My new iPhone 3G (s)

Having had iPhone 2G for the past two years and despite being aware of the other newly launched models from Nokia, especially the N900 and N97. Yet, iPhone with its ergonomic design, astounding look and mesmerising UI, managed to win my heart once again against other likely picks.

I must say, my old iPhone 2G by far did its job, satisfying my needs as they occurred. But, having said that, it still being under the roof of obsolete 2nd generation technology platform, had its own limitations. And being an user for almost 2 years, I was profoundly aware of those. Despite being aware of its limitations and after learning that most of the existing limitations in 2G have now been addressed in the newly available iPhone 3G (S). I for one, ideally, could not wait for any reason to not get the new 3G(S) under my command, except for one, that my contract with AT&T didn't lapse until recently, and it precludes the signee from going for an upgrade, until the term lapses.

Although, I got unclenched a month ago from my contract, I decided to wait until my B'day to get this phone. On the actual day I presented myself (had to...no GF, and friends are cheap) with the new iPhone 3G (S). As soon as I got command of my iPhone I started to explore the new additions and upgrades. As part of the new additions/upgrade were 3G, Voice Command Module, Improved GPS/Map, Video, Auto Focus camera, and MMS. Though there were other improvements, these were the ones I desired to have at my disposal.

Speed:

The speed is one among the top selling points for Apple and a top buying point to me. Opening applications and switching to the next is almost instantaneous without any notable latency, unlike my 2G.

Voice Command:

The is my favourite module and its pretty amazing to work with, unlike existing conventional methods of voice dialing, where the user is made to say the name of the contact in his own voice, which is then tagged to the contact, this module doesn't require any per-recording of vocie commands. When you for example say "Call Ramesh" it comes back with its own way of pronouncing the name and if it matches with your pronunciation then it calls the contact. Initially I couldn't get this to call any of my contacts as my pronunciations didn't match with its pronunciations, but when I trimmed off some of my contact names, in an attempt to make these pronounceable like an american name, it started to work. It may now seem funny to you when you hear me call some of these names. For example, "Yoganathan" is now "Yoga + Nathan" and "Sashank" is now "Shaw + Shank". Playing songs by artist name, pausing, and playing next and previous songs are also possible with voice command.

Video recording:

Video recording is something that I desired to have in my phone, as it was not part of my old iPhone 2G. There were plenty of instances where I had felt the need for having video recording at my disposal, so the functionality without question became one of the key buying point. I have already tried taking and editing some videos and I must say, its pretty snappy. What fascinated me more is that I was able to send a 30 sec video to my mail under less than a minute. And the clarity and quality of the video is pretty good.

Maps:

Using this feature really substantiates my decision of going for an upgrade. When compared with maps in 2G, I believe this is one module which has received a lot of work since the iPhone's first release, and the way it operates is pretty amazing, the movement of the pointer is very accurate and it moves with your motion, points to the direction of your move and also centers the map in real time. Impressed with its accuracy, I have made plans to buy Tom Tom's iPhone version of its GPS turn-by-turn software, in an attempt to eliminate the need for taking my hand-held GPS kit every time and this also would help me consolidate my car needs into just one gadget.

In addition to the afore mentioned functionalities there are plenty others functionalities which are quite good, but not of priority to me at least for now.

The only time when I would still miss my 2G is when I talk for longer time, as the talk time duration for 3G (S) with 3G ON is 5 hours and I could see the battery draining fast with 3G ON. But I suppose this is a small trade off that you will have to make in order to have a high speed network access at the reach of your hands.

I have for years continued to reap the boons of having a smart phone at hand, and on many a occasion it had been most helpful to me. I will continue to be a smart phone user, desperate to stay in sync with the upcoming technology and innovations, as much as I can.

Why did I come to USA

Well, for some this may be an easy question to answer, while for the rest this is deemed to be the toughest. Having fallen in the second category, I still believe I managed to convince myself with a rational explanation to this topic.

My fixation towards foreign countries, especially the US, could probably have started during my early ages (7th or 8th grade) and I must tell you, a childhood friend of mine (Guna) could possibly be the individual responsible for augmenting my fixation. He used to be a big time Hollywood movie fan, and if it’s not for him, my memory library of English movies would be half empty now, and certainly my exposure to US wouldn't have been much. But I cannot weigh this to be the only reason, may be this is a prelude to what followed.

