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Saarland ke sunday !

2009-10-09T11:30:00.001-07:00

Haan is mein maja aaya .

I have been to the wild park .

I have seen goats,sheep and pllayed with one . I have seen a baby eating half carrot and feeding other half to sheep lol

I watched kids riding on pony . I have taken pics of owls and guinea pigs. I then went on a wild trip where the wilderness made me really happy and brought a sudden surge of energy .

It was cool how I came back to sathish's place. I was walking near the "hiking practice zone " took a gully and ran all over to end up behind a hotel . As I crossed it wow it was sathishs place.

Those guys were playing cricket so hum bhi join kiya. It was funny I misfielded every ball !! I at last got batting to become out during running . I never faced a ball . By the way I played as "joker" for two sides LOL

We kept the stuff at the couples basement and said bye. I was back in sathis room we cooked tomato pappu . I ate quickly as I had a train to catch . we got the bus in time and its time to say bye to sathish and saarland .

Saarland ke raat

2009-10-09T11:21:00.000-07:00

This is Burger fest .

Often, they refer to religious festivals or at the beginning of spring or autumn, and are celebrated in different part in the smallest villages and towns

In our case it was the bigining of autumn hence the festivities. It was huge the whole city was at the centre and I was glad to be a part of it . I tasted some liquid which felt alcoholic ..LOL was a mistake gave to sathish cause it was his drink :)

My juice was better in comparision . We roamed around the city and attended a small concer which ended the second we entered. Next we beought some lamb sausage between bread and crossed the bridge on saar river. This bridge was small and sweet . I liked it !!

The other side were exhibitions of all the german cities with a tent for each city describing their prominence. We roamed all around and went to the main church which looked historical but cant see it nor could we take pics of it because of the lighting.

We then walked to enter a concert zone and some dance zone . We mistakingly ended above the view and had to catch a bus which was coming on the other sied of the river. Police didnt allow us to cross as they were controlling traffic on the bridge hence we have to walk all around to the next bridge. I made sathis take empty street which was paralell to the exhibition street .

Well that was a night even for sathish as he hasnt been in the city much . We waited for bus I went behind the bus stand and sat below a tree and enjoyed the cool wind .
Wel the "universitat" bus has come. Its time to sleep :)

En saarland day 1

2009-10-09T11:08:00.001-07:00

It was a saturday and sunday .

saturday was meeting people , gully cricket & burger fest .
Sunday was spent by me at wild park and finished with a cricket .

Sathish took me to his friends house and he was the head of the local telugu association . Unfortunately his health was not well and he was getting a skype call ;) We finished our juice quickly to catch the next bus.

It was sathish appartment . One room was turned into a stock room till his wife comes from khammam . The other room is a kitchen which according to the european customs is at the entrance ,while bed room was our main living room .

Well he started cooking while I relaxed. It was a super spicy sambar with chicken nuggets. He had a rice cooker. After we ate he felt sleepy ,so did I . I kept an alarm on the cell to vuzz us . It really did BUG us !!

We got up to see a couple walking by .. sathish called them for cricket. After some time we went to play the gully cricket with weird rules. All the cricket equipment was stored at the basement of the couple.

The rules were like this

1 step out but should be caught by one hand
no hard hitting
hitting after the line is out
3 outs make it OUT !!
no hitting directly to bicycles
More no of balls you face the more your score grows

After the game we wentto the couples house which was just opposite our play area.The couple advised us to go to the burger fest which was trhe local festival of west german states.

Saarland Trip towards

2009-10-09T10:55:00.000-07:00

This was a experience of its own :)

I crossed the border sorrounding two great nations on a super fast train .. and it really sounds wow .. right?

Yeah it does , I sat beside a french girl who was moving to germany to continue her masters in philosophy over there . Well fortunately she speaks good english and we both hated etats unis .

Moving from one place to other was tiring so we didnt have that long conversation . I was also tired because I didnt sleep . So she went to some other place while I had to seats to myself tried taking some pics and videos. I had 2 seats to myself but the idea of sitting in the opposite direction of the journey was sounding weird thanks to the french girl who voiced her dislike on it !!

After some time I went to the canteen to buy a chai .. it did remind me shatavahan pantry .. but I found a canadian and english guy discussing germany . We discussed slum dog and indian movies. I suggested them "outsourced" which I watched recently and it is hell lot better than slumdog .

I had to run to my seat and said bye to the french girl who told that my mobile was not modern . We had some conversation on "Iphone" LOL

I got down to find no sathish or phone went to burger king to buy some wrapped meat inside tortilla and called sathis who was outside to sit and talk with me while I ate ( no he is not interested in eating)

new $HOME for pavi

2008-12-08T19:39:00.000-08:00

Yes .. it's not shirley .. It's st Margaret's House , Hulse road , southampton .

