You also may have noticed this year on year. It’s a City of evening rains. In Bangalore it starts raining just after the sun set. It happens very consistently. There must be a scientific reason for this recurring pattern. Do you have any theory ?
No details abt trip..Only photos..?
I had checked out the previous day screening of 1 minute movies. Was in 50-50 mood to attend the workshop the following day. But then I decided…let’s give it a try.
This is a 1 minute movie workshop organised by this crew of http://www.filmcamp.tv
Location : Seshadri Library in Cubbon Park
Time : 8.30 AM to 8 PM
Teams are split in a group of 4-5. The team has to work on the idea and the treatment, the script, dialogues, the location and storyboard before calling it “Lights” “camera” “action”.
They provide you the camera and the tripod. Once the ground work is done, you start shooting. Editing is done by the their apple powered movie editors on their laptop. And Movie is ready !
It’s a highly taxing job to do all this in a single day, though 1 minute movie sounds miniscule.
You get to go through all the phases of a movie making and you start beginning to understand the complexities involved in the co-ordination of the entire thing. Watching that small piece of wor,k end of the day, is worth it.
I will post that video here soon.
please post the video
I sent an email this morning to my folks at office. Just one-liner.
“I will be OOO for OOB”
OOB ?
I am going to be there tomorrow as well for the whole day at JN Tata Auditorium, IISc Campus, Bangalore
i miss ranga shankara 
I will be using the cab service to commute to our shifted office. For both pick up and drop. We are eight of us on our route.
In the cab chit-chat, there is one rule of conduct. ++ No one is supposed to moan about Bangalore traffic ++ Any topic, I mean any topic under the sun minus the bangalore traffic. It’s almost impossible to tie down our vocals. But we will try.
Bangalore.. once a beautiful city, adorned the rightful name ‘Garden City’. It is disheartening that this city is ruined. Anyone courageous enough to take the responsibility? A big laugh. The city planners and ministers will be the first to wash off their hands. Is there any punishment for bad city planning? Well what is that???! If given a chance will anyone punish such planners..? I am sure to get an overwhelming response. Bangalore has been ruined the day IT companies were given lands in and around the city. Interesting part is that the government was able to bring in big MNCs and created jobs for lot of us.. but did not care about their own land. Roads were left as narrow as possible. Buildings coming up everywhere but not enough road for the people of those buildings to go through. Take example of EPIP/Whitefield area. How many roads lead to this place from the main city? Just 2 actually. Airport road and Old Madras road. Interestingly they both converge to one road, which leads to the EPIP entrance. It takes one 1 hour and 15 mins (if you are lucky) in a small car to reach EPIP/Whitefield office. Just about 12km. Do you think this is the time one should spend traveling every day one way to work? Anyone really bothered? Each one of us makes noise that it is so bad being here in this traffic. Anyone cares about it really enough to look for a solution? Our city administrators did not care about keeping land for roads to accommodate for the traffic, which they facilitated by introducing so many companies in one small place and that too very close to the city.. some being within the old city limits itself. Now to ease the traffic they have to build enormous number of flyovers, which will cost dear to the government. Wish they planned well, which would have saved this expense. Any idea how much taxes Bangaloreans pay to the government? Well you wont be able to imagine. So where is the people’s money going? Bangaloreans pay the highest tax compared to any city in the country. But still the infrastructure is not in any form good enough to call Bangalore a city. A1 city status!!! This city seems doomed. And still see the drama at that the governance. Ministers are becoming friends one day and same group becomes bitter enemies the following day. And our ex-’sleeping’ prime minister…. we should be ashamed to have this kind of people to govern us. Can any of us feel the consequence of electing these fellows? Well…we have a Bangalore city which they simply raped and made money. People from all over the world are buying a flat or land in this city. To rape the city further. Do you have any idea.. a large number of the actual dwellers of this city can’t afford to stay in this city any more and a significant number have sold their living in the city to settle outside. It is well understood that if the city is growing.. it will eventually become a cosmopolitan city. But should it be at the cost of the city’s own people who couldn’t hop onto the growth train? It is pretty amazing that people here are still buying flats, apartments and houses and ignoring the fact that at the price we pay to stay here the city is not in any form worth living. Whatever you buy here is costlier than any city. Infrastructure is not in any form be called good. And still no one bothers. To top it all, our Blackberry police is doomed by its own corrupt officials. Wish I had a reset button to start the city all over again. Bangalore… my lovely city is taken by a sever disease and I don’t find any help. I don’t know if you feel the same. Speak please.
Your blog is interesting!
Keep up the good work!
I have received an invitation to attend the Google Speaker Series.
Talk by Vint Cerf – one of the founding fathers of the Internet.
21st Feb 2007
Ambedkar Bhavan, Bangalore
Arvind (Yes, We have the same name!!), 
Me and 5 others are discussing. 
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jnaneshwara is discussing. 
prasanna 11:16 PM on July 22, 2008 Permalink
yeah, it may be because of the lot of greenery around the place.
Adarsh 4:39 AM on July 23, 2008 Permalink
There is no theory in here dude.. its plain common sense.. Rains dont want to bother the kids returning back from school and people going back home from offices.. you see, if it rains in peak hours, their clothes get dirty.. thats why in Metro’s, it rains after office hours…call me if you have further queries,.. Adarsh 9845000752
admin 5:14 AM on July 23, 2008 Permalink
Hehe. Metro phenomenonaa ?? Like it Mr.Weatherman.
Tarun 5:19 AM on July 23, 2008 Permalink
Its because i want it to be like that
admin 5:26 AM on July 23, 2008 Permalink
Here is Mr.God
jnaneshwara 11:34 PM on July 23, 2008 Permalink
Hi Aru,
Your obervation which is : In Bangalore it starts raining just after the sun set….is wrong..watch & observe this rainy season.. you will also get rain in day time also..May be you might have not come outside during day time as u may b working in office during day time when it was raining..
Manya Soman 2:51 AM on July 24, 2008 Permalink
Hmm…I have observed this trend atleast a decade ago and it seems that there appears to be a pattern. I am not aware of any scientific theory but maybe the Bergeron theory/process or Cloud condensation nuclei could be of some help. There is a higher chance of rain towards the end of the day (in this case evening) due to pollution that is built during the day.This pollution causes condensation nuclei to be built and inturn clouds and hence rain! Does this make sense? :0)
admin 3:03 AM on July 24, 2008 Permalink
Bergeron theory/process or Cloud condensation nuclei. This seems to be a reasonable explanation of why it is a metro phenomenon. Thx.
Me 12:14 PM on July 24, 2008 Permalink
it rains when i forget my umbrella
admin 12:27 PM on July 24, 2008 Permalink
After Bergeron theory, it’s the turn of Murphy’s law.
Arvind (Yes, We have the same name!!) 5:42 AM on July 25, 2008 Permalink
Hey all! It’s evenin’ rains here in Trivandrum as well.
I’m surprised no one blamed evening rains on GLOBAL WARMING!! – It’s the one thing that causes these climatic shifts!!