Trip to Anadaman Islands

Andaman Islands... "All that we see around is nature, All that we hear is nature and all that we feel is the beautiful nature... "

Finally, after 2 years of our marriage we planned to make a "trip" and decided the place Andaman islands...

Probably, this would be my most beautiful post as it has such beautiful photos we have captured there.... we have bought Nikon d3100 camera just before the trip...

I intend to put trip details such a way that it would help people who are planning to travel...

we haven't taken any package and went with our own plan. 

Day 1:

We started from Pune, boarded 5:55 am Indigo flight, reached Chennai by 7:30 am. Flight connectivity to Andaman is only from Chennai.

At 9:45, boarded kingfisher flight in Chennai and reached Andaman by 12'O clock. View of Andaman islands from flight was simply wonderful...

Pune to Andaman

We had a twist - Our baggage was missed by Indigo airlines. It was taken to Kolkata instead of getting it dumped in Chennai!! All our dresses & accessories were in that! We were a bit upset for that. Airlines people promised to send as soon as possible.


We reached 'silver spring' hotel (booked online) by auto (50rs).

So, on day 1, we had to shop dresses for next day... shopping experience was not that good. We hardly selected & purchased one dress each. 

Later, we visited Corbyn’s Cove Beach, closest beach to port blair. Beach is surrounded by green coconut palms. It was teemed with many people and looked like busiest beach.

Corbyn’s Cove Beach

Later, we went to Andaman jail for the light and sound show. One should not miss this show. It gives a complete picture of how the freedom fighters struggled there, how cruelly they were treated. The concept of the show was very nice that a old tree and center tower talk to each other reminiscing those days.

sound and light show

Day 2 (Marriage Day):

There is a cruise that takes to 3 islands closer to Andaman - Ross island, viper island and North Bay.
We started at 9:30 am. Tickets taken at Water sports complex - 400rs/person, that includes lunch too.

On the boat journey to these islands, we would see the main port and navy ships of Port Blair. This part of the journey is to be completed before evening as boats are not allowed after 5 PM.

Ross Island - It was once an administrative headquarter for the Britishers, before an earthquake rocked the Island in 1941. we would see old buildings built by British. This island makes you nostalgic and takes you back in time when this was an administrative settlement for the Britishers. The Indian Navy has rebuilt some of the old buildings like the bakery and the local stores, from where souvenirs are available. Sea there looked greenish. There were coconut trees, deers & ducks.

Ross Island

Viper island - there was a small jail where the British used to imprison convicts and political prisoners. We learnt that Viper Island witnessed the untold sufferings the freedom fighters had to undergo.

Viper Island

Northbay: reached by 2:15 pm. It is a rocky beach with white sand, a place to relax. Every one enjoyed drowning in the sea between rocks.  Locker facility was there so that we can put our belongings and just have pleasure in water. we were there till 4:15 pm and returned back to Andaman.

North Bay

North Bay

Day 3 (Valentine's day):

We finally got our baggage from airport :)  We planned to go to Havelock island... this is the most attractive place that one must visit as part of Andaman trip. We booked Makruzz and boarded at 8:45 am. Deluxe seat costs 750/person. Reached island by 10:30 am. Journey on cruise was very nice...

To Havelock

We booked cottage (bamboo hut) maintained by Joseph, Cottage was like small huts just on the sea shore. We got fresh, took bike on rent from Rishi and started to Radhanager beach. On the way, we had lunch at Royal restaurant. There were lots of foreigners in that island and it looked like they had come for long vacation...

Radha Nagar beach - Fine white sand, blue waters and a lot of peace and serenity are the hallmark of this. We took some cool pics, spent some quality time and walked along the beach. There were many coconut trees and most of the people are being fed by coconut water.

RadhaNagar Beach

Day 4 (Birthday):

We got up early at 6:30 am, had break fast and we rested on the sea shore listening to nice music... At 8:30 am, we started to elephant beach on speed boat. We just took camera, nothing else. Beach is very unique with beautiful corals and giant fallen trees. we got to see corals through glass bottom boat. It is the best place for snorkeling and we experienced it. I was a bit scared in the starting, later I become comfortable and it was a beautiful experience.

Elephant beach

We could hardly get a small cake in Havelock island and finished bday rituals :)

bday celebrations

Later, we started to kalapathar (black rocks)beach.  Drive towards the beach was very much like a marine drive. There were hardly any people around. There was no tourist infrastructure available and nature was left as is. We took nice snaps and returned back soon. Though there are no symptoms of danger, I felt little bit insecure as there was no one around and we were long away from center of island.
 
At 4 pm, we started back to Andaman.

