Since the monsoon has arrived we were planning to go for a trek, there were options, which we were thinking of Purandar, Sudhagad and Harishchandra Gad to name the few. Our first choice was Harishchandra Gad coz its long time wish to visit this fort. As we learnt from various sites, Harishchadra Gad is astounding fort and it required a night stay. However, eventually we drop the plan coz of climatic conditions and we zeroed on Sudhagad, Pali for one-day trek. We were total six in number out of which Abhijeet and Pranav had a bike and knew how to drive a bike so we had planned to experience public transport instead of bikes.
Nikhil, Sanyogita, Harshada and Myself gathered at Pranav’s place on Friday night. We had little chatting, watched movie and slept for couple of hours. Abhijeet had joined us in the morning at Karjat Bus Stop at around 6.45 am. We supposed to take a Pali bus that was scheduled for 7 am but as public transport were unpredictable; the schedule bus did not arrived on time. Therefore, we did the break journey, from karjat to chowk- shil phata-khopoli and from there to pali to pacchapur- thakurwadi. The journey was only 45 min – 11/2 hr but due to breaks by bus- auto it took us 41/2 hrs to reach the base village, Thakur Wadi. With small break at Thakur wadi, we started to climb the Sudhagad.
The way from Pacchapur- Thakurwadi was little bit exhaustive but we mange to climb the fort in 2 hr. The fort was 590 ft high and the view from the plateau was amazing. There were no waterfalls due to lack of rains. The places seen were Paacchapur Darwaja, Bhoarai Mandir and Tak mak tok. We did not go towards Dindi darwaja due to short of time. To our bad luck, there were no rains through out the day. It was all dry picnic in the rainy season. At Bhorai Mandir, had some food, and headed towards the Tak mak tok. This end of the fort was magnificent, there was a small flat terrain where we sat for a while and experienced the sound of wind, silence, and eco. The view from Tak mak tok was miraculous.
After this, we started our jounery back to home, this time I was little upset, as we were not visiting the Dhindi Darwaja. Abhijeet and Pranav tried to cheer me up but they forgot that their behavior was loud and earsplitting. We reached at thakurwadi at around 5.45 pm as our last bus was at 6.30 pm. We waited at the bus stop, had some dry snacks. As the bus at thakurwadi came late, we reached Pali behind schedule and we missed our last bus to Karjat. From here, the actual thrill of the day had started, as there was no facility of transportation. We took lift from truck driver; the charges were very low. Some of us reminded the Jane tu ya Jane na movie because of truck safari. It was the nice experience for all of us except Sanyogita as she was worried because we were getting late. Finally, we reached at Panvel, from there Nikhil, Harshada and Sanyogita took bus to Thane and we (pranav, abhijeet and myself) took auto to karjat. The Auto ride was none less than a roller coaster ride. At 12.00 in the night, we reached karjat.
This was the good experience but not as great as our other treks. With the plans for next trek to Harishchandra Gad, we dispersed.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Experiencing ‘Farm Life‘
It has been long time since we all got a chance to venture together anywhere from office. However, we still have fresh and fond memories of our last general offsite. We all eager enthusiasts therefore, decided to go for a picnic. This meant communing with nature at a place full of incredible beauty accompanied with good food. In our planning stages, we circulated a sheet of paper to know who all were interested in coming with their pocket expenses. We were surprised to know that the same fire for an outing and adventure was burning in many hearts. Our recce was in the form of browsing through many websites and virtually trying to find out the locations, which were near Mumbai and in our budget. After several days of browsing through several destinations, we finalized on a place in Nerul called ‘Farm Life’.
The appointed day for our picnic was the first Saturday of June. We left office at 12.30 pm to catch the 1.42 pm Karjat train. Only a few people had lunch and rest had to manage with the Vada–Samosa Pav at the station. We purchased second-class tickets for all and as soon the train arrived, we jumped in and took our seats. Mouli took the third seat. We asked him to sit on the window or second seat but he kept on insisting, “I m fine, I m fine”. The journey was two hours long, which I am used to, but for the rest of them, they kept on asking me how much time more to reach. At Thane, Piyush joined us and immediately the atmosphere changed. We followed his initiation and then started cracking jokes to the enjoyment of all. With the chitter-chatter and jokes we finally reached Neral station, where a car cum tempo was awaiting our arrival to take us to Farm Life. We were 16 in number and along with our luggage we were wondering how on earth we all will fit in. Even though we were unsure, the driver was confident about the capacity of his vehicle. A little adjustment here, a little compromise there, finally we all were inside the vehicle and on our way to our priced destination, a 20 minutes drive to Farm Life.