I am living in a enhanced room with shared bath and kitchen .

My flatmates are really cool .

Southampton .. the city is good , but not hyderabadi or విజయవాడ (LOL ) yes I have been to vijaywada very few times ... but still consider that city .
English city in comparision with a telugu city అని అనుకోవచ్చు .
The temperature is cold and it gets dark in early hours.. so outdoors are not that interesting ,maybe that's one reason for disco's and ball's to be famous as outdoors are not a place which they could go .. so indoor activities gain prominence.

Just had a chat with my flatmate thamsan , she wanted to go out and excercise.. I suggested her to go for new forest . She told me that her leg aches if she drives on bike for that long . I remembered my days on bicycle.. wish I could buy one and go on a long ride .. will do it !!

Hyderabad to southampton

2008-10-28T12:06:00.000-07:00

yes the longest journey of my life .

I was allowed one luggage and hand bag .. thanks to shaheen ( air qatar) , waited till the flight arrived . I talked to a guy going to stockholm via doha.

The flight journey was boring did see some damn hindi movie . I ate a lot , ordered hot milk and water !

landed in doha was taken on a small bus to terminal ,could see lots of planes. I went directly to London flight , the flight is lot better . I saw some movies in my own screen ( which the previous flight didn't have)
Talked to a guy from ahmedabad .
I had some issues when the pressure changed .. but felt better after the flight stabilised.
Ate some meals, didnt sleep .
Landed in london , immigration was a jiffy .. waited for naresh . He took me to the tube , got down at waterloo and ate a burger at mc donalds.

I took the train to southampton .. it was just a 1 hour journey , took a cab to home which is shirley !!

IELTS at vijayawada

2008-09-29T14:48:00.001-07:00

you might be wondering .. why in the world "vijayawada" ?

It's the nearest centre for $HOME .

I took a room at hotel near busstand for 1 day . Dad left the same night ,while I had speaking the next day morning.

I liked the water from the tap ,so took bath 3 times :) In the morning I really wanted to get an idea of vijaywada. so walked till the shores of krishna ..took a rikshaw for some distance till the prakasham barage ,sttod there for some time and was back in the same rikshaw for manorama . Had pesarattu in the hotel .. then had a walk on prakasham road where I saw people selling fishes . I wondered where my classmate dedeepya used to stay! I walked a lot till I was tired . i went back when I reached MG road on auto.

Had a bath ,went to taj for my speaking .

The END

IELTS - 7.5

passport office and pavi !!!

2008-04-10T16:42:00.000-07:00

Well pavi and passport office का क्या सम्बन्ध है ?? ఏమో చెప్పలేను !!

వీడలేని బంధం అని చెప్పాలా లేక నా किस्मत అనాలా నాకు అర్థం కావట్లె
Here's my amusing story ...

I got my passport on june 2002 with my birthday printed wrong . Supposed to be 1986 but the 6 was printed as 0 thanks to the passport officers negligence ( I blame it on him as they take many proofs for that birthday including countless signatures !!

And it was my mistake I couldn't get it corrected in my 4 years of B-tech life .. cause it's a busy life! ( there were other reasons .. as a student we are not clear and I hated going to Passport office and stand in the queues and I did went on those working days bunking college but still couldn't apply thanks to queues timings and procedures which includes getting some random papers!! I call them random here as I already submitted what I need to submit why the heck do they want all that ?

Somehow successfully applied on may 7th 2007 for correction of Birthday . I then received a never ending series of communications asking for "PPF","Btech certificates" etc . PPF ohh those who are unfamiliar with passport office terminologies its personal particulars form which is nothing but your details with some names and addresses of people who can vouch for you . I remember this form well as I dont remember how many PPF's I had filled in my life!!

Never used to understand what the heck is there problem to give me my passport until I entered the den oops I meant passport office Hyderabad .
I went to the guard at front and asked him about passport adalat held every Wednesday . he told me to go to the back gate at 1 . But the adalat was at 2 . I went to some shade in some internal streets of secunderabad . I wrote my letter explaining that I need my passport .
The reason I came that day to complain was I earlier payed a fine of 600 Rs for some reason which was not clear. I had the receipt in my hand but when I call they say " have you paid the fine ? if so you will receive the passport within a week this went for a fortnight until I couldn't stand it and cam to the passport adaalat to seek justice LOL
Was shocked to see a queue of 150 guys and 50 gals in separate queues. we stood on the road disrupting the traffic until the guard allowed us inside the passport office via the back gate to make us stand in 5 queues ..reminded all us of school assembly :) there were even some jokes floating .. like "yes teacher :) " and some asked for singing vande mataram ... I couldn't stand any longer as I had a big journey so I sat in the grass till we were called inside ..

