June 8th - World Ocean Day

Whose side are you on?
From Greenpeace.org:
"June 8, World Ocean Day, a chance to celebrate and reflect on the beauty and life of our oceans? No way! It’s the day before the kick off of the Football World Cup and we want YOU to take action. Protect the world’s oceans by getting involved in the event of the year ….Oceans World Cup!
Ever 4 seconds an area the size of 10 football fields is destroyed by deep-sea bottom trawling.
A neat video on Bottom Trawling.

More facts on the effects of deep-sea bottom trawling here.

Never be the same again

The famed Sakleshpur trek route is all but gone. With broad gauge railway lines open now, its a busy stretch. Did the route just before it was opened up. The seemingly short stretch is a hard one on ill equipped teams but its worth the pain. One word - awesome!
More words - I'm proud that my country has green cover (though shrinking) like in the Western Ghats.

Synaps opening for Taxiride

Bangalore, Palace Grounds, it was raining for an hour before the show and the place was packed. With Synaps opening for Taxiride, we had the advantage of walking out if Taxiride didn't make an impression. Ofcourse, they didn't. So we left to down some beer at Windsor Pub.
The guys from Synaps had it bad. They are a pretty tight band and play mostly their own stuff - which is good. But then the crowd didn't take to them thrashing a guitar on stage. Bloody uptight crowd I thought. Then it all fell into place. I hadn't heard them. Then I did. A pansier version of Sound Garden is a close description. So off we went to console ourselves with cold draught and squid rings.
Managed to get hold of 2 pics from this show. Will post a links to their first album songs that I'm trying to upload.

Synaps @ The Forum

Synaps rocking Bangalore again! Pictures are from the show at The Forum.
Pictures from the 2nd June show @ Palace Grounds next. Will also try and upload a clip from their first album. BTW they had a surprise up their sleeve. :-)

por ser quien soy

Soraya Raquel Lamilla Cuevas
(March 11, 1969 – May 10, 2006)

Bangalore's new buses

Rainbow benefit schemes from the BMTC (The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation) nowadays include Accident Insurance, Medical Reimbursement for injuries from vehicular accidents, parking fee discounts at bus stops, monthly free coupons from Nandini/MSIL/Seedlings from the Lalbagh Nursery, and loads of lucky draws on prizes like free trips, refrigerators, computers and even a car.
On a daily basis the BMTC does this:

• Operate 3875 schedules
• Deploy a fleet of 4035 buses
• Make 58,000 trips
• Perform 875,000 service kilometres
• Carry 3,200,000 passengers
• Earn around Rs. 17,300,000
• Pay Rs. 952,000 to the Government towards Motor Vehicle tax

Also, there are buses such as this one plying on the roads nowadays not to mention the launch of a call center too!

Quentin Tarantino's best 12

In the 2002 Sight and Sound Directors' poll, Tarantino revealed his top-twelve films of all-time:
1.Rio Bravo
2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3. Taxi Driver
4. His Girl Friday
5. Rolling Thunder
6. They All Laughed
7. The Great Escape
8. Carrie
9. Coffy
10. Dazed and Confused
11. Five Fingers of Death
12. Hi Diddle Diddle.

Anyone seen them all?

The unwilling icon of capitalism

T-shirts, bandanas, posters, undies, and just about anywhere else you can do injustice. Mr. Guevarra is there, staring away like he'd rather not accept his condition. Poor guy, a hero to the poor, a villain to the capitalists up north. He fought in every major revolution. Though from Argentina, that lent him the "Che", he fought for Latino America and willed the lower populace into dreaming of uniting all the Mestizo countries. Guatemala, Cuba, Congo and finally Bolivia were places he kindled and fought his revolution.

Ernesto "Che" Guevarra de la Serna was eventually captured and murdered by the Bolivian military.

A person with soul, who couldn't stand poverty is today on the front of a svelte chick's T. Nothing else.

Sketchup to the Rescue!

Google Sketchup comes to the rescue. I can now create 3D sketches in no time.
Totally rocks!



Thanks for the update Georgie

Trepidation is all barf

Figured that in the end, invariably, having spent hours on the Internet, I just have to get myself a b..., eh, , a.., bl.., blaa.. blog. That was quite an effort! Hope no one noticed.
But still, here I step into this reluctantly. Even though I had sworn by this blog's title. The gun finally looked menacing enough.
Chalo, then, vamos con todo, but a little care, here and there.

To this, I shall never again sucumb to anything similar, even, with a gun to my head!