Movies Proposal for 2011

Fast Five

Fast and Furious Part 5:
Starring: Vin Diesel, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Paul Walker.
Proposed Release Date: 29th April 2011

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean Part 4:
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz.
Proposed Release Date: 20th May 2011

Kung Fu Panda 2

Kung Fu Panda Part 2:
Starring: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie.
Proposed Release Date: 27th May 2011

Death Race 2

 

Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol

Mission Impossible 4
Starring:Tom Cruise
Proposed Release Date: Dec 2011




This is few of my picks and other languages also welcomed

Activities Proposal for 2011

1> Paintball

a) National Paintball League

Place: Bangalore

Cost:  Rs. 350 for 70 Paint balls, Extra Paint balls at Rs. 3

          Rs. 450 For lunch (Includes: Maincourse 2 types veg, 1 type non-veg, starters, soup, welcome drink and dessert) 

Website: http://www.nationalpaintballleague.in/

Contact:  +91 984411941

Pictures: http://nationalpaintballleague.in/gallery/index.html

b) Extreme Zone

Location: Angsana, Bangalore

Cost: Click here.

Trial Pack – Usage of paintball equipment + 2 games of paintball
(20 paintballs for all 2 games)

Starter Pack – Usage of paintball equipment + 3 games of paintball
(50 paintballs for all 3 games)

Basic Pack - Usage of paintball equipment + 5 games of paintball
(125 paintballs for all 5 games)

All below rates are per person + 15 % Taxes applicable

No	XtremeZone Packages at Angsana	INR
1	Paintball Trial Pack + 2 Team Building activities	500
2	Paintball Trial Pack + 4 Team Building activities	700
3	Paintball Trial Pack + 7 Team Building activities	900
4	Paintball Starter Pack	445
5	Paintball Starter Pack + 2 Team Building activities	745
6	Paintball Starter Pack + 4 Team Building activities	935
7	Paintball Starter Pack + 7 Team Building activities	1100
8	Paintball Basic Pack	835
9	Paintball Basic Pack + 2 Team Building activities	1135
10	Paintball Basic Pack + 4 Team Building activities	1250
11	Paintball Basic Pack + 7 Team Building activities	1460
12	4 Team Building Activities	500
13	7 Team Building Activities	700

Website: http://extremezoneindia.com/paintball/

Last year we had Go karting and Bowling, we can do this year as well as we all have loads of options for that.

2> Adventure and Camping

a)Kayaking at 'The Rappa'

Place: 4 hours(200Km) from Bangalore. Nested between Hemavathi and Yagachaki.

Packages available: 2 days 1 night and 3 days and 2 nights.

Food: Veg and Non-veg Buffet

Stay: Swiss Cottage, Tents, Igloo tents and treetop Machaans.

Activities: Camping, Bonfire, Treks, Village visits, Bamboo Rafting, and angling.

Contact: +91 9902066127

Other places for Kayak

Last year, I had proposed Cauvery fishing camp, but we did not go there for some reasons.

Also we can do Rappling, Rock Climbing and Para Gliding. If u guys are interested, please inform me, and I will give you the details.

See our other post on Bike Trips Below.

Bike Trip proposal for 2011

1> Bike Trip to BR Hills

Location : Biligiri Rangana Betta (Suggested by Sriki)

Attractions: Good nature sight seeing & Early morning wildlife Safari, Can Visit Shivana Samudra on the way, K Gudi.

Duration: 2 Days and 1 Night.

Why Bike Trip??

BR Hills is just about 200KM from Bangalore, Also I have been there in Bike once and it was awesome. This was the first time I was in a forest in an open vehicle, a bike. I can tell you all that, the view is much better than that from a closed vehicle. 

Plan??

So If we guys leave on Saturday morning, we will be there at our Destination for Lunch. There is a government Guest house for stay and it is very cheap. Rs.500 for one room with a good toilet and hot water. 10 of us stayed there in one room so, you all can imagine the size. No good hotel there to eat food, have to manage with the local stuff. Sunday morning we can go for a Safari, and after our breakfast we can go for a ride through K Gudi (The best forest Ride I have ever had, just can't explain the feeling). After that we can be riding back to Bangalore. Total Budget will be Rs.1100 + Safari Charges.

