WAYANAD TRIP

The plans are not executed properly until you achieve the desired result. We haven’t booked the tickets to Wayanad but dreamt of going there beforehand. On February 9th morning 8AM glued to the system in hope of booking the tickets knowing the hardness of booking tickets via tatkal. I tried to book Mangalore Mail by 8.30 PM but it was booked next to the Rajnikant’s movie ticket :) :) so we were able to book ticket only in Mangalore Express which starts by 5PM in Chennai :) so the plan was put up and the execution was pending.

Sati, Satish and I planned to board at Central and Vel from Katpadi as it doesn’t stop in Arakkonam. So all set and waiting for execution. Everyone left their offices and college by 2-3PM and started to central. We caught the train by 5 quite easily in spite of some hiccups in the mid of journey. The train started by 5 PM and our journey towards the Wayanad started with much promise and delight. The train was like PULSAR (Definitely Male) with the African people sitting and murmuring in their slang which we couldn’t figure out :) the train journey was 12 hours and we didn’t enjoy in it rather than pulling each other’s leg. We also didn’t sleep till 1-2 at night (I hope till tiruppur). By the way we didn’t see only palakkad station in our journey.






We Reached Kozhikode by 5AM. After taking some snaps in station we started our journey towards Kalpetta where we had booked for home stay. We went to KSRTC bus stand in auto and started our journey by 6.30 towards the hill top. The Mist around the mountains was great scenic beauty and we enjoyed thoroughly the magic of nature in the god’s own country!!! The cool air was soothing and we enjoyed every moment in the bus. The journey was about 2 hours towards Kalpetta from Kozhikode. We got down at Kalpetta and started to Home Stay. We were just 4 in numbers and so we went in Maruti 800 towards our home stay. The Home stay is nothing but a cottage. But we were astonished by its structure and neatness. We had 3 bedrooms with 4 beds and a beautiful garden. We can’t believe our eyes and it was such an astonishing place to stay.

We got ready and had idly as breakfast and started our journey in Wayanad. The hospitality was awesome and we thank John for it. Really an awesome experience as he was ready to help us in all regard. Thanks sir :)

The hospitality was the one which we didn’t expected from him. The Stay was short in that cottage but we had visualized some good scenic beauty beside and the cottage was awesome and I will give the Picasa link so that all can visualize it :) :)

Picasa Link : https://picasaweb.google.com/ravishan.ramanan/HomestayWayanad?authkey=Gv1sRgCPeerYr62rrvYQ#




Banasura Dam

Our First visit was to Banasura Dam. It is the largest earthen dam in India and 2nd in Asia.



Banasura dam at first seemed a vague destination and we were getting bored off. We had to wait for the boat for almost one hour and the sun was beating down which was unusual n Kerala!!! But the sightseeing was good and refreshing too!! We enjoyed taking some photographs and it was more of a boring day till 12 PM. After some time we got the boat and we specifically wanted the Speed boat so that we can have the thrill of the boat riding.

The Scenery from the boat was awesome and the Mountains with the ravishing falls in their head were an awesome sight to watch. Also there was Banasura Hill Resort which was a beautiful place to live in!!! Specifically for newly married people :) :) The Important aspect was we befriended one Maharashtra family with whom we had some time talking about the differences in the cultures of the Indian sub continent :)

The twisting and sliding in the boat with none of us having the practice of swimming was cool and also terrifying :) :) the boat rower was at his best when he tried to twist and slid the boat as was in Dhoom film!!! It was a journey of half an hour but we attained the happiness of almost next to heavenly paradise:) :) then we had another photo session while we came back and we had some butter milk for getting out from the sun’s heat:) :)



Pookut Lake

Our Next destination was Pookut Lake. This lake is a small one considering the Banasura Dam but it has been visited by many school children and we can have our own mode of boating here. We can row, canoe or Pedal boat ourselves and enjoy the lake’s Beautiness. It is well covered with the bushes and flower garden .The Scenic beauty is prevailing all over Kerala and we can witness it everywhere in Wayanad. The Mountainous terrain follows us wherever we go :) The Mountain was seeming to be moving all the way through to our eyes which we couldn’t believe but it can a true thing:) :)The Distant mountain was moving in the outset as the trees beside us was stand still.



