Saturday was full of joy with my x-comp colleagues as we all had been to Patel’s Inn for a team outing. Patel’s Inn is situated near RT Nagar. At around 9:30Am in the morning 6 of us left to PI from Raghi’s house. We reached there by around 10:30Am. By that time the team was present over there and all of us kick started the day by breakfast. Then there was an Inaugural song by Divya followed by a musical chair. Then we divided ourselves into 4 teams for all our team events starting with the cricket. As other two teams were free, they moved towards gokarting followed by the batsmans who had already finished their turns. So cricket was stopped due to environmental problems. Then some more joined gokarting where I moved to play Badminton with the managers.
After badminton we had a break for lunch and again others moved toward gokarting to finish their turns including me. Finally all of us were back in a single location for housie. After housie there was an Ad-Mads from Raghi’s team which performed really well imitating our managers. All of us enjoyed the show and after that our GM left as he had to catch a flight @ 6Pm. Then we continued with dumb charades and had lotto fun. Finally the outing was terminated by a farewell gift to ME. So officially I was out of my project from that day ;)
Then Me, raghi, divya, Mani, satish and sellappan went to Nithin’s house as it was near to Patels Inn. We spend some time in his awesome n beautiful colony along with his son named Rohan. Later we went out to Doddi’s Resort for dinner and came back home by 12 in the night.
I was the first to catch the Tempo Traveller that CSP had booked near Ramakrishna Ashram at around 6:50PM. Later CSP n CK joined near Chamarajpet. Then it was at the Petrol pump in kasturba road where in all the remaining 6 people joined us namely Vish, Ravi, Nazish, Ashwin, Joji and Joji’s frnd. It was already around 7:40PM when we left that petrol bunk filling our TT’s tummy.
Soon after around 10mins past, we started looking at the driver’s DVD collections as we had booked Video coach TT. We decided to watch “The Italian Job”. At around 9PM our stomach started to bark and thought of putting something to it. So we stopped near some so called “raja dhaba” which was situated just around 11km before bagepalli. By that time even we had finished our Italian Job aswell. We had our dinner along with d dogs out there!!! and left at around 11:30Pm from there..
It was 8’o clock in the morning when we entered ISB campus for the registration which starts at 9 while Joji and his friend got down before as they had different plans all together. We called up santhosh and directly went to his room to get freshen up. Finally all of us were seated by 10 and the conclave started as per the time. We had a good inauguration and the day went very well… The program ended by 5:45pm in the evening. Then we had discussions for about 30mins and it was 630pm when CSP decided to stay back with his friend Santhosh in ISB itself as they had met after a very long time. So remaining 6 of us left the campus with our own plans and moved towards Hyderabad Central. Ashwin was dropped on the way to his friend’s place.
Remaining 6 of us including sriki who joined us in Hyderabad went to central. Thought of booking a hotel over there , go n sit in some pub to relax ourselves, have dinner n goto bed. This was our plans when we got down @ central. But adeno gaade idyalla “taanondu nenedare vidhiyondu bageyithu” anta. We kept searching for a hotel, but we couldnot get even an average hotel. We luked ard 10 hotels atleast for over 1.5hrs but were in wane. By this time v were very hungry and thought of hitting some restaurant for dinner skipping our pub plan. Then we went in to some “Hyderabad Corner”. But we couldn’t even sit over there. So v escaped from there and saw a gud restaurant opposite to that named “Step In Bakery and Restaurant”. We went there and ordered the starters. Myself n sriki ordered veg while other four ordered 2 Hyderabad Chicken biryani. The waiter asked a normal or a large. They ordered for LARGE. Startes came n was nil in no min. Then there it arrived a LARGE Hyderabad chicken biryani where all of us were fainted seeing one’s quantity but then the other also followed it. Finally all 4 of them finished one LARGE with difficulty. Luckily we veggies didn’t find any difficulties. We paid the bill and came out. As we were quite tired, thought of using the lift to go down.. There again had an amazing experience !!.
So now we were on road without a place to stay. So then we decided to stay in sriki’s room and went. We had a nice sleep and got up at around 8:30 in the morning. CK left to his cousin’s place and he would be joining us in the late afternoon. We got to know that sriki know palm astrology. So there was their own turn to everyone to know about them. So we got dressed up and started towards ISB. On the way we picked Ashwin and also had our breakfast. We reached ISB at 12:30pm and had a real hot discussions regarding piracy where vish really boxed all alone. Then we talked about roadmap of Mukta. We got our food delivered from Hyderabad house and had along with our discussions. Then we thought of roaming around the campus with some photo sessions before leaving. The campus was really amazing and enjoyd a lot thru out the campus tour. Joji and his friends joined us @ 6:30pm in ISB and we started to head toward Bangalore. We reached back our home at around 6:30 in the morning and there on my routine day life started……………….
Was looking at clock to jus click 4 as we had a grand FINALE of "mile sur mera tumhaara" antaakshari @ mindtree. As dis was my first grand event, i was really waiting to check out the standards of MT.
Went to Food Court, d venue for the finale. Was arranged quite heavily.. thr was an orchestra band to add on music. There were ard 5 teams seated on d stage and d hosts took an entry to begin d show.
There were around 6 rounds for them and for the audience tooo... lots of goodies for the audience. It was nice to see lots of PMs, GMs, and other heads including Subroto, COO of mindtree to be around. Finally it was "IOTA@mp3.org" who walked away as d winner followed by "chartbusters" and "jackas jassies".
Enjoyed d whole evening and drove back home remembering my good old days where we used to conducted lots of such events @ perot.......
hey check...dis is moi second writeup 4 d day... dis is wht it happns whn i sit to write after a long time...m 1 lazy ass to update daily yar ;)
anyways....got to know dat I've not updated on my goa trip whn I was blogging d prev post...
just thought of saying tht - d seperate full fledged blog of 5 days trip to Gokarna, Goa, Sathodi, Yana is on its way.... so keep looking out for d same... I'll update u on dat very soon....
Hey, after around 2weeks finally I got a call from one of the project manager here in mindtree and there it is , work jus waiting 4 me on my hand now... cut to my TT, cut to carrom in which usually i was busy wid d whole prev weeks... now have to c d usual PC and have to play wid code, chat n other stuffs... so probably 4m now on less physical n more mind(ical) strain/stress.
Anyways I got a pc n seat 4 me..so busy wid d setups/sessions/xploring etc etc etc. but hey frnds, BE AWARE.... u'll receive more mails 4m me now on :)
Monday, November 27, 2006