why does good luck favour me at times when I don't make any use of it .. So guess what that lucj could be I was the few among 200 to be chosen to meet the PPO - Passport officer . He looked into the issue and was asking why it was not upgraded ( I mean me paying fine) he told that he needs to get my file for which he needs to talk to PRO .
And here is a typical scenario of Passport office where there are 20 people behind your neck waiting in a queue and they come with some letter . The passport officer looks into the letter if he could solve something he would else he has to get the file . The file is like key in MATRIX reloaded ;)

After 45 minutes every one in the passport office is waiting for his file . well in my case I went to the PRO - Public relations officer . He wanted me to get my file so that he could look into he forwarded me back to PPO .. but PRO sent me to PPO . I explained PRO who was not in a position to understand . I went back to PPO who couldn't leave his desk due to queue . seeing my face he cam e to PRO and explained that he couldn't get my file as it is in miscellaneous section .
I had to sit and wait .
The waiting is cool in passport office . I met 3 people . The first one is shia singh ( or something else ) I dont remember that gorgeous girl from jammu .. she stayed there and right now is working at satyam as .net programmer . Her jammu का file needs to be transferred to hyderabad . They did transfer but hyderabad passport ofice में वह file का पता नही हैं she took a NRCFOSS brochure and kept in her purse. she was down to earth.. really liked her scream at the PPO :)

The other guy is siddhu from guntur . His father gets transferred frequently . So he applied for passport from his grandfathers village . There was no response from Passport office since 6 months . He was really surprised and sad with my case of almost a year . We became great friends . He wanted to do hotel management abroad but couldn't thanks to PPO!!

Well regarding the wait it was a continuous process of bugging the PRO and PPO . Finally I went to PRO and stated my case . They ( both PRO and PPO) sent my letter to bring my file . I had to again sit and wait . miss singh went away as they told they would look into matter!!

one more acquaintance i had was with madhavi of satyam . Hers is rather a sad story with her would be staying at USA . she had to go for USA . The last day of H1 was only 4 days !! She was stating her case .. will be back to her in a moment.
मेरा PPO से कुछ होगा ?? I went to PRO and stated my case . He wanted my letter of adaalat . I went to PPO and asked .. PPO was relieved , but the letter was sent upstairs to fetch my file . I asked PPO what the heck is the problem with getting my file . The PPO said that the file is accessible only by a lady who is section incharge of miscellaneous . and that lady ghamand thi :( WTF!!

The PPO came to PRO and gave the letter to him . I came after 5 minutes and PRO says that there is no letter . i can recognizes my writing in some paper I say that I my letter is there . He dumps all letters to me . i take my letter and hand over to him . He glances at it and shows the green ink which says He will look into the matter . He doesn't know when I would get the passport .

I had to leave . madhavis story is different ... her file was lost by the sheer negligence of passport officials at hyderabad . Then they asked her to again submit an application which she did and they again lost it! ARE THIS people humane ??

she with siddhus and my encouragement blasted the PRO and the deputy main officer .. finally the deputy passport office asked her to come the next day only after he had seen the H1 application !!
We parted wishing madhavi good luck .
I forget to mention the lady passport police who were controlling croud and calling names LOL

kya hua

2008-04-10T16:39:00.000-07:00

You might be wondering kya hua .. where did he go ?
well was updating other tech blog .. ok this needs attention ...as this is a kind of travel blog .

Had a lot to tell especially about my hushed up travel to hyderabad . The journey was comfortable , Reached Hyderabad at 12 .. and off to my next post :)

Chennai roaming ...

2007-12-02T07:06:00.000-08:00

Tnagar is big .. thats what I realised ...
I really liked pondy bazaar .. that was when I was going on amachu's bike ... but afterwards the reason to go there was for andhra food ... went to nagarjuna restaurant .. Wow .. the foood was really awesome .. I never knew that I liked andhra food that much .. then I realised that There is no place like $HOME

Even panagal park was good lot of shops over there and people also speak telugu over there..
Today again went to besant nagar just for the sake of going .. but felt alone .. damn .. why do I feel that loneliness creep into me ???
BTW today it was going to rain or due to winds the police didnt allow people to get into water ..... strange ...

British council

2007-10-18T06:45:00.000-07:00

went there .. It really rocks!
I went and directly took the membership as I know the worthness of british library ..

