long pending thoughts ...

Its been for almost a month now. Like the thoughts have come and gone and just that the tangible words haven't met them on my blog :) ... so will start blogging afresh but before that just a round trip through each of those random thoughts -

Mangalore Monsoons
The thunders and showers, what a amazing way to arrive. Since there's been a lengthy good-bye to them, there has to be welcome note as well and so had wanted to post this ... but i guess i m too far away from the place,weather and time (sitting in desert doesn't help much) to put down the welcome message.

Mangala STP
This was my office a week before. It was named so. Smallest of all Infy Mega Structures. However, the place was full of life .. well crowded spaces simmers such seemingly ... with TT and Pool tables in hall ways ... Badminton court cum Volley Ball court on the way to food court. The serenest (:p) place to say was my Swimming Pool to which i lay - not bare totally :) - any time i could.. All this is memory from past (may be a year or so) as things have changed quite a lot now with TT tables moved to recreational block and Swimming Pool being host to Water Polo crowd most of the time :( ..

They Let me go
yes just like that.. fill those feedback forms and put that ID card down and then you are free as that free bird which had once come down here to Mangalore... its sad but an honest way of letting one go... definitely

UP-78 P 8498
Mangalore Traffic police are IMHO sedated with dose of honest pills .. cauz they never ever questioned more than 1000kms wheelin all through Mangalore roads in UP-78 Maruti 800. May be they knew this 9yrs old model has had enough Mumbai cops trouble already :p ... well know the car is in new land called Gujarat to test crude eyes of hawaldars here in Mehsana

Mangalore Food & Beer
... i think i can dedicate one full page to this one... wil spare myself here

Special Mentions
Dr. Devdas Shenoy - the Malaria specialist who cured more than half of my roommates
Jasani Tiffin Service - the Gujju tiffin specialist who let us live through the Great Mangalore Riots
Nilgiris - a supermarket so very close to home and heart (cauz it served my stomach) and sometimes with very nice music playin the place was grazing ground for ppl like me
Sulthan Battery - another so to say watch tower.. a very small one .. over the creek... the place was getaway of sorts .. and also let u get into small ferry to tanirbavi beach across the creek..
Ideals @ Infy - there's been papaya, orange, banana, chiku shakes/juices most of the time and then there's been Chocolate shake almost all the time :) ... well the chocolate at any place can be good but at this place it was GOO..OD
CCD @ Infy - The regular coffee joint for us .. power coffee joint for power houses of Infosys Mangalore. Anycase, this place was special to me for my coffee and coffee mates :)

and that brings me to end of something from very immediate past... i guess had many more but once for all .. those shall - RIP

Bye Bye Monsoons...

zigzagged lightning patters over the dark sky visible from a 6th floor balcony of my Mangalore apartments... no better sight to have a laptop right ahead and start writing. The thunders have died down and so has the rains. The only spectacle remains is the blazes flashing around every 2 second or so. This is the retreating monsoons of southern India.
First thing they are not the threatening streaks of lightning which would rip apart anything downunder. They are simply sprawling across the 2 dimensional sky and are absolutely beautiful!! They are the left overs of the thunderous storm that just passed by and i am just enjoying the farewell, watching the absolute white streaks saying "sayonara". This is how wonderful the mangalore weather and this is why I would never cease to love the place.
It had all started last Thursday afternoon. The heat had over powered us. So was the fate of the studies i m still bound to. With my balcony facing westwards, I could see almost clear horizon at the distance with tiny flashes of saline water reaching my naked eye. It was pretty sight as it meant the monsoons clouds will no more block the beautiful sunsets. But alas, the winds starts gathering some speed and so does the the black clouds over the northeast sky. The baneful clouds with the silver linings were approaching slowly and dreadfully.
In no time, the clouds had taken over the Mangalore sky with little hope of any clear sky and clear horizons. The day was the last day of the navratri festivals or to say the dusshera. What better occassion to celebrate the festival with cool winds buzzing through.
This is the time of the year mangalore streets witnesses the rally. The rally of the dancing tigers, ruthless rakshashaas, swirling fire balls and pompous lights. All this while, the folks and devouts carry there idols for visarjans. The processions are beautiful and extravagant (pretty much for the city which sleeps at 10).
Only thing which is marred in the whole affair is the street traffic which ofcourse was the last in the planning list for the city cooperation babus. This is what reminds me the date that day was ofcourse 9th Oct. Greater details on the significance of this day later though.
Well the time is - to put off laptop and go to sleep for i need to ofcourse go work every morning. Good bye Monsoons... hope to see you soon!! :)

In Mangalore it rains only on weekends...

true! (seriously kasam se!) the weather is great all through the week asking you to come and have a go at it... starts with that downpour drops of buckets size... no u don't venture out then .. unless ofcourse u would are wishing for really awesome bath under waterfall.. but nope.. i need to get ready for the day.. and its gonna be long one i know... well thats how difficult it is to get up in mornings here... alright i m in office .. passing through that passage way ...u wonder where's the rain ... and then u wonder its leafs shining away sun's rays... oh thats beautiful... well lets get that morning nivaala or i m gonna faint... i hog it down and in minutes i m at my desk. The work is no wonderous as the weather out there (thats something i like about new place, remotely though but i do no hows weather out there) ... well the time is for lunch and the sun is shining at its noon best... again that corridor is the best place to walk by admiring (even if it just nothing compared to anywhere else... but i like that place in my whole office best) .. and i walk in to Food Court.. tellin everyone "look its sun shine... it was raining cows and buffalos in the morning... :)" ... well we start adoring mangalore weather and places one could go, have gone and haven't gone!! ... hmmm :( ... thats the closest we are to planning any thing nowadays... well the lunch is over and back at my place again... imagin this ... unlock ur computer.. check ur mail.. umph! nothing... check the public folders... make them Read... go to next folder... make all those mails Read... oh there is alert coming up ... " oops! another Dart reminder" ... alright some work.. scrolling.. hel wats the guy has written... oh no i have to continue coding from where he has left... be partner in his crap writing and deliver as my own ... great!!... i scroll up ... scroll down again... nothing worth much mentioning further... the coffee time is soon to arrive and .. yes the phone rings.. oh lets go out .. coffee time.. now as i get down ... i m waiting to walk throught to that passage ... and i arrive... its drizzling yet again.. drizzle u want to drizzle in :)... oh cool! .. oh no nots so fast ... works calling... lets get that kick and get out of here... oh now some work... the work surely speeds up after a coffee.. no wonder CCD (not the n/w guys) makes it to every Infosys office... the work is done and u realize hey! FC time.. 5pm and no one has called in yet... i will call !! and again thru that isle (yeah kind a small green island in middle of vast monstrous sea of concrete) ... and rains beginning to get harder now... far corners u find people smoking fumes out.. kinda looks cool looking through that downpour i would say... but yeah no tobacco!! bad for health!! ... and the time passes with the nostalgia sesssion (because the domain of discussion many a times shifts to "when v were young" nowadays) ... thats the last i see of that green patch in my office for the day and as i prepare to leave for day i hope... sincerely hope sometimes... it rains hard so that i have a good reason to soak myself... because i m then not running towards office but strolling towards home... wonder why drenching urself is so awesome sometimes... its wet hair ... drops dribbling down ur nose, ear lobes... u wiping it off to have them come back again... well i pack and leave ... swipe out ... and :~( there is no rain... oh well... today or rather any other day is just not ur day.... and then u want ur weekends to come... and they arrive and .. and ... it just rains whole day and night... there is no stopping... only to make my weekends also lugubrious .. because i m sitting on my bed and writing this rather than have great time out there!!!