Our first impression of Farm Life was that of shock. A culture shock of sorts in the form of something which did not at all resemble anything that was on the website. We kept asking ourselves whether we are at the right place or the pictures on their site were from somewhere else. Shikha and myself, we were both horrified. There was no scope for anything to be done now and we finally decided to stay.
It was a good decision we thought later. Though the place was not up to our expectations, it was not that bad. The time we spent there was enjoyed by all of us. Our aim of having fun was achieved. Our childhood memories were refreshed when we played Pittu, Chain-chain, etc. Pittu was fun; everyone made their own rules. We set two teams with Shikha the captain of one and I the captain of the other. But the mess was so much that nobody knew in whose team they were. That gave rise to the best game of Pittu everyone must have played ever. We really had fun with bit of harmless banter and cheating. After the two games, we were completely exhausted and just wanted to jump in a swimming pool. We enjoyed and had fun at the same swimming pool, which was not looking that appealing earlier. We sang songs in the pool and were there for almost 3 to 4 hours. The highlight was Archana’s melodious song and the happening rap by Sachin.
Once out of the pool, we satiated our appetite with delicious Chicken and Bakri, cooked on the chulha (wooden stove). The food was amazing with smoke taste. The major part of the night was spent in the pros playing ‘Teen Patti’ and the other enjoying or attempting Dumb Charades. Sachin was the winner in Teen Patti. The only loss was the breaking of a chair at the end of the game. He introduced us to two new words- ‘Rawas’ and ‘Fancy’ which we came to know meant nice. So, whenever we met Sachin, we greeted each other with, “Hi Rawas…how’s everything…ekdum Fancy na….”
Next day we all woke up late and had sumptuous breakfast. We all entertained ourselves with some time pass till lunch time and then left Farm Life. We came back with fond memories of Farm Life and the wonderful time we had together.
The appointed day for our picnic was the first Saturday of June. We left office at 12.30 pm to catch the 1.42 pm Karjat train. Only a few people had lunch and rest had to manage with the Vada–Samosa Pav at the station. We purchased second-class tickets for all and as soon the train arrived, we jumped in and took our seats. Mouli took the third seat. We asked him to sit on the window or second seat but he kept on insisting, “I m fine, I m fine”. The journey was two hours long, which I am used to, but for the rest of them, they kept on asking me how much time more to reach. At Thane, Piyush joined us and immediately the atmosphere changed. We followed his initiation and then started cracking jokes to the enjoyment of all. With the chitter-chatter and jokes we finally reached Neral station, where a car cum tempo was awaiting our arrival to take us to Farm Life. We were 16 in number and along with our luggage we were wondering how on earth we all will fit in. Even though we were unsure, the driver was confident about the capacity of his vehicle. A little adjustment here, a little compromise there, finally we all were inside the vehicle and on our way to our priced destination, a 20 minutes drive to Farm Life.
Our first impression of Farm Life was that of shock. A culture shock of sorts in the form of something which did not at all resemble anything that was on the website. We kept asking ourselves whether we are at the right place or the pictures on their site were from somewhere else. Shikha and myself, we were both horrified. There was no scope for anything to be done now and we finally decided to stay.
It was a good decision we thought later. Though the place was not up to our expectations, it was not that bad. The time we spent there was enjoyed by all of us. Our aim of having fun was achieved. Our childhood memories were refreshed when we played Pittu, Chain-chain, etc. Pittu was fun; everyone made their own rules. We set two teams with Shikha the captain of one and I the captain of the other. But the mess was so much that nobody knew in whose team they were. That gave rise to the best game of Pittu everyone must have played ever. We really had fun with bit of harmless banter and cheating. After the two games, we were completely exhausted and just wanted to jump in a swimming pool. We enjoyed and had fun at the same swimming pool, which was not looking that appealing earlier. We sang songs in the pool and were there for almost 3 to 4 hours. The highlight was Archana’s melodious song and the happening rap by Sachin.
