BLUFF Outing

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First and foremost, I would like to thank John and Murli for the big sponsorship for one more mega memorable event “BLUFF outing”.

I would also like to thank the family members who decided to spend there precision time with us, by scarifying there family commitments.

Last but not the least, I also would like to thank the entire team to come together for this big event.

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So were do we start from, it was for a long time, say it as a year or more that Murli wanted to treat us for a lunch or dinner, at the same time John also wanted to throw out a party for his new car, new job, new house and the list goes on and on. Gosh, what a person everything in his life is new. Now you have the biggies in the sponsor list. Out of blue, I pitched-in and started to negotiate between the sponsors and came out with an idea of a day outing. Since it was me who started with this idea and I had to plan the whole program for the day. No matter you have the members or not. It was planned that even three to four people turn up we will go out. Just realized that it was once again my regular work of planning and execution. It would be mine 6th event and as team 9th event outing. Each one was very unique and mind-blowing. Close my eye they run as trailer as if the events are yet to be organized. I can’t believe it, we completed our engineering in 2004 and still we stick on to each other. Even though we are not in touch for a long time we never get separated. Except for the defaulter Mr. Bijoy, everybody turned up. I had not even thought of what is the challenges waiting for me in the up coming days. Question occurs is, where do we go? Lot of ideas poured into my mind like trekking, river rafting, wonderlaa, resort, hill-station, waterfalls, and others. I also need to keep my ideas packed as it was for a day long only and I am suppose to get the people back to Bangalore on the same day before the night falls. So it was like we need to spend valuable time together from dawn to dusk. After long discussions and telcons we decided to go to bluff and any other place nearer to it. I had Talakadu in my mind. The next was the day to fit this plan and put it into execution. So we decided to make it on October the 2nd, which was idle for everybody.

Once this was decided, we circulated the plan with our group asking for the participation members and ideas. In fact we never thought that crowd would touch upto 15 members and counting. Initially we decided to take our own cars for the trip, lunch would be order from a restaurant which would be packed for all the members. Since the members were adding and dropping we could not come out with a plan which would workout for everybody. Then somebody raised there voice of an idea, instead of our own cars why not we book a TT which would be half the price of the own car expenditure. In our group Venki was the person who new somebody in that background and he would get us a reasonable price also. So we all asked Venki to book a TT which he would talk to his friend who runs a travel agent and fix up a deal. At last the vehicle was arranged and I though that 50% of the work is done. Lunch, which was already planned that it would be ordered from a restaurant near JP Nagar and the whole task, would to be driven by John and Bhakta. Even this plan was dropped later due to very high price quoted for the veg & non-veg dishes. To be honest, my entire trip budget would not match that amount. So we finally decided that we will checkout for any Dabhas on the Mysore road. Being it a Gandhi Jayanthi’s day we wonder if anybody would server non-veg dishes. Lucky nobody has any attachment towards alcohol. Amazing team that I am with, BMSIST.

All set and TT was also booked. Sudden comes a surprise of 2 people getting dropped from the plan due to personal issues. Ramesh dropped due to health problem and Raka dropped due to additional work load in the office. John planned to get the seat occupied by his fiancé’s sister and her boyfriend. Oh, by the way his fiancé is none other then our dear friend Bhavani who studied with us only. Another surprise also arrived, John was willing to sponsor only the lunch which was calculated very minimum. So he planned to drop out from the sponsor list and promised for a separate grand lunch or a dinner. I was in shock of how to convey this information to the rest of the people. Later slowly convinced everybody by recalculating the budget and asked Murli to be a solo sponsor and the rest of the money to be pooled from the rest of the folks in the trip. We also had some team funds from the previous trips. At last everything was set. Murli in the solo sponsor list, Venki to co-ordinate for the TT, Bhakta to oversee all the activities and other to co-ordinate with each other. It was planned that we will meet in Murli’s place as the starting of the trip. He has got a big parking lot for accommodating the bikes & cars.

