No blogging for quite a long time, as I was quite busy with work.... so, finally decided to post one, to share this chunk of my 10 week life in Hamburg...
The first four weeks went really good, as couple of my colleagues were also with me.... we used to roam together in the weekends, and never felt bored at all... But after that, I was lonely most of the time... So, soon decided to buy a vodafone USB stick to connect net in my apartment... And I had to pay 50 Euro for this one month connection which included only 3 GB free usage.... And one weekend, that I went out with my manager, was really good, but after that, for the past two weekends and also this weekend, spending the time just vetti and lonely...
The weather is really good, as they call it still summer here.. Mostly sunny at 15 to 20 degrees, but sometimes it does go down to 12 in day time... Seen many wet days also... Still 20 days to go, and am sure, its only gonna get worse with the start of October....
As a sigh of relief, a colleague is coming from India by next week, so that I can have some company towards the end... Also planning to tour Hamburg with her... Had spent most of the time reading reviews of smart phones, which am planning to buy one...
Hope the remaining 20 days will go in a jiffy, and will be back to Bangalore, and ofcourse planning to eat well to make up for my body weight that seems a bit lost here... Not really finding the food at canteen interesting... Some Indian restaurants are there to help, however the outside restaurants cost really high, and if I make a currency conversion, it seems no value for money... But however, considering the situation and also the taste (compared to the bread), it is good :) And as I am not good at Hindi, finding it difficult to speak with those Punjabi's as well....
Not reading any news at all.... Living a life of my own, with the new Philips Living colors LED light, that adds a any color of my choice at least to my room, if not to my life... I am also lucky that I escaped from the new travel policy in the company, which forces the employees on travel to show 50% bills, else return the unused per diem back to the company... My colleague travelling next week is already highly upset by this new policy, and ofcourse jealous on me :)
Had plans to visit Paris, which I had to drop later, as I felt traveling alone wont be of fun... Also I am quite lazy and bored to travel alone.... But no guarantee that I may get a chance like this later, and with some 200 to 300 Euro, easily I can roam in paris for couple of days, and as I dropped the plan coz I had no company, I definitely feel like I missed a nice opportunity...
I wish I come back to India soon, to taste some good chicken :)
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Sab in Hamburg, Germany !!
OooHa!! Now blogging from Hamburg... Well!! Let me start from the beginning.... One fine morning (sometime in June second week) during a stand up meeting, my manager said I am the next candidate to travel.... I travelled to Tirupati on June 17 and of course prayed to Lord Venkat that everything should go fine.... My travel dates to Hamburg were confirmed on July 17. This time they told that the duration of stay in Hamburg will be 90 days unlike in the case of Manod (my team mate), where he first went to Hamburg on April 27th for a month, then extended another month and then extended yet another month finally making it 90 days (maximum allowed short term travel for an employee in a year)... So I will be staying here till October 14 and will be back to India on Oct 15...
I joined the joining party by the juniors on July 16 th night, and it was heavily raining outside.... It was a very good dinner, and I reached home late at 11 PM, and my mom was firing me for coming late.... I had booked a taxi at 12 AM, who tensed me that night by not atttending the call between 12 to 12 30 AM... Many thanks to Sindhu, who gave me the 24 hr help line number of that travels and also for getting me the power adaptor to use my laptop here... However the driver attended the call by 12 45 and came fast to my place to leave me at airport at around 1 30 AM... My parents were accompanying me.....
Two more guys from my company travelled with me (Mano and Sumit)... These guyz have however come for 1 month, and would be leaving early but it is really a good time to roam around in a group during weekends and also we together go to the office.... I really dunno how I ll spend my last two months, because I will be mostly alone, which is not good :(
Manod came to pick me up in the airport. Because it is summer here, the climate is quite good... Although its sunny outside, I still feel cold in my hand and foot.... Here sun rises by 5:00 AM and sets by 10:00 PM... Ppl like sun here so much, because they don't see much traces of it during winter... Last Jan, it snowed here :) I am really worried about my last month of stay, because winter would start by that time....
I had ramp up and down by Manod last week, although I don't think I got to know much.. I am sure I ll be talkin to this guy over office communicator bugging him left and right for so many doubts, which I am sure to get.... I am here for doing system integration of X-Ray modalities :) And I see lot of real hardware here... Except for the third floor in the office, it is mostly like a hardware supply chain industry... Of course they manufacture X-ray machines here....
