Women's Day Out

Acc has a lot of GPTW (Great Place To Work) clubs - "Vaahini" is an all women's club ,dedicated exclusively to all the ">" ladies .
In one of its mailer , the club had announced a Contest and 160 gals to mail back would be taken to a resort, and i was one among them .
Nov 24 th was the date fixed. Saranya bagged the last minute seat as one of my other colleague dropped out , and u know what i had told her before when she dint get the Ticket that hey just wait anything might happen ..and waalaaaaa she got it :) some times i do predict things well hee hee.

We both along with 100 of other gals had a blast in the "Royal Orchid Resort - Doddi" .
Its a nice place, to relax and enjoy . There were games organsied which were very interesting , 'Misguided Missiles' tats we called our team .hee hee
There was Mehendi ,Nail coloring etc etc
We had a rocking time, in the Disco tech with DJ being dominated by us and our requests for fav numbers.
Day ended with good food and music :)

Ethnic Day @ work-2

We celebrated Ethnic day recently, we were thrilled to be draped in sari's yet again.. This is the second Ethnic day in my office since i joined.
Though we managed to convince the whole team to be in Ethnic wear, u know some ppl dont hearrrrr u!!!!!!!
We had a blast as usual, having Ramp walks and then again Photo shoots ,Cakes ,Choclates what not.
Me wrapped in Green,Ash was dashing in Pink,Saranya shining in Cream and name a colour you would find them.
I just hope next Ethnic Day would be on a day far off from now as we dont want to loose that charm by having it very often :) .

Friends@Work

Our project brought in some fresher’s and don’t ask me work life is changed since then …. Now there are huge amounts of masti at work place too….
The only issue is am not able to allocate much time as them cos am a year senior and have lil more responsibilities and work.
But that doesn’t stop us from having fun .
Sreyashi,Ashwini,Saranya, Pavithra are the new joiners.
Swati and I have got lots of company now. We try to make our day as much lively and fun as possible by pulling each others legs and jokes.
Nadeem has got lot of gals in his proj to keep him company now.. hee hee….

GyanTime: "Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you!"

Hungama @ Fun World

Me,Praveen,Sowmya,Nadeem and suman (my collegemates) had been to Fun World in the first weekend of Nov.
We broke our bones in some of the rides, Fun World aint so safe.
Its high time the Fun World owners take some interest and do arrange some more safety measures .
But then we had good time there.
sowmya is posted in Hyderabad permanently so she comes once in a while and we dint want to miss out the chance.
We were dangerously hanging in many rides, with me screaming all the while Nadeem was big time ragging me .
Praveen was a good observer that day and suman our camera man hee hee .
One interesting aspect of Suman is he was so scared of heights tat he dint accompany us in many rides but u know wat u can find his snap in each and every ride which was taken when the machines were stopped :) hee hee




These were the few videos taken ,
In the First video, i tried explaining Nadeem to turn the camera but he dint..u know ...nads...
but that turned out to be funny .......... they zooming on me while eating and all is lil scary ..watch out be carefull :)




In the 2nd video -u can see them ragging me :) royally..........
They just irritated me to hell.... It just boils down to the fact that evrybody wants to be treated well,, but they left me screaming..Excuse me Excuse me :( ,which happens to be my dialog now and then,when happy,sad, angry and wat not :)

Gyan Time : The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with never say a word, and then walk away with a feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

World Cyber Games City Champion………………..

It started with TV Games -> Computer Games -> Sony Play station 2 and now Xbox 360 , this has been the gaming history of my brother Sunil so far…..
Gaming has been one of his fav hobby since his high school although cant say tat he was a total game freak.
I used to wonder why I always lose to him in games J ,so did his friends , little did we know tat he had such good gaming talent tat one day he would be a City Champion for the Gaming competition held by World Cyber Games http://wcgindia.com/.
& http://wcgindia.com/CityFinailsts_WorldChamp.html

He is headed for the National finals at Mumbai, hoping that he wins the Nationals finals too and then the International Finals.

What’s on your mind?

What’s running in your mind constantly is one question you need to check upon with yourself, the more negative you think about yourself and situations, the outcomes would be the same.

