City and Town

It feels to be good back to the place where I actually belong, and that is Pune. After two weeks of holidays in my native place in Kannur (a district in Kerala), I realized how much a Punekar I have become, and how much I miss the Pune City. It doesn't mean that I don't like my native place, place where I was born, I like it very much, and the main reason for it, which I believe, is because the place is not a city yet, its just a small town like place. A place where the roads are narrow, a place where you won't find much traffic, not much people with high fashionable branded clothes.

Pune is a place which have always changed with time, and it has always amazed me. The first time I was away from Pune for long, was in 2006 when I had gone to London. Pune did changed in those 6 months, and now I always sense that change happening in the city and I also sense that change creeping into me, which a city does to its own people. But to my amazement, my native place haven't changed, it still looks the same to me. the only change happened are the number of houses which are being bought up people with their hard earned money from the Middle East countries.

I do believe in the changes which a city does to its people, and I have seen that. The people in the city are always busy and does not find time for any body else. The eyes of majority of the people speak the same language, and it tells us that I does not care for anybody else. But you won't find this in a village or in a small town like Kannur (my native). Their eyes are different and they speak a different language, a language which is spoken by majority of the people. Their willingness to help others. I have felt it and can relate it with an example, the way the conductors behave in the buses. It is because of their simple eyes, I guess, I remember the face of every conductors I have in the last 2 weeks, and I dont remember the face of the conductor of the bus in which I traveled from Panvel to Pune. But with said so, I agree by the saying "All five fingers are not same".

But still I love Pune, the Pune city, because the person I have become today is because of the city, but with my roots still finding its way to Kannur. As a person, I would like to keep on changing with the pace of the Pune city and would like my eyes to speak the language of Kannur.

Anup

Anup - Served Fresh and Hot

Another lazy Sunday is passing by, but the good thing is I happened to eat few 'modaks' as it's Ganesh Chaturti today. Though I am writing this a bit late, but still I would like to call this as my Birthday Post. I just tend to write few things about myself here.

-> My name Anup and my nick name is......don't have any, anyways my name is just a 4 letter word so why short it further.
->I couldn't pronounce 'R' when I was a child. So I would say 'car' as 'cal', this is not all, I had my own list of funny words, like 'bashashe' for 'namaste', 'eehhh' for 'food'. Really don't have any idea from where these words came to me.
-> I have been wearing specks since my 3rd Standard. It started as -0.25 but now its -5.75 and -6.00. Damn I am virtually blind without my specks.
-> First thing one would notice about me is the scarcity of hair in my head. And I hate when people point out saying this, as if I don't know about that. People don't you have anything else to look at.
-> I had my first email account when I was in my third year engg. I couldn't think of any good name, so I named it 'brave_anup' and it went through in the first go.
-> There was a guy in my 12th tutions who taught me how to sign. The way he signed for me looked really good, but when I started adapting it, it started to look pathetic. Still I use the same signature.
-> I was very proud of my muscles during engg. because I did worked very hard for that. But it's all gone now, and its been almost 8-10 months I haven't gone to gym.
-> I enjoy reading, and have been reading a lot since last 6 months. I have also started to love Malayalam and Tamil songs, I should thank Bala for that.
-> I did my schooling from IGHS and would not like to remember those days. I am in contact with few friends, but still I would not like to remember those days.
-> I did my 11th and 12th Science from SMV college and would also like to forget those 2 years. I avoid having communication with those friends.
-> I did my engineering in Computers from DYPIET and those 4 years just flew by. If given a chance I would like to re-live those 4 years. Those were the best days of my entire educational life. I had great friends and I am in touch with most of them.
-> Now I am work with the World's Local Bank and thats HSBC, as a SSE. My interview is not less than a story.
-> I just cannot imagine myself without my office friends. I have been started enjoying life only with them. And we are a big group.
-> My mom and nani are the like icons for me, people can learn from them how to live a life even when you are surrounded my difficulties.
-> And last but not the least, I believe in the 'Power of Dreams'.