Entering BR Hills

K Gudi

Ride near Elephant Crossing

Orphaned Deer at K Gudi

Sunset in BR Hills

BR Hills Check Post

Notice

Click here to read more at my Blog.

2> Bike Trip to Manchenbele Dam

Location : Just outside Bangalore

Attractions: Doda Alad Mara (Big Banyan Tree), ISRO Moon Mission Satellite ground control Room, Manchenbele Dam and Trekking at Savanadurga.

Duration: 1 Days.

Plan??

Morning we leave Bangalore, see the above mentioned attraction spots, and then Trek Savanadurga (One of the Biggest Monolithic Rocks of the world). There are no Hotels, so we must carry our own food/water.

Click Here to see pics & read about it at my blog

This is just an alternative plan. If People cant make it to the 2 day trip then can make it to the one day trip.

Watch out this space for other proposals for 2011.

Fun Filled weekend at Goa

Tailor made for PIRT International

After a lot of Mess and Fuss, PIRT's Go Goa Project was executed. With most of the planning done by Shuaib, it turned out to be an economical and yet very Enjoyable trip. 

Nescafe Sunrise

We landed fresh at Goa, as Shuaib had booked Sleepers. The trip started of with a lot of confusion, rite from booking, canceling and rebooking tickets. Even the bus journey from Tin Factory to Bus stand was eventful with a bus breakdown and Shankar and Shuaib Boarding a Bus without Srikanth and Arvind, Later Shuaib jumped out of the bus accompany Srikanth and left Shankar stranded in the bus. With some planning lapse, we reached the bus stand 2 hours early.

Sunset

Saturday morning, we reached Vasco, and we went to Calangute and hunted down a room to stay and freshen up. There was a lot of Bus riding in goa up until then, as the Taxis and Autos  were over priced. Then We Rented 2 Bikes for Rs. 200 Per day per bike. From then on it was all Rock and Roll. Freedom from everything, We did what we wanted and just rode around without helmets and traffic cops. Every thing seemed so easy, without any kinda stress on mind. We enjoyed some water sports at Calangute beach and then we headed to Bhaga at the evening to have a dip in the sea.Shankar who was ill before even we left to Goa was recuperating and felt better after an hours fun in sea.

Anjuna Beach

Night crept and we stopped at all the roadside eateries and ate everything we laid our eyes on, some of them were horrible, yet we enjoyed the liberty. A lot of traveling on day one, and some fun at the beach, Srikanth and Shankar wanted to hit the bed, but Arvind and Shuaib had other plans - Saturday night market. Arvind and Shuaib went to the market and it was a good long ride in the night. To our delight the market was still on at 12:30 AM. 

Afternoon

Sunday's early Bird Prize goes to Srikanth, Who got up at 5:30 and woke us up, we all were ready and were in time for the sunrise. This is when we decided to take a boat ride and visit the Dolphins of the Arabian Sea. To our out most surprise, we saw more than 70 Dolphins. When we were in the sea, it was like we were surrounded by dolphins.The 45 min Early morn Boat ride costed us Rs.250 Per head.  

Shankar, Arvind, Shuaib and Srikanth

We took our bikes and put our wanderers cap on, just rode with not much on our mind for destination. We visited Chapora, from there on it was more like a crime scene investigation. All we did is ride and question people there. What are the sight seeing spots here? what do we get to see there? how to get to this place? and so on.... We covered a lot of places and some of the interesting places are Anjuna Beach, Vagator Beach and Marjim Beach. each one better than the previous. At last at marjim, the water and the beach was so wonderful that we fell in love with it instantly and decided to jump into it. We weren't prepared for it, Shuaib and Shankar bought shorts form a nearby shop and it was get.. set... wet... From there it was back to our room and then back to the Calagute beach for a night walk.

