The Year 2011 of the memories that remain till the year end

Location: B-7/A-10 WW Grace Garden Bangalore
Evil Roomates:Pooja, Riti, Bozzo, manoj [e-roomie]

Jan 2011- I was in Yahoo I was on leave on the very first day of the year.. Hyderabad.. partying and i couldnt leave the day i had booked mmy ticket cause Gautam didnt like the bus i was leaving in ..
We came back to VV Vintage :D .. delighted went partying..came back to Bangalore and back to yahoo ...
Soon came 19th Jan and its always been a festive time on our birthdays.. it was pooja's this time .
on 18th night as soon as we hear her cab meghna locked us inside and we hid in the dark to suprise pooja when she opens the lock..
We wanted her to think that we forgot her birthday and left for somewhere :D geee but boy she was smart she said the door lock was warm and it indicated that someone has just touched it .. else it would have been cold.. so she new we were in and ready to scream..
we had already shopped for an amazing dress for the party I dont remember where we looted her for being her bday ..

thn thn Oh i remember meghnas bachelorette with Pooja supriya riti me and the bride to be ... wat a crazy night of dancing n clubbing
Soon I was off to Sagar shimoga, for Meghnas wedding with shailaja and Anikets one of which was just engaged..

I will say it was a year of marriages..

Feb 2011- I was already scheduled for Amazon interviews.. it came out of the blue.. and I had rounds after rounds of interviews and wooohoo I was through ..
we started our very own zaika tiffinz and got our first two customers shailaja and supriya :D
oh man it was such a fun experience preparing the menu for the week.. finding this guy to deliver dabbas, buying tiffins and managing accounts.. advertising ideas and more n more ideas flowing in from everywhere...

Mar 2011- The much awaited month .. the month of our pre pre pre planned trip to Malaysia and singapore.. roopal pooja and i had a swell time in the Lion city, the suites where we stayed, went on a shopping spree in the cheapest malls .. charmed by the attractions of sentosa.. flying through the clouds in the ropeway to genting highlands .. it was an awesome time.. stayed at mani's di met her after so long but it was such fun at her place. returned with way above the baggage limit to bangalore . had a chance to visit chennai and roopals learn to speak tamil lyf :P

oops i was just moving on to April when I realised its my bithday month, for which reminders are sent to everyone well in advance.. gautam joined us for the celebrations like always :) poor guy took a paid flight to make it home before 12 in the night .. yes "paid" flight :)
it was celebrations all day and house party in the evening with gautam playing gol gappe wale bhaiya and we were joined by meghs n family, parul, deepak, anikets, supriya and shankar had samose and gol gappe and played housie ..

Apr 2011- I quit yahoo and joined amazon on 18th April, my bhaiya bhabhis 3rd wedding Aniversary. i was late for my orientation :P gradually i started enjoying the anytime pick up and drop cab facility the hefty pay checks which came with joining bonus .. soon i left for hyderabad for a 3 week paid vacation .. i was already loving it ..

Oh another unforgetable incident happened here.. the week long fight with the house owner of B7 ..
we had painted on the walls of the house bringing it upto our aesthetic tastes and riti and pooja and played holi on the floor with the colour drops gone deep in the owners beloved tiles.
the fight ended up when the three of us dressed in suits walked to hennur police station and with the help of jijaji and rahmath got our security deposit back from the most sickest annoying guy i have ever met.. we have pure hatred for that man. but it was a sense of pride wooo we loved that feeling wen we could get our money back from the monster who has tricked so many the same way..

May 2011- I was in Hyderabad and i was enjoying like crazy .. had a cab on call .. an office with no manager.. a duplex pretty house.. a super fast internet to watch tv series ..

The Icebreaker

When I read tht blog frm this fella on his TM exp

and more than tht after getting an exhilarating reply to my query to toastmasters,

I had this feeling in my bones that its gonna be good fun !

Well, it meant to miss the firstshow of the new movie at vaibhav with the crazy off gang.

ahh i love to be the 1st to update the folks and 1st to have it on my status msg;)

But, after walking in to room 215 of St josephs college of commerce was an altogether diff exp...

U wud b rolling in the aisles with entertaining speeches there ! and jokes by TM Rajdeep Manwani.

So VPE decided 22nd Jan was an auspicious day for my Icebreaker.

TM Sumitra Manmohan made my scribbles into a Speech !

She also told me a few expression I should bring in to make the speech interesting

but all tht I cud do up there was::

give a stupid smile and say "Oh shit".. So all these ppl are looking at me and I am looking at them and damn that next line ... ! "Shit" was the easiest obvious wrd !!

GE said u cud say "Oh my God" u knw instead of shit .. and i thought i ll take this advice home

so over the weekend while playing sum stupid comp game, Arish says " Shit man "

and i thought this is the time i can literally take GEs advice home..

