My 4 Day Hyderabad Trip -- Part3

We found that the park(Sanjeeviah park) was closed till 5 in the evening.Hence we had the full afternoon to kill till we felt hungry enuf to have lunch.So we went for some bowling near Panjakutta in Secunderabad.Subbu was extraordinary in the bowling lane with nearly all his attempts being strikes.SK gradually cut loose from me and V leaving us to battle out for the third spot.I edged out over V thanks to some gutter throws from V.I got bored with bowling and moved to play Snooker while these guys kept on with bowling.Had 3 excellent games of snooker with a regular there.He won the first game by 7 point after a tie, I won the next two by 2 points and 3 points.Now it was nearly 4 and all of us were hungry.So went to the much acclaimed Paradise restraunt to have our shot at Hyderabadi Biriyani. Unfortunately, for unknown reasons the experience turned sour.The biriyani was tasteless and the chicken/mutton peices very rubberry.After stuffing our stomachs a little and lightening our purses a lot, we left the place in sorrow :(

From paradise, we went to the Hussain sagar lake.Its one of the biggest lakes I have ever seen.So vast that it takes around 30 mins plus to travel one half of the circumference despite very little traffic and very good roads.But the lake stinked worse than our own Koovam.I guess the whole of Hyd's sewers drain into Hussain Sagar lake.I wondered, why we care so little about such beautiful natural resources.Had this lake been in North America or Europe, it would have been kept clean and clear and made a major tourist attraction.First entered NTR Gardens and spent some time clicking some snaps.It was a decent place.Played net cricket (similar to the one avaialble in Forum BLR). V made 46 in 3 overs and I made 48 in my second attempt, both of us missing our half centuries which would have given us a extra 2 overs to bat..

We went to the Lumbini gardens next.We sat on the same section of the audi where bomb blasts of aug 2007 killed nearly 50 ppl.I felt a bit sad for the people who would have died for no rhyme or reason.This time though there was three levels of security and heavy frisking.The sound and light(laser) show was disappointing and out of synch.Describing it was awful would be an understatement.But could not leave the place until the show was over so waited patiently.After the show went on a cruise around the Lake and look a few snaps of the Budha status in the middle(not exactly in the middle though) of the lake.It looked magnificient in the night lighting.There was some dance programme by some struggling artists, to a variety of telugu hindi and tamil movie songs.Except one female dancer, rest of them were neither beautiful nor diginified.It was a very shabby show.But we din care.We had to kill time till 10 when we had a show booked @ imax screen of Prasad's.

After the cruise, went to the movie.The imax thetre was Awesome, just one look at the gigantic screen and the Huge speakers takes one's breath away.We had booked for the movie "madagascar 2 - escape to africa".The movie was extremely well made and the imax experience was really awesome.It was an experience that I ll savour for a long time.The clarity of the image ,the vividity of the colors on the screen, the sound affects and the animation, everything was top class.We were dead tired when we finally reached home @ around 12 and just fell into our beds and dozed off...