Memories from an old mail!

I was just browsing through my yahoo mailbox when I found this old mail. Reminds me of very good memories,also reinstates my idea of blogging periodically to capture the interesting moments of life......


From: Sarath KumarG (WT01 - EAS) Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 4:44 PMTo: 'Balaganesh_S'; 'ChandraMohan'; 'Diwhagaran Palani'; Jatish V C (WT01 - Retail, CPG & Distribution); 'Mohan Kumar (Cognizant)'; Nikhil Kumar (WT01 - Retail, CPG & Distribution); 'Prabhagaran_Palani'; 'Sameer Rahamathullah (WT01 - TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES (GS))'; 'ChandraMohan'Subject: Latest from Bangalore

Hi ppl
Welcome to the Bangalore News Bulletin.. ( sameeru.. tamil kirukan lan sollamudiyaadhu. Idhu dhan en style okva. )

The reason for mailing this time is the same as that of the last time… but this time got something to write about.

As u all know, bala had come down to bangalore for his weekend.. with only his mouth and the dress he was wearing. After his grand arrival( bala idhellam too much for ur face.. nee autola vandhu erangunadha.. unna alachutu poga vandha naangale seriya paakala. ), we went home to watch a blockbuster movie. Called tygos.. thanks to dippu and bala for choosing the movie. It was a movie which even the director wouldn’t have seen the first copy. I should ve suspected that when the cd shop guy looked at us in a peculiar way when we had gone to take that movie. We were fooled by the title. Day after tomorrow 2.. so we just sat and chatted until the movie ended( we knew it was over only when the cd player suddenly stopped showing moving picture on the screen. ). In the meantime we had also planned for the next two days. The best part of our plan was that Mr Munificient Dippu was supposed to sponsor us all through the trip. So jus like that kept on talking until the movie thankfully got over. tat was all for Friday. Had a nice long chat.. and then slept..

Saturday morning, there was a slight change in the plan. we had planned for a shiva temple, but postponed that to the next day and decided to go to bannerghatta national park..bala, dippu,our roomie shakti and myself started off hoping for a nice trip.. it was a long journey and we went in veliyoor bus. This was the first time dippu got a chance to go see a video coach. So eventhough there was a telugu movie going, he was watching with his mouth wide open..we reached after some 45 mins I guess. There were lots of safari trips happenning.. the difference between a safari trip and a zoo is that in a zoo animals will be caged and we ll go around and see them. In a safari, we will be caged and made to go around the animals.. so that they get a chance to see humans in a cage. And we get a chance to see them roaming freely outside.

First it was the herbivore safari. Only deers and bisons. Nothing special. And then it was the bear safari. This was the first time I say so many bears.. all roaming here and there. All of them had so much hair in the body that even sathyaraj would envy.. lion and tiger safari was good as well.. ultimately we got out of the caged van and went into the zoo.. the place had a collection of all the rare animals. If jaggu goes there, he ll definitely find a place to stay among his relatives.. I want to see jaggu behind such a cage. We met a foreigner there in the zoo who had come in that cage van.he was taking photos all the way.. so we approached him and asked him to send us the photos to our email ids. dippu kept on saying yes yes to watever that fellow said. he dint even notice that the fellow had asked which company he was working for. Adhukum yes yes nu sollitan. And then he showed the name of the company he was working for on his t shirt. Probably by that time..he understood we wouldn’t be able to decipher what he is actually telling..

After the eventful journey, we went back to our place. And then in the evening we went to jayanagar..(that’s where my cat class is..i joined bala and dippu after the class).A Ganesh temple and some purchasing ate up some time.. and our ice creams ate up dippu’s ‘hard earned’ money. ( dippu, hard earned ellam over. Edho indha maari sonna innum konjam vangi tharuvae la. Adhan sonnaen. ) ..by then it had started raining…bala and dippu were hoping to see gals getting drenched in the rain. But most of them were either fully covered by jerkins or by their boy friends. We waited for someone to come without either of the above.. or atleast the rain to stop. Both both didn’t happen. So we rushed out in the rain, took an auto and went to forum mall hoping for some success there. Forum was not as crowded as expected. So after strolling for sometime,we came back to our pg. this time to watch another movie. Ring two. It wasn’t that scary as ring one in which mohan urinated in his pants… this one wouldn’t even bring out a drop. But it still was good to watch. Lots of logical explanations in this sequel.. and then after a tired day, we all went to sleep.

