3 days and 4 nights

I went for a short trip to Goa last week. It was not even a week's trip, only 3 days and 4 nights(rest of the time in travel). So i and my friends could visit only a fewer parts in the northern parts of Goa.

Goa is a nice place to be and especially, to celebrate its a cool place. And therefore the prices shoot up high as we near the festival time. You will need to book your tickets and rooms well before the season starts. Even shacks become costlier; 1500 INR per night.
If you are a non-vegetarian, you have absolutely no problem at all. But for vegetarians like me, its a bit tough.

We visited three beaches Vagator, Arambol and Ashvem. The beaches are shallow than what we can see in chennai or kerala. These beaches are also very famous for sunset views.
The foreigners visiting these beaches spend their money in food and drinks than for the clothing. Most of the people were half naked and some were totally nude taking sunbathe.

We also visited two forts called Tiracol fort and Chapora fort. I don't have any details about who built it or when, but both are beautiful places to visit and have a view of the sea from a top point in the fort.


Chapora fort became famous after the film Dil Chahta Hai had a scene at this place and became known as the dil chahta hai point.


For more photographs of the trip visit my Goa album.

Home page - http://aanand.in

I got a domain registered at http://aanand.in, which will be my home page.
God damn rain is spoiling my mood and life has become a bit boring.

A trip to Chenji fort

On Saturday, I visited this place called Chenji located on the way from Thindivanam to Thiruvannamalai. This was once the capital of southern India ruled by Shivaji. It has been ruled by 22 Kings starting with the Cholas and was last ruled by Raja Desingh.

There are two forts, the King's fort and the Queen's fort. King's fort is a huge one with 1500 steps to climb up. I could visit only the King's fort since we couldn't get out of the Kings fort before 5:00 PM in the evening, after which no one is allowed to climb the fort.

Now they have planned to have a rope car from one fort to the other so that we can save time.

Entrance of the King's fort.

Gingee Fort Map

Fortified wall

A tank inside the fort

Diagonal view of the tank

One of the six Granaries

A tank barrel at top

On the way to the top

A watch tower at the topmost point of the fort

Ranganathar Temple

One of granaries that were destroyed

A cave inside the fort

The Kalyana mahal built by Shivaji that was used for inter-cast marriages between hindus and muslims

Stable

Inside the stable

The Anchanayar temple made of a single rock

A watch tower at one end of the 15 mile fort

Country side view

Venkataramana Temple. It was destroyed by the Nawab of Arcot when the place was under the control of Moghul emperor Aurangazeb.

The statues and idles of the temple were destroyed by the Nawab.

That was a memorable day with my friends at a worderful place to know about. It just took us one day for the trip. Try to visit this historical place if u get a chance.

Self Hypnosis - a way to mind control

I was reading about hypnosis few days back and this phrase caught my eyes, Self-Hypnosis.
Then I found out that self hypnosis is nothing but controlled day dreaming, which is my speciality.

Self hypnosis is not exactly day dreaming, but you make yourself totally committed or bound to a consciously controlled dream of whatever u like or whatever u want to do. Sometimes while doing some work(or even in bathroom), i start thinking of someone or something that puts me in a trance condition and i evade off to my own world, where i do whatever i think; for eg: be a super hero saving all the people and finally kissing my love(this often makes me work at half the speed). These dreams that i have dreamt so far are very detailed with even dialogs directed by me.
I don't know whether its good to practice or not. But i feel that it plays a very important part in self control. Human being is a social animal and he has every right to expose his emotions to the society. But not always, he may be bound to some social rules or feelings that prohibit those actions.
For eg; you would like to hammer your senior in college who ragged u, but you couldn't do it. The next thing you do is to start dreaming with vengeance where u get a good chance and situation to beat him up. This may look cowardly, but now we are in a good situation for that. You need to control yourself before u start doing stupid things.

I think I'm a good dreamer and self hypnosis can help me in controlling ME, Myself and I

A visit to college

Today, I visited the college were i studied accompanying my friend Kartik Kannan(http://katchucrap.blogspot.com). The college has not improved much, but for the stupid rules.


The parking area. dont even know how to park...


The entrance of Veltech Engineering college. We met some of our lecturers still continuing the good job.



Katchu speaking with Mr. Shamshudeen, the Placement officer and some juniors. The placement office looks good..



ppl eating at the college canteen.. hhm i remember the days when we used to eat hiding from the OC parties, the uninvited guests.






Kartik sitting at Bill Gates computer lab looking at some of the gorgeous babes(aka karikataigal) of our college.

I love her

Its my new HCL Beanstalk PC. Its good that i took LCD TFT monitor, its B.. E.. A.. utiful.
Intel Pentium 4 3.06 GHz with a GB of primary memory, is rocking me.
Application Performance
Fifa 2006 just took a sec to load and the performance is awesome.
It makes me feel eclipse is just another simple application and loads in not more than 2 seconds.
Media Center
Its the media center edition of Windows XP installed on the machine. The TFT monitor, the Altec Lansing speakers and the media center kit is making it a perfect entertainment system. A TV cum FM tuner card makes it much more powerful entertainment system.
The Altec Lansing speakers are too good with crystal clear sound quality.
Keyboard and mouse
Wireless multimedia keyboard and mouse are excellent.

Take a look at her

Lots of ebooks

May be they are illegal, but they are useful and so here they are :

1. http://lab.lpicn.org/pub/books/
2. http://books.netissat.bg/aragorn/
3. http://quintessence.gateit.net/E-books/
4. http://e-books.amagrammer.net/

U will find all sorts of books.

If u find more let me know.