Capers, thoughts, bloopers, of a maveric

Yes those are the exact thoughts I had after a visit to the Jungle Lodges camp (or should I call it resort) in Bandipura . The sheer thrill of driving all the way in the desi SUV Scorpio in the rain is a pleasure to be experienced... esply with the potholes full with slush. Let me recount what I did ..... My old batch mates of SSMRV were company, we started from bangalore at 8:15, the route took us to mysore and then on to Nanjanagud , (a brief halt over at Mandya for a break), a bit farther from Nanjanagud is Gundlupet and lo beyond enter into the ooty route to reach Bandipura , let me inform you the deviation you take here on is where in the potholes start...... At bandipura the Jungle lodges resort was surprisingly neat, no T.V, no conventional AC, just fun and time for us, Hammocks aplenty to just laze out under the shade of the trees...Food borders on the decent to garma garam and the best part of it all is the service one gets just for Rs 2200 per head for a 2 day 1

Hey there, Yes the title does justice to itself, this past weekend was one where in there was a lot and lot of cricket, both on the telly and on the field. For starters, I am part of a team called BBSS (Bombat Brother's Sakath Sister's) and for this year's Maithri Challengers Trophy we had not 1 but 2 teams, named BBSS and BBSS Reloaded. All these 3 years of formation of the cricket team all that we had to show whenever we have had encounters with a team called Karavali were battle wounds and most of the time BBSS had to move out of a tournament licking their wounds. Then in the past year and half, BBSS has re-discovered itself, self-belief has flown in the veins of each and every member of BBSS, it started with the termendous victory in the Hoi Baprele tournament and now with BSS being crowned Champs of the Maithri Challengers Tournament, life indeed is on a high. Saturday was the day the league matches were held, BBSS started off with a loss to Karavali XI yet again, a go

Dumb-charades... or DC or Dumbsi is a wonderful game, and can be called full time pass or in other slang paisa vasool .... This is the game I play whenever I have to either go to or come back from my workplace, and I must say the bug has caught on. Slowly but surely there have been a steady addition to the number of people who play the game. Moreover we had a neat trip to Kerala the whole team of us and all through the while we were at it... from struggling first timers to seasoned pro's (read me) we played this game and it gave us a whole lot of fun. Some of the different concepts or rounds that can be used to play DC are listed below, do feel free to add your concept to this :D Name of Movies Name of Television Serials Name of Famous personalities Incidents of Historical significance Name of Hotel's (can be location specific) English words (help in enhancing your vocabulary) Songs (has different variants, can be the Ending letter to continue, can be a word picked from the

Karnataka, land of Sandalwood, land of the vigourous Coorgi, we used to have the grandson of the soil as the Chief.... and then he too went back on his words........This my friends seems to be what people from Karnataka seem to talk about in every small group around the many bylanes in Bangalore and the whole of Karnataka. H.D.Kumaraswamy guided by the golden words of the humble yet politically shrewd father Deve Gowda has erred perhaps fatally for him to save face in the next election, or will I have to eat my words. The educated lot of Karnataka might yet be voting/rooting for the BJP, but what will the ryots decide ? Will the homestay of Kumara bring out the best for him ? Will the Congress be the dark horse ? Can D.K.Shivkumar utilize this abrupt turn of events ? Will another astrologer bring out his predictions ? Will the wise ol' man of Karnataka politics bring out yet another twist in the plot? Will Yediurappa create his lingayat magic ? Will the BJP learn from this ? Is thi