My 'avastha' from Monday!

Finally it is time to go! Hahaha now free masala dosa and kaapi...happy!!!me and Bobo had masala dosa last week in the England Punjab called Southall.it was too too too good.2.5 pounds though:( Amma is making kappa next week hahaha...eeeh waah! super..

No good time now. i cut my finger the day before.Sis and niece were traveling and a rock fell on the car and it got damaged yesterday .Father is sick and we are worried cos chickun Guinya is all around my neighborhood back home...all worries around me!

Still im smiling and enjoying my final days here.sad to leave this beautiful place. really sad. no manager bugs u yaaar! no one disturb you nor worry u.no one even cares what u are doing.nice food,nice climate and good friends..

and running back has a lot more.like priya is happy that im returing and also sad that fighting is gonna begin from monday.Yes! fighting with driver ramesh in the morning and later with security for not bringing ID,then with everyone in the team for not gettin chocolates.then with some for arguing with me on my ‘change’...finally after a hectic day with my maid for not cleaning a dusty house and may be with the house owner over the money he is gonna take from me. ..

Meanwhile my leaving do is planned for tomorrow.sorry! i forgot to invite you all…Can we join at Lord Raglan Pub in Workingham at 7 pm and later for a dinner at Prezzo?

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My Team

MARS team rocks my life these days even to get me the coffee without even telling the number.They know my likes!!

Hat nomination and the Curries

Today i was nominated for the "Comedy hat" at my office. Me,for ordering a Chicken Tikka Masala at a Curry restaurant! while we were having the team outing Thanks to Steve,who did a bigger comedy otherwise the hat would have been on my head for the next one month.Havoo...

Got exited by seeing the menu,Kerala chicken curry,Kerala prawn curry and ended up ordering CTM...When one person orders for seven people this happens! They wanted me to decide the menu for all of them because they really are not able to pronounce each of them but they just rely on the numbers that represents them in the menu card. So I thought I would be able to make them have everything that I like and I shall have something spicy(nothing is spicy,you know)

It was a big comedy for them as they never order Tikka Masala at a curry restaurant ,which I hardly knew. Message was sent to the big manager from the restaurant itself and his reply came “love it”, thereby nomination as well…

When they come.

Ram is coming

He asked me"what should I bring for you"?

I said 'bring Love'

That's what we don't get here.

He is coming in Jet Airways

Jet allows

So he can bring 38 kg .

Sudeep is coming

He asked me the same question

I said 'bring Laughter'

That's what we don't get here.

He is coming in British Airways

British dosen't allow much

So he can bring only 24 kg.

Totally 62 kg

Of love and laughter!

Today

Today is World Earth day
Moreover My Birthday!
Public didn't know!
Orkut is Public,Blog is my Republic
Everyone here should know
For you read my mind, so do I
And You are my guests
We care for each other, know each other
So remember! Today is World Earth day
Moreover my Birthday.

4 days,27 Years.

12 April 2006
Rajkumar passes away in Bangalore .I had some critical projects with my then client Colgate Palmolive. I was working hard to complete it. Suddenly Bangalore comes to a halt. All people gets home by afternoon. I had to stay back at office. I had already taken holiday on 13th so that I don't miss Vishu.Never expected a tragedy that day. I never thought that I'm not going to come back that day. Misses train. Stays back at office. People attack the offices opposite to my building on the Commiserate road. We switch off our lights and works. Finally managers decide to take all the remaining people to the main office in Magrath road. But no Cabs available. Finally by midnight gets some cabs and gets security protection to the other office. I saw a disastrous Bangalore.While we were going, I could see one motor bike driver being beaten up in M.G.Road.People were running around mad. Finally reacheds office safe.

13 April 2006
Completes my work by 3am.Horrible day. Already missed my train the previous day. I had no hope. My greatest dream at that point was to reach at least my house in Jayanagar.Company had arranged a hotel near M.G. road, but I said no. I knew if I reach Jayanagar would have some chances of going home because there were other 3 people who also wanted the same.
4am
I wait restlessly and tired in the reception. Travel coordinator asks every cab to give me a drop. No one agrees. Nobody can blame them, they were afraid. Finally seeing my plight one nice person agrees to drop me at Jayanagar 9th Block. Mean while my roomie Majith who had similar situation calls and says that there was one train at 6.30 to Coimbtore.He says that he was going to the railway station and his company has arranged a cab for him.
My Tata sumo went through the Roads which was almost emptied after a violent day.Small pieces of glasses spread everywhere; of the vehicles which were attacked during the previous afternoon and evenining.Really horrifying.
Manjith was waiting for me at the Railway station and I was going somewhere else. Now I wanted to ask the driver to drop me in the Railway station. I slowly started off saying that I wanted to take my bag from home and go to Railway station. He kept silent. Finally I asked him directly to drop me at the station. He bluntly said ‘no’. I was really upset. What to do? I said that’s fine and we were almost reaching my place,Manjith calls me. I talk to him in Malayalam, I tell him that I won’t be able to make and tell him to carry on.
Kishna plays suddenly after I keep the phone. Driver says that he will drop me at the station .Sudden intuition for him. I run to my home and take the bag already set the previous day. He drops me at the station taking a big risk, going to Majestic. I thanked him a lot.
2.30 pm
We reach Coimbatore station. So relieved, leaving a tensed Bangalore and the joy of reaching home for Vishu.The whole of kerala was in Coimbatore that day it seems. No bus. Will I reach before Vishu kani?,question was disturbing
Finally we get a Bus. But it was only till Eranakulam. Manjith was relieved as his house was in Perumbavoor.
We reach Ankamali by 8 pm and I had to wait for another bus again. Finally reaches home by midnight to sleep for some time and see the Kani.I was happy so was Amma.