Once out of the pool, we satiated our appetite with delicious Chicken and Bakri, cooked on the chulha (wooden stove). The food was amazing with smoke taste. The major part of the night was spent in the pros playing ‘Teen Patti’ and the other enjoying or attempting Dumb Charades. Sachin was the winner in Teen Patti. The only loss was the breaking of a chair at the end of the game. He introduced us to two new words- ‘Rawas’ and ‘Fancy’ which we came to know meant nice. So, whenever we met Sachin, we greeted each other with, “Hi Rawas…how’s everything…ekdum Fancy na….”
Next day we all woke up late and had sumptuous breakfast. We all entertained ourselves with some time pass till lunch time and then left Farm Life. We came back with fond memories of Farm Life and the wonderful time we had together.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Freaky Friday- With a twist!
(An delightful experience describing April’s much enjoyed Freaky Friday contributed also scoring on ‘why should the winners have all the fun’.)
The most awaited activity of the month and in Blue Lotus parlance fondly called, ‘Freaky Friday’, for the month of April, was organized by team Bluetterflies. Their idea was pretty unique and was based on judging the acting and creative skills of Blue Lotus employees. Each team was assigned a popular fairy tale they were to enact. The fairy tales they had to enact were the lovable ‘The Princess and the Peas‘, ‘Sleeping Beauty‘, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‘, ‘Cinderella‘, ‘Beauty and Beast’ etc. But that’s not all. The challenging as well as the fun task was to find and create a twist in the tale and then enact it. The teams could modify or distort their assigned original tale, accordingly. The 10 minute script not only had to be duly submitted to the Bluetterflies but also enacted in front of a live audience!
Though the idea required some time, the experience of scriptwriting and then enacting it was quite refreshing. Each team was given one tale. A few like me who are not part of any team had to get our act together literally, for the given task. Thus, we had our own office production with Shweta from Blue Print as our main actress, Bhushan from Blue Insight main actor, Subhash from Blue Bridge as our anchor, Shefali from Blue Point as ‘hero ki amma’ – Nirupa Roy, and finally me, as a supporting actress from Blue Network.
While scripting, we realized the amount of effort put in scriptwriting. It is an art form and creating art is never easy. For a meagre 10 minute play, we went through plenty of iterations in writing, thinking and then rewriting and rethinking again. After a series of brain-storming, our final script took shape with several rounds of rehearsals. We ultimately titled ours as ‘Peenewali Princess’! We are in the 21st century and it was about time for a modern version of ‘Princess and the Peas’!
However, the unfortunate thing was that only two teams, our team and Blue Planet could take part in this activity. The job done by Blue Planet was excellent. They made a 21st century version of Sleeping Beauty. With Prathamesh, the actor in lead role, Shikha, anchor as well as actress in supporting role, Umesh K, actor in second lead and Vrushali and Anil in supporting roles, the whole team participated and did a fabulous job at it. Every sentence of theirs with their punch lines between songs had us all in splits and made for a wonderful 10 minute act. They won the first place with their superb acting and detailed script and we stood the worthy second.
Also have to make a mention of our Ahmedabad team which was tough competition with Nitin mailing us an amazing script. Kudos to him!
All thanks to Bluetterflies team and Freaky Friday, we had a really great time. Primarily, Freaky Friday phenomenon helps us all to come closer, not just as team members in a city, but as colleagues from different branches, getting a chance to share joys with one another.
The most awaited activity of the month and in Blue Lotus parlance fondly called, ‘Freaky Friday’, for the month of April, was organized by team Bluetterflies. Their idea was pretty unique and was based on judging the acting and creative skills of Blue Lotus employees. Each team was assigned a popular fairy tale they were to enact. The fairy tales they had to enact were the lovable ‘The Princess and the Peas‘, ‘Sleeping Beauty‘, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‘, ‘Cinderella‘, ‘Beauty and Beast’ etc. But that’s not all. The challenging as well as the fun task was to find and create a twist in the tale and then enact it. The teams could modify or distort their assigned original tale, accordingly. The 10 minute script not only had to be duly submitted to the Bluetterflies but also enacted in front of a live audience!
