MUA : Hogenakkal Thagoli
Saturday night 11.30.
I'm back from a family day function at SAP Labs.
(KK performed live! It was one great show..)
Tomorrow is my cousin's house-warming function.
Just to make sure that everything is going on as per plan, I sent out an sms to her. "What time should I bump into the house, tomorrow? Are all the arrangements going on as per plan?". She replied "Why are to coming tomorrow? I think you mistook the housewarming date for tomorrow. Its next week :D"
I was :-O
Omigosh ! Serious breach of intellectual property !! I had almost jumped into a self-driven trap, to waste one full day!
What followed was a quick planning.. The planning committee consisted of a fully-asleep Sowji, half-asleep Bin, about-to-sleep Gasper and myself. There is no point counting Jim, as he was already romancing some Tamil actress in his deep deeper deepest sleep !
Planning was quick. A phone call was made to Sho, to confirm his presence/absence. He confirmed his absence :-D
Well, as for the outcome of the plan...
Venue : Hogenakkal
Crew : Rat,Bin,Sow,Goose,Jim
Xportation: 2 bikes (for now, thats all we have)
Threat: upset tummies (Rat,Bin)
Start time : 7.30
Well, breaking tradition is not allowed when it comes to MUA. And the tradition says, never follow your plan completely. So the final plan looked like this:
Venue : Hogenakkal (this dint change!)
Crew : Rat,Bin,Sow,Goose,Jim,Sand,Soo,Rob (3 new heads!)
Xportation: 2 bikes and a car (Sand will bring his Santro)
Threat: upset tummies (Rat,Bin) - no change here too !
Start time : 9.30 (slipped by JUST 2 hours) :-D
Since Sand and Soo needed some time to come to Pluto (we intimated them at 7.10 in the morning. Well, that was an interesting discussion, and needs more space on this write-up. let me come out of the brackets..)
Trring Trring...
Trring Trring... (continues for a while)
Rat: Da, eneekedaa
Sand: Hmm....
Rat: Da, hogenakkal povaam?
Sand: nge ?!!
Rat: Hogenakkal.. H-O-G-E-N-A-K-K-A-L
Sand: Da, njaan oru 5 min kayinju vilikkaam..
Rat: Boot-up time aano ?
Sand: Yeah...
And he called exactly after 5 minutes, and confirmed he is in...
Thats the spirit ! And thats the strength of MUA.. The driving force..
The ultimate figurative lunatism of the peripheral demarcation in the..
(over aayi...)
9.30 start was after breakfast..
Sand and Soo would come to Pluto and pick Gasper and Jim.
Rest of us started on bikes..
Topped up fuel from Shell petrol pump.
(You need to step down from your bike, and accept their palms-zipped namaskaar, before they will attend to you! Strange and funny!)
Topped up the tyres as well.. The reader showd funny values. Expected tyre pressure value 34. Actual 17 !! No wonder, I get mileages in the range of 45, instead of the expected 50+ !!
Racing along the Hosur Road was fun.
From Hosur, there is a shorter route which goes through picturesque villages. And thats the route we took. Phew.. It was so magical ! And the roads, the curves, the straight-line-cutting-bike rides, the vertical curves on the roads, the uncertainty that originates when you climb up that road at 90kmph... it was all truly amazing..
[First Pit Stop]
[A wallpaper at First Pit Stop]
[Second Pit Stop. My bike did this much km!]
Santro was loaded with Sand, Soo, Gasper and Jim.
Sand had, in the morning,during the 'planning-session' had told me
"No stereo in car.. pls giv us Robin for entertainment"
I replied "You need entertainment, right? Consider it done" and dumped Gasper into the car :-D
Sand might now be thinking of ways to finish me off !!!
The last 15km stretch is all messed up; there is no road.. and trying to find out the existence of some tar would be just waste of time.. This, and the traffic block at the village-road-entrance and a couple of pit-stops delayed our entry into Hogenakkal a bit. We finally parked our vehicles at the Hogenakkal parking lot at 1.40PM
[At the parking.. Parking is free!]
Lunch at the 'heavily monopolised' C.M Hotel.
Veg meals plus fish fry.
[Its not a Bar, but a Bar-Attached hotel :D ]
Two things you shouldnt miss on Hogenakkal-trip are the 'round-boat' and the 'fish-fry'. Veggies can avoid the 2nd thing...
