Farewell to Srivalli... and ethnic day

On 14th August, the eve of the 62nd year of Indian independece, saw us at Virident display our enthusiasm with a dash of ethnicity...
For the earlier part of the day, we bade farewell to Srivalli and had an oriental buffet lunch at Bamboo shoots...

Here is a slideshow of the pics at Bamboo shoots:

Once we had come back we went straight to the Ethnic shots, here are a few ethnic shots:

Vineet was the first person to model for us... His short kurta passed of as remotely ethnic

Ankur's Full Kurta was certainly more ethnic... but he was too lazy to pose for us :D

Shiba looked quite the part... we were expecting him to start a pooja anytime now... ha ha




Nitin was hardly ethnic... but he was all prepared to pose... with ID card and all



And this is Ajith... As for ethnic, you can see he is ... umm... er...



Swamy... he was as ethnic as you could get... Kudos to him for a great effort..

Here I must mention Viswesh who was equally well dressed with a long blue kurta and a brisk white dhoti (Kasavu Mundu). I could not get a picture of him as he had to leave due to some personal matter.

And here is Yagaty... very chilled out in his red robes...




Muthu took the award for best shoes hands down... with his Lucknowi Jooti




Here is Ganesh... eating his second lunch after bamboo shoots... ha ha (Neer Dose)



Indranil... caught off guard... He was dressed in what someone called the Hawaaian Shirt :D



I hold my silcence... ha ha



Mahesh... in his BRAND new kurta... he even had the tag in the morning to prove it... :)

Vivek, ethnic with an air of subtlety :)



Jaggi had a meeting at 3... so he couldn't be ethnic...



The ladies... :)



Mohan... Simple yet elegant... He and swamy were the only ones with a shawl..

I leave you with a final slideshow of all the ethnic pics...

Jaggi takes us to Kudla!

Jaggi's treat at Kudla bore me witness to one of the most scintillating experiences that I've EVER had with regards to sea food... It was a place for food lovers... where you could just about anything that swims... :) The vegetarians (heresay) had a great time too... they had great starters of enticing paneer and gobi that made us look away from our palate and glance at theirs for a few moments...

But kudla was all about the Veggies... It was a very relaxed crowd that settled down at Kudla for dinner on Tuesday... Each of us relishing our cocktails and (mock)tails... [ Though here I must mention that swamy ended up getting some wierd green drink that he could hardly understand and soon he had slight symtoms of being a lil drunk... ha ha... look at the pics below for confirmation]

Here are a few glimpses...

And here is Shiba warming up ...

The lip-smacking crayfish that we had:

The Gravies we had with our Neer Dose: (Prawn masala and Kori Sooka)

And here's Yagaty uncle fighting over Ankur's ice-cream like a kid...

We washed down dessert with fried ice-cream(Yes you did read it right!)... Shiba was all for it as he'd had it before... fried icecream was a huge scoop of icecream that had been dipped in bread batter and fried to a crisp outer covering with amazing icecream and nuts inside...it was quite a treat!

Finally we all tried out some desi chewing tobacco...

Kudla was indeed a spectacle of sea food on its own... amazing crab(I can still taste it), great prawns, and spicy crab fish that left my tongue tingling for more... it was indeed a memorable treat... Can't wait to go back there and enjoy it again.... Cheers to Jaggi for great selection!...

The network blackout!

7th Aug 2008... we finish our meeting and then we figure it out... no network AGAIN!!! This was starting to get frustrating(Especially to Ajith), and this is the second time this week... So the rest of us guys decided to have some fun while it comes back... Ye hain us din ki kahani chitron ke zubani.... :D Ajith was frustrated that his work was getting cut off...

In this pic... you can see on the screen Ajith was pinging and pinging and pinging... but alas...

Some of us after giving up on doing stuff offline...decided to take more recreational outlets to pass time... What followed was a tirade of games starting from Cricket (Until everybody was tired of it), Then came an improvisation of football like never before - we kicked around the smiley ball as indranil displayed his flair at goalkeeping ...

Here is a glimpse of our football... if you observe carefully towards the end you see... Yagaty come up in the middle and try to figure out....what we are up to... (ha ha )

Soon people got bored of this too... then came the funniest of the lot where we were trying to play something that some of them called golf (with a cricket bat and a dustbin??)... but to me it reminds me of the thing that Alice played with the queen of hearts in 'Alice in wonderland'....croquette(I hope i've spelt it right)... Here are a few pics.

Here Shiba is showing us how it is done...

There is the target... the horizontal dustbin :D

Ajith got tired of waiting for the network and joined us... Here he is measuring up the shot..

Poor LLT(Low level team)... Still working away... They dont need the network :D

In the meantime... Ajith continues... Now getting the hang of Goquette(Golf-Croquette)

The LLT guys couldn't take us playing anymore... they went away to the conference room to continue working...(I felt sorry for Ajith and Viswesh)

The network finally did come back at around 1:30 PM and then...things got back to normal...

Just another day in the life of a Viridentite(Sigh!)

Cheers,

Manas