Here ppl don't stay for a long time in office.. They come by 9 AM and leave before 6 PM.... Even I am going do the same here.... This is my first overseas travel... I travelled via Dubai in Emirates.... Emirates allows to carry 30 Kg luggage in check - in bag which is actually good for me as I am carrying more coz of 3 months stay in contrast to Air France via Paris, which allows only 20 Kg....
This 90 days will be my longer stay away from home and family... But it is good to travel considering my career and getting a good name at client side is what I am looking forward.... Despite my bitter start in Philips last year, I have grown to be a potential resource in this team ever since I joined the GXR team (General X-ray) in last August, which is now renamed to DXR (Diagnostic X-ray).... Chitra (X-ray Program manager in blr) said that my ass ll be on fire, and now I feel its really time to feel the heat...
I joined the joining party by the juniors on July 16 th night, and it was heavily raining outside.... It was a very good dinner, and I reached home late at 11 PM, and my mom was firing me for coming late.... I had booked a taxi at 12 AM, who tensed me that night by not atttending the call between 12 to 12 30 AM... Many thanks to Sindhu, who gave me the 24 hr help line number of that travels and also for getting me the power adaptor to use my laptop here... However the driver attended the call by 12 45 and came fast to my place to leave me at airport at around 1 30 AM... My parents were accompanying me.....
Two more guys from my company travelled with me (Mano and Sumit)... These guyz have however come for 1 month, and would be leaving early but it is really a good time to roam around in a group during weekends and also we together go to the office.... I really dunno how I ll spend my last two months, because I will be mostly alone, which is not good :(
Manod came to pick me up in the airport. Because it is summer here, the climate is quite good... Although its sunny outside, I still feel cold in my hand and foot.... Here sun rises by 5:00 AM and sets by 10:00 PM... Ppl like sun here so much, because they don't see much traces of it during winter... Last Jan, it snowed here :) I am really worried about my last month of stay, because winter would start by that time....
I had ramp up and down by Manod last week, although I don't think I got to know much.. I am sure I ll be talkin to this guy over office communicator bugging him left and right for so many doubts, which I am sure to get.... I am here for doing system integration of X-Ray modalities :) And I see lot of real hardware here... Except for the third floor in the office, it is mostly like a hardware supply chain industry... Of course they manufacture X-ray machines here....
Here ppl don't stay for a long time in office.. They come by 9 AM and leave before 6 PM.... Even I am going do the same here.... This is my first overseas travel... I travelled via Dubai in Emirates.... Emirates allows to carry 30 Kg luggage in check - in bag which is actually good for me as I am carrying more coz of 3 months stay in contrast to Air France via Paris, which allows only 20 Kg....
This 90 days will be my longer stay away from home and family... But it is good to travel considering my career and getting a good name at client side is what I am looking forward.... Despite my bitter start in Philips last year, I have grown to be a potential resource in this team ever since I joined the GXR team (General X-ray) in last August, which is now renamed to DXR (Diagnostic X-ray).... Chitra (X-ray Program manager in blr) said that my ass ll be on fire, and now I feel its really time to feel the heat...
After Quite a Looong Break..
Well!!! I know, I have taken quite a loong break not blogging, the reasons being attributed to these...
- I was having no time to blog, which is not really true... Of course I had a hectic kinda work in office yet had plenty of vetti time :)
- I was actually keeping myself away from blogging because of the fear that I may bring into light certain matters that would be rather good to keep them burried and also forget over time...
- And I was also undergoing a transition that my so called love is no longer worth to be called so... Of course not interested to dig into the details.....
- And finally its good to spend time with new frnds, new ppl....
- I was having no time to blog, which is not really true... Of course I had a hectic kinda work in office yet had plenty of vetti time :)
- I was actually keeping myself away from blogging because of the fear that I may bring into light certain matters that would be rather good to keep them burried and also forget over time...
- And I was also undergoing a transition that my so called love is no longer worth to be called so... Of course not interested to dig into the details.....
- And finally its good to spend time with new frnds, new ppl....
