Get off the Coke!!!

It was simply irresistible, I had to have one, so I had one.

Rest of the guys at home were having a beer and I had to have something. You just don't want to be the guy with no glass in your hand when everyone else says 'Cheers!!!'. So now what, well tonsils, still the size of a grape.

We all swiped out from Satyam Cyberspace, yesterday was the last day for me at the place where it all started. I still do remember the day, the first day at Cyberspace. There was nothing here in Cyberspace. They were practically building the place when we joined. There was no 9th floor Cafeteria, it was at the 2nd Floor. But the food was really good initially, there Chinese every week and mind you 'Chinese Buffet'. The normal buffet lunch was also pretty good. Breakfast was wicked too, Poori and curry everyday, Dosa made right in front of your eyes.

Initially at Cyberspace, there was this unrestricted internet access. Google, Gmail everything was open. We guys in our project had a proxy which still gave us access to these sites when it was blocked for the rest. I used to watch trailers online of upcoming movies on Yahoo! Movies on Fridays. Talk about unrestricted acess, I even managed to get Appa and Amma all the way to my workstation and meet my team when they had come to Cyperspace. It was pretty late after that, the whole place got like creepily secured like it was some CIA Research Facility or something- No music players, No Cameras

Then after I moved out of the 'Proxima' project I moved down to the the 1st floor, with VnA and then met up with the craziest set of guys in the whole world. A very important part of my family which I call the 'Chappi team'.The name originates from the 'Chai Peene' breaks we had a zillion times in Cyberspace. We used to pick our coffee tea and move to the Fire Exit in the 'Lobby walli Front-Side' of Cyberspace. I so loved these breaks, it was during these breaks that I got inducted to this amazing fun place called 'Goa Institute of Management' aka GIM. I became friends with not just the members of Chappi team but made friends with a whole lot of characters like Uprety, Jaggu, Wikeh, Patru, Chadda. More on this in some other post. We really did have some fun Chappi breaks at Cyberspace.

We shifted from Cyberspace as a team to another building only to shift back to Cyberspace after a few months. Now we are shifting again, only this time there's definitely no shifting back to Cyberspace. From November 2004 to November 2009 it's been a good time swiping in and out of Cyberspace. What would I miss most about Cyberspace? Nothing actually, maybe the ATM inside CyberSpace. After the whole Chappi Team disbanded, I already had missed what I always liked about Cyberspace the - 'Chai Peene' breaks at Cyberspace.

Sniffles...

It's official, I have a regulation Cold. The one disease with no cure what so ever. I have a leaky nose, slightly yellow colored boogers, it's not like leaking continuously. Sometimes I do get that kinda cold too, it's like this big tank of nose water just broke and I leak like gallons of water enough to irrigate the whole of Africa.

I like my voice when I have a cold, adds a bit of 'Russel Crowe' tone to my usual voice. It's a Friday so I guess i'll have enough time to recuperate tomorrow. Got to live through office today.

I blame the unpredictable weather in Hyderabad for my Cold.

THE Best friend...

1. THE best friend gets 'jealous' when their friends talk about or miss their 'other' best friends.

2. Though it kills them to see their best friend miss another friend but THE Best Friends 'hate' their competition.

3. THE best friend knows it's 'not fair' when all the 'other' Varshus, Animeshs, Sambhajis, Aashus and Sankets get a head start.

4. Can't 'wait' till they become THE best friend.

5. Knows that family is not the 'only' blood relation in the world. THE best friend is all together a new Blood Type.

6. THE Best friends never get enough of 'being' THE best friend.

7. THE best friend always thinks why it took 'so long' to be friends. Wished he had all the time from KG to this day to be friends and wants do it all over again.

Ahem... been a long time

It's been a long time, it's been a crazy lazy long time. Here I am, up early this morning, I just previewed a completed download of 'The Goods' a Jamie Piven comedy (You will know as Ari from The HBO series 'Entourage'), funny movie. I have tonsils the size of small grapes in my throat. I don't feel that good, kinda getting a feeling, i'll soon succumb to a bad cold or something.

A what's happening around me? Office just came to a stand still, networks down. Made me realize what it takes to get lazy ass IT guys who waste time in front of a computer even when they have no work, to get home early- 'Bring the network down!'. Folks are doing fine at home, Amma's joined some aerobics class along with few of her teacher friends. Here at the Chappi Team HQ, it's wedding anniversary season. It was VnA's turn yesterday, it's LSD's (Laukik Shveta Desai) today. LSD are getting their Royal Enfield Bullet today!!!

Now I have to go and bathe, well now bathing- 'convince myself that the water which is verrrrry cold is to be poured on myself and when it's water that's as cold as it is in Hyd these days... taking time to clean is the last thing in your mind... Splash and Dash... that's what works best during the cold season here...'

So let me go and take that plunge... Good day to you all... Take care and be safe.