We missed the Soochipara falls on that as we were unable to reach there before 4.30. So we planned to go to some nearby places and enjoy our tour. Pookut Lake is a small lake and the persons who like to ride more in boating can come and try a hand here. We had some experiences like lever coming out of the driving lever and we got the help of our friends to fix it and it was by luck we reached the starting point :) :) but all in all it was all fun over the lake and we enjoyed every bit of it.

We had some time out in the Hotel once we left the Pookut Lake. Then we played football with 2 guys Amal and Ajish (John’s son and his friend) in our free time. The game of football was refreshing and made us realize how energized we were : P after playing we had the plan to visit the tea estate and Kanthanpara falls. So we got ready to explore some more places after the football game:) :)

Tea Estate

After playing football we started outside to visit a Waterfall and Tea estate. We had a rigorous photo session in Tea estate and everyone tried to give their pose in a different style!!!!! The way the persons enjoyed showed the childishness in the faces and explicitly enhancing their youthfulness :) :)





Kanthanpara Falls

The next part of our journey was the Kanthanpara falls. It was not a big one and it’s a real small one but the view point was good and we went into the bushes and took the photos. All the places were of scenic beauty and photogenic. The Nature lover will love this kind of places and ought to enjoy the way of nature presented in god’s own country!!




Then after finishing the falls we came back to our room and had rest. Then by 7.30PM we went outside and bought some snacks. In the night we were provided with the dinner and it was also well served. The Room where we stayed was awesome. It was in Meppadi and we felt like it was living in a palace. The Home stay was awesome and it presents us the case of living in a very good place with kitchen, Fridge and washing machine. If you come as a family too you can enjoy by trying a hand in cooking :) :)

The Night was awesome with mist covering the mountains :) :) the night was not much chilly but was pleasant and we didn’t slept for many hours and we talked and spent the night. We also saw some songs and sati danced for it :) Also I tried a hand in dancing!!! The Next day we planned to go to Kuruva Island. The Place which was said to be one of the better spots in Wayanad!!

Kuruva Island

Kuruva Island is one of the better places we visited in Wayanad. It is a land surface surrounded by the water all the way through and walking across the rocky terrains with water splashing across you gives you immense pleasure :) The Island also provided some visual treat with Mallu gals and they were very homely!!!!!!!! We had the enjoyment of walking through rocky places and also took some photographs.









We went to Kuruva Island by 11 odd in morning and returned only by 3PM. SO plan your trip as well so that you might not miss many things :)I slipped in the Kuruva island and fell into the water and so the mobile too!!!! But we did a good thing by removing all the parts and keeping it dry:) :) I need to thank god as it worked after i reached here and giving it to customer care :) :)So my Sony Ericsson W705 Survived :) :) :) We had lunch by 3.30PM and we returned back to our room by 5PM.Then we starte playing football with the young people there. They played very well and it took us by surprise :) In the evening we spent by roaming around the streets of Meppadi :)

At Night we planned to be awake and do not sleep. We played Truth game and it had everyone in a spot of bother and we heard some unknown stories of the specific persons and it was like a get together after a long time. all of us spoke without any limits and we didn't felt sleepy until it was 5 in morning :) :)

Soochipara Falls

The next day we planned to go to 2 water falls but to our misplanning we went to only one. Soochipara falls is one of the beauthiful falls in the Wayanad. The way to reach it is also awesome and photogenic. We need to walk for almost 2 KM in the way in betweeen the forest vigil and we need to reach the falls :) we did so easily and had a great time entering into the falls. Since its the start of sunny days the water was not much but to enjoy the part of the nature it would suffice :) :) The treak will have the slope of about 1.25 KM and the steps of about 1 KM and the steps distance was large and so we needed to refresh ourselves with the cool drinks available at that place. After several harships we conquered Soochipara and we didn't took bath but the photo sessions were severe and helped us to learn photgraphy :) :)







