Removing the back cover of Sony ericsson cedar or J108i mobile phone

 For Sony Ericsson cedar or j 108i Removing the phone’s back cover is sometimes a hard thing. I have just posted a picture showing the small spacing provided for that purpose. Insert your thumb nail or finger and drag your finger towards the screen top dislodging the two pins holding the cover to the body of the phone, it should do. I hope this helps. 

MUNNAR JOURNEY ( An introduction)

Its located approximately 600 Kms from Chennai. After analyzing various economical options to munnar we choose to go by train. The closest station is dindukal from there we can catch a bus to theni and from there we can catch a cab for 1500 Rs to munnar. A reasonable rate considering the fact that the road to munnar is very tedious with sharp curves and rectangular edges. It was not a welcoming road to munnar, we had hard stop when a bus went zooming front of us. The scenaries towards the road is very amassing, the hills are beautiful and and was covered in green. Except for a water falls, there is not much to stop in the way to the top.

Hotel: We booked a hotel in spring dale resort a double bed room for a cost of 1885 per day, for four people, any extra member invites a cost of extra 150 Rs per head. Only after reaching there we found out there are lot more rooms at cheaper rates than the one we were staying at. But you will not be able to find them in the net. WE went there before the staring time of the tourist season 27/08/2011, so it was not very crowded. In the process of going around we got hold of a pamphlet of a hotel with its number.

Details of untried hotel in Munnar

Name: Saravana Inn

Add: opp. Hotel saravana bhavan. M.g. road Munnar-12

Ph: 04865-232115, Mob: 9447195387.

Cost:

Standard rooms: 750Rs

Deluxe room: 1000Rs

Three bed Rooms: 1500Rs

Extra person: 150Rs

We saw the Inn from outside its near the bus stop and it had very decent exterior, with good access to food close by.

Connectivity: Its advised to have a bsnl number if you want to stay in touch. Since outside munnar only Bsnl works and may be by luck vodaphone.

About the place:

Munnar is a small town that which is named because of the three rivers passing through it. There is nothing within munnar and we have to travel far on the road leading out of munnar to go out of the town. The senaries leading to these place are breath taking and beautiful

Food: If you’re from tamil nadu and want to stick to it, then no worries hotel saravan is present near the munnar town bus stop. Its located close to saravana inn and provides the regular tamil nadu food, the food is good. But, the name is deceiving and its no way related to Saravana bhavan. Cost is not that high either. 

Thirupathi trip

We friends decided to tour tirupathi to pay a visit to Lord Balaji at TTD (TIRUMALA TIRUPATHI DEVASTAHANAM). A day before the tour there was a little confusion as two of our friends opted out of the tour.

We Decided to go by car and park our car at the base of the mala and walk to the top. We took the red hills - periyapalayam - uthukottai - tirupati road. We had trouble driving through the roads after crossing redhills. After we traveled around 50 km we reached Andhra Pradesh and the roads were back to normal.

After reaching thirupathi we parked our car at TTD’s main office and took an auto to Aliperi. Aliperi is the starting place for pilgrimages to walk up the mountains by footsteps.TTD must be praised for maintaining the place in good shape.

On the way up the mountains, we could obtain free tickets for darshan from office set-up by TTD, especially for people who walk up to visit temple. The tickets are free of cost and are given only at “Kali koburam”. Though the tickets are given there we had to cover some more distance to get seal, just to make sure that we complete the trip by walk to the top thirupathi. Advantages of the tickets have been reduced in the recent past, after giving free ladus at start they have stoped it now. In the start they give preference for those with nadapatha ticket over others. But, now they allow us along with other tickets after certain point. The advantages still remain. We arrived at our booked accommodation after receiving the clearance and rested for a while.

After freshening up we started for the temple and entered the day was April 4^th and because of exams for students the crowd was quit less. We are always scared of the crowd in thirupathi Last time when my frieds went to thirupathi on July 17 2010, due to a specia pooja for lord venkatesh for being captured by kuberan for not payin back the loan. The temples where closed for public for a very long time and the crowdes unaware of this stood for hours together. My friends estimated that they waited in the Queue for more than 5 hrs. It’s all about timing if you want to have a wonderful dharshan in thirupathi. 

The dharshan was wonderful and I miss the old days when I went closer to the lord more often than now, but still the energy of the people never fails to take away this small set back.

We got ready early in the morning and acquired a taxi to get down the mountain to the car. There was little traffic and reached our homes sooner than we came.

NAVAGRAGAM TEMPLE TRIP DAY 2

Day 2 was the best day we got lot of time to relax since all the temples where around kumbakonam and the climate in the morning climate was very good. We left our hotel room at 6.40 (we should have left early) Finished our breakfast at kumbakonam. We left first to guru temple which is located 17km from kumbakonam in town called alangudi. The temple is very old and maintained well to certain extent. We spent some time here and we left for the suriyan and sukran temple both of them are in the same stretch.