The next day we went to kempfort.. this is where the lord shiva temple is situated.it stands tall at 45 feet… never knew there was one before.. it was good. Ppl who plan to come to bangalore next time, don’t forget to visit this temple…

after that we went to M.G. Road …for obvious reasons.. I meant lunch.. we went to have lunch in our dear old Bheema’s restaurant. For those whove forgotten, that’s the place we had lunch last time in bangalore . Fortunately they havent closed that restaurant.. but unfortunately they had increased the price of a meal to Rs.70. guess they still havent recovered from the loss. Tats y they seem to have gone for a higher price…

After a heavy lunch,we sat to relax on the benches in the street.. the weather was hot.. but we found it pretty cool… we talked about everything and saw everything under the sun… (literally and figuratively.. ) and then got to leave. Bala had to go back to mysore that evening.. so left him in the bus stop and went back home..

Whew!!!. That was how this short but eventful weekend ended.. but this mail has some more lines to go..

Actually, neither dippu nor myself has ever spent a weekend like this before.. till yesterday we never knew all these places existed in bangalore . only when someone like bala comes here.. we wish to take them somewhere, make them happy and realise we also get happier . Tell u.. none of it was planned before hand. Jus happened like that. Impromptu. But it was a really good experience.. old memories as well… especially at Bheema’s.. dippu was telling me that bala might come here this weekend also. Bala, maybe we cant assure u a trip like this time. but we ll definitely assure tat we ll have nice fun if u come here. Laughing our hearts out.. As for the others, we missed all of you..whenever we were laughing like anything.. we remember raghav… when we saw someone order fresh lime soda.. we remembered.. jatish. When we saw ring two.. we remembered mohan…and pappu when when we talked about how he watched a movie with sunglasses on…. its all because most of the time we all go together.. it wouldve been great had we all gone together this time. (just like the moonar trip which is one of the memorable experiences in our lives. And will remain one.. ).. I remember we had all written something about that.. if someone can forward it to our ids. ill read it whenever I get free time like this….

Tomorrow we maybe in different parts of the world…But we always have our memories with us…. I hope we get lots of opportunities like this to meet each other…

Ok then… already too long…


Regards,
Sarath Kumar G
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore

Live life king size

Life is so wonderful that most of the time, however wonderfully we live it, we still could go back to it and feel we could have lived it better..

I remember there was this competition amongst our college bus mates as to who can eat the maximum number of pizzas in Pizza corner which had an 'eat as much as u like' offer for Rs 99(we really needed to eat the money's worth as those were the days when we could survive the whole month with that kind of pocket money). And just be seeing the sheer size of one of our friends everyone else let go of any little hope of beating this guy to it. And this guy was no minnow who would do injustice to his 'all-round' physique. He ate so fast that before people could start off with their second piece, he had done and dusted his plate after 12 small pizzas. I was backed up by two of my friends who did it just to see if that gundu could have some competetion. I had my sixth slice when this guy had completed and implicitly declared that he was through successfully. And to be frank, though I was looking small in front of this guy, I myself am nothing less fatter than Harry Potter's cousin. So six pieces of pizza made me feel like I had just started. But I never knew I would keep on going. In fact though I was pretty slow, I have always felt my stomach connected directly to the earth. How much every I eat, I always had some space for some more. And this day wasnt an exception. I had 13 slices to beat this guy much to his dismay as he couldnt even go back to continuing his act. I could have stopped,but I seemed I always had some more space which would unnecessarily be occupied by air. If I were to ask you if you want one kilo of air or one kilo of cheese,what would u opt for? Thats exactly what I opted for...CHEEEZ... and so my journey continued until i realised I was 16 pizzas heavier and 16 pairs of eyes gaping at me,waiting for me to complete so that we could leave. So I called it a day(so did pizza corner,that offer is now only available in pizza hut and I cant resist going there)

I remember Raghav telling me one of his experiences during his bus journeys from college to home. Each one was bragging about a person he knew who was a glutton. One guy seemed to have told that his friend used to eat too much that they started serving limited meals for the cost of unlimited meals. There was another friend who said that they increased the rate of the unlimited meals menu. And Raghav said, all this is ok but after my friend ate unlimited meals in a restaurant,they closed it down. And that friend was me. All his friends in his bus used to know me till date only for this as if I was working in our college mess instead of studying in the college.One guy seriously came and suggested me to go to symposiums which had eating competions.( When he first came to me with the idea of symposium, I thought he wanted me to present a paper on Nanocomputing and Nanoprocessing)


Those were the days when I used to eat like a king and sized like a baby elephant. Now I dont eat that much but still I had to spend so much of time and effort to bring myself back to the same weight as those days. Those were the days when I used to enjoy eating without feeling for it. Now every morsel of rice and every little cheese i eat seems to be sitting more in my head than in my stomach . I have become pretty diet conscious these days. Even if there is an unlimited buffet, I eat less fearing the few extra pounds that I would garner. Now when I think of it, I still think I should have made the count to 17 pizzas that day. In every star buffets we had , I should have grabbed an extra black forest cake or that mango pudding.Anyways I am never going to eat like those golden days when I used to live to eat-like a Roman Emperor!