Life in Auto-Pilot mode

Yes, that's how i describe my life for last few months, call it easy or call it boring. Sometimes you don't have things in your hand, sometimes you don't want to take them. I am finding difficult to match up with the pace of life. After two years sprint at IIT, the job somehow seems slow and low. In past my most of the nights have gone with the thought about the challenges of tomorrow, the emotion about failures or achievements (no matter how small), the fear and the anxiety. But in last few months i sleep with a plain mind just like a blank page asking to write something on it.

I am still the worst when it comes taking decision and people around me know it well. Is it Phd or MBA? India or Abroad? Bangalore or Mumbai? Indian food or Chinese? KKR or DD? Now or never? They say follow your heart and you get the answer, but the heart with divided loyalties and strong head makes it worse. Jack of all and master of none doesn't help either. I wish i could outsource my decision making system.

Cooking has been stress buster for me. Thanks to my mom i could learn enough to serve myself for 7 days in row with variety of food. Jokes apart but i never thought cooking could be so much fun, but i hate to do the dishs :(.
I haven't been regular to gym as i used to be, still go there discretely to give my instructor his share of surprises. Worked a little on running. Running is the thing i enjoy the most. I took part in sunfeast10K marathon, for the first time i participated in competitive marathon race. I struggled more than i thought i would, the humidity and some of the section of the track were not easy for ametures like me. I could not i achieve my goal of 1:15:00 which i missed by 10:00. My experience of this year will surely make me better equip for the next race, which i am eagerly awaiting.

Tried a lot of new restaurants and new places but i am lazy enough not to write about them, same implies for movies. I though i would take my photography little seriously but could not manage more than 2 pics/month. This blog is my first attempt to take my self off the auto-pilot mode, Lets see how far i can go.

Travel Blog : Coorg, Mysore

As mentioned earlier i did a little travelling around. I visited Coorg and Mysore, couldn't get to explore much as it turned out to be a short and a little unorganized trip. Coorg is around 5 hrs drive from Bangalore. Once you get into the Coorg roads are bumpy but since located on mountains journey becomes thrilling. On the way we halted at the Golden temple that gives feel of visiting Tibet itself. People, monks, shops and everything else is cast so much into Tibetian style that becomes an unlike south indian destination.Next was the Nisargadhama, it's a tiny island formed by river Cauvary. Nisargadhama has a small deer park, bamboo tree jungle, elephant ride and a foot-over bridge. There are many water falls at the Coorg since located on the Nilgiri mountain ranges, Abbey falls is one of them which is not far from Madekeri. I managed to visit a few temples, amazingly all three temples I visited were vastly different. Temple Omkareshwara is "Catholic mixture of Kerla, Islamic and Gothic architecture"(not my words), Where as Bhagmandala is typical Kerla style temple. Talacauvary, which means the head of the cauvary, the temple built at the origin of the Cauvary river. Steps uphill from Talacauvary lead to Bramhagiri peak, view of Nilgiri mountain ranges from the peak is worth watching. Ended my Coorg trip with honey and coffee.

Spent even lesser time at Mysore. Visited Mysore palace, Chamundi hill. there is famous temple of goddess Chamundeshwari at the top of the Chamundi hill. The striking attraction for me was the statue of Mahishasura in front of the temple, which is big and colorful. There is this huge Nandi present at the Chamundi hill. Chamundi hill is known for trekking one can either choose between steps or trek trough the jungle, on my next visit i am sure gonna trek till the Chamundeshwari temple. My favorite destination in Mysore was the Hotel Pai Vista, it has couple of theme restaurant, Gufha and Jungle. I tried Gufha, the decore was little dark to give it a cave like feel, food was good and i didnt pay the bill :).

I happyly back in Bangalore, it was tough writing. Phew....