After the enjoyment in Waterfalls, We went for the shopping :) :) We bought Thumb rings and all of them had the same type of design in theirs :) :) I bought Key Chain in my Initial and then a chain with Vinayaga dollar :) Others also bought some things which can be useful for them or the family!!!!!!!!!!! Then we began the shopping for the Chips.. We had 3 kinds of the chips- Sweet, salt and chilli :):) All of them bought according to their needs. Since we had the OOTY bus at 3.30 PM we started to bus stand by 3.15Pm. Don't think the journey is over!! It begins here :) :) :P

Return Journey



Our journey was over as far considered by us and we got seated in a bus stop near Meppadi and waited for the OOTY Bus. The Sun sign was Soooooooo Good on our side that there was a strike in Kozhikode and bus came to Meppadi by 4.55PM.We heard that the bus will go to ooty only by 9.30PM. So we planend to get down at Gudalur and get a bus from there to Coimbatore. But the ill fated luck followed us there too. We heard that the last bus to Coimbatore has just left gudalur and there is no other way of transport.

We were happy to hear that there was another bus to mettupalyam by 7.45PM and so we had faith that we can reach quicker :) :) But after boarding the bus we came to know that this bus will also go through OOTY and then to Mettupalayam. At that time we felt we could have gone in the same bus but what can we do when god plays the part in making us to put leave for an extra day :) :)

It was extreme cold when we were travelling from Gudalur to OOTY. We were unable to sit inside the bus and shivering virtually. The Cold was severe that even the Sweater and Shawl's got wet during the travel :) :)



Then We reached Mettupalayam by 12.15 AM and from there we caught the bus to Coimbatore and reahced there by 2AM. From Coimbatore also we couldn't find the direct bus to chennai and so we went to Salem and to our good luck we found the direct bus. It started by 6AM and we reached our placed by 1.30PM. A journey to cherish and can't be forgot in our life time. 21 Hrs in bus :) :)

So the things which we learned from our tour was to plan beforehand !!! (Which we won't do anyway :P :P ). We didn't saw many places but we thoroughly enjoyed the free time and a beautiful place with whole heart.We could have gone to Sun rise valley and edakkal caves if the way has not been closed. We could have visited Chembra peak but missed it as we didn't had the time :) But we are planning to give it a go next time when we go there :)

So this is all about the Wayanad trip which we went and will try to go so many places and blog as i have done here :) :) Enjoy the life :) :)

Expectation Always Hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Expectation Always Hurts… Isn’t it? Life starts with expectation. Our parents and teachers expect us to do well in studies and we expect some good things to happen. If it happens we tend to enjoy and if it is not we will be disappointed. I just want to know why we are expecting the things to happen. Is it our fault or the normal thing happening in this?

In our young age all the guys will be sharing the news with us without any hesitation. But as you older security comes in the eyes of the fellows who tend to be an open book, Many won’t tend to tell even their important news like promotion and other stuffs. It will be real tests of character in bring yourselves to cheerful mien when you know you are being betrayed. The people with whom you have spent countless number of hours are not reporting you even their important news in their life. What transpired this sudden change of attitude? Is it the Selfishness on their part or the insecurity they face seeing a competition?

The Real shame is that we are the persons whom they will be seeing when they are in need. The friend in need is a friend indeed. The Sharing of good news should bring happiness around the group. Nowadays the culture is like keeping it secret becomes a fashion. The insecurity that lingers in their minds translated into action. Why is this happening??

Expecting something from someone is the root cause for all this unhappiness. Why to expect someone whom you don’t know fully? I know we can find reasons and come with a rule guide that we should follow these steps for not getting disappointed. Life is not about following the rules and enjoy. It is about breaking the rules and getting your emotions visible to others. But to be frank the world s becoming so much unhealthy as insecurity resides in the minds of individuals. They tend to make the friends insecure and unhealthy cooperation between the people in a team. If you are letting out your good things to friends then how can you build a good relation? The insecurity prevailing in their mind will be like a crack on a glass. The Glass can’t be saved and hence the relation too.

