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Bangalore Vahan Yatra 2009

2009-08-08T11:04:00.000-07:00

Visited The 2009 vahan yatra at palace grounds today...
As in the previous years.The vahan yatra was not a very big event but it had enough varieties of vehicles on display..

An exclusive photoshoot of Some of the excitements at vahan yatra 2009...

Happy driving..

A perfect entertainer...

2009-07-15T23:58:00.000-07:00

In Bangalore from almost last 50 days i was seeing a telugu movie poster all around the place .

These posters had induced a strange curiosity within me and i wanted to know what was the movie name. But hailing from kerala , reading telugu is a distant dream so after asking some of my colleagues i came to know that the name of the movie was arundathi & i was told that it has become a huge hit in AP.But being a mallu understanding telugu was a remote possibility and i didn't want to waste any money just watching a movie without understanding its meaning.Last week some of my friends from tamilnadu said that arundathi has been released in tamil as well.Thats when i decided taht i will give this movie a shot.Malayalam & Tamil are siblings & i have been a huge fan of kamalhasan & rajnikanth seeing almost there every movie so understanding tamil movies was easy for me.even though i was never a fan of dubbed movies i could not resist this one because the posters of the movie were so fasinating that i wanted to know what made a beautiful young bride take a bloodyy sword as depicted in the posters.The movie is a perfect blend of drama,special effects & background score.Story was a no surprise there has been a lot of movies of this gene but the treatment of this movie makes this one a complete feast for the eyes. BUT the BIGGEST surprise of this whole filim is the performances...man....what a releif to the eyes...A beautiful heroine decides to do such a powerful role..hats off anushka..especially the character which depicts her as a princess requires special mention what a performance..the dialouge delivery..the persona..every thing was just too good...after anushka the next surprise pakagae was sonu sood...another fine actor..i was very happy seeing his performance he is a true performer & he delivers the villian role in greatest style.not to forget others who had done a good job.The best part of the filim is that they have not over done any thing..they have not put in lot of special effect s whcih would have ruined the filim & they have not put unnecessary songs which again would have killed the script.what ever songs are in the filim are perfectly placed.Most of the tamil songs are sung by khailesh kher..he again has deleivered a bunch of songs whcih make us to listen to them again & again.

Over all it was a perfect mixture...a complete entertainer.There is a little too much off blood shed in the movie but then i think that brings in the whole drama.
My Verdict:--

Go watch this movie if you want to see some fine perforamnces and a movie which would keep you stuck to your seats for 3 hours...

My Hunt for the perfect car....

2008-07-03T23:24:00.000-07:00

As always letting go something you have owned for so long is a very tough decision to make.and a much tougher one is to decide the replacement .i think automobiles are the best examples of this.letting go my old M800 was tough but my expectations from a 2ndhand , 10 year old vehicle which had met twice with accident from my hand was too much and the poor thing was not able to cope up .Frequently it wanted professional help which was causing a ditch in my pocket so finally i made the decision to part with it,only to realize that the things were tougher ahead .. now

What car do i buy ?

I asked myself ...what and all i want from my new car ?
Then suddenly the Typical Indian in me woke up..

I wanted the luxury of a Merc,

The looks of a Audi,

The Feel of a Hummer,

the safety of a BMW ,

& the Fuel efficiency of a M80

at the cost of a Tata Nano.

I searched day & night for this... ,but Sadly none of the geniuses in the automobile world had thought of the above deadly combination , so on the entire face of the earth i was not able to find one which could satisfy my needs....I was disappointed ..i didn't want to compromise on any of the said things...but some times life is all about compromises..and finally i also did the same thing ....compromise..I decided to settle down for what ever was available...

Then came the 2nd question i think every indian who have thought about buying a car would have had this doubt...Which fuel to look out for Diesel or petrol ?
The best way to find an answer for this to see how much u would use ur vehicle..ifit is anything between 30-50 kms per day then i think you should bethinking of diesel..mine daily usage would come up to 35 kms per day but then i liked long travels so the choice here was very clear for me and also after the experience i had with my old petrol M800 and making the biggest blunder of converting that to LPG and after the recent price hikes....Diesel was a clear winner..

Now the 3rd question SUV,Sedan or a hatchback?
This question and its answer was very much similar to the answer of the 1stone...I wanted the go any were Feel of a SUV,The safety of a high end sedan and the economy of a hatch back....again another compromise here....i had to chose any one of this...Then i came out with a list of vehicles available in the market...