Fort Conquerors

Monday morning we again took a walk at the beach and went to see the Agoda Fort, Without the bikes this time. Spent some time at Agoda and then returned to our room saturated with Goa. Packed our bags and it was the sleeper that was calling us this time.... Bangalore, we were on Tuesday morning.

Agoda Revisited

Pics from Sriki's Cobra Cam

Pics From Arvind's Cam

PS: There are lot of openings in the Motivating and Planning dept., and Md.Shuab will be recruiting. Shuaib will now head a new department in our company: Risk Management. With loosing Rs.1800 and lot of time in Gupshup, As the Global head, I think he has gained experience to manage Risk.

PIRT Blog's First year Anniversary

It has been a year since we have started the blog. On this occasion I would like to thank all the Pirtans who have been a part of this blog. This blog has revived my sore soul so many times. The Blog has been mostly active apart from some silent weeks.

Hope in the coming years there are more valuable posts in the blog and active participation from all the Pirtans both in the blog and the PIRT events. We all know that, there have been few good events in the past year and many of them made it and some of them had to skip some events for some reasons.

Thank you all for participating and in keeping this blog alive and colourful.

HAPPY PIRT DAY

Naveen's Treat !!! Maiya Maiya

30-10-2010

A long pending treat from our very own Naveen. Its been about 4 years since he got married a job, and at last we got what we all deserve, an excellent South Indian Thali for lunch at Maiya's. After a lot of nagging and pressure from the Pirtans, Naveen, our Delivery Manager decided to treat us on 30-10-2010. All of us (Arvind, Ramu, Raghu, Sriki, Shankar, and Shuaib) were ready and there was no update from the Ultimate-Man Ambro and all of us thought this is a April fool's Treat, just like the April fool's Trip that was played well by Naveen.

Apparently Naveen was busy and late Morning we got a call from him and all of us were relieved that we dont have to pay for what we eat. 

The Unlimited Meals that was served there was more than what we could ask for. After lunch all of us were so full that we all sat outside for some while. All our stomachs were about to Burst.

Since he has finished his vital role for his current profile he is now promoted to "Delayed Delivery Manager "from "Delivery Manager". Lets all consider this as a promotion.

Its now time for other pending projects, Pirtans who have not yet delivered will be directly reported to Naveen. So, go ahead and perform your role, all your promotions are waiting.

Shankar's Birthday !!! :)

27th October

Happy Birthday Shankar!!

As Friends we all have come a long way in these 8 years.. We all are happy to have you as a Friend

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Naveen's Birthday !!! :)

26th October

Happy Birthday Naveen!

We are always with you!

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Prasanna kumar and Vinutha's Reception

Prasanna Kumar and Vinutha

Yesterday, we guys attended the reception. Sriki, Shuaib, Nishad, me and Naveen with broken hands made it to the occasion. We all had a good time together at the reception and ya at last something Vinutha attended. Had lunch at the reception, then we went to a park and lazed around there for while. After having some fun, it was time for Pirtans to get on to their work: Project Goa: Phase Planning. After some Brainstorming lessons from our Ambro on how to have a 9 day trip with just 3 leaves, Shuaib was into motivating others to bunk one Monday (somethings never change, and so does Shuaib's bunking habbit)

Photos I
More to come soon..

Vinutha's Reception

3rd October 2010

A day to mark Vinutha and Prasanna Kumar's Marriage.

After a happy wedding in Muddu Mandira, Kasargod, Prasanna Kumar and Vinutha are here in Bangalore to celebrate yet another day of joy, a day that will be marked in their calendar forever. Its their Reception on the 3rd October 2010.

Venue: Pai Vinod,  

           196, Gandhi Bazaar
           Basavanagudi, Bangalore, 

           Karnataka 560004
           Ph: 080 26672580

Time:  12:00PM - 03:00PM

View Pai Vinod Delexe Hall in a larger map

Click on the above link and get directions in Google Maps

TIME FOR REFRESHMENT !!!!!!!

Guys/Gals,

A gentle reminder to all PIRTANS!!!!!!

