Chennai Trip

Once upon a time we went to Chennai... I say this this because its been a long time since we took this trip :) But as they say "Its Better Late than Never".. So let me give you the update.
One of our team member was getting married in Chennai and hence the entire team decided to attend her wedding (Actually we wanted a break from our normal routine) so we planned a trip to Chennai and Pondicherry:)
Here are all of us in the train...

THis is what we did in train... Played Cards :) Swetha started as a Naive player and became a Pro by the end of the trip.. thats called a fast learner ;)

And ofcorse how can we forget FOOD... our all time Favourite "Briyani" .. Actually Doctors have adviced Joe to eat less and Preethi to eat more.. :)

Kaun Hai Hum (Play the video to Know)

Identity - Kaun Hai Hum/ Who are we ? For every time you see INDIA on the Map… UR reminded of smiles and warm welcome you had.. So many different languages and cultures you saw.. With so much of Diversity we are still One.. That is India for you, a quite little place with so many stories to unfold.. This is a place where Gandhi and Mother Teresa lived.. A place where everyone is welcomed and no racism exists.. A place where family is loved and friendship cherished.. A place where different Gods are worshiped… And different festivals enjoyed.. A place where we still believe in our principles and value our pride. This is a place which is so much MODERN and yet so INDIAN. I am proud to be an INDIAN

Zombie Alphabets

I came across these pictures on Flickr.com , where you can store and share photos.
I thought they are really cool... Every alphabet reveals more of me :)

------------------------ PATIENT










------------------------ ROMANTIC










------------------------ AFFABLE















------------------------ CREATIVE












------------------------ HUMOROUS









------------------------ INTUITIVE

Visit To Freedom Foundation

One thing that I like about our office, is that, it not only helps you develop as a better professional but also as a better person. Apart from the professional side, it also has a personal side, in form of Grants, Goal etc... these programs are a step to help the poor, the needy, the orphans , the ill , the old... everyone who needs help financially or emotionally... As a part of the Goal program, every Sunday we visit an place called "Freedom Foundation" .

Freedom Foundation works in the field of Alcoholism/Drug addiction and AIDS. AIDS - the most feared sexual illness.... we go and spend some time with the kids who are tested HIV positives.. This foundation has kids from the age of 1 and half to 14 yrs. Its a small home for them, where they study, play, stay together and fight their illness.

The very first time I stepped in the gates of this foundation, Kids came running to us.. They got their books so that we could teach them, play with them.. As if they had been waiting for this Sunday ever since the week began. Those 4 hours of my stay with those kids was worth every second.. their smile taught me the truth of life.. It made me think.. that everyday we get up and hurry to work, curse the traffic, the driver. Once in office, we work hard to get things done, gossips about others, work under tension, crib about so many things in life and finally at the end of day, get tired and sleep. Again the next day the same routine follows. What is it that we are running after... what is it that we have achieved.. We might have earned money, fame... but have lost those endless minutes, to appreciate things around us, to thank the people who love us, to be there for our dear ones when they needed us. We have lived too fast... we have failed to realize when we past twenties and now nearing thirties... These children are orphans and they are ill... but still they enjoy their life, every minute of their life...they have no parents to love them, no money, no fame... yet they live with a hope, that someday everything will be fine. Someday even their desires will be fulfilled... Someday their prayers will be answered... Someday they will win the fight of death... Someday life will be good to them.

Happy Birthday To ME

Birthday....... the day we were born,
We were passed over by God to an Angel...

and we called her "Mom"
The path was laid and everything was destined,
We were given 24hrs everyday and asked to climb,
To climb the path of Success and Humanity,
To climb the path of Kindness and Peace.
With every morning rays, we were given a smile..
and were asked to spread it while walking these miles......
As days pass over to months and months to year...
We come back to the day, when we had opened our eyes... filled with tears...
It is our Birthday.... a time when God had bid farewell to His special "Child"
And passed it on to an Angel, to let him grow and learn what is Life.....
Birthday is a time I thank God for the lovely gift called "Life" and an Angel called "Mom"
Thank you God for the Loving husband and caring friends.........
Who have filled my life with Happiness which has no end........

