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Am on ORKUT!

2 Weeks back I joined this very well known and great network community ORKUT. It is working out really well...met lot of my friends and other people and hoping that this continues...:) My profile link: http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=800059811444025136 If u wanna get invited 2 join this community, then ping me so that I send u an invite... If u r already there, then u can add me..:)

'Unofficial Curfew' and Warzone in Bangalore!!

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Wednesday, 12th April 2006, post-lunch, saw the collapse of a major icon of all of us kannadigas, Dr. Rajkumar...He passed away due to cardiac arrest and my due respects to him and his family! Let his soul RIP... But, Bangalore witnessed activities that had never before happened and that nobody imagined in their wildest dreams...violence, violence and more violence... Hearing news about the death of this icon, some unruly mob started to throw stones to vehicles, irrespective of police or other govt or even personal vehicles...nothing was spared...some even went to the extent of putting the vehicle on fire!! Hearing these things, everybody of us left office that evening, in our company transport (lot of people left their personal vehicle here and boarded the bus!)..And u know the front glass (windshield) of every other bus/cab was pasted with a photo of Dr. Rajkumar! This was just to avoid people pelting stones at the vehicles!!! This was a awesome crazy thing happening .... On Thursda...

Bad weekend...:(

This weekend was bad for me...it started off well (except my daily walking rounds oat 0515hrs), where i got up from bed royally at 0830hrs! Post this, I went to check Emergency Light for my house (as now-a-days, there is very common power cut in bangalore) at around 1000hrs, enquired with few shops and came back. Then again, as I was feeling bored, I thought I will do some as usual 'weekend food shopping' and hence set out to (not to the usual Food World, where I am a very loyal weekly customer!) a place that I explore very rarely...so I went, shopped for half-an-hour and got Frooty 2ltrs bottle 2 cool-off this heat along with some chocos and my favourite Butterscotch Ice-cream, family pack! Everything was going fine till now...but while i was driving back, near my house, there is a small hump but that does not look like a hump now as it has become very much levelled with the road itself. Here, I usually slow down and this day also i slowed down but applied around 40% brakes o...