TV last night?
Champions League Semi - Man U vs Arsenal
40. Favorite Sound(s)?
i think its what i hear in the morning when i'm at my native place.
41. Do you sing or play an instrument?
Nope .. :(
42. What is the farthest you’ve been from home?
its Canada..
43. Do you have a special talent?
How can i say it.. let other say that about my special talents.
44. Where were you born?
In a small, town >> Anakkara in Idukki dist@ Gods Own Country
45. Favorite piece of jewelery?
I would like to buy a chain of platinum..
46. How did you meet your spouse/significant other?
its via Online
47. Favorite Song?
Tough .. still i like "Enthinu Veroru Suryodayam " from the mallu movie mazhayethum munpe.
48. Country you like to visit ?
Its New Zealand.
49. Travel by train or road ?
Anyday, its by road.
50. and finally.. the closing line ?
Uffff.. It was a loong one.. Most of these questions got me thinking...

My Travel to Ghana

Project delivery is around the corner and the Professional services team is waiting for me to finish the setup. But Management is not yet approved my travel - With out approval, i cannot even apply for the visa.
After getting the approval, Ghana team told they will arrange On arrival visa for me. Good we can save soem time here.

So all set to go, i booked my ticket by Emirates, my favourite airline :)
Supposed to leave Mumbai on 25th May around 10 in the night, but on Friday around 4 PM, i got a mail from Ghana team telling they didn't get my visa and without that i cannpt enter the flight. :(
Oops.. no other option, reschedule the travel plan.

Moved the ticke to Monday 27th May..
By Monday 4 , i got the issued visa and all set to go.

Also i upgraded my travel from economy calss to Business class from Dubai to Accrs using my skywards airmiles. it costs me 30,000 miles.. but access to Business Class Lunge in Dubai airport for 7 hours and travel in Business calss for more than 8 hours..
I think its worth.

So here i'm inside the business class lounge in Dubai International Airport keep writing my blog..
Updates to the journey will be here soon....

Experience with Air India.

I was very keen about the New Air India, with brand new flights, more facilities , and full page advertisement and all.. after all its the Maharaja , right?
"have you tried the new Air India"

Anyway, i got a chance to travel by air india express .. in domestic sector..
I know , new Air India is for International travel and all.. but
I was coming back from Cochin to Mumbai..
The flight departure time was 9.30 AM , and we departed from Cochin at 9.15 AM itself.. surprising, right ?
We reached Mumbai International Airport by 10.45 AM and was waiting for the check in baggage.
When we reached the belt, (luckily there are onyl 3 belt in the A terminal , where is Air India's operations happening) .. There is no announcement , which belt the baggage si coming, or we can't find any ground staff there.
Thankfully, one Kingfisher from London landed and they took one belt, - still two more belts are free and our luggage may come in any one of them.. Soon one Thai airways also arrived and took the second belt.. Still our luggage is not in the picture..
There we can see the difference, ther aer atleast 5 ground staff in each of the belts for helpign passengers in Kingfisher and Thai..
But our own Air India don't hve any body to ask about the luggage,
By almost 11.30 they announced the luggage will be coming on belt number 8..( Now all of us knew it will be there only, since the other two are already occupied)
Finally at 12.30 i got my luggage..

I n short, i rached to Mumbai from Cochin in 1.5 hours, but my luggage from the flight took 1.45 Minutes to come to the belt...

Who to blame ?

I'm sure . .what ever Air India tries, by new flights, ne wadvertisements or what ever it is.. Unless the people workign with Air India changes, nothing is gonna change...

lets hope, they too will change and make us proud about our own Maharaja...

One of my favourite Malayalam Songs

This is one of my favorite songs..
Dedicating to the one whom i love the most..

എന്തിനു വേറൊരു സുര്യോധ്യയം ..
എന്തിനു വേറൊരു സുര്യോധ്യയം , നീയെന്‍ പോന്നുഷ സന്ധ്യയല്ലേ?
എന്തിനു വേറൊരു മധുവസന്തം ..
എന്തിനു വേറൊരു മധുവസന്തം , ഇന്നു നീയെന്‍ അരികിലില്ലേ ?
മലര്‍വനിയില്‍ ..വെറുതെ എന്തിനു വേറൊരു മധുവസന്തം..

