Group Treat at Comfort Inn, Egmore

After much a do, lunch was finally fixed for Tuesday, 29th Aug. With a group of 20, planning is not necessarily the easiest to coordinate :)

Anyways, Deepa, who's put in her papers was giving us a treat for joining, birthday and exit.My team is extremely er... fond of eating to say the least. Infact Deepa was hoping to get a few pix of the team in the Pirhana mode. That shud give you some idea of how much Synaptris Marketing loves to eat. It was a combined treat given by Deepa, Sereen, Gayathri and Priya.

The spread looked awesome, but the service was quite sad. Despite reservations, we were offered separate tables but as usual we made the most of it with our usual panache :)

The pix shud giv u some idea of the spread, it was a super duper offer all for Rs 199 (incld tax). After several rounds of plate changes, the entire team was ready to call it a day and head home to sleep off the aftereffects of the noon excess :) The finale was the bungled up billing, sad to receive such treatmemt or rather lack of, especially from a three star hotel. Anyways wats a few bumps and hiccups when the food is great, the ambience nice and desserts galore!!!

Weekend at Pondy

The whole of last week has been quite crazy, what with things coming to a head at work and having to rush to Pondy on Friday evening so that we could attend the Banquet....... Weekend was super duper hectic, dinner and lunch out three consecutive days. Am completely fed-up of home food but have absolutely no wish to cook tonite either. Was up this morning at 3:45 AM to drive back to Chennai and was nodding off at work for a bit arnd 6:00 in the evening :)

The banquet at Seagulls was regular fare, a bit of rain earlier in the evening but overall alrite. Sat nite was at Ashok Pondy, I'm heading there after a real long time. Infact this weekend was about visiting places i havent been too in a loooong time.

Sat nite was quite a crazy scene but the highlite was the band from Auroville, really good music and i think a few med students played a few oldies. Nostalgia .... all tht old music

My folks and family friends had organised for this Pizza Party last nite, was nice to meet old friends after ages.
But phew thank god the weekend is over !!!!

Change at workplace - new hoop for all of us BB mad folks. Good way to expend energy altho' tough for the guys in tht hoop bay... tht's wat we're going to call them :)

As far as opportunities for my husband's biz, hopefully things will pan out after the weekend.

Change at workplace - new hoop for all of us BB mad folks. Good way to expend energy altho' tough for the guys in tht hoop bay... tht's wat we're going to call them :)
It's running late and i need to get goin'......

One Nite @ the Call Center

I recently read Chetan Bhagat's 'One Nite @ the Call Center' an interesting book abt six people n
events that occur one fateful nite.

Its not my usual fare but my reason for reading the book was i was desperate for reading material.
And let me tell you, when ur desperate you will read just abt anything you can get ur hands on,
irrespective of the blurb sounding interesting or not. I'm kinda broke at the moment, so no more trips to the library and my UPS has conked off.... Given the rampant power fluctuations in my locality, i'm not risking my system for ebooks :(

Anyways back to the book, now there's nothing new answering calls, especially if it forms the primary part of your job description. But this call was different, it was a call from God.
Events that occur all in one nite, with flashes into the past make the book a quick and overall interesting reading experience. However, one feels a bit squirmy (for lack of a better word) after having read the book.

I've always felt that reading books was exactly just that - FICTION. The places, landmarks, people, attitudes etc somehow felt a bit far off and different but this book was authored by and Indian and personally, i could relate more to it, for all that the book was a piece of fiction....

Yet to read the author's first book - Five point Something, supposedly about student life at IIT. Need to get hold of tht now

Babies babies everywhere.......

Lots of stuff happening in my life at the moment, well not directly to me per se, but around me :)
My closest pal, Suni, had a baby girl, name unknown still, but she looks a real heartbreaker from the pix i saw of her. 
Another good friend at work, Gayathri,  is in her last trimester and all of us at work cant' quite wait to see the lil' one.
She's one of those fun folks to be around, always lightening up the place with her antics.
She either whacks one of the boys arnd coz she gets these urges to let out some steam or watch out, a hard thump on your shoulder.
From what i hear, it pains a bit and then goes numb but whatever it does, it sure as heck lightens up the place for the rest of us :))

Another friend at work, Mathu, has a lovely baby boy - Tejas, adorable little imp he is.
The first time we saw him, we thought he was this serious looking kid, guess he was just disoriented from all the racket and ruckus being kicked up, thanks to us seeing the new mom after a long time. And let me tell u, we can be one noisy group when we get together. 
The latest pix we saw of him was this cutie in a bucket with this expression on his face saying 'Ahem wat exactly am i doing here and how the heck will i get out!!!!!'

My boss has a little girl, Anjali, she's a few days short of a year and is one smart cookie.
Tom-boy to the core, she's going to grow up having a funtime. Altho' i doubt the family will feel the same, if you want to confirm just as my folks!!

So with all of these babies around, my folks are feeling the pinch as they've yet to become grandparents :)  Neither me nor my sis are currently considering expanding the family, circumstances don't allow for them yet. Cliched but true.

Gai has her checkup this morn and returned all frazzled, poor thing is still unsure when the big event is likely, neither her doc nor she are sure of the dates so que sera sera is the situation there.

This is my first post and thought i'd start with wats the most eventful in my life at the moment.......