As most parents would unanimously agree, male kids in their young age are more interested especially in cars and guns, and I wasn't an anomaly in this regard, in fact I can say I was a notch above most of them as I simply wouldn’t stop at playing with them, but in turn would also try to learn the technical details of it. In addition to this I am very passionate about fashion. Brand addiction wrapped me as early as age 12 and grew stronger as I grew older, and that was the time when jean culture started to claw in. We all would compare each others wardrobe to find out who had the best of brands. Most brands to which I was addicted to were either American or British. It may be funny to even think about it now, myself and a friend of mine (Prabu) even thought about opting for an university based in the US state of Kansas, home to the famous Jean brand LEE, and you may now get the reason why.

Apart from the fore mentioned, I must say the quest for knowledge and technology played a much larger role during my later part. Being an ardent fan of Discovery channel, I probably had access to more information about new inventions and innovations in almost all departments, starting from mining to aerospace. To give you a gist of how obsessed I was with Discovery channel, I once watched it for 18 hrs on a Saturday, and that wasn't just the only time. Most of what I see would either have happened in US or some how related, hence weighed in as an addendum to afore mentioned reasons.

When I stepped into my college, internet was just starting to boom. I would access car websites, printout information and read about them. At one point of time I was aware of almost all the technologies used in cars and bikes in the market. This started with cars and extended to electronics, apparels, and so on. During the later part I started enjoying talking about them, doing so I probably could have annoyed few people with differed interests.

Faced with almost no necessity to look for a job, upon completing my bachelor’s degree, and after being strongly influenced by my parents to pursue my master's, I once for all decided to do my master's. But, I didn't have a definitive answer to where I wanted to pursue my master's, instead had various options in my mind. Ironically it didn't include US. I should probably say, US was the answer that destiny had in mind for me. Had I not taken a turn that day, while I was going back to home after a failed visit to see a friend of mine (Bala), to run into another friend (Jegadesh), who was then instrumental in persuading me to apply for US. If not for all what happened that day, I wouldn't probably be here writing this.

I made it to US to pursue my Master's in 2003, with passion towards my interests as the sole driving force, and have sailed through some rough seas with very little assistance. Yet, I am still here more resilient than ever before trying to answer my own question of "Why did I come to USA".

I can still claim my passion towards technology, cars and everything I do as part of my job as the driving forces, and of course money, which most people find it to be the apex reason, wherein I prefer to differ.

But the day when all these interesting things seize to interest me, is the day I depart.

Day 2

Having experienced a much happening Day One, which by the way was expected to be a less active day in the entire trip, except for the drivers, myself and my brother, one could not settle for anything less on day two. The day two started with a nice little glass of tea, brought by dinesh, everyone including the ones, who would have ideally slept for some more time, managed to hit the ground after learning for their past experiences that their glass of tea would be at stake, if they don't do so. After a nice glass of tea, everybody waited for their turn to freshen up, while Dinesh and my brother were busy finalizing the route for our next planned destination, Mudhumalai. We hit the road around 9.00AM, after deciding to have breakfast on the way, as we neared the exit check post of the sanctuary, there stood a thank you and come again board with a tiger engraving on it, on seeing the board we all felt kind of dejected for not being able to see one in the wild. We were almost an hour into finding a place that is decent enough to eat something, but considering the geography of our route, every one could sense that we are not even close to being half successful on that regard, so we decided to stop in a small village which came across, for tea. My brother promised everyone with a good lunch, which helped settle down some of our frustrations that morning.

After having some tea and biscuits, we hit the road driving towards weynad wild life sanctuary; the drive was interesting as it was amidst forest, almost after an hour and half, we reached the weynad wild life sanctuary. Dinesh, Myself and my brother went to the visitor center to register for the jungle ride, and upon enquiry, we came to know that there exist a discount for members of wild life association, my brother being a valid member of the association was offered tickets at a discounted price, which helped save some money. We were given an individual jeep for the jungle ride with a designated driver and a guide, unlike our group ride at Nagarhole, which felt kind of good. It took them sometime to warm up the jeep, after some moments, we all boarded the jeep. The jeep was semi closed and had enough opening to allow us to look for animals. The guard stood in the back of the jeep, which gave him an edge over us on sighting animals.