Kalapathar & back to andaman

Day 5:

This day, we planned to roam with in port blair.

We went to andaman jail once again to see the jail in detail (not for the show).
The jail was constructed as a 3 storeyed edifice with 7 wings, Each wing stretching from Central tower like the ray of a star fish or the spokes of a wheel. We had seen gallows, some of the cells. There were monuments showing how prisoners were tortured there.

Andaman Jail

Later, we went to Sagarika Government Emporium which had a wide range of woodcarvings, cane and bamboo furniture, shell accessories for display and sale. We bought some accessories and nicknacks for near and dear. 

We had some time left for the day and I had been nagging that we couldn't cover sunrise/sunset. So, Balu made a plan to go to chidiya tapu (Andaman's Best Sunset Beach). Chidiya Tapu, also known as "Sunset Point" and "Bird Island," is one of the best places to see the sunset in Port Blair (25 kms South of Port Blair). We didn't have time to book car, we just boarded an auto to reach there. The road traverses through dense jungle/rainforest that opens up along the coastline in a few places. Beach is quiet and peaceful. We could take some beautiful pics with dark effect (sun being opposite to camera). While  it is best sunset spot accessible from Port Blair, the horizon is obstructed by the hills of Rutland Island across the bay.  As a result, the best colors come out about 30 to 45 minutes after the sun dips below the hilly horizon. It was our last but not least beach we visited in Andaman. Our last minute plan to chidiya tapu worked out well and resulted in best experience.  

Chidiyatapu

Day 6:

The day to return back from Andaman. We were tanned and tired enough by then :). 

During this trip, I used to think about tsumani (of year 2004) occasionally... how such a beautiful nature can turn against us as an evil...

We roamed around port blair jetty before going to airport. In Chennai, we met our friend Ravi kishore and we returned to Pune by night. 

PortBlair - Chennai - Pune

Whole trip costed us around 60k.

Summing up, the trip was wonderful and experience of white sand, pristine beaches, snorkeling, speed boating  was just awesome. Spending our best occasions - marriage day, my birthday closer to beautiful nature is unforgettable. 

 

Moments of life...

Thats a big college ground... focusing on to its gallery point, a girl and boy sitting together.... thinking deeply about future of their love.... The worried girl says ... "hmm... we still have to complete our graduation..., get jobs... and then convince parents for our marriage... so many things to cross...

Oh...God!! When are those days going to come...

• The day we get revealed off all the pain that we are hiding something from our parents...
• The day we walk hand-in-hand without any hesitation...
• The day we happily stand with our parents on each side of us giving all smiles for the family photo ;)
• The day we happily live in so called "our home"...
• The day we have right to ask for our privacy ;)
• The day we feel all our love resulted in tons of happiness :):)"

The boy just gave a gentle knock on her head and says "Don't worry, just wait... Everything will happen..."

Girl nodded filling the hope in herself and both moved on to the classroom...

After almost 7 years of that....

all hopes, wishes, dreams, blessings came true... Yes... those days have come...
They both settled in good jobs..., passed through the pain of convincing parents for the marriage... It should be said "parents made their love success"...

They are happily married with the blessings of parents/relatives/friends and wellwishers...

They live happily in their "sweet home".

Somethings may look far from us... we may see many hurdles to reach that... however, time takes us through everything...

Sunday Special

Sunday and special are the words we here together many times... It is a common question that we here on sunday 'Whats sunday special?'. Sunday is really special from all the days in the week for almost everyone... as it is an official holiday... :)

How sunday is special to me... the effect of sunday starts from sataurday night itself... I feel happy to remember that tomorrow is sunday... and I dont feel like sleeping that night... as I can get up late on sunday... Yes... first good thing is that I can get up late... no hurries and worries. And then special breakfast... we have plenty of time not only to eat ... but also enjoy it watching a good program in TV. I completely enjoy the Eenadu paper on sunday... specially with Eenadu special magazine... It gives a good feel to read that book... I enjoy almost every page of it... Me and dad used to fill the telugu crossword in it... It makes my sunday more intresting...

Then comes lunch part...
at home ...Mom defenietly prepares non-veg on Sunday... all that non-veg smell gets filled all around from every house. Without non-veg, I dont feel it is a sunday... :) After having a great lunch... me and sunny ... just used to lay on bed, watching some special movie in TV, playing pranks and slowly go to nice sleep... Later in the evening... we all (me,sunny,mom,dad) used to have a nice talk or shopping or movie... and then after dinner... sleep early with some excitement in mind to meet friends next day in school/college...

