Andaman Trip (continued...)

Day Three: Port Blair Town 3/6/2008

Today we planned to tour in and around the city of Port Blair. We covered Chatam Saw Mill (one of the oldest & largest in Asia), Forest Museum, Mini Zoo, Anthropological Museum, Fisheries (Marine) Museum, Science Centre, Naval Marine Museum (Samudrika), Cottage Industries Emporium (Sagarika) and the famous Cellular jail.

Bro posing in front of an old engine
CHATAM SAW MILL

fighting with a lion
SCIENCE CITY

The museums there are just for the name sake, all they have are some shells, corals, skeletons, some old newspaper clippings, pictures of freedom fighters, snakes, fish, etc. There was not a single thing that seemed interesting or antique to me. In fact one of the museums has fresh wooden art works !

A Pic by Indian Navy
NAVAL MUSEUM

The jail of course was an interesting place to visit. It was open for the tourist. First time ever I went to a jail. We saw the room where people were hanged and even the room below it, where their body used to be dropped after they die! I even locked myself in one of the cell to get the feel ;) The cell size was more than sufficient for a single prisoner. It was even bigger than my college hostel room ;) The fact that freedom fighthers were prisoner here, added the zing!

The view from the roof top was amazing. The deep blue sea, few islands, and the green surroundings forced us to click many pics.

me posing on the roof top of Cellular Jail

In the evening we revisited the Corbyn’s Cove Beach, a coconut palm fringed beach, ideal for swimming, sun-basking & bathing. The later part of the evening was spent in the market (Sabardeen Bazar) of Port Blair.

Day Four : Port Blair to Havelock 4/6/2008

The speed boat to Havelock was at 2 PM , so we decided to spend the first half of the day at Wandoor Beach (near Mahatma Gandhi Jetty). It was a wonderful beach, with so many dead yet tall and strong trees. Though we had very less time, but the beach tempted me and bro so much that we couldn't stop ourselves from diving in!

posing in front of dead tree
WANDOOR BEACH

to be continued.....

Andaman Trip

1/6/2008 ---- 8/6/2008

Day One: Deoghar to Howrah 1/6/2008

After the five hours journey from Deoghar to Howrah, we waited for few hours (waiting room terrace) before moving to Dum Dum Airport next morning.

Day Two: Howrah to Port Blair 2/6/2008

It was an early morning flight to Port Blair. “Can I have a back window seat, and on the left side of the plane?” I had read somewhere that you get a better view if you sit on the left side of the plane while flying to Port Blair. The view through the window was really amazing, especially during the last few minutes, before the plane landed at the Port Blair airport. There were many different islands, small and big. And the sea with different shades of blue was awesome to look at!

Arial view

As soon as we came out of the airport, Dad and bro were surrounded by hundreds of agents, taxi drivers and tour package organizers! Phew! While bro was enjoying it, and was in the mood to negotiate, dad became impatient after a while and he just hired the one who was willing to take us to a hotel for free!

It was a forest department guest house. It ‘s a beautiful place to stay; surrounded by lush green trees and very near to Phoenix Jetty (harbor). After resting for a while, we went to Karvinskov Beach. The water was crystal clear! First time ever I saw a beach with so clear water! Some of us enjoyed a bath there. Bro and dad taught me to float, and then I managed to learn swimming all by myself. After a while we headed towards Cellular Jail.

As it was Monday the jail was closed. We couldn’t see it from inside, but we got the ticket for Light and Sound Show (it’s a musical tale of the freedom fighters who were prisoner of this jail). I was tired and I slept even before the show started and woke up just before it ended. Mom says it was good.

Cellular Jail

Day Three: Port Blair Town 3/6/2008

To be continued…

farewell :D

It was not a grand farewell party, but it was fun. Now it seems the time has come when we have to step into the real world and be practical ;)

Here are few memorable pics.

top(from left): me, ashok, reddy, uday, guarav
middle(from left): pranjal, lokki, don, dhruv
bottom(from left): panda, bhamri, adi

adi, mohanti and myself

pranjal(left) lokesh(right)

bhamri(left) govil(right)

PS: No girl's pic. Believe me, none of them were looking good.

Class Of 2009

Made three design for the batch t-shirt (class of 2009).

Mozilla Tee Competition

There was an event organized by mozilla firefox. People all over the world were asked to make T-shirt desings for mozilla which should convey three or one of the following three things.

1. Security

2. Openness

3. Creativity and Flexibility

Here are the few designs contributed from my side. To see my full contribution click here.

A Puppy's Tale

These days I don’t sleep until I have my morning breakfast. It was around 6 A.M. I had wasted the night looking at my laptop screen. A friend (Reddy) dropped in, “Chal , lets go to SAC and play badminton” .

It was still dark outside. The hostel gate was locked. And we had to take some pain till we reached SAC (Students Activity Centre).

As we were playing, a puppy entered the room, walked in very casually, and leaving the two other courts, he came and sat in the middle of the court where we were playing! I tried to push him with my legs, but he resisted. I didn’t try hard, I was afraid; he wasn’t a very small puppy afterall.

Shuu..Shuu..hatt hatt .. goooo . He was determined to stay there, as if he was saying to us – “ Now its my turn..tu hatt” . Some how after ‘arguing’ a little we were finally able to move him outside the line. But that fucking dog (now I call him dog because he didn’t seem sweet anymore) took the extra shuttle cork in his mouth and started running towards the door! I ran fast, fast enough to close the door in time.

I was too afraid to pull the shuttle out of his dirty mouth. Reddy tried. He succeeded. And he put up the shuttle on the top of the net pole, far from the dog’s reach.

As I said, the dog was in mood. He came to the pole. Jumped (thank God he didn’t lift his one leg). He tried hard reaching the shuttle, but he was a puppy after all. An intelligent puppy though as he somehow managed to drop down the shuttle. And then, he ran again!

This time it was harder for us to get it out from him. At one point of time, we almost gave up. But finally we did get it back. Every dog has its day.

The dog was thrown out of the room. He tried getting in by pushing the chair; he managed to pop his head inside, but was pushed back again and then the door was bolted. Now do whatever!

He kept making noise, as if digging a way inside. Butat last, ‘the badminton player’ sat outside and became our only spectator, looking inside through a translucent glass !

PS: No one had a camera phone, or I would have shown you that the puppy was really cute.

Sorry puppy for callin you a fucking dog.