Trip to the Valley

Once in a while my company comes up with surprises and shocks. This time it was surprise a pleasant one to cherish. We had an offsite meet for all the employees of my SBU at "Aamby Valley" -- the same place where the indian team members of 2003 finals were gifted houses.

The same was planned some 2 months ago, leading to an excitement till the day i saw the agenda of the program. It could not stop cursing myself to believe something exhilarating can be expected from our guys. But the 4 day meet was amazing to say the least.

It was place to cool off, vent our common frustrations about work and all other such stuff. It was nice catching up with friends from other offices, making new acquaintances (its tough to make friends in 4 days).

Few things that i can recall right away was the 2 dj nights, the partying was amazing, It was a long time that i got a chance to shake a leg, which i love doing. some of the side effects of not having a girl friend is no entry into dance venues ;(.

some adventure activities were also part of the package, rafting (its ok i can call it rafting) was great fun which tested our inhibitions. Water has always been a scary place for me, may be i should do something about it, learn swimming may be.

I will share an interesting incident which happened during this trip. I met a girl couple of times before we met during the buffet lunch organized. i cant even call her an acquaintance because i dont know her name as well. I was at the dessert section trying to serve myself some rasmalai, the dish was almost empty but i managed to get a small piece of it, this girl was beside me during this. She makes a statement saying that she could not get any rasmalai, me trying to be a bond said that i managed to get something referring to the piece on my plate. The next thing she did was she bought the plate close to my plate and peacefully transferred the piece into her plate, despite me trying to oppose this. I was shocked for a minute as to how can someone be so desperate. Or is this natural and i am being over reactive.

All in all a nice trip i would say. Every year i manage to take off for a week n visit some interesting locations in India, this time we were planning pucket kind of place but unable to get consensus on timings, lets see if i can manage some foreign travel (at least to Kathmandu ;)).

Blasts from History

This is one of the earliest blog entries i wrote during my placements.
Relying on my consultancy skills (copy and paste), i am writing it here again.

learnings during my placements
Its all about time, a global statement but a very practical quote.
Things I learnt
1. Its the process you undergo matters and makes you stronger, more learned than the end result.
2.Made me aware of the different adverse situations one will face in the real world.
3.I came to know about my true friends, people whom i can trust my life on.
4. People can facilitate or guide you to take a decision but its you who will and have to take the final decision as you know about your capabilities better than others.
5.Resist to get into emotional trap.
6.I realised that i can talk logically under pressure.