The driver drove us through the designated forest routes; the forest looked dense following the monsoon rains, which threatened to impair our animal sighting. We came across some deer's, antelopes, wild boars, squirrels, peacocks and hens but nothing really substantial. As we continued to drive, we met a different group in the opposite side, who were about to complete their ride, when asked about their luck so far, they replied, not as they would have hoped for. The rest of our ride was less yielding, as we didn't come across anything substantial; the forest was nice and dense which pushed us to get down and take some pictures of our own. After a nice hour long drive amidst jungle, we reached the ride's ending point.

We relaxed for a while and then started with the rest of our journey to our final destination of the day, Mudhumalai Wild Life sanctuary. On the way, we planned to visit a falls, named iruppu, which is located in kerala and Karnataka border, when we reached the falls it was around mid noon, we all had to walk for about 20 minutes through a valley to get to the falls, but I must say the walk was worth it, as the falls looked beautiful, every one except me had a hour long shower in it. I considered myself unlucky for not being able to participate in the fun, as I had mild cold and did not want to aggravate it, May be I was little paranoid that day. Rest of the folks did enjoy the falls thoroughly, and we started back to the car to continue our journey towards mudhumalai.

When we left the falls if was around 2.00 PM, since we couldn't find any nice restaurants in the vicinity, we decided to move on and postpone our lunch for an hour or so. After an hour into the drive, we came across a big town named, sultan batheri, it had lot of restaurants and we picked the nicest one, the meal was good and everyone liked it. We then fueled our cars and hit the road, around 5.30 we entered the ghat section of the road leading to mudhumalai, it didn't take long before we came across a big herd of elephants grazing along side of the road. The road being a national highway was under some maintenance work, workers who were there working at that time got frightened and started shouting at the elephants and made them leave that vicinity, shortly after they were sighted, but we had enough time to take some nice snaps of the herd

The jungle was lush green and looked amazingly beautiful, following monsoon rains. We enjoyed the drive all the way to mudhumalai. we reached mudhumalai at half past 6.00. All the arrangements for our stay were made by my dad's old friend, who is the forest ranger for that area. We all met him at his office that evening, his office assistant offered us tea, after sometime myself, my brother and badri went to his quarters to convy our regards to his family, I handed him the gifts, which I had brought form the US. As we prepared to leave his quarters, we thanked him again for his help and hospitality.

The guest house that was allocated for us was located in the middle of the forest, isolated, it had an on board kitchen with a cook, so all the required items for the dinner that night has to be bought and taken by us. As we all unanimously agreed to have chicken that night, myself and vatsa, who by the way, were the only two who knew cooking, undertook the task of buying the required stuffs for dinner. After buying everything, we started towards the guest house which was roughly 15 kms away. The office assistant came with us to do all the initial arrangements.

We reached the guest house at 7.30 PM, the location of the guest house scared some of the rookies, as they felt like they were brought to an isolated world. We handed the stuffs to the cook and gave him a go ahead to start with cooking. The guest house was big and had two big bedrooms separated by a hall and a big dining hall with a big dining table, capable to seating 10 people in a serving.

The cook came with a bad news, he complained that the amount of ginger that we brought is not sufficient and demanded more to be brought at once. Myself, dinesh and the cook's assistant left to get more ginger, the time showed 8.30 PM, already. when I asked the assistant about the shops working hours in that vicinity, he sounded skeptical. As we all feared , all the shops were closed for business for the day, not knowing what to do next we stood helpless before the assistant came with another idea, he told us he knew of another place, where we could buy some ginger. Agreeing to his idea i asked him to navigate us to that place, I didn't take us long before we got there.

The place looked pitch dark without any lights, the only light source was the cars tail and parking lamps, we could see some huts, about 10 of them. The assistant got down the car, dinesh also decided to go with him, so he too got down and started following him, both, when they left the car was roughly 2 seconds apart, and they disappeared from the cars parking lamp instantly. 5 minutes passed by, suddenly I could hear some loud ground stepping, and it felt like some one is coming towards the car running, and rightly so, it was dinesh who came running towards the car, I could see him gasping for air,as he came closer. When I asked him what happened, he had a story to say.

He told me that he was following the assistants food steps until the assistant suddenly disappeared into the darkness. Not knowing how to proceed he had stayed frozen for some 5 seconds, before deciding to retrace his steps back to the car, which I should say was they right decision, as it is very easy to get lost in the jungle, that too when you are unfamiliar with the terrain. He also said his heart was in his mouth all the way back to the car until he saw the parking lamp of the car. I could sense a sign of relief in him, as he boarded the car. This was considered by him as one the most scariest moments in his life.

