Benison Challenger.K
Age: 30
Gender: male
Astrological Sign: Capricon
Industry: Technology
Occupation: Computer Hardware Technician(Technical assistant)
Location: Mananthavady : Kerala : India
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Sunset or Sunrise?
I am leaving the question to the readers.
Note: Friends participated in Tagore Hostel Meet at Denkinikotta are not eligible for this competition.
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Another Mysore Wayanad Car Ride
Spotting a wild animal in the Sulthan Bathery – Mysore road is a common thing. The thick jungle in-between Gundalpettu and Sulthan Bathery is the habitat of many wild animals. I have already posted some pictures of wild animals from this place, especially the one picture of a wild bear crossing the road.
The pictures you are seeing here were taken on 2nd of November 2006 while I was returning from Mysore to Wayanad via Sulthan Bathery along with my mother. Inadequate lighting conditions and vibrations of the car in engine running state made it difficult to take good quality photographs without shakes. It is dangerous to turn of the vehicle and get out of it in the jungle, since a wild elephant or a panther can attack us at any time. Otherwise I should have another guy ready in the driver seat so that I can get out and take photographs.
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Calvary
[The picture was taken on 23rd October 2006 from a temple situated on the hill just near Devagowda Petrol pump (Kittur Rani Chennamma Circle), Banashankari 3rd Stage, Bangalore. It was a holiday for me on behalf of Ramzan and I was waiting there on the top of the hill to take the snap of the first moon after new moon. The sighting of the moon is the end of fasting for Muslims and the starting of Ramzan celebration. But clouds disappointed me and I was not able to see the moon. To my surprise, when the image of the sun was about to touch the distant hill, situated some where near Rajarajeshwari Nagar, the cross on the hill top which you are seeing in the picture above came visible. I used the full zoom of 648mm plus some digital zoom to get this picture. {Thanks to Remya for writing the scripts in Malayalam.}]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Reflections
This picture was also taken while traveling to Mysore along with my mother; see the post ==> Miles to go before I sleep
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Experience Makes the Man
Are you working sitting in front of a computer with 24 hours internet access, or at least email access? How long have you been doing it? Let me ask you something. How many times have you got the same forwarded email, perhaps a slightly modified one, or how many times have you got the same forwarded sms message from different contacts? I am sure you have got many, in fact countless. If you have been watching how people behave to internet access, you may notice that, when ever a new one gets the net access, he forms a different friends circle which exists only in the web, and the guy will start getting some forwards which he/she will eventually forwards to his/her own friendship circle. The more experienced the guy with the internet, the more possibility of getting the same forwards again.
If you start a discussion with all the new internet joiners about the impact of sending forward mails, you are going to fail. Still you know that it is absolute waste to send forwards. The forum will come up with a hundred different points about the use of forwarded emails and forwarded sms. You may watch later that the same set of people getting retired from these kinds of habits after a year or two, and speaking about the bad effects of the same.
This is not just the case of sending emails forwards or sms. When experienced people say something others always resist to understand those facts even if they know the fact that their personal life proved many thousand times that experience makes a lot of difference. The younger generation believes about the veterans that they are old and thinks in the old fashioned way, but at the same time they are not able to refine what they did and when they grow older they also pursue the same paths followed by their parents and grand parents.
When the young generation use the common insults to the older like “Why can’t you sit and read the Ramayana instead of making nuisance to us?” they never thinks of their older ages yet to come, and they also receive the same insults. Regardless of culture, nationalities and religions, people when they grow old, tend to spend more of their time in religious activities. Most of the younger generation will have a time in their life when they think that what done by old people is utter useless, and they believe that what they do is more refined, abstract and meaningful. Throughout the entire human history humans are never able to change or create a new culture or refine the way of living and thinking. Those who think that they are correct are never able to bring up their next generation better; the same life cycle will be followed by the next generation also.
Here I am not saying that humans have not developed in technology and way of living in the entire history. What I am saying is that regardless of the experience of others, we won’t be ready to accept some facts until unless we go through the same experience that make us think or behave differently. The saying “Experience makes’ the man” is absolutely true in all respects. Here what I write may be written by many others during their life, and this is not a discovery. Out of all these, should I believe that the entire planet or the world is having a cycle which everybody will go through and must go through, which cannot be changed even we know the truth? No, not at all.
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Miles to go before I Sleep
The picture is taken on an evening, while traveling with my mother towards Mysore by car, just before reaching H.D Kotte. This road to Mysore starting from Mananthavady and which touches Kartikulam, Bavali, Antharasante and HD Kotte lengths almost 110 kms, with 25 kilometers of thick forest in-between, where you are sure to spot at least one wild animal. 30 kilometers of distance starting from the Karnataka border towards Mysore is in a pretty bad condition but all the other stretches are extremely good and enjoyable to ride so that you won’t remember the 30 kms bad stretch.