Though the idea required some time, the experience of scriptwriting and then enacting it was quite refreshing. Each team was given one tale. A few like me who are not part of any team had to get our act together literally, for the given task. Thus, we had our own office production with Shweta from Blue Print as our main actress, Bhushan from Blue Insight main actor, Subhash from Blue Bridge as our anchor, Shefali from Blue Point as ‘hero ki amma’ – Nirupa Roy, and finally me, as a supporting actress from Blue Network.
While scripting, we realized the amount of effort put in scriptwriting. It is an art form and creating art is never easy. For a meagre 10 minute play, we went through plenty of iterations in writing, thinking and then rewriting and rethinking again. After a series of brain-storming, our final script took shape with several rounds of rehearsals. We ultimately titled ours as ‘Peenewali Princess’! We are in the 21st century and it was about time for a modern version of ‘Princess and the Peas’!
However, the unfortunate thing was that only two teams, our team and Blue Planet could take part in this activity. The job done by Blue Planet was excellent. They made a 21st century version of Sleeping Beauty. With Prathamesh, the actor in lead role, Shikha, anchor as well as actress in supporting role, Umesh K, actor in second lead and Vrushali and Anil in supporting roles, the whole team participated and did a fabulous job at it. Every sentence of theirs with their punch lines between songs had us all in splits and made for a wonderful 10 minute act. They won the first place with their superb acting and detailed script and we stood the worthy second.
Also have to make a mention of our Ahmedabad team which was tough competition with Nitin mailing us an amazing script. Kudos to him!
All thanks to Bluetterflies team and Freaky Friday, we had a really great time. Primarily, Freaky Friday phenomenon helps us all to come closer, not just as team members in a city, but as colleagues from different branches, getting a chance to share joys with one another.
A Day in the life of Blue Byter
(Blue Byte info ltd is the media tracking wing of Blue Lotus Communicaitons- a fastest grwoing PR agency in Mumbai)
Blue Lotus believes in going that extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction. Established to compliment the efforts of the PR team, blue bytes offers news tracking and monitoring services for the clients. It is also a stand alone service for clients who require only Industry based relevant news.
Organisations need information on the latest happenings in their industry space. Competitor information is of prime importance as that acts as a sounding board to initiate counter actions to minimize the affect. In short, this service provides key market intelligence that puts clients at a strategically advantageous position.
This is how blue bytes Service helps PR service their clients and make life easy. But now let’s have a look at those who make our lives easy. The first service mail of the day is sent out around 9.00am with Client, Industry and Competition news. Does anybody wonder how it happens? For that, let’s live a day of the blue byters.
Their day starts at a time when most of us are comfortably sleeping. Some of them start their day at 5.00 am from home in order to reach office by 6.00 am or 7.00 am. Once they enter office, they work like robots. They are a team of 20-25 doing the groundwork for 100 odd clients. Everyone has their own set of clients, along with a pre-decided set of newspapers and magazines to keen through. Their job profile includes searching for news, differentiating it into Industry and Competition news and then uploading on the website. The task has to be completed in a given timeline and requires tremendous concentration and hard work. To understand the client and its competitors, they have a prepared manual. For better progress and accuracy, tests are regularly conducted.
The blue bytes Software Team of Laxman, Bhushan and Rahul always come to the rescue of byters while handling new the new software. These new softwares help reduce some amount of pressure from blue byters and even the PR staff. Softwares like bluebytes archives, bluebytes analysis, event finder and media tracking software are used in this service.
The entry of Piyush Jain in Blue Bytes has brought about a big change. Piyush, with his dynamic leadership qualities, not only gave confidence to his team but also changed the views of others about blue bytes. He is the person who likes to grow and help others to as well to grow. His guidance helped team blue bytes to do and perform well. Blue bytes which was earlier a ‘no profit, no loss’ team, is now the highest profit making team with a fairly good numbers of clients to cater to.
