A letter to TFTs :)

My dear TFTs ,

  I hope you all are doing great , I am doing great too , though a little less great ,than when you guys visited me on a day to day basis.There have been many groups before , and many after , but it's not the same feeling , not the same at all ..
 
  Well , it's 7 years since I met all of you for the first time , a group of typical fresher's in IT I should say :)I have seen you people grow as professionals , as individuals and as friends .I have been a silent spectator to all the chit-chats , jokes ,emotions , but enjoyed it all as much as you people were.
 
Going down the memory lane makes me sad and happy at the same time . Sad that I might not see you walking talking and laughing anymore anywhere near me :( .But also happy that there is such a treasure of memories which keeps me going :) Also happy to see you people still going strong as a group , but I hope  you guys remember how much fun you were and try to be the same again ;)
 
It's also great to see the group expanding year on year with lot more cute girls joining the group ;) I just wish , the group as of now can visit me at least once and I can see you all having  a cup of coffee , crack jokes , pull each others' legs and enjoy .
 
OK guys , let me sign off with the note that I wish you all more happiness , more good friends and more moments of fun.If possible we will meet in future and




share more news , maybe over a cup of coffee :)Till then , Adieu :))
 
Lots of love,
Third floor :)

P.S : One humble request from all of you . Can each of  also go down the memory lane and add some of the most memorable moments to this post.Please do , It will
make my existence more pleasurable :)

MOM of meetup at Div's place

People present : Myself, Sandeep,Div,Sandeep,Pavan,Ashu,Krish,Vids,Hari,Surya,Vinayak

My Updates :

- Ashu tells her "long" US stories before any of us arrive , and though she wants to repeat them to us, div forbids her from doing so :D , so Ashu will send mails , each mail with a photo and the story associated with them
- Pavan also has already told about his lost and found wallet story , but though div forbids him , he manages to tell most of the " wallet,lorry and dosti" story in bits and pieces :D
-Pavan has made masala vada , one per person and I got Mangalore dish ( though div took sometime to recognize it :D) upkari. All limited stocks since we were making those for first time. Ashu was all hungry , but div again forbid her from eating until everyone arrives :D
-there was this movie aitraaz playing on TV , and pavan declares that he has seen only one scene in this movie , but in another movie :D
-Surya comes with Vinayak who makes a guest appearance and disappears :D , I think all together Surya spoke some 20 words while she was there :D but she was all smiles all thro ;)
-Vids and Hari arrive , but Vids didn't get tea :D so we had to do without tea ;)
-Krish Sandeep and Sandeep  wanted the TV to be ON so that when we had discussed a topic , we could stare at it and come up with other topics to talk about :D funny thing was , we were actually , all at a time , staring at the TV in between talks :D after the TV was switched off, people started staring at the table :D
- We start teasing krish and pavan for u know what :D but Krish starts taking this seriously and so we stop it making it clear to him that we were just joking :D
-we all eat masala vada, upkari, jamun and 7 cup cake . everything tastes great :D
-Ashu keeps saying that vids is looking somewhat different and vids says may be its coz she didn't wash her hair :D
-Everybody reserves the things that they will buy from div's place when she is shifting to Mangalore ;)
-Ashu reminds vids about " yamma yamma" song from ravichandran movie which she used hear daily in cab , krish asks sandeep not to see the song video :D sandeep goes and gets his laptop and starts watching the video of the song :D

Ashu's addition :D :

1)krish guiding  div’s sandeep…on all “A” related kannada songs!:D..:P:P…
2) Div finally uttering one word emphatically in kannada ..” “.. :D ..I forgot that word but it sounded so cute!:D…
3) Rash listening  one whole recipe from divs mil….and then saying..i will ask u when i am making it!:D….
4)Krish asking for a pic to be  clicked as and when the goodies are passed form any hand to his hand!:D
5)Vids stopping at udupi gardens bcos of rain..and still forgetting to get us tea ;)…v teased her so much papa…n she looks different with sindoor and all I guess ;)..
6)Pav’s numbering abilities of more than one per person masala vada..btw it was awesome..and yes..the special masala vada went to rash’s sandeep.
7)Vikas goin to pancharangi and calling up sandeep and asking him to avoid it .FYI rash had said “cheenagidhyanthe” ;):D
8) Surya’s ooty plans n divs and vids and rashs suggestions..
9)Vids emphasizing that we meet up at her place next time…and we telling that ..it will happen when john arrives.


