Archive for Weekend getaway

October 17th 2009

Fosters Aoc Party!!!!

by nafisa in Bangalore, Entertainment, Events, Weekend getaway 12 Comments

Hello everyone. I am Nafisa. This is my very first post as a guest blogger on Anwin’s Blog.

Me, Anwin, Diana & Anoop went to Fosters Art of chilling Poolside party last weekend on 10 th of Oct at Lalit Ashok Bangalore city Hotel. We landed at the party on an empty stomach, so the first thing we did was attack the food. There was lot of mouth watering options for meat eaters – fresh clams, Beef steaks, Pork ribs….etc. They had arranged spray paints and a huge canvas board at one corner for the crowd to paint their thoughts; we too did a little scribbling on it

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“IndiBlogger.in Chilled here”

Afternoon started with little showers of rain, Foster’s Hat came in handy and saved us from getting drenched. After having a satisfying lunch we sat down for Beer to chill our self from hot sun, the pool looked so tempting that we all wanted to soak our body in the water, unfortunately we didn’t come prepared.

Anoop and Diana Chilling out….

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Later, Bharath & Naveen joined us with their companions. For a change there was a band playing fusion music, which was ok but didn’t blend quiet well with the atmosphere.

Squeezing to fit in the frame Indiblogger team and friends…..

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Thanks for your invitation Fosters and I would like to be there again. After having unlimited beer with awesome grilled meat who wont enjoy, I know I did!!

Thanks Diana for the pics

May 25th 2009

Vandalur Zoo Chennai Trip

by Anwin in Animals, Pics, Weekend getaway tags: aviary, cassowary, chennai, chimpanzee, gaur, indian bison, monkey, peacock, tiger, Vandalur, Vandalur Zoo, Weekend getaway, white peacock, white tiger, zoo 26 Comments

A couple of weeks back Nafisa and I found ourselves at Renie’s house in Chennnai a.ka. IndiBlogger headquarters. The reason for the sudden visit was to visit my Dad who was supposed to undergo an eye operation. Finally, that didn’t happen and it got postponed to June 2nd week.

So what did that leave both of us to do? We had the Sunday off to do anything we wanted. Renie had already planned that we could visit the Vandalur Zoo which has been designed like a National Park near Chennai. And on a Sunday afternoon we put that into action.

We entered the zoo and started tripping on the animals right from the primates area. Below is a photo of a monkey, one of very first sights, probably a langur or a lion tailed macaque.

He/she was a quite bugger and quite far off to take good pictures.

The next was a big attraction near the entrance. The chimps were on an uproar and there was some kind of territory confrontation happening between two different groups of two chimps each. So there was so much shouting and stress in the chimp camp that there was a huge crowd just to witness this.

Next were the birds which Renie normally doesn’t visit. But I like to trip on the birds too, so we went looking at the birds. Some of the interesting ones below:

A white peafowl / peacock.

A Cassowary.

And then some mean looking Indian Bisons – also called Gaur.

Above, a mother and calf.

And then, the Royal Bengal Tiger. He was really far off to get a decent shot.

And then, the MAIN REASON why Renie wanted to go to Vandalur zoo, the White Tiger. Wow, this guy was a very good specimen with a majestic look. He walked around and put on a show for us, almost daring us to come inside. Damn good stuff.