Blue lotus is an employee friendly organisation. The HR team always tries and has succeeded in making the working environment healthy. However, nobody questions whether byters get to enjoy and use these facilities. Do they have a social life at the work place? The answer is big NO because their work pressure doesn’t allow them even a small break where they can be the part of any social activity. There are Freaky Fridays, Cake-cutting ceremonies, etc, for everyone. But one team is always missing in action at these events, and that’s blue bytes. Since our day starts at 9.30 am, the suitable time for the fun activities is post lunch. But for those whose day starts at a time when others are still in bed, the post lunch activity becomes a bit tiring affair.
On a positive note, a request for those who make our ‘Life easy’. Let’s try and keep the activities before lunch so that the team who makes our life easy can be a part of the fun like all of us. Let’s make their life cheerful.
Cheers to Blue Bytes!
www.bluelotuspr.com
www.bluebytes.info
Blue Lotus believes in going that extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction. Established to compliment the efforts of the PR team, blue bytes offers news tracking and monitoring services for the clients. It is also a stand alone service for clients who require only Industry based relevant news.
Organisations need information on the latest happenings in their industry space. Competitor information is of prime importance as that acts as a sounding board to initiate counter actions to minimize the affect. In short, this service provides key market intelligence that puts clients at a strategically advantageous position.
This is how blue bytes Service helps PR service their clients and make life easy. But now let’s have a look at those who make our lives easy. The first service mail of the day is sent out around 9.00am with Client, Industry and Competition news. Does anybody wonder how it happens? For that, let’s live a day of the blue byters.
Their day starts at a time when most of us are comfortably sleeping. Some of them start their day at 5.00 am from home in order to reach office by 6.00 am or 7.00 am. Once they enter office, they work like robots. They are a team of 20-25 doing the groundwork for 100 odd clients. Everyone has their own set of clients, along with a pre-decided set of newspapers and magazines to keen through. Their job profile includes searching for news, differentiating it into Industry and Competition news and then uploading on the website. The task has to be completed in a given timeline and requires tremendous concentration and hard work. To understand the client and its competitors, they have a prepared manual. For better progress and accuracy, tests are regularly conducted.
The blue bytes Software Team of Laxman, Bhushan and Rahul always come to the rescue of byters while handling new the new software. These new softwares help reduce some amount of pressure from blue byters and even the PR staff. Softwares like bluebytes archives, bluebytes analysis, event finder and media tracking software are used in this service.
The entry of Piyush Jain in Blue Bytes has brought about a big change. Piyush, with his dynamic leadership qualities, not only gave confidence to his team but also changed the views of others about blue bytes. He is the person who likes to grow and help others to as well to grow. His guidance helped team blue bytes to do and perform well. Blue bytes which was earlier a ‘no profit, no loss’ team, is now the highest profit making team with a fairly good numbers of clients to cater to.
Blue lotus is an employee friendly organisation. The HR team always tries and has succeeded in making the working environment healthy. However, nobody questions whether byters get to enjoy and use these facilities. Do they have a social life at the work place? The answer is big NO because their work pressure doesn’t allow them even a small break where they can be the part of any social activity. There are Freaky Fridays, Cake-cutting ceremonies, etc, for everyone. But one team is always missing in action at these events, and that’s blue bytes. Since our day starts at 9.30 am, the suitable time for the fun activities is post lunch. But for those whose day starts at a time when others are still in bed, the post lunch activity becomes a bit tiring affair.
On a positive note, a request for those who make our ‘Life easy’. Let’s try and keep the activities before lunch so that the team who makes our life easy can be a part of the fun like all of us. Let’s make their life cheerful.
Cheers to Blue Bytes!
www.bluelotuspr.com
www.bluebytes.info
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Rodies on the task of Murud – Janjira
The much awaiting picnic of murud janjira was happened on January 25-26, 2008. this was planned much earlier about two months back but it got cancelled due to some reasons but again things work out very well and we headed towards Murud on bikes. We actually made many plans to manage bikes .. We six were in a group and three bike were necessity, out of which two were available; the only problem is Ashish’s bike. He has bike but we have to plan it accordingly so that no one in the family should know that we were going on bike. We made many plans and finally it decided that Saturday ie January 24, 2008 pranav and abhijeet will go to ashish’s place at kalyan and take the bike and park it to ankit’s house. Manasi and Madhavi suppose to come to Ashish’s house at Saturday night so that on Sunday morning they can leave together and take early morning train to reach karjat at around 6.30 am – 7.00 am. We had decided this plan at r- Mall and dispersed.
