Alibagh trip from first project in TCS..

Saturday October 2nd, 2004

Now as my current project is gonna be released this December, suddenly everyone seem to have awaken to have get togethers…;-) lol.. It started with Shiva( one of our teams from bareli. She started off this trend of giving b’day treat in big hotel eh ;-). Till now it was confined to coldrinks and snacks in our canteen. Khair! So on 28th Sept we all went to Pizza Hut. Had a blast time!! Ordered almost everything that was on menu card..from Potato wedges, mushrooms to Paneer, Indian spicy pizza to all the desserts!! As our project is only of 10 people or so, its fun. Best part is, I always find a driver to go behind with ..lol. I usually go on a two wheeler with any of my teammates:D:DKhair, then we decided to go for a movie( that has not been implemented yet! ) Nevertheless, this Saturday we went to Alibagh. Actually the plan started off with going to Daman. But it somehow didn’t seem feasible to go there for a day! So everybody agreed on to this placeAalibagh. We started in morning 6:30 AM…w ell or shud I say, atleast that was the plan! ;-)I was the first one to reach borivili station, infact I was 10 minutes before time…lol. Then we left in the ever-crowded local towards churchgate. There we took a ferry for Alibagh. Man the ride in ferry was one of the best parts!! It was around 1 and a ½ hr journey. With lovely music and me sitting at the edge of the corner-most seat of the boat. Wow!! Even got scolding from the boat man.. but then who cared!! After the hectic 5 days in the AC cubicle of office, this nature ride was simply breathtaking! I could hear my heartbeats! But then didn’t get enuf time for myself. Few team members had come with their families. I , being the most talkative of the lot, had taken the responsibility of entertaining everyone..lol!Well.. we reached Alibagh around 11 or so. Phir ek major fight hui . Actually we had stopped at a nearby stall for refreshments. By that time , the bus which takes all the ferry passengers till the beach, had left. One of our teammates, got real agitated and there was this huge ego-clashes! Mazaa aaya..lol.. sadist na me?? ! neways.. as my belief goes, ..whatever happens, happens for the best! , we took a private jeep, which was all the more fun. Then once on beach, I didn’t have enuf patience to stay away from the waters. I ran along with Shreyas( o yea.. Shreyas is a 3 yr old kid of one of my colleagues, a real sweetie-pie!) on the beach. Then it was me and him, playing ball, making sand castles, running, inflating balloons, me taking him on my back in waters, laughing away.. and blissfully happy in each others company! Sacchi.. children are the best companions to be with! JAfter that, all the elders( well currently I am placing my self in Shreyas’s category ;-) ) forced us out of water to have lunch. Till then we weren’t fully drenched. Had just tasted the salt of the shore! Lunch was decent enuf too. But I didn’t have much apetitie. After lunch I was back in the company of my colleagues. Myself, Sangeetha, Sudhir and Nagesh had brought spare clothes and so went into waters in no time after lunch. Played volleyball in there. Everyone was tempted to get in the cold water, but then got no-nos from all of them. Now a big drama that I am ;-), I dragged each one inside thru my bahaanas ..:D:DAfter a long time in the waters, around 4 pm all sat down to take rest, then started the photo sessions and leg pulling of each team member. Wow, how I enjoy making people blush...hahaha! But then our entire gang was disappointed, not being able to pull anything out of my mind ..hahah! what an achievement! B-) Another interesting thing was the rifts between Ram( a south Indian fellow) and our Shiva( the typical shudh-hindi bhashi) lol. Shiva doesn’t know much of English and Ram is real poor at hindi. But throughout the trip both tried hard to make something out of each other’s conversations! Sombu! Appa! Hey Bhagwaan ;-)After that we came back to the ferry spot. This time we had an AC tickets. Well the junta was really enthu.. enthu not about enjoying in AC .. but about sleeping away in the comforts of AC. Huh! I managed to sneak in the upper deck( which actually requires special permission, I realized after getting down, as Shiva was not allowed to follow me ;-)) Anyway.. there I sat at the top of the corner-most seat again, with fm playing nice soft songs on my cell. Ooolala..! what a complete peaceful experience!!The night lights of huge buildings, the waves dashing thru’ the boat, the cool breeze.. woooo.. what more cud I ask for!Well.. after that we boarded the train back to Borivili. Even there, it was so much fun playing with Shreyas! So that was all about the trip! I reached home around 10:30 PM and then after refreshing, went with my friend Neel(he is my TCS colleague and stays beside my flat.) to have dinner. Poor thing had his fast and had not eaten nething but khair he waited ;-). Then we went to our usual restaurant had dinner, then strolled around and was back home. Then started the oo—aa—ouch! My back started aching real bad! I just cud not move !! and then followed the other body parts L.. But then, All is well that ends well.!!. Now I am perfectly fine.