Mount Opera Time

So this time we had been to Mount Opera.. Its a theme park..
I knw You people might be wondering "When do we work?".. well .. We work hard and party harder.. :)
This time we all relived our scholl days... and you will come to know why...
Watch out.. this is the entrance to Mount Opera..


Monomitha, Myself and Lakshmi waiting at the entrance for other to arrive..

And whom were we waiting for ???????????? Take a look..

Here are Jayashree, Kumar and Abbas... there car broke down and they were trying to push it , but finally gave up... :) Do you really think they pushed the car....nahhhhh..... this pose is just for photograph.. otherwise how is it possible to smile while you are pushing the car :) :)

These are the rides we sat on........ Can u see me in the Dashing cars???

Me and Ramya in Cup and Saucer.... Two Sweet Cubes in one cup Tea.. hehehehee

Myself, Swetha and Preethi in the Swimming pool....

We were there in the swimming pool only for 15 mins.. it was closing time :( This is a picture with Nikki our Ambassador from California...

The park was so big that we had to take a bus to the auditorium hall where dinner was arranged...

At dinner time... People dancing and singing..

Picture Time

Our team has the largest number of photographers than any other team in hyderabad.. :)
So Preethi and I got inspired and thought of taking some photographs..and who could serve as better models than ourselves...hehehehehe...Also as some great personality has said "Charity begins at home ".... so there we were doing modelling in front of the Graffiti wall..

This Graffiti wall is becoming very very famous and everyones fav picture spot..

The other day when we all girls came in Blue.. we decided to take a picture ..so now u know why we have so many photographers in our team.. Girls just need a reason to smile ,while guys just need a reason to click... :) So here we are "Ladies in Blue"

Here are our Ambassador's Francescaa (From Dublin) and Nikki (From Mountain View)

Decoration Spree

It's been a long time since we shifted in a new office.. approximately 4 months.. This office was not as "Colourful" as the previous one.. It had dull walls and a typical coporate setup..
So we thought of decorating "our home", our "Office" the way we like...
Hence there was "Go-Decon" competition, where each team was given certain amount of money and were asked to decide on a team theme for decorations :)
We were given 20 days to complete our decorations.. Every team came up with excellent ideas.
This was a great oppurtunity to display team player skills.. we enjoyed every moment of it..
One team took up the "Hollywood" theme and had all pictures of old and new hollywood movies displayed. They had one lane decorated as horrow zone, one lane as Love zone..
By the way this team Won the prize.

Another team took up "Jungle" theme , they had all trees and a "Tarzan" hanging on the trees.
Then there were themes like "Beach party", "Football", "Music","School days" , "Advertsing"
and finally the theme for our team was "Video Ghthere desk accordingly, while for the Area decorations we had posters of every game with a slogan written on it..
The main attraction was the Graffiti wall, for which I cut the logo for every game , while Sasi and Aruna did the spray painting..First we were doubtfull , about our idea... however once it was done it looked Awesome!!!
This is how it looked when we were working on it...

Mario was the game that I selected and my desk was decorated with Mario pictures. There was also this painting of Mario game which I made....here is the pic of how my desk looks now after the decoartion is complete..

This is what I put of on the roof above my desk...hehehehehe

This is how my desk looked after decoration was complete...

I also did Mario drawing on the white board... here it is.. "MY DESK"

here are the pictures of my other Team members desk...

IMAX Adventure

Yet another adventure...
We had a recruitement drive in IMAX (For those of you who dont know what IMAX is...Its a Multiplex). Few of us had volunteered.. and there we were, helping people to know about the vacanicies in our office.
It was an amazing experience, we got to meet various kinds of people.
I categorized them into various species:
1) Mr. Know It All - They actually thought we were dumb and they knew more than we knew :)
2) Mr. Lost - These were the kind of species which found themselves lost, and didnt know what was going on.. They strolled in and around our setup...
3) Mr.Desperate - These were the kind of species , who always carried their resume with them. Even on weekends when they came to watch a movie :)
4) Mr.Confused - These were the species which were completely confused..They had never heard of our company before :( ... here are few incidences
- Few people came over to ask us , when was the movie releasing
- Some came over to ask us the directions to the toilet ...yuuuuuuuuukkkkkkk
- Then some also came over, thinking that it was a studio setup and wanted there photo clicked with the bean bag....hahahaha

Overall it was a great experience... And ofcourse how can I forget to take a picture... here it is ..

