Airport Road, Domlur Flyover [bird's eye]

A date with Cubbon Park, Bangalore

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A date with Cubbon Park (Feb 2009)

Reflections Apart

Some of my mad thoughts and when camera clicked them...!

Lalbagh Flower show

In the wake of upcoming Republic Day of India on 26th January 2009, there has been setup a flower show on Lalbagh starting from Saturday 17th January.

With over 350 varieties of flowers in display with the theme of PEACE.. NO WAR it attracts people of various interests.

The display has been arranged by Mysore Horticultural Society. At the Glass House itself, over 1 lakh roses will be used for the floral arrangement of a huge globe with doves conveying the message of peace. A miniature Ooty displaying many temperate flowers of the place will also be on display.

The Dutch arrangement, Janur, Bonsai, Ikebana, Indian floral art and Belgium arrangement will be on display. About 100 stalls will sell gardening gadgets, manures, pots, quality seeds, saplings, plants, herbal products, books on plants, among others.

According to horticulture director G K Vasanth Kumar, the highlight of this year's show will be freezing techniques on exotic fruits and vegetables. A separate stall will educate and create awareness on this technique that helps increase the life of these perishable items.



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Are these Bangalore roads? - Video

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Bangalore roads on Sankranthi day 2009. From St. Patriks road to near M.G.Road



From M.G.Road to Infantry Road

Are these Bangalore roads?

Today being a festival day (Pongal and Makara Sankranthi), most of Bangaloreans are enjoying their holiday. Well I thought to skip this optional holiday and work. The surprise was on the roads. These were normally traffic logged roads, and today they carried almost no traffic. We reached office from house in just 10 minutes (From Ejipura to Shantinagar) which usually takes about 40-45 minutes in normal days. Amazing isn't it. HOLIDAYS are welcome. :) Let me pray for some more.

Want to play in Richmond Road?

Want to play in Muesum Road?

Not well, still playing

Today I was feeling feverish, but with compelling friends for playing football I could not resist. I just went to the field and stood as goalkeeper. I made merry saving four to five sure goals. I let only one goal (unfortunate).

The teams:

In my team: Dinju, Chetan, Naveen, Giri, Me

In opposition: Rohonesh, Aswith, Ravi, Srivathsa, Chetan Raj

Chetan made merry by taking onto a superb goal, Naveen made another wonderful goal taking our tally to 2. From the opposition Srivathsa made a goal. The final goal tally was 2-1, we winning.

Good bye, Iflex

Iflex had been my dream company. Well even at this juncture where I am saying good bye officially to Iflex, I love to say this as my dream company.

I still remember the day upon which I attended my Interview. The Interview for first round was full of technical questions upon Oracle skill set. The interview was taken by Nabarun. I was sure after the interview that I was impressive. I carried good hopes and was asked to attend the second round of interview immediately. It was with Sriram. He was very much ambitious about the product, which I know very few. The discussion was short and I was informed that I would be joining the team and would be required to attend a one month training in Bangalore as soon as I joined. There ended the interview course.

After some days, I was there in board of Iflex. I was the much ambitious about about achieving my short term career goal. I was very much in my dreams at that point.  

A week later joining Iflex, I accompanied by another colleague Akila went for Bangalore. The accomodation and other things were fine at Bangalore. Also I dont remember much trainings going on there. It was more or less useless.

Then came some eye opener sessions, with which my dreams were disturbed BADLY. Each time upon such situations my confidence went down. I have never ever thought of or rather dreamt of such henious situations in my career.

I had been coming from place where I was admiringly blind of my superiors personality and capabilities. It was almost bloodiest things started to happen.

"Daybreak" has really started to break the teams day as well as nights. There was never a full mind working on the project. It was just a forced work. I never had my mind to continue in Iflex just after returning to Chennai.

The trouble went more and more at Chennai. But I made myself cool down a little bit to settle down first. It was a terrible mistake which later on I felt badly.

I do not want to repeat or illustrate what has happened. But I had lot of trouble in making myself deep rooted in the product. With regard to the product, it is just USA ready. The functionalities, much of them are relevant to American market. Much labour has to be involved with regard to be it "WORLD" ready. But it is worth making it more reachable. Though it has not sprang much outside like USS, it is slowly expanding. Much was the vision of Iflex acquiring the product. It was indeed a thoughtful and fruitfull effort. But rather than making the product far reachable it was locked in very slow evolution.

I earned lot of friends after coming here (Iflex). Each one of them has helped me in one or other way. Every one of them being a genius in their own skills. And we all had something in common; friendship. Even in dark phases we had laid each ones shoulder to cool down. It was like a brotherly affair rather than mere friendship, I would say.

Thanks to all of you who had made me stay this long; I too think I had been working here much more long than I actually worked.

A special note on HR. I never expected such a full-hearted support from them. Beleive me; they are happening. They are not mere finger-pointers. But they really understand the problem in hand and deal with it amicably. They deserve full five stars in their office. A special thanks to you Thomas and Gayathri.

When I had written down this much, it has raised emotional thoughts again. I will miss Iflex. It has been a emotional and personal affair with Iflex and the bond is breaking.

I miss you all my friends.

[This is my diary post from 2007 June, posted in 2009]