Its Friday 5:30 already and I am still in the office listening to Bryan Adams... Hmmm... I must say thats unusual me... I would have always been the first to wait in the queue for the Bus to Bangalore at this time of the day... Well... change is in the air...

As I am not going to Bangalore this weeekend... I will be compelled to stay here itself(which I hate)... Cant help much also... as I am supposed to be a guest to my relatives who are coming here to see the campus... When they informed me about their plans... I didnt have much options than to accept them as my guests... My Brother who knew my eagerness and intensions of getting to Bangalore every weekend... took this opportunity to tease me to the core...

Hmmm... Two days(atleast 1 is sure) of lonliness will give me ample time to do a retrospection on myself( which is on due for a long time now)... I used to do it so often during my last semesters and even before I joined this company when I used to walk alone with nothing to do from college to my friend's place or from my sis's place to friend's place... I never used to feel that I have walked so much(4 KM)...

Everything... starting from my 10th standard classes till the end of 8th semester of my engineering would roll up on my eyes as if I am seeing them again... I would picturize every important incident which had taken place then as if I am a spectator and then I would visualize what if I had not done this and instead... had done that... I must say... its real fun and you will enjoy it... Often... my friends ask me that, what is their to think so much... Well... I say, that if you don't do this kind of retrospection... you are really missing it in your life...

Some people might not agree with me saying that you will spoil your mood if you do such kind of thinking...
Well... To a certain extent, they are true and its left to individual's opinion... I admit that even I used to spoil my mood thinking about the past.... but not now... I am a lot matured(Am I?) now and can handle the enormous emotional turbulence in myself... But sometimes... yes, I do give up...

Oh... I think I blabbered a lot today... Time to say bye to my comp for this weekend... No... I might come on Sunday to listen to some good music if I am getting bored... I have an awesome collection of Bryan Adams, Metallica and some good Hindi Senti songs...

Finally... I would like to give a tip... If you want the perfect ambience for doing retrospection... then switch the tune for some good old Kishore Kumar Senti songs... They both are a deadly combination( My Experience... I must say :-))....

Bye

Shreyas VS

Its been more than a week since I last wrote... I have realised that blog is not only for putting your daily or weekly activities... Thats why I guess most of my previous blogs sounded boring... Well... I must say... This is how I am and cant really change a lot... Although will keep trying to change...

As usual I had gone to Bangalore this weekend also and really had a rocking and exciting time there...

After coming back to Mysore on Monday morning... everything looked pretty much same, nothing will change I thought... Same people roaming around my place... same sound of the temple near my place... Same checking of the security personnel at the office main gate... same breakfast... same swiping in and swiping out people... It was me who was expecting a change...

Hmmm... I got a pleasant surprise when I went to office... We had got some work to do... My partner said that we need to develop a "Meeting Tracker System" which will be used internally in our IBU and we both started working on it(actually he did most of the work)... And by the end of the next day we both had finished our part of assigned work and were jobless again... But our senior who had assigned this work was considerably happy with our work... So I can call that day as my first working day (unofficially)...

Sometimes I get scared thinking that "Is this what life is all about?" Working for five days in some company and then two days of relaxation... This 5:2 ratio has become our routine kind of thing in almost all of our lives(and in some cases it can be 6:1 - all pretty much the same) I feel that we have become puppets in someone's hands... Doing whatever he signals us or orders us...
I must admit that I was not like this... I never really used to think like this also... Something trigerred these thoughts in me and I am continuously become restless about it... I want to know the answer to that Question... I dont know whether everyone is having the same question or is it only me...

Whatever it is... we will be compelled to continue our routine of doing things the way it is defined already and only my thinking or this blog entry wont really change the system we are already in... One more thing which keeps coming to my mind is that everyone of us( which includes myself also) will be having future plans like going for higher studies (MBA,MS,Mtech) or to become a Team lead, Project Manager etc... I have a question that why all of us think the same... Why are we not thinking something different... Is someone(or something) blocking us(or our mind)... Dont really know... And yet as I said we will be compelled to take the same decisions which already someone has decided for us... Its like we having an abstraction of choices( which we think are our choices)...

Finally... I feel that something is really missing in my( or must I say Everyone's) life and I really don't what is it... Well I can say that the changes in me which triggered these kind of thoughts who knows... could be the precursor for some really noticeable changes in me... Or it might end up by me getting the answer for that eternal question... If someone knows the reason behind my restless mind... Kindly enlighten me...

In constant quest for the answer...

Shreyas VS

"Never waste an opportunity to say ' I Love You ' to someone whom you really love... coz.. its not everyday you meet a person, who has the magic to make you fall in love"

- Well the above line is the 'punch line' for me for this entire week.