Hope everyone are out of  festive mood,since its been almost a 3-4 months of break from our last Trip!!!

Now lets pack our bags again !!! 1 day or 2 days or 3 days more than this is also welcomed :-)

Last time only few pirtans made it to trip since others were quit busy with there personal or official stuff !!

Hope this time we MAKE IT 100% ,,,,!!

With Brokenhands..

Hi Pirtans..

A small update, I met with an accident 2 weeks back & left hand got fractured :-(
Now i am feeling better And continuing my day today activities with One hand.

Regards,
Naveen

Shweta Rithisha's Birthday !!! :)

Shwetha Rithisha

May this day bring all the joy and make all your wishes come true. Make sure you seek blessings from all your loved ones. We wish you happiness and good health. 

God Bless!

Vinutha's Marriage Invitation

Friendship Day!!

 Some people come into our lives
and leave footprints on our hearts
and we are never ever the same.-- Flavia Weedn

Happy Friendship Day !!!

Shooter

Back Ground:

The base has spotted an illegal goods storage in a warehouse, and sent you to the location to eliminate them. eliminate those dirty armies and kill the leader to finish the mission. but beware, the dirty armies are so dangerous and are great in numbers.

Controls :

Use mouse to aim and left click to shoot. press 1 or 2 or 3 to select a weapon. you have limited bullets each stage, but you can buy it later.

Points System

•  Highest Scorer: 3 points
• Second Highest Scorer: 2 points
• Participation : 1 point.

* No points for comments

Game open till 8th Aug 2010.

Ramu's Treat !!! Yummy Yummy

It was yet another celebration at PIRT. Pirtans gathered to celebrate a joyous moment, Ramcharan is now a permanent employee at SAP and he treated Shankar, Naveen, Srikanth, Shuaib and Arvind at Konark. All of us were more than happy to spend sometime together and have a great chat over the lunch. Like usual our meeting started and ended with fun. This fun filled lunch not only had great menu, but good jokes and pranks. It was good to spend some time with all the close ones... though we missed a couple of our friends who are not in town.

First we all met at Konark hotel and had heavy belting of soups, starters, kulchas, parotas, side dishes, puloav, rice dishes, ice cream, cake and sizzlers

The food was perfect and all of us had a verity of dishes and stuffed us with all the things that we could eat.

And not to mention the deserts..

After the heavy food, we took a stroll in commercial street and did a bit of window shopping. We all had bought a gift for Shuaib for his birthday and we couldn't give it to him as he did not turn up for his birthday bash (he also escaped from the birthday bumps). So we went to Ramu's house and there we gifted Shuaib a watch. After having a gala time in Ramcharan's house, we all had a small walk and had Coffee at Hotel Saravana Bhavan. It was time to depart and only thing in everyone's mouth was "when is the next treat and who is treating" and also "when is the next time we all will meet".... 

Hope we have more of such good days in the future.......

* 2 points for all who attended

Swarna's Birthday

Many more happy returns of the day !!!

Wayanad and Nagarhole forest

This again was a early morning departure plan. Arvind, Shuaib, Srikanth, Khalid and Naveen were all Picked up by Shankar in the Toyota Qualis that he had booked and we all left Bangalore before dawn. Shuaib from our Motivating and planning department was fully equipped with a lot of prinouts that had the route and a list of must-visit  places.  Srikanth had brought the main equipment: the Camera, to capture all the nasty things that we do. Naveen, Raghavendra and Arvind were the advisers and helped in decision making, While Khalid was in for everything and did not want to break his head over any issue. Khalid was on duty throughout the trip and had brought 2 official mobiles and a laptop and a Reliance netconnect to work from outdoors, which we used to check scores of the cricket matches.

