Cyber crime check in Indian Railways:

Recently I was traveling from Pune to Bangalore and this happened in Pune Station. I boarded the train and was near the steps waving good bye to my friend. A hefty person came to me and asked me for my phone. I asked why and he said that he is a cop and has to check it. He was in civil dress.

While seeing his ID, I gave the phone to him. He immediately went to the gallery section (I have Nokia N70) and starting seeing the videos. He was searching for some illegal or "bad" movies. Good that I did not have any of those and was spared.

So, people, keep an eye for this. Also be aware of thieves posing as policemen who may easily steal the phones.

Draggable ads from Yahoo!

Draggable ads are something new from Yahoo!. When you start composing email in the "New Style" Yahoo!, you would find these draggable ads to the right. There would be some characters or images there which you can drag into your email.

Then you can just send that to your friends or so. When they open it, they can click on that image and visit the respective link.

A very intuitive viral infact!

Chilkur Venkateshwara Temple

Also called Chilkur Balaji Temple or Visa Venkateshwara temple, the temple is located in Hyderbad. It is 33 kms from Mehedipatnam in Hyderabad.

I had visited it recently as my dad had wanted to visit (mannant maange the). It’s quite a small temple. But the crowd is huge. There are thousands of people visiting everyday especially on weekends.

It’s believed that whatever you wish for here comes true. The process is to go to the temple, do 3 rounds (pradakshina), pray and then come back. When your wish comes true, you need to go back and do 108 rounds or whatever you had thought of doing. So, the crowd doing rounds (pradakshinas) will be huge. Another belief is that it works quite well for people seeking visas.

The temple is open from 5 AM to 8 PM. On Dhanurmasa (sacred month according to Hindu calendar, starts from mid Dec to Mid Jan) the temple opens at 4 AM.
After around 6.30 or 7, the crowd will be huge on weekends and you would not be allowed to do 108 rounds. So, if you by any chance pray to do 108 rounds, it's very much advisable to reach there by 4 or 5 AM.

Another specialty there is that there are no "Hundis". So, no place to put your money there.

There are not many "decent" hotels around and so better carry own food or as it’s not too far from city, will have to wait until you get back to the city.

Finally, this website may be of help for visitors - http://www.chilkurbalaji.org/

God bless all!

Bangalore and shopping there.

Its 2008 now. Read somewhere that among 1-9, 8 is the only digit that would end in upward stroke. So, Wish you all a Very Happy New year and hope it would result in vertical growth for all.

Have now moved down to Bangalore for good. This is my hometown and am happy to get back a job here. It’s been almost 2 months now and seriously with all the other things happening, did not get any time to spend online.

A couple of weeks back, I had been to Avenue Road here for shopping and wow, its amazing. You get almost every single house hold commodity there, for a very reasonable price. And for almost every single category, you have speciality stores. Ofcourse this is not the first time I went shopping in Bangalore. But this was really cool. There was a speciality shop for Nuts (just nuts and all types of spices), (just blankets – all types of woolen blankets), just party materials, etc etc.

Bangalore is a wonderful place. I can't even complain about the traffic here. It’s really much better than many other cities. Ofcourse, you have to dedicate some time to spend in traffic tho ;-)