The year 2008

We are on the verge of saying good Bye to 2008 & here how it has been to me.

On 17'Th  Jan 2008 i joined a new multinational IT firm which was huge relief for me after working with some small firms. The atmosphere , the work reorganisation & work quality everything is with some new level. Having alot of fun till now. Met some new friends , had some international contacts which is great. I passed SCWCD exam which was really a great achievement i must say. I never had any experience in web technologies & here i am working with all PHP, ASP, JSP ,Joompla, expression engine, AJAX & list will continue. To summarize this was a great year in terms of my professional achievements

I had tasted the best food this year , almost went to each & every famous restaurant in Pune. Which includes Soho,ZK's,George,ALl on Deccan ,Qaulity, East street Cafe,Sigri.......... Tasted some good hard drinks. Our trips to rajgad , Varandha ghat,Mumbai & upcoming Dive Agar were the best time with Friends .When my tech lead was here had the wonderful time in coding ,parting, hiking. That was fun :)

Football started in Monsoons but that never reached to end cause of poor response from most of us but in Dec we started with Cricket & everybody was on their toes. First match we won against the Best team but the 2'Nd relatively easy we sucked badly :( . Lets Hope we enter the final in this yr's Inter IT competition. Read some great novels by Va pU Kale including Sakhi, Vapurza, Taptpadi.... & many more.Movies & TV was the highlight of this yr. If i am not wrong i must have seen around 5 Hrs avg for each day(could have been more, MSEB sucks as they do loadshading in Maharashtra cause of less power supply.)

All in all a wonder-full year has passed with some great memories .

Movies & Movies...

I saw some of the best movies in last few weeks, They include

Memento

GoodFellas

There is something about MAry

Last 3 Weekends

13-!4 Sep

 Watched TV all the time. Seen some great shows on Travel & living. The Freedom Of Seas cruise was amazing.The interior, the services , facilities, surfing board & the host everything was just unreal. After watching that show i am really excited to visit a cruise in near future. Lets see when it happens.

 

20-21 Sep

I went to Mumbai with my friend to stay @ his friends room. That was weird as i never had never seen any of them. But life should be full of surprises & this was the Best one. We started to Mumbai in heavy rains , the scenary by the rail tracks was perfect for Mumbai-Pune rail journey. We reached Thane by 8.00 PM , directly moved to room & my to surprise they both were so friendly so it took me just half an hour to get used with that MUMBAIYA environment.Dinner was delicious simple Dal rice with Alu along with good Raita.

  Next morning i had the best sand-witches of my life .The Guy was amazing cook , i wondered what is he doing in It he must join the Catering Industry, In Lunch we had the Raita . there were 2 flavours Boondi & veg .Both were wow !!!!!!!! Can't have word to describe the taste. It is still there on My tongue. evening we met another Guy who was professionally cook & we were lucky to have him home for our Dinner. He cooked CHICKEN COCOBA, VEg OGRANTHi & some special chocolates that complete stuff was Just out of this world . As usual i never helped anyone in cooking just tasted everything :)

 Sunday Morning again i was wrong as i tasted the Best sand-witches again. The breakfast was done & we said Good-Bye to our hosts for the wonderful time they gave us in Thane. I was thinking how generous people can be as they just met me & did everything for me. In this world everyone gets money but only few manage to enjoy the power of it. Wasting is different thing & making money move is another. For lunch we went to Status the Hotel at Nariman point . The final food of our journey & what a send off in Mumbai That was again the great food & normal costs compared with location.

  i came back to pune with lot of memories, Great food & making new friends that was the real gain of this memorable trip. 

 

27-28 SEP

   Got 2 books by VAPu, Sakhi & Taptpadi. I would Say right books at the right time of life.

He writes so universal that u can easily relate your life with the characters he portrayed in his stories."As you write more personal it becomes more universal" Read both of them & talked to myself allot in this weekend . IT is great as they give us 2 free days to do whatever we want.Really happy that i m in IT!!!!!!!!!

Rock On & Music and Lyrics

This weekend was cool as i saw these 2 movies, i joined guitar classes few months back but i found i was not good for that thing so i quit that after few weeks, but after watching that movie i am planning to join that again. What a great music by Shankar Ehasaan & Loy the trio has really great talent.

       Any movie by Drew barrymore at any time , i can shuffle my schedule for her. She is really pretty plus great company by Hugh Grant really made that movie special. Lets see what i found in next few days ......

Baromas By Sadanand Deskmukh

From last 2-3 years the newspapers are publishing same story, Farmer's from Marathwada are committing suicide.In my personal view until we face death close to our family/friends circle we never realize the impact of that incidence, so most of the times i used to say what an Irresponsible fellow, who'll take care of his family?,must have totally lost his mind, those are the people who just can't face any challenges go with this simple path(is it?),now after finishing this Great novel which won Sahitya Academy Award ,my whole view for farmers is completely changed.