It was on the day of Oct 2nd at 628 hrs, my cellphone started laughing which said that TT has arrived and will be on schedule. I quickly moved to the bathroom to finish all the morning activities. I sent a wakeup SMS to everybody and requesting them to be on time. In the team we basically concentrate on Holla, the customer. He come from a far place and relies on the public transport. If you talk about punctuality then you really need to get some advice from him. I call him my successor for me in this team. Later my partner Srini, Lu called me up and informed me that he would be on time 725 hrs at my place. I was ready waiting for him as soon as he arrived I left with him. Mom was worried since I had a bad cold and conjunction in my throat, in fact I was on a high antibiotics. Nothing stops me, once planned and fixed. There is no looking back. To add-on, we had Loks, PL and Murli who were also suffering from the same symptoms. We reached Murli’s place and was surprised to see that nobody turned up. It was 750 hrs and the vehicle would be there at any moment with Holla, Bhakta and Venki. Murli was just completing his morning activities. We parked our vehicle and started to find out where is the rest of the crowd. My heart already start pumping very fast as I was sensing that something was going wrong. Later Tapas joined with this office laptop assuming that if it gets late in the day, he would travel to office and start working. Vehicle reached. PL and Ranjan were on there way. The present crowd wanted to go for small breakfast. So went to the near by Darshani hotel to have light breakfast. The only person who was suppose to come with his fiancé and her sister and her sister’s boyfriend was John. He is not picking the phone. It was 830 hrs and we were losing time. Our TT driver Venkatesh gives us a surprise saying that Telakadu road is very bad and it of risk to travel. In fact Venki informed it to me earlier only. I though we will make a decision on the course of our trip because if you throw this surprise people would not take it positively. Finally John reached with his fiancé only. Other two were dropped and my budget was in huge risk. From Murli’s place we had been served with hot coffee to kick start the trip.

Our TT left to the outer-ring road and stopped by the Shell bunk to fill in the diesel for the vehicle. We started with our journey with the collection king collecting the money from the individuals. Sudden twist in the game, John requested that he would also be part of the sponsor list not sure what made him to change the idea but I was hoping that something turns up. I checked with the rest and everybody was okay with this plan. Now we have the budget, vehicle and fully loaded team. The people who did not reach on time were requesting for a place to stop over for breakfast. I had already mentioned that late comers will have to suffer. I know guys I can’t be so rude also. I already discussed with the driver to stop over at Kamath hotel in mysore road. The only punishment was to stay in hunger for the time you reach there. Believe or not the roads were awesome and the vehicle is traveling at 60-70 kms/hr. I was thinking what would have happen if I was traveling my xeta baby. TT was a video coach so we got see one telugu movie Gajani. Kamath was reached at 1030 hrs and our heavy breakfast was also over. It was not that great but manageable. Cute aunties with there kids was the crowd attraction. Honestly I was watching the kids only. From there we left to Bluff/ Shivanasamudra/ Gaganachukki/ Hydro Power Plant/ Barachukki. After a 2 hrs journey we landed at the targeted spot, security was tight. I had to sign and give the vehicle details and the number of people traveling and other details. After all this he asks for coffee tax. I had to give him something since he was govt. servant. We also got to know that Hydro power plant entry is blocked more then a year due to security reason. We quickly got some snaps and move to the fall which was Gaganachukki. It is awesome falls with natural beauty. People started taking snaps and cute aunties whom we intersected in the Kamath hotel were also seen there. Some school/college trip people were also come and the place was one like our Majestic bus-stand. Soon we closed our photo session and planned to go to Barachukki and our great driver informed that from this angle its Gaganachukki and from the opposite side its Barachukki. Inside story was that from Gaganachukki its 1 kms to Barachukki were people can play in the water. People were very upset as they did not spend much time over there. I asked to driver to the takes us to the near by Dhaba for the lunch. For almost 10 kms the roads were worst or rather there was no road. Talakadu was dropped.

We landed up in one Punjabi Dhaba, I would not say that food was fabulous but it was just okay and non-veg people enjoyed the show. As usual the food was severed very late because they were waiting for the egg to hatch and later wait for it to grow and then slaughter it to prepare the delicious dishes which was very identical to each other. Small team discussion happened. After the lunch, we planned to move to Srirangapattana which was 25 kms from the dhaba. By the time we reached there it was almost in the verge of raining and the weather was splendid. We stopped by Rangantittu Bird Sanctuary/ Sangam to enjoy the flora and fauna. The river was very mild so we planned to do a thapa ride. PL dropped due to health issues and the other enjoyed it. On the way back we covered Jumma Masjid (a Mosque) and the Daria Daulat Gardens but we could not go out due to heavy rain. Later we though to drop by Sri Ranganathaswamy temple to complete our journey. Got his blessing and left from Srirangapattana to reach Bangalore . We stopped in midway for a coffee/tea break. At around 2100 hrs we reached Murli’s place. Settled down the TT fare and move to my home and others also happily closed a day long BLUFF journey.

SVNV Rocks !!!

In a dinner party I scripted this for the team members with whom I worked in the past.
SVNV Rocks !!!

When party knocks
Leaving others a shock

We existed in the past
When the journey moved fast

People bind hearts
Together we are smart

I was late
To see the empty plate

Everybody joined hands
To mark the event grand

SVNV Rocks !!!

