Kruger National Park.

Andy's off on his 'safari plans' as of today. When he and Arun elaborated on the term 'safari'..I well got hooked onto telling them about my lifetime dream of spending a month in the wild (perhaps Masai Mara). Andy then pounced on his chance to give me my first youtube vid break in office :)...here it is...

Battle at Kruger

I can talk about this video for hours...but will give you a brief jist and spoil the fun.You see it all in this video - a pack of lions, a lonely buffalo, baby buffs, just when the action is not enough, two crocs come into picture. After some more action, voila, the mommy buffalo gathers each and every buffalo it has ever met to battle the lions..what you see next is history. A lion gets kicked 5 - 8 feet into the air. Boy, this is a must watch.

Thanks Andy, hope you enjoy your safari ;).

Mood : Wide eyed / amused
Song: Lion roars and Buffalo moos if that counts for a jungle song...

Nerdiness.....

I took this test out of immense curiosity and just to quell rumours that it is not abnormal to be hooked on to your laptop on friday evening. Here are the results:




Am I nerdy???? Well, the website also told me that they sell T-shirts for everytype of nerdiness. So, mine read "Nerd Goddess". Now talk about marketing!

Meanwhile, here's a small preview of what Anna's wedding looked like and what we looked like at Anna's wedding :).





p.s - I love Sowmya's saree. Its the colour that makes it stand out. Wine Red...yoohoo...

Other than that, waiting for the iPhone to hit the stands next week. Wanna read all the slashdot articles that massacre / herald it.

Till then, tada...

Mood: Sleepy (on my new couch :D)
Song: Nee oru kadhal sangeetham (Movie: Nayakan, Language: Tamil)

Aha....its summer!

For all ya silent angels who have missed me, I've been doing lotsa stuff over summer. I always consider summers to be very special.

I remember my earliest summers as mum packing all of us kids to a painting and knitting class. The Mickey Mouse we did as a result as an end project was something I can never forget. It made the realise that art was a thing I loved to admire but not to self-indulge.
Then there were the whacky summers with my favourite goons - when learnt to play tabletennis, monopoly, cricket, the works....more summers where Naveen and I hit the libraries to find out who would read more Hardy Boys' and Nancy Drews. Summers which had had a more intensive combat like atmosphere when we matured at gully cricket and progressed to the case files of the Hardy Boys. Summers where I started reading the more 'adult' books by authors like Sidney Sheldon. Summers where I buried my sorrow of missing my best friend Shruthi with 'The Fountainhead'. Summers where I spent time coding and trying to figure out how things worked in Red Hat 6.2. Summers where I've watched basketball like I was the manager of some western conference team. Summers when I simply spent time, learning up words and their meanings for the GRE. Summers where I lived alone and still felt most loved. Summers where I spent my time exploring the Rockies while in Boulder, CO.
This summer happens to be no less exciting. It started off with my much awaited trip to San Jose/the bay area for Anna's wedding. The wedding tuned out to go on just fine and somewhere in the midst of all this, I seem to have found time to kayak in California! Was at Betasso Park Preserve last weekend trying to find my first geocache.




This weekend has been even more crazy with a collegue and me going on what I can describe about as the hike that almost did me in. Perhaps its a way of nature taunting me and telling me that I'm still not in too good a shape. But boy, am I ready to take up a challenge or what?
Here's more info about the Royal Arch trail in the Flatirons.



Mood - Gosh I feel like a winner :)
Song - Sar kattha jaye ya payr mein dard ho jaye, iodex pyare paas hamare kahe ghabraye, kahe ghabraye. Ooh Aah Oouch.