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Yesterday we (my family) decided to go to Mysore and come back in evening...It had been a long time and long pending visit to my favorite city :-) Also this visit was by our car and for the first time we were taking our car to a long drive!! So, we started in the morning and my brother drove till Channapatna, where we gave a break for our tummy's :) Then, for the first time I took position in the driver's seat to fulfill my long pending wish of driving on this beautiful road...I drove and pushed my dear car to the max of 120 (could of gone further but my parents resisted me for going :-)) in the Maddur-Mandya stretch...The most lovable stretch is from post Mandya to Srirangapatna...road is good so is the view and the drive :) Finally pre-Mysore, my brother took over again and drove inside the city. While coming back, I again drove from Mandya to Channapatna but could not go beyond 100 as traffic was pretty high at that time :-( Overall, good experience, good drive in a ...

Today it will be marked as THE sad day in the history of world music....The "King of Pop" MJ death has brought so much sadness to millions of his fans, thruout the world...count me in that..:-(( It is so difficult to build an image like his,who is followed by millions across the world...forget the religion and language..the only language his fans know is the pop music by this icon! He has written such a history which can never be forgotten for the many many years to come... My all time favorite will be "Stranger in Moscow", "Remember the time", "Jam", "Thriller",....list will not end so easily.... God should not have cheated MJ and his fans like this...MJ, still 50, deserved lot of life ahead with his planned comeback but...:-( Anyways, the world has to move on...but this will be a very sad day in the music history! RIP MJ, you are always the King of Pop, yesterday - today - tomorrow and years to come...

This is purely my personal opinion and does not reflect anything to anybody! I am on business to Aussie and my deep and heartful condolences to my fellow Indians who are in the troubled times. I too condemn the attacks, I join the protest to treat everybody fair without any racism. But this alone, Melbourne attacks, does not make Aussie bad. Its a very good country and the people here are so nice and helpful. There are always good and bad people in this world - in India, in Aussie and everywhere! So a bad element making this stupid junk stuff happening does not make this country bad. I have traveled lone to many places here and the people around are so helpful and nice. They will guide you if you need and respect you as any other person! Infact, they like Indian food and know couple of Indian places!! Today afternoon, in ABC television, two Aussies were discussing the "Onion Bhaji" (bhajji) - one of the favourite South indian snack!! I know some Aussie people who only sa...

Had this long weekend ending today and thanks to the Queen here, due to her we got a holiday today (June 8) - Happy Birthday Queen! I had a fantastic weekend, starting from Saturday...Lucky me as the weather here in SYD co-operated with me to be too good with all blue sky! :-) On Saturday, went to a suburb in Sydney called Parramatta...Access is thru Rail, Road and Ferry. I chose ferry which takes 50 minutes to reach this suburb. Super it was and I enjoyed the ride to and fro...About Parramatta, it is a nice place to have a one-day visit...a huge park and a huge shopping mall (supposed to be the largest in Aussie, some time back!) The snaps of the same are uploaded in my photo share @ Snapfish; The URL is: http://www2.snapfish.in/ thumbnailshare/AlbumID= 1053264013/a=100718913_ 100718913/otsc=SHR/otsi= SALBlink/ All access requires authentication; here are the credentials to use: username: pradeep.guests@gmail.com password: password On Sunday, went to the much awaited and long p...