Maaris Se Minar Tak

October 2001: We were the group of 20 odd guys and gals joined the company, after graduating fresh from college. The whole lot full of enthusiasm, were intially into the training sessions, unofficialy known as the Honeymoon period. Reach early in the morning, till around 9:00, attend a session followed by lunch at the cafeteria then continuing the sessions till the evening and finally calling the day at around 6. After the training sessions, we were split into smaller groups and were alloted the project. But the same group almost existed and we used to go together for lunch and dinner almost daily. Those were the days when we used to frequently visit the restaurant near the office, called Maaris, an authentic South Indian hangout at Chennai. The famous saapadh on the bana leaf was the favourite of all, apart from the Idli, vada and dosa.

March 2005: The group is now totally spreadout now. Everyone has moved on for better opportunity, me being an exception. But still the memories of those good days was refreshed when two out of that 20 odd people group decided to come to my places, miles away from that quiet city. So on the weekend they landed at my place, one from California and another from Pitsburgh, to visit me and see the "Big Apple" New York City. We went all over the places from Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State building, Times Square etc. and had real fun. And then this thought creeped up in my mind, while having some food to energize our system at Minar, a desi restaurant in the midtown: Maaris se Minar tak.

I'm back

Its been a long time, since I have blogged. Its not because of I didn't get time but primarily of my inertness. I'm using the variation of word "inert" after a long time. It used to be a frequent thing when I used to study about those elements in the periodic table which were placed on the right side of it and ofcourse I do remember some of these. Argon, Krypton etc. Being a graduate of Science, I mustn't say like this. If ever my college gets to know about my "immense" knowledge base, they would surely ... you know what :)

The most interesting thing happened last fortnight was a weekend at Ithaca at my college friends. I was accompanied with my roomates whom I stay here. It was wondrous drive at night, an incredible hour spent at night club there followed by amazing skiing trip next day. I fell myriad times there while skiing but everytime I started I had feeling that I'm James Bond and thought of Bond music playing. How stupid of me..but that gave me real fun out there. After spending half a dozen of hours there we got so tired and hungry that we went directly for the dinner. There was place called King Buffet and as the name suggests, it was real big place. I had almost 5 course meals tarting with soup, starters, main-course, fruits and finally dessert. The word "dessert" reminds of a hangout which in its menu-card had written - "desert"!!! Wow, one 's' can make a hell lotta difference. ( Hey, did I say 's' or "ass", anyway.)

I, with my friend, went to see the movie "Black". The movie was awesome and I wept almost five-six times. Btw, I cry almost everyday: only while chopping onions, ofcourse. Its a good thing for eyes, the fluid just cleans up the eye. Fact: The onions cell contains enzymes which can be transformed to sulfenic acid. This gets rearranged to volatile gas when the onion is chopped. When this gas reaches the eye, it takes the form of sulphuric acid. To this the brain reacts by producing more water and we cry.

So after coming out of the theatre after watching the movie, the whole path was covered by the snow. It was awesome. The snow was falling like thin cotton threads and we just had a burger with french fries and coke sitting besides the big glass window seeing the nature. After filling up the empty stomach we started back to home. By the time we came back, I was almost covered in snow. What a contrast...went to see Black and came back in White.

Today I took a day off from my work and just relaxing at home. Probably, tomorrow I'm going to go for shopping spree.