Fast forward to next day I get a call from satya saying his bus is slow and that he has still not reached goa and that he might reach goa a bit late and will then inform us about his lunch plans. I have a early meeting next day i wind it up by 1 and am back to the office sarvesh comes to pick us up at the office and then we head off and we have not heard from satya yet who was suppose to reach goa that very morning so we call him up he says bus was delayed and he has just reached home and that he wont be able to make it for the lunch and that he will meet us in the evening.

So on the way we have to pick up abhimanyu and saurabh both of whom are down to goa to collect their transcripts from the college since they are both headed to the US for higher studies they recently answered the GRE and scored pretty well on it so we pick them up from their college at PCCE and there is all sorts of confusion at this point will the kitchen be closed at martins corner and what will be our back up plan etc etc etc and all this time am cool because I know the kitchen wont be closed

Finally after a long drive and missing quite a few accidents on the way yes sarvesh was driving and even though he was not drunk he still tends to be a hopeless driver hahahaha
finally we are at martins corner it is a bit quite and less people are there because we are a bit too late for lunch but well we place our order
we had martins special mocktail since everyone was ordering those even i decided to go with that instead of my usual order for some refreshing beer. then we had some starters fried mussels, french fries, squid calamari and then we moved onto main course most of them ordered chicken pepper steak and I ordered myself some nice roast tongue (must admit I left 2 small pieces of it though as I was full with the mocktail and the starters) and over the lunch our conversation was mostly about tech since we were all techies there and am sure all this talk must have bored my bro hahahaha.

After we finished lunch we just lazied around a bit sitting there then we decided to take the long drive back to panaji on the way we just filled petrol and then got in touch with satya and told him to meet us at CCD miramar so on the way there we dropped fonda back to office and then we headed to CCD to lazy around some more
there also we talked about many things like google , interesting opportunities in video startups etc etc and then finally satya showed up and then we had a good time pulling his leg because of his recent US trip then we talked about work there and here how it is different etc etc and then finally we all decided to head our separate ways but before that sarvesh had to pick up some cashew nuts for his office colleagues since he was leaving for pune the next day and he wanted to pick up some stuff from the dollar store too and he was not the only one who picked up stuff from dollar store even i picked up a can opener needed one for the office pantry and abhimanyu picked up some stuff too am sure he could not help it as he is a real shopaholic ( yes he is sick and needs help he spends a hell of a lot of money on shopping so all of us should start praying for him to get well soon )

After that shopping spree it was time to call it quits for the day and I headed back to the office to get some work done and some surfing done

well about martins corner I don’t think we will be heading there in the near future since we need to find another place to check out but the food and the rates there are both good but till we go there again am still trying to figure out another place to sample when all of us meet again in december maybe it will be chef fernandos

I really appreciate the concern shown and am really thankful for all the best wishes.

Hmm from this episode I did come to know that there are a few people who want to see me alive hahahahaha yes from now on I am still pushing myself but not as much now I sleep for a decent amount and eat food on time and don’t skip meals anymore.

But have not yet given up on pushing my mind and body but now do it a bit smarter like I told a friend few days back it is worth dying while trying in something you believe in and feel worth giving your body and mind rather then dying later in life repenting that you never had the will power to pursue your dreams.

Well thanks once again on a lighter note the below image done by a close friend of mine selwyn is inspired by my the small incident in my life and no there are no prizes for guessing which incident hahahahaha so enjoy !!!!

The image is not loading from blogger so here is the link chk out the selwyn’s blog and guess the image

We got in sat on a table close to the entrance as that was the only place remaining which was for two people rest of all the tables left were for 4 or more we noticed around a bit saw the atmosphere it was good quite homely with many families there small kids running around the wooden shack theme for the place is also good even though after sitting down we were left without a waiter and a menu for around 20 mins that was the only complaint for the night rest of it was smooth sailing and the food was simply delicious and tasted a lot like home cooked food.

After we got the menu we placed our order for drinks I had Sweet Fresh Lime Soda and sarvesh had Lemon Iced Tea. Sarvesh wanted to have a budweiser but I reminded him that he was driving and I dont like the person who is driving the car that am in to drink so in order not to tease him even I didn’t order a beer for starters we ordered Mussels rawa fried and calamari masala fried the starters were served quite fast then we placed our main course order shark ambotik with rice and kingfish butter garlic fried and it was good that we ordered and decided to share as the quantity for the rice was too much and I would never have been able to finish it all by myself even two of us eating could not finish it
I guess it was because both of us had good starters and drinks too and just before leaving the office I had 3 samosas.

At the time we were having food got a call from hemant who is down in goa that he is dropping in the office so told him will be back in the office by 4:30 so we had our lunch talked about stuff and then headed off back to panjim where I was to be in the office and sarvesh had to go home rest and study for his interview next week. So Met Hemant in the office chatted for a while then he left and I got back to my office work.