This is the simple story of farmer from Marathwada(Agriculture Region in Maharashtra which totally depends on Rains for water) who gets married to a Girl who has some big dreams which are impossible to turn into reality in the village.His father always wants to get loan from SAWKAR(Unofficial loan Distributor who charges really high interest rates )as banks need some huge documents plus loan approval after the rains is of no use to farmers, His mother who is jealous of his wife as she lived into city & unable to adjust into Rural area & his brother who is searching for hidden treasure all the time with his literate unemployed friends from the village as he has passed the government written exam but not having any reference as well as Money which he can give to officers as BRIBE for selection.Now the story moves and some things happens which are tend to to happen in INDIA because of uncertainty of MONSOONS &.......

Guys grab the book & read it,it'll leave the same questions which are in my mind right now. It'll give you a real rural life touch to your AC,IT,APPRAISAL,MULTIPLEX world.

Plot is really simple but the characters just go directly into your heart as this is the story you can easily correlate to any family.Even after finishing the Novel 2 weeks later i was in the book zone.

No one wants to finish this beautiful life by drinking pesticides,but there are some conditions which can easily happen to anyone even a guy in IT industry.The simple message is Life Is Beautiful ,try to utilize each moment to fullest, even in the dark phase of your life you can easily find the ray of light , you just needs to
be strong & never give up at any cost!!!!!!!

Varandha Ghat & Shivtharghal on 20'th July 2008

On 20'Th July 2008, all our Bizsol gang joined together to have the Best Biking trip ever.

We went to Varandha Ghat which is almost 120 K from Pune. As usual the plan was thought by me long back (My plans-- Quantity is huge but actual implementation rarely happens :)
We left pune at 7.00 AM , our Pulsars were catching 85+ all the Time, After some South Indian snacks at NATRAJ we were out of NH4 & took the road towards BHOR. 1'st spot was BHOR BHATGHAR dam. We got some company by Kaveri bus Girls ,took some nice pictures and decided to move ahead .In Summer 2007 we were there to view the inner dam it is Constructional marvel by British guys which was build in early 1900 .When water level goes down we can still view that beauty & we are the fortunate ones to claim we have seen that !!!!!!
As usual our trip favorite Bhel material we bought in Bhor and started the rough Ride .The rod condition was really poor in early stage but the scenery was so great we forgot that we were on the worst Road .

The Manson have not heavily fall this year so we were hoping we should see at least some waterfalls on the road but Luck was on our favour we got the 1'st very shortly.Vivek & i was wearing the shorts & floaters so we just directly jumped to words the main waterfall.Played with water , now with that great start all of us were so happy that we never missed single waterfall on the Road
The view of the road was incredible .Road is really the tourist Delight, On the left you have the the backwaters of Nira Devghar Dam,

on the Right you have beautiful waterfalls ,the journey continues for 45 minutes and you reach the PEAK .The monster waterfall is waiting for You with clouds all the times and all Lust Green nature everywhere your eyes can go , sometimes you wonder what is the definition of BEAUTIFUL ? The beauty must have originated from this place only!!!

The serenity of the place is just out of the world.Last week i was watching 1000 places you must see before you die on Travel and Living .After watching this beauty of Varandha i felt if you are in Maharashtra & you have not seen this Beauty then you have really missed the Best part of your Life.


Well after spending some quality time there we moved to Shivtharghal ,which is the origin of DASBODH .The Guru of Shivaji maharaj RamdasSwami stayed at that Place. The Road from Ghat to the main place was the Worst of whole journey .We were hoping safety of the Bikes as all 100 Km we travelled without a Bike service station on the Road.Luckily pulsars are Born tough so we were out of any damage. Personally i didn't like that place.
Then after taking some hot Bhajies from the local vendor we moved back.All the Bhel material was waiting for all of us. We found good place to have food and the our chefs went into action. After 30 min of preparation we had great spicy & really Delicious Bhel with the company of the beautiful peacocks on the the other side of the Road. Weather was still favoring us by giving company of of clouds all the Time.
While coming back we found this tree alone on the hill,must been warning to MICROSOFT how come you missed me as a default wallpaper on the Windows XP . Look Mr Bill gates & Microsoft team ,this can be the next wallpaper for new OS version!!!!

Then we took 50 km nonstop journey tiil Bhor while coming back, by this time everyone was holding their backs like anything .Sit on the Pulsar for 230 Km in a Single Day & you guys can exp the same thing. But the beauty of the place was so enthralling that whenever I'll remember about Varandha, I'll always feel that that was the best time which i can cherish for my entire Life .