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wayanad Trip
The background behind arrangement of the trip was tat, few of our German colleagues had planned to visit PIC Bangalore last week around april 20th, and we planned for a team outing along with our German colleagues on Apr 23, 24, 25... But due to the volcano eruption problem, flights were canceled, and they have not come here till now... But we decided to proceed and go ahead with the trip...
One good news was tat Manod who had to go to Hamburg Apr 17th, couldn't go due to the same problem, and he decided to come along with us for the trip... Manod was our local guide there, as he had frequented the place many times...
Actually we had no mood to work as we got the trip mood right from Thursday (apr 22nd)... We had planned to leave from office by 2 PM on friday (apr 23rd)... Some of my colleagues came with their family.... I was also allowed to take my frnds... Among the several I invited, Vasanth readily agreed to come with me.... We had already enjoyed a similar trekking in VaalParai more than a year ago.... :)
As Vasanth is well known for coming late, I was waiting for him anxiously... He had to leave early from his office and he reached b4 2PM.... It was around 26 ppl who boarded the bus, which included two couples and a kid... Lenu (my team mate) had a kid who was just one year old... And he decided to come with his family in his car... But this guy made a comedy reaching Gudalur(TN) and had to travel some extra time to reach Wayanad almost the same time we reached, who otherwise would have reached the hotel much b4 than we did...
The Bus driver made big effort to turn the bus into the narrow road which seemed almost impossible, but he finally succeeded in taking the turn tat too in reverse direction and reached the hotel.... :) We had dinner and slept after a tiring journey of more than 6 hours.... Many ppl danced in the bus, but mostly hindi songs were being played and rarely one or two tamil songs.... Yogesh was ultimate in dancing partnered by Vj...
The next day we covered Meenmutty waterfalls which included a trekking of 4 KM in the morning, and Pookot lake in the evening ....
The next day we covered kuruva islands and reached blr at around 11 PM... The interesting part during the return was the IPL finals, where everyone asked me for match updates.... Equal supports for CSK and MI... However, I reached home b4 it was too late to watch the MI crumbling in the last 5 overs, although Pollard created a ray of hope... But finally CsK won.... The trip was awesome, and wat a way to finish the weekend watching the final overs of the Big IPL 3 finals...... :)
One good news was tat Manod who had to go to Hamburg Apr 17th, couldn't go due to the same problem, and he decided to come along with us for the trip... Manod was our local guide there, as he had frequented the place many times...
Actually we had no mood to work as we got the trip mood right from Thursday (apr 22nd)... We had planned to leave from office by 2 PM on friday (apr 23rd)... Some of my colleagues came with their family.... I was also allowed to take my frnds... Among the several I invited, Vasanth readily agreed to come with me.... We had already enjoyed a similar trekking in VaalParai more than a year ago.... :)
As Vasanth is well known for coming late, I was waiting for him anxiously... He had to leave early from his office and he reached b4 2PM.... It was around 26 ppl who boarded the bus, which included two couples and a kid... Lenu (my team mate) had a kid who was just one year old... And he decided to come with his family in his car... But this guy made a comedy reaching Gudalur(TN) and had to travel some extra time to reach Wayanad almost the same time we reached, who otherwise would have reached the hotel much b4 than we did...
The Bus driver made big effort to turn the bus into the narrow road which seemed almost impossible, but he finally succeeded in taking the turn tat too in reverse direction and reached the hotel.... :) We had dinner and slept after a tiring journey of more than 6 hours.... Many ppl danced in the bus, but mostly hindi songs were being played and rarely one or two tamil songs.... Yogesh was ultimate in dancing partnered by Vj...
The next day we covered Meenmutty waterfalls which included a trekking of 4 KM in the morning, and Pookot lake in the evening ....
The next day we covered kuruva islands and reached blr at around 11 PM... The interesting part during the return was the IPL finals, where everyone asked me for match updates.... Equal supports for CSK and MI... However, I reached home b4 it was too late to watch the MI crumbling in the last 5 overs, although Pollard created a ray of hope... But finally CsK won.... The trip was awesome, and wat a way to finish the weekend watching the final overs of the Big IPL 3 finals...... :)
Monday, April 5, 2010
Happiness Doubled :)
When people say good and bad times alternate in ones life, which is also experienced me, now I feel its time for tide :) Had a happy weekend at home.... Spent a evening at Rama's home, where myself, sath and js gathered... We played carom for a loong time, during which time my naive trials were most comical :)
But the ATM comedy frustrated me a little... ATM machine didn't dispense cash when I tried to drop 10K due to some system error... I din't get the transaction slip also... One full day I tried to log a complaint in the bank, but due to some server prob, page was not at all loading... Somehow yesterday I logged a complaint with the help of mvr...