LUnch was followed by heavy bargaining for the round-boat. He started from 850, I guess, and we finally pulled it down to 450.
[Bargaining in progress.. Right extreme is the vendor]
That included 2 hours on boat, inclusive of waiting, and putting us under mild waterfalls, and some artificial whirl-effects on the boat..
[We hired 2 boats.. Each carried 4 of us]
Bin and Robin jumped into the water. The water was 100ft deep! Jim also joined them. Our boat now has just me and Gasper and the rower. I too jumped into the water, leaving just Gasper in the boat.
Bin, showcased his talents. He is district level swimming champ, you see ! He climbed up a huge rock and jumped 15 feet to touch leg first into the water! Tremendous courage!
Robin, dint want to be left behind, he too did the same; but the height was lesser, and he landed flat on water.. It was less of a jump, and more of a fall :-D
For non-swimmers, there is another shallow beach-kinda setup.. While all of us, simply preferred to sit on the sand, Sowji grabbed the opportunity. He wanted to be fully prepared. This is what he did:
1. Removed the watch (which he bought during his recent US trip) and gave it to me
2. Removed his Kimi Raikkkonen (i think he is a famous taxi driver in US) and placed it safely onto my lap..
3. Folded his jeans, knee-high (i wonder whats the point... the water is chest-deep)
Then he walked into the water. (This reminded me of Arnold Schwarzenegger going down into molten metal)
Soon, Robin, Jim, Gasper and Binoy joined Sowji. After 30 minutes of masti, Sowji slowly emerged out of water... This is what happened, in sequence:
1. He first reached for this jeans front pocket, and took out a white object. It was his mobile.
2. From the rear right jeans pocket emerged his purse - full of cash and cards
3. From the rear left pocket came the RC book of his bike
I captured his expression, after he 're-invented' the mobile. See the sequence below..
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
After 'submitting' his valuable items digged out from the pocket, our 'dude' again goes into water.
And joins the rest of the gang for more of games...
By around 5, we packed from there, and got back into the boat.
During the return to base, we shot some interesting dance videos..
Soon after getting out of water, we had a 'fresh' sugarcane juice.
5 rupee per glass.. ice-cold.
At the base, we had a strong tea..
Also got a chance to capture this pic, which can contend for a particular stimulative brand...
[No (more) comments!]
Back to our respective vehicles...
The return trip was a showered one.. We raced with the cloud to get some clean air (the water droplets were blocking the view!) Finally, it was close to 1 hr of riding in the rain. That was a good experience.. Got reminded of our earlier expedition to Ponmudi (this was much before the launch of MUA)
At a rain pit-stop, Robin commented..
"Ellaam aayi.. bike trip, vellathil trip, mazhyathu trip.. ini oru kaduvayem koodi kandaal mathi ee kaattil.."
Gasper "athinu njaan undallo.."
Robin was quick "kazhutha alledaa.. kaduva!"
Half of the sprite which i was drinking took alternate route and landed elsewhere :D
The return trip, which commenced at 5.30, finally ended at Hotel Kalavara near Madiwala at 8.45. Post dinner, except for Sand and Soo, rest of us assembled at Pluto. The agenda was "loss analysis" and "photo preview"
Sowji laid neatly all the different currency notes (indian and US) along with the different bank ATM cards and other papers under the fan. Giving them company was his white foldable samsung mobile.. Jim also had a malfunctioning mobile.. It says "Insert SIM card" ! He tried telling the mobile, 'dude the SIM is already in there', but that alone dint help...
Photo preview was a laughter challenge, and the pick of the lots were Sowji's mobile-expression, and his dance-on-the-boat-floor performance :-D
The punch-line for the trip was 'Thagoli', courtesy Robin.
Anything would be suffixed by this word.. eg.. "Sprite thagoli", "chappaathi thagoli" ... This was contageous, and became an instant hit, with everyone pre-fixing and suffixing it to wherever possible in their statements...
Tail1: It was a 126km trip from home to Hogenakkal
Tail2: The water was cleaner, compared to a couple of weeks back - thanks to no-rain
I'm back from a family day function at SAP Labs.
(KK performed live! It was one great show..)
Tomorrow is my cousin's house-warming function.
