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A mono-chromatic affair

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Hello!    Recently, I have found myself developing a love for mono-chromes, to be precise, black-and-white...I find my desktop has a black and white pic of Megan Fox , my gtalk picture i changed to a black-and-white leaf and a few more...one among them being -- I have even started plotting graphs only in one color (black) where as earlier i used to make color-full graphs...!!    Some people may suggest that I am "losing colors" from my life and that my life is becoming boring...but its nothing of that sort...contrary to it, I find my life more exciting than before...    Anyways, coming back to the point and justifying the title (of this post), although my love for mono-chromes is pretty recent, the seed to this was sown long back. and the person responsible for this is none other than one of my closest friend - Kaustav. it was some fours-five years back,that one fine Saturday we went for an outing at and around the Victoria Memorial along with a few friends.

YERCAUD -- Ooty of the Poor...!!

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Hello friends,    This page is not about the Geographical and other details about Yercaud, this is about our trip to this lovely hill station of Tamil Nadu. FYI: While planning for the tour, I found the wiki-tarvel page and the official web-page of Yercaud pretty handy to decide about the routes and  other details.    So, now lets begin our journey. On a Wednesday (3rd Aug, 2011), five friends (including me), pissed off with their suffocating load of their PG course at IITM , decided to visit a hill-station during the coming weekend...!! The first thought that came to our mind was Ooty and Kodaikanal. But after goin thru their respective web pages, we concluded that it would be a pretty long and expensive trip. And, time is a luxury that we cant afford..! Hence, one of us, Tej, came up with Yercaud. :-)    After goin thru the above mentioned web-pages, we found out that dis place is not very far (from Chennai) and thus we can actually try something that a