Suriyan temple: We with the help of some help where able to get a person in the temple to tell about the temple, this is what we got to learn: the temple was 1500 years old and only temple to have all the navagragams, any wish of us will come true when we pray with full heart in 48 days they will give a small colored cloth while praying in the temple and we have to wear it around our neck. After worshiping all the gods we should remove it and tie it on the plant if we wish to get married or keep the cloth in our pooja room for blessings.  After worshiping all the gods we were asked to worship the vinayagar even while going out and told it was good to go around the temple 9 times.

Sukran temple was little further down the same road and it was far more simple and little less crowded than suriyan. This temple too was 1500 years old and had lot of tales about each idols. Some of the idols have a history in this temple, a good simple temple. After an hour of spending time at this –place we left at 12.30.

Raghu temple: It was very late after 1.00 pm it seems the temple closes, so we left to the hotel to visit Raghu at 4.30. Because it is the most ideal time for abishekam for raghu and its advisable to go there by 3.30. The temple is located near kumbakonam so we started at 3.30 from hotel and reached the temple by 4.00 pm. Even at that time the queue for raghu temple is completely filled. The hundred rupees ticket which was for one person was completely filled and the only ticket that was free was 500 Rs ticket which allows two people. The benefit of 500 rs ticket is that we were allowed very close to the Raghu idol, the abishekam was done in front of us, with a person asking us to chant manthras for the benefit of us and cure all our problems.

One other special thing in Raghu temple is that Inside the temple where other Gods are present, there is a Amman temple named burayanae aman, where I gave 10 rs and got back 1 rs and was told to keep it in the pooja room for good finances, something unexpected.

Chandran temple which is very far from Kumbakonam is the last temple we visited; it was very small temple in large village. The day we went there the gods where decorated in beautiful silver covering. They do this only on weekends and on Friday, But one thing about chandran temple is it Is open and it can get real hot in day and walking around might be little difficult. We reached the temple At 7.30 pm and the floor was still hot. So going at nit or early morning to chandran temple is advisable. 

NAVAGRAGAM TEMPLE TRIP DAY 1

My family decided to go for a trip to the navagragam temple in a very short period and decided to take our own car. We started from Chennai on 06/08/2011 at around 5.00 from Chennai and took the route towads kumbakonam via pudhuchery. We did not have any exact guide other than some small maps got from various web pages. But, the best map for this trip with least errors was taken from the below web page. http://www.marskarthik.com/navagraha.html.

We first decided to fill our petrol tank at pudhuchery. Since, it was cheaper by 5 Rs per liter compared to other states. Our plan was to visit Thirunallaru- shani temple first. But, its best to visit thiruvengadu (bhudan temple), Vaidheeswaran (chevva temple) and kezhaperumpallam (Kedhu temple) first. Since, they are much closer to sirkari a town on the way to sani temple or kumbakonam. The roads from pudhuchery to kumbakonam is not a very straight road so, it will take a lot of time to reach the town.

Sani Temple:   We reached sani temple at around 11.30Pm with just a single 10 minute brake. At sani temple there were two ponds and the first one was little further and housed a small vinayagar temple. We have to visit this temple first before going to sani temple. In side sani temple it was very crowded when we entered, but the crowd vanished within minutes. Only then we realized the crowd was from a single Bus, they vanish as soon as they come, sometimes few minutes of waiting will make it easy for us to view the god in peace. One more important thing we learnt is that on week days the temple closes at 12.00 pm and on weekends it is open for extra time (mostly till 1.00pm), which helped us to see the god after the crowd cleared.

 We stoped at karaikal to have a quick meal at nandan restaurant and left immediately.   Then we left to thiruvengadu (bhudan temple), Vaidheeswaran (chevva temple) and kezhaperumpallam (Kedhu temple). It was one long trip back we reached karuvi a small town on the way to poompugar, both thiruvengadu (bhudan temple and kezhaperumpallam (Kedhu temple) are located on the way to poompugar and have to be care full where we are taking the turning. Map really helped us out to break down the route for the locals.

Kadu temple: We reached Kadu temple at around 3.40 pm and stayed there till 4.30pm. After which we visited poombugar, though there was not much to see in this place we got to relax at the beach.

Budhan temple: After few minutes we left to budhan temple and reached the place by 5.50pm, that is even after missing the turn towards it. The map in the link is not exact on the turn and its better to enquire. The timing to this temple was good since temple is very huge and there is not much tree cover and path gets really hot during mid day. I visited budhan temple when I was a kid and memories of me running for just a small shade to save my feet is still there a fresh. Budhan a very powerful god cures many ailments and helps in education and to improve health. worshiping the god and going around him 17 times will help in getting the blessings of the god. We had to leave early from this temple because by 8.00 Pm all temples get closed.

Vaidheeswaran: Vaidheeswaran (chevva temple) was really a beautiful temple very huge and had lot of nadi jothidam locations near the temple. Because of the time at which we went to the temple, there was no crowd and we were able to worship the gods in peace. After this we left to kumbaknom to our booked hotel Aditya.  One important thing is its advisable to eat on the way to your room, since 9.00 is the closing time for most of the good hotels.