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.... :)

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....

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 :) ;)

Jumping From the Train....

One of the most tragic event happened in my life on 23rd morning... I was on my way to cbe in Coimbatore express... I had left for the bangalore city railway station directly from my office on 22nd night... I was playing TT in the evening, then had curd rice and left the office around 8 50 PM... It was senthil who dropped me hebbal bus stop... When I was about to get down from the bike, an idiot in a scooter, who was driving forward looking at his back, almost missed to hit my bum by few inches...

I reached railway station around 9 30 PM... Was waiting in platform 3 as usual and train came by 10 30 as it was expected to be half an hour late.... I was speakin on phone to Sinduja, who called me when I was boarding the train.... I was actually telling her tat there were no figures in the train... :( When I found my seat, and still talkin to her, a familiar face crossed me, which was none other than lv... She also saw me... Her seat was in the next coupe... She would have cursed me so badly for having met me on this occasion that might have eventually led to my fall the next day morning.......

I really had a very disturbed sleep not just because I met lv on tat nite, but another idiot in the adjacent coupe (lv's coupe) was shouting like hell while he was sleeping... Everyone around me got up and scolded him for disturbing others... He was not snoring, but he was shouting strangely... I got up around 5 15 AM and had a tea... Despite train being late at bangalore, it reached cbe by 6 AM and myself like a hero tried to jump out of the train while it was still in motion.... At last I ended up risking my very life... There were chances tat I could have fell into the track, however, I managed to put both my legs inside the train, while I was being dragged by the train for a few metres... It was like experiencing Final Destination movie (I watched Final Destination 3 and 4 last week)... And as I cried for help, a chai wala gave his hand and pulled me inside the train... At one point the backpack was pulling me into the track... But tat guy was smart enuf to pull me and also my back pack and I saw God in him while he was rescuing me....

In this tragic event, I lost my slippers, jerkin and T-shirt torn at the back, tore my backpack and hurt my back as well....... :( It took me around a day to restore to normal, and now feeling much better after suffering from severe muscle pain all over the body for past two days... The three words from Actor Sivakumar 'Ithuvum Kadanthu Pogum' when he was speaking in Vijay TV on republic day, gave me enuf spirits to board the train for return journey yesterday..............

This Pongal @ Frnds house....

This is the first blog am writing this year... Well, I wanted to write one immediately after the vacation on jan 4th, but then, I spent lot of my time in playing TT and time just had just flown away tat I don't remember exactly what all I did in those 10 day long vacation... So finally decided to post one about this POngal.......

First of all, thanks that I din't get ticket for 17th nite return from home, otherwise I would have gone to cbe.... So I canceled the ticket I had for 13th ongoing journey... I already had plans of spending the previous weekend too in their home.. But Jan 9th we had a treat by my colleagues Senthil and Arun @ Village... However, I went to meet sath and others on jan 10.... After tasting one of the worst biriyani in Village, I thought I shd have biriyani in some good chettinaad hotel.. And it was good tat we went to lunch in Annachi - chettinad spl restaurant in 100 ft road, where we tasted Naatukozhi biriyani and someother dry items... Then, I left promising them, tat I'd be comin again on 13th nite itself.....

And I reached their home around 10 30 PM, and then on started the fun... As koli was away to his native place, I used his bed :) And AD guys had no holiday for pongal... Also Mu Sigma guys had holiday on 15th.. So it was only me and rabbit in home on 14th... I ate breakfast in Pongal mess (It was a long time desire for me eat pongal on Pongal day).. But it never happened... I went so late, tat they had only dosa... Then lunch we went to Nandhini Palace and had Pongal spl meals... It was one good veg lunch I had in times :) It featured Unlimited meals :) ;) Rabbit ate so much, tat he didn't have his dinner and next day breakfast as well :)

However sath and venki accompanied me to Pongal mess again, and we had a Pista milk shake tat was really good in the Juice junction :) The next day I had to go to office... The traffic was much less than expected due to eclipse.. And the fun part was many people din't come to office and many didn't have lunch due to eclipse... But it was for good tat cafe was less crowded in lunch... But at 4 PM the snacks served at cafe(not free of course) was over in no time... All hungry giants attacked the cafe in evening and it crowd was way over the capacity...

