Hogglenakka

If some of you are not aware, then just wanted to inform you that, i am in Banglore these days...And really enjoying my stay here...loads of things happening (on offical as well as personal front)...

 

Just a brief of my trip so far :)....not sure how brief it can be....Also, not sure how to start, so may be starting with the Monday morning flight...

Its Monday morning 5:00 AM, Noida:

Really cold (so just taking a bit of precautions) my flight was scheduled for 7:00 in the morning...the taxi has not reported yet, so calling the travel agent...no answer...finally call lag gayi..kisi tareeka se pahunch gaya...landed in Banglore...and what a change (Airplane se nikalte hi pani pani ho gaya)

 

Pahuchte hi taxi wale ne chapat lagayi (loot liya)...khoob bang ghoomaya (around 20Km), it just seemed like i will never ever reach my Hotel/Office. Finally after 3 hours of travelling (itni der mein to main shimla ho aata), i reached my office...and i was just crowded (as if by the swarm of bees)...anyways the day in office went ok for me (can not say what others, i mean the customers, may feel)...

 

I found that the Banglore work culture is a bit different, at least in the 2 companies, for which i am here...No one is here before 10:30 AM and no one leaves early either...But mujhe itni late aane ki aadat nahi hain...to most of the time main jaldi hi pahunchta tha, but jalddi woh kis chidya ka naam hain (sabse early is around 8:30 :(....The last 4 weeks saw all sort of ups and downs in my professional life...frustrations (most of the time)...No Rewards...management pressure...and only one appreciation (more than sufficient for me)...this is how it has been going in professional aspect...

 

Now my personal life always started, as soon as i am out of office, meeting with my friends, dining with them, late night ghoomna...all sort of things...

 

On two consecutive sundays i went out of Banglore, after a long time i enjoyed so much...and i would term the second trip as the most awesome trip of my life...too good...

 

On First Sunday, i went to Chamundi Hills, Mysore Palace and a small lake...done all sort of things, from Bull/Cow carting to Tonga ride to cycling, everyting and anything i did, just made me feel better....even we danced on a 1 1/2 feet high wall (the other side of which had a steep fall)...we all behave like NUTS...

 

On Next sunday i went to Hogenakal Falls...an awesome place...coracle boat ride..falls...sand beach...mountains...what ever you can think of, you will find that in this place itself...a must visit for all...

For more info about this place, you can visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogenakal 

 

Yahan par maine, pehle se bhi zyaada masti ki...nachna, kudna, ret mein khelna, paani mein dive, watersport...aur pta nahi kya kya...

 

Beside this, i really enjoyed the late night walks through the empty roads, the night outs, khana (prepared esp for me)...can not put everything here :D

 

Today, i am flying back, to my very own city...Chandigarh...

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Second Day Dinner

Dinner: It was good, had some kim chi pokumba - this is a rice, similar to our pulao, with lot of spices (for them and okay for me :)) and also they add omlett to it, to make it a bit more heavy!!....there was some sort of other kimchi (koreans really like kim chi), this included some onions and aur pta nai kya!!, also we were sered with some interesting fruits...thoda meetha sa tha...but can'ta tell what was it!! :0)

 

and this time watched some Tv after reaching to my room...time ka pta nai chala kab mein nikal gaya...anyways slept late at night :)

 

Third Day:

again was late, but this time did not panic, as i got ready (though quickly this time around (i think you understand what i mean by quickly), had my heavy breakfast...oatmeal, milk (thanda tha), with some breads (there is no NAN or ROTI available here)...reached office at around 10...but no one around again...so again i was the early bird!!...the other guy came a bit late :)...a bit of work...a bit here and there....then some Lunch (again the same, which i had during the Dinner time)...but it was good so could not help :)...and then some more work...at 4 i left the office...came to hotel, finished my work...and was thinking of going around, so just went out but as soon as i got out, it started raining, so could not help...and returned to my room...i made some Dal (DAL TADKA)...it was good...

 

Fouth Day:

No Office today, so was really late in waking up, around 9 :), but remembered that the breakfast is available till 9:30, so had to rush in...again the same food for breakfast (with some added nuts, badams, fruits)...took a taxi and went to a mall called COEX, whose pic i had sent yesterday...it was really cool, so many food courts, so many shops...everything was too much...there was an exhibition hall in there itself, which was on some Soc, embedded software (my field), so wanted to take a look, but nothing was understood as it was all in different language...i was there till 1...in the interim had some coffee and some snacks :)

 

came to room...watched one movie (Nishabd)...downloaded few songs...that is all...

 

in the night decided to take some dinner from hotel itself, so ordered one Club sandwitch...kuch suna hua naam laga to socha ki yahin order kar dia jaaye...saw that there is chicken in its contents, so told to remove it...but it was k types...till now i was really impressed with the hotel, but yesterday was disgracefull, as saw some mosquitos, sitting down my water [:x]...but could not help, and left my last byte as it is...also after eating came to know that the sandwitch contained some bacon as well :(...so now though i did not eat chicken but ab to maine usse peeche hi chod dia hain)...ate PIG!!...yuk...but khate hue kuch pta nai chala..