On Friday night, pranav phoned ashish to confirm the Saturdays plan because there was no communication between anyone for almost a week. When pranav phoned him that time he said that there is no need to come and take the bike, he will manage to take bike on Sunday morning. From here the uncertainty of the plan has started.. because there were no communication from manasi, madhavi and ashish’s side. So we were puzzled about the plan. I have sent a message to m2 but for that also no reply from them had come then I phoned pranav to confirm the things. Finally, pranav messaged me at around 10.30 pm saying that the plan is on. After that, I packed my bag. That’s y I said the much awaiting and uncertain picnic was happened.
I have told at home that we were going by car which we booked from kalyan. I have planned to catch 6.38 am train from karjat so that mom will be satisfy that I am going via kalyan and also at bhivpuri Abhijeet was suppose to pick me up. But my luck was not so good mom had insisted to drop me at station because according to her outside was pitch dark. I was so tense because what do I suppose to tell her about pranav if she asked. Somehow I manage to handle the situation and got out at Bhivpuri. After 10-15 min of wait abhijeet arrived at station and then again we headed towards karjat. We waited at the corner of the khopoli phata for others. As soon as everyone had arrived, we tied our bags and all set to ride on roads. Rodies were ready to hit the road.
Ashish as well as others were hungry so we started searching for the hotel but there was not a good hotel where we can stop and have something. We took our first halt at Krishana mandir, Apta. As it was a long weekend, there were loads of traffic on road. Thank god we were on bike atleast that’s y we reached couple of hours early at murud. We did masti while traveling, ,made comments on every possible things. As soon as we reached at Murud the biggest question was were to stay. Considering the rush and vehicles we had given up the hopes that we could get a place to stay. So as an alternative we asked one uncle if we can used their varanda for rest. Abhijeet and pranav went to search the place and Luck by Chance we get a place that to on cheaper rate. Our room was great, traveling before the peak holiday season is a huge plus. We put our luggage, got fresh, and came to restaurant. We had our lunch at around 4 pm that to what ever left over at hotel. Lunch was not exactly what we expected but its okay. We suppose to change and get ready to enjoy at beach but we took rest in our room. I and abhijeet took a nap while pranav, manasi, madhavi and ashish prefer to chitchat. At around 6 pm we went to Murud beach, the sun has started going down at the of the sea. The setting sun was looking beautiful. We had fun at beach, played football, played in the water etc etc.
We sang songs and the thrilling experience was we rode bikes on beach in water….unbelievable experience we had. After that we came back got fresh and had our dinner. We roamed around and finally settled down at sides of beach experiencing the music of waves for couple of hours and returned to the room. We were tired so immediately slept. Pranav got up early in the morning as he want to see the sunrise. He made me wake up also but I prefered to sleep some more time. So he went alone and enjoyed the first ray of sun. we got up at around 7 am and went to beach. We yet to start our journey to Janjira fort. One of the amazing fort of Maharashtra state. We bought robin hood style caps. Sun was very hot and we were sweating like pigs. There was an unexpected long q for the boat. We took our tickets and stood in the q for atleast hour and half. The boat ride was fabulous. We roamed around the fort for some time and then return to the jetty. We had our lunch at around 5.00 pm. after all this we started our return journey we reached very late at around 10.00-10.30 pm at karjat. Madhavi, manasi and ashish took a tain. They reached at around 12.45 pm at night.
I keeping my fingers cross for many more thrilling and future picnics….
On Friday night, pranav phoned ashish to confirm the Saturdays plan because there was no communication between anyone for almost a week. When pranav phoned him that time he said that there is no need to come and take the bike, he will manage to take bike on Sunday morning. From here the uncertainty of the plan has started.. because there were no communication from manasi, madhavi and ashish’s side. So we were puzzled about the plan. I have sent a message to m2 but for that also no reply from them had come then I phoned pranav to confirm the things. Finally, pranav messaged me at around 10.30 pm saying that the plan is on. After that, I packed my bag. That’s y I said the much awaiting and uncertain picnic was happened.
