Archive for the ‘Vacation June-July 08’ Category

Airtel GPRS v/s Reliance NetConnect in Mount Abu, Rajasthan

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

If you are traveling to Mount Abu with your Reliance data card and hoping to get online, think again. Reliance’s network in Mount Abu is very weak. Chances are that you will not get network at all. At first I taught it was the place where I was, was a poorly covered area until I met Arvind [ St. Mary's computer teacher and a perhaps the largest computer hardware dealer in Mount Abu ] over coffee and he confirmed that Reliance’s network in Mount Abu is beyond poor. This in contrast to all their advertisement on television whose tag line is “Total Coverage.  Air | Food | Water | Network !”

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Walk to Diving Board

Friday, June 27th, 2008

After an hour and a half’s walk through the wilderness this is where you reach [ provided you know the way ].

Captured some breath taking pictures but I don’t have the bandwidth to upload them at the moment. Guess I would have to wait to get back to Mumbai to have decent connectivity. Till then here is something to you an idea of the place


Abu road for diving boardWow pretty nice. I have a haloDiving boardDiving boardCool WindPretty nice huhhh !!

Walk to Flagy

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

After about four years I walked to flagy today. Haven’t see the legendary statue of Jesus Christ for a while now. Too tired to write about the trek. Gonna let the pictures speak a thousand words


Wow pretty nice. I have a haloWith the big manThinkingBoundaryFlagySchool from Flagy