 

Fifth Day:

Will be going to some place in Korea...with one of my colleagues...so really looking forward for his visit...

 

and hey i forgot to tell...i was served with a soup, which seemed like a simple tomato soup...was about to eat, when my korean colleague told me not to...i asked him if there is some chicken or meat in this, he told me that there aren't...so i again asked why did he stopped me?...he then told me that its preparation...its like this..

 

they take some water, some vegetable and one special ingredient and boil it...after its boiled they remove the special ingredinet...any guesses what was it??...

 

Hmmm...

 

any...

 

NO...

 

the special ingredient was OCTOPUS!!... 

 

chalo taking your leave :)

I boarded my plane at 11.15PM, though the flight was schedules for departure at this time...(but hai re Air India), anyways der aaye daroosat aaye.

I started the journey on the wrong foot, as I sat on the wrong seat, even after watching carefully (seat no.), which belonged to a beautiful gal :D.(By the way my seat was just in front of her, But we never talked during the whole trip, as uske saath ek mustanda bhi tha :P).

The plane finally took off at 11;55 PM IST. This flight had a stop of one hour at Hong-Kong(about which i was really excited), but my hard luck, we were told not to leave the plane and remain seated. Most of the passengers unboarded the flight here and only few remained back, As the plane just contained around 10 ppl, I thought there will be some new passengers boarding the plane, but no one boarded, and finally we came to know that 1 hour break was for the Hong-Kong passengers to get down and for crew change. Durng this time we were not even allowed to roam in the plane and also there were strict instruction of not using the rest-room either. (ab batao jisko nature call aayi hui ho, woh ek ghante tak kaise manage karega :P)

The crew serves you a lot - woh itna kuch dete hain, ki banda kha kha ke mar hi jaye - jaate hi juice, then dinner, again some refreshements, then breakfast with some juice(s). By the way they also showed 2 movies - and i had not seen any of them before - (movies bas theek thak thi, koi itni khaas bhi nahi thi, don't even remember the names)

poore flight mein bus 2 ghante hi soya hoonga, aur finally we landed. waise Landing itni dhansu thi ki kya bataooo (during landing one of the briefcases of a passenger came out of the closet, there was so much of jhatkas, that even a ride on Indian roads would look better.)

is samay meri boori halat thi...neend bhi aa rahi thi...so hired a taki and came direclty to Hotel, and immediately after checking, just called my manager(jo ki meri sab se baddi bewakoofi thi), I was told to goto the workplace, so mujhe khade paon hi hotel se bhagna pada :(

First Day in Korea:
As soon as i reached to the workplace, i started with my work (and woh itne nikamme the, ki un hone khane tak ke liye nahi poocha, chalo khair, mujhe hi besharam banna pada, and told them to give me some coffee, as there was no coffee machines on that floor), Finally the day ended for me and i came back at 8.30. Had taken few packed food for myself, so prepared it and had some. And after that i just slept, slept and slept.

Second day:
Finally meri neend khulti hain around 8.45 (local time, for those who do not know Korean time is 3:30 hours ahead of India), i was late to office as i needed to reach there around 9;30 and i takes around 40 minutes to reach that place :(, so just took 10-15 min to get ready, and ordered the room service, but kya bataoon - yahan par room service sirf 10am-1pm hi milti hain, jaise koi movie show chal raha ho, anyways mujhe khaana to khaan hi tha, kyunki pta nai din mein kuch milega ya nahi, so went to the reception and asked them where i can have breakfast (as this was complementary :), so didnt wanted to miss it) I was directed to there restaraunt, which was really good. I was really getting late so just ate few loafs of bread (khani mushkil ho rahi thi, kyunki bilkul sukhi thi, even butter did not help)....took my taxi...reached office...to my surprise no one was there...so i still managed to be there before anyone else, so they did not know that i was also late :D. Again wahi din chariya shuru hoti hain...kaam shuru kar dia jata hain...then this korean guy comes around 12 and says he is feeling really hungry and wanna go for lunch, some how we delayed his repeated appeals and ate the lunch.

Lunch: bilkul sukhe chawal, no spices, only beans - chawal bhi bahut hi mota tha - there were few recognizable salad 9so took them as well)...the koreans like fish a lot so usually they add meat/fish to each of there dish, only few do not have these :(. I also had some eggs - pta nai kaunse jaanwar ke the, woh bhi bilkul sukhe the, then there was some sea weeds (these are like leaves), which these ppl eat with rice, by spreading rice on it. i took one packet with me to try it. i was accompanied by few members of the team, and one of them put more of these packets, saying " Gupta, i guess that much food is not sufficient for you, so here are few more for you" :(

kissi tarike sa khaya yahan par, and then we had some sort of juice which tasted like an Ice tea, but they said its not that.

Anyways we started with the work again and finally closed the day at 2100 hours.