So, I told " Arish say oh my god .. dont say shit"

To that he said he learnt it from me and can no way unlearn it .. so fr the rest of the even heard a lot of Shit yaar.. shit man .. oh shit.. aarrghhh shit..

lets get out of this shit and move on to my icebreaker !

I am glad Riti could make it in time and gautam couldnt hahahaha!!

wish i could quickly add something fr her in the speech :(

but nw i can thnks grl!!

I was like pretty early for the meeting in a new kurta ! stood on the lecturn and practised,

practised outside with Tm Sumitra but "oh my God" I forgot twice.

enjoy.................................

Way back in Lucknow in the year 1989, A kinder garden student, after her day 2 at school was not dropped off by the bus conductor, because there was no one to pick her up. Her elder brother was standing a little away from the bus waiting for his little sister .He came back home crying to his mom .the worried mom called up his dad. They rushed to the school bus depo Only to find this girl merrily chatting away with the bus conductor, sharing his food, showing him off her new bag... and her new books... her new lunch box. She was complaining to him had he let her go home she would have a new water bottle that her dad said he would get her!!

Mr Toastmaster, fellow Toastmasters and dear guests, Good Evening.

That little chatter box, is today struggling to give her Ice breaker!!

Friends, in a joint family When I would spill something or scribble on the walls there would be 10 pairs of threatening eyes staring at me.

But my childhood was also made up with the love care and warmth of my grandfather – a gold medalist in Sanskrit Retired from Secretariat. He is my inspiration. The simplicity and grace on his face, the warmth and care in his conversations, his strictness in my studies and the time we come back home are things I can never forget.

My Grand mother, my Mom and aunt being teachers, discipline was inevitable. They would rather prefer to send me to school without my homework complete but won’t let my extremely loving father help me do it 10 min before the bell rings...

I studied at Mount Carmel, Lucknow till higher secondary. My dreams kept changing while at school. In 6th I wanted to be a designer. 7th was a VJ!! 8^th was more serious- a merchant navy officer! While at school I constantly won the painting and collage competition both at school and at inter school events. I was my house captain in class 10^th.

By then my brother was buried under medical books each over 5kgs and all in fine print!! That helped me decide what I don’t want to be... no Bio!! The day I got all my engineering results I was sitting with a map of India marking distances of all the colleges I could join and Manipal won this race it was 2029 kms away from Lucknow. Away from home! 2 months I drove my father crazy to get me an admission there!!

And September of 2003, I was there! With My father mother mama maani uncle aunty from Bangalore all went to drop me to Manipal! Yes that happens when any kid from the joint family goes out of home for the first time!

I am a Computer Science Graduate from MIT ;) we love not to expand that!

Manipal is a small place.. in a month u would know every face… U seem to be friends with every person in the world. Four years of hostel life went enjoying with friends, their breakups, trips with a big group of friends to Goa, Kerala and nearby places. The yummy maggi in library canteen at 11 in the night , roaming on beaches around Manipal, college festivals, night outs, mass bunks, the nasty birthday celebrations in hostel are things that bring back that wicked grin on my face.

I Made the best of my friends there. 4years seemed fugacious and 2006 we were all bribing god to get us thru an internship project and a job!! God did fall for that!! I was lucky to get thru internship from Honeywell Technologies. I was among the 3 people selected from my college for the India software labs division, by IBM. Still enjoying the bribe to God…

The one person who inspired me the most was my uncle Guudu Chacha! Its to him I owe whoever I am today! He guided me, and also misguided me.He was more of a friend than an uncle! Unfortunately we lost him to a heart att

In Bangalore my weekend schedules have Dance classes! Crazily Watching seasons over season of friends scrubs 24 and other TV series, Traveling and Spending time with my now 6 year old bro Arish, my favourite uncle’s son! In fact my Friday evenings would start with going for the new movie released that friday. But now its at toastmasters. I look forward to have an inspiring journey with eminent speakers like u

Friends I would like to share with u what my grandfather told us on his 50^th anniversary! When asked his key to success he said Children you should practice

“Sabke liye udarta par apne liye khatorta” !!

Turn a blindeye to what other people do,

But keep an eagle’s eye on what you do!

And That’s what keeps me going !

Mr. Toastmaster!!!!!!

Ahhhhh Heavy huhn !!

though evryone praised that even. but I know there was a lot i goofed up ;)

they all wanted to boost up the confidence in me :) and it sure did .

Bidding adios to Mr toastmaster we moved our confident souls to the friday nt party @ hint !!

Wondering about my new kurta, the indian formal look ..

gave it away to the central trial room ;)

We had already hidden the party attire and the big sea shell earings in the car ho ho ho smarties!!

Was a fun even!!

Hope u guys had fun reading ..

Adios!!