Me just got another breather now...thought me wud update u guys with mynews...me is currently on bench. 'Bench' is a stage in the softwareengineers life where he/she is placed when either there is no work to beassined or he/she becomes a pain in the ass. I for one am not sure asto why I am on bench. But then again its me...me is havin fun now. Stillat times I spent time on my pc due to my raw passion for work.

This weekend was neat...me had been to aurangabad. That's where theajanta n ellora caves are. Again it is home to a nice zoo, thedaulatabad fort, black taj etc etc...the best part or one of the bestparts of the trip was the trip itself...I mean the drive. It is a 4-5 hrdrive depending on the mid way stops. The road is very nice...it canbecome adventurous if u r fortunate to have a few competitive truck/jeepdrivers. Well I did meet a few :-)

It was an overnite drive. Like we left pune at around 11:00 pm andreached aurangabad at around 0330-0400 hrs. we were so sleepy n tiredthat we slept in the car itself. That was fun too...we had a tough timeuntangling ourselves from the car. Hehe...we checked out the elloracaves in the morning. Ajanta had to be skipped as it was another 120kms from ellora. That we dint know !!! neways ellora was not bad at allfor a set of caves. Real neat. There are 34 caves at ellora in all.Includes hindu jain n buddhist caves.



Then we went to the khabr - thts where the dude aurangazeb was buried.Man that was a shit place. We were xpecting something huge n we just gota very small tomb kinda thingy. I called it small when we think of thefact that he was a moghul emperor for cryin out loud.

Then came the daulatabad fort. That was his fort in this part of town.That was awesome. That guy or the architect sure did have grey matter.There is a really huge cannon at the highest point of the fort. It turns360 degrees. That did look real heavy...wonder how they managed to getit that high...and then there is this serpentine wall funda. It's a sort of puzzle. Once u enter its total darkness and then u have all these secret angels and crivices where the home team waits to ambush the hostile visitors. It seems it was virtually non solvable by any visitingteam. But the guy who took us around seemed to know each nook n cornerof that...good for us.

Finally we saw the black taj- its called bivi ka maqbara. That's whereaurangazeb's wife is buried. Its called the black taj for its similarityto the taj but in size it's a 1:5 ratio. The interiors are not all thatbreath taking but for a tomb its neat... :-)


Next week I mite go to hyderabad. Again u never know !!!!!