I have heard a lot about disasters occurring to people who lack patience in their lives, hoping that I never end up in such kind of disaster.

Every problem will have a way out, and as they say “A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.”

As some of us are leading our lives in the corporate world which involves lot of hassles, we end up hurting our dear ones cos of the tensions involved at work or due to suppressed anger of someone in office.
This is very much true in my case so am planning to think few good things done by the same person who does / causes tension, this might cool my temper... hee hee …

Having lots of expectations on anyone/anything would only lead to misery and disappointment. Instead of waiting for something to happen, what I feel is … its better to start working towards it slowly and consistently and make it happen …..

All we youngsters have so much to achieve in our life , instead of changing everything around us the way we want its better to give time and think of the bigger goal which we have always dreamt upon and work towards it day by day …..

By nourishing our mind everyday with self motive thoughts and good values about our family and work atmosphere. I guess we can achieve big things in life,
I have tried this and I feel its working and am feeling even more confident and using my day more productively.

Gyan Time: If we feed our body with junk food and our mind with bad thoughts, we will have both a sick body and mind. We need to feed our mind with the pure and the positive to stay on track.
Through constant practice and exposure, we can learn the principles that make a person
Successful.

Lalbagh adorned to commemorate 60th year of India's Independence

Lalbagh – Decorated to mark the 60 th Year of Independence Day celebration

Lalbagh is known for its famous “Flower show” every year .
The Annual Flower Show at LalBagh is always a delight for flower and Photography enthusiasts.

I got to visit lalbagh with my cousin and just loved it .

The Glass house was the centre of the attraction.
Cos it was filled with over 100,000 roses of different varieties, besides orchids and sunflowers.


The Taj Mahal, created with red and white roses, was one of the major attractions , over 60,000 roses have been used to create this Taj Mahal miniature.
Two types of roses were used which included the 'Grand Gala' (red) and the white rose have been extensively used in this creation.

Was gazing at it for more than half an hour , trying my best to capture the best shot .

There was a flower miniature of the 'launching of a space shuttle - SPUTNIK', which is made of more than 26,000 roses. This miniature reflects the success of development in India.

You can see that below:

Miniature of this (below) Floral pair added some more charisma in the air.

Digital Dreams

Oh Yeah … One of the very first things that I wanted to do after I got into a job was to buy a Digital camera .
Unfortunately it took many days for me .. My friend Nadeem informed abt a good offer and now am a proud owner of Sony Cyber Shot DSC S650 , 7.2 MegaPixel.

This was one of my very first shot taken in my camera which I personally liked.
There are some snaps uploaded in my picasa album which were taken by my digi cam quite complacent about them.
Started to learn some tips and tricks of digital photography .

Gyaan Time :
"It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good.

Painting Bangalore Green :

It was “World Environment Day “ yesterday ..

Bangalore has lost its charm which it used to have earlier .
One could experience cool shade beneath the tress planted all across the streets.
But now more and more buildings are being constructed, roads widened which results in uprooting the trees .

It’s up to the civilians of the cities to keep their cities clean and green, We cant just sit back and keep blaming the government for everything, start by keeping your surroundings near your home clean and grow plants as much as possible.
Avoid using plastic as they take millions of years for degradation.

I loovvvvvvvveeeeeee Plants ,Flowers,greenery …. There was a Plant exhibition in my office today, its nice to know that our company is coming up with such initiatives which would definitely help in contributing to a Greener Bangalore , this is the plant which i bought ,,simple yet beautiful





This is my Garden at home ,

Pink Rose plant :
Velvette Plant :

Button Roses :


Yellow roses :

Pink Rose :

@ Work :
There’s a plan about an outing this month, me and Swati are waiting for the same.

And by the way got my certification results for CSTE and have secured a good score of 89%. Quite more than I had expected….

Before I can reach to an end of this post, wanted to talk about Success and happiness which every person in this world seeks for:

Success and happiness go hand in hand. Success is getting what you want and
Happiness is wanting what you get!