Wishing myself a belated Happy Birthday again.

Anup

My Silver Jubilee

Its been few weeks I haven't written anything and that is because I was expecting (yeah exactly EXCEPTING) to write my 25th blog on my 25th birthday and what better would it be than to write about myself.

But, I have been typically myself and didn't posted anything, and by the way I celebrated my 25th birthday on 18th of August, so here I am writing this post but not about myself.

The day didn't started off very well, I had to push my bike a lot as it was punctured and damn it costed me 120 bucks for many other reasons. Then the whole morning I felt like sleeping, so in the office I was nagging NS (yeah she is the tester of one of the project and damn I dont know much about that project), then I didn't had my lunch as I went on to see my new house (yes guys my new house,and I know I haven't talked about it yet, but may be next time in detail) then kept myself focused completely in work.

And now as I am writing this, I am few pegs down, had my dinner, and these guys are making a lot of hulla hops over here, specially BS and MM. This is the second consecutive Friday where I am doing my night out, but I won't like to stress myself, as I need to go to office tomorrow and complete some of my work.

But people I promise to post my incomplete blog may be by early next week, serving me hot and fresh.

Tada to all for now.

Anup

Happy Friendship Day

This first Sunday of August, well it was since I guess Thursday, people started forwarding the friendship mails, and I was like what happened to these people, why all of a sudden all of them are forwarding the mails. Then what, Google zindabaad, then it striked me, ohhh....its Friendship Day this Sunday.
Well its also the first Sunday of my birthday month, this month I will be completing my Silver Jubilee, GOD, really can't believe that I am 25 year old.

Well, its a very normal Sunday for me, got up late, watched TV, read, listened to music. Friendship Day didn't bring anything new to this Sunday, except the number of forwarded messages which kept on coming in my cell. I even don't know whether all of you read the forwarded messages, and does it really mean anything to you all. But yeah, I like when anybody messages me, it at-least shows that the person remembers you and still treats you as a friend.
Small things like this doesn't seem to be important but they really do matter in life. sometimes a simple 'Hi' over a phone conveys a lot a thing and it does not cost you a fortune to say it over a phone. So, going forward I have thought to keep in touch with all my good friends. It's not like we have forgotten them but we just tend to ignore to contact them, the reasons may be many, but we must overcome the reasons and be in touch.

I would like wish all my friends(the school friends, college friends, the office team mates and all the other Long Lost Friends) a Very Happy Friendship Day. I would to end by saying "never hesitate to start a new connection but always keep the old connection going"

These are my School Friends.



Well, this is the perfect pic which can describe all of our college mates, isn't this funny.



These are my team mates, with whom I have enjoyed a lot in last 2 years.



Cheers,
Anup

Hyderabadi Weekend

The week didn't started the way I wanted to, but, it had ended in the best way I could have ever thought. The new week bought fever to me, and had to take a day off, and this damped my mood of writing this post. Now, feeling much better specially after playing badminton last evening (I have been mentioning about my badminton since last few posts, isn't it) and TT today. The F/E always reject whatever we say and unnecessarily we have to look into unwanted things, and in this way, most of day have been consumed. But whenever RK saw me, I was never on my Green Screen, damn his timing.

MM was finally able to recover the deleted pics from his camera and uploaded it. It felt so good. This guy deleted all the pics which were taken in Hyderabad. Here it comes, YES, I had been to Hyderabad last week. The City of Pearls, City of the Nizam's, City of Biryani and whole lot of stuff which it has.

Now along with that I would like say, which I had observed in the city, few things which I didn't expected.
First would be definately it's traffic. I always thought, Pune have got the worst traffic, but I was amazed to see that people can drive much worse than that. It seemed people enjoyed breaking the traffic rules, they won't bother to give indicators before they take the turn and the cab (which we had booked for a day) gave us a real roller coster ride on the roads, which was buzzing with traffic.

