Bombay to Poona

A quick update on what I have been up to:

  • Took a train with Aanjhan to Pune last Friday, to meet Runa, Sankarshan and Ramkrsna. Train route was amazing. Need to take the train next time.
  • Talking to random people in a train and passing time is simply awesome. Like one of them said, 77 INR, not bad at all!
  • Went to Raigad and Mulshi lake. Both are awesome places to be in. Check flickr streams here, here and here.
  • Runa treated us to some awesome home cooked bengali meal.
  • Ramki treated us to some more of his uncle jokes.
  • Sankarshan threated me and ramki with “Don’t move a muscle” while the 5 of us travelled up the mountain in a 4 seater ropeway car :D

A much needed vacation well spent. :)

Lots of things

  • The talks at Lala lajpatrai college went well.
  • Spent more time travelling on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway (and theĀ  Chembur-Sion-VileParle Mumbai darshan trip that comes free with it) than attending talks at Gnunify’08 at Pune. Reached just-in-time for the linuxchix-india talk+BoF.
  • Finally got a chance to be at the Kala Ghoda Arts festival this year.
  • Had awesome fun at the Freemap India workshop in Mumbai. (This calls for a separate entry)

So…

The year ended and a new year began. Pretty good the last year, was. Went biking to Sinhagad from Pune. Beautiful, it was.