The Month of Changes

“This has changed.. , you are changed.. , we are changing.. , we need to change.. ”

Oops, I have been hearing all these statements over the past one month constantly. So what has changed over the past one month? So let me list down, I was staying in Madurai for the past seven years and now my father has been transferred to Avinashi, a place 40km from Coimbatore. All shifting work is over. Next, I am staying with my friends in Banasvadi(Bangalore). The area is not that developed. It has very few hotels and shops, so we decided to move on to a better area. We have confirmed a house in an area called Tin Factory. We will be shifting soon. Third one, I have been moved to a new team in office, so ramping up in the new team. So this means new team members, new work, and new domain. Last one (hopefully, if there are no more surprises), my cubicle in office has been changed. So because of all these constant changes I call this month “The Month of Changes”. Changes are good for life, indeed life needs changes, but rapid changes are hard to accept. Anything that is with us for ten days becomes part and parcel of our life, leaving it all of a sudden becomes difficult. Trying to accept changes.

What made IPL less interesting this year ??

1. Of course the first reason is shifting it to South Africa .. i was planning to watch one live, not lucky this year.
2. Pitches : T20 is famous for big hits (remember first match of the last IPL), this year not even a single match was that interesting because of the pitches. Pitches have made bowlers task easy. The average score of this season has been ~150 runs and even chasing this small score has been difficult at times. The teams cannot be blamed for this.
3. Missing foreign players : IPL has been interesting only when teams have a mix for players from all countries. Because of the various series like Australia vs Pakistan, England vs West Indies, few players didn’t turn up for the season and few only for few matches.
4. England players making entry to IPL created lot of expectation. But it was a total flop. Kevin Petersen, Andrew Flintoff were bought for 1.55 million each and they didn’t deliver anything worthy enough to watch. Paul Collingwood and O’Shah didn’t get a chance to showcase their talents and sat in dugout the whole season and returned back.
5. This is the one i hated the most. In the name of strategic time out there has been lot of breaks which is absolutely not necessary. Of course necessary for organizers to make money. But it should not be so long.

Small get-together

After a long time i got a chance to meet all my college friends . Degree certificates were being distributed in college and all friends decide on a single date, so that a small get-together can be arranged. 28th of this month was finalised. On 28th morning sairam, vins and venkatapathy arrived to saikrishna’s home. I went over there and we all started to college in three bikes. In few minutes i met all my friends, we started exchanging various incidents that happened  over the last 10 months. We all went to the college office and received our degree certificates. Finally i have become an engineer (now i have proof with me). We were informed that we have some meeting with principal, but it seemed like no such meeting was planned. Spent lot of time with friends and it feels good to meet all friends after a long time. After this, meeting everyone or arranging an get-together will become difficult since everyone will become busy with work.

Everything on Finger Tips !!

Today read an article in Times of India. The article was about an computer techie who lost his finger in an accident. The guy has designed an prosthetic finger which is an USB drive. He peels off his nail and plugs into the port. And this finger is removable from his body. After reading this article i remember my school days , parents and teacher used to tell “everything should be on your finger tips”. He is the only guy now who can have everything on his finger tips upto to 2gb . Need to appreciate the guy for thinking out of the box.

Malpe and St.Mary’s island Trip

I wanted to be the first of everyone in posting about this trip. This was second trip for me. First one was a trekking trip to Yelagiri hills. This time we decide on Malpe, St.Mary’s island as the trip’s main spots and decided to visit places around that. We, a gang of 12 people started on friday night and reached Udupi after the whole night travel. kudremukh national park was on the way to Udupi. Got down took some photos and continued the travel. The national park was greenish thick vegetation. One would love to stay in a place like that. We were not allowed to spend much time there because of some security issues. We were able to find a good lodge booked some rooms. After a shower we were ready to ready to rock!! Udupi was famous for idly and sambhar, so went to hotel and had good breakfast. Started towards Malpe. Malpe was some 6kms from Udupi and it hardly took half an hour. Malpe has a shipyard. Other than the shipyard there is nothing much to spend time. From there to reach St.Mary’s island we had to travel through boats. Boat travel took some half an hour and finally we were in island. Changed dress and got into the water and started playing. We were jumping, running, … crazy !! After enjoying the beach again got into normal clothes and what’s next, photo session. Took photos and it was time for our boat back. Again after half an hour of travel we were back in Malpe. It was lunch time. People who visit beach don’t come without having sea food, we are not exceptions. Went into hotel and it was completely fish time . The taste was not that great and we wern’t happy with the way the hotel guys behaved because they took a lot time and they didnt respond well. We started towards the Maravanthe beach. It took almost an hour to reach the beach. In few minutes people were able to see Ronaldo’s and Rooney’s. We started playing football . We called it beach football. My team lost in the match. And about the specialty of the beach is that there is river running parallel to the beach but it doesn’t merge with the beach, it takes its own path. On the way back to hotel we visited a temple. Reached hotel had good dinner and started playing cards. At 12 we were gone out of control  since last night none of us slept and so went for sleep. That is the end of the first day.