It was a fun outing and Sarvesh has decided that his birthday bash which is coming up now will be in martins corner WOW cant wait to get there again and that time there will be more people with us plus we still have that go karting outing which was planned months ago but never happened and not to forget we will again meet all of us for a friends wedding in december. looks like next two months we have lots of activities planned and outings well am looking forward to all of them and loads of quality friends time away from work

Note to myself: Buy a Good Digital Camera so that the Pholog can be updated with photos of my adventures well the startup mode makes you a poor poor man living on bare minimums but I have to save some money to buy a digital camera soon.

So we sat down and continued with our chat and catching up with what is happening with one another I guess distance really pulls people apart and today I realized it since we had not talked like this for a long long time well if my memory serves me right the last time we were like this was on our trip to nagpur but then we had another monkey with us Satya hahahaha but now even with constant chatting and sometimes phone calls it is no supplement for a personal outing with the gang but all of us are where we are because of the choices we made in our careers so it is all cool but whenever we are down we should make it a point to meet up (hmm am always up for it but the others come with a predefined schedule for their activities in goa and find it bit difficult to squeeze in old friends time in that schedule )

Well after sarvesh made three trips from office to godinho’s to shuttle all of us there we got down and ordered our lunch (the service was slow it is because the place was full and they were short on waiters so it took some time for the waiter to come to us to take our order but we did take a lot of time to decide what we were having selwyn could not decide about chicken or squids hmm he was saved from his agony with the fact that there were no squids hahahaha and he has made bigger choices then ordering from a restaurant menu wonder how he made those choices ) Well finally we ordered I ordered pork balchao, fonda ordered beef fry with capsicum and sarvesh and selwyn settled for the chicken cafreal some french fries and some drinks two cokes and two 7up’s the food was not good not at all tasty like the normal godinho’s food maybe the cook has changed but then again we all had our lunch and then we headed back to my office for some more chit chat.

There we talked about new ventures told them about my new comics idea and they could not stop laughing at my story but am sure its a billion dollar franchise and I will see who will laugh at it later hahaha (evil laugh). Talked about our jobs, where our lives are headed etc
talked about movies, comics, games etc etc then finally we dispersed as selwyn had to get home and rest (that is the main reason he comes to goa to sleep hahaha) well it was quite a nice half day considering the fact that I was a bit upset with some office developments in the morning but the afternoon outing really cheered me up hopefully we will have more outings like this in the future with our lives becoming more and more work centric we find such things difficult to plan and execute as all of us are spread all over the place seperated by huge geographical distances and are no longer in a small place called Goa.

Today was a funday as usual was in my office getting some flow charts done as there was no electricity so was not on my laptop and the TV was also off. So at that point of time got a call from sarvesh saying that he is outside the office so I opened the door for him he came in we sat and talked for a few minutes then he said this office is not healthy we need to get out so we went to CCD miramar we sat there discussed a lot of things work, friends etc etc the normal chit chat and after that I ordered our drinks and we sat there talked a bit till and sipped our drinks and then the bill came and thats when the fun begin I forgot to carry cash since my mind was still preoccupied with the analytics issue that i am currently working for on a project and I thought sarvesh would pick up the tab hahahaha and he realized that even he forgot to carry cash hahahahaha at that point of time I was about to crack up laughing as I found the situation funny but sarvesh was pissed with the fact that they would not accept credit cards

The credit card issue was raised earlier also at CCD miramar by abhimanyu during one of our meetings there and the situation that we were in was the first time in last couple of weeks that i found really genuinely funny and relaxing and I knew that fonda was on the beach so called him to come there with cash and then he said he was not on miramar beach but at baga beach hahahahahaha and I was totally enjoying the situation so I just waited there till sarvesh went to a nearby SBI atm and got the cash and then we moved from there to the beach walked a bit talked more and then sat at dsilva’s since sarvesh wanted to have fish and we waited there for quite a few mins in fact (close to an hr and half but the fish cutlets never got ready so he settled for a chicken roll ) and then we ran into a couple of old college friends exchanged a few pleasantries and well we were back to our discussions we didnt know that it was that long that we were at dsilva’s as we were totally busy talking about our wednesday plans to either go to brittos or martins corner for some good food and relaxing time.

Well after the chicken roll i got back to office and sarvesh headed back home to prepare for his interview well the day was fun because of one simple incident and that was of not having money at CCD I still find it nice and funny and it gets a smile on my face. I remembered a similar situation when we had gone on a mini adventure at ooty and ran out of cash and had to do a lot of running around ( I mean walking around in scenic otty hahahaha) to find an atm for withdrawing some cash we finally found one you should have heard some of our backup plans hahahahahaha.

Most of the time the pressures are about money but sometimes not having any can be a funny situation and totally relax your mind. Now am looking forward to another adventure on wednesday but then we will not be dependent on an atm and will carry some cash this time hahahahahaha. I had fun today catching up with whats happening in our friends circle and our work lives and also about personal lives, new crushes etc etc but the icing on the cake was the CCD incident hahahahaha

So cheers to a great fun outing with no beers

1)What if I live till i am 50?
That means I have already lived half my lifetime (scary thought ain’t it)

2)What have I done so far?
well nothing that I wanted to do have not seen most of the places in the world,not been to disney land, not gone skiing or see snow or learn swimming(I have to get myself enrolled for the swimming classes),not started my own band (yep always wanted to start my own band),not tasted most of the cuisines in the world (yes am a foodie and a total sucker for pickles)

3)Where is my life headed?
this is a scary thought as have recently resigned the comfort of a paid job (to turn entrepreneur) well the job was going as far as I could push the company and it looks like I am the only one pushing a heavy load up a hill and was one of the main reasons for me to take the gamble with me and have a start the way I want it with my own startup.

