Weekend outing- 12/17

This weekend my cousin was here..We planned for some movie, and some roaming in chennai. Thought shall watch mission impossible - "Ghost protocol". We got the tickets in AGS theatre. It was a pretty decent theater. As I always mess up with things, during interval crushed the coke can, and almost half the can content got spilt in my dress. Fortunately i was wearing dark clothes that day. After the movie, went to sky walk.
I don't like to spend time in that mall, as its always crowded and not so clean as well. But since that's very near to my home, went there. I wanted to buy a wallet for me, just stepped into Westside. Unlike my cousin, i don't buy clothes very often in these high fundoo shops. But as like any girl, whenever i see printed kurtas, will get tempted to take a look at those. I picked one, my cousin chose other. I said i will pick the one which I chose. He said he will pay for the other one. I dint want to trouble him, so i picked both. When we were about to leave, he chose a shirt for me. It was a very simple one, but it looked trendy. Mrp was just 999 :). I liked, but still i said its costly and am not taking. First question as like any conservative parents, my mom would ask "whats there for 1000".
My cousin convinced me hard, "it cost you around 3rs per day, why dont you get it"..His logic sounded simple to me. Then i said i will pick one kurta and one shirt. He again started, "ok i shall pay for one". Finally i took all the three. In some one hour time, 2500rs vanished. But I liked all the three, though I was bit hesitant I dint mind..
From there we went to landmark. My cousin is a book lover.It was hard to pull him out from there. I was very tired, i sat in one corner. I happened to see sivagamin sapadam. Thought will buy that book for my mom. Called her up but she said she had already read it, in the same call I told her not to yell at me as I did some too much of shopping today, also it was an unplanned shopping. She dint tell me anything (I know, my mom is always sweet..But when i reached home first question after looking at the shirt was- whats there in it for 1000rs, and it looks old :))..Never mind :)
Then we planned to finish our dinner outside. Went to rajdhani hotel. First time i had my dinner there. They serve very good gujarati food. Rotis are so good and yummy. The servers communicate to each other in some signs, which they could only understand..It was a pretty good weekend. Had a much needed break

Topslip-trek

As i logged into the office, was happy to see trek invite to tengumaragada(two day trek),in the month of oct'2011. I immediately called my friend remya (who is my sole companion for trek, at least now :)) and asked her if we could register for this. Yes was her immediate response. I called my home, spoke to my sister to get permission from my dad. She responded me with a
yes in next 10mins. I registered immediately for the trek. Informed my other friend in Bangalore, so that they could join, but by then when they registered, registration got closed. But the trek plan changed from tengumaragada to topslip, owing to some permission issues from
forest officials. A week before the trek, we did some shopping for the trek- got a good pair of shoes, t-shirts, cargoes etc. Oct-15,16 were the planned dates for the trek. Oct-14 we had to catch a night train from Chennai central to Coimbatore. As planned i started a bit early from my office, picked my friend on the way home and we reached my home. Finished our dinner at our place, and reached central. In the trekkers list, we were the first to reach the station. We were roaming here and there for sometime, and later called kaushik (one of the organizer). He was on his way, and asked us to wait there for around 10mins. We were just sitting in the travellers desk and were talking all odd stories, pulling each other's leg and was making fun of each other as the way we do it always. Kaushik again called us, and asked us to come near saravana bhavan in central. They was one big gang with backpacks. We assumed it must be from ctc, and approached them They were having a name list, and was taking attendance of all participants. By then priya..sorry priya madam ,(she is manager in TCS..big boss you see...:)) joined us. Marking our attendance, we started walking towards the train and settled in our seats.

There were some self intro, many people knew each other already as they were regular trekkers. But for me and remya, everyone was stranger there, as it was just our second trek. But we got ourselvers comfortable in few hours. Sujai (the other organiser), explained to us the plan for next two days. I think it would be a group of around 20-22 people, of which there were around 8-9 girls. Most of them were from IT and some were students, and there were 3 +12 kids, who were talking non-stop all the two days, making fun of people. I got a thought, (12th ke ipdiya...). They were making fun of everybody by calling all members of the trek as aunty and uncle. As i am narrating this almost 2 months after the trek, i forgot the names of the places
and the forest. Once we reached coimbatore, just refreshed ourselves and had break fast.
From there headed to a elephant sanctuary, where they showed us elephant feeding. Took some snaps there. From there we started our first trek. It was roughly for 6kms.

The terrain was not very slippery, and it was manageable one. We could spot deers, elephants, some wild birds, monkeys. After the first trek, we were extremely hungry, had our lunch at topslip forest canteen. We had split ourselves into two groups initially. By then we returned for lunch, other group also finished their trekking. But that was a leach prone zone, and not much of animals was also spotted. They were cribbing that only leaches were there and nothing else. But our experience was good, the view was scenic and the walk was pleasant. After the lunch the gropu1 would trek to the leach prone zone and group2 would trek to the place where we went pre-lunch. Many of us in our group took a call, not to go for the second trek. Instead few of us were sitting there and chit-chatting. Myself, remya, sujai and other +12 guy started off for a long walk along the hill side and were enjoying the scenic view. This was for day1.We had to drive for around 2hrs to reach forest cottage, all were dead tired, and I dozed off early.
Dint take part in the dumb-c's which went on till 2AM. Morning i woke up with the sound of water stream that was flowing just opposite to the dormitory were we stayed. The pool was crystal clear, and nothing can resist to make one jump into it. Enjoyed in the pool for around 1hour, then got ourselves ready for the second day trek. This was was also realtively easier one, and we reached a hill top, and a beautiful water falls welcomed us. Spent sometime there and reached our dormitory.