DISCLAIMER : "Punch lines are only for listening and telling and I am not responsible for its execution and futher consequences. Use it at your peril. Readers discretion is recommended." ;-)

Here I am, back after some 3 days... Was really busy to even check my mails( Ha Ha... Not really ;-) )... Well... I was waiting for friday evening 4:30 to happen as I zoomed out of this pathetic mysore to lively Bangalore for my weekend extravaganza.... By then my friend Swaroop had this awesome idea of going to "Lage Raho Munnabhai" movie at night... So as soon as I stepped out of bus at the Mysore road junction, I took an auto towards "Urvasi" theatre... ( Ya... That auto driver was bit taken back and gave me a wierd look thinking who is this Jerk who wants to go to theatre with a full fledged back pack ;-) ).... And this was suppose to be my first Second show experience at a theatre.... The mood and ambience looked promising....

I reached theatre well before the schedule and helped myself with a nice Sandwitch... Then I met my friends there and had a real nice time at the movie... The movie is really enjoyable and you cant help bursting out laughing every now and then... And there are some emotional scenes which will make your eyes wet( atleast mine did... As I am called the senti guy in our group- and I am proud of it :-) ) After the movie I went to Swaroop's place and there also our chatting continued... we were awake till 3 in the night... I had almost forgotten that I had a test to attend in the morning... Then got reminded of that and forcefully slept off...

Then in the morning I went near MG Road and there I met Shubha... I had a nice time chatting with her... We completed the test and then both of remembered that we didn't have breakfast... So we went in search of some nice place... And finally ended up going to Richie Rich.... There we had some juice(Nothing else was appropriate it seems at that hour according to that shop owner)... Then we remembered that we are suppose to see test results also... I had almost forgotten about it amidst our bantering... We went back to check results and it had come as expected... Shubha was supposed to stay for further rounds and I was shown the Exit door( Although surprisingly, I didnt feel any regrets for that)...

I stayed there itself till 1:15 and yes, we continued our chatting( God only knows where we get so many topics to talk... But I did enjoy a lot- Thank you Shubha).... After wishing her good luck( It did work... as she cleared all the rounds in flying colours) I came back to Swaroop's place... where he was having a "Tax Savings" session by his dad... I too joined them and I must say, it was really enlightening.... After that, smitha,Shruthi, Shruthi(sharma), Veda, Sindhu and Srinivas who had gone for the movie called us to "Kamat Minerva" to have lunch with them... The food was good but who cares about it untill we have company of such caring and nice friends... From there it was decided to go to Shruthi(sharma)'s place... but srinivas didn't join us as he had some other commitments.... We all went to shruthi's place and had a chat session there also... and ya there we played some 3 rounds of card game and guess what... I won the first game(Although I am a bit illiterate in these stuff)... After that we all dispersed from her house and I went to swaroop's place...

Well... No... that was not the end of the day. Myself and Swarooop went to one of his friend's place and there we were playing something and I was feeling that something is not complete today as I had not met one more friend( or should I say Counsellor?? Who has kept I dont know how many different names to me... ;-)) of mine... Shilpa.... (Ya.. She has to go to her company even on saturdays... Thats why I keep telling her to ditch that company... :-))

Then came her message that she is coming to meet us and I was really happy... and we met up near coffee day and had a long session of gossip mongering.... And ya... Swaroop had not seen her for some days it seems and as soon as he saw her... He couldn't control his boisterous laugh (Reasons withheld ;-))
That day wouldn't have been complete without meeting her... Had nice time there and then we dispersed....

The next day Swaroop and his family had plans of going to Shivanasamudra ( Its also called 'bluff' falls - for "God only Knows" reasons... I am still figuring it out...) So I also joined them and we started off at 12 noon after having sumptuous meal prepared by aunty. We packed many eatables and clothes and our DRIVER(Swaroop is affectionately called so by his family members ;-)) had a good time driving till Maddur as the road was awesome.... After that sometimes we use to wonder sometimes whether we have lost track or is it really National Highway( Such is the condition of the road).

We reached the falls at around 3 Pm and it was a steep descent to climb down the hill to the falls.... The view from the top was ecstatic... We climbed down slowly and initially myself and swaroop both were reluctant to get into that icy water.... But then we both couldnt resist the temptation and jumped in... And O'boy we did have memorable time out there when we went inside the falls where water was directly falling from top... It was the massaging effect of water which we liked the most... Any body pain will be warded off by that forceful outflow of water....

