Monday, January 30, 2012

Death By Chocolate --- Live By It's name

Ok, so this one is an off track topic, but i felt its worth sharing.
So having heard a lot about this chocolate ice-cream here in Bangalore, it tempted me to go and try this atleast once.
So i somehow convinced my friend, and the following evening we ended up in J.P.Nagar's Corner House, its located close to Big Bazaar.
Ordered one cup of it, since i had doubt whether will I be able to finish it up, so didn't want to take chance, so sharing it seemed a good idea.
Our order was prepared within seconds, i guess corner house is pretty famous for this item, as we saw many were having the same.
Haaaaaaaaaaa............. few initial spoons tasted so damn good, probably that's the reason why all chocolate lover drool over to this place.
It's basically a mix of nuts(groundnut), lots of chocolate sauce, fudge, and little vanilla.
Sauce, and nut tasted good, but after some time, i was finding it really difficult to gulp down, every spoon of chocolate going in my mouth.
During our struggle time to finish the DBC(Short for death by chocolate, that's how it's known here), adjacent to our table, two young ladies, bought two cups of DBC and were enjoying it.

At this moment, definitely the girls were more interesting than the DBC left in our cup, which two boys, were pushing to each other, and unable to finish.

We didn't notice, but the girls did a great job, finished the same, without any difficulty, and left the place.
I literally felt like to applaud their courage, maybe for me it was a courageous act, here i was feeling nauseated by even the site of it, and they managed to finish it, so damn easily.
Anyways back to our struggle, after some argument with my friend, I ate last spoon of it, so did he, and here i gave up, with no intention left to finish the remaining chocolate left in the cup.needless to say, we ended up wasting it, not much, but yes we couldn't completely finish it clean like the ladies.

Coming out of the restaurant, i was feeling like to vomit, told my friend that i badly  need something to eat, which will subside this taste of choc.
We ate two plates of pani poori each, followed by extra spicy fried rice in dinner.
After this act, i didn't eat chocolate for another one month.
I don't know what to conclude, whether to recommend anyone or not ?
Whether girls can stuff in more chocolate than boys can do ?
 but i guess it is worth a try, after all i enjoyed it at the beginning, with no doubt it live up to its name, but definitely first attempt people, don't try it alone, you never know, when chocolate might kill you (After all its DEATH BY CHOCOLATE).


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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

First cycling trip to Nandi Hills

This was my first long distance trip on my bicycle.
Nandi hills is close to 150KM from Bangalore City, a favourite place for cycling, the 7KM killer ascent that one gets to do from base to Nandi Hills, coupled with the mesmerizing beauty of the hills, have always attracted the cyclists, here in Bangalore, and i was a no exception.

I did this trip on my Hero Hawk 10 speed bike, along with my 3 other group friends who had brought their trek MTB's.

We started from the silk board junction at 5AM, and was able to finish the trip in 12 hours.
It took us a lot of time, because frankly speaking i was not prepared for such  a long distance trip, coupled with my few ignorant mistakes, as in:
1)The front derailleur of my bike was not functioning, and i didn't bothered to get it serviced
2)Had a terrible fall, got hurt in knees, so pedaling became quite difficult


The place, is beautiful, definitely worth visiting, infact i'll suggest if you're really looking forward to visit this place, then rent a bike, and go.
I am attaching a few pics, hope you will enjoy them, and would get motivated enough to scale the heights.

Road view while going to the top of the Nandi Hills

One of the view that we captured, while cycling to the top

The first hair pin bend curve No.33, it was damn difficult to cycle here, since it was my first time

Finally, we were nearing our destination

The only thing in my mind after seeing the gate - I DID IT, IN MY FIRST ATTEMPT !!!

Preparing for the return journey