My first trekking experience!

On Feb 23rd 2014 I really had a different and good experience. I want to write everything whatever I felt on that day. I don't even want to miss single moment of happiness that I had it on Feb 23rd.
We all dream of a place where we don't have to worry about mails, phone calls, whatsapp and daily tasks. We would want to enjoy a peaceful day by looking, climbing at mountains and pools, and breathe the fresh unpolluted air.  Nagala Western trek was the best choice that I had made.

We (17 people) gathered at koyembedu near nathan'cafe. Exactly at 4 A.M we all started our journey for trekking. Most of us in van were in sleep during the travel but some questions and thoughts were running in my mind. Am I really eligible for this trek? On what basis they have selected me? Will they be friendly? We reached Nagalapuram at 6 A.M and haulted at one place for coffee. Everyone would be very quiet as we would indulge in a very warm cup of tea and look at the scenery around us trying to grasp as much of it.

With almost every trekker from different state, this 1- 2hrs initial trekking was good with chit chats and regional stories. Rich tree lines were the key scenic elements. During break we had cake, bread, rasagulla, nanari, Butter milk and lassi, these became the highlight of the breaks during the trek. After that my speed got reduced. I started losing my energy in the first half of our trek itself. But seriosuly, our organisers are too great. They really made me to climb up. They were very helpful and friendly in helping me choose trail. I was slow but somehow I managed. Some of us climbed up very fastly and they had realised that this is not the correct path. Again they  climbed down slightly to take the another route. Being a slow trekker I didn't climbed up extra distance ;)   At that altitude it was the clearest sky I have never seen in my life. A sight providing a visual treat to photographers and a sense of satisfying pleasure to every single trekker.

I couldn't remember exactly where was the one steep climb was it before or after the third pool.But definitely the most thrilling for a fresher like me. I did make it too. I could see Ela and karthik from the top helping me and asked me "Will you make it?" All I could answer was "I dont know". I was murmring "Inima varuviya"

We reached 5th pool and I was exhausted. A sense of small accomplishment was glowing on every single face. But still reaching the top was very difficult one. At that condition  I decided not to go up and better to take rest on the place where the 5th pool was there. Rest of us started their trek to reach top. Meanwhile I killed the time by taking photos. Trust me I am not the photographer but I wanted to capture the moments which made me feel strong, happy and to face the challenge. I enjoyed fish spa in that pool. Since I don't know swimming and didn't enter into the pool. And few brave souls jumped into the pool. Next time I will be one of the bravos.

Walking back was not too difficult in face my paced increased or maybe that's the way it is. I dealt a lot with lost trails

One day after this trek and it all seems it was a dream to me. This was my first trek but I am already making plans for my next trek. I got few friends from the trek. The hardest part of the trek was saying goodbye to each other. Finally I want to thank each and everyone in this trek for giving this unique experience. Without you all 15 people I wouldn't have had this unique cultural and environmental experience.
I had most memorable "Bloody Hell moment"

Everywhere Everyone wants the samething

I dont know whether I am eligible for writing about travel or not.  I had actually done travelling before. So I just want to share the feel of travel.

Everyday you are seeing the same face. Everyday you are facing the problems. Don't you feel frustrated? Don't you spend some amount for your happiness ? Everyone wants to enjoy. Present is not for future. We have to worry about our future too. But present is much more important than future isn't? when you look your past it should give happiness it shouldn't give regret feel.

Being a girl if you want to go to place where you like then you have to ask permission from your parents. Being an Indian parents they will not allow you for travel. We also can't blame our parents for not allowing us. Even if we have kids we will do the same as our parents did. They are worrying about us. Travelling is not simple as we think. It has risks too. We have to do lot of research before travelling. Most of our thoughts will not be accomplished by thinking that our parents will say "NO" for that thoughts. You need not to convince them. Just tell them that you will be safe where ever you go. They will start to realise that maybe you aren’t that crazy after all.