Maruti Swift vdi

obvious choice--Best resale value--Best VFM--Nice After sales service by maruti---Excellent mileage--I had booked this vehicle at the1st sight itself.I didn't like the looks so much but that's a personal opinion and it was not very bad also..---But no finally this is not thecar i brought...The waiting period was so long that i could not simply wait that much.

Maruti Grand Vitara

--Excellent looks---But sadly i could not afford.

Mahindra Logan

--A nice car--nice space--but thanx to the newly launched taxi service inbangalore--logan had become a taxi car and the looks were a little old for 7 odd lakhs.

Mahindra socrpio

Dream car--a perfect indian suv---butwho has 12 lakhs ?..and also heard that they are coming out with hybrid version of Scorpio which would give 18-19kml mileage---hopefully i can manage some money for that.

TATA Indica

--Another taxi vehicle,& the quality sucks...even somebody gifted me this car would think twice before taking it.

FiatPalio

--Frankly saying if this car had a better interior i would have taken this.an excellent car with gr8 mileage--superb built quality.if it islacking its lacking two things--one it badly needs some good interior& 2nd there After sales service.

Indica CS

--One thing tata is good at is making car which are rock bottom cheap both in pricing and also inq ulaity.The pricing of this car is a dream come true.just 4 & odd lakh for a semi mid size car.its a dream come tru...but then for me it was not very difficult to say no to this car,i just had to step in the driver seat.

Ford Feista Diesel

--An excellent car with very good looking interiors & styling ..a decent engine..supeb handling...Over all a decent performer..but 9 lakh for the fully loaded version was just too high for an average software junkie...

Hyundai verna

--An excellent car.The best est diesel engine you can find in a mid size car,but then i wish i had that extra penny...9 lakh was just out off question.

Then finally came in the little common rail wonder ...Hyundai getz crdi..

I was amazed to see this car..they had actually managed to push in the engine of a verna into a hatch back..with 110bhp under its hood,i could not ask for anything more...dual tone interiors..a super powerful ac...fantastic road clearance and not forget the well known hyundai back up...i was pretty much impressed.Then it was just matter of hours before i rushed to the maruti showroom..canceled the booking of swift and booked my crdi baby..

finally in july i was a proud owner of hyundai getz crdi..

Today after 8 months & 12000 odd kms ..i have not even had single second taught on my decision.Buying this car has been by far one of the intelligent things i have done in a long time.....

A few things about the dealer:-
I opted for Trident hyundai Bangalore since they offered to deliver the car in less than a weeks time.I went for all showroom fitted accessories.It was surely on the costlier side but then i wanted to get my car fully loaded and also didn't want to give to the hands of un trained people.But if you know some shop who are good at accessories pleas opt for that because that will save a lot of money.Coming back to the dealers..the experience was nothing great and also was neither disappointing it was ok..there were the last time confusions and yelling but i guess that always there..

& yeah last but not the least...i would like to thank bunch of car lovers inTeam-Bhp for helping me out with my the entire process of not only buying a car but also owning one..they can be contacted a thttp://www.team-bhp.com/web/. i bet if you are a car lover and love to travel you will be never sorry about visiting this site.

Sony Erricson K810i--A good buy for some one who knows what he wants.