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Alumni Inauguration of St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri – Bangalore Chapter
I welcome every one who from St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri to give your valuable comments about the Alumni and request to be a member of the Bangalore Chapter of Devagiri Alumni.
Hearty welcome to all of you to complete this article by sharing your Devagiri stories here in the comments section.
Waiting eagerly for your Devagiri stories unleashed as comments below.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
An Early Hour Ride to Nandi Hills
First of all we thought of reaching Nandi Hills by Saturday late night. But Binoy was feeling that he is going to get fever, so we wait till next day morning 3:45 am. In between we called up Nithin who also agreed to join us from near HAL by 4:15am. When we woke up at 3:45am Binoy felt OK, and we decided to go. By 4:15am we started from HSR lay out and reached Nithin’s flat and picked him. We drove in a hurry towards Nandi Hills so that we may not miss the sun rise. This is the fifth time I am visiting Nandi Hills.
We reached there by 6:00 am just in time of sun rise. Wav! The clouds were like as if we see them from a flight. The white clouds which turned yellowish and reddish in the rising Sun’s light were so low in altitude that it covered the entire low lying places, so that we felt like we were on top of a floating peak. In distance near the sun you can see hills popping up from the clouds. We had tea from the near by shops and took few snaps of the rising sun. Lot of people was already there to view the sun rise.
A monkey sitting on the edge of a projected steel structure watching the valley was of particular interest, you can see the picture above. By the time I was about to make a little close up picture of it, some mobile camera photograph enthusiast make it run of fear while taking snaps.
While we were walking near the edge of the cliff, my cameras ring near the lens hood slipped of my hand and the wind took it down the cliff. Binoy and Nithin asked me not to take risk of searching it near the cliff, but I was not ready to leave it, since I was sure, I am not going to get it separately from a shop and I was sure the ring has not gone too far. I managed to climb down a little through the cliff where the ring disappeared and after a search of 10 minutes, I got it for my relief, you can see the picture above of me searching for it, taken by Binoy.
Binoy And Nithin
We left the place around 6:30 as we had to attend the Sunday mass and reached back Bangalore by 8:30 and had our breakfast from a mallu mess. (Puttum Kadalayum).
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Sun Set of October from Global Village
I got this wine-red sunset picture from Global Village while we were having coffee on the same evening from the Cafeteria on the top of MindTree’s Phase 1 building. Global Village or West Campus as MindTree Minds calls the place – the new campus of MindTree situated at Pattanigare, behind RVCE, Mysore Road.
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Neelgiri Thar (Varayadu) and Neelakurinchi in Munnar
Neelakurinchi blooms once in 12 years. But the people who belongs Munnar say it is not that accurate, the plants blooms once in a blue moon day. Better say, Neelakurinchi blooms approximately in 12 years. One tourist from Thekkadi who came along with his kids to see the blossom said that this particular plant blooms now and then, but not every year, and the kind of bloom that happened now occurs around once in 12 years. The flower ‘Neelakurinchi’ is a very small one, with a length of approximately one and half inch, but when it blooms covering an entire mountain like a carpet, the scene is a visual delight. While we reached there, the bloom was almost about to finish, leaving blue patches here and there in Rajamala.
The amount of tourists those who were coming to see the bloom were un-imaginable. We had to wait in the queue for tickets to the mountain top for almost 4 and half hours. The forest department enforced pass to the location and tourists were not allowed to walk up to the place even, but the facility arranged for the tourists were very limited, causing every body to wait in the queue for long. The bad thing was that some of those forest guards helped people who bribed them to get a pass without waiting in the queue and the police force that were present over there, also were practicing these kinds of corruptions.
The mountain thar or so called Neelagiri thar (Varayadu in Malayalam) is an endangered species and is only seen in these mountains of Idukki in the entire earth. Scientists say that the age of these mountain goats can be determined by counting the number of rings formed in the two horns of these animals. A male is clearly distinguished by the darker color in its body and the size.
In the past, sighting once of these mountain goats was luck, but now, Munnar is a crowded place, and these animals are so tamed that they will come so near to humans without any fear. This is a dangerous fact since it opens a better chance for diseases to be spread to these wild animals from Humans. More over poachers can easily catch one of these animals, even though these species are protected as a wild animal as well as an endangered one. The sign boards that ask tourists to preserve the Neelakurinchi and Varayadu for the future generation is really a good work. But people need to develop a more eco friendly and nature loving mind to make them disciplined towards the nature.
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Exotic Munnar
The photo published here describes Munnar better than words. Abins commented that Munnar looks like Switzerland. Yes it is truly exotic. God blesses this place with enormous natural beauty. Situated in the district of Idukki (also called High Range) this location plays an important role in the tourism development of Kerala. Devikulam national park is the habitat of many wild animals including the endangered species – “Varayadu – The Mountain Thar or Neelagiri Thar”.