Once we decided to travel we will think about it too much. So many questions will raise in our mind like whether this travel is worth or not? how much we need to spend for this travel? do we really go for this trip? why would we spend money for travel when we instead save up or buy something ? do we need to take one extra day leave for taking rest ? Yes, its simple to take decisions but its really hard to implement. Seriously all these questions will raise until you start travelling.

Your limitations are not set by who you know, where you were born, what genes you have, how much money you have, how old you are right now.Travel is getting lost on purpose.

You should spend time to see the world. You get to see different ways of life, different cultures, different histories, different environments and try local cuisine. Life is all about taking and facing risks. Just take the risks for travelling. Get to know about the people. Travel will teach you the real lessons for your life. You will realise that world is both big and small. Travel plan is need not to be an expensive and luxury. Travel is packing your life into suitcase and your life will be thrilling, joyful, discovering and enlightening. You will see the places that you have never seen it before. You will get care, smiles and love from strangers.  Travelling is all about surprises and memories. We will meet so many lovely, vibrant, talkative, colourful, helpful people along the way.

Experience is the greatest teacher of all. Stop reading or watching about the world and start exploring it.

Realize the REALITY!

I was thinking about this blog for a long time. Now I think this is the correct time and age to talk about the matter that I have written it here.

When I was 8 
At the age of 8, as like other kids,  my imaginations were also limitless and I always thought money grows in trees. I will be pissed off if my parents did not get anything that I want. I blamed them as if they had money and wantedly they did it to me. I guess most of the child at the age of eight will think the same.I hope everyone must have crossed this kind of situation. Thing is we were not in the situation to realize the reality. But at the age of 23, I am realizing that my parents did their best. If we think the same at the age of 23 then mistake is ours.

When I was 16
Its the age when we need to concentrate more on studies. At this age, my ambience was fully for studies, studies and studies. My parents, relations and siblings everyone used to tell me that this is the first step of your life. If you want your life to be good then go carefully on each steps. I was so organized and likable at the age of 16. I carefully succeeded at my first step but I failed in making my life very interesting. When I look back now I am realizing that I have missed many fun in my life. It is the perfect age to make real friends who can bring real colors to your life. Trust me as you get older you will make fewer friends and the innocence of the old friendships will no longer be there. You will talk mature stuff and try to hang out with your colleagues. Both are not mutually exclusive but still not the same. At the age of 23, I am realizing that how much real friendship is needed equally to money. 

At 23 
Most people wont be in their dream jobs. You will come back pissed at something that happened at work today or how your Boss thinks you are an idiot. Unless you have some activity to relax, calm your mind, make you smile again, you will really feel like shit. Start going to the gym, start writing, start learning new languages. You will be frustrated if you try to make everything right all at the same time. It is only because you think everything should occur as you planned that you become sad. Learn to let go. Accept you will always face problems. Learn to enjoy the little things nearby than the things you have no control over.You might want to travel around the world. Live an exciting life. But always remember that no matter where you go, as long as you do not have the people who matter around you, you will never be truly happy. You might think that we live a boring life doing the same thing everyday but it is still worth it because it has made your education possible and given you the facilities we never had. Think about it. We have all seen people doing over time at their office, working on things they do not enjoy to earn money they won't be able to spend. Even if we earn millions in a financial year but have no time to spend on things that matter to us then there is no point of that millions. Its the right age to create memories. Live your life as if tomorrow is not exist in your calendar. 
Realize the reality and make the reality things to memorable.

Letter vs Mail

Technology has changed a lot in this society. Though many things have changed we cant forget and we cant feel the feel of old things in new things. Old is gold always. In that changes mail has been also involved.
Now-a-days even 9th standard student has mail id. Most of people knows how to access mails. It becomes very important to everyone life. Mail has their own advantage. You can do many things in mail like sending some attachment etc..I will not say that mail is not important and we should not use mails. It occupies very important role in our life. Within a second we can reach anyone and it doesn't matter where they are. you can reach any corner in this world through mails.But something is there missing in mails.Yes, Flavor is missing. Originality is missing.Liveliness is missing.
In letter you can easily express your feelings.Smell of ink will give you the feel that you wont get in mails. In mails you can change the font but it will never trounce your handwriting.You know you can add smileys in mail but will it give the feel of what you draw in letter to express your love? Mail can't give the odor of paper. The way you scratch the paper when you write something wrong will not happen in mails. You can do under strike in mails but still it will never give that feel of under strike that you do in paper.Letter will not reach immediately to your loved ones. You can't imagine the feel during the time that letter will take reach.
Yeah, Stop writing mails to your dear ones. Start writing and start expressing your love through letter.

