Part 5- Trips, outings and more ....

i had the previlege of seeing Neeraj grow from a trainee to an well experienced peoplesoft DBA in a short span of time..finally my manager and his boss decided to release him to an client project..so i went to mumbai to get the transition ..except for getting transition about the setup in mumbai we did everything else..neeraj,sachin and me ..went roaming around mumbai for the three days i stayed there. Though neeraj was my junior still he gave me very good advice to the professional challenges i faced in ISG and i had turned up to him for few issues...


By now most of my friends here in my department were expecting them to be released to other departments.... So we decided to spend maximum time between ourselves ..and thangaraj initiated and organised a tour to devakottai ...occasion being Alagappan marriage(he is another stalwart of ISG)


All the plans we made in the trip went topsy turvy ..thanks to organisers..chennai to salem to yercaud to karrur to devakottai to trichy to chennai....i would rather call this trip an amazing race...many people got elminated and out of 12 people who started the trip only 5 finished the race ...there was an excellent writeup of the entire trip by me,jegu,subbu and sachin i would post that in a seprate post..trip was an success and memories of the trip will linger long...


just one week after we were back from a long trip, we decided to go on a trip to kerala ..God's own country, pity this time we didnt have much people on the trip..just four of us(so no elminations), me,jegu,subbu and kevin...let me try to refresh few memories of the trip ...

We were having dinner at central station chennai..when we found that one of our colleague from hexaware, she is from BI team ...poor girl she was standing before a hotel with huge crowd....she was calling jegu to help her but jegu tried his best to escape ..until i made jegu to help her ...hee hee..everybody was very happy after seeing the travel reservation chart stuck in our compartment...i cant disclose the reason in this post....had to switch trains in combatore junction..and we were on our way to ernakullam.

Me and subbu sat in the compartement door steps and were enjoying the scenic beauty of kerala..meanwhile jegu and kevin were fast asleep ...an interesting thing happened in trissur station ...me and subbu were standing in the railway station and watching shops over there ..as usual i was telling some mokkai story about kerala to subbu and he was listening to me ....with our backs to the train.....train started moving without any notice ..no signal ..no horn ..nothing and it was moving with very less sound and high speed ..somehow subbu turned back and noticed it and we caught the train in running ..lesson 1 never turn your back on a train in kerala ..

Allapuzha..awesome is too little a word to explain the experience we had in this place ..we took a double decker house boat ..with two well furnished bedrooms all for four of us ....we had a special energy drink from kerala ...even jegu took this drink(just one sip), that was quite surprising for all of us ...then watched a popular kerala movie by mohanlal ....had a sumptuous amount of fish ....and then slept on the boat ...next day morning we took bath in the backwaters of kerala ..and then went on a cruise ..everybody took titanic pictures standing with outstrecthed arms on the corner of the boat ...hee hee..

Then we went to Kevin's place in kottayam, there again we went for a swim in a river ..somehow i managed to go till the middle of the river with zero swimming knowledge ..without any notice kevin and his cousine ..pulled me to bottom of the river and held me for few seconds..gosh ..lesson 2 dont get inside a river without knowing swimming ...

back to chennai ..there is a person called naresh this guy is from pune and he has just joined our project ....as usual this guy had the experience what every person who comes from other state to chennai will have..got robbed ...he lost his debit card and lost 16k ...somehow we managed to find the culprit ..it was someone from daaba express ..we had went to this hotel last week and naresh had dropped his card there ...so 6 guys from our project went for a fight with hotel manager ..we took with us few heavyweight guys ..just to show our strength ..they were himanshu and shomik ...so there was high confusion in the hotel and finally the case went to police station ....police asked us to come in the evening..

Subbu went on a urgent work that day and jegu was travelling ..so it was left to me to manage naresh's case in tnagar crimebranch police station ...everything happened so fast ...we took a suspect and within one hour of interrogation he accepted that he took money...this day i saw how police interrogorate ...i dont know what degree of interrogation was that ..but i felt really sorry for that person that day ..and i can still remeber the sounds that echoed when they hit him ...and the bad filthy languages these cops use while interrogating....we stuck a deal between police ourselves and the culprit ...the culprit agreed to pay the money and we decided not to lodge a FIR ..i thought if we are going to lodge an FIR it will be a lengthy process and it will take a long time to get back our money and this guy will also go to jail....

Back to office ..would rather call it a planetorium ..mercury,neptune,jupiter,venus,mars and galaxy ...all these are server name and they kept haunting me with some trouble or other ....

back to my flat ...i had setup a mini galaxy in my bedroom with twinkling stars and satellites and was very proud to show it to my friends ....