Pune trip/treat

I finally reached 303 Ruby, Nyati Empire, kudos to the heavy road widening projects running in Mumbai and the useless driver of Raj Travels. Something that I really find strange is that drivers of Raj Travels are very slow now and would do stupid mistakes of jo8ining heavy trafficked lanes. this happened with me both ways.

Anyways coming back to the topic. First thing first. I really missed the roomies. I felt so happy for being with them after such a long time. Specially, the flat where I stayed more then next flat I moved. Victor happen to be in the same room where I stayed. He offered me that room as the couch in the hall was not suitable for me due to its short length. Entering in that very room where I lived was a great feeling. I rememeber the way I used to keep my stuff. One thing lazy butt Victor has chnaged quite a bit. Akhileh has left lots and lots of furniture and household item when are in use by Victor, Sunil and Yeshwant. Flats has total different looks now. Sooooooooooo much better. One thing, Yeshwant heads the ATG (Advanced Technology Group) at his employer (synicron) where as I am part of ATG here at Covansys. Yes, I'm no longer part of RMG (Resource Management Group) aka Bench. About being on bench for pretty long now. I don't wanna leave Covansys as of now, but if they don't assign me a project till March end a search will definitely start. One thing, I was really really lucky to get roomies like them. No offense to any of my roomies in other cities. But I have seen people who are strange, stubborn and very selfish. They were none of them. One thing, I happen to know that Sareeta is working for MicroStrategy Documentation project. Nice. A very good natured girl I've met during my college time. Orkut is great. It has changed lives forever. Na kabhi orkut hota na kabhi main ankit se milta na kabhi IvyComptech mujhe 7.2 lac ka package deta. The most important thing in life is not being lucky or great. It is being at right place at right time. My life is full of twists and turns as far as my profession goes and I'm pretty happy about it.

Next day I got the method to go into the local ISP router. Illegal!! but how can we actually call it intrusion when there is no wall and forget the gate and gate-keeper. Al I wanted to make the make my p2p to work but he has very beautifully blocked most of the "Extra service" port. He has blocked even VPN ports. That would be nightmare is someone wants to work from home. He won't be able to connect to the office at all. Even Ping was blocked. I got a good chance to see the routers settings. Victor would make use to this knowledge. Finally it the time of my much awaited treat of the "very old" new job. Finally we settled for Bamboohouse at Deccan as all of had been there and food was good and for Yeshwant any place with drinks would have done. We reached there and probably got the second last free table. Very soon after we joined that table the queue had started. I don't really all the stuff we had but food was good. Yeshant had Kajhuraho (a bitter taste beer) where as Sunil had Mild Beer. I and Victor had 2 large pegs of Vodka. He recommended a new brand. Don't recall it. The only sad part of it was the fish ordered had no spice and Yeshwant got a small cockroach in it. One thing I must say I would always miss Victor (for a being a true and good to have a talk/healthy argument and having enough knowledge about stuff to have a talk of any damn thing) and Yeshwant (very selfless). BTW, jab 10000 lazy people die one Victor comes to earth. Where as Sunil was a balanced person. No extremities of anything. Bill was not much and had ice cream at Baskin Robins while coming back I had a coffee ice cream. It was great. We reached home by mid night as no one was in mood to sit and talk. Soon we were dozing off in respective rooms. In night my roaming got deactivated of its own. F*** off Hutch. Though not much concern, but I just had this number to be contacted and I'm extremely concerned about my parents. It always lingers in my mind. That why **** off to Hutch. I shall chnage the service soon. Just waiting for this ATG cloud to get over.

Next morning (Sunday) I made tea for everyone, something that I used to do while being there and heated milk for Yeshwant to make coffee. He is all set to get his wife and kid at pune. His weekends goes very busy as due to kid Asha would not be able to any shopping. He has got his cylinder discontinued as non-usage for more than 6 months. He might take Ruby's cylinder. He was separating out the stuff he got to home (he had got lot and lots of stuff, full kitchen utensils were owned by him except very few by him) . But main itna kamina nahin hoon ki main apna saman leke jaoon. :) They watched Borat after tea and copied tons and tons of english movies and software from my HDD. They had so much of stuff to be copied that I had to stop the copying to reach the bus stand in time for coming back to Mumbai. Next time doods. Victor drops me at the Raj ravel bus stand. We had tea and Medu-wada before me taking the bus. We talked if a goa trip could be planned next month. Let us see. I take the bus and come home. I happen to meet a gal on bus who lives at JB Nagar. But we leave w/o taking down any contact number or something.