Giving respect is based on AGE or STATUS ??

From the topic itself you can suggest what I am going to discuss here.Very frequently this question is coming up to my mind .

I am not a story teller so dont worry I will not start with the sentence of One fine morning :p. I am living in a IT city. Like others I also came here for my job. Usually people will come here with a lot of dreams and passion. I came here just because of my fate. My impressions on this city is very hot , people are not good here, and you cant survive here for a long time.

I started to hate this city on my first day itself. I stepped down at this city A at 5 am. Luckily I have relatives here and they came to pick up me. I have to change two bus to reach my office from my relative place. I got into share auto to get down at bus stop. I was really shocked to see that share auto. Its just an auto which has the capacity of 4 people. But its carrying 8 people.3 girls were already sitting inside an auto including me. One old man OM1, actually he looks little descent. From his appearance you can judge him that he is not poor but he is respectable. He came to our auto where we were sitting and wanted to get in. Suddenly one girl who was sitting inside told him to go and sit nearer to the driver . He had no other option and he sat on that place which was nearer to driver. Next stop came. Another old man OM2 came with professional look. The girl one who rejected OM1 now allows OM2 to sit next to her. I was wondering that both of OM1 and OM2 are more or less in same age. May be the status are different. But giving respect is based on age isn’t ? . The way she looks OM1 and OM2 was totally different.

I got down from an auto, got down from bus1 and I got into bus 2.One old lady got into bus2 with fruits basket. From her appearance we can judge her that she is a fruit selling woman. Yeah, she waas not good loooking. she wore very poor quality sarree.She looked very innnocent. On the way to my office I suppose to cross one toll gate. Next to toll gate there was a bus stop. That old lady is waiting for the bus stop to get down which is next to toll gate. Toll gate came and driver was getting ticket in the lane from the passengers. Conductor started shouting at that old lady to get down there in the lane itself. She was not understanding anything. She told that no, no I have to get down at stop. Conductor started yelling at her that this bus wouldn't stop there. Due to conductor the old lady got down there itself with the basket. Bus moved and next bus came in to that lane. She suffered a lot to move out from that lane.But actually bus stopped there in the next stop. What is the reason for this? . Is it necessary to yell at her in this situation. Conductor should have to give respect to that old lady isn’t ? . If that old lady is there with descent look, if she wore good dress , then what would be the conductor response at this situation ? I am damn sure conductor might have given respect. So , now-a-days giving respect is based on status not an age. Is it good for our future generation ? Seriously our society is in bad shape.

This is all my perception. There are some good people here in the same city. I don't blame them. It is for the people who are doing like this.

Java HEAP in Deep and dont Sleep!!

When I started java programming I didnt know what is Heap? I started learning Java concepts without knowing where its all getting saved in memory.
Its happens with most of programmer because learning language is easy but learning basics is difficult since there is no formal process which can teach you every basics of programming its experience and work which reveals the secret of programming.This post is mainly for beginners who are learning java. One thing I would suggest is first learn java concepts after that dig deeply about where its getting saved. If you started with heap you will get so many doubts about concepts. For Example, you should know about objects concept before learning "objects will be saved in heap memory" else you wont understand exact essence of object in heap.

Here are the some important things of heap that I have shared with you. Please refer other refference also.

When Java program started JVM (Hope, you know what is JVM)gets some memory from Operating system and part of that memory is called HEAP.JVM will allocate heap memory by Xms command which will tell the size required for heap. Default size of heap memory will be changed based on the bit and OS.

If heap size is not sufficient then JVM will set maximum heap memory by -xmx command.