The persons who are like open book are the water inside the cracked glass. Please try to come out before the glass is broken, So that they are not wasted. To be frank please get a person’s mentality before hand and expect from them. Then share your thoughts, rather than getting used to hurting. The closeness to acquaintances makes us to expect from them. So beware before being close to them.

For a Safe Life ahead, Please don’t expect anything from anyone at anytime. Try to live a life carefree and also expectation free to avoid any ill happenings in the future.

Expectation Always Hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Transition from CTS to Mindtree :) :) :)

July 1st, 2010

It’s not too easy to leave your native place and go outside. I felt the same when I left CTS. All my thoughts were lingering with the nice things I had with CTS. I had a feeling that I might have taken a wrong decision in my life. But as I have in my mind “Whatever Happens in life Happens for good” For the last one and half of CTS I was posted in MEPZ and I had been with a gang of 9 or 10. It was a pleasant time and I thought suddenly I am shutting the door on my own, I still remember my last day in CTS. I went to many branches and saw many friends. I was entirely not sure whether I have taken the right decision. On my last day I was unable to come out of my seat. I Stayed in office till 9.30PM and virtually cried when I came out of the MEPZ office. I don’t know whether that emotional bonding with CTS was good part on my side but surely I felt so. After coming to home too I opened webmail of mine and was checking the mails (In CTS the account will be locked only after considerable amount of time).

I am damn sure that many will be having the same emotional quotient as me. I was emotionally attached as I was having a lot of friends in CTS (More than 100). I am damn sure in the era of telecommunication I’m not going to miss many but as a friend and advisor I might miss many .... but I never showed my emotions outside. I was crying inside and in the front of others I was smiling. It was a smile from the face rather than the heart. July 1st was a turning point of my life. I needed to make my life turn to different direction. I made myself for a sterner test and first real test after my Campus interview I suppose. I know Mindtree will be different company, different set of people and I need to prove myself to all again. I needed to start from zero again. With lot of expectations I left July 1st, 2010….

July 5th, 2010

Mindtree had its expectations and I had been loaded with lot of pressure after such a long time in my life. It was a new company, new set of people. There were million questions arising in my mind. How will I prove myself? How will the people be? How is the culture? But I had 25 people to accompany me. To my real surprise I saw 7 of them from CTS, but I have not seen anyone before in CTS. As CTS has 11 odd branches in Chennai I was unable to meet many  I got friendship with some of the IMTS people and started to feel good. It was a good that I found the persons in my level. The astonishing thing to see was in Mindtree I found the things were transparent. I went into Data ware Housing and I found there are less members in the DW.

July – October, 2010

July Month went without much fuss. I came to terms with policies and other stuff in Mindtree. I felt a bit pressure less and smooth way. But I was learning much stuff in Business objects and I had a nice time with the colleagues. I was again started having persons who can speak to me at will and chat as much as they can. Also work was going on the other side.

The other important aspect which I liked in Mindtree was the working of TSA. They will be going to Old age home and Orphanage every second Saturday. I also accompanied them for all these months. The sense of fulfillment was there when I visit there. I liked the places and started visiting the places every month. Orphanage has about 30 children and I can remember a proverb saying “You can forget all your sorrows on seeing the smile of children”. How apt that is? Absolutely Children smile is priceless. Those children who are orphans will play and we can forget our pressure and have peace for some time. Old age home is more of a customary place but I was unhappy to see many people are staying there. All of them are not much well equipped and It made my mind stronger and speaking to them will make us feel proud of our parents. Also it made me strong that I might not do that mistake to my parents. We can see the happiness in the faces of old people at once we enter the place and it made me to take part in that kind of opportunities.


