Friday, September 16, 2005

Team Outing!

Just back from Team outing,it was a marvellous day(apart from being friday,which is a holy day for s/w ppl).
We went for full day outing to Goldern Palm Resort, which is Sanjay Khans resort.It was a awsome place,though many ppl did'nt like it then our previous outing place(Club Cabana).We planned to leave from our office through a 50 seater bus by 8:30AM,but as usual we all followed our IST and left arnd 9:45AM.As traffic is also getting verse in b'lore,so we reached finally to resort at 11:30AM.After having our welcome drink,we rushed to games section.Though we planned to start with Cricket,but unluckly resort ppl have other guests(ppl from informatica) who were using the cricket ground.The incharge assured us that ground will be available for us by 1 oclock.So we planned to enjoy other games and go for cricket after lunch.
We(Chinu,prem,K boss,Ravi,Nataraj and many more) went to play TT & Tennis.I could not try much hands on Tennis as i was not in sports shoes.
As planned we went for lunch which was served near pool side(food stuff was really cool,we ate upto our brim).All were feeling sleepy after lunch.Ppl were not as enthusiastic to play cricket as they were in intial stage.Any how our dear frnd Ravi(gr8 cricket lover) was able to pull all of us to cricket ground which was still occupied by informatica guys.Anyhow they vacated the area soon(for which we again took help of resort incharge).Totally we played 2 matches(our team lost one and won the other).After matches we were totally exausted and it was already 5.00 PM ,so we went for our high tea and then planned to jump into water pool to relax out tiring body(which is not use to scorching heat and physical hard work we have put into cricket).
As our team guys were already playing volleyball in pool,so we too got into it and enjoyed till 7.00PM.Then got refreshed and went to bar to have some cool drinks...i know it sounds odd(where we enjoyed jokes with sush,pulled her leg a lot for drinking).Then went for photo session all arnd the resort and finally settled for dinner.I did'nt ate much but food was good as usual.

Finally we landed up to office at 10:30PM and here i am on my blog(could not stop my self from writing,though was feeling too tired to stare at monitor,just thinking if some body can drop me to home,dont feel like driving.Any how have to take my bike as Anju is coming early in morning to b'lore,have to pick her up and do a couple of her important tasks).Chalo will be back soon!

Friday, September 09, 2005

Hyderabad Trip!

I am back from Hyd today morning.It was a fun trip.Left on tuesday evening on train for hyderabad(food facility in train was good enough...as compared to pune journey).Reached hyd 5:45 in morning(it was drizzling),called up my cousin to know the exact location of her house.Took an auto to her place in bangera hills.Auto's in hyd are good looking,but they are not as supersonic in speed as here in b'lore.
Finally reached my cousin placed,got refreshed and planned for outing after lunch.My cousin prepared food at home(she makes awsome chappati's,got chance to taste homely food for few more days).As it was Ganesh chaturthi,so bhaiya(abha's elder bro) was also free.So we went for a movie(NO ETNTRY),for which we already booked tickets on phone.But unlucky when we reached there,theatre ppl sold off all tickets.So i managed to get tickets in black(all three tickets had different seat numbers,that also got managed soon in hall).On the whole movie was good,specially the second half.After movie we went to hussain sagar lake,went around on necklace road(stayed there for half an hour).Then we moved to a near by mall PRASAD.There we had coffee and tried to catch up some apparel for abha,but ladies segment was weak in mall.So came back home.I was of intension to have dinner outside,but bhaiya & abha were too fedup of outside food,so i settled with them(homely food is yummy for me,specially the wonderfull chaapatis that abha made).
When we reached home,electricity went off and abha has to manage cooking without electricity in candle light.We winded up dinner by 12:15AM and went straight to bed as all were too tired.
Next day nothing was planned for outing except doing shopping for abha in Hyderabad cental(which we again planned after lunch).We left for Central around 3:00PM,where abha tried lot of apparels and finally after one hour and 30 mins search we have got good clothes for her.Then we settled for coffee and chatted a lot.My train was at 7:00PM,so we left from central around 5:45PM to pickup my luggage and finally reached station 5 mins before train departure(thanks god,did'nt missed my train).
I was planning for hyd trip from last 8 months(yaa i know,i am too lazy to go ahead with implementing my plans,but was too busy with work schedule to feel free to go any where except on important ocassions).
Finally back to b'lore.Hope for next trip soon(may be to sikkim,will plan with all frnds).