Eg : -xmx512m. Be careful in giving "M"or "G". Single alphabet can change anything :p

When your application is ready for executing, Analyse how much heap memory is needed by your application. Then, execute the command -xms/xmx before JVM starts. Once JVM is started you cant reallocate your application heap memory.

All your objects will be saved inside heap memory. Memory is divided into 3 parts.
1) Old generated (Heap Memory)
2) New generated(Heap Memory)
3) Perm Space(Non Heap Memory)

Old Generated: Many objects will be created and saved inside the heap. Many objects might have been killed by Garbage collector. Remaining objects which are all not killed by garbage collector will be accumlated in old generated heap memory.

New Generated: Newly created object will be saved in new generated heap memory.

Perm space: Meta data about classess, method, string constant pool etc other than objects will be saved in perm space.

outofMemoryError: If your application tries to create an object and finds that there is no enough heap memory to accomadate. So, Garbage collector will run and it will free the memory of objects which are all not referenced to any memory. Objects will be created in the new generated heap memory. Though garbage collector tries to free memory , it couldnt find non referenced object. In such cases, application will throw an error called outofmemory error. Application needs some heap memory and heap memory is not enough to accomdate all those objects.

outofmemoryerror:permspace : The classloader is responsible for loading all classes in perm space. Classes will be unloaded when classloader is attacked by garbage collector. Suppose an object retain its reference the classloader which is attacked by garbage collector then it will lead to MEMEORY LEAK and shows outofmemoryerror:permspace error.

You can analyse your java heap by using some tools which is availble inside JDK. You can take snapshot of java heap at particular time called java heap dump and you can analyse it.Java heap dump will be created by using the command "jmap"."jhat: Java heap analyser tool" is available to anlayse the java heap and make use of it :)

You can also find the information of your application regarding memory during runtime by using following commands.
Runtime.totalmemory() : tells the totalmemory occupied by your application
Runtime.freememory(): tells how much free memory is availble
Runtime.MaxMemory(): tells maximum available for your application.

Use Profiler and Heap dump Analyzer tool to understand Java Heap space and how much memory is allocated to each object.

I hope the above information will be useful atleast for some extent :) Happy coding :)

Raise for Praising !!

In day-to-day life we are seeing many things and we come across many thing that requires appreciation. But we are not even praising those things. If we praise on small things we will be happy because we are making others to be happy. The impact of praising is that we are encouraging others to do more.Let me clarify it with simple examples.

If you have maid in your home, How many times have you praised her ? Have you prasied her alteast once ? Though she is not good enough at her work just tell her that you have done a great job. It will motivate her to do better than the previous work. After that she will take care of her work and she will do it perfectly. Just start praising her.

If your son/daughter has done small thing, just praise them. We know that its just very small thing according to us. But it is very big thing to them because they have tried it for first time. What ever we tried for the first time will be the big thing. From our side it will be just praising but on the other it will be big motivation to do proceed further. Dont tell them that its not good and you need to improve. Just tell them that Its so good and you can do it much more better than this. Both the above sentence are for praising. But the way we are praising always matters. Praise the people in such a way that it will motivate them.

If your colleague has cleared your doubts, just tell them that you have done a great job and its a great help. You might have known that answer and you may think that answer is well known. But that small encouragement will motivate them to dig that question more. If you start praising them continuously, your colleague will start learning. Just single praise will motivate others to learn.

An interesting aspect about praise is the chemical reaction it causes in us. Research shows that when we hear something we like, a burst of dopamine is released in our brains. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, and it's associated with feelings of joy, pride, satisfaction, and well-being.

When you praise someone else, not only does that person feel great, but it leads them to experience that same feeling again. Giving praise cements good working habits and behavior, both chemically and intellectually.

Deliberately start appreciating small and big things in your life, things you are grateful for. Know that we treat others the way we treat ourselves. Make peace with yourself, be kind to yourself, and gradually you will feel the shift happening, you will stop enjoying criticizing others, instead you'd start enjoying seeing good things in them, positive traits you'd have otherwise missed, plus when we uplift others, we do the same for ourselves. Soon you'd be a positive influence in their life. We teach best through example, by being the inspiration we wish others would receive in their life.