I loved the ambience there ..
You have Wifi and plush sofas where u can browse or read books .. if you get chilled there is a coffee bar out there to warm up ....
And there are prospectuses of UK universities over there ..

TP at kmm

2007-09-01T06:54:00.000-07:00

well 2 days in khammam after mukt.in was most spent at watching cable TV.
one good holiday movie in star movies and lots of telugu movies was how I wasted my time ...
Then a bit of chat abt coll and gals at damans shop was how one evening was spent ...

hyd to kmm

2007-08-31T04:09:00.001-07:00

car journey which I didn't willingly take part in ...suryapet was where it was interesting .. thanks to an indian born american migrated for education LOL

Had a comparision of both education systems .. and I also learnt about my 2 cousins ...OMG lookin at the pics made me realise how fast the clock ticks!!
Naveen has graduated ... and is BIG !
Sree divya is a cool desi ...

happenings at a glance...

2007-08-31T04:05:00.000-07:00

Been to hyd to organise mukt.in ... well finally we made the event a success....
After that back to khammam and finally to chennai ...

volley ball

2007-05-25T21:07:00.000-07:00

yaar kuch interesting hai to volleyball hai .. cause I am playing it Nicely. Now I am giving good passes .
With imran and me its a sure winning team .. acha khel rahe hai hum ..
vinods also playin fine ..

journey back to chennai

2007-05-25T21:04:00.000-07:00

This time it was damn boring ...Had to sit with mallus( soldiers) and opposite two old people. Well I acted more human read some books ocassionally chatted .. and did one good thing I helped the old people detrain their luggage:)
The same boring curd rice at 1 PM in sarvana at station and back to chromepet in 1/2 hour.

At home

2007-05-16T14:02:00.000-07:00

Nothing much to do for a day so slept the whole day ... evening my uncle's family came for dinner.
They talked mostly about mouni and the way I have changed and I was told repeatedly to go to US which I declined...
after that future dad se thoda discuss kiya .. baad mein packin ....
Ya goin back to chennai ...

hyderabad

2007-05-16T13:57:00.000-07:00

stayed 4 days in hyderabad to get the correction done ...
Met kaushik at his house..
went to some strange places with a person who has become more strange than the places shown to me.
Met ashok discussed about his linux experience . He was really cool in telling the various problems he had faced in linux.
Went to a movie "life in a metro" at anand theatre with niru ... Movie was good but the story line and music in between was slightly below expectations ...so movie will go average.
met my cousine ...saw her laptop ..cam and goodies ..discussed abt life at US ... took train back home ...

Journey Back to home !!

2007-04-28T07:06:00.000-07:00

THE WORST EVER !!!

woh yaadein .. damn ya will never forget the jorney for my rest of my life!!
First of all I was late to the station execting that the train would have left the station by now . ( Departure : 6:10 )
6:20
By sheer UNLUCK It was still in station !! ( reason is if I missed the train I would take GT )

I went to some S2 and did a PNR enquiry in hutch ... returned WL /12 DAMN !! ab kya karoo ? Got down on the platform

6:40
ek cool guy from chennai ( vincent) goin to hyderabad ( he works as manager at hyd ) mila .. we asked the Tc's they are not accepting !! ( as I am in WL not RAC )
7:20
GT LEFT!!!
7:40
There was a train to kerala on the adjoining platform .. We were looking at people of course had a great time for 1 hour lookin at chicks and comenting about them ( aur kya kare the trains not moving!)
We had some cool drink and juice and I was told about how to live a life in a foriegn country !
8:30
Train started moving at last !
8:40
The train took a break till 9:10
( we were still in chennai main city! )
The humidity ,The irritation .. the thought of having no berth and where to sit made me mad ..vincent was tryin to pacify and advice .. went to TC 3 times but no use ! ( not bulging !!!)
TC came ( isko mein dude kahta hoon ! )
He told no chance there is no place and vincent tried to convince him . actually one guy didnt come his berth is empty, asked to allocate it to me but it fell to deaf ears!
Everyone's sleeping I again went to my dude and asked him . I told a bit blah blah abt me and pleaded him ..for the seat damn he is still tellin abt rules .. everyone started sleepin I took that empty berth its 11 but I never sleep at 11 !! closed my eyes thinkin abt the better days!
1 Am
Then some stations were comin but none came for my berth .. I went to dude he got a bit shocked and asked where I was ! I told that cancelled place and pleaded "కొంచం మీరే చూడాలి " He replied in affirmative but not sure tone !
Damn I was in that place unable to sleep kaisa so jana ?
Stations came and gone ... but no sleep in the eyes .. the mind rests !

