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...... :)

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.... :)