Water

The pleasant feeling of the water flowing in one direction, crossing and overcoming the obstacles such as stones and trees in the path can be compared to the open mind of a person. The ideas and thoughts need to come out with free flow and should not be stopped. By building barricaders you are storing the water for the later use. By holding on the spontaneous ideas you are storing to come up a bigger and more efficient idea. If you try to control the flow beyond the maximum capacity you are trying to invite a damager the same you are not restricting a person from not given a chance to open up his ideas and views in a bigger forum..

Bottom line: the flow should not be controlled but leave it a open mind.

A School Trip

It was on the third day of the November 2007 that we had planned to meet and catch up the golden school days, which we have lost it somehow and some of us had buried it under our work pressure & family priorities. I was very much excited about this event as it was my first reunion meeting. I also learnt that it was the 6th reunion and I had missed all of them in the past. I would wonder do we have to meet, what brings us together and many other questions floating round the mind. Guess what could be the answer? You have got to feel it when the meeting happens. I should be thankful to the people who had come up with this idea of a group which will one day spring upto 51 hardcore diehard fans of Team SVM95. Their energy level is still the same and guess what? their bodies have reshaped not the sharp minds. It's such a wonderful thing which only happens once in a blue moon.

The venue to meet and catch the old memories in action was our old school itself and what could be a better place to catch up. I reached there at sharp noon and wondered why people are yet to arrive. Gosh, these IT bugger(s) in Bangalore never they come on time. I went around the school, the park, the old grounds, office, and cycle parking area. All the time I was laughing with a big smile and people wondered why? I was just recollecting each and every moment which passed on this places. What to say? It was such a wonderful thing. PT sir & Bhatt sir trashing boys, getting punished for not polishing the shoe, standing in front of the principal's office for not neatly ironing, getting less marks and asking the parents to meet, what and all we have done. Oh boy, it worth the life we spent those days together. It was 1230 hrs and slowly I could see Nagi & Giri zooming with their bikes. I got the eye contact and we met to break the words of silence, Oh you have put on weight as if I was still the same, such a crap joke. Then Giri started to ring couple of other friends followed with Nagi to ping our super star Sajan. He was on his way to the destination and reaching he say, Oh you guys are early, I meant IST time. Then JVSK arrived like formula one racer and went to the pit. I would not say which pit.

Later we decided to get in the school to catch some more memories. I just walked along with them and no words to speak. We meet PeTla. yeap, you guesed it right our PT sir with big moustache and he greeted us and suggested to get inside the Higher primary staff room to catch some teachers. We walked to our new GMT hall building passing there is one more built on which we have not even stepped our legs. First we met Asha teacher and getting introduced you should have seen the amount of happiness she had in her face. I say the worth of life in her eyes, the satisfaction of something achieved and won a noble award. Slowly she started mentioning about the all the teachers and who were still there and who were not. We also learnt that some teachers were missing as they had been to school trip to Goa . Yes you heard it right GOAAAAAAAAAAA.. Gosh, I wish we had gone along with them. Each of were pulling some or the other incident which would intersect Asha teacher and us. Trust me it was lot of fun.

We later moved inside the staff room to catch other teachers. We meet Latha teacher, Shatry teacher, and others. I still don't recollect the names. Everybody was excited to see us and it was such a eye glittering scene in the staff room, we gave them a satisfaction feeling that we are well settled in life and are ready to take up any challenges. JVSK's daughter will start studying sooner or later. Hope they don't grow up like us. Once again all the memories started to ball around and the latest happenings in the school were discussed. We would have spent almost half an hour inside the staff room. You need to feel it nothing that could be explained over here. Finally they had to call it for the day and we caught the magic movements in our hi-tech gadget mobile phones.

Walking out we meet our HM and she too was very thrilled to meet us all. She wished our children would continue to study in the same school. Later we meet our 4 th and 7th standard class teacher. Sorry, I don't remember her name too. Hit my brain's DNS problem. She was also very happy to see us. I can remember her voice with the same tone and it reminds me of lot of incidents during her periods. We then wanted to catch the class room as it was closing time. Guess what all the floor (s), steps, benches, and building looked very small. Yes we are up on lot and lot of weight. We went to our 10 th std "B" and "C" section class room. Nothing is changed and we could still recollect our buried memories we spent there. Got some snaps and roamed around the corners of the entire floor. It was awesome mind-blowing time. We moved out with a hands-off salute to our school and decided to come next time with most of our classmates. Hope to see you all there.

Welcome Note

Hello, This is Sabha, known by others. For a very long time, I wanted to start my blog but was that the right time for me to start. The reader of this page would excuse me from my broken, unethical usage of grammar and sentence formation. I wish you enjoyed reading my short novels. More to come, wait and watch. Warm Welcome, -Sabha