Our two day holiday out of which one day went in traveling from and to Bangalore was not enough to enjoy the wonder of the nature. On the way to Munnar, our cab driver found it very difficult to drive through the mist, that the visibility of the road infront was too low to spot other vehicles and curves through the curved roads of the mountains.
When we were about to reach Munnar, the landscape turned amazing each minute, with tea estates stretched like a carpet through out the hills and lakes in between. The mountain tops were covered with clouds and mist, making the Malayalam lines – “Moodalmanju mulakacha choodi” eternal.
The only problem with this location is that, it is becoming too crowded with tourists. Government should take utmost care to protect the natural beauty of Munnar along with the development of tourism. This place offers a lot to those who love trekking. This wonderful location is almost isolated from the other parts of Keralam and Tamil Nadu by the mountains and forests.
The mist and dew drops on the leaves of each plant along with the chilling weather refreshed our mind. We decided to visit this location again, when we have at least 3 or 4 days to spend here. To visit all the places in Idukki and enjoy the nature, it will take more than a week’s time.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
A Wonderful Dawn at Munnar
A cuckoo woke me up at 5:55 am on that Sunday morning with its sweet song. What else can make the dawn more wonderful? I decided not to sleep more though the temperature was chilling outside. Within 15 minutes I completed taking bath and got dressed up and got out of the cottage. Wav!!! The misty morning with pleasant rays from the sun is so charming. It made my day. I haven’t had to think much where to focus my camera. Everything I saw in the morning was extremely beautiful and pleasant. I bow in front of almighty artist.
Here are some pictures of shining dew drops on tree leaves. The last one, I got it by making the focus of the camera a little bit out, so that the blue color refracted from the drop got enlarged as you see below.
The sun peeping behind the misty mountains and trees was an exotic scene to watch. Here are few snaps of the same.
The misty sky added a strange beauty to the entire location, tiny drops of dew hanged from every tree leave, and those dew drops even made the spider’s web a beautiful object. The natural beauty of the morning was more than having a hot morning coffee. Here are some more snaps of the Dawn.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
A Rainbow in the Morning along with the Moon
Morning welcomed us back to Bangalore with a pleasant sky after a long journey in bus back from Munnar. Just after reaching home and after a bath, I went outside to buy one packet of Milk. As usual I looked up at the sky to spot the moon, for I haven’t taken the picture of today’s moon. (This is project which is ongoing, will be in my blog within a couple of months, if the sky cooperates well). The pretty clear sky was really amazing with this semi circled rainbow, and the quarter phased moon. You can see the moon faded at the topmost border of the picture to the left after clicking and enlarging it. If the rainbow completed the circle, sun would have been outside the raibow circle, another strange fact! It would be nice to develop a technology to predict a rainbow, the location of it, the arch size of it and all. It is a difficult thing to take the picture of a rainbow in a clear sky. If I am not using the zoom, unwanted building tops would have ruined my picture, but after zooming a little bit in, the camera was not able to focus on anything, the rainbow is not a sharp subject for the camera to focus automatically. At last I put my camera in manual focus mode and turned the focus distance to some what near infinity and got this picture.
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Memories of Another Wayanad–Bangalore Car Ride
This time Binoy and I decided to take the other route from Wayanad to Mysore, the one which starts from Mananthavady and go through Kartikulam, Bavali (the Kerala Karnataka border) and H.D.Kotte. We started around 5:30 and it we reached the Kerala Karnataka border around 6:15. Till then the road was nice. Starting from the border, the road was very bad for another 30 kms. After that we enjoyed the ride as the road is in very good condition till Bangalore.
We occasionally stopped in the woods when ever we saw some tree houses constructed by the localities to protect the crop from wild animals. During the twilight period, we were not able to take good photos, the low light made almost all of the photographs shaken. We some how managed to take these snaps posted here. We got to see few peacocks, deer and bison. But it was almost 7:00 or after that when we spotted these animals, and we just took snaps when we spotted a deer so near to the car. Similarly we got the snap of a bison, it was just 4 to 5 meters away from the car, but we were not brave enough to step out of the car and take the snaps, since we may not notice a panther or an elephant standing behind the car in the darkness.
Any way, the ride was fun, especially because we saw lot of wild animals, but the time and lighting condition didn’t allow us to have good snaps. We reached Mysore around 9:00 pm and had our dinner. It was the peak time of Dhasara celebration in Mysore where the Mysore palace and all other big buildings where decorated with lights in an amazing way, and of course the city faced a huge vehicle traffic that made our car to move in a 5k/h speed. We also saw lot of fire works happening here and there on account of the festival celebration.
From Mysore till Bangalore, we faced a huge traffic on behalf of the vehicles of those who returned to Bangalore after the festival celebration. The other side of the road, (towards Mysore) was almost empty. We reached home around 12:00 am. It came around 250 kms for the total journey, where it would have been around 300 kms if we take the Sulthan Bathery - Gundalpettu road.
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