Unfortunately, all our efforts went in vain when the assistant came back with empty hands. We then drove back to the guest house, where a nice dinner was in the offing, it seems the cook had found some left over gingers in the store room, and used them to complete the dinner. We all sat together and had the dinner, after dinner we chatted briefly, while my brother and dinesh were planning for a drive in the jungle, after hearing from the assistant that animal sighting at this time of the night is inevitable.

A group of 5 decided to leave, while Myself and badri decided to stay, as we both felt sick. The rest of them left around 11.00 PM. I learned from them the following morning about how exiting their previous night trip was. They said they had a very close encounter with an elephant, during their ride. It seems they had come across an elephant round the corner of a turn, my brother who was driving decided to irritate the elephant with the engine sound, and had pressed the throttle back and forth, the elephant as expected got irritated with the sound and started charging towards the car, and on seeing this my brother had tried to move away and for some reasons, may be because of the excessive throttling, the car switched off leaving everyone in danger of being stamped by the elephant, which was yards away. Arun who sat on the window facing the elephant, told me that he almost died in the moment, and just because the car got started in the first attempt, they were able to avert the elephant marginally.

The Ultimate Trip

When I sat down to prioritize the list of subjects that I had in my memory library to blog, this subject demanded the utmost, by far. I am gonna title it "The Ultimate Trip" as I will be sharing some of the experiences that we had during our trip in India, last summer.

The planning for this started roughly a month before my scheduled homecoming after 2 ½ years from the US. The reason for the early start being, almost all participants of this trip were working in different places within India and some abroad, so it becomes imperative to allocate sufficient time to plan and organize things. Logistics for the entire trip was carried out by my Dad, assisted by my brother Kumar. Logistics, I must say was the most critical and daunting task, especially considering the list of places that we had in our itinerary, of which, most of them were remote locations and some of them fell in other states. The itinerary included, but not limited to Mysore, Nagarhole wild life sanctuary (Karnataka), veynad wild life sanctuary (kerla), Mudhumalai wild life sanctuary (Tamilnadu), Ooty and its surroundings.

The total duration of our trip was 6 days and the total number of participants stood at Eight, spilt into two groups Group One (G1) and Group Two (G2). G2 was headed by my brother Kumar and it included Arun and Dinesh. G1 was headed by me and it included Badri, Vatsa and Dinesh.Rc, which brings the count to 7, Ganesh joined us during the course of our trip in Ooty on day three, making it full count.

Day One:

After almost a month of preparations, the actual day came. we (G1) barely managed to adhere to our departure schedule for the day one, which by the way was very important for two reasons, one being, the amount of distance that we had to cover on day one, which stood substantial (700+ KMs), and the second being, I am the sole driver in the group. We (G1) left udumalpet around 4.45AM in a Santro Zing, the car that my dad could finally offer me for the trip. I was disappointed with the car initially, as I was hoping for a Scorpio, but I must say the car was amazing to drive, it had awesome handling and power, which allowed us to cruise nicely at 70 KMPH. We had our first pit stop at the outskirts of Thirupur for tea around 6.15 AM, and then continued to drive; we passed through number of towns and villages en-route to Mysore, of which only a hand full of them is worth mentioning (Sathyamangalam, Dhimbam and chamrajnagar are some). Badri and Vatsa sat in the back seat and were dozing until the sun came up really hard, while Dinesh.Rc in the passenger seat was busy changing songs, Occasionally CD's and more importantly keeping me brisk. we had breakfast just after entering karnataka at a place called Samrajnagar, the breakfast was less than OK, but did its part by keeping us off hunger for the next 4 hours. The plan for the day was to meet (G2) at the outskirts of Mysore around 11.00 AM and then continue to drive together to Nagarhole, our first place of visit in the itinerary. G2, by the way started from Bangalore, Dinesh (G2 coordinator) called us around 9.00 AM to inform their start and he didn't waste any time in justifying their position for starting late by 45 Minutes, saying my brother kumar (sole driver in G2) overslept because he had to work late the previous night to finish up some of his next week tasks, as he wont be in next week. That made me to go little easy on the gas, as we didn't want to wait for them for a longtime. Dinesh kept updating their progress frequently, which helped us to alter our speed and in turn reduce the wait time. As we neared Mysore we were instructed by G2 to take the bypass and wait at a specific landmark, so that they can come and join, but we somehow missed the bypass (thanks to Dinesh.Rc our Designated Navigator for not noticing the big bypass sign) and went straight into the city, since none of us knew the local language it took us a while before we figured out how to get to the correct route, and this act of ours facilitated G2 to reach our mutually agreed meeting point ahead of us, despite starting late.

