Friends!!!

Few of the rare captured 'Friends' moments!!!

I wish all of them were captured....nonetheless

Celebrating Friendship with Friends!!!

kiddos us!

:) :D ;) :P times!!!

                                      

:O

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Chandershilla Trek and Ganga River rafting combo (5 days)

Chandershila top and Dev Prayag (confluence of Alkhnanda and Bhagirathi river) down on the river Ganga is a shortest combi trip of trekking and rafting we can offer. It can be completed in 6 days. It is good for the people wants to experience both activities in a week time. It is a nice and easy trip gives you taste of rafting and trekking.

Day 01: Drive Rishikesh to Sari and trek to Devria tal Drive:

Morning after breakfast drive to Sari village. The drive is spectacular and along the Ganga, Alaknanda and Mandakini rivers. Enroute stop at Deoprayag, the historical town situated on the confluence of river Alaknanda & Bhagirathi River which makes the holy Ganges. Arrive at the village Sari and walk up to the lake. Meals & Overnight stay in Tentage. 7-8 hours drive and one walk.

"Awesome day...a perfect view and a feeling : there is so much to explore and adventurous about Himalayas...what was I doing all these days!!!! "

Day 02: Deoriatal Lake to Sari and drive to Dugalbitaa: 2-3 hrs.

Morning wake up with the excellent sunrise view on the snow covered Himalayan Peaks. After breakfast trek start to Sari where we our awaiting vehicle. We drive half an hour to Dugal Bitta where we stay in tents or rest house. We spend our day walking in forest in snow and try to go as high as posible Meals and Overnight stay in Tentage.

" I wish this was my permanent address, just give me a net connection here and I am all up for this place"

"The very first snowy extravaganza!!!"

" The Snow trail "

Day 03: Dugalbitta to Devprayag: Rafting begins

Start early and drive 150 km to Devprayag. Rafting begins after all the preparation. A relaxed day with few rapids. A day for swimming, body surfing, relaxing and spotting wildlife. Raft one and half hour to reach camp Amarasu. Camp over night on the beach.

" Most awaited 'real' rafting adventure "

Day 04: Day begins with negotiating a few small rapids. Again an easy day for rafting. We raft about 30 Km to reach our camping place. Camp over night on the beach at kodiala.

"Memorable no risk day made risky involved moving upstream!!!"

Day 05: The day begin with big rapids followed by Daniel dip, the wall, Three Blind Mice”, “Crossfire”, and the “Body Surfing rapid”. Cover 35 kms to reach Rishikesh. After lunch we run big rapids, the “Roller Coaster” and “Golf Course” to make it an exciting end to a grand adventure. The trip ends at the arrival in Rishikesh.

"The Best Holi ever...conquering one rapid after another...let it come on...come bang on...yo baby...the uproar"

"Happy and content : every single day every single moment "

:)

IN RED CHILLI ADVENTURE WE BELIEVE AND TRUST

"For making possible awesome adventure tour for amateurs (us) with too good people to guide through and accompany,finger licking food and a feeling that the wonderful experience just continues and has no end...."

P.S : This one is a highly recommended 'DO' rather 'MUST DO'

Had gone back in FEB...but its never too late to post something this awesome.

On a lighter note...

Location: Pune

Date: 13/05/10

Its 2:16 on clock...it's hot! And adding to it are the mosquitoes sucking a few millilitres of my blood...the blood suckers!

Why don't they jus shoe off...I am bugged, truly!

I wish my blood was poisonous...no no not to me but to these mosquitoes...I wish...aargh got another bite...Losers!

A quick thought chain...People with sickle cell anaemia don't get malaria, are they unbitten by the mosquitoes too? (By at least the mosquitoes carrying malarial parasite)

Reframing it, have mosquitoes developed a strategy...putting it in the right words "evolved" a stratergy wherein atleast for the time being the malarial parasite bearing mosquitoes can avoid sickle celled individuals in whom the parasites future just doesn’t exist??? But then in that case the host mosquitoes are loosing on their hosts (humans)...and that too for a hitchhiker!!!

Can be, may be ...its jus a speculation...can happen too...parasites are drivers of evolution in many scenarios...so you never know…if the logical reasoning goes fine for once…we can at least expect it to happen! Pretty unsure…

For now let us assume that the above mentioned phenomenon of avoiding sickle celled anaemic occurs…it will have to be tested!