2008-07-02T22:51:00.000-07:00

i just brought this piece yesterday after almost 7 days of intense research on mobile phones.I was on the lookout for a mobile from last almost 1 month and had various models in my mind.Nokia N95 was on the top of them followed by Motorockr E6.so why i brought nither of them and instaed went for a model which i never had in my mind.ok so lets see what made me decide on K810i cyber shot.My basic requirements were a good camera phone with distictive look and intilligent phione which could organize my contacts and messages properly.So when i started on my hunt.I first went for Nokia N95 the ultimate phone in the market at a cost of 30 000 it was quite a master piece it has 5MP camera,GPS,GPRS so on and so forth...but hey do we really need them....5MP camera quite mouth watering,but tell me how many of us really plan to take our party /trip photos using a mobile phone rather than using a proper digicam.i doubt any one of us would do that....and iam sure when u compare with proper digicam of the same MP this phone camera won't stand anywere near...so any ways even u buy this 5Mp camera mobile at the end of the day when u take ur party photos using them ur going to repent by looking at the snaps taken by ur friend using a higher or same resolution camera which he would have brought for a smaller prize so in that case why u want to spent so much in the 1st place.ok now GPS....lets be frank how many of us know the full form of this....leave alone using it.....Do u want the satellite to guide u through ur city were u live in or would u trust the generous traffic police at each junction to guide u properly when u r lost...i don't think GPS makes any sense for a common man.ok. now the music part..yes this is a feature which is useful in a mobile and it also makes a differnce. but 30000...good quality music phones are avilable for a low as 5000/...so my take on N95 ..its a very good furustic phone for people have lot of money and less of moolah...Now comes E6.....i have only one comment for this phone abhishek bachhan rocks...see u want to sent an urgent sms to ur friend and u spent ur next 15 min in typing that message with ur stylyus...ho yeah u have another feature on this card reader...it reads buisnees cards...so motorola excepts us to take a snap of a buissness card as soon as it is given to u by some one and the phone will store the details for u quite futurstic idea...hey i have a beter one simple 3 steps.as soon as some one gives u card...Step1--receive it.step2--say thanks.step3--put it in ur purse.only one thing i like in motorola e6 is that it works on linux...may be i like this because i too work for a linux os company so in that regard this phone is quite impressive for me...and yeah one more very good thought from motorola bluetoothe stero headset...really futuristic and extremely comfy...so why i didn't go for e6...becase sms is frequently used by me since i can't afford to call my girl friend just say an hi....and no flash for the camera which again was a requirement

My next choice was N93 music edition i have nothing to say for this just 2 words.."IT SUCKS"switch on this mobile adn by the menu turns up u can finish a cup of coffee...seriously this is not a joke its personally tested i think nokia can tell this as a advertising idea..u know 1st phone which allows u to take coffee while operating it...u browse through the menu by the time u come back to the normal screen u would have slept.

So after discovering all these i was fed up...so i went to the dealer and asked for a good camera phone i thought i will transfer my head ache to him so let him get me a good phone...so thats how he showed me this cyber shot masterpiece..

By the 1st look itself my biggest need was full filled it distinctively stood out from other models even N95 resembled some of it predecessors but this phone had a distinction of its own.2nd 3.2 MP camera...real good snaps..sufficient for samll purposes...awsome xenon flash...nice menu....innovative buttons...cool resolution..good music along with radio....and above all perfect for my pocket at a prize of 16000...i was impressed by all of these...but yeah i have a complain on this also it comes with just 128MB card which is very insufficient ...

so If ur on look out for a decent phone with features which u will use frequently rather than features which ur grand childeren would end up using....then this is a good choice...especially the symbian os which sony uses is extremely user friendly...u would get addicted to this once u start using it.....

so thats it....my review on this.....GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY

Bullet machismo 500 LB--own it to beleive it.

2007-06-07T15:17:00.000-07:00

Hi bikers.....

Bullet Machismo 500 LB

--The much talked about bike in the recent past.

....I was using a pulsar 150 cc for the last 3 years and i felt its time to u know chase ur dream and now when it came to deciding a new bike i had no doubts and bullet was my 1st choice.i rushed to the nearest showroom and enquired about machismo,then they told that the production of the old machismo has stopped and RE is coming up with some thing new..so i decided to wait and after 1 week i got a call from the dealers askijng me to come down and have a look of what RE had to offer..and it was the new 500cc LB..i had no second thoughts spinned out what ever was there in my pocket round about 1000 bucks and booked it..

and finally after a weeks waiting i got my hands on the beast..After getting the bike only i realised how exclusive it was there are only 500 m/c's which will see the roads in this year i was unknowingly one of them.This beast has huge engine which has a displacement of 500cc and which gives out 24bhp..now that figures itself will put other so called bikes to shame..The riding posture is as always the best.and the chrome platting given on the bike is awesome...wherever i go people are staring at the bike...now some may say that is not the criteria of buying a bike..ya but i know every body will agree when i say that all of us like attention.
and last but not the least for my surprise this bike returns a decent economy of 30km/l

now if i go about telling the cons..ya

1)its huge very much huge...u lose ur balance while putting on stand or something thats it--u will end up in hospital with fracture.

2)The classic thump is missing--but don't worry u can fit in a seperate silencer for just about 800-900 bucks.

3)My bike had some electric problem--the fuse went of a couple of times but its ok...
& last but not the least this m/c is highly attractive so pls be careful of the other riders on the road becase they would be more busy in looking at ur bike rather than looking at the road.

4)ur girl friend will hate this because u will end up spending more time with ur bike than with her

so thats it.....

Make way For the Bullet....

I would recommended this bike to any one who likes biking in style....

Ride safe have fun