Just to make sure that everything is going on as per plan, I sent out an sms to her. "What time should I bump into the house, tomorrow? Are all the arrangements going on as per plan?". She replied "Why are to coming tomorrow? I think you mistook the housewarming date for tomorrow. Its next week :D"
I was :-O
Omigosh ! Serious breach of intellectual property !! I had almost jumped into a self-driven trap, to waste one full day!
What followed was a quick planning.. The planning committee consisted of a fully-asleep Sowji, half-asleep Bin, about-to-sleep Gasper and myself. There is no point counting Jim, as he was already romancing some Tamil actress in his deep deeper deepest sleep !
Planning was quick. A phone call was made to Sho, to confirm his presence/absence. He confirmed his absence :-D
Well, as for the outcome of the plan...
Venue : Hogenakkal
Crew : Rat,Bin,Sow,Goose,Jim
Xportation: 2 bikes (for now, thats all we have)
Threat: upset tummies (Rat,Bin)
Start time : 7.30
Well, breaking tradition is not allowed when it comes to MUA. And the tradition says, never follow your plan completely. So the final plan looked like this:
Venue : Hogenakkal (this dint change!)
Crew : Rat,Bin,Sow,Goose,Jim,Sand,Soo,Rob (3 new heads!)
Xportation: 2 bikes and a car (Sand will bring his Santro)
Threat: upset tummies (Rat,Bin) - no change here too !
Start time : 9.30 (slipped by JUST 2 hours) :-D
Since Sand and Soo needed some time to come to Pluto (we intimated them at 7.10 in the morning. Well, that was an interesting discussion, and needs more space on this write-up. let me come out of the brackets..)
Trring Trring...
Trring Trring... (continues for a while)
Rat: Da, eneekedaa
Sand: Hmm....
Rat: Da, hogenakkal povaam?
Sand: nge ?!!
Rat: Hogenakkal.. H-O-G-E-N-A-K-K-A-L
Sand: Da, njaan oru 5 min kayinju vilikkaam..
Rat: Boot-up time aano ?
Sand: Yeah...
And he called exactly after 5 minutes, and confirmed he is in...
Thats the spirit ! And thats the strength of MUA.. The driving force..
The ultimate figurative lunatism of the peripheral demarcation in the..
(over aayi...)
9.30 start was after breakfast..
Sand and Soo would come to Pluto and pick Gasper and Jim.
Rest of us started on bikes..
Topped up fuel from Shell petrol pump.
(You need to step down from your bike, and accept their palms-zipped namaskaar, before they will attend to you! Strange and funny!)
Topped up the tyres as well.. The reader showd funny values. Expected tyre pressure value 34. Actual 17 !! No wonder, I get mileages in the range of 45, instead of the expected 50+ !!
Racing along the Hosur Road was fun.
From Hosur, there is a shorter route which goes through picturesque villages. And thats the route we took. Phew.. It was so magical ! And the roads, the curves, the straight-line-cutting-bike rides, the vertical curves on the roads, the uncertainty that originates when you climb up that road at 90kmph... it was all truly amazing..
[First Pit Stop]
[A wallpaper at First Pit Stop]
[Second Pit Stop. My bike did this much km!]
Santro was loaded with Sand, Soo, Gasper and Jim.
Sand had, in the morning,during the 'planning-session' had told me
"No stereo in car.. pls giv us Robin for entertainment"
I replied "You need entertainment, right? Consider it done" and dumped Gasper into the car :-D
Sand might now be thinking of ways to finish me off !!!
The last 15km stretch is all messed up; there is no road.. and trying to find out the existence of some tar would be just waste of time.. This, and the traffic block at the village-road-entrance and a couple of pit-stops delayed our entry into Hogenakkal a bit. We finally parked our vehicles at the Hogenakkal parking lot at 1.40PM
[At the parking.. Parking is free!]
Lunch at the 'heavily monopolised' C.M Hotel.
Veg meals plus fish fry.
[Its not a Bar, but a Bar-Attached hotel :D ]
Two things you shouldnt miss on Hogenakkal-trip are the 'round-boat' and the 'fish-fry'. Veggies can avoid the 2nd thing...
LUnch was followed by heavy bargaining for the round-boat. He started from 850, I guess, and we finally pulled it down to 450.
[Bargaining in progress.. Right extreme is the vendor]
That included 2 hours on boat, inclusive of waiting, and putting us under mild waterfalls, and some artificial whirl-effects on the boat..
