-: Dreamer's Den! :-

On Dec 2nd and 3rd, BarCamp is once again visiting Bengalooru ( http://barcampbangalore.org/ ), venue for which is ThoughtWorks - DD, Airport Road. I am planning to present the "Gift Your Sight" Initiative ( http://giftyoursight.blogspot.com ) and hope to bring awareness and spread the word for the need of this noble cause!

After a really long, long and so long wait, this day became my d-day for watching the real cute, hot, sexy and damn beautiful Deepika Padukone in her first film venture and that too in namma kannada - Aishwarya! Indrajith Lankesh has done an amazing job by adorning this doll called Deepika in the most possible beautiful way that anyone can expect! The film is good with ok storyline but full of colours thru out the movie and the most watched person is of course Deepika and namma Uppi dada..the genious Upendra and yeah, I also liked the bubbly character of Daisy Bopanna - very cute girl!! Deepika is no wonder the next Aishwarya Rai. Really hats off to that god who created this wonderful beauty called Deepika - really beauty blessed girl!! Proud to say that she is from namma bengalooru and kannada girl...Hope I can someday meet this beauty! :)

Last week (friday, 10th Nov 2006) was a special day for us, the organisers and many employees in the EC campus of my company. We had organized (money and idea pooled by us!) one-day event called 'Parichaya' (meaning, Introduction) and I was one of the members of the organizing committee! As the name indicates, we intended to give our fellow friends a Parichaya to Kannada language and Karnataka history, wealth and values! It was a roaring success!!! We had not expected so much crowd to visit us and get 'introduced' but as the day progressed, we were flattered to see the number! People stood in queue patiently to visit the event and this was the most surprising thing of the day! We had arranged lot of poster presentation, indicating the richness of Kannada and Karnataka - right from Poets to Tourism to Foods! I had organized a small Quiz program comprising of simple questions on Karnataka (mainly for our non-kannada folks) and man, it was amazing to be on the quiz-mas

This list I got from another blog, to which I visited for the first time, thru google search (Thanks to him!) This below list contains the romantic hotels/restuarants/eat-outs/hang-outs (whatever!) in namma bengalooru... 1. Spiga - Vittal Mallya Road, near Ffolio 2. Fresco's - Cunningham Road 3. Gufa - near 3rd Block Circle, Jayanagar 4. Blue Ginger – Taj West End 5. Fiorano - 100ft Road, Koramangala 6. Cosmo Village - Magrath Road, near Garuda Mall 7. Mynt - Taj West End8. Citrus/ Jamavar - Leela Palace 9. Take 5 - 100ft Road, Indiranagar 10. 100FT - 100ft Road, Indiranagar 11. Tangerine - 100ft Road, Indiranagar 12. Holiday Village - Kanakapura Road 13. Ebony - 13th floor of Barton Centre, MG Road 14. Magnolia - 3rd Block, Koramangala 15. Inchara - 6th Phase, JP Nagar 16. Guru’s Garden - near IIMB campus, Bannerghatta Road 17. Adigas - 8th Block, Jayanagar 18. Bangalore Bistro - Brigade Road, near Eva Mall 19. Lemon Grass - Sarjapur Road, Koramangala 1st Block 20. The Harbour -

Yesterday, one of my close cousins and me planned 2 have lunch...we were meeting after a very long time and thought it will be good meet for lunch! So, after some thoughts, we zeroed in on a place in Jayanagar 3rd Block...a new hotel called 'Hotel President'! This new hotel has come up in the Elephant Rock Road and the good thing about this hotel is that we have different 'sub-hotels' in this building to choose from! So, we chose a place called GUFA (Den in english), which is in 5th floor of this building! As the name suggests, GUFA interiors is so well modelled that it lives upto its name! All wooden interiors to give a den-like look, candle-torches in the place of bright lights and wooden table/chair for seating and much more...Boy, they have invested good amount in this and it is simply good! Zara hatke from the rest! :) The lunch was good where we spoke lots, different topics, remembering our good old days too...stayed there for around 2hrs and wrapped up our lun