Reached here at BRT by noon yesterday and since then been having a gala time. Since the resort is on a hill, overlooking at the plains below, I can manage a weak airtel signal. So currently I have my phone tied up on a tree (to get better signal of course) and the laptop is able to connect to the phone via bluetooth even though the phone is more then 10m away. What can I say about this place ? I’m currently sleeping on a hammock with the laptop on my tummy. There are some 20 monkey’s around playing and…

Remember the naturalist training I had been to couple of weeks ago ? Well after the course the chief naturalist over there asked me to come over and meet him at his office and just as I hoped, he offered me a job as a naturalist at BRT forests (K Gudi). Since I have other things to do here in bangalore, I said , I’ll do the job for couple of weeks and then decide on my future. So starting Jan 1st 2005, I’m of to work there for anywhere between 2 weeks to 2 months. This place does not…

The earthquake occurred at north-western Indonesia which is right at the continental plate boundry and usually most earthquakes happen at these boundries. I presume the Indian Geological survey team knew that. The earthquake occurred at around 8am IST and alerts went out to all the countries in Asia right away (Including the Indian Geological survey ) . At about 10am, the huge tsunami waves hit the Indian and srilankan coast and killing thousands of people. So at about 8:30am, the Indian geological survey team knew there was a large earthquake and there could be huge tsunami’s heading towards our country….

Last night, some dude broke into my car while my car was parked near cambridge layout by breaking the small glass window behind. This time I had not left anything in my car and luckily was carrying the camera and the palm with me. The thief broke in, rolled down my back seat window and stole a pack of choco-brandy cookies which where in the back seat (I had got from CookieMan earlier in the day ). There were few other small stuff in the back seat, which the thief left intact. I’ll have to go get the glass fixed…

My baby knows me best. noelladsa got me the The Ultimate Matrix Collection, Nice box of whiskey chocolates, an official McLaren Cap and my fav jar of mexican salsa sauce. This week is going to be good… 🙂

Starting tomorrow morning, I’m off to a 3 day naturalist training workshop being conducted by Jungle lodges Training Institute at Bannerghatta Nature Camp. The course will consist of Role of Naturalists, Interpretive Skills, Introduction to reptiles, mammals, insects, butterfly’s, birds, Conservation issues etc. At the end of the course, time to ask them for a job 😀

Instead of waiting for big game like tigers and elephants, I’ve started to appreciate little things in the jungle which most people just ignore or don’t bother to have a closer look. For example, take this desert succulent plant. This is found almost all over india and many species of this plant develop spikes at the edge of their leaves filled with toxins to keep enemies away. This one here clearly advertising the fact that the spikes have toxins by color coding them and hence asking everyone to stay away. Who says plants do not communicate 🙂 I’ve uploaded rest…

When it comes to innovation and trying out new hacks, google rocks. If you are a Unix user, you are just going to love the new Google Suggest feature. Auto-completion of search keywords 🙂 Yahoo and MSN are finally catching up on desktop search and I presume after today, they will start working on the Auto-completion feature and roll it out after couple of months.

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