Then it was time to come out and go... We both came out blaming ourselves not coming to this place early itself... Anyways we thought of enjoying it more the next time... Now we had a tremendous task of climbing up the mountain where we had parked our car.... Somehow we managed to climb up and there we helped ourself with 2-3 rejuvinating tender coconut water.... And then we started back tracking our path and on the way we saw one more falls( This one was too dangerous to climb down I felt) and all the way back, we munched on the unlimited supply of snacks from aunty and had a nice time chatting with Swaroop, his sister ,aunty and Uncle... ( I will always remember this trip - thank you Swaroop)

They dropped me at Maddur and after waiting sometime I got into a bus going to mysore and I reached home at around 10... So this is how I spent this weekend... Tell me about yours also...


See you
Take Care
Bye

Shreyas VS

Shreylog


Hello people....

I am Back to bug you all.... Yes, this is my consecutive second day at blogging... I must say today that the fun and joy when you hear some good news about yourselves or anything is magnified to astronomical extents when you share it among people who care about you....

I was one such lucky feller today to have such an experience.... Just in my previous blog I had asked for all my friends to pray for me so that I get either Bangalore or Mysore as posting...
And guess what.... I got Mysore as my posting atleast for timebeing....

Felt like sharing this good news with everyone so started calling everybody.... Didnt even consider that they might be in some meeting or training.... And everyone picked up the call and had a lengthy conversation also....

Then after I exhausted all my friends by calling them... I was wondering what to do for the rest of the day as I was suppose to go and report to my Project Manager tomorrow...
Then came a sudden and surprising idea of going to Wonder -La from Shubha and Smitha this saturday...

Even I felt that we should do something different and exciting this weekend.... So I am all occupied today about contacting people and planning for saturday.... ( Well I must say thats the only thing I keep thinking whenever I am free - What to do for this weekend? ;-) )

Then I gave one more option of Go-Karting on saturday...
Swaroop and Shruthi said Ok for that also... So I need to ask everyone and decide on one thing.... So.... Having all this our saturday sounds really exciting... :-)

Good News... Good News... And more Good News were in store for me today... Just about when I was starting to write today... Shilpa calls up and says.... "I got Bangalore".... Wow... Awesome news I said... Was really happy for her...
One more reason is you know... its very difficult for "HeNNmakLu" to go outside their hometown and work Ha ha.... I like teasin my friends(Girls) with that name and they too get really irritated when I use that word.... Ha Ha....

Hmmm... This reminds me of yesterday me and shruthi(sharma) had a long chat session over our good old days at college and I really felt Nostalgic about them..... Really... I must say "Those were the best days of my life"...( Ya Ya... I know what you are thinking... Its a Bryan Adams Liner I know)

Hmmm.... Thats it for today I guess.... Will be updating tomorrow... Be in Touch....

Bye
Shreyas VS

Wow...

Its Kind of feeling different writing something which will be posted on net and people get to Comment on it... Hmmm... Well Done Shreyas... You have grown up a lot....

Ya... I should definitely mention one person today( Infact She is a "Tumba oLLe Hudgi" - I know she will be cursing me after reading this ;-) ) Her name is Shubha.... I read her blog today and really got inspired by the way she writes and found out its actually fun writing blogs and can improve your writing skills also....

I can say that I am not that a good writer... But i do enjoy reading others profiles, blogs etc.. etc... Ya Ya... I know I am boring you guys a lot... Please for my sake control you yawning.... :-O

For the past one week its been really boring out here at Infosys... "Nothing to do" is what our problem is. Actually it was fun when we were under training... atleast we had some assignments and projects to do.... So thats why I keep BUZZing my friends a lot these days... Just cant stand "not being busy" or "not in contact with people"... Hope they will tolerate me... He He... ;-)

For the past few days its been just waiting waiting and waiting for our posting details.... I might be sent to Trivandrum(Which is supposed to be the most inhabitable place on earth it seems)... Lets see... what happens... At the end of the day I will have to accept whatever they give me... And I am getting ready for that...

All my friends have been really supportive all the while to make me comfortable and counselled me a lot.. Its really great to have such an inner circle of friends with whom I can chat and talk for so long that we dont know how so much time went off.... I just hope our friendship goes on and on and on and on and on......( I know all of my friends will be gigling now seeing my last sentence... Its my trademark sentence I guess ;-) )

Well people... When you comment... please let me know... what else can i blog on.... I am not able to get topics... well that indicates that I should stop blabbering now.... Just one request before I end...

Friends... Please pray for me that I dont get trivandrum and that I get either Mysore or Bangalore as my posting.... Will be grateful to all of you... Ok Then...
Will try to blog as frequently as possible....

Bye
Take Care
See you

Shreyas VS