6 Months

Its been 6 months and time just seemed to flew by...
I still remember the Interview days..
And the time when result, just didnt seem to Come by..
Finally I was here...
I remember the first day at my Workstation
The warm and friendly welcome..
The colourfull walls around..
The table full of choclates, and soft drinks all around..
The lunch in the Cafeteria..
The variety of Food..
The friendly looking people..
For a moment I thought It was a Dream that came true..
I had my moments of laughter and also moments of Tears..
It gave me Great friends who will always be dear..
Love you for all that you do..
To make us all feel Special in everything we do..

MainLand China Dinner

We went to Main Land China for the Team Dinner....
Mainland China has its branches all over India and is very Famous for its "Sea Food"
As usual we all had a lovely time...

Here are Deepti, Ramya and Ujjini trying to prove that they are 18+ and hence legally allowed to drink ;)


Lets meet Katina.......... These cute little umbrellas were a part of the decoration of the drinks that we had ordered.... However we thought of giving her a Hawaiian look and made a Creative use of it...:)

This is what happened after the lovely food and the drinks we had........ Main Land China After Effect.... ;)

Meet Rahul, Paul, Sasi, and Meshal........ "THE HANDSOME FOUR" ;)

Lets get to know the Chinese......nah...... japanese........hmmmmmm....... Well I leave it you to decide whom does he resemble ??????? By the way his name is Archie....

These are the actual umbrellas....
Kumar, Ramya, me and Preeti trying to pose for the perfect picture....
This is the lucky table...... Since it had all "Rare Gems " of our team seated there...... Sai, Kumar,Ramya,Me,Ujjini,Archie,Preeti,Abbas,Aruna

Our Team Offsite

It was the end of quater and it was time to Have fun....(As if the fun that we have in office everyday is not enough.. :) . However this was going to be Official Fun.... Known as TEAM OFFSITE...... :-)
We went to Pragathi resort.........

Its a nice place, with lots of greenery, botanical gardens and indoor games. However the most exciting thing was the Swimming Pool..... when the temperature outside was above 35 degrees , swimming pool was a BIGGGGGGGGGGG soothing factor.........There were some cool water slides........

This one gave a waterfall effect..... I actually tried taking this snap 4 -5 times to get the perfect timing.

Here is the Girl gang enjoying the Cool water......(did you expect them to be in their swim suits ???? ;) hmmmmmm probably next time........ ;)

This is interesting...... we also had few trainers to Teach us how to play....hahahahahaha....here is Abbas teaching Jayashree.... (The cool dude teaching a cool game....)....how is the caption??????

here are all of us playing Carom Board......... We all were teaching Katina how to play..... and in the end she was the one who was better than all of us.... :)

All of us enjoying our Game.............

If you thought everyone was exhausted after all the indoor games and swimming pool activities.... Here we all are back with energy for the DJ night (sometimes I wonder were all this energy disappears during normal work days........:)

After all this fun we returned home , totally energized for the Next Quarter ;)

My Friends

Some people just come in ur Life,
They touch your heart and make you smile.
They are their with you when you are Sad
You can depend on them when you need a Helping Hand
They are GOD send Angels
Wrapped in a gift called FRIEND,
Just to let you know Someone is Always There....................

So after said that, Lets meet some of my close friends.......
Actually there are many, but I dont have their pics with me :(

Here is Neelambari....... we call her Neelu (to keep it short and sweet)

This is the snap of her along with her hubby Anand (They look so cute together.......)

Ok now is the snap of my special friend...... Nehali.......

Special because we became good friends just in few days..... we were working together in Bombay and shared the same apartment along with Trupti and Shilpa.........

Oh I Miss those days so much.......

here is another entry in my Friends list........... I just got her pic yesterday.......

Meet Aruna........ A very bubbly and cheerful girl........ And one thing common between us is , we both Love CHOCLATE DOUGHNUT........yummmmmmmm (Its been ages since we both ate it Together...........)

Doesn't she look like a Snow Woman.......... ;)