Planned a vacation a week b4 and here I am in Thailand for the next 10 days. Leaving tomo morning at 5 am via Cathay Pacific and will be back on 21st. I am sooo excited. Let me know your list and I’ll try and get it. Will travel to Bangkok, Pattaya and will be there for the Full Moon party @ Koh Phangan on 18th. The Full Moon Party is something that I am looking forward for.
Its been raining like cats n dogs for the past three days and I felt that it didn’t really make sense to step out of the house and go out somewhere as there was water logged everywhere and never ending traffic jams everywhere. ( As seen on TV ) I didn’t sleep even for a minute the whole of Saturday nite as I was busy with some work and dozed off at 8 in the morn. After getting up at around 6 I was feeling a bit uneasy and was online again reading my feeds.
Met Vivek online and asked him what were his plans for the evening. He said that they were planning to go Sameer Hills which is at the backside of IIT-B. I wasted no time and sped off to IIT-B. Reached there in 30 mins and for the first time I thanked GOD that it was still raining and prayed for more rains so that its even more fun climbing the hill. I kept my windcheater and my other belongings at Room no. 368 and we all left for the summit. We were 5 of us, I was the only non-IITian 
. We were totally drenched even before we started climbing, it was already 7pm and it was almost pitch dark. The hill was very slippery thanks to the moss and rains. I had slipped almost half a dozen times mainly due to the stupid wet canvas shoes that I was wearing which didn’t have any grip. We reached the top in no time and the view from the top was absolutely with clouds hovering just above us. Got a chance to see the entire IIT-B campus, Powai and Vihar lake, Hiranandani, Borivali National Park, Airoli Bridge, Easter Express Highway etc. The view was soo amazing that it just made for forget all my bruises that I had got while climbing up, it just made my day. They have built a huge fence there to keep the leopards and the other wild animals away but these guys had already found a way to bypass that cross over the other side and go towards Vihar lake. Thankfully we didn’t go there after debating for a while as a couple of guys wanted to go there.
Climbing down was even more tough, as it was raining even more fiercely, strong winds blowing and it was absolutely dark everywhere. All I could see was the wet white tee of the guy in front of me. I won’t be able to write more abt my experience while coming down in one piece with no broken bones because I still consider it as a miracle considering the conditions in which we came down. It was a big thing for me, but a regular one for these guys. Sadly, none of us had any cameras to capture the amazing experience.
After coming back to Hostel 3, we all had a bath, got ready and headed towards mess to dinner. I didn’t feel like going back home, so I stayed back at Hostel 3, Room no. 368 to be precise and headed back home in the morning. IIT hostels are so lively even till dawn. Everyone seems to be awake whole nite and I envy the stuff that they have on their LAN 
IIT-Bombay campus is a MUST VIST place during the monsoons, its soo green. I spotted a couple of nice birds (..er birds..not chicks .. I am a birdwatcher..), fundoo blue dragon flies, frogs and a nice small snake.
The cycling bug had bit me for a while and I had made up my mind to buy one soon. I had a couple of Firefox bikes in my mind but in the end I ended up buying a Raleigh. I bought a new Raleigh M200X grey and silver 26″ cycle with 18 speed gears from Hyercity Argos(the one in the pic above is a blue one). Its absolutely light in weight and the braking system is pretty good too. I had checked out loadsa bikes but one thing was sure that I wanted an imported one and with gears. I didn’t like any of the Indian one available in the market, be it Atlas, BSA, Hero, et al. Raleigh cycles are available in India only through Hypercity and they home deliver it (in Bombay) through their HyercityArgos channel.
The bike is super cool and very smooth. I enjoy riding every bit of it. Need to learn the art of changing gears in a cycle properly. It seems that I need to build up a lot on stamina I get completed exhausted in just a couple of kms. Wanna start a triathlon soon , where I will be running, cycling and then go off to swim. Its even more fun cycling when its drizzling. The roads are uneven and the jerks are sometimes really bad. I wanna buy a good cyclocomputer which calculates the distance covered and the speed. The only thing I hate is that I have to carry my cycle back to my room everyday coz if I keep it in my parking lot, some dumbf*&%(*s keep playing with the gears and change it.
The guys at Firefox are always upto something new and innovative. And now since Firefox 3’s release is round the corner they have come up with something really amazing that will assure them a place in Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours! Its called as the Firefox download day. Download Day is their attempt to set a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours and will occur on Firefox 3 launch day.Download Day will coincide with the general availability of Firefox 3. The clock will start ticking when Firefox 3 goes out the door! They don’t have a definitive date for Firefox 3 yet, but it should be in June. Want to be a part of this record breaking event? Just pledge to download Firefox 3 on the Download day.
There are many ways to get involved in spreading the word. Also, we are planning to host a Firefox party, so watch this place for more info!
Now that IPL is over, I can spend some time to blog something. I was too carried away by it and didn’t miss even a minute of it during the final stages. It was one hell of a tournament. Amazing stuff. Kudos to Mr. Lalit Modi for creating a Blue Ocean.( Read the Blue Ocean Strategy for more info.)
concept:
The metaphor of red and blue oceans describes the market universe. Red oceans are all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans, industry boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of product or service demand. As the market space gets crowded, prospects for profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities or niche, and cutthroat competition turns the red ocean bloody. Hence, the term red oceans.
Blue oceans, in contrast, denote all the industries not in existence today—the unknown market space, untainted by competition. In blue oceans, demand is created rather than fought over. There is ample opportunity for growth that is both profitable and rapid. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Blue ocean is an analogy to describe the wider, deeper potential of market space that is not yet explored.
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