[We hired 2 boats.. Each carried 4 of us]
Bin and Robin jumped into the water. The water was 100ft deep! Jim also joined them. Our boat now has just me and Gasper and the rower. I too jumped into the water, leaving just Gasper in the boat.
Bin, showcased his talents. He is district level swimming champ, you see ! He climbed up a huge rock and jumped 15 feet to touch leg first into the water! Tremendous courage!
Robin, dint want to be left behind, he too did the same; but the height was lesser, and he landed flat on water.. It was less of a jump, and more of a fall :-D
For non-swimmers, there is another shallow beach-kinda setup.. While all of us, simply preferred to sit on the sand, Sowji grabbed the opportunity. He wanted to be fully prepared. This is what he did:
1. Removed the watch (which he bought during his recent US trip) and gave it to me
2. Removed his Kimi Raikkkonen (i think he is a famous taxi driver in US) and placed it safely onto my lap..
3. Folded his jeans, knee-high (i wonder whats the point... the water is chest-deep)
Then he walked into the water. (This reminded me of Arnold Schwarzenegger going down into molten metal)
Soon, Robin, Jim, Gasper and Binoy joined Sowji. After 30 minutes of masti, Sowji slowly emerged out of water... This is what happened, in sequence:
1. He first reached for this jeans front pocket, and took out a white object. It was his mobile.
2. From the rear right jeans pocket emerged his purse - full of cash and cards
3. From the rear left pocket came the RC book of his bike
I captured his expression, after he 're-invented' the mobile. See the sequence below..
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
After 'submitting' his valuable items digged out from the pocket, our 'dude' again goes into water.
And joins the rest of the gang for more of games...
By around 5, we packed from there, and got back into the boat.
During the return to base, we shot some interesting dance videos..
Soon after getting out of water, we had a 'fresh' sugarcane juice.
5 rupee per glass.. ice-cold.
At the base, we had a strong tea..
Also got a chance to capture this pic, which can contend for a particular stimulative brand...
[No (more) comments!]
Back to our respective vehicles...
The return trip was a showered one.. We raced with the cloud to get some clean air (the water droplets were blocking the view!) Finally, it was close to 1 hr of riding in the rain. That was a good experience.. Got reminded of our earlier expedition to Ponmudi (this was much before the launch of MUA)
At a rain pit-stop, Robin commented..
"Ellaam aayi.. bike trip, vellathil trip, mazhyathu trip.. ini oru kaduvayem koodi kandaal mathi ee kaattil.."
Gasper "athinu njaan undallo.."
Robin was quick "kazhutha alledaa.. kaduva!"
Half of the sprite which i was drinking took alternate route and landed elsewhere :D
The return trip, which commenced at 5.30, finally ended at Hotel Kalavara near Madiwala at 8.45. Post dinner, except for Sand and Soo, rest of us assembled at Pluto. The agenda was "loss analysis" and "photo preview"
Sowji laid neatly all the different currency notes (indian and US) along with the different bank ATM cards and other papers under the fan. Giving them company was his white foldable samsung mobile.. Jim also had a malfunctioning mobile.. It says "Insert SIM card" ! He tried telling the mobile, 'dude the SIM is already in there', but that alone dint help...
Photo preview was a laughter challenge, and the pick of the lots were Sowji's mobile-expression, and his dance-on-the-boat-floor performance :-D
The punch-line for the trip was 'Thagoli', courtesy Robin.
Anything would be suffixed by this word.. eg.. "Sprite thagoli", "chappaathi thagoli" ... This was contageous, and became an instant hit, with everyone pre-fixing and suffixing it to wherever possible in their statements...
Tail1: It was a 126km trip from home to Hogenakkal
Tail2: The water was cleaner, compared to a couple of weeks back - thanks to no-rain
Labels: trips
posted by Rat at 8:38 PM
4 Comments:
sthalle.. stebara :)
dey.. plan a trip in december.. i know u'll have to.. coz i'm coming.. either we'll go for a trip.. or u can run away for a trip when i'm coming :P
Oh Sure... We'll definitely plan a trip.. just tell us when exactly you will be landing.. (and you know which trip we are talking about :D )
Title remind me of something else...
Dai, there seems to be a problem with the videos - none of them are loading on the blog, and when opened on a separate window, it is complaining about the video being private or something....Vallathum nadakkumo?
Ohyeah.. all the videos are private !
no wonder, many complained about videos not being watchable.. hm.. well, i'll send the links separately after making 'em public !
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