Got it as an email forward. Its an advertisement in Swedish newspaper for openings in ABB. Is your future in Bejing(written in chinese), Västerås(sewdish city) or BENGALURU is what it says.

I have been to Sravanabelagola multiple times. But this time it was with Yami. I left home around 6 and caught Anand at Madiwala. From there on we went to ISKON to join other riding friends. From ISKON to Nelamagala was uneventful. At Nelamangala we were supposed to take a left turn to Hassan. But Avinash and other were in so much josh that they continued on the same road towards Tumkur. After trying around ten times we got them on phone and brought them back on the correct road.
The ride on SH8 was fun. It was cool, green and peaceful.

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C’était un rendez-vous (It Was an Appointment) is a short film made in 1976 by Claude Lelouch. Its one crazy mad drive in Paris.Its around 8 minutes high speed drive where camera is attached to the bumper ofthe car. Its unedited and one shot. The length of the film was limited to eight minutes since capacity of the camera was only 10 minutes.This short film achieved a cult status amongst youth for speed and recklessness.

From wikipedia: The film shows an eight-minute drive through Paris in the early hours of the morning, accompanied by sounds of a high-revving engine, gear changes and squealing tires. It starts in a tunnel of the Paris Périphérique at Porte Dauphine, with an onboard view from an unseen car exiting up on a ramp to Avenue Foch. Well known landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier, and Place de la Concorde with its obelisk are passed, as well as the Champs-Élysées. Pedestrians are passed, pigeons sitting on the streets are scattered, red lights are ignored, one-way streets are driven up the wrong way, centre lines are crossed, the car runs on a sidewalk to avoid a garbage truck. The car is never seen as the camera seems to be attached below the front bumper, judging from the relative positions of other cars, the visible headlight beam and the final shot when the car is parked in front of curbstones on the Sacre Coeur hill. Here, the driver gets out and embraces a young blonde woman as bells ring in the background.

I am planning on running at the Bangalore Marathon scheduled in Dec 07. I am running this marathon in an effort to raise awareness about the development issues in India and for funds to support CRY- Child Rights and You.
CRY is a non-profit organization committed to bringing about sustainable and equitable development in India, by working with grassroots organizations across India.I hope you would support me by making a generous donation to the cause.

You can donate online or off line. Any amount money is good money. Even Rs.100 is cool. So please go donate. And if you are a blogger or a company . And you make a donation of 500 ( for blogger) and Rs. 1000 ( for a company). You will get a link on EventsBangalore.Net blog along with good karma. And the link will stay till the year end on the sidebar and permanently on this post. Let me know your url once you donate.

If you like to donate offline. Let me know I will arrange for a check collection.

Update[26-Nov-2006]: Reached my initial target of 10K for CRY. Upgrading my target to 20K now.

I complete yet another trip around the sun. Friends ( Vinay,MK, Boda, Andy, Uthu) were there with me to celebrate. Check the video below taken using MKs mobile. BTW my birthday was Oct 12.