Next in line was my Project, My First project with Mindtree. Panasonic was my first project.We had a very small team and I was a bit hesitant at the beginning but my lead made as easy and I became a part soon of the project in a full swing. She cleared all my doubts and made me comfortable in the project. After a gap of about a week I came to my own and happy to be part of Mindtree. It was the happy time back to the good old days of CTS. In the mean while I also completed my MBA degree which is biggest thing as I worked and did it.

The project went smooth and I gained much more confidence in my ability and tried to utilize it to the fullest. It was nice to see enjoyable and nice people around which nullifies your work pressure. Even the PM or TL are easily accessible and transparency is the thing I liked more in Mindtree so far and I hope it is the same in the future too ....

So far I am having the good stars shining on me and want it to shine in the future as I can make myself better equipped and have good time as I had in CTS .... hoping for the best and trend shall continue ....

More to follow....God knows...........

POST-PHEONIX

Post-Phoenix:

In July 2007 my friends wanted to form a new team and we name it as “PHOENIX”- Rising from the Ashes. I had to cut the terms with Nagar Friends since my friends formed a new team and I am integral part of it. We played our first tournament in July 2007. We had some real easy opponent in our first outing, as per the name. But it was comedy of errors which followed. We needed just 49 of 8 over’s and we got to horrible start much to our team's fury... We were 11 for 6 at one point. Then I had a good partnership with sati and we got forward to 36/7 and then there chaos and we won in the last ball with brilliant running by Divakar saved us from blushes.

Next match was Semifinals and we had it against Nagar Friends, My previous team. They scored 93 of 12 over’s. We were bit sad about our bowling performance but it was all overturned by a whirlwind batting performance from Arvind. It was a great innings from him which really motivated us and we beat them by 6 wickets. In our first attempt in a tournament we went to finals and we played Champions in finals. They scored just 52 in 10 over’s but to our bad luck we lost by 5 runs in the finals. We may call them as we choked in the final but I was not able to finish it off which I should’ve done.

After Post Phoenix there was change in me. I was not a real attacking batsman as I was earlier.....I played as wall and tried to keep my wicket intact so that people around me will hit the boundaries. So it was a different kind of environment for me. Still I played some shots but not attacking as I did earlier with the previous team. But I liked it more as it made my cricketing life fulfilled as I was able to my technical side perfect. We were happy that we reached new heights in our first tournament itself and the burden of expectation was upon us from the start itself .....




Lets see the other important moments of my life with PHOENIX in the forthcoming posts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cricket Life

Pre-Phoenix:

My Life and cricket is so much inter related. Cricket still has inherent space in my itinerary. I started playing cricket very early in my life. From my school days I used to play cricket with the people in my locality. My neighbor Kannan Anna is my idol. I have seen him play some very astounding innings with both tennis and cricket ball. He made me play cricket with him. I was not playing a big deal of high profile cricket till I reached my 10th.

Till my 10th – We used to play the cricket in very quiet manner. Especially we will be playing beside Sivaraman home. He is my best buddy. I will be in his home more than in my home at my schooling days. He is really brilliant in studies also in playing. We play real quiet but aggressive cricket. I can even remember Srihari, Velmurugan, Satish kumar and others accompany us in the ground. Our profiling was a bit low and we also didn’t want any high profile.

When I was in my 10th leave, I had substituted for some in Kannan Anna team. In the quarters of flood light match they lost so many players because of various reasons and I was handed my first cap. I was told to bowl the 2nd over. I was really astonished to see bowl was coming at my side as I was very young at that time. I bowled pretty well. My bowling figures were 3-1-10-2. I got 2 wickets which I really relish still now. But I can’t say it about the match as we lost by about 20 runs chasing 91. I was the No.11 in the team and I faced just 2 balls without scoring. Also I didn’t trouble the scorers as I lost my partner next over. We lost but it was first match of mine.