നിന്റെ ഗോപുര മരമരം ഒന്നു കേള്‍ക്കാനായി വന്നു ഞാന്‍
നിന്റെ സാന്ത്യന വേണുവില്‍ രാഗലോല്ലമായി ജീവിതം..
നീയെന്റെയാനന്ദ നീലാംബരി
നീയെന്നുമാനയാത്ത ദീപാഞ്ജലി
ഇനിയും ചിലംബനിയൂ ..............

ശ്യമാഗോപികെ ഈ മിഴി പൂക്കളിനെന്റെ ഈറനായ്..

തവകാംഗുളി ലാളനങ്ങളില്‍ ആര്‍ദ്രമായി മാനസം

പൂ കൊണ്ടു മുടുന്നു വൃന്ദാവനം..

സിന്ദൂരമണിയുന്നു രാഗംബരം

പാടൂ സ്വര ലയ യമുനേ..

Our trip to Shirdi & Ellora..

We guys(Me, Ajay & Saurabh) used to plan for so many trips and nothing used to happen ..
This was bit different ..Didn't had much plan.. just thought about it 2 days back and moved on.Dhruti told he will also join with us..

Our program is like Mumbai--> Shirdi --> Aurangabad --> Ellora--> Aurangabad -->Mumbai

So here we go..

We booked the ticket from Mumbai to Shirdi by Raj National Express.(It costs us Rs.1680/- for all 4 of us).We dit it online(http://www.raj.travel/BE_COACH/BECSSR_SearchAvailability.aspx)

The bus leaves Mumbai around 10 and reaches Shirdi by 5.
But believe me, it was as horrible bus, it was not volvo,even though we paid for volvo bus.(No more Raj Natinal Express)

We reached Shirdi by 6 and we took a room in a hotel "Sai Gangothri" to freshen up.The room costs us 1500/- (1350 for Triple occupancy bed room+150 for extra bed)
Every body got freshen up by 7 and we went for Sai Darshan.
(Do remember mobile, hand bags, etc are not allowed in the temple premises, so we kept everything back in the hotel room)
It was not a long queue , so we manged to come out by 8.15.
Then we bought prasad and had brekfast from a hotel near by Shirdi temple, again a bad choice.Food was pathetic and it was not at all hygenic.. :(

On the way back to hotel, we enquired about ticket from Aurangabad to Mumbai and we didn't get it from anywhere.
So we changed our plan and decided to stay in Shirdi for the night, then visit Ellora tomorow and come back to Shirdi then take bus back to Mumbai.
So we booked ticket to Mumbai from Shirdi by Neeta and it costs us Rs. 1600/- for all 4 of us.

After reaching room, we went to Shani Singanapur temple.
We booked a taxi and paid him 650/- for the complete trip + some toll of 30 /- which we paid.
We reached Shani temple around 12. Ajay & Dhruti did the pooja and all. I just roaming around the temple.
We started back to hotel and on the way had lunch from a small place.All of us were very much hungry and the food was quite decent.

We came back in room by 5 or so...Then everybody was tired and went to sleep. We planned to take the same cab to Ellora and the driver told us, it will costs 1300/- for complete trip.We thought that is good price and decided to move with that.
Dinner we had from a good restaurant near temple, i forget the name.

Next day , we started at 7 from Shirdi to Ellora. It was a long jouney of around 3 hours drive.
The driver stopped in a small tea shop for breakfast. another bad choice and our only option was vadapav....
We reached Ellora by 10.30.

To roam around and see the caves we took a rickshaw, it costs us around 150/-We saw almost all the caves, took lot of photographs. and come out from there by 2 only.
it is a nice place..

Then we went to a Hanuman temple near by.

After that we started to Aurangabad and on the way we had lunch from a hotel.
We went to Mini TajMahal in Aurangabad..Nothing great, but a small replica of Taj Mahal.. This is also known as Taj of Deccan.
After visting that, we started our jouney back to Shirdi by 4 PM.
We reahde Shirdi by 7 and took a room in the same hotel to freshen up. it costs us 400/- for just two hours.
Today also we had dinner from the same place where we had yesterday.
then we started our journey back to Mumbai by 10.30 PM..
We reached Mumbai by 4.30 in the morning and the journey as well as the bus was good.

So here comes an end to our first trip together...

:)