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Ooty trip. 24th - 25th October 2009. Most memorable trip! This trip was my escape plan! My birthday was falling on this weekend and I didn't want it to be like the birthday routine (mostly at food court 5 - oasis) of the Infosys, Mysore campus. So when I heard Sachit (who was from my college but had come to know him during training as he sat one seat beside me) planning a trip to Ooty with all his friends. I showed my interest in joining them clearly stating how I didn't want to be in the campus on my birthday falling that Sunday. He agreed. That is how I happen to go on this trip with Sachit, Sharad, Shikha and Varun. All were new to me! Before this trip I have hardly ever exchanged formal greeting with them and now here I was going to a beautiful hill station on a weekend! We left early morning for Udhagamandalam. On the way we had to cross Bandipur National Park. We stopped there and decided to take a Safari ride. Well it happened so that we missed on the early morning Safar...

Maybe its my "back from Mangalore " affect. It rained cats and dogs 'in Jaipur' from 4:30p.m. till 10:00p.m. And not only that, rains were associated with winds ( the Mangalore kind ). I took a halt by a hotel in front of Subodh College. But dear rains calculated the perfect angle to meet me! I so thought while coming back from Mangalore that I was done with the torrential rains. But apparently Jaipur rains have set some records straight today! Fully drenched I took a decision to visit my Mausi (maternal Aunt) who lives nearby. At her place, I changed into dry clothes when Anjali called to yell that she has been waiting for more than an hour at JKK . So I quickly prepared and enjoyed the tea with Mausi and then left for JKK in the borrowed clothes. There I finally met Anjali three days after coming to Jaipur. I sat there long in the company of Anjali and later with Arvind sir waiting for rain to stop. Finally at 8:30 p.m. I gave into my fate and drove ...

Had an intention to be at Infosys office at Kottara, Mangalore for the Toastmasters Meet at 6:30 a.m. sharp. I failed and I realised it when I woke up to the call of Ravi at 7:15. After witnessing the coveted meet where all the Toastmasters clubs of Mangalore had come together, I gladly participated in the photo shoot event! :) Then came the time to meet everyone there as I leave for the airport. This was the most special last handshakes in this week; as these are the people being with whom I had actually been in the presence of my interest! I was and said what I love to. Still I don't feel like saying that 'I will miss them'. Maybe 'cause I still don't realise that I have parted from them. But there is some kind of strong feel I have that I won't be missing them because somewhere I know I will be meeting them again for sure and not for once but like will keep having these casual ( read Toastmasters ) meets! :) With this happy feeling I started off for airport ...

Tonight was my evening with all my office lunch partners! Planned at 7:30 all managed to arrive by 8:30. And so the traditions is kept alive! I was made to wait! :) Manoj was the only one to reach on time rather even before me and so we waited for over 45 minutes for the rest of the us to join. Joining us were Prachi, Kajal, Guru, Neelesh and later on by Preeti, Sunny and Nikhil. It was like always a good time to be in company with all. And they all happened to decide before hand and picked up some mementos for me. :) It was the high point of the evening when i was asked to take out each and every gift and they all patiently watched my reaction unfold! :) Picture of this party will soon be uploaded.... :)

Tonight was the turn to hangout with all my college friends plus couple of other who became friends during my training days at Mysore. The best part of the whole event was that laughing never ceased! I was laughing incessantly like a teenager! We all got together at Chutney Restaurant for the party and got this place in the restaurant garden where it was just our group. That made the environment much more free for us to say anything and for me to laugh at as high pitch as possible! :) Hitesh, Aneesh , Puneet, Nikhil, Jasraj, Pankaj, Kunal, Abhishek, Lata, Rohit, Neha, Neelam and Neetu all came to grace my party and to have fun probably for the last time for me at Managlore. Also not to forget, I have to thank them for the beautiful gifts they presented me! :) Thanks all. And especially Jasraj for picking up a pen-set which is such an iconic present for me at this juncture of my life! Thank you all for such a wonderful time. I never laughed so hard!! :) And of course not to forget for a...

That is what I said at my party as I stand today having resigned from Infosys and now going back home to search for a job I would like! I am reborn! Its not that I am seeing my proffessional life as something which will have fresh start but also relations. People come up with complete other side to themselves when they know that one of them is leaving and that there is a possibility that you might not meet that person again. Last three parties post my last day at office have been such experiences and it has made me richer! :) On tuesday after office I went out with all my toastmasters friends! Toastmasters was the only thing which kept me busy in "true" sense at office! And so it was special. I was been surprised with this lovely cake they all got for me : After decently having cake, I was being warned that if the cake would not finish I would have to face the fate and so it was.... And these were the culprits .. And so after all present there had their part of fun we all we...

Its the most difficult one. You know it the its not the end yet but its neither far away from the end! It was my second last day at Infosys office! Not that I got all sentimental about it but it was a strange feeling. After much digging up I could say the things that made me happy here will always be with me wherever I go. The friends I made here, memories of few trips I have been on, my free time in cubicle doing all random search on the Internet . Not for a second will I miss work or anything related to it. So today at least I felt content. A rare feeling! Office where it was a big burden to even pass time till lunch and after lunch every second seemed to be a torture; at the same office today I was active like never before meeting all the people and was shocked to see that it already was 5:30 in my wrist watch! Nothing can be better than a Happy Ending!! Can't wait for tomorrow! :)

Packing and moving is one of those activity which involves both being happy and sad at the same time. An emotionally charged activity where one is excited to see what future beholds but as the human tendency too attached to let go off the present! I am now packing off to mark an end to my journey at Mangalore and at Infosys at large. I too have the low times knowing that I won't be a part of Infosys network to be easily communicate with my friends over communicator , won't be in the K arnataka zone to make those easy intra -state calls to plan to meet friends in circle, no more pings calling for lunch, no more party @ fc mails, and so much more. But this is exactly why I am leaving because all I will miss is the 'having fun' part. I won't miss a quad of my project times. I am too young to be so sad! :) Well back to the packing stuff. I have never been averse to packing, rather I think I love it. Because it involves a promise of some exciting experience in fut...

Last weekend I went with few of community Toastmaster Club's (Winner Club's) members to an engineering college in Ujire for a demo meet. My objective to join them was to give my Project 2 speech there. Ok this all might sound vague to most of the people reading the blog. So I would rephrase it and say my objective to go for this demo meet was to meet new people and have fun as I check a place on my travel list. And indeed it was fun. Had the most amazing discussion at both the ends of the journey. Got involved in some real intellectual one to for a change! :) And the major reason was that I was blessed with the company of some very experienced people and they were kind enough to shower their wisdom on us. Meanwhile as far as I am traveling in south, photographs to banti hai boss! :)

On 23rd July, that is two weeks back I started off for Bangalore probably for the last time. This thought was sinking in me when I boarded the 9a.m. bus on friday. I have so many friends there and all are there for one reason, job in IT sector, from which I have planned to depart. I felt odd for numerous reasons and one of them was it might be the last of such lonely travels I will make to meet my friends. As is supposed to be the journey was eventful with something going wrong with the bus and hence getting delayed adding on to my very vexation. But beautiful sights on the way made sure that the smile on my face won't phase away. Although I tried but could not get the best picture clicked of the most beautiful scene from the moving bus. Still, here is what I could grab: Finally reached Bangalore at sometime around 6 p.m. and the gala event of meeting with friends started that ended up only on Sunday night. I almost tried to meet up with every single person possible and still had t...

This is just to compliment my last blog! This is an impromptu video that I shot on one of the many days when it was windy and rainy at the Mangalore SEZ office of infosys (also called as Nethra).