Then once again I was back to normal flow and we will play in Audco ground where we played some of the older guys and beat them. The thing of winning gave me an opportunity to play in the Nagar Friends team and I took it as much as possible. I blossomed as a cricketer in their team. We have had many number of matches in which I had played really well and my bowling and batting both got well augured. I became a full time cricketer in that team. I am really thankful to that team mates for really making me think like a good player. They showed me my true potential and I am very thankful to Vicky, Dharma, Anand and Munees. I felt my own when I played with them and try to give my best all the time when I play for them.

Seldom i will be playing with my friends in weekends and we also went to a tournament. My team name was Anchor. It was a 6 wicket tournament. We played to see our profile. In the first match we beat Park Friends by 10 runs. Then came the match which showed our potential. We beat Keelakaranai team by 5 wickets, inside 2 over’s we finished the match after we had bowled them out for 17.

Next match is my career turning point match. We needed 56 off 6 over’s. We fielded brilliantly and shut them down to 55. We were 21 for 0 in 3.5 over’s, when my teammate susil ran himself out by backing up too far. I came inside without knowing what is gonna happen in the next 10 balls. Next over was bowled by arvind, my classmate. I hit 31 runs in an over and the equation was turned to 4 in an over from 35 of 2 over’s  I got out in the final over but we coasted home without hiccups. Till date I can say it was my best innings and brought out the batsmen ship in me. We eventually lost to Nagar Friends in the finals by 30 runs but our heads was held high and I was adjudged man of the tournament which was the starting of good things to come  our team was Ravi, Shiva, Sati, vel, Ragha and susil.

Then in that year lights I played for Nagar friends and it showed my potential to everyone. I was asked to open the innings and I took it as I had many big hitters in my team and so safeguard them I went for opening. But I started playing well and we scored 88 in 10 over’s and I scored 45 out of it. A first real important innings of my lifetime and I was very much happy I played well. Also it was my transformation from No.11 to No.1 in 2.5 years that surprised many. After the lights knock I got some more responsibilities and I coped with it with ease and my cricketing life was going at ease with the Nagar Friends team. Till July 2007 my cricketing life was with them and all I will do is to go and play and come. I will not be chatting too much as I do to my fellow friends. It doesn’t mean that I under performed at any time. They also know I played with my whole heart in their team.


In the coming Posts i will be sharing my Experiences POST-PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!

Cricket as a Religion

India – 2nd in population behind china. We have large amount of human resources which mostly utilized by MNC’s. Cricket- It’s not our National game but it has huge following than Hockey. Cricket gained the popularity when Kapil’s devils won the Prudential Cup, 1983. They beat run away leaders West Indies in finals and Kapil phaji held the cup in his hands. That moment marked the cricket autonomy in India.

Hockey lost its glory as it began to decline as the cricket rose up. India won the 1980 Olympic gold medal and it was last recognized win for our national game. Cricket on the other rose from strength to strength from 1983.

In 1985, India won the world championship of cricket and was crowned as undisputed champs. From Gavaskars to Tendukars, Tendukars to Dhonis cricket was over leaping all boundaries in the Indian sub continent. India Has been the traditional powerhouse of cricket and BCCI, Controller for cricket is the richest club of all the lot. Every new born in an Indian family dreams to become a cricketer. That is the real storm that has been done by cricket in our society.

Nowadays cricket is being followed as a religion. We find the boards like “Cricket is a religion, Sachin is God”. Indian Players are worshipped like god if they win, But in the other hand if they lose they are impatient and burning their effigies. Why this sentimental things happening? Are these players who played well deserved to gods and not played well are deserved to be devils? Why is this happening in our country?

India came out in the first round itself in World cup 2007 (50 over). Then people became unrest. Effigies were burnt, Houses were rattled by stones. Then in the same year we won the T20 world cup and cricketers were hailed as heroes. Why this discrimination? The bunch of players was the same. The difference is the form they shown. The exuberance of the youth was visible. Now 3 years down the line they are facing the same fiasco as they had in 2007.

