Cricket @ BTM

Finally after a long time, got into the company of a new set of friends to play Cricket.
Every weekend, it was an upbeat mood to play and that too for me (Mainly to show off my talent in Cricket)
I always have a very tough time to wake up my friends Valanthavan / Srikanth and others to accompany me. After brushing the teeth (sometime forgot too) would land up in PONGAL, the veg cafe for a great breakfast! Idli, Gatty Chutney and Podi Dosa! Me and Srikanth used to simply eat Chutney and drink sambar literally.. "Dai Podum da! Niruthu da!" No way we wont stop. After that BIG breakfast, then starts our Cricket arguments! I want batting and u bowl!!!!! Used to be days when we used to fight (sometimes using bad words too) for every run we score.....add water to it!!!!!!!

It always used to be tought matches, with me always in the midst of everything. Be it Batting, make sure i bat (GAJU) for a long time, (i dont mind whether team wins or not) and when i bowl, make sure i get the complete allotted set of overs....
It always used to be fun there, with all the Sunscreen lotion smeared on the face (to make sure that we dont get dark and look like Irfan Pathan). Half the time, we wont watch the match! Hope u guyz get the real thing!

PS: Mainly nowadays i play just to smear TAR on my friend's face by making sure that i bat and bowl well. Or else i cant stand the teasing!! Ayyo! Hope i dont get beaten!!!because the person knows who i;m referring to!!!

Join the Fast Track course from Sep to July 2006

Time started to fly once i went to the project. Same age old meetings., reviews, ownership of modules, hi-fi mgmt words during appraisals / one-on-ones.
Met new friends and for the first time in my life, DANCED in the DJ nite! For all those who know me, they will commit suicide, once they hear this.. sorry Guyz

Got involved in the project and during various occasions even worked for than 24 hours at a stretch! It was a wonderful time in the project, with all the politics, experiencing them, winning accolades and more than that "CLIENT ESCALATIONS".

Soon it was June 2k6, the project by nuk or crook, was completed and i was back to relaxation mode. Then i really made up my mind to blog daily and thats how i'm here now with this one..again

Enter Electronic City - country's IT super market!

Scene 1 : Assigned a project in telecom domain (our hero couldnt argue against it). Asked to meet a Big B in Electronic City.
Scene 2 : Board the Company Bus and Looking heads out for EC.
A big smile, a small victory - a sensation felt by our hero, excited about working in EC, country;s largest IT supermarket.
Waiting eagerly to enter the company's most admirable campus which i had seen only in pictures, didnt even mind the traffic on the Hosur road. Took almost 2 hours to reach EC and entered the divine temple with my right leg! Went directly to report to the Big B to get know the project. Entralled by the ambience, looked around the place with surprise. "Hai! Fountain." "Hai! Water, Swan, Duck", "Hai Tennis Court, GYM!", "Hai Amphitheatre", as if a village country brute is seeing for the first time. Some of the employees were even amused by my reactions!
Waited outside the conference room for the Big B, to accept orders. Out he came and i wanted to show off before him, as every one does, very formally i said "Hello, X (No Sir), Pleasure meeting you". Out came the reply.. "You Aswin! Y Project, Go..Bye!"
The real taste of Corporate. (Not Bipasha basu's One)

Bengalooru Calls "Mone Dinesha Vaaada"

Yup. With very high expectations, landed into the IT whiz city of Hindustan (so-called). You know something - in every family, a person working in this great city commands respect more than others in Chennai, Delhi or Mumbai! Its so often called a HYPE, or perhaps has become a MYTH that, a bengaloorean is the BEST, samjho, THE BEST in all aspects. Landed directly in Madivala, (didnt know at that time, i m going to stay there) and started to exceed all the expectations which i had in mind - JUST THE OPPOSITE.

-> bad roads, snail's pace traffic. NATARAJA is the best transport service. So got into one immediately.
-> Touch anything for 100 bucks! Thats how expensive is the COL.
-> Now to the reality! Every other person wears an ID card and he is the commoner here.
Compared to Chennai where people used to respect us.
-> Sky high Real Estate prices!

With all the dreams shattered, got a decent house for a rent, (i would have rented a bungalow back home with this), wasted 3 hours (sometimes even 5) to conveyance from Office to home and back.

Now really got the taste of Bangalore!

Even if i tell and will tell more and more bad aspects of Bangalore... i love the CITY, come wat may, for NO REASON, simple love it. Planning to settle here too....

PS: Some good things too..
-> Visit all the malls during weekends...Best place to spend.
-> The City is improving, hope i come back here sooner to blog its fame!