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Bangalore Bloggers Meet And Bangalore BarCamp 4

On July 8, 2007 by Anant With 8 Comments - Blogging, Internet, LiveJournal, Rambler, Technology

Bangalore Bloggers Meet is happening for the first time this month. It’s on the 21st of July at BrewHaHa near Jyothi Nivas College, Koramangala. I’ll be there. All those who read this, please do come. And comment here so that I know who to expect :)

Register for the meet at the Meet Wiki.

Bangalore Bloggers Meet Event Details

Date : 21st July,2007
Venue: BrewHaHa
Near Jyoti Nivas College, Koramangala

Also happening later this month is the Bangalore BarCamp at IIM Bangalore. It’s on the 28th and 29th of July.
There are a lot of collectives and a lot of bloggers should be participating. I’ll hopefully be there too. Register and find more information at the BarCamp Wiki. BarCamp has a lot of Geek oriented Collectives but a few are non-geeky ones too (which is what I’m going to be attending mostly.. Though the Internet Collective and BangAJAX collective is tempting as well..) These will be my first ever bloggers meet and I hope this will be a good experience.

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Funny answers

On July 3, 2007 by Anant With 0 Comments - Humour

A bunch of really funny answers in tests given by students..

Check it out at http://beast-666.livejournal.com/96965.html

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Bike overhaul

On July 3, 2007 by Anant With 2 Comments - Randomness, Thoughts

I want to overhaul the looks of my bike and make it look better. But i wanna do it myself(hence excludes paint jobs).

Trouble being lack of time, experience and unusually bright ideas.

Have an idea in mind but is not innovative. Just got it as i tried to fall asleep, so had to get up to sketch it before i forget ;)

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Wishful

On June 30, 2007 by Anant With 0 Comments - Randomness, Thoughts, Yours Truly

Reminded of trains (Protected entry unfortunately) I wanna go for a train journey too.. To someplace cool for a vacation.

I love trains. They have such a rustic and Indian feel to them. I love train journeys but for the time they take. But it’s a fair trade off I think.

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Oh yeah

On June 30, 2007 by Anant With 2 Comments - Music, Randomness, Yours Truly

I think the dj in Purple Haze, Koramangala rocks.

He played one band after another from my favorites list without knowing of it obviously ;)
Sample – Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Audioslave, Metallica, Ratm, RHCP (in no particular order)

I’d go there just for the music.. (though I’m slightly high right now.. Shhhh ;) )

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So it begins

On June 29, 2007 by Anant With 0 Comments - Studies, Thoughts, Yours Truly

Apps for MBA schools are starting to come out now!

The new round begins for me. I did not apply last year, deferring to gain more work experience. I hope I have sufficient experience this time now.. I am feeling the beginnings of a freak-out :(

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Friendship…

On June 27, 2007 by Anant With 2 Comments - Friends, Life, Randomness, Yours Truly

Sometimes some of my close friends have asked if I am committed to the friendship or that what they mean to me. I always feel awkward in such situations because I feel that they’ll feel I’m saying how I feel out of force or without meaning it and instead saying just to answer their question.

On the other side, sometimes when I feel like saying how important someone is to me, I don’t ask my friends of stuff they don’t tell me and so don’t want to be taken wrongly if they are going around with someone. Or I don’t want to be interpreted as trying to say something else.
Because of this, i have stopped myself from talking after starting, deleted completely typed emails and erased such txt msgs.

Oh why so many complications and why do i think so much..

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Bungee Jumpin

On June 26, 2007 by Anant With 7 Comments - Friends, Life, Yours Truly

Alrighty.. So I bungee jumped yesterday. But more from the start. We left around 12 and it took us about an hour to find the place. The crowd was fairly thin considering it being the last day and a Sunday. The ticket purchase required us to undergo a medical test – BP check and weight. All that took us about an hour and a half. Then came the long wait for our turn to jump.

Eventually it turned out we would wait for about 7.5, yes seven and a half hours.

DSC01937 Waiting for lunch

But it was not all waste. We had lunch and then waiting for some more time went for a long ride, which considering the improving weather was fabulous. Near the Yellahanka airbase Vikram’s bike ran out of fuel. So we stopped there and to our pleasure discovered a small pond. That and the setting sun made for a great combo. Took lots of pics there.

Dive Chandrahasa about to dive in to the lake.. Taking his acting career too seriously ;)

Contemplations One of the best pics of the day..

By then we hoped that our turn would have come but nope, we still had to wait for a lot more time.By now we were beginning to lose patience but since we had paid, we could not do anything. Finally at about 8:30 our turn came and we strapped on for the jump. After that it was just thrill as we waited for our turns.
When my chance finally came, i rode up the platform relatively calmly. But once on top, i felt the fear, thrill and rush of jumping the first time.

DSC01988 The crane from which we jumped..

Encouraged by the instructor, i took a deep breath and stepped off. I wanted to jump head first but the platform was swaying too much for me to jump (ah well next time ;) )

Anyway, once i stepped off, the ground rushing up towards me gave me the kick of my life.
It WAS one of the best experiences of my life.

To those in our group who did not jump, I’m sorry for you. You missed an experience to remember.
Now i wanna jump from higher up :D

More pics on my Zooomr Album
Sorry but the videos are too large to upload.

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