There was not "much" Business Intelligence to be in Hyderabad

I got a bloody 75 % raise for joining Ivy Comptech. Taht was nothing like it, but Hyderabad jane ke baad aate daal ka bhav malum pada. In Pune I was spending mere 7000 a month (bare minimum), but in Hyderabd my bare minimum expense was shot to 14000. And Money in account left in Bank was mere 10% more. But one thing, Ivy paid me me 3 lac for working for 50 days, was a kewl deal. Here at Covansys I save lot. Something like 6.5 lac after bare minimum expense is not bad.

Just want to sum my expense in Hyderabad.

Stay + Dinner + Tea 6000
Petrol 200
Cell Phone 1000
Travelling to Home 3000 (once in two month)
Loss of Pay (home travel) 1500
Food 1500
Others 500
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13700

KewL... One thing I realized if your place of work is going to require you travel and you being on your own, consider a raise of 1.5 lac at least. It make sense to go back to your home town even if there is less pay.

More financial analysis to come up.

Life on the rocks

Hey don't go by title... This was a bloody god damn good day... As Yeshwant was not in Pune I had scrapped the plans to go there during the weekend... Well, Blaise (I hope I have spelled the name right) had called me someday back for his birthday party to be on 3rd... We don't interact much so it as a bit amusing... Well.. I was asleep and my phone rings and I get up... As usual I switch on my monitor as the first job of the day.. It was 10:28 in the morning... Pick up phone... it is Blaise.. he asked me to speak with Noel urgently.. I could guess about the reason.. must be place and timing... When I spoke to Noel he asked me to get ready ASAP to got to Bandra Fort... I had heard alot about this place to "drink" by everyone... I reach the "naka" where we (I, Noel and Lawson) had planed to meet by 11:15... Lawson reaches last.. We had some crap talk for some time and planed the jounrey as station by bus, andher to bandra by train and bandra station to bandra fort by bus. We reach at station and see hugh crowd for ticket... I never saw such a large crowd ever in my life at Andheri station... We took exact fair ticket queue so had ticket in 5 minutes... We reach Bandra and decide to wait for Blaise on station itself... We reached Bandra staton by 12:15.. Just forgot when we spoke to Blaise at 11:15 he was said to be at Kandivali about to take train... I called his to ask wich train he was in and he told he was going to reach there (Bandra) in 5 minutes... A train arrives and Noel just turned back... He sees Blaise hanging out of "first" first class and as usual calls him... "gooooood"...aaahhhhh whole station was taken by a surprise... Finally we all met... usual pep talk at sation for some more time... We march to the nearest alcohol shop around a km on foot... For first time I saw a "desi". I just asked shopkeeper to show me the bottle... Its size was smaller than that of a miniature... but gives to a "khambha" kick... Blaise, Lawson and Noel were laughing... We take the supply and walk till Globus to get a rick as the one way of the road of under reconstruction... Whole lot of modern cloth shop for ladies on the load that lead from Lucky to Band Stand... and soooo many good chick too ;-)... We finally take rick and reach Hotel Searock, after which the Bandra Fort starts (actually there is a garden too).. Just at the start of this garden there was a cold drink stall... Right next to the stall there was a Police van.. We were a bit skeptical to buy "cold drink" in front of cops as they would understand that it was to be mixed with hard drink.. anyways life is too short to be afraid (at least of things like these)... We but a bottle of Sprite ( 1 1/2 l) and Big Kurkure for a 25% premium... We make out way on the bandstand rocks and reach a good place to sit... Then we realize that we forgot to have plstic bottles.. too bad for hard drinkers... Finally we manage to get and mix vodka and sprite... well.. one more problem.... the drink was too hard as per Lawson... I tried it myself.. Yuck.. It was quite hard... Well who will make way out of those stones and buy sprite.. Hey but Blasie agrees to it... We come to know the reasons later.... (He wanted the ciggies).... When Blaise was on his way to get Sprite we saw a guy in plain blue cloths franticly checking the couples... (Those who don't know... Baad stand's part where we had gone was a famous lovers's point... You will find couples having some intimate moments