Our first destination was Edakkal Caves, which is considered as a protected monument by the Department of Archaeology, Kerala. It is said that the caves were inhabited by people about 4000 years back. Trekking to this cave was a up hill task as we had to walk from the parking to the foothill, then we had to climb the hill for about 45 minutes on the occasional rugged steps. We enjoyed this up hill climb as we did not know that the cave is really far away and the cave was at the top of the hill, also the view of the tall trees and company from friends kept us engaged in a lot of talk and fun. After 45 min we reached the entrance of the cave where we had to buy tickets and we thought we had reached the cave and we were wrong. We had to climb the first half of the hill from within inside it, yes! we were climbing inside the hallow hill. We were surrounded by huge boulders and after the climb we came out and the second half we had to climb from outside, at last we reached the cave. After a tiring trek back down, it was time for some tender coconut and pineapple slices.

Trekking inside the hill

Naveen and Arvind investigate the cave carvings, while Shankar and Raghavendra pay attention

By the time we reached Wayanad, we had made a list of places to see and visit in an order with the help of the map and tourist spot list that Shuaib had got. But all our plans went in vain as we were denied entry through a particular city. There was some kind of Bandh and no one was allowed to enter and the whole town was empty, with few policemen and some goons. We had to get back and there are no alternate roads or parallel roads that we can take as most of these roads are on the hills and there are only one way. All of a sudden we were left with nothing to do, but return. So, the number of places which we had to visit reduced and we made new plans on the fly.

Waterfalls is always a great place to enjoy and we did not want to miss out on that. Next we visited one of the famous water falls of Wayanad, Soojipara Falls. To reach this falls we had to take a 10 minute walk  and another 30 minute trek. But reaching this natural beauty was worth it and we all had a dip in the water.

It was already too much of traveling and exercising to our legs for one day. By the time we go to city, the sun had set and we had to find a place to stay. We munched a bit in a cake shop and then we had dinner from a Udipi hotel, to get to the hotel we again walked a lot. Thought we did not get a great place to stay, we could watch ending of a Cricket match, which India won with an exciting ending.

Next day we got up early and set off to visit other places. First we went to Kuruva Island, an Island formed due to separation of a river into two parts and that again joins to form a single river. We got to see some birds on our way. The roads were horrible and stony. From there we went to The Pazhassi Raja Tomb (below), which was the last place visited in Kerala.

 We were all a little disappointed about not visiting many places in Kerala because of the bandh. So, Naveen suggested we visit Irrupu falls on our way to Bangalore. There was a lot of walking and hiking to reach the falls. We had a good time here, both taking photos and posing for it.We were quite surprised to see a swarm of Butterflies that were not affected by our presence and were fluttering by us.

Late afternoon, we entered Nagahole forest reserve. Though it was a bit early, we took a Wild life Safari. We got to see Spotted Deer, Monitor lizard, Sambar, Tortoise, Wild Boar, Elephant, Black monkey and many birds. After the safari, we were driving through the forest and we saw 2 elephants on the road side and our driver stopped near them so that we could see them and take a picture. All of a sudden the elephant turned and spread it's ears and gave a small charge and we all had some nerve rattling moment before we left from there.

A wild Sambar @ Nagarhole forest that had become friendly with humans.

Photos Part I

Photos Part II

Photos Part III

Escapa!

Hey guys and gals!

here is a game for all.

Escapa! (right click and open in a new window/tab)

Rules are simple

• Start Playing and when u get a score, copy paste your scores.
• Play as many times you can and keep updating the score sheet.
• You can play till Jul 31st (last date).
• 1st prize : 5 Loyalty points.
• 2nd prize : 4 Loyalty points.
• 3rd prize : 3 Loyalty points.
• Participation: 1 Loyalty point.

*no points for comment 

I Prize : RamCharan

II Prize: Shuaib

III Prize: Reagan

Reagan's Birthday !!! :)

16th July

Happy Birthday dude!!

May God guide you in all your decisions and you never fall short of any guidance. Hope this year is better than the rest of the years and all your dreams come true and wish you that your hopes get close to realisation and never fall short of belief in god! May god bless you !!!!

Raghavendra's Birthday !!! :)

12th July

Raghu!! Its time for u to feed us the cake.

Many more happy returns of the day !!!

On this sweet day, may god bless you and send more angels down to earth to protect u...

