Now back to the point of my "Bang Gang" as some of the other good friends of mine at work place call us is definitely a delightful company and for a guy who was thirsty to find Kannada speaking person on the Emerald island since two and a half year its a welcome relief.
Movies
My other good friends here from my neighboring state and one of them very affectionately called "Producer" (real name Zia) provides us with movie codes to watch free screening movie and so far in almost twelve weeks I have watched Eight movies.God bless Zia. This spate of movie watching reminds me of Pune where I was an absolute movie-holic and here history repeats the same minus expense of tickets. Some of them like Due date, Unstoppable, Tamara Drewe were absolutely entertaining. I sincerely do give back honest feed back about the movie after the screening. I am hoping to see many more movies before i leave the city. Not that I am saying that I am leaving the city right now!
Remembrance day
Couple of weeks ago to make the best of the weather (which is not even close to good) made an instantaneous plan to walk in a Forest. Its a protected twenty acre piece of land. Called in one guy and my room mates join in as well. Seven of us headed out. At the City Hall we noticed the unusual lack of any traffic, then through the silence broke sounds of musical instruments. We walked to the other side to see many dignitaries as well as a few well decorated Military officials, A military band and a church priest. It was the remembrance day in Northern Ireland. There was absolute silence even if there were more than a thousand gathered there. One of the guys in the group had to receive a call resulted in we as a group getting a few stares and thats when to avoid further embarrassment and to avoid the personal from deploying a fire arm made a swift exit.
We boarded the bus that too us to the outskirts of Belfast.
Glen Colin forest
The forest had a three trials on it and we took the long 6.5 km walk.
The trial and the forest floor was covered with thick foliage and moss. winter was set upon NI and it was evident watching the bald tree tops. To add spice to the not so challenging hike we charted our own route and waded through the dense grass fields which was fun but did get the shoes absolutely wet. 
We had no intension to call it day even if the Sun here calls it a day at 4:20pm. Went back to city center to our good ol Burger king and then made another plan.Stormount house
That was to visit the Stormount house (NI parliament). We waled the one mile gradient main approach road to the building.
It was beautiful. The Dusk, the vast green expanse, the white building and the walk way dotted with elegant street lights was perfect. I had been here an year ago, but never had seen the beauty of the monument at Dusk.But we had to accept defeat from the cold.
We walked back in the dark to notice that the entrance was closed and some good Samaritan did show us a secret way of the place. Walking in the dark though the woods within a heavily guarded/fenced government facility in a sensitive part of the world with the undeniable fact that we being aliens to this country sure was fun; or something like fun.For more pictures:
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