The Indian people expect the best out of their players all the time which can’t happen at all times. But almost 100 crores people expectation will be acting upon the players mind too. All the effigy incident and stone throwing incident will be running at the minds. I accept they played badly and are circumspect against the short pitch bowling but it’s because of the pitches in India. Here they won’t get a ball cutting across the throat but in overseas you will get that reception which currently they are unable to cope with.

Let’s remember, Ponting one of the finest Batsmen averages only 12 in India. So give some time for this young parade to work on their defects. Then we can come to conclusion. They haven’t done anything substantial in the world tournaments for the past 3-5 years. But let us give some time to prove. I can remember Sachin Tendukar took 79 ODI’s to record his 1st Century. But now, Can anyone say it’s wrong to give time to the little master. Just show the patience to them. Even diamond takes time to transform from carbon. We can make wine in a single day. So wait and watch. One day we can see the transformation in these fringe players.

But I need to quote some ill happenings in Indian Cricket. The loss in T20 World cup was due to:

1. Why the hell they took Ravindra Jadeja to World cup? I am not saying he is a bad cricketer. But we have better cricketers than him in our ranks. He is very young and has to learn many things.

2. Why not Irfan Pathan and Robin Uthappa? Why Dhoni didn’t go for this two people. Only he can answer this. Both were in some good form and none were selected which came as rude shock to all. Both can win the matches on their own. They both were in good form and really I was astonished not to see their names in final squad. I know Irfan was bit down but Uthappa has been in sublime form in the IPL3.

3. Why they took bowling in 2 Matches in Barbados? India had only 2 seamers and after winning the toss, Dhoni opted to field which was the major blunder they did. Dhoni had some answers for it and none were really proven him right. He is a gifted captain but he needs to accept the truth that he had made a blunder.

4. When Hussey can bat at 33 like this, why can’t Dravid or any other good bet when sehwag was not there? India went for youngsters who were good but we need to blend youth with experience in order to get the results in our favour. This went against India as they were unable to play the short pitch stuff which bombarded against them.

5. Sehwag’s Absence made a huge difference as other teams will be happy that the Nawab of Najafgarh was not there to haunt them.

6. Indian Youngsters inability to Short Pitch stuff. Surely they are trying to overcome but so far it hasn’t come off yet

So my sincere thought to our countrymates are:
1. Please watch Cricket as a game, Not as a religion
2. Love the game, don’t be a predictor or some hardliner
3. Wait for the fruit to reap. Youngsters will take time and wait for them to grow up and deliver the goods.
4. Please don’t burn effigies. Don’t break the houses of cricketers.
5. Take the things easy as it comes. Be professional rather than sentimental.

So wait for the 2011 World cup in sub continent and hope for an Indian Upsurge and let us bring back the glory of 1983!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet Memories During Training in Cognizant

My Last day at my college was on May 17th, 2007. I wrote my last exam and came out with lot of expectations. I had a sense of proud that I was the first person in my family to complete B.E and got selected in CTS in campus interview. So I thought my life was a settled one as I see it now. I was waiting for CTS call for almost 6 months. First I was given DOJ (Date of joining) as December 24th and on November 14th got call to join on November 16th. Here the journey of stepping into the CTS begins:):)

First day of CTS, I was called for induction program to Tidel Park. I was accompanied by Nirmall, My college mate (Department mate too). We don’t know much about the route. He told me that it will take just 5 minutes of walk from Madhya Kailash to Tidel Park. Believing his words we walked. Much to our agony Sun was just belting down as early as 8 itself. We walked for almost 25 minutes and then only I came to know he said its 5 minutes when we come in bike L on first day, we were given some lectures from all the top level managers. We as usual back benchers were sitting in the last row and trying to avoid the sleep as hard as possible.