Second would be girls. Yeah you read it correctly. The city lacks girls. During my 3 days of stay I couldn't find a single beautiful girl out there. Girls don't you people exist there, what I saw were either small girls or children with their mommies, no teenage girls were hanging out anywhere. Damn, no good girls to look out for in the city, is image I have carried along with me.






The weekend was perfect, we couldn't even realize and three days just flew by, and we were back in the office on Monday morning. The Film Studio, Fort, Parks and all were just spectacular. The food which were served were just utterly utterly delicious, all those vada's, bhondas and do I need to tell about the Biryani's.




Hope, to have many more such amazing weekends.

Cheers,
Anup

Forwarded Thoughts

Usually I dont check the forwarded mails in my Inbox, unless they are interesting. So at any time one will find 90 to 100 unread mails over there.
Now this is one of the main which was interesting, with beautiful thoughts, and I would like to publish the same in my blog.So this post is for the beautiful thoughts forwarded to me by a friend of mine.

These are few on the age, or getting old.

AGE is mind over matter,

if you don't mind,

it doesn't matter.

You can't help

getting older,
but you dont have

to get Old.

Growing OLD is inevitible,

growing up is Optional.

These are some over Love, love towards friends and family.




Falling in Love is easy,
but staying in Love is
something very special.





Whereever you are
it is your Friends
who make
your World.

Having a place

to go - is a Home.

Having someone

to love - is a Family

Cheers,
Anup

Terrible Day

What a day it had been yesterday!!! Things happened to me as if somebody has penned down a story and fitted me as a character in that.

I must say, things started to happen right from the midnight. Since past few weeks I have been facing problem with my cell-phone, where I was not able to cancel any call because the key was not responding. Now suddenly the key have started to work and the worst part is, it is always active. As a result, I am not able to make any calls nor I am able to receive any one either. So, just before going to sleep, I had fully charged my cell. Then after dinner, I went to watch some Russel Peters, Jeff Dunham and Criag Fergusson (which my brother suggested me to watch).
Then at about 5:30 in the morning, my cell gave an alert saying the battery is discharged, thanks to the key which is always active. As a result, my alarm didn't work and I ended up getting late. And, this is funny, I really don't understan why, but my mom started arguing with me and ended up saying whole lot of stuff, and that argument went on for some 30 minutes.

Now with such an amazing start to the day, I wondered what was stored for me ahead. Then I took another handset (which looks like an antique piece) and left for the office. It was pouring down heavily and was enjoying every single drop of rain by riding slowly. Now my shoes were completely soaked up, so most of the time I roamed in the office floor on my bare feet. And, like the same old story (since last 2 months) I didn't had any work, and am acting just like a filler, and still awaiting for the final approval by the business for the project.

So, spent my time by going through different sites, played TT, and most of the times was just monitoring the share market. It was just rallying, with ABAN being the top gainer with almost 24%.Wonder if I had bought some more a day before, then I would have been a happy man. Damn my Luck.

Now while going back, again it started to rain heavily, but now I just tried to flew through the road, instead of going slowly. Mom, was a bit OK in the evening and thankfully didn't mentioned anything about the morning incident. I didn't talked much as usual because I wasn't feeling that good, thanks to the morning incident.
Then, late evening I went to play badminton, and tried playing back-hand a lot. Damn, its too weak and I really need to improve it a lot. N have started playing back-hand really very well. Then again on my way back home it rained heavily, now I really doubt whether the Rain God loves me or does he have something else in his mind.

Then before going to bed, I showed few snaps which bhai had uploaded over the net, and after that I went on to a deep sleep, but only after watching few more of Craig Fergusson, because I really wanted to end the day on a happier note after it had such a bad beginning.

Now eagerly waiting for the weekend to arrive as I would be completing my 3 years in the present company.

Cheers,
Anup