And now... after marriage... It is my turn to make sunday special by preparing good breakfast, non-veg curry... I make sure to get Eenadu paper and enjoy the magazine...otherwise... I feel something missing... I spend good time with Balu. Though there is nothing so intresting to watch in TV these days... me and Balu still enjoy that just exploring channels and playing jokes on the movies/programmes... we may go to shopping/movie eve... and then going to sleep with a small nag of going to office tomorrow... ;)
Even if we dont do something special on Sunday, we atleast have good time to relax ourselves and spend time with family... thats the speciality of sunday :)

Kishore alias Balu gadu...

Kishore... few people call him Balu(me too)... colleagues call him Bala... friends call him Balu gadu (he too calls himself Balu gadu like pokiri pandu gadu) and his name is BalaKishore... oophhh... it is just introducing his name ;)

Actually... basically... arey...seriously yaar... he is my hero :)

Today is his bday... and I miss him a lot on this special day...

This post is to just say about him. I dont know where to start and just go like this:

He is very friendly... and has very good friends. All his frienships are longlasting. I am very much comfortable with his friends and really enjoy spending with them. He makes anyone very comfortable to speak and share anything with him...I do not need to take much efforts to make him mingled with my relatives.He knows who are important to me and gives the same importance to them from his side.

He is very deciplined and I am lazy :(. Gets up early morning (I can't). He will be available on time if he promises and expects everyone to be like that. It really annoys him if somebody is late and if he has to wait. Each second counts for him at that time. Most of the time I fail here and get his scoldings. One can see him undeciplined in implementing the things he has been planning from long time... those are preperation for CAT, learning guitar.

He has capacity of handling any situation... His importances are very well defined... and he has good planning. He is mentally strong, always positive and can justify his decisions confidently. He has good intelligence, good grasping and talent of managing people... but uses these only when necessary. He is not much oriented to use all his talents to grow further (I want him to put all his talents). Always saisfied with that he is and has.

One thing in him that contradicts with most of the guys is that he is more passionate of personal life than professional life. He simply sacrificed his package expectations and his role to shift along with me to Pune. It is rare that he works for a minute more than 8 hours a day and forces me too to leave office early (:( that is a bit difficult to manage for me).

The way he shows love...is all extreams. The words he always say to me "your reponsibility is to keep your mind cool..Rest all I will take care. I am there. You dont have to worry about anything" relaxes me. He plans a surprise for my birthday 1 year ahead...He ever monitors me that I am happy or not... What else can I expect from him... He knows me more than what I know...He easily guesses what I think at that moment.

His relationship with his mother is so special...Both are strenghts for each other...They care for each other a lot... This is the first thing that impressed me in him. He always expresses "My mom and soppu are most important than anything else and no comprimises on them". He expects much from the people he love and gets hurt if he doesnt get. This is where he is sensitive...

He has good patience and doesnt get annoy on any small iritations. But he is a bit uncontrolled if he gets angry. He doesnt look around if he gets angry(that stays not even for 2 mins). The key I have for this is to keep silent for those 2 mins...then everything will be all right. I think it is same with most of the guys... Infact I like this nature in him...I like the way he challenges when he is angry...(like a hero). But incase he is angry on me...I am gone...

Dont think he is a gentleman... he is all naughty... If I tell about any girl, first question he puts on me "Does she look good?". He tells happily to everybody that I have given him read permissions ;) (It means that he can "just""see" other girls). He takes everything lite... never gets reacted by others. He draws a clear line between the important and unimportant and least bothered about the unimportant.

His motto is to be happy and enjoy every moment of the life. He is showing me the best part of my life... taking me along with him to the heights of happiness. He is there for me to help, suggest, guide, care... (all these words are very small). I am very very lucky to be with him forever...

Once again... Many many happy returns of the day Balu... ILU so much...

Feel like Dancing....

Good mood... Good music... full sized mirror... good enough space and no one around... makes me dance...:) I just have done that... I practised a good step from April masam lo song.... and I enjoyed it...

Life is Cool..

Life is sooo cool now... All credit goes to my parents and Kishore....

Parents accepting for the marriage is the best thing in my life... It has brought so much happiness to me and relieved from all the worries. Thanks to them.

Shifting to Pune is one of the positive changes in my life... Life is so peaceful here... I should mention Magarpatta City in which I am staying .. It is too good place to stay and work....everything at one place... It is just a 5 min walk for me to office and even the appartment I am staying is good ... very peaceful, secured and without any pollution. Ofcourse Kishore being here is a big addition for my happiness.

Roomates are good.. I never thought I could stay this much comfortably with non-andhraites I just got good people now...