Also arranged a get together of primary school frnds... We (myself and nandu) planned for such a get together during my last visit to cbe in mid of march, but as many others were not available, it got postponed... We had lunch at Rayappas... Altogether it was one good four hours spent with my old primary schl frnds gang....
Then the return journey was along with my anni, which was a pleasant journey as usual... And while boardin the train met lv's dad face to face.... We both stared at each other.... The gal looked good and confident.... Felt happy.... But we din't share a word.... This is the third time we meet in train in same compartment, and for God's sake no tragedy happened this time...
To double the happiness, I was given increment in company of about 16% (though the number is not intentional).... And to top it all, I just got a msg tat 10K got credited back to my acc... Overall feeling happy at this moment.... :)
But the ATM comedy frustrated me a little... ATM machine didn't dispense cash when I tried to drop 10K due to some system error... I din't get the transaction slip also... One full day I tried to log a complaint in the bank, but due to some server prob, page was not at all loading... Somehow yesterday I logged a complaint with the help of mvr...
Also arranged a get together of primary school frnds... We (myself and nandu) planned for such a get together during my last visit to cbe in mid of march, but as many others were not available, it got postponed... We had lunch at Rayappas... Altogether it was one good four hours spent with my old primary schl frnds gang....
Then the return journey was along with my anni, which was a pleasant journey as usual... And while boardin the train met lv's dad face to face.... We both stared at each other.... The gal looked good and confident.... Felt happy.... But we din't share a word.... This is the third time we meet in train in same compartment, and for God's sake no tragedy happened this time...
To double the happiness, I was given increment in company of about 16% (though the number is not intentional).... And to top it all, I just got a msg tat 10K got credited back to my acc... Overall feeling happy at this moment.... :)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Last two weeks of March....
There could be no words to describe the kind of personal tension and worries I had been encountering for the past couple of weeks.... And it almost attained a peak yesterday, with my love having a talk to me finally which would make march 30th a memorable day :) I feel, I am also one of the worst affected persons in the drama of life....
Certain things in life are always good when left unsaid, and not talked about... But yo really need courage to talk to the direct stakeholders of the crime... And I did have it.... And the results were much positive, quite predictable and my optimistic approach towards it was commended....
For frnds who really wonder what I am talking about, I would like to say that I am posting my state of mind over the past two weeks, which literally took me to view life at a varied perspective.... But what I saw, what I did is actually left untold... Although closest of my frnds can relate it well.....
I always wished to talk from my heart, and deal difficult situations with a smile on face... But now to move on with life, I wish I forget all the unpleasant memories and carry only fruitful ones.....
And with CSK continuously loosing the matches, I felt very bad.... But they have also ended up in a victory finally...... I feel much better and as CSK come back after four losses, I am also back to normal life with good memories, and reassuring relationships blooming again.... Let it all happen for good, and let me not hurt anyone anymore....
Certain things in life are always good when left unsaid, and not talked about... But yo really need courage to talk to the direct stakeholders of the crime... And I did have it.... And the results were much positive, quite predictable and my optimistic approach towards it was commended....
For frnds who really wonder what I am talking about, I would like to say that I am posting my state of mind over the past two weeks, which literally took me to view life at a varied perspective.... But what I saw, what I did is actually left untold... Although closest of my frnds can relate it well.....
I always wished to talk from my heart, and deal difficult situations with a smile on face... But now to move on with life, I wish I forget all the unpleasant memories and carry only fruitful ones.....
And with CSK continuously loosing the matches, I felt very bad.... But they have also ended up in a victory finally...... I feel much better and as CSK come back after four losses, I am also back to normal life with good memories, and reassuring relationships blooming again.... Let it all happen for good, and let me not hurt anyone anymore....