Wish you success and prosperity in life and hope u get the best of everything, because you deserve the best!!

Srikanth's Birthday !!! :)

10 July

Srikanth turns a year older, and today is the day that he seeks blessings from elders and god. 

PIRT wishes him best in all his endeavours and success in all his attempts to excellence. May this year be better than the last and may god bless you.

Hope this year brings lot of luck and experience that makes you a better person than you are now..

"Happy Birthday Shriki"

Make your own digital greeting

Best Dialogues of our class mates!!!

Hey guys and gals!!

Its been long since there was a post that required your comments and opinions. Now here is one.

4 years is a long time and 4 years is the duration that we all spent together as a single unit in College. A lot had happened in that 4 years of engineering and many of us would have come up with weird sayings and one liners or heard it from some of our friends. Now its exactly 4 years since we completed engineering and its been 4 years since we stopped meeting each other for everyday. But I believe in these 4 years there would have been several thoughts of what our class mates told us or to someone else. Here is the space for all of you to share the best and worst dialogues that you came across. It could be funny, serious, hilarious or even weird. Just share it. You just might remind someone about an incident. 

"Lets preserve our memories"

Day II & Day III: Nature and Scenic Beauty of Valpari

After a great start at Parambikulam Forest, we were of to Valparai. We stopped at Aanaimalai for lunch and here is where we had the best Parota ever. The milestones showed us only the distance to Valparai and not the time that would take us to get there. The roads were good and we reached the foot of a hill and here is where we noticed that the 60Km drive has 40 hair pin curves. Though it was time taking, the views from up above was breath taking. We crossed through Alyaar Dam and when we were at Loam's View, the huge dam looked like a long line.

 Alyaar Dam

View from Loam's View

We stopped at Monkey falls, we did not have the time to have fun in the water. It was just a small break.

The best part of the drive was the "mist covering area". As and when we were going up the hill the weather got cooler. It was about 5 PM and we were still going up. The light was reducing rapidly , we turned on the car lights and there were many more hair pins to cover. After some time it was bright again. We actually entered the mist covering area. Once we were a little away from it we could see the region and it was very fascinating.

 After few curves we were back in to the mist covering region. When we were out of it, we entered a region which had either side of the ghat covered with never ending tea plantations.

We halted at Valparai for the night. Hunted for a room to stay and then a nice veg place for dinner, we got both without much of searching as the town was a small place. At the room Shankar was bleeding non stop from between his toes and he had not seen it nor felt the pain. We assumed that a leech was responsible for that.

We guys wanted some adventure and went out for a drive at night in the lonely slopes of Valparai. People there had told us that if we were lucky we could see leopards, and every now and then the leopards come to the town. Arvind wanted to see them, and he convinced Shuaib and all of us left off on a long drive on the ghats. We got to see a wild hare (rabbit).

Seeing the scenic beauty of Valparai was not sufficient for us, next day morning we were off to see more. We visited the Sholayer Dam, Nirar Dam,  Karl Max Statue and Loam's View. We left Valparai early in the morning, when it still was drizzling. The roads were all washed and the lush tea plantations looked like a green velvet cloth spread across the hills. Both the Dams were huge and the reservoir that they had created was a must watch landscape. Even at 10 AM it was like how it was at 7 AM. The weather was splendid. Nirar was the 5th dam that we saw on the trip, and the others were Parambikulam Dam, Alyaar Dam, Sholayer Dam and a small dam in Parambikulam forest. Other than the last Dam the others were really huge dams and the we all were allowed to enter only upto a mark, except for Nirar dam. Here we were allowed to go anywhere and we went right in middle of the dam and we could see the channels. We could also go down the dam. There were hardly any people in and around the dam. So we got a Great view of the entire place. On our way we got to see an elephant too.

 Sholayer Dam

Nirar Dam

 

Nirar Dam reservoir

We came across a small falls and it was time for a small break and from here on it was drive, drive and only drive. We were back to namma Bengaluru by 9:30 PM.

Valparai at its best

Click here to catch Day I and day II action.