Finally, we met G2 at our mutually agreed meeting point; all of us greeted each other briefly and then started driving towards Nagarhole. My brother having been to Nagarhole once, was familiar with the directions, so he spearheaded the proceedings. We drove briefly before deciding to stop for lunch at Hunsur, having had a awful breakfast we half expected the lunch to be good, if not great. The food was tasty and stood up to our expectations and everyone enjoyed it. We then started with the rest our journey; within an hour of starting we ran into a closed check post, which was later identified as the gateway to Nagarhole Wild life sanctuary. We logged our cars registration numbers and some additional details in the log book that was handed over to us by the guard on duty, after completing the formalities the check post was opened, we then proceeded further into the reserved forest area, as we ascended everyone in the car started lowering their windows, while Dinesh.Rc in the passenger seat reached out to switch off the music system and in no time everyone were in look out for animals. I was told by my brother at the check post that we have to drive for about 30 KM to reach the visitor center, where we will be collecting the keys for our prebooked rooms for our overnight stay. The road was full of pot holes, as one would expect amidst jungle, my brother had hard time maneuvering his car (Ford Ikon) through the potholes, I felt little better maneuvering mine, as mine handled better being small. We both managed to avert some potholes using our vast driving experiences (My brother 11+ years and mine 8+yrs), and kept driving, luck wasn't quite in our side during our 30 KM drive to the visitor center, as we didn't come across the ultimate animal, apart from some deer's and antelopes. I just mentioned the term 'The Ultimate Animal', which may puzzle some readers, when requested for clues then here are some, the top predator in the animal food chain, the one animal which keeps the other animals inflation under control, the animal that occupies the top position in animal kingdom, yes! "The Tiger" it is. Hope you all know that Nagarhole is a Tiger reserve and as per the census it is said to house 70 tigers and our mission was to see at least one.

We reached the visitor center around 3.00 PM, my brother and dinesh went in to get our accommodation finalized and to gather information about the evening jungle ride, while others were out roaming in the parking lot taking pictures and chatting. Almost after 30 Minutes they both came out with the keys to the dormitory, the dorm was uphill, couple of hundred yards from the visitor center. My brother told us that, we just have 25 Minutes to get to the dorm, unload things, freshen up and get back to the visitor center to board the van that leaves at 4.00PM for the jungle ride. Having this tight schedule behind us, we immediately started to the dorm, as soon as we reached there we were greeted by the dorm care taker, after helping us unpack, he asked us about the dinner and presented his menu, interestingly it didn't have any non-veg items in it, he offered us chappati, rice and vegetable curry. When we asked him to make chicken instead of vegetable curry, he said he can prepare it, but all the ingredients including chicken had to be brought by us from a near by village, as they don't have cold storage to stock chicken. After agreeing to his demands, we started out to the visitor center.

We were on time at the visitor center to board the van, which was scheduled to leave at 4.00 PM. Almost all of us had camera in our hands and we were all exited about the jungle ride and in high hopes to see the tiger, our expectations were heightened by my brother, when he told us about his visit last time and how lucky he was to see the tiger. We boarded the van one at a time and seated ourselves at the window seat, the driver of the van after making sure that everyone had boarded started the van, and he drove us through some internal routes which are not open for public vehicles. We were just 20 minutes into the drive before we came across a herd of elephants, they were grazing at a distance of about 400 meters and did not seem to have gotten disturbed by the sound of our van, which allowed us to stop, watch and take some nice pictures. since the distance between the van and the herd was quite substantial, one would need a camera with high zoom to capture it, three of us considered ourselves privileged at that instance as all three of us had cameras with 12x zoom, whereas our friend vatsa, who had a 3X zoom camera found it difficult capturing the herd. On seeing his pictures, one could barely confirm, that those were pictures of a herd. After taking some nice pictures we moved on further, hoping to see the tiger. We saw deer's, peacocks and some wild boars, since leaving the herd, but didn't quite have the luck to come across the biggie. Clock kept ticking and we almost came to the end of the ride with no luck of seeing the tiger, we all felt disappointed for not being able to see the tiger, but soon came out of it, after looking at the pictures of other animals, which included a solo shot of everyone in the trip, excluding mine :), that was taken during the ride. After chatting briefly about the ride, we headed to the nearby village to get chicken for the dinner; the village was about 10 KMs and on the way to the village we came across a check post and was told by the guard on duty that, the check post closes for traffic both ways at 6.00 PM sharp. We were shocked after hearing the guard as the clock showed 5.30 already, left with just 30 Minutes to get the required stuff and come back, we all discussed and came up with a contingency plan, the plan was, one group stays within the check post, while the other goes to get the required stuffs, in case if they don't make it on time then, the staying group can negotiate with the guard and get them in somehow. Everyone agreed to this and G2 volunteered to leave to the village. We all sat tight in the car with our fingers crossed, hoping for the best to happen. Almost all of us who stayed felt kind of tensed during this ordeal, except one, it was none other than vatsa, who was enjoying a telephone call that he received from a girl whom he met in the Internet, his loud laughs and his attitude of not wanting to be a part of that moment boiled our blood, he finally hung up after badri intervened and threatened him with his life :). When all these were happening some of us were in look out for G2 and around 5.55 PM our hopes were fulfilled, as G2 were able to make it back within the stipulated time. We all felt totally relaxed after that and started heading back to the dorm, as soon as we reached the dorm, we wasted no time in handing over the stuffs to the care taker and giving him a go ahead for dinner preparations. He told us that the dinner will be ready in about an hour.