Existence alone is not success! It is a lot more!
Do more than exist -- live
Do more than touch -- feel
Do more than look -- observe
Do more than read -- absorb
Do more than hear -- listen
Do more than listen – understand

Kurumgad Island -Karwar Trip

After being exhausted and bored with our monotonous work , and since we believe in this slogan – “Work Hard , Party Harder” .
Our Team decided to go for a trip again this time for an island….. yeah sounds cool ryt….


It turned out to be one hell of an exhilarating trip I have ever gone for …..

We decided to go to KurumGad Island ,a 45 mins ferry ride from Karwar near Mangalore , which is a port town on the banks of Kali Nadi River .

This is the site…
http://www.thegreatoutdoorsindia.com/

Altogether we were 70 of them, and were split into 4 groups of 15 each and the rest 10 were Team building team.
The four teams had one lead each leading them , and I was the Lead for my team hee hee...

It was great being a Lead to several big shots in my team . I was a Team leader for 2 days.

The 4 teams were – Island Brigadiers, Tremendous 12, C-Rockers, DNA(Do Not Ask ),

Our Team name was DNA ….. Do Not Ask us why we opted that name……

Our points were calculated based on how each team assembled , collaborated, participated, mingled each and everything.

We took off on Friday evening @7.30 PM in 2 luxurious buses carrying 35 ppl on board each.
After lots of shor and hungama for 2 hours in bus we reached A1 Plaza which was Reliance Group’s restaurant had good dinner and started again.

It was a long drive to Karwar , it was supposed to take 10 hrs but we took almost 14 hrs cos of the small breaks which we took in between , had nice time in bus .singing aloud and stuff. Whoever dared to sleep were disturbed with whistles and slogans J

I however managed to fall asleep when I woke up the next day I cudnt believe my eyes the sight was splendid , we were going down a hill …. Covered with lush green trees and bushes , it was a marvelous site .

I woke up everybody next to me all were wonder struck ………..
Few mins from then we cud see the mangalore beach , we reached karwar in other 1.5 hours . we reached at 10 AM on the Karwar Port .

We took a ferry and reached Kurumgad island , we could see the meeting place of Kali nadi and Arabian sea , ( blue-green mix) it was too good.

We reached the island, at about 11 AM were very tired. Just barged in to our tents and cottages and took a quick shower and assembled back again to celebrate one of our seniors Bday party. It was a surpise for him we had made arrangements and had decorated his cottage as well where he was gonna spend a day with his wife …hmmm how romantic.

We then had our breakfast and started off with lotsof games like..Queen of Sheeba – where the “Most Demanding Queen “ on this earth would demand for all weird things and all our 4 teams shud set out and get her demands.

Some of her demands were like – 5 diffrnt kind of flowers, blue,pink,white rings, 4 LG Mobiles and stuff…..

And the other game was PonyTail competition , where the first round was gals tying pony tails to boys and the second round was vice versa.

We then played the Baloon-Blow until it bursts competition ….it was very funny…..


Then we were asked to pick a chit each for the late nyt Bonfire party now itself so that we get time to practice…

Team A- picked up Group Song, Team B – Skit ,Team C- fashion Show , Team D – Group Dance (J my team).

We all then changed to our Beach attire cos we were gonna hit the beach in some time.
We then reached the beach wow wat a splendind sight again the view from cliffs and other places which we have captured in our shots are extremely breath taking .

In the beach I cudnt stop myself from playing in the beach , and now u wont believe me being a lead I was being controlled by my team mates J … cos I was refusing to come out of the beach J

U know……I cudnt help It was tat good…. It was like that Cast Away movie island so clear and so good .

We then played Tug Of Wars which was real fun , at the end of all
the Team A,B,C,D competition we had a round where Gals Vs Boys was held….

Guess who won…………..

naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa not boys it was we the simplest and sweetest creations of God - Gals who won the Tug Of War’s…..

And then we played another game which was so tiring, “Filling the Bottle with water” …not as simple as it sounds so….