Monday, September 05, 2005

Reunification

This weekend was really gr8888888.. and rememberable moment for me as I went to pune to meet my college days sweet frnds(sharmaji,chow & yash),specially chow who has came from US.I started from b'lore on thursday night and reached pune on friday evening.As it was long journey,so i had taken one novel(Tao of Physics),which i have hardly read 30-40 pages.It was based on linkage b/w physics and old time religion ,which has always forced me to sleep.So most of the journey i was sleeping and rest of the time was excited about time, i have planned ahead in pune.

Finally when i reached pune,chow and sharmaji came to recieve me(as they have already reached pune thru flight and arranged for a marvellous hotel near station).Yash was expected to join us late in night after his job shift.As he already took lot of holidays for his brother marriage and his father operation,so we planned pune as destination of our reunion else i was looking forward for Bhopal(to refresh once again our college days).Anyways,days at pune was fantastic.

On friday evening, we three left for FC road and had some good stuff(pav bhaji) in a restuarent.Mean while did lot of bakar with chow.
We also called up Kaul baba(one of our batch mate) to same place and he was not ready to believe that we all were in pune.Kaul took lot of time to reach FC road,so in the mean time we guys took a big round of FC road(2-3 times).
Finally we have settled down with kaul in Subway,shared lot of jokes(as all the time i was pulling kauls leg:-).With kaul we took our dinner outside and came back to hotel,wating for yash to join us.Surprisingly,yash came straight to our room without even letting us know of his arrival.

Now was the time of actual bakar.We were awake till 2-3 AM and then have to sleep as we had planned for a trip to lonawala and khandlaa(b/w pune and mumbai).

Next day we ran behind our schedule and was ready after our break fast for leaving to lonvala/khandala by 11AM.We hired a cab after lot of bargain on price(settled for 1100+toll tax).So we were rocking on express way by 12:30.

We saw various places like Tata power Dam,Caves,lonvala(it was too foggy/cloudy weather and really good place) and finally khandala(nice place but was not as exciting as i expected).On the whole,the trip was excellent.Finally we left for pune arnd 6PM and reached there by 7:35PM.Then we had a plan for movie and was not sure for which to go and also not aware of show timings.So we have asked the cab person to drop us to INOX theatre.There we could not catchup any good movie (was looking for Ramji london waley).All the show timings were before 8PM.Finally i remembered one of the theatre that i saw near station which was screening the movie.So i and rajiv rushed to the theatre to checkout timings/ticket availability and in the meantime yash & chow went to hotel to drop the stuff we had bought from lonavala.Finally we got the tickets of the movie of 9:30PM show.Chow's cousin brother was studing in pune,so we also invited him for the movie.

Movie was full of fun.I was having a feeling that i was still in bhopal with my frnds watching a movie in some bhopali theatre.After movie, we went to COMESUM(24 hrs)on railway station and stayed there till 3AM.It was too crowded with young guys and gals(as if it was some fashion show going on).
We adieu chow's brother and were back to hotel.All were too tired and we have to checkout next day so we slept soon.Next day we got up late as usual and then got ready to checkout from hotel.As i had my b'lore KSRTC bus at 4PM,so we planned to meet bhabhiji(sharmaji elder brother's would be wife).Bhabhiji was not happy as she has prepared food for us and we were asking her to have lunch outside.Finally we settled for lunch at her home(she has prepared really dellicious kofta's...after many years got chance to have them).Last few hours at bahbhiji house was cool enough.
It was almost 3:20PM and we have to reach the bus stop(the exact place i was not aware of),so me,rajiv & bhabhiji took one auto and chow,yash hired another one to give me final buy on bus stop.At last we reached the place, where bus was about to leave.I boarded it and gave final love to my frnds(that too in hurry,was feeling so sad).
Now began my journey towards b'lore in which i just thought of days i spent at pune with frnds.In whole journey,we got 2 movies to watch(Sarfarosh & Dus) which i was hardly interested to see.
Late night i came to know that chow and rajiv has missed there flight to delhi and later chow planned of going to Shirdi(from there his plans were for ujjain).Yash left for aurangabad and my dear sharmaji have to stay at bhabhiji house in pune to catch up next day flight for delhi.
When i came back to b'lore i was feeling as if i was in pune from long time.I wish God to gather as again soon for another good ocassion.

Today i will be heading for my next gr8 trip to hyderabad(will have fun with my cousin).See you soon again!