It was after a elongated gap...WE, the so called EX-COLLEAGUES of Jetking- Rajajinagar joined together for a trip to Shivana Samudra... It was a difficult struggle for the organizer to bring the people together, who are scattered all around the IT companies of the great city…Bangalore…!!! Finally, he was successful to bring 10 of them together; that itself was a skillful attainment …!!!The pickup started from HAL (Laticiya & Savio) -->Ulsoor (Bharathi) --> ISKON (Atanu) --> Vijayanagar (Saritha, Ram, Kiran & Jagadeesh) --> Maruthi Mandir (Vimal) --> Deepanjalinagar (Shankar).
The journey was full of colors since Vimal, Savio were with us & Ram of course who is the born-imitator… and most surprisingly, the timely, funny comments from Shankar – very fast now, compared to his earlier appearance in Jetking which we all knew very well. Some hilarious conversations between Ram – Bharathi and Vimal – Savio, added joy to the continuation of the trip.
We reached Gagana-chukki at around 10.50 AM as planned. After a small photo-session we were attracted by the stunning beauty of the water falls in the center of super-cool nature. We had chance to glance at the SHIMSHA Power Project. While returning to the TT, someone bought the yummy yummy mango-pieces with salt & mixed chilly powder. It simply reminded us our childhood passions…
After this, we headed towards Bhara-chukki. On the way, we stopped at the Durgah and had a clear view of the deep valley. It was just for 15 minutes. Reaching Bh
ara-chukki was like dream-come-true. We carried all the luggage including the food containers & our spare dresses. Now, the distance was just 300+ steps….!!! We felt, Bhara-chukki is spread over a large space than Gagana-chukki.We got down through the steps very carefully because missing a single step could take us directly to the end (in fact, Bharathi & Saritha were very careful). We found decent number of people there and monkeys as well.
It was lunch-time for us at 12.55 PM. Monkeys were threatening some of us for food. Since Shankar & Vimal were with us, we did not have any fear…!!! After finishing lunch, we headed towards one of the water streams. Savio lead us who carried my camera in his bag. I was wondering, seeing Savio moving front without even changing his dress.Myself, Jagadeesh and Atanu got into the water stream first; others followed us. There was a pair who were already enjoying in that stream. We did not disturb the
m; silently captured 2-3 snaps & started playing in the water. The force was less in the beginning & the rocks were slippery. Standing & walking on those rocks was really tough. It was a nice package of full fun. Some people enjoyed the water, some people enjoyed seeing the slipping legs, some others with good eyes and few of them enjoyed holding hands of people who were about to slip down by loosing the grip… ( everyone recollects Ram’s face here..humanity… hahaha…!!!).This enjoyment lasted when lot of people started flowing in towards that stream… we came out from there; Savio was fully shivering (even his little LANGOTI…hehe). Saritha was afraid to take help from him to get down from the slippery rock, as he was totally shivering…like the Goods-Auto engine…!!!
Now, we (Myself, Jagadeesh & the shivering Savio) started climbing up the rocks, to reach the upper stream of Bhara-chukki. The height of Bhara-chukki is just 60m. We could reach almost 30m. and were searching for our friends so that they can click our snaps at that height; but, the camera was nicely sleeping in a bag & our friends were sitting on some small rocks & were playing in the water. We found a guy with camera there & asked him to capture our snap. We gave him our Mail ID & asked to forward that snap (did not recieve that snap yet...).
We got down & started playing in
the water again; this time, it was the time to throw water to each other’s face. Bharathi got a stone for preparing the special “Chandanam”-thick fluid of Sandalwood, which is used as the natural facial cream. But Shankar was in search of big stones. He was lifting stones of unusual sizes (better to say – stones of his size…). He fell 6 times in total; many of us defined various reasons for his down-fall. But, he knows the actual strategy…!!!We were out of the water by 3.50 PM and started to climb up the steps. A light drizzle amused us with its tender drops. Leaving the site was a kind of slight pain deep in the heart. The beauty of nature, the softness of the weather and the comfort of greenery were driving us back to the memory lane which we passed from the morning…
The eminent element of our trip was the yummy & hot fish-fry which we ate with Pulav, near the Durgah. The rain was strong by now; it did not harm us as we were
already in the TT. Travelling back to Bangalore with loads of memories was an unforgettable, evergreen moment. Many of us kept discussing about the olden days, the earlier trips and some personal matters as well. Some of us were sleeping. First drop of the evening was Shankar at 7.40 PM. Everyone reached home safely within 9 PM (decent time, isn’t it??). I had my dinner within 9 PM & called everyone to check whether they reached home safely. The result was positive.“At the end of the day, we all felt pretty much comfortable and relaxed. Our motto was - going out and just enjoy the day, enjoy the company of old buddies and try to throw away all the depression of busy life in Bangalore. Our expectations weren't very high, and they shouldn't be; We were fully satisfied with the travel, food, enjoyment, company, timings and so on…” The guys who missed this trip, really missed a enormous amount of memories, which they never can fill in with any other precious data…in so called hard disk of their hearts…!!! You really missed it guys…
with Lotz of LuV, Kiran... 
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Good work.
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