Long hours and Busy days…

I don’t get time to blog these days… That’s surprising me… these days it’s all work and no fun. Spending most of my time in office, the whole week and all day am in office. Just because I say I love my work doesn’t mean that I don’t any other work to do. I also have many other things which I love other than my work also. The only thing which keeps me going through all this tough time is my love towards the work. Someday when I lose my love towards work I don’t know what’s going to happen. I feel like I am being pushed to my limits.

Sometimes people don’t understand that all the motivation one needs is just acknowledgement of his hard work and not appreciation or awards… When people don’t understand this simple fact life simply seems like you are carrying a heavy burden. Every day seems like a thousand years together.

The only good thing that happened in the recent time was that I was being promoted. A long waited letter, that finally came through two and a half years and then finally there I get the door to next level opening for a new adventure. Waiting for my promotion letter was like waiting for my graduation card in my school days and exam results in my collage days. The curiosity and thrill were the same. Another thing that happened was the team outing, to be frank I wanted to write a whole post on it and elaborate it. I remember last year it was two post about the outing but work has kept me occupied so couldn’t write a lot about it.

The outing was to Mysore, like last time there was no dancing in bus and all because we went by train. It was altogether a different experience. We enjoyed a lot; as usual the team in which I was put finally came out as the winners. There were two persons with the team, who were from France. The main thing to mention was the DRUNKARDS CONFERENCE that we had on the first day evening after disco. We reached Mysore in the afternoon, right after the lunch the team building activities started. It was fun and there were lot of controversies involved or I should say politics. Then after the team building was the DISCO, we had lot of fun and of course lot of sweating also as there was no AC in the DISCO Hall.

After DISCO was the DRUNKARDS CONFERENCE, as most of the people were drunk and since I was the once who never drinks I was speaking to people who were drunk and making them speak and as you all know how drunk people will speak it was a fun to watch. Actually I was doing it in small scale within our gang. When suddenly one friend of mine, who was drunk bumped into a conversation with one of the French guys and he fired questions to that guy asking how French handled Hitler’s attack during Second World War and went into history. Luckily the other guy, who is French was also equally drunk to and was answering him patiently. The ultimate fun was when the French guy asked my friend about India’s History, he asked him from when he wanted to know was it from 1860 or 1940 or after independence. That’s when I realized people remember history even when they are drunk. A

After that was the kick start of the drunkard’s conference as the other people also came for dinner and then it started off. This went till 12 AM the next day, at the end of the DRUNKARDS CONFERENCE, everyone was sure of one thing that I was the biggest DRUNKARD around. That’s the way I am even without drinking I speak like a DRUNKARD, some day when I learn to drink I don’t know how big disaster it will be. The next day was quite boring and so we bunked out few of the activities and tried to play tennis for sometime. Then we checked out and came back. That’s all about the outing, the resort was Wind Flower, Mysore which I forgot to mention it was a lovely one. Hope I go there some other day but not with guys.

The Great Outing to Aasanur

I went for an outing to Aasanur,which is in Sathyamangalam – Mysore Highway with my friends last weekend on 04th and 5th July. The trip was organized by my friend Ashik, there were totally ten people. We left Erode around 7 PM and reached Aasanur around 11 PM. We got a bus from Erode to Sathyamangalam. We reached Satyamangalam around 9 PM. There was no bus to Mysore there at that point of time so we decided to wait for some more time. After some 15 mins a KSRTC bus, but the conductor asked us not to board the bus as though there are thousand people waiting to get into the bus and travel till Mysore.

We boarded the bus and took tickets neither Ashik nor the Conductor knew the stop. It was a nice journey there were some 27 hair pin bends and it was exciting since it was a night journey through the mountain. Finally I went and asked the Driver about the stop and he said the bus will stop there in Aasanur for dinner. Thanks to my Kannada knowledge. Without which it would have been a little difficult. We got down at Aasanur check post around 10.50 PM. Ashik had already arranged accommodation so we went straight to our house. We settled down had dinner and watched Evil Dead – Part One and doze off.

Next day morning we all got ready by 6 AM and the person who is our guide also came at 6 O’clock itself to take us inside forest. Our guide’s name was CAPTAIN. He was an elderly man in his 50’s I believe. He took us through the road then we started climbing the mountain. He was fast moving in the mountains and we guys were tired, just in five minutes of time. We took some rest then started climbing again. I should say the climate was damn good. Aasanur is a part of the Western Ghats, it was cloudy throughout the day and there was little drizzling too. Captain said there are Elephants, Leopards, Porcupines and Wild Boars in this forest. We saw some porcupine thorns and Ashik took them with him. We roamed around in that forest area for sometime then decided to get down from the mountain and have breakfast.

We moved down the hill this time we took the road. We walked into a hotel down the hill in the village. We had good breakfast the food was good and cheap at the same time. Then we went back into the room around 11 O’clock. We decided to have bath, pack things and leave Aasanur by 2 O’clock so that we can all return to Erode around 5 O’clock. We watched the remaining two parts of Evil Dead and took bath. As planned we left Aasanur around 2.15 PM. This time we were all at the bus steps, hanging around and enjoyed the whole 27 hair pin bends. It was really entertaining and at the same time was dangerous as the curves were really sharp. We reached Sathyamangalam around 3 O’clock had lunch then got a bus to Erode. We reached Erode around 5.15 PM. That was an amazing trip. Thanks to Ashik, who organized such a lovely trip, I should say we all thought that it won’t be such a nice place but he proved we are all wrong.

That’s our Gang with our Guide Captain. [From Left
Front Row: Siva Subramani, Kisore(Kishori), Abdulla and Muhseen
Middle row: Baskar, Captain (Our Guide), Myself and Siva Kumar
Last row: Yuvraj and Hari Gowri Shankar]
That’s our Gang with our Guide Captain. [From Left
Front Row: Kisore(Kishori) and Ashik (Tour Organiser)
Middle row: Captain (Our Guide), Baskar, Abdulla, Myself, Siva Kumar and Muhseen
Last row: Yuvraj and Hari Gowri Shankar]