Kalyan Varma's BlogKalyan Varma's Blog - LiveJournal.comGoats, goats and goats- August 21, 2007 Sometime early last week, the Nilgiri tahr that we were hoping to film came down from the highlands. However the next day, a pack of wild dogs came and attacked the herd and all of them ran back up the hills. We were on our way when this happened, so when this happened, we just drove back to Bangalore.They have come down again it seems and mostly this will be our last chance to film them. Sandesh and Mandanna are already there and I'm leaving tomorrow morning to join them. I would have never...http://kalyan.livejournal.com/230230.html Shivaji - The Boss- August 21, 2007 Fuel to drive to Tamil Nadu : Rs 1400Movie tickets : Rs 40Watching 'Shivaji - the Boss' in a B-grade theater in coimbatore : PricelessWhat sucked was the fact that most people in the theater were family types and me and my friend prashanth were the only ones whistling and clapping for every one of Rajini's killer dialogs. The movie itself was very racist and has been done with a poor taste. But then again its a Rajini movie and the dialogs totally rocked. "Panni kuttama varum, Singam single aa.http://kalyan.livejournal.com/230006.html Leopard finally at BR hills- August 14, 2007 Leopard from BR Hills (click on image for bigger version)After more than a year, I finally had an excellent sighting of a leopard and that too at my home forest of BR hills. We got there on saturday evening and got to see one for 20 min right outside the park. On sunday morning, we got a glimpse of this fellow on a tree on the morning safari. A very fruitful trip to BR hills.http://kalyan.livejournal.com/229486.html foss.in2007- August 8, 2007 It's that time of the year. Really the only sensible tech event in this part of the world to look forward to.http://kalyan.livejournal.com/229228.html Lots of Clouds, but no Goats- August 2, 2007 As Sandesh puts it, We are in the land of the cloud goats. Lots of clouds but no goats.We really did not get the huge groups that we were hoping to get. We did manage to get a small group and the males were getting excited smelling the females urine, but that's about it. Sometime now they gather in huge groups and then the fights break out between the males etc. We suspect we are early for this event (maybe because of delayed monsoons). Anyway we decided to move on and landed back in Valparai...http://kalyan.livejournal.com/229028.html |