14 April 1980
Amma couldn’t even breathe properly as her stomach was full, carrying me. I was fighting hard to come out soon. She was anxious. The wait was too much for her.12 years her after marriage.

15 April 2007
No chance of goin home.Amma misses her son.What to do.

Enjoy that’s all
2 am Kani.10 am Mr.Kutty Arrives. 1pm Payasam.10pm Newly Married BoBo & Tubes Arrives.later...Awesome dinner & Unlimited night of unlimited love stories.

Million Pound Hair cut!

It was last Sunday that I went to cut my hair. First time ever went in a train to just to cut those bits of hair. I heard that there was a Pakistani saloon, which cuts for 5 Pounds where as others cut for 12-15 Pounds. Oh no! So much money just for a hair cut. I remember I was once annoyed with a barber at Jayanagar who took 30 Rs instead of 25 Rs.
My mind was going 50:50; that the barber was a Pakistani. A Nepali taxi driver had told me about the shop. Will he cut my head instead of my hair? was my first thought.
The place Cholmely road,Cemetry junction,Reading, was pretty far from the town center .The shop was good and the boy who cut my hair was around 20-22.Nice guy. Before taking each step further he asked me whether he was moving in the right direction, which I wanted. I have never experienced such a good ambiance and culture in a Barber shop ever in India. Many people have experimented on my head since childhood. Some (most) have behaved like experts and have never asked me whether he was cutting according to my interest, or rather in the interest people who are going to see my head.
But this boy was different and truly nice. His Hindi had an Urdu touch. He looked like anybody in India...I was thinking while he was cutting.
Finally he took 5 Pounds and told me 'Thank you for visiting, Sir!' ,which I loved hearing.
Summary: A Pak youth put knife on my neck, I was not crying nor was he screaming at me...He was just doing his job and I was so happy as a customer. At that point of time we are just two human beings. Nothing else.

Someone to share

These days I have lost sleep. I sleep barely 3-4 hours after a hectic schedule at daytime. I don’t know what has happened to me. Mind is disturbing a lot. Sometimes the feeling that I’m so far from home. Sickness.Reji’s tragic death, Urmi losing her father, big silence after my colleague Sudeep left for India, not being at home for Vishnu etc etc… Many things are disturbing me.


I always had this notion that we should be among people whom we like and love -all the life, rather than being alone. Now it has become clear. I can’t be alone. I see people hanging around in the railway station, in the parks, on the high streets, along the subways, behind the trees, in the lift, on the stairs. Everywhere they hang around.. So happy people. With jealousy, I also feel if I had someone to share my feelings. I searched and searched and searched.


Finally I also have someone. This space on the web. My blog. My sleeping pills. Like any other blogger, a place to ease all the pressures of this life moment. My Girl Friend.My Blue.

The Globe theatre - the Othello, Anton...

Once i was a student in the famous rather fabulous, pretigious rather precious S.B. College. This is a place where the authentic Shakespearian people run around, where heroes of Shakespeare theatre really marry their heroines in life. Mostly professors of the English department play the heroes and get fall in love with the girl (students!!-The smart ones) who act heroines.

That is not the reason anyway that when i was there they decided that both hero and heroin be males. That was because Mr. Simon made a good Cleopatra. Excellent!!

Now after 11 years am at the Shakespeare place and the day i celebrate my birthday there is a lot of celebration at the Globe theatre and i will be there ...because the day next is his birthday and there is a three day celebration at Shakespeare’s Globe21, New Globe, WalkBankside,London, SE1 9DT.

The Chocolate Shop!

ok.most of you would be knowing that i'm researching the retail market in UK and most of you may not know that my client is Masterfoods.they produce the famous Mars ,Snickers ,Galaxy ,Milky Way -bars and chocolates

I went to Masterfoods and they gifted me with a Mars Delight multipack(new product)having 10 bars inside.let me tell u in their in reception they have kept a lot of bars in many baskets for people to pick.next time i have made plans to pick a few.





More over Caroline was so nice that to demonstate things she got me all the type of chocolates.eat now,take home,bitesize,fun size,boxes,special boxes,sugar,multipack,filled bars...

my desk has become a chocolate shop with Masterfoods brands and competetor brands Nestle and Cadburys.latest one being the Nestle HEAVEN.Heaven is really awsome.I have almost finished it.

dont worry!i dont like to eat alone.i will give you on my return.ok.

UK jokes starts!!

My first party in UK came on Friday, the day after Snow. I saw the BBC on Tuesday when it predicted that the Snow is coming on Thursday and I was thrilled to see it as I never did in my life.

The children here were more thrilled than me when it came. And “when it came, it came” and the whole world around me was painted white and white packets of snow was falling from the sky like small pieces of white paper.




So cool so cool Snow Snow...


I forgot where I started.My first party was organized by immediate boss Catherine Hynes.She had organized for an ice skating in a nearby place. I went and got afraid and didn’t participate because I feared of breaking my bones.I was stunned to see the small little ones playing and dancing in the indoor ground where ice is made artificially.

In the evening the party round one was organized in an Australian Bar in a place nearby called Reading.People turned up by 8 and started enjoying

Round two was organized in a Club called Revolution and there were more people there as time passed by people kept on joining and started to behave the way it should be in English parties. Their way of drinking and dancing is something to watch.It is fun to see people getting wild and making weird noises.