Thursday, February 11, 2010

Eighth part of my energetic trip... A popcorn break!!!

There are 28 states and more than 50 most popular cities in India and why the hell I keep taggling about this Hyderabad....?

Many friends of mine, Minki, Kosila, Gaaja, Dhuuma (no, no, this is not Shantosh's "daughter's" name), Pikshaya, Saarik, Meotu etc, (names have been damaged sorry changed due to security concerns ;-)) started shouting at me quoting similar sentences to the one above...

Ok. good news for all you guyz is the Hyderabad blues would be completed in next two posts (இன்னும் ரெண்டா - அடப்பாவி?) and more good news is that, my next posts would be on few of  the interesting places of Chennai!!

Lets get ready to show bye bye to Telungana or Hyderabad in a couple of posts... (இன்னிக்கு இவ்ளோதான். போய் வேலைய பாருங்க... டாடா..)

Sunday, February 07, 2010

7th Scene of Hyderabad Stunns!!

Andha neram andhi neram kann paarthu kandhalaagi pona neram edho aache.... Hosanaaaa!!! One of the beautiful melodius fast nos. from VTV running in my 5.1 when I am typing this... Got to start for Dharga and Kandhakottam in a while, while i am stealing few mins to hit some keys on my keyboard...

Switching back to Hydi... (We have a colleague in J.Chan's homeland with the same name.. Heard from Shantosh that she looks awesome) :-) OK. After travelling along the loooongest flyover in India (Asia??), we guyz (I vaguely remember we were 7 persons and all boys / males... ) reached directly to the place where the interviews need to be conducted. The address was absolutely accurate and very specific making it easy for us to plot the location. I cant stop thinking the guy and thanking him who gave us the address for taking the care to include even minute details like which apartment, its name and floor etc. Very soon, I need to thank the same person for reminding me the difference between an accurate information and a correct data! The address was absolutely wrong...

Started wandering and tried to get hold of the SPOC person for this interview in Hyd and couldnt succeed for a while... Again I cant stop thinking the same guy whom I thought of thanking a while earlier... Somehow got the person on line and got the 'correct' address. Soft-luck, the correct things, most of the times, stay very close to the wrong things and in our address it is proved true... The correct address is just opposite to the accurate one!

Omana penne  from VTV is the current track in my MP3 player. Why cant someone find an higher award better than Oscars n Grammies for our ever-humble Mozart yaar... He keeps mesmerizing us with his magical melodies... Switching back, then we went in and settled 'Down'... The interview centre was more of an institute/consultancy... My quick (and hurried) instinct immediately decided that this place is not fit for an interview for my company because not a centrally airconditioned building, no hydraulic chairs, no glass doors with blinds and yes there were lot of dust, good enough to cover you up. Somehow. as asual, got settled with that, since the cleaning was done very quickly and thoroughly... I went and occupied the room of the Chairperson of the consultant/institute. The room was very good and posh. Thus my interview sessions started, and a flash of thought inside me - for me it is a matter of just a questioning session, for my company its a matter of a good resource but for the person on the other side, it could even be life... Sometimes, you become the weapon of God to decide one's life whom you ever know... I breathed in deeply and the blinds in the side window kept moving with some random rhythm...

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Sixth scoup of my swelling journey!

OK.. Yesterday's training went well, except that there was much less interaction... Whatever I say, whatever I ask, oh God.., the guyz for whom the training was intended, were absolutely determined not to speak a word... Did I tell you it was a con-call training, so might be the guyz are lazy enough to mute-off the phone and then ask/tell anything. Or could they forget what they wanted to ask by the time they take off the mute... :-)

Continuing my journey's journal, (எப்பதாண்டா முடிப்ப??? ) , a double worthy mentioning here about the looooooong flyover under the name of the great former PM, PVNR.

The length of the flyover is dazzling 11.6 km and the maintenance is just wonderful - A full continuous aerial view of Hyd is available while travelling on it...But the couple of limitations I could feel is there is no exit inbetween the start and end of the bridge for 11.6 km and to get out of this corridor, you need to complete the entire stretch and there is not any provision of any 'U' turn as well. I think that is second phase of this mega construction to have emergency exits in-between. Another keep-down of this elevated express highway is the journey on this EE highway is limited only to cars and mini vans. No lorries, motor-cyclists, carts, not even pedestrians are allowed in this professional path..., Safety's sake, it is fine...

Continue in a while...

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Fifth frame of Hyd picks!

It did require some good effort for me to differentiate (again) this place to the UK environment. The airport, the roads from airport towards the city, the climate (this guy is the hero of all am sure), and the trees and plants on the corner and in the median of the roads... Just awesome...

One more thing that requires a definite orientation here is the call cab. (OK OK, call taxi...) The maintenance of the cab is just great and vibrating gentle music in it - Just awesome!! Further to it, the volume of the FM music inside the cab - you will neither be listening to it nor will you be unaware of it, but for sure the music would be dissolving within your consciousness... A very unique ecstatic experience never to be missed and could not be missed either... Is this experience what Budha attained at 500 BC as enlightenment under the Bhodhi tree?

OK, we went straight to the place where the interviews need to be conducted. Oh stop... The great silent king will thrash me in my dreams if I forget to mention about the PV NaraSimha Rao Elevated Express Highway that connects the Ragiv(the G is intentional) Gandhi international airport and the Hyd city!!

Time for rushing out to office, since I have a training to be given this late afternoon... Meet again with all the excitment stuffed grillings in the next post!! (If you people wonder whether I am trying to compete with the Kannitheevu story in Dhinathanthi, no worries, I do have the same doubt as well... :-))

Cya..

Monday, February 01, 2010

4th Serving of Hyderabadi greens...

The flight trip was good... Very good I should say... Last time for the same Hyderabad trip, I lost my RD while landing.. This time I was reading the 'Kaadhal Arangam', a spiritual classic about the scintillating SriRangam by the veteran Balakumaran. The flight snacks were a fibre biscuit from Brittania and a cheese veg combo sandwich... The former one tasted great and later just booed off... Moreover, my mouth ulcer duly preventing to enjoy the taste in the sandwich if it had any...

Overall, a good forward journey... Reached Hyd Airport. Wow!! I simply couldn't belive my eyes... It made no difference to me between the airport I landed a couple of years back in London and the one I was landing in Hyd... True, only true... The Ragiv Gandhi Internation Airport was just a piece of great art. Even the runway is maintained so great. Worth a complete post to mention about the Hyd weather. Simply, to put about it, I could only see the sun and its rays and nowhere I felt it... A great experience to completely get drenched in the Sun while a chilling breeze running through your skin!!!

Worth a Wow here!! Wow.. A hi-fi to the Hyderabadi weather!!!