Trip to Kanyakumari

I was back in campus for mid-term evaluation of my project, evaluation was scheduled on Friday, so i reached calicut a day advance on Thursday morning, full day spent with friends talking about here and there, finally at night prepared project report and the presentation for tomorrow's evaluation. by noon presentation got over and we were decided to go to Kanyakumari, we have tried to get car from Raju bhaiya but as he was little busy with some work we couldn't got from him. finally we got a Wagon-R from the Abdul Cheta, many times we rented bikes from him for small journeys but this time we have planned to go almost 500 Km bike will not be a good option.
We all got into car and started our journey at 4PM. This was first time i was driving a Wagon-R. and car was good with good pickup and electronic steering. at night 2AM we reached Trivandrum which was our decided first halt. Our two seniors Mr.Shashi and Mr.Bhagat with one of our super senior Mr Arun welcomed us their.

We stayed at their flat for the night, as per our daily schedule we got up from beds late and continued our journey to Kanyakumari after visiting State Bank Recruitment Cell for some work. We took a break at Kovalum beach, it was nice beach full of foreigners taking sunbath and enjoying the sea waves.

On the way we got attracted with Nagarcoil waterfall sign-boards, although it was 15km out of the way, we decided to visit that also, some how we found the waterfalls and all our expectations went wrong when we saw the waterfall, it was very small one. any way we clicked some pics there and continued journey towards endpoint of peninsular India.



Ooo i missed out the introduction of the crew this time guddu and salam were with our alltime NIT gang APJ (Amit, Pavan and Jayant). Five of us reached Kanyakumari at about 6PM. It was nice to be there we spent time sitting near to the sea-shore. As the boat service to the Vivekananda rock was closed by the time so we didn't went to the meditation rock. Done with some purchasing we we got into the car for return journey it was 9PM so we thought to have dinner here itself and got into a restaurant. after a nice dinner started our return journey and we were back at Trivandrum at 11:30 PM.

Something extraordinary we got up early in the morning to visit famous Padmanabhswamy Temple after temple i met one of my BCA batch mate Raees. and then we were on our return journey, we stopped at Alphozha backwaters which was again a new place for all of us. By 6 PM we were back in Campus and fully tired with the journey. At night again i have to travel to Bangalore to be present in the office Monday morning. Nice experience.

As it was too hot during day journey everyone was trying to do something to get rid of the boredom sitting quite in the car. We captured a video also while returning on the Kochi Highway

Sprite Dal

Don't think too much about the title.. read about what happened exactly

Last weekend all my NIT friends came to Bangalore for masti and a break. i had shifted to new room last weekend so they all came to my room. As weekend was the only time with them they all were returning back on Sunday night. My roommate, who was with his friend Manish last night was coming back to room, but i went to inter-state Bus stand to give send off to my friends. i called Viney before going to Majestic and said him that today we'll prepare our food at room itself, also Viney's friend Manish was also coming to our room for tonight and being very good cook he always like to prepare food.finally i left with my friends to kick them out from Bangalore..

It was around 10PM and i was on the way back to room, i got a call from Viney that we have not purchased salt, as it was newly setup kitchen we only had things which were good enough to prepare tea/coffee. it was first day we were going to cook so we found that salt was not purchased. I reached home with a salt packet and i went out to call SHRUTI. They prepared rice and dal + bhindhi.

After i finished call, i entered room and got into their talk, they were discussing how come dal is sweet, Manish was not getting how come dal got sweetness, i thought let it be after tasting so much variety of food i don't have problem in trying out this dal. i went to kitchen and saw the small little bottle in which i have kept some sprite left out last night, when i offered that sprite to these people they asked me back is that SPRITE(a colorless cold drink brand), finally they started laughing , they have used SPRITE for preparation of dal.. now finally they got how dal has not got its original flavor, now Manish was also relaxed as he found that he hasn't done any mistake, his cooking is still good. We had that sweet dal as gujrati dish with rice and bhindi prepared along...

Hey what are you planing now something like Pepsi chhole, frooti rajma or colin rice like Rinku suggested to me

Back to School !!

Hey don't be carried away by the topic .. you might get a view that this guy got chance to visit Nahan in Himachal and again he visited his Army school where all 14 years of first education was spent .. no yaar this time i visited school with all crazy employees of Yahoo! Bangalore ..

Yahoo! organized their annual year end party on 27 Feb'09. Being workin with Yahoo! i was invited there and it was gr8 to spent time with Yahoo!'s present at party ....

One fine afternoon i just return from lunch and login to machine at my cubical, all of sudden one guy from HR team came to my station and presented a SLATE and a BATTI.. yeah! this was the invitation for the Yahoo!'s year end party .. as party was named Back to School and dress code was school uniform. I found it cool to be part of such event, same time i found a mail in my inbox inviting to the party with a description of the events to be held there, My manager Narendra has already told me about the party events and as he was aware of my singing talent through my browser he advised me to perform there .. i replied back to juhie asking if i can present a solo song there, but i got reply stating that this time only group performance are taken up as party events are reduced . OOOO bad now i was in a mood if i would have got a chance then i would have made some more people to know me :P...

Finally i got back to work .. one another day i got mail from Teenu asking me to get Karaoke track of the song to be perform... he he he i was happy to get a chance i went to met teenu and told her that i have some songs you can select one you want me perform some more senior Yahoo!s were present there and some other Teams .. i said her that i am not getting karaoke for any of these tracks and that was a problem, it wont be good singing without any music on that big stage. anyway i started the Punjabi dhun which i performed almost every time during my MCA @ NITC i got into to stage. and they all liked it. Now Here come the first friend i got with this event ... sardarji standing just near to TT Table with a thought to start game after song ends up, came forward and after giving a praise for punjabi geet said to Teenu that i am going to my home to get tabla ... yes it would be nice to have Tabla with the song ...


Finally MP i mean Manpreet Singh the sardarji was back with a bag and we got into Yahoo!'s breakout area for pratice yes after matching the taal we decided to perform together .. MP was also performing at Party he was part of three events including my song .. first was the dance and other was a homour skit MAD-ADD in their words .. really their performance was awesome ..MAD-ADD got very popular with Latika. I will update the blog with videos as soon as i will get. it was nice party with all the fun, kid games where all seniors Yahoo! officials were playing like small children .. after on stage events there was crazy award distribution function which was amazing thing then was good dinner with chilled Beer along with ..



Finally all at the dance floor with Dj playing quiet good dance numbers....

Nice Party with gr8 Yahoo!