behind those wall of stones which has no shapes.. helps couples to have a good privacy.. Many movies have scenes of Band Stand.. I don't recall it but I shall post it when I get to see a one again) We just hid the bottle being scared of that guy as cop in plain cloth... This was a just a doubt... He seemed to be a detective or something trying to fish someone... We got scared every time he made a round but it was just a hoax... When were were tired of drinking and had quite much booze with us he came to us asking for water... We told him we had booze and he can have it.. We had quite good... :-) anyways coming back to the party of four of us... It was good.... It did not take us long to get high as the drink was still a bit hard (and not so cold)... I sang a poem on as if Blaise was rejected by Victoria... It was funny... Sang an original song with original music... Noel must be having the recording too... Everyone pulled everyone's leg for any damn thing.. We decide to leave the place from other direction (200 m walk on unleveled stones)... I cross it first and wait of rest to come... Lawson comes soon after me but Noel and Blaise were no where in sight... Actually they gave us a miss and reach the exit, another 100 m. Meantime I wash my hands in sea waves as it had got dirty making drinks and mixing. We straight reach to "Stomach" taking a stop, for Basie to buy more ciggies, in rick. I was coming to Stomach after million years break... During engineering we friends used to come here quite often... Had bloody god damn food... Specially me (I hadn't tried anything Chinese other than some soups)... By the way, I made full use of Polaroid lens gogs (of Blaise) for checking out vital stats of chicks... Lawson was fully buzzed by vodka... He was constantly seeing this girl (aunt) sitting next table behind me... Well, I used gogs... Well she was a female with "tond" probably that was the reason for her body....[given a choice between a slim-trim gal and a bit extra pound gal.. I will definitely choose a bit extra pound but "tond" is eeeeeeeeeee] I could understand what was so great for Lawson to stair her.... Her top was getting different cirls depending upon her movement on table. She was with a friend talking... We all finished the lunch by 4:45. Blaise leave for college... We took a rick to get back to save time... Then I asked Noel to play the RDB game... "Rate a girl on road"... We saw -2 to perfect 10 while coming from Stomach to J.B. Nagar... Came to know (not seen) about a gal who likes to be called "Riya Sen". We reach to Pragati Ground by 5:30 PM.... I had a peg after a break of around 70 days.. It was good... As usual (atleast for me) it is not the drink the compnay matters.... I have been with Mervyn, Dylan and Randolf for several years w/o drinking. Every time there is a party it is the company that we enjoy not booz.... 70 days.. but next break would be just 7 days.. No prizes for guessing....

I come back home and see that downloads are stopped... I solve the problem and take rest for two minutes.. Take cuppa tea and goto play (Noel and Lawson were playing already) I play good but fielding needs a lot improvement...

when we were partying, someone from Hutch had called up for the tickets lodged by me.. I just asked him to call later.. we just closed the ticket "based on my feedback". WTF... This was not the first time such a thing happened so I decided to get this thing straight.. I had to speak (rather hold) the cell for an hour to get a complaint registered again the person (Naeem Khan). I was on Xavier terrace while speaking to Hutch Customer Care...

When I was about to leave Xavier I saw Dylan coming to Xavier.... I thought to wait for him and meet him up for some time "if he was coming on terrace". Well, they indeed came and the conversation that started happen to be very interesting and long... We talked about some plan about opening up a food joint or franchise... Life.. Death... Our professional experience... Dad called as the peeps had come to play Volleyball (We play volleyball under lights every Saturday night).... We all left Xavier together... Dylan and Simone hot for a hotel for dinner... Well told me what does "on the rocks" drinking mean....

Played Volleyball and I played good.. My Volleyball is not so deteriorated... Played all positions... Came back home at half and hour past midnight.. It was Saturday so it was a "khichadi" dinner.... Yummy with desi ghee...

........................"The bad dream still haunts me"