3:50 :
Was awed by the splendour of the river krishna .. saw a boat in the middle of river just below the train bridge ..( wondering what they do at this time ? )

4 Am :
Vijaywada came and I had a coffee .. after that lookin at gal ( not belle ) whose place was exchanged to mine !

5 AM:
Waited near the wash basin as a gal ( a lil belle ) was brushing her teeth !
remembered better times ... washed face !
5:30
Back home ! How happy I was !!

END OF JOURNEY

1 week in chennai

2007-04-27T11:20:00.000-07:00

Most of it was daily life ... got to know my colleagues better.
Played volley ball almost regularly with comm lab guys .. I am improving a bit in volley ball . :)

Only one memorable day .. Went to a movie Namesake with rahul .
The movie was really good.
afterwards we remember the journey to koyambedu where a north indian who came fresh to chennai was sharing his experiences with us ... kya time paas hui !!

Afterwards at koyambedu we ate rotis at some hotel . ( a phone call !!)

Well we spoke lot ...about yaadein and life now and then !!
Slept at rahuls room for the night after tea departed sadly .

Finished confman internationalisation after simpleman helped me out ... committed and signed out after informing srinivasan sir that I will be leaving for my place ,a couple of mails and I am on the way back home.

entre a chenna pattanam

2007-04-23T07:27:00.000-07:00

was shocked to hear telugu people speakin to each other wile getting down the train in chennai ..
Went to sarvana bhavan had curd rice ( was nice .. ) next walked all the way to park station ( in midst of auto wallah bugging me ) I was slightly irritated by the ticket giving lady ( reminded me of the bang to chennai ( deja vu) )
A rush station but got the seat ..and was sitting uncomfortably got down at chromepet took a 25 rupees auto to home ..
There ends the multi mooded journey

train journey ( later stage)

2007-04-23T02:25:00.000-07:00

well two new entrants as I see them .. a gal and a guy .. names are mridula and harish .. and peeche wale seat mein ek ladki hai and I didn't notice her till some time .. The trio are going to a place called kavali nachne ke liye !!!
I was not interested in begining .. but I have to accept that I was staring at that gal intentionally for passe de temps !!
I was getting bored reading "The Fountain Head" .
Then kept the book aside .. the middle wala between me & harish chal gaya .. thank god that weird guy was gone!
thoda chupa chupi ke baad the gal opp asked me for the book ...... uske baad I had a jalak with other gal .. !
Then she sat too close to me( discomfort) ... gal started askin me what some words are ( like whats gods sake ) damn had to explain in telugu .. ( translation of strings did help me in this case)
She was unable to read .. got her beside me and had to tell a version of story a bit of details(she is is in siddhartha CEC and she likes law ) she took my phone no .. and here comes kavali !! (oomph ) end ofinterstin part of journey

Rest was so boring ..

Vijayawada .. and start ..

2007-04-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

Got out of crowded train ..then took stairs and gave and took a ticket !
Went to the place where I eat waited long for masala dosa had it ..then took coffee and was carrying bags on one hand and coffee on other .
aaage phir peeche ...
LOL people look at me strangely hoped into first U/R compartment wantedly asked a pretty lady her hubby replied sat there drank coffee and left a bit ahead ..
a fat aunty was seated there .. and two guys settled opposite to me ...one was dressed so funnily that I seriously mistook him for coolie .
Then ek bada gambiir pilaka vala ortho aake mere paas baita ..yuck damn life!!
We only shared the seat I was sitting cross legged...

Journey to station & Vijayawada

2007-04-20T06:37:00.000-07:00

got an auto almost immediately at that lonely night said bye to dad...
Then that guy was goin cool went beside the busstand road .. hmm I commented why he took that road he hoped for a giraaki ...poor guy got none .. he asked for 8 could give only 7 !
Then took the ticket to vijayawada ...and slowly waited for the train to arrive ...a small wait ...

There were no seats in train and people were squatting!
Almost all are seated either on top or chairs or even on flour proud guys like me prefer standing !
Stood the whole route to vijayawada ..( also remember the Cell flicker!!)

last post before reachin ..chennai

2007-04-19T14:19:00.000-07:00

leavin coolly but .. not gettin clothes brushes things to fit in one baag!!
ohh god its time I wash my face :)

book decided

2007-04-19T14:10:00.000-07:00

Ayn ryands fountain head ...second readin ..hmm really a great book and a big one will make my journey interestin...

journey back to nrcfoss

2007-04-19T14:00:00.000-07:00

ya going back to nrcfoss ...will take some trains to reach chennai ...decidin on which book to pass my time ...hmmm

Will blog here!

2007-04-19T13:59:00.000-07:00

Will start posting here !!!