Next day no one dared to get up before 6. Everyone got up at 7.30 and had shower. The Udupi krishnan temple was very near to the place we stayed and it was a very famous one. Had darshan of Lord Krishna and completed breakfast. We tried out some new dishes available only in Mangalore or Udupi. We started towards Kaup beach. It was few kilometers from our hotel. On the way we played damsharats and heard songs. After reaching the beach we were amazed to see the beach. Not even a single soul was there. We ever the only guys there. We started playing volley ball in the water. Took photos and kicked off from there. There was a plan of visiting Kodachadri hills. On the way we felt like it was too far because everyone had office the very next day. The plan got cancelled and we started heading towards Bangalore. The cab driver suggested us to visit Tunga river since it was on the way. After few hours of travel we were at the banks of Tunga river. Spent some time there taking photos and playing in water. We started towards Bangalore. Around 2.30 am i was near my house. Really a memorable and wonderful trip.Thanks for the organizers. The gang details Pramod, Prabhu, Deivapalan,Rajesh, Senthil, Praveen, Shyam, Sai, Prakash, Muthusivam, Subramani and ofcourse me . Most of the gang members are my seniors. This is just an small description of the trip.

Reply for all “HELP” Comments for my post

Hi all

This post might not interest all. I have blogged about my industrial visit to coimbatore and ooty in my previous posts. Lots of comments started flooding. Comments can be seen here http://nachiappan.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/industrial-visit-to-coimbatore-and-ooty/

The following post is for all those who have seeked for help for me

I am just a fresher so need not call me SIR or Respected Sir and “sorry” i cannot help you all in getting permission from some company to visit as a part of your industrial visit. You always need some big shots or much influence to get into some company for industrial visit.

Those who want to know about the various companies in coimbatore you can always google. I have already mentioned the companies which we visited in one of  the comments. Many have asked what all companies allow for industrial visits, most of the companies dont allow. As mentioned earlier only with the help of some big shots it will be possible. In the comments many have just pasted the whole permission letter which is genrally sent to the companies i dont know why this has been done !!

Quick Post

Just now changed my blog’s image header. It looks awesome(what i feel). Lemme be true it was not designed by me. It was a wallpaper downloaded and i customized it according to my wish and made it my image header. The quality of the image has gone down because of shrinking it and doing some cut,copy and paste operations on the original image.

Comments are always welcomed ..

Small description of random things

Lemme jot down some random things

1. Trip to trivandrum, kanyakumari with family – the trip was good and i saw sun rise for the first time standing on the shores of beach .. absolutely beautiful..

2. Everybody started asking me about my new year resolution.. i told everyone “my new year resolution is not to take any resolutions” hope i will stick on to my resolution

3. Got Internet at home and brought my old system to Bangalore.. you can find me online through the day..

4. Saw “rock on”.. good one.. worth watching..

5. Bad condition of IT industry continues.. 2009 is going to be a tough time for every company..

Avatar !!

I wanted to try something new and finally created two avatars for myself

Probably the first one looks more like me than the second

20 Hours of Journey ..

Hi all, I am back after a long time. Presently i am located in Bangalore, this post should have made been long before. I was bit busy and now got some time to blog. So let me start.

As everyone do I wanted to visit my home for diwali. For people who don’t know, my home is in Madurai. The travelling time from Bangalore to Madurai is approximately 10-11 hrs in bus. But it took around 20 hours for me to reach madurai. How come ?? Why ?? All these questions will raise .. Let me answer all these questions.

I couldn’t get a ticket in train. So booked a ticket in bus after a great deal of difficulty. The bus was at 10.30 p.m. I started from office at 4.30 with my luggages. I took a city bus from nagavara to krpuram railway station(all these places may be familiar to only Bangalore people). From krpuram railway station I took a local passenger train and reached majestic kempegowda bus stand. From there again took a bus to satellite bus stand. It was almost 9 p.m when i reached satellite bus stand. Had my dinner and boarded the bus. Almost 5 hours of travelling is over, 5 hours just to reach the local bus stand . The bus started at 11 p.m and reached Madurai at 12 the next day. Approximately I have been in travelling for 20 hours taking buses and trains . Just to reach the local bus stand it took 5 hours because of the traffic. Then just for crossing Hosur it took more than 3 hours again because of the traffic. Atlast I was delighted to see Madurai after my 20 hours of journey . This is wat happened. I realised that I can be in travel continuously for 20 hours .