Pavan's :

-Sandeep was roaming around in Bermuda in Ooty while people were wearing woolen clothes
- And Div’s Sandeep was very slyly marketing all the goods to be sold in between breaks during talks :D
- Rash again appointed Krish to drop Vids without asking him :D
- Vids recalled her horrendous experience at my place, yet again :D

Vid's:

Div's Sandeep concluded "yammo yammo" video is normal
Ashu telling not to open the gifts
Everybody watching TV when we paused


-And then we all say goodbye and went home:D

MOM of Yesterday's Meetup

Hi All,

Please find the details of our meeting yesterday at Shanti Sagar & PG Premises. It was a long and an awesome meet-up :) :)


People who were fit and fine to come and wanted to come :D
- Ashu,Krish,me,Rash & Sandeep (Guest of honor, made a befitting entry honking and chasing Rash in car :D)

Special credit to Rash for making it inspite of the hectic day and week :)

People who couldnt come because of health reasons
- Divya

People who couldnt come because of unavoidable reasons
- Vidhya,Hari,John,Surya,Vimala,Ankur,Sneha,Prabha

People who ditched us last moment because of false rain alarms.
None :D

Hot topics :

1. Krish desperately wants to go to Las Vegas. So much so he wants a visa directly to Las Vegas, not to US :D . He says the casinos there will need Java coding, so he'll find a job there. Or he'll do bartending (How krish will do this wid his sleeping habits is beyond my thinking ability :D). And he didn't even reveal how he'll enjoy in Las Vegas....
2. We are already discussing our next trip. As soon as Ash leaves to US, we'll go for a trip ;)
3. We again sat in Shanti sagar & had Butter Masala  Dosa, Rava dosa, Pav bhaji with extra pav, Special sev puri, masala puri and 2/3 coffee between the 3 of us
4. Ash narrated her visa interview goofups (eg, she didn't have 7 rs to give and begged ppl around :D). The entire story has the potential of a full length feature film,so we will not discuss this in this short write-up.
5. We came to know Krish doesn't talk a lot coz if he does, a cyclone and whirlpool is formed and can destroy an entire vicinity.All the energy is pent up within him all these years. I suggested we'll go to Palace grounds one day and he can demonstrate this to us :D
6. Rash told us to wait at sony world but went upstairs in Shanti Sagar and called us from there,demonstrating her tubelightism. (Ashu,alli elru nin thara ne kanta idru :D :D)
7. Ashwini wanted some movies and TV series in her hard disk. We told her John will be absolutely help her with this coz he keeps saying internet is really fast there (24Mbps or something) and movies get downloaded in half hour. But not sure if he knows how to download. Either that or John will say "En movie nodtiya Ashu,el oodadtiya? we'll just sit,brood and introspect about the girl in the moon & maybe write a poem or two" :D
8. Also when Ashwini asked if anyone has TV series like LOST and Prison break and what other series she can watch, Krish went into deep thought for a min, and then suddenly suggested "Prison break". Then Ash dragged and dragged it and made a big joke out of it (like always) :D. And we suggested her Naruto, as usual.the show will be on even when her kids start watching TV,we said.
9.  Also when asked where his pics are, John told her "U r coming here no, I'll show u in my cam" & told her not to get anything from India coz he has lot of stuff to send back. Hilarious! :D
10. I said "I WILL join yoga classes this Saturday but I dont know where to join" :P. And bigger irony is I said it as soon as we passed by a yoga center :D
11. Ashu is obsessed wid my doddappa (uncle) ever since I told ppl he's taking special interest in getting me married now. She mentions him everywhere & mostly out of context. I wonder why :D
12. It was eerily familiar how Krish & Ash were explaining me how the elders will coax me into getting married to some random gal (U just come n see, we'll not get u married if u don't like and then later - what's wrong wid that gal,its all decided now,over :P). Anyways I assured Ashwini I wont get married till she comes back but Krish is 100% sure I'll be engaged :D
13.  Sandeep came and spoke to us for a while. And gave us a good news. There's this company called which sends you directly to Las vegas it seems. And the office is in ITPL. Its a colorful office and we used to wonder what kinda work these ppl do. Now I know :D
14. The most hilarious part is a conversation b/w Krish & Rash :We saw some flowers on a tree (similar to mallige) and then ,

       Krish's doubt : They use these flowers somewhere. Where do they use? 
       Rash : Nowhere
       K : No somewhere they use. Where?
       R (now irritated) : They r not used anywhere. U shut up
      We started thinking and suggesting products where it may be used
       K (still inquisitive) : no no no..somewhere else
Rash, high annoyed now starts making her typical hand movements and scolding in high pitched voice "Elllluuuu illlllllaa".After 5 minutes of this , Krish goes "Dont they use it for garlands?" :D :P :P .Rash tried lifting a huge stone nearby to throw it at Krish. Hearing us, the house owner came n stared at us until we slowly drifted away from there as if nothing happened.

Phew, too many. Please add anything that I have missed in the comments

Till next time...   :)

Regards,
Pav

P.S : I copied Div's template from the last meetup. We'll follow the same template for any MOMs going forward :D (Div, I changed the "Thats all folks" at the end to "Till next time" ;))