Today morning, I woke up a bit late, and decided to go to office by car, and the drive was getting cooler than ever. Its then that I realized the best reason to live in Bangalore city was showing its true colours – Winter weather! The fog was too good to miss and having my windows opened up it was such a cool breeze all over.

Over the past few years though, Bangalore has been getting unduly hot during winters too so much so that people sweat during winters. Call it global warming or whatever, but it is evident that the increasing pollution and smoke is warming up the city to a great extent. This snap was taken at 7:45am, ten minutes after which the situation was entirely like summer!

Anyways, all that matters is the spirit of Bangalore weather and it was surely a welcome change!

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For a long time I wanted to write this post, but somehow put this off until now. Now its time and I thought I’d finally get onto writing it. Having said that this post is about the different types of ultrasound baby scanning available today and what perspectives and insights they provide on your baby. Currently there are three types of scanning, 2d, 3d and 4d. of this the 2d scanning is a foetal profile on just x and y axis showing the baby as a 2d image in black and white. when this is extended to include the depth axis, we get a 3d image as shown below. when a collection of 3d scans are rendered with respect to time (time axis), what we get is a 4d real time moving scan video of the baby. Seeing your baby move in real time within the womb is a great experience to bond with the baby even before its born and every mother and father in the making have a thrilling experience seeing this scan.

Today India, and in particular Bangalore is in the news for all the right reasons with respect to complex medical surgeries that have met with astounding success. The scene is no different with respect to baby scans too. Advanced 4d Scanning is now available where you can take home either a CD or DVD with moving video of the entire scan to see at your privacy at your convenience at your own home! And to share the joy with others as well. There are many clinics that do this scan in Bangalore, and I visited the Bangalore Foetal Medicine Center, located as part of Sharadambal Nursing Home, behind Devatha Plaza on Residency Road, in Bangalore. This is to the right as you get down from the Richmond road flyover, onto Residency Road. Appointments generally are delayed atleast by an hour, and they are hard to secure too. Dr.Prathima, is an experienced hand at this scan and a very nice person to talk to, too. She has the courtesy of explaining everything you need information on with utmost ease. To get an appointment you can contact them at this number :

+91-80-22214081.

The cost works out to Rs.1000 ($20+) for a CD with still images off the scan, and Rs.1400 ($30+) for a moving video DVD. The same scan can cost as much as more than 200$ outside India which is horrendously expensive. The scan is worth the effort and in my opinion, no expecting parents must miss it! However be advised of two things:

1. the scan can expose body abnormalities of the baby which would present anxious circumstances/decisions for the parents
2. the hospital will not reveal the gender of the baby as it is prohibited in India, due to the high incidence of female feticide.

For more information on the different types of scan and what they mean, refer this link.

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There is a saying: Behind every cloud there is a silver lining. Of course this applies to most things in life too. Whenever we see a cloud (of problems) coming towards us or blocking us in what we do, what we fail to see is the silver lining (a solution or a window of opportunity) behind this cloud. Many of us even doubt the veracity of this saying itself just because we are unable to be smart to find solutions to our daily problems.

Nature has its own way of making us understand this point. As I was traveling back home from work, I could not help noticing this wonderful beam of sunrays coming out of the clouds which loomed large around the city. The rays were so brilliant that the light thrown around shone like a diamond ring.

So the next time you are faced with problems, remember this photograph, there is always something bright and exciting behind the dark black cloud! If you can spot this silver lining, you will easily conquer all your problems and be a winner in life!

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They say language must not be a barrier for communication. Most times we have even reached a situation where we have communicated with only our hands and dumb mouth while in other countries where english is not spoken. Today you come inside Bangalore and most people you got to for business speak many languages ranging from hindi, to kannada, to malayalam, to tamil.

And who says Bangalore doesnt have a concern for the environment? In fact every lorry driver too cares for the environment, what better example than this message to keep the city Poluiteion free … oops… pardon my spellings, I’m getting carried away these days.

I have heard of even better dialogues than this one!

– Open the window, let the atmosphere come in
– I need leave today, my headache is aching
– Both the three of you stand up
– Last bench please stand up

It does tickle the funny bone more often than not !! But I take pride in the fact that everyone tries to communicate in english much to the convenience of visitors from all over the world!

Welcome to my country, enjoy my country, dont litter the place and no poluite-ing the hair! 🙂

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The quality of these snaps arent the best, but I did manage to catch the KR puram hanging bridge just before sunset. This is perhaps one of the engineering marvels in Bangaore, and at the same time a waste of public money.

From THE HINDU, more details on the bridge! These images are taken with my mobile camera at long distance hence the bad quality !

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Alright alright. Before you scratch your head about this post lemme clear it up a bit. For a long time I had always thought that my blog was a mix of things. Well thats how Bangalore life is as well, so I dont see a reason to blog about the various aspects. In this melee what happened is that blogging about my favourite corporate articles took a back seat for a while.

Which is when I decided its time to reinvent the wheel again. And bring about a more focussed blog with matters close to my heart! And for a start I’ve made that happen at the blog of Geeksrik . As for the contents, its best you check out for yourself. I’ve tried to keep it simple and straightforward and in depth too.

More things are on the way w.r.t to my web career (as I call it). With atleast 10-15 minutes allotted to thinking a lot, it helps me get newer perspectives in life as I go on with work. You will see more and more updates from me on my pages soon.

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I had the opportunity to visit Lalbagh and a chance to photograph the flower show. This show was conducted on the occassion of 60th year of Indian Independence. I met up with my friend who brought his Canon DSLR EOS 300D, while I went in with my trusted Olympus C770UZ 10x Optical zoom camera. Though not to the leagues of DSLRs, my olympus did a great job with DOF effects and Macro photography. The colour reproduction was extremely natural as well. Luckily I went one week earlier. Had I gone on 15th August, on the Independence Day, I would have got stuck up in a big mess of swelling traffic and crowds! Have a look and enjoy the snaps. If you like them, click on menu within the slideshow and leave me ratings and comments 🙂

 

 

 

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As usual, scores of autowallahs are adamant in flouting rules in the city. The police cares a damn on this behaviour and I pity to only think they need some tips in coming up in life. But coming to think of it in their perspective, they are prohibited to park in any place where potential customers are available, so what would the resort to? Like for example the HOSMAT hospital in the photo below!

While prepaid auto stands are a good addition to the city, this has only mounted pressure on the auto wallahs to try new tricks to work around that constraint. And they give reasons like traffic jam, water logging, and latest even that metro rail construction is going on – all to fleece you even more than ever. I sincerely wish the government provides subsidies to auto wallahs to buy Reva cars and make the city more silent please! The noise from autos alone is staggering enough to make you deaf in a short while.

Education is of prime importance and just like farmers became educated after turning millionaires selling their lands off, we would love to see auto rickshaws prosper the same way with some boom in their field of work too! God are you hearing?

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The Maini group, more famous and synonymous with the name Reva Electric Car, has provided an electric buggy to the people who manage Lalbagh gardens in Bangalore for taking visitors on a trip around the place. The driver who doubles up as a guide shows you around the place and explains the significance of the gardens as he goes by. If you are not in a mood to walk, and you want to visit the gardens on the move, this buggy is the most suitable for you 🙂

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I ve always been an admirer of the majestic Boeing 747’s and their antics in the sky. And Malaysia Airlines pilots are perhaps one of the world’s best pilots in handling these beauties! What better way than to demonstrate a few of them ?