Actually one post i've been wanting to but never got around to - X'mas at the office!
All had an awesome time, 2 days of no work - team entirely busy in creating and spreading the Christmas cheer :)

Mathu n team recreated the Promised Land, our bay was the Santa's Workshop with the ceiling-high pile of gift, Pranav's was a Zen Christmas, and Adi's was the Live Christmas (see pix). With hardly any money spent, the whole team managed to pull it off excellently and everyone enjoyed. Ofcourse we only ended up with the best floor prize. Sales grabbed the best bay, and QA had an awesome one with eggs used for snowmen- it was highly creative but a small mishap in terms of a minor fire due to a faulty cracker candle :)

The evening was fun - exchanged gifts for the Chris friend game, followed by singing and some random entertainment but yea the floor decoration was FUN!

Ages once again

As usual - haven't had the time for blogging and finally decided that i had to get to it. The past few weeks have been eventful - work has grown (that's an understatement - if ever!) Organisationally a lot of changes - Kalai moved out, Ravin moved in and now Maddy moving out. Teams are growing, some shrinking :) My Program Management activities are shaping up finally. Ofcourse albeit snails pace still but i was expecting that - so no big surprise there.

The girlfriends met up for a session yesterday and hopefully its done loads of good for all involved. Women's day at work was celebrated with a luncheon at Towers. Was too many of us to really but we had fun with Gai's lil' angel.

Valentine's was uneventful really, infact the B'day and Anniversary were too but that's ok, we were not planning on anythin' extravagant. We were all in Yercaud for the 2nd Jan and enjoyed ourselves with the short break. Lovely climate as usual.

Last weekend at Gai's was fun, noon till nite at her place, sumptuous lunch, walk by the Puzhal Dam and then 'Lee' to wind the day. The movie was ok - nice start and middle, a bit of a let down towards the end.

M n me were trying to watch Thimuru but seems to be entirely jinxed - i think it was the 3rd CD were trying to see but couldn't get thru the whole movie -kept skipping and finally got stuck.

No telugu movies seen recently - nothing in the way of a recent hit anyways.

Oy yeah another cousin married in Feb - wedding in VJWD and reception in B'lore. Was nice n we all had a great time. We went bonkers at Chikpet shopping for sarees.

Hmmm guess that about sums up all that's been happening, more in the next installment

Been a while

Back on the blogger after awhile - thingz have been crazy at work and well basically no time for a lot of thingz.

Last week's Tirupathi trip was quite disasterous, all fine but thingz went completely awry at the end....
Dad's been bizzy making plans for December - Jan, when cousins are down from Auz. My preparations are happening, albeit slowly. Hopefully i will be ready for the test by the required date.

My ol' roomie Kas, is currently staying at our place and it feels like 'ol times. Poor thing has been looking for a place to move into but no luck so far. We're happy to have her for as long as is needed!

Biz has been super low this month, wat with all the rains and bad weather. Fingers crossed that it will change soon.

Oh yes, my sis began this Damisetti/ Damisetty community on Orkut and we managed to locate a few others too. We met with Suman while he was in Chennai. It was nice to meet him but poor soul was given the third degree by my folks - they were so interested in being able to trace out common relatives that it went all over our heads :))

Well nothing more to really add at this point but will make it a point to blog more frequently, my net connection at home is up and running finally. Got the UPS!!

Thi's Wedding!

 Arundathi (Thi to my sister n me), is a good friend, my sister's PG classmate and Thi recruited me into Frost & Sullivan. It was finally her turn to tie the knot :)  A lovely girl with a knack for keeping friends and my - absolutely unbelievable ability to keep in touch with friends!!!

Was her Mehendi ceremony on Saturday and we, my sis n me, reached her place in Thiruvanmiyur arnd 3:15. Most of the junta was knew but some that i know of as her friends. This was an occassion where all her many different friends finally to got to meet others that they've been hearing about but never met before :)

Aarti, Saroja, VJ, Mangala, Subashree, Anusha and Anandhi - nice folks all from very different attitudes but was great to meet 'em all. I guess I've never really been a part of a gathering where i didn't know the crowd so to speak but i enjoyed it thoroughly. Starting Ryzing after having met them all. A lot of the group were friendz of Thi's from having networked in Ryze. Infact, she met her husband, Sachin, at a ryze gathering.

Wedding was on Monday, Mom was coming down to Chennai for the wedding. She n my sis headed over earlier while i went along a bit later. Different wedding to see for me - Konkani ishtyle! Saree worn different, different ceremonial procedures, the works. Finally rushed to work and headed for reception in the evening. Met up with the Frost junta - Andy bhai, Ranjith, Rajesh, Hari, JD, Anu, Sharon, Tammy, Lalitha, Anusha and several others. Was nice to say to them after this time.

Thi n Sachin are heading to Goa for their honeymoon, followed by a reception in Secunderabad (Sachin's family hails from there).  See wedding pix attached.... On the whole, had a whale of a time, made new friends and ate happily!!

Julie's Wedding - Finally!

A friend of mine tied the knot on Thursday (18th Sept) - Julie's wedding was a much awaited event.  Santhosh works for Polaris and altho' they'd been engaged for over two months, the friendz circle at Synaptris just never got to meet him in person.

We all introduced ourselves to him after the wedding, Julie was getting ready for the reception and we were on our way to meet her backstage :)

Super biryani as promised but sob sob I sat with one of the really late batches as my husband didn't come in until quite late. He could only come after the unit closed.  Anyways by the time we finally sat down to eat, the Chicken fry was mostly over. She's promised to feed us a great meal soon :)

Left early from work, hopping to be there in time for the  wedding service but as inevitable when plans are made, we reached mid way during the ceremony. Ahhh the ceremony - well it was different to sit thru a Protestant wedding service - lotsa funky Christ music, albeit all in Tamil.  Songs were along the lines of 'Eesu super star' :)

Anyways Gai and me headed over to my place to get ready, while Mathu went home to bring Teju. The plan was to meet at my place and head from there. Drive was rainy but not long enuf to cool the place, the entire place heated up a bit too much.

Teju was adorable, happy listening to the hip Christ music and all the new faces arnd. Our boss, Kalai came in later, along with Priya n LP.  In all, there were close to 80 from Synaptris, huge showing, especially as Julie was known to a lot of folks at work.

Pix of Teju,  Julie's wedding attached :)

Karuna was due first week of Oct and Friday was supposed to be her last day, she was taking off for Maternity leave, but imagine our shock when I received an sms on Monday morning saying she was in labor. She has a lovely baby boy - 2.7 kg, and mom is doing fine. Infact we spoke to her almost 40 mins after the delivery, but phew! it sure was a long labor - more than 12 hrs.......
Pix will be uploaded when i get hold of some