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I believe I can fly…

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Gautham in air

Once its done its hard to explain how it was. Words fail me even now as I try to get my mind back to the state it was for those 3 amazing minutes. I still find it hard to believe… I flew.

One cloudy Sunday afternoon in the outskirts of Bangalore, 9 people walked up and braced themselves to a parachute. Not knowing what to expect, each one took turns getting hurled up 300 feet in the air dragged by a jeep.

By the time we reached Jakkur Aerodrome we had seen it all heavy rain, tons of clouds and even parts with the sun beating down. When we arrived at the airfield we were thrilled to see people in parachutes in the sky. The wind was good and no sign of rain :).

It took us a few mins to get registered and we had to wait almost 45 min before getting our turn. There were 3 starting points, we were on the right most one.

Satish was the first one up

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Kitten at Work

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Theju’s cat recently gave birth to kittens. One of the kittens visited the office on friday and made our day.

Theju brought over the kitten on friday to give it to Vidya, whose place is only a few min walk from office. On the insistance of yours truly and few other interested people we asked Vidya to bring it over later in the evening. She kidly obliged and here he was.

In my hands

He looked scared initially and in a few min got used to us and stopped mewing.

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An Atheist’s visit to a temple

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Sign

I bet nobody would have guessed a few weeks ago where my new year’s eve would be spent. I guess no temple has been the same to me after my beliefs changed. I was and am still open to going to a religious place if it means a lot to someone I care about but going on the new years weekend… well I didnt bargain for that.

The temple was actually an ashram near Thirupati. I dont know how many of you remember my trip to Thirupati a few weeks back… frankly, I actually enjoy trips there. Its not the god part but the amazing beauty of the hilltops and the chill of a cold wind blowing all the time.

We left home base on Saturday(31st December, 2005) at 7am. The plan was to drive around the city and pick up our companions and then head straight to our destination. The pickups took us a long time and by the time we were out of the city it was already 9 am.

Lately I have been reducing my sleep time by almost 30 min daily. This ‘lost’ sleep I made up in weekends by sleeping a few hours at noon. This system worked flawlessly for the first few weeks and then I just could not find time on weekends to sleep. All the pending sleep was building on me and this trip came a welcome break for me to get some rest. In the 7-8 hrs of journey we had I slept almost 75% of the time. I normally love to keep a look out for photos ect while we are travelling but my body went into snooze mode almost immediately.

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