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I finally bought an iPhone, I bought it two days after it’s launch in India. People had already started asking me about plan to change my last cell phone because it’d already been 6 months since I did that.
I am loving it, it does not have a few basic features, I am missing the copy-paste and the message forward, but it’s a marble, hardware and usability are simply awesome. Now when I have a Official Mac, I love the marriage of an iPhone and a MacBook Pro.
I spent 750 buck and bought a rubber cover but ended up not using it, I use a sticky screen guard though.
WiFi, GPS, EDGE, 3G (Not available in India) are faster and better then all my earlier cell phones, then best in this thing is the iPod.
I am lovin’ it.

Free Fallin’ Down, originally uploaded by abgpt.

Falling down like hell, that was horrible… It was the Jurassic Park Roller Coaster in Universal Studios, Los Angeles, CA. The faces tell the story…

That’s me in YEP 2006, thanks to Sujoy for this photograph. Everything in the tag list of this post was there . Really an Awesome Party.

Dada we badly need you. We remember your anger for not bowling in the block hole in the slog overs, we remember you shouting at a team member for not taking a catch. Our team is handicap without you. Today when our master blaster returned to the rest room for only a single buck we thought had there been our Dada he would have at least made others make a few more runs. Dada come back.

Rafting at Savanadurga

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Savanadurga is a hill 67 kms away from Bangalore (India) off the Magadi road 12.919654° N 77.292881° E. It is a beautiful place surrounded with lots of greenery. It has rich medicinal value plants. It is also a house of deer, panthers, snakes and is a very popular place for bird watching.

Savanadurga hill is a great monolith rock of 1,020 feet with a circumference of 6 km. The hill rises to 1226 m above mean sea level and forms a part of the Deccan plateau. The hill is famous for a temple and is also believed to be among the largest monolith hills. It consists of peninsular gneiss, granites, basic dykes and laterites. It is a paradise for rock climbers.

Rappelling at Savandurga Hills

Surrounding the area is a state forest with scrub and dry deciduous forest covering 27 sq. km. The degraded forest, which is considered as shrub and tree savanna of the Anogeissus?Chloroxylon?Acacia series is highly diverse, recording over 59 tree and 119 shrub species. The Arkavathi river passes nearby through the Thippagondanahalli reservoir and on towards Manchanabele.

Launching Winning Missile

Savanadurga is a place of historic importance as well due to its ancient temples, ruins and a fort at the top of the hill which was built by King Samantha Raya. It was also used as the hideout of Kempe Gowda.

This was also a location for the making of David Lean’s movie “Passage to India”.