I have told at home that we were going by car which we booked from kalyan. I have planned to catch 6.38 am train from karjat so that mom will be satisfy that I am going via kalyan and also at bhivpuri Abhijeet was suppose to pick me up. But my luck was not so good mom had insisted to drop me at station because according to her outside was pitch dark. I was so tense because what do I suppose to tell her about pranav if she asked. Somehow I manage to handle the situation and got out at Bhivpuri. After 10-15 min of wait abhijeet arrived at station and then again we headed towards karjat. We waited at the corner of the khopoli phata for others. As soon as everyone had arrived, we tied our bags and all set to ride on roads. Rodies were ready to hit the road.
Ashish as well as others were hungry so we started searching for the hotel but there was not a good hotel where we can stop and have something. We took our first halt at Krishana mandir, Apta. As it was a long weekend, there were loads of traffic on road. Thank god we were on bike atleast that’s y we reached couple of hours early at murud. We did masti while traveling, ,made comments on every possible things. As soon as we reached at Murud the biggest question was were to stay. Considering the rush and vehicles we had given up the hopes that we could get a place to stay. So as an alternative we asked one uncle if we can used their varanda for rest. Abhijeet and pranav went to search the place and Luck by Chance we get a place that to on cheaper rate. Our room was great, traveling before the peak holiday season is a huge plus. We put our luggage, got fresh, and came to restaurant. We had our lunch at around 4 pm that to what ever left over at hotel. Lunch was not exactly what we expected but its okay. We suppose to change and get ready to enjoy at beach but we took rest in our room. I and abhijeet took a nap while pranav, manasi, madhavi and ashish prefer to chitchat. At around 6 pm we went to Murud beach, the sun has started going down at the of the sea. The setting sun was looking beautiful. We had fun at beach, played football, played in the water etc etc.
We sang songs and the thrilling experience was we rode bikes on beach in water….unbelievable experience we had. After that we came back got fresh and had our dinner. We roamed around and finally settled down at sides of beach experiencing the music of waves for couple of hours and returned to the room. We were tired so immediately slept. Pranav got up early in the morning as he want to see the sunrise. He made me wake up also but I prefered to sleep some more time. So he went alone and enjoyed the first ray of sun. we got up at around 7 am and went to beach. We yet to start our journey to Janjira fort. One of the amazing fort of Maharashtra state. We bought robin hood style caps. Sun was very hot and we were sweating like pigs. There was an unexpected long q for the boat. We took our tickets and stood in the q for atleast hour and half. The boat ride was fabulous. We roamed around the fort for some time and then return to the jetty. We had our lunch at around 5.00 pm. after all this we started our return journey we reached very late at around 10.00-10.30 pm at karjat. Madhavi, manasi and ashish took a tain. They reached at around 12.45 pm at night.
I keeping my fingers cross for many more thrilling and future picnics….
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Kite Runners
Makar Sankranti is a festival that signifies the beginning of the harvest season for the farmers of Indian Sub-Continent. This is a harvest festival celebrated all over India. We worshipped Saraswati Mata and made sweets. This festival is marked by flying of kites in the sky. The entire sky becomes a showcase of colourful kites of various sizes and shapes.
It is a working day so we all have to enjoy in the office only. Therefore, we were chasing our admin and hr managers to give us permission for kite flying. Our pleads finally worked and we got permission as well as sponsor for the kites and Manja .
We had fun on terrace with different coloured kites . There was cheering sounds when anybody cut the kite of others. We were flying high but were rooted also. This is a very nice stress buster which helps us to bond with each other also. Kaam ka kaam aur enjoyment ki enjoyment ho gayi… this is something I think nobody’s office had ever enjoyed … so guys be jealous of us!!!
It is a working day so we all have to enjoy in the office only. Therefore, we were chasing our admin and hr managers to give us permission for kite flying. Our pleads finally worked and we got permission as well as sponsor for the kites and Manja .
We had fun on terrace with different coloured kites . There was cheering sounds when anybody cut the kite of others. We were flying high but were rooted also. This is a very nice stress buster which helps us to bond with each other also. Kaam ka kaam aur enjoyment ki enjoyment ho gayi… this is something I think nobody’s office had ever enjoyed … so guys be jealous of us!!!
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