And the way of testing the above, makes a hilarious sound! (Unfortunately this comes from a person with average or rather below average sense of humour…so be prepared if it turns out to be lame)

Nonetheless this is how it goes…

Advertisement for volunteers for the “Mosquito Bite Project”

Volunteers required for- being bitten by female anopheles mosquitoes carrying, if your unlucky falciparum and if your super unlucky vivax and if you are super duper unlucky both"

Don't Panic - you will also be bitten by mosquitoes with absence of malarial parasite! It's not all that bad you see.

You can just be a lucky volunteer too...How? Be a negative control volunteer

Or a second chance to be super unlucky - Be a positive control volunteer

All you have to do is stand in a chamber and you will be attacked with n number of mosquitoes for time m (m needs to be calc and for determining n it is necessary to consult a statistician cause the experimenter just doesn't want to “harass” the volunteers with too many mosquitoes; neither wants to repeat the experiment just because the mosquitoes were too less)

* Volunteers with sickle cell anaemia a plus point for you; you will only get bitten by mosquito and no malaria or might not even get bitten in the first place (hoping for the later to happen)! So hurry up! Offer not valid for non-sickle cell anemics for this season. If the above works out... you might be considered for season 2! So keep checking the site for updates.

So hurry up, be the first one to send your consent.

Send in your consent with the answer to the following question:

Why you want to be a part of this "Mosquito bite" project?

a) You care for the Mosquitoes

b) You want to contribute to the cutting edge research on Malaria

c) You have nothing more challenging and exciting to do

d) You have also experienced Mosquito bite n number of times in your life and now want to end it once and for all! And this research according to you is a step in that direction!

2.44 On clock...me still being attacked by mosquitoes!

For someone special...

This is the very first poem that I have read and appreciated as a poem in its true sense, this was published in the Children's Digest long long ago when I was a kid in school.

Second by Second a Minute ends

Minute by Minute a Hour ends

Hour by Hour a Day ends

Day by Day a Week ends

Week by Week a Month ends

Month by Month a Year ends

Year by Year a Decade ends

Decade by Decade a century ends

But my Love for my Mother never ends...

I remember after reading this poem I ran straight to my Mom and said "Mom read this one, its very nice"(With a very broad smile on my face) How, innocent(dumb actually) I was that, I wanted someone who herself is a poet, to appreciate the poem and the eternal happiness that reading such a thing brings!

Love you Mom,

  Happy Mother's Day!!!

P.S: My first photo upload on this blog...:) \m/

PL

First post of the year 2010…

This post was written long back but never posted…reason… don’t know either?

Why it is being posted today…good question?

I got a mail from Blogger team today about the new templates et al which I must admit are truly amazing …now it becomes much easier for non-coders like me to play around and beautify, my favorite destination in the virtual world “meme-collection.blogspot.com”

So when I reached my dashboard after a long time...i realized I hadn't posted for quite a long time and that to for no reason!!!

At the same time, I also wanted everyone to take a look at my blogs new looks!!! :P

To top it all, currently I am amidst a short PL J

PL: Preparatory Leave

My frnd’s status msg: finally they are over (exams)

My comment: I am jealous yours are over and mine haven’t even started L

My frnd’s comment: Pl’s do provide an advantage

My reply to this:

Ya they provide an advantage…if utilised? And the thing is students do utilize PL’s judiciously and reap the benefits as good grades…good, infact its great!

But my tale is a bit different…the way I utilise my PL’s are completely way different then the rest…

It is this PL time when I am a voracious reader and knowledge sucker…tats good if you look at it…but just take a look of what I read and was doing in my this term PL.

I read “Selfish Gene” again also read some of Richard Dawkins articles one of which I have also posted on my blog

Read the Red Queen by Matt Ridley

Visited the webpages of many of the eminent scientists and even noble laureates in whose work I am immensely interested and took a detailed look at their work in the field, read a few reviews and research papers in the process too

Read a number of blogs…started following a few…

Worried about my future…regarding my dreams of joining a graduate school and how difficult it was and what I am going to do in my next yr

Not to mention other normal stuff like social networking, email and rest…

Somehow I find PL best time of the year…I am in the right set of mind to surf on the “randomly drifting wave”, where I jump from one wave to other and its fun…and even if I deliberately to stop myself from doing so…I wont be able to study…so its always in the best of my interest to continue surfing on this wave and enjoy it to the fullest…

I know this is weird but that’s me…