The dormitory that was allocated to us had a big long room (50X20) had two rows of cots 7 in each side separated by walking space, roughly 2 feet wide and had a wooden door in the rear end, past the wooden door appeared 2 bathrooms followed by 2 toilets. We all helped each other unpack and began to pick the best available cot to sleep, as some were kind of moist. After settling down, some of us began to explore the surroundings, while dinesh and my brother were busy planning for the day ahead. It began to get dark and around 7.00 PM it became pitch-dark outside, to demonstrate the intensity of the darkness that exists in jungle to the new comers (first time stay in forest), I switched off the only light outside the dorm overseeing the front door, and made badri to open the door and stretch his hand outside, when he did that he couldn't see the remaining stretched part of his hand, he was shocked and frightened a bit. My brother being an avid forester (I ain't sure if this is the correct word to describe him) always carries a big search light with him, especially on a trip like this; on this occasion too, he had it with him, so we used it to drive away the darkness outside for a while, and to search if there were any animals wandering close to our dorm. Our search light picked up close to two dozen sparkling eyes, which really exited the new comers, but some of us knew for sure that those were the eyes of deer's and antelopes that often settle down at night and nothing else, which was confirmed once we narrowed it down to just one pair of eyes to reveal its identity as deer.

The bell rang signalling 8.30 PM, in the clock and in our stomach; Dinesh went to check, if the dinner was ready, and came in with an unpleasant news, he told us that there was a problem of some kind, so it may take another 15-20 minutes for the dinner to be ready. We all expressed our frustrations and decided to wait. After a long wait for almost an hour, which included Dinesh going back and forth for more than couple of times, not to the toilet :), but to the kitchen , the dinner was finally ready. The dinner table had enough plates, a big vessel full of chicken curry, a big vessel of rice, a vessel of vegetable curry and a casserole of chapattis. Some started with chappatis and some with rice, the ones who started with chapattis were adjudged the lucky ones in the end, because when dinner started whoever started with chapattis inadvertently ate more than 2, as no one counted the number of chapatti's in offer upfront, and only during the course of the meal everyone noticed that chapatti's were offered in limited counts, strictly 2 each. Before everyone could realize this, some were left with just one or even none. We were in no mood at the juncture to fight with the cook over the count of chapatti's that was offered. In the end I was the lucky one, for having 4 chapattis and Arun I believe was the unlucky one for having none. After dinner we briefly walked outside in the open, chatted for sometime, cracked jokes at each other and finally hit the bed around 11.00PM. After everyone tucked themselves in, when observed keenly, one could hear the sounds of small insects, deer calls and other sounds specific to jungle.

Till now, I didn't get a chance to see a tiger in the wild, but i know for sure that the stature of this animal cannot be explained in words and i hope i get a chance to see one in near future.

P.S.

The writer of this subject Ramesh (thats me!) has been completely overwhelmed with the content, so against his initial plan of writing the entire trip in one shot, has been shot in the head. please wait for Day 2,which is currently in pooja stage.

you may come across mistakes of many kinds, but be kind when commenting.

see you again on Day 2.