Cheers guys...

posting for the first time when drunk. so its fun to sit and type the post out when the lights are off, and all thats there is the roshni of the monitor reflecting on the keyboard and you tend to get a slight feel if you have dyslexia. as a result any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors to be ignored by the reader.
was supposed to go out for dinner last nite itself to celebrate me becoming a year older, but the unpredictable bangalore weather put paid to that plan. so was still confused whether to ask sanjay to get his car or not when he asked if we gonna dine together today.
anyways decided to go ahead with the plan, the five of us. went ahead even though i was just wearing an arsenal jersey and shorts and normal hawai chappal. so boys were confused if any big restaurant would let this shabbily dressed prick in. never quite decided where we wanted to go, and ended up in a posh looking place(bob was feeling embarrassed to walk in with me since i was dressed just for the occasion). hehe... but after 15 mins of dialogue we decided it was not the right place for us and boldly or shamelessly(watever you call it) we walked outta that place. so headed straight to cosmos which was our next destination, the sports bar. but bob my dear was not happy with the idea and kept sulking till we reached there. lol. but trust me, end of the day he was the one who liked the place the most :) called kartik to join us and he did too. nice ambiance, sexy weather and a calm and quite place. a perfect destination for us loafers to have a blast. and so we did. kept downing quite a lot of alcohol and just loved to pull each others leg at the smallest oppurtunity we found. whether it was kicking taklu's ass by talking about his height or waiting for anantha to make that small grammatical error when he talks so that we can take his trip, it was pure unadultrated fun.
got back to drdo riding an apache for the first time, since the owner of the bike was driving the car back. was good fun trying out a new bike when drunk. so sort of proud of myself for completing the task successfully :) then took a stroll down the roads of drdo to get back to normal before getting home. and then confidently rode back on my bike.
but had made a big blunder earlier by not carrying my house key along, so poor mummy was waiting for me to return home without sleeping. anyways it was a good day on the whole. lunch with parents and dinner with guys whom you are sure to have a blast with. had great fun guys with your company. we did have a blast. cheers.

Another year older :)

23 jahre alt...

Treasure hunt @ Capgemini

When our very first plan of using the service elevator itself backfired, we thought its just gonna be a repeat of the last week where we sort of dug our own graves with some judgmental errors. But luckily for us the whole event was called off that day due to some technical difficulties as they call it.. Hehe…

Note: hereafter building 1B will be referred to as SUN and building 4B as MOON.

Clue 1: Go to the fun floor on SUN and find your next clue with a man who has 10 calendars on his desk.

Clue 2: Go to the person who arranges your travel and accommodation in MOON.

Clue 3: A person who manages recruitment, and whose name rhymes with pony. The first letter of his name is the 19^th alphabet. In MOON.

Clue 4: The person who manages fun and games in the MOON.

Clue 5: A puzzle
None of us remember the exact question, but if I am not wrong the answer was 3100 which we cracked pretty easily.

Clue 6: A puzzle
The third number is double the 1^st number and the fourth number is double the second number. The difference between first and second, and third and fourth is 1.
Find the cubicle number. 4^th floor MOON.
Hehe… best part about this clue was that the clue itself was printed wrong. Wasted lot of time here.

Clue 7: Go to the first lady sitting in SUN

Clue 8: The only guy sitting with a cap on the trust floor in SUN.

Clue 9: The only women member of sociozone from SUN and also a member of the women’s council. 7^th floor SUN.

Clue 10: The treasure is buried under the Eiffel tower.

Next minute it struck to Wilson that there’s a painting of Eiffel tower in our cafeteria. So we made a mad rush from the 7^th floor of one bldg to the 6^th floor of the other. When we reached there, it was all quite. Very few people. Found a guy from HR dept standing in front of the painting. After validating all our clues, he asked us to wait. Slowly many other teams arrived with their final clue to the same spot. We were still not sure if any team had finished before us. So just kept a low profile.

When they finally announced it, there was wild celebrations and high fives exchanged. We went forward to collect our so called treasure. Thought it might be a some tiny gift, but we could not believe our ears when Manu announced “the winners get five thousand worth gift vouchers from forum”.

Oh ho, all the running around for the last 45 mins didn’t go waste after all. We were so thrilled. And the audience could not believe the treasure was really worth 5K. We could smell so many asses burning now. Hehe… the reaction of one of my colleagues summed it all up when she said, “If our boys would have been there, we would have won easily”. Those words are still ringing in my ears. Lol. But who cares, we have the money in our hand and that’s what matters. Was a treasure worth hunting for.

Congratulations to all my teammates who ran with me from one building to the other. After all it was a test of fitness more than the mind. Another feather in Sir Rodney's cap and more publicity for the brand name "Sap United". Well done guys

The team :
Wilson Paul Archit Agrawal Vivek Ganeshan Deepak Pai and Sandeep Balan

erfolgreicher abgeschlossener Deutscher

Lesen 9/10

Horen 13/15

Grammatik 14/20

Sprechen 9.5/15

Gesamtmenge 45.5/60 => 75.833%

ich spreche deutsch, Danke.

AC Milan 0 - 2 Arsenal

Its not easy to beat the defending champions of the champions league. It becomes even more difficult then to beat them in the San siro. now its even more a herculean task to beat them at home considering the fact that AC milan have never lost to an english opponent in the champions league at San siro.
So when the wonderkid Fabregas had the ball in the net from long range after 84 mins. Finally a sense of belief was there that from here on they cannot lose. Till that very moment the memories of that agonising miss from Adebayor when he rattled the crossbar with a pointblank header in the stoppage time in the first leg a fortnight ago kept coming back to haunt me. and when Fabregas himself struck the crossbar just before half time, i was just getting the feeling that its just not gonna be Arsenal's day. But it all changed in a matter of seconds. Walcott then beat Kaladze for pace and helped Adebayor score Arsenal's second. Game set and match.
Kudos to the performance and determination of the team. They just outwit the champions in every department of the game, just as Team India had done to Australia earlier in the day. At the end of the day, as the pundits called it, the youth n exuberance of arsenal overcame the experience of milan. Similarities again to the match played earlier in the day. coincidence i guess. In the end the living legend of football Paulo Maldini could not lift another champions league since this is his last season of club football. hmmm... again there seems to be similarities to the earlier game. hehe. similarities or not, Arsenal pulled off their most memorable win since beating Inter at San siro 5 seasons ago. hats off to Flamini for nullifying the effect of magical Kaka. They've proved to all their detractors that they're no more KIDS. They belong here among the CHAMPIONS.
Proud to be an Arsenal Fan... Arsenal Forever........

Tribute to my 2600

When I went that day, was still undecided about what exactly I was looking for. There were two of them from which I could choose. One was a nice glossy thing, shining brightly and asking me to grab her and take her home. The other was a quite little thing unassumingly standing in a corner. I was in a dilemma about which one to pick, but my friend had warned me not to trust the glossy thing because he feared it will ditch me soon and move away from my life. So after some thoughts and afterthoughts, I took the one whom I thought will accompany me for atleast a few years. And so it has. Two years its been from the day I first saw her. And she still smiles back at me every time I look at her. Guess have not spent a single day without her the last 731 days. It is like I am handicapped when she’s not around. she's never spoken to me till date but still she shares my joys and sorrows. She’s grown old now. Having a faded look about her now and lots of injuries caused due to my butter fingers. I know eventually I will discard her but still those memories I’ve shared with her will always remain. Come March 3^rd 2009, I surely will have a new companion. But my first love has definitely served me well.