Monday, February 15, 2010
Mangalore Trip
I had yet another wonderful weekend, this time being spent at Mangalore :) Although the distance between bangalore and mangalore is only around 500 KM, it takes 12 hours in train coz most of the journey is in hilly terrain... Also the train halted at several places... However, it reached on time at Mangalore central at 8 45 AM on 13th Feb.... Although my parents have gone to Mangalore several times, this was the first time for me... The purpose of the trip was actually to meet my sis and have fun over there...
Only after reaching there, we came to know that it was a city bandth over there and no town buses will be available.... Shops were mostly closed, and city looked dull...... My sis is stayin in Beeri (10 KM from Mangalore)... At the bus stop, a old man shocked us sayin tat he was waitin for bus for more than an hour.... Then only we came to know that some KSRTC buses to cities like udupi, puttur, shimoga etc were all running normally... This place Beeri is on the way to Kasaragod(40KM from Mangalore).... When I was actually planning to take an auto, a bus to Kasaragod came to pick up us... The view of Netravathi river on the was awesome :)
It was again 1 KM walk from NH 17 to her college... The main branch of Aloysius college is at a walkable distance from rly station.... This one at Beeri is actually a branch newly constructed... My sis was happy to see us after a loong time.... We spent around half a day in her college just roaming around....
Then we planned to go to Summer sands beech... But as buses were not available and some people also advised us not to roam on that day, we decided to return to the hotel... The next day we went to Panambur beech... We had to walk some 2 KM to reach the beech... I was actually astonished to see Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers Factory and UltraTech Cement Factory and quite a lot of timber and lorries at the port, which we had to cross before entering the beech.... The path was full of dust and the color of the sand was irritating until we saw some cool sea sand....
I spent around two hours bathing in the sea... Becoz it was Feb 14th, many people had come to the beech and also someone had arranged events for kids and some good songs were being played all the time.... It was very much enjoyable bathing in the sea after a very long time.....
We departed from Mangalore at 7 45 PM.... The return journey was good in some aspects whereas bad in some others... One good aspect being there was a good lookin gal in my coupe... However most of the compartment was full with 8th, 9th std gals and boys who were all muslims... They were makin noise all the time and I couldn't sleep till 12... Train reached blr by 7 15 AM, and we rushed to the city bus stand to catch the bus to our place... Luckily a bus to our place 287L came as soon as we reached the bus stand :) Over all the trip was good, as the mangalore bandth by Ram sena didn't have much impact :) ;)
Only after reaching there, we came to know that it was a city bandth over there and no town buses will be available.... Shops were mostly closed, and city looked dull...... My sis is stayin in Beeri (10 KM from Mangalore)... At the bus stop, a old man shocked us sayin tat he was waitin for bus for more than an hour.... Then only we came to know that some KSRTC buses to cities like udupi, puttur, shimoga etc were all running normally... This place Beeri is on the way to Kasaragod(40KM from Mangalore).... When I was actually planning to take an auto, a bus to Kasaragod came to pick up us... The view of Netravathi river on the was awesome :)
It was again 1 KM walk from NH 17 to her college... The main branch of Aloysius college is at a walkable distance from rly station.... This one at Beeri is actually a branch newly constructed... My sis was happy to see us after a loong time.... We spent around half a day in her college just roaming around....
Then we planned to go to Summer sands beech... But as buses were not available and some people also advised us not to roam on that day, we decided to return to the hotel... The next day we went to Panambur beech... We had to walk some 2 KM to reach the beech... I was actually astonished to see Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers Factory and UltraTech Cement Factory and quite a lot of timber and lorries at the port, which we had to cross before entering the beech.... The path was full of dust and the color of the sand was irritating until we saw some cool sea sand....
I spent around two hours bathing in the sea... Becoz it was Feb 14th, many people had come to the beech and also someone had arranged events for kids and some good songs were being played all the time.... It was very much enjoyable bathing in the sea after a very long time.....
We departed from Mangalore at 7 45 PM.... The return journey was good in some aspects whereas bad in some others... One good aspect being there was a good lookin gal in my coupe... However most of the compartment was full with 8th, 9th std gals and boys who were all muslims... They were makin noise all the time and I couldn't sleep till 12... Train reached blr by 7 15 AM, and we rushed to the city bus stand to catch the bus to our place... Luckily a bus to our place 287L came as soon as we reached the bus stand :) Over all the trip was good, as the mangalore bandth by Ram sena didn't have much impact :) ;)
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