Packed our bags, and on the way to station we visited a dam. Had dinner in some road side shop. That shop owner was pleased to have around 20+ customers at a time. They weren’t prepared for a big crowd. At a time the guy would bring 2 or 3 dosas, all would shout "anna inga kudunga..inga kudunga"..he finally went mad, thinking who is to be served first. Finally finished our dinner and reached Coimbatore railway station. We were all tired that nobody was minding to sit in the platform itselfs. All passengers were gazing at us, "why are they sitting as though like some refugees"..
Got into the train, had good sleep. Morning reached home sweet home..

நிழல்

எனக்கு யார் துணை இறுதி வரை என்று கேட்டேன் ,
நான் இருப்பேன் என நிழலின் குரல் கேட்டது

கோபம்

யாரேனும் இதை படித்தால், நீ காதலிக்கிறாயா, என்று கேட்கிறார்கள் ..

இது போல் கவிதை எழுதுவதற்கு , சுமாரான தமிழ் , சுமாரான கற்பனை போதாத?

கவிதை என்ன காதலர்களுக்கு மட்டும் சொந்தமா?

இது கவிதை ஆ ??

கண்ணீரும் ஆனந்தம் தான், என் கண்களாக நீ இருந்தால்..

sorgame endralum, adhu nam oora pola varuma

Some months back my friend referred me for a opening in a concern. I had to take up the interview in bangalore. Booked a flight which is supposed to depart by 7.50AM. As my stars always stand against me, my flight got canceled. Had to call the customer care and advanced my ticket to 5.40AM flight.
The previous day booked a cab, and the cab reached my home by 4.15AM. Got up at 3.30AM. I was literally cursing my friend for the referral, as sacrificing my sleep was too much of concern for me. All were sleeping at my home, my dad got up and prepared a good coffee for me. Silently peeked to the room, kissed my little nephew-dojo and started to the airport. The cab driver was driving at 110Km/hr. I was repeatedly telling "anna slow a ponga..time iruku".He turned deaf ears to it. For the first time in my life, I was traveling alone in a cab at the early hours. All thoughts were in my mind- what if he kidnaps me, etc etc..Maybe the driver himself knew I would be a real hell.
Boarded the flight. Was trying to catch my sleep, but hardly could get it. Reached bang by around 7. Had a burger at coffee day. Took another cab there. Reached the place by around 8.30. My friend brought my favourite omlette from his home. After a little chat, the interview started by around 10AM.
A meeting room was blocked for the whole day. As one person leaves, another one would be ready to enter the room. Pre-lunch there were 3 rounds. I was damn hungry by then. When I was having my lunch, there was a call in my mobile from the 4th panelist. He was already waiting for me. Hurried there, for futher encounter. At one point I was literally in the state of, gosh leave me..I want to go...After 5 rounds, there was a manager round. My evening flight was at 7PM. By around 5.45 I started off from the place. It started to rain very heavily. Luckily the driver took me on time. Even before going and collecting the boarding pass, headed to coffee day to have my sip of coffee..took the return flight, and reached my place..

My first outing with Extreme

Its been almost a year since I updated my blog..Yesterday had a very good time in my team outing. This kindled me to dust the blogger site and update my postings..Our test team planned to head out to GRT temple bay resort in ECR. I have been there once with my previous company. The initial mindset was that, it would be just like any other outing. But it wasnt the case. The entire day was fun filled.

Reached office by around 10AM. The cabs started by around 11AM and we reached the place by 12.30. We were received with a welcome drink. Teams were split to start off with some team events. My team was named avengers. We were 5 members in it.. The first game was "discover the hidden image",in which a big poster was cut into pieces and we need to assemble it and bring it back to shape..We had a tough luck there, almost all pieces of the poster looked alike. Of the 5 teams we stood 4th :).
Geared up for the next game by telling, "arasiyala idelam sagajam appa"..
The next event was thread building using straw, wherein we need to join the straws and make it as lengthy as possible. When the event co-ordinators checked for the straw length, the one which we built crumbled off. That reminded me of vadivelu punch- top strong uuu, ana basement weak...

After this event, we dispersed off for lunch. Though there werent many varities, food was delicious and filling. As always I had desserts as my main course.
The next event was write-right. Its difficult to explain in writing..Let me give a try. There will be a pen attached to a stick. The stick has multiple threads attached to it. Each team member has to hold the end of the thread and pull the stick in appropirate directions and write the word "EXOS" in a poster. All EXOS were dangling, ours was even more pathetic. O looked like r :), but to our surprise, we won that event as all other teams were disqualified..
The other game was Dart Board. Need to hit the magnet on the bull's eye. I was hitting all other places other than the board. There were few other games as well. Not making the readers yawn, by listing out everything here.
Later played sometime in the see-saw and swings just like kids, and headed to sea shore.
With a good coffee and snacks, bid a bye-bye to everyone out there and headed to cabs. Many were eagerly waiting for us to leave, obviously for their own reasons :))
Thanks to all the organisers. Had a good time..Looking out for the next one.