We got a gang of friends who were from other colleges. Also we saw our sister concern college students sitting in the 2nd last row (SRM Eswari college, we are from SRM ValliammaiJJ). We had enjoyed for 2 days with some team building exercises and some various interpersonal skills programs.Then they parted us into groups and allotted training in some specialized courses. My team was a gr8 one. It was like Bharatha Vilas film in Tamil. I was put into AJ083 and we were combine with AJ084.The team size was 30. My batch break up was:

Andhra: 12
Tamilnadu: 11
Delhi: 1
Maharashtra: 5
Kerala: 1

This was an awesome collection as we had all the languages and people. I thought it would be difficult to group with this batch as it was a group and state based. But for my surprise all were brilliant and they gelled like anything. All were like pearls as I must say. Helping others out in all the things. All were so close that we enjoyed like a family friends in our training period. We used to roam a lot, Enjoy like anything in pantry.

We were put up in Siruseri SIPCOT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE for training. Although the roads were at bad shape the enjoyment we had inside the campus was awesome. It will be like an island and we enjoyed every moment in our training time. We roamed so many places when we were in training. Some of the moments I am going to Share with you through this blog:





Besant Nagar:

Besant Nagar is the first place where we had gone as a gang. Like always none was punctual except one or two poor fellows who reached on time and waited for others. In friendship and love, Waiting causes a lot of good things.. It helps us to think of others more time and bonds us better. So everyone came by 5.30(Our timing was 4-4.30 maxJJ). We had wonderful time in beach for almost 1 hour. We played with tennis ball and after tiring a lot. We sat and played Antakshari. We got mixed songs as we had Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi people surrounding us J Then we went to a dhaba and had our dinner. Then we had our way back to our own backyard JJthe size been 16 out of 30.

Mahabalipuram:

Mahabalipuram is a historic place in Tamilnadu. We planned our next visit to historic place. We started in morning from my place and reached there by afternoon. Our first visit was to a hotel and we had our lunch over there. It was a combination of north Indian and south Indian dishes. We enjoyed a lot and we were pulling each other’s leg down in whatever opportunity we got J then we went inside, we saw the monumental Temple which was beside sea shore. It was the only one temple remaining out of 7 in the Mamalla period. It was a awesome temple with both Shiva and Vishnu in the same temple. Then after taking some photo shoot we travelled towards the sea. The sea was a bit rough, which didn’t hinder our playing JJ Also we had traversed through the rocky area which was beside the seashore and had some photo shoot there. It was an awesome place. The size was 20 this time. The enjoyment too increased with the amount of people increased.

OSO in Sathyam and Spencers:

Our Third visit was to Om Shanti Om film in Sathyam. To say the fact it was one of the worst film and most hyped film I saw in my lifetime. But I got chance to bully some of the SRK fans in my batch. Then it was like a family function and we thoroughly enjoyed in Sathyam even it was not a good film. Also some of my friends don’t know Hindi too.

After finishing OSO, we went to spencers and had our lunch over there. We also did some window shopping. But Ravi, Adari bought a vanheusen shirt for him to save us from blushes J we were 14 and I think it was the only one thing bought on that day J he he. We did take 8-10 photos in the Spencers and back to our home.

Empowerment:

Empowerment is the program in which we need to show case our talent in all the parts like elocution, Drama, Leadership Skills and a topic has to be completed in 1.30 hours. We got two topics. They were: Value and Ethics and Time management. We enjoyed all the sessions in the Empowerment. 2 of our batch mates got into project because of their brilliant Performance (Swapna and Deepti). So it was one of the learning which yielded lots of good results for the people in batch. We had some nerve wracking comedies from Manoj, Sam and other people. I too made a mess of some things like making the conclusion part too long. But at the end of the day everything is a learning experience which we had undergone in 3 months of training.

Punna da Dhaba:

After finished all our tests, our last date of our training was on February 27th and so we got February 28th as leave. We were asked to come on March 1st for our project allocation. We came and played on February 28th and had lunch at Punna da Dhaba. Almost 20 people came and we had some nice time before we were allocated into the project.




This is the Sweet memories which we had in our Training life. Also We did MFRP(My first Real Project) which was one of the good things we did in training. I hope all will be still lingering upon the sweet memories of our training life