There are no issues at work place... Teammates are very helpful I should specailly mention Brahmayya for clearing each and every of my doubts so clearly with patience & Parvinder for giving me a good chance and recognizing my work...

Currently being in London... and dreaming,planning abt marriage that is going to be on Feb 13th.. :) I think u can sense that I am happy ;)

I have driven Pulsor (^!^)

I have driven Pulsor today at MMTS... Actually, it is not new that I have driven a bike... I drove once in Vizag on beach road early morning. That was the first time I drove... some how, I was fully confident and very cooool; After a small accident on Kinetic Honda, I lost my confidence; And I want to get it back...
Today I just tried. Initially I sruggled a bit... but after that I drove as a queen :) Ofcourse, Balu was sitting back and guiding me...
Still I dont have confidence in traffic... Should get use to it...
Initially, I was wondering how many things to handle while driving on bike... clutch, gear, break, accelerator... hmmm... but as said 'practice makes a man perfect', it is not a big deal after few trials
I got some satisfaction that I tried something :)

Morning walk@Jogger's park :)

Its been so long since I wrote a post... I dont say I am busy... but so many small things in my mind are not going for implementation these days... hmmm... thats bad!!! But some things happen without any prior plannings... and thats cool... Saturday morning... me,balu,siri,ravikishore went to Jogger's park. That was very lovely!! we enjoyed as much as we walked..had taken nice snaps...but still waiting for them to see in system:( . These people are real guys... no intrest in photos :/
We saw music director Manisharam... we dont know why, he was staring at us! We had a joke among ourselves that we wll go to him and say "If u dont mind..., (he would be almost ready to say yes thinking that we wanna have a snap with him...) Can you take a snap for us" :)

I am growing...

Hey....I am not a complain girl. Infact I have grown enough of 5'7 height. I am gonna talk about positive growth in my attitude...


In last 6 months, I see a lot of change in my attitude and I am very happy for that. I gained lot of confidence.
Earlier I use to have a quote on my desktop "Anything is difficult before it is easy". It is very much true. Once we face anything, next time it becomes very easy. If I look back for which I felt difficult, it looks so silly. Some of the things were really silly. I was in trouble for such silly sthings...it is just because I havent experienced them in the right time. I hadnt taken a chance before for those. But now, I feel so happy when I am going to face any new challenges because I will be gaining experience on one more thing.

I watched an interview of hero Venkatesh where he said "It is very important to grow internally...but people postpone it and after retirement, they think over it. By that time, death will be right a side". When I think of myself in this regard, I feel I am good enough. There has been a lot of improvement... But there are certain things which I need to improve on. Being balanced on recieving comments and compliments; controling emotions on bad or good happenings.


Though I studied in English medium, I didnt get a chance to talk in English. No...I should say "I didnt take a chance to talk in English". We didnt have much complusion that we have to talk in english. There are two things about any language- Learning and Practcing. Learning was done inadvertently during academic period. But practing started only when it became necessary. Keeping learning and practcing a side, I should admit that I use to hesitate to talk in English. But now...it became part of my life. I dont have any kind of hesitations now and also improved a lot. I use to concentrate while talking and try to control myself so that I wont go wrong. I am able to reduce the need of concentration and in coming days, I am sure that I dont have to concentrate at all. The rate of learning is fast. I am still working good enough to Learn and practice English. Blogging helps me a lot in this. This learning will go forever...

Lot more to write...

My life in Software Industry

I have very less experience in Software industry i.e. 20 months. Till now I am very happy in this. May be I havent faced the cons of the industry, great challenges yet and I dont know anything about other industries, I am still positive towards it.

The first thing most people look in their jobs is "Salary"--Money they are being paid and thats the best thing in this industry. Good numbers in the payslip every month keeps the smile. Hikes increase its curve.

Enjoyable weekend...Working people really deserve a 2 day weekend. It is common in other countries...but not in India. Five days of working week runs away very fast and two days of weekend gives an enough break to relax. Thats a good time to cover many things... spending with family/friends, shopping, sleep etc...Those two days keep up feeling that I have a good life.

I see a small India around in the office: People from different states, different cultures work together. It is somehow exiciting. I go for lunch with my friends. Each one is from different state. We have specific and at the same time general topics to chat.

Getting lot of information sitting in chair:
I have full internet access in office and any any silly doubt/topic I get I can get lots of information into my eyes. Not only information...lot of entertainment. I open news, social network sites, blogs, discussion forms. I listen to songs...having coffee...reading some exciting news. But remember it is possible when Iam in free pool or in project which needs less of my mind.

I didnt write about my work here...till now it is very easy.
I know I haven't savour right work yet...Hope I will get it soon and one day I will write unhappily nagging about the industry.