It was a good experience for me preparing dosa in their home.... Everyone laughed at my way of turning the dosa :) The non stick tawa helped a lot :) The next day saagar prepared pongal, which was really really a good one.... Then myself, rabbit, sath went to mu sigma - vineeth's office (ofcourse with vineeth) with lot of expectation to play TT, but ended up getting a bun... Interview was goin on in their office and ppl were waiting in tat room were TT court was there... We had Arabian grape juice in his cafe, which was really a good one :)

Evening all six of us went to Forum Value mall in whitefield(first time for me and few others)... We watched Aayirathil Oruvan there... And to describe about this movie, I would copy the status msg of Venki [Aayirathil Oruvan = Great Adventure(from Indiana Jones) + Good Fantasy + Extream Violence (from 300)+ 12th Centuries Tamil + Nudity + Vulgar Words + Unnecessary Andrea - Some Logic]... I bought some T-shirt in MegaMart inside tat mall, which really had attractive prices... Then dinner at KFC deserves a spl mention, as it was the first time tat I ate there.... Chicken @ KFC was really good and liked it very much... Felt I missed it so long.....

The next day we decided to go to EMC^2, the decision came as soon as we got messed up in Mu sigma... The same four of us went to rabbit's office (EMC^2), only to play TT... Our desire to play snooker din't happen, as one them din't have the stick and other was occupied... However his office was damn good but still many areas under construction......

Overall, past couple of weekends + the annual shutdown were all totally enjoyable and I really respect the hospitality shown in my frnds home and ofcourse the 1Mbps net connection kept the wireless router busy all the time :) Watched Harry Potter first two parts along with Sath... I had a feeling tat it was some children stuff, but as I started watchin 'em, it kept me on and I really enjoyed it... Hoping to watch the rest soon..... I stop here, as its already late around 8 30 PM here at office and also the post has quite exceeded the readability :)

Vacation Time :)

It feels great that I ll be leaving to my home town tonite... :) Of course,am going after more than two months.... Lot of plans ahead.... Mainly to visit most of the frnds houses.... And also waiting for the YAM at coll :) Just played TT for most of the time today.... More than half the company has already left.... And there had been vacation mood rite from monday............

Am sad to leave my LG flatron here.... Am very much attracted towards tat lcd monitor tv.... The full hd display had been a feast to my eyes from last saturday, tat am not at all usin my lap's display.... Gonna connect DTH to it by next month... For more details chk out the LG website for M227WA model :)

Also planning to watch Vettaikaran and Avatar this week.... Dunno whether I'll be able to meet all my frnds this weekend as most of them don't have annual shutdown... However, 10 days is a long time to enjoy... Will be posting more on it after I come back on Jan 4th :) I met Pravin b4 two weeks at marathalli... And upon roamin with this guy, I happened to meet few other frnds unexpectedly... Tat list included firstly Deepa(in marathalli bus stop), then my school frnds Anmol and Ranjit Matthew in brand factory, and finally vigneshwari when I was about to take my bike from parking area :) Just b4 tat week (first week of december) only I met lot of my coll frnds - a big list Ragu, sundu, sriram, baski - all four from Hyd, and our blr guys.... We went to karting tat day and then to garuda mall ( had a really good time there).... Ofcourse every week we'll be in vacation mood, but this is really different... Its one long leave in the entire year... I feel highly happy energetic and enthusiastic now.... This is really wat ppl call as vacation mood :) ;)

2009 was overall good tat I've started a career in my life... Finding my company pretty good now... Also few new joinees this month are giving me good company.. And also guys n gals from my coll and those joined along with us in june are doing pretty well and we have fun most of the time in cafe and break out areas.... Ppl are very friendly and am enjoyin every moment of it.... My team is one waste team tat none gives parties..... Of course only party given was by myself and yogesh as a joining party... (kanja payaluga) :( I wish I were in ultrasound team....

Am sad tat my frnd Yogesh is moving to other team from jan... :( He had been really a very very helping guy... Also having lot of debts to settle him.... This guy is goin for Temple Visit this holidays (Murugan Temples).... And ofcourse many ppl have their own vacation plans....

Wishing everyone "Merry Christmas And Happy New Year"