The bottle was placed few mts away from beach, 10 ppl standing alternatively for each team.
The person near the beach should collect water in his palm and pass it to the next it continues and the person near the bottle should pour the contents in to the bottle…. By the time the water is passed from each and every ones hand it wud spill and hence took lot of time….
We then played “Art of Entangling “ , each team would be in a big knot formed by holding left hand of one person to right hand of the third person .
We were supposed to entangle and form one big circle without leaving of our hands.

Tat was fun too….

We returned back to our Tents and Cottages and had a quick shower, had lunch
and started of with our respective rehearsals for the group activity.
Our Team selected – Sajjna Di Vaari vaari of Honey Moon Travels for our Group dance.

It’s a good catchy song with nice beats. We practiced for sometime and then were just chilling out exploring all the places and views …

We had some Bday celebrations and Award function, we gathered up on dance floor and the events began again.

After the award ceremony we started up with the group performances the entire group did well… Our team danced well I guess after 4 years I danced forgetting every other thing on earthJ

Had extreme fun dancing. we then had dinner and started off with dancing again . I was one among the ppl who danced the whole night … don’t ask me how I managed but I did….along with swathi my friend….

We did tribal dance J near the Bonfire later at midnyt …and then from then on I cudnt ..
was all tired so returned back to my tent….

Some ppl were still partying out…

The next day morning we all assembled again after breakfast for the announcement of the winning group.

The –Tremendous 12 group won in most of the games so they were the winners… and my Team won the “Triumphant Group” prize….. For the zeal and passion we showed by dancing all nyt J

We then set out and left the island in the ferry , the buses were waiting for us at the port and we took off to Blore . It was a good Funfilled trip.

Charismatic Billy

Bill Gates has always been a inspiration to me... not cos of the money he makes but for the "Never ending success" he makes...

Microsoft has always had a soft corner in my heart .

It's been 3 years since i joined the student community and my best part of student life was me being a student champ .

The weekend session's , bi-annual events were really best time of my life.

In one of those days i got to witness the most unforgettable event which i missed out to blog abt.

he was in Bangalore on Dec 9 2005 . We got to see him in the "Ready to Rock tour " presentation one of the privileges i enjoyed being a student champ cum ambassador. lucky me...

"The very moment Bill Gates made his entry on stage .... all of us just stood and were speechless... dont know why....

It was dream come true for some .... his simplicty, patience, the way he thinks before and answers for a question shot at him was really good.

Can never forget the day....

my friend shreenath's entry

http://ubshreenath.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6447FDAF06658642!173.entry

Birthday gal!!!

Well the Birthday gal was obviously me ……….. I celebrated my birthday on jan 1 this week ...ya i was born on a new year day...


And this Birthday is so much different than the rest which I celebrated cos this year
“ I am an Independent Gal “ …….. Hmmm feels nice to say so… cos I had longed from a long time to call myself a Independent gal…. hee hee


My B’day date has its own pros and cons …well let me just tell the ‘Cons’ in this post (cos thinking positive is one of my resolution hee hee) Nobody forgets my birthday … I get wishes pooling in from several friends right from my friends at school to my College mates and work friends…. And the whole world celebrates my birthday.

Had a good time got a couple of good gifts from my sweetest friends , can never forget those wishes which was said to me on 12 AM on jan 1. Must be lucky to have such good friends.
Well this Bday am lil upset at some of my old close friends for not meeting me… issues are not sorted out still …. Well if u know me from years u will know wat are the consequences of making me angry hee hee…..


Apart from my B’day I welcomed this New Year with high hopes…….. 2006 was a great year for all of us in my family…right from mom getting her Dream house, me getting my Dream job, Sunny getting his promotion, and Dad ‘s recovering health condition and finding some peace in his job which was hectic all these years.


As years go by I can say that I take something or the other from the previous year,
And tat ‘something’ can be experience, memorable moments ,leaving behind the sorrows of my prev years…..

But I have noticed tat as I am growing up I feel tat life is getting more complicated, handling relationships… creating new friends and maintaining the old ones….phew….

As I am no more a student this year and have started working I feel more responsible of everything now….
Careful and cautious in everything ryt from the words I speak and their possible interpretations by others.
Conscious of the expenses I make and stuff… (not really hee hee).

But then I am loving the new Sense Of Responsibilty flowing inside me …………..