Manchinbele

I had been to Manchinbele last week, its a reservoir created by a small dam surrounded by small hills. Its decent place for day out with friends and close to city, its approx 45 km from Bangalore on Mysore road. One has to leave early though or you might get stuck in traffic within the city limits. People who have been there before say early morning is a good time for bird watching... did see some birds but did not have a good camera.

We carried along some food with us and also a charcoal grill and lost of chicken. Turned out to be good as there is nothing you can do their you need some activity to be going. It was fun lighting up the coal(almost took us 45 min) as non of us do it regularly. The chicken was marinated over night and turned out to be really juicy and tasty when cooked. the recipe too was an experiment and also a little bit of help from our Mommy's at home. Recipe was simple

We used some off the shelf Tandoori masala, Turmeric powder, Ginger,Garlic and salt to taste.

Chicken 4 Kgs
Garlic - 200 gms
Ginger - 200 gms
Turmeric powder

Make garlic ginger past, add turmeric and about 50-60gms of tandoori masala and mix well with chicken, add salt to taste, leave it over night in the fridge do not put in the freezer.

Next day light up your charcoal grill, and it won't long to eat your juicy chicken.

Though the dam is close to the city, it is quite secluded and doesn't look safe for couples planing an outing...its always good to go in a group. Villagers might drop in asking for some food or money.

You might find couple of cops standing at just before a turn leading to the dam and might stop you going there... looked like they just wanted to make some money... we didn't pay though just drove in. Cops don't seem to there to help people rather want to make some quick bucks.

The drive from Wonder la to the dam is quite picturesque and green, you would enjoy it, try not to drive fast as the roads are narrow you might never now, there could be Kidd's running around in the next corner.

Some tips that would be handy

• DO NOT try to swim in the waters until are an expert in it as there is no one to rescue.
• Though there are hills surrounding the reservoir there are no shady trees...it was lush green when we visited as its a rainy season.
• Carry sun screen lotion along
• Sun Glass
• Food,beverages and fresh water to drink, you won't find these there.(Believe me carry a grill along it awesome to cook and eat, the chicken doesn't taste better than this)
• Go in a group
• Need to answer nature call in the nature.

Will post some photos soon.

Indiblogger Meet Bangalore

It happend on 16/02/2008. It was really awesome, ok I am writting it a little late but then if you see my past post they have been copy past's. You see I just can't get myself to write when I don't feel like and most of the time I don't. Coming back to the topic, it happend in Microsoft Bangalore. I met so many different kinds of people who are passionate about writing some very pasionate about the topics they write. One guy who stood out was comradechakra with his stories about red panties and sex on A380, this guy had amazing sense of humor ( not just b'cause he spoke about red panties and sex) . I can't discribe it but it was kinda subtle, kinda humor at which our Sidhu won't laugh at ( you see it won't penetrate deep enough INTO HIS HEAD)
Note: It won't penetrate deep enough, Not because of his turban.

Then there were guys who had fatwa against them for writing some posts I think he was a guy from mutiny . Though he din't say what he wrote about to earn the fatwah. I did try to find some inflammatory post in that blog by putting in some nasty words in search, but I gave up.

Then there was this guy from Lead cap I think his name was Sandeep. Though he was passionate about leadership and we as nation should produce more leaders, stuff like that. I agree he is doing something good, but some how it didn't create the impact.

We also had to introduce ourself one by one. At first I thought its gona be same boring thing that we did in our school days when a new teacher replaces the old one. But it turned out to be fun as they spoke about their blogs and what they write. One guy also gave suggestion that we should compansate the Auto walas with some money every month by putting adds on the Autos so that they don't charge us extra. Atleast he was thinking of doing somthing to put and end to the trouble bangloreans face with transport. But I din't really agree with his suggestion ( I'll write why some other day).

Their were lots interesting people there, but now I am running out of patience ( I already spent some time figuring out what the spelling of patience is. I had to Google it) to write bout them.
Many people tell me to use MS word to check spellings, but I always find solace in Google when I am connected to the net.

Indiblogger is organising meets in Hydrabad and Pune on 01/03/2008 at 16:00 and 15/03/2008 at 17:00 respectively. You can register in Indiblogger for the same. I can assure you will have great time if you can attend.

Ok i'll leave for the day.