4)What do I do now?
well my first priority is get my ventures on track and second is do some of the things that are there on my to do list. second thing is push myself more to meet the targets set by me.

5)What have I accumulated in the last 25 years?
well a good family,great friends don’t have any enemies(none yet if you are one leave me a comment and will get back to you to sort things out between us hahahaha),well I have a younger brother even though he is a bit too relaxed but has a good creative mind (I have to push him to achieve great things),a good education(yes I had great education I loved science from a young age and ended up graduating in a branch of science If I had not stopped I would have gone all the way to a Phd yep I would have been Dr Fritz D’souza ),have found a true calling in the tech world and really love my work and am looking forward to working with a bunch of people who are as excited as me about technology and am happy have found some of them to join me on my new venture.

6)Well what do I have to accumulate in the next 25 years?
A good person to share my old age with yep someone smart,funny,caring,passion for travel and passion for food(when I will start the hunt for that person I don’t know). Accumulate decent amount of worldly wealth (the normal stuff every hard working person wants a yacht,private jet,private island etc etc),See my younger brother reach great heights in the creative field (I would be the happiest person in the world when he says my name at the oscars during the acceptance speech well he has the potential but have to do something about his temper and attention span),well for quite sometime now my mom has been looking forward to seeing Las Vegas,Jerusalem, Florida and Rome have to send her to this places she too has a great passion for travel and I guess I have got that from her and the passion for food and technology from Dad.

Well most of the things are achievable with a bit of good luck and lot of hard work I should be there.

• How much I love Arabic Music
• I am not a early morning first thing I will eat is whipped cream person (I threw up after I had some cream) but later I did manage to finish the rest of the shake though
• I like to just sit and lazy around and talk to friends once in a while

So after the Tobelorone shake and a honey glazed chicken sandwich we headed back to the abhimanyu’s place to collect the movie tickets which abhimanyu’s bro saurabh had collected from a friend who had booked the tickets and saurabh dropped this tickets at home for us to collect and head for the movie. We just lazied around for some time after that we went to inox pune for the movie read all about it here after the movie we headed to another mall there I tried my hand at a playstation game and instantly realized what a miserable life I am living with no true love so now have to get myself a PS3 asap hahahaha.
After some fun with PS3 and ogling at some of the Sony Bavaria TV sets there We headed out of the mall and then I went and got some KFC for myself for the return trip and dinner.

After getting the KFC said good bye to the guys caught a rickshaw and came to the place where I was suppose to catch my bus there I bumped into an old college acquaintance anne marie she was there to see off her mom and sis who were in the same bus on my journey back to goa. At this point it was drizzling slightly and I got a bit wet while getting into the bus.

Well this is how my three day vacation ended with mixed feelings and was glad was heading back to goa and work.

The day started with us rushing to find the place where we were suppose to catch the bus to attend the event. We finally did catch the bus and all our fears of missing the event were put to rest hahahaha nope if we had missed the bus I would have taken a rickshaw and gone there but would not have missed the event.

Well have written a lot about the event so lets fast forward to the evening part after the bus brought us back to the city and we then started our hunt for an ATM as sarvesh wanted some hard cash in his hands then we had a long walk back Abhimanyu’s place this gave me time to explore pune roads more and then on the way we had bhel puri at spencer’s it was close to abhimanyu’s place (the bhel puri was horrible and nothing like the one I have at Miramar beach here in goa). After this sarvesh did a bit of shopping at spencer’s and then we headed to Abhimanyu’s room there we rested for some time before we headed out for my return ticket to goa and dinner then after resting for a bit we headed off for my ticket got that done and then we went for dinner and we came to a place where we had dinner and for dinner I had nachos with salsa sauce and fried beans and carrot juice. It was filling and I could not finish the nachos and had to parcel the left overs and get them home.

After dinner we came back to Abhimanyu’s crib and then we chatted for some time about many different things and then we got some sleep as I could hardly keep my eyes open was too tired with the walking and event for two days so as soon as I shut my eyes voila was in dreamland .

So this is how my second day of vacation in pune ended.

Well in one line I can sum up my experience at this movie "Good superhero movie with a romantic plot".

Plus points of the movie(in my opinion)
+good story
+some very good jokes
+good mix of romance and action (not a boring mix like Superman Returns)
+keeps you engaged during the movie
+good chemistry between human torch and thing (hahahaha)

Negative points of the movie(in my opinion)
-a bit less action for a superhero movie
-the ending could have been crafted well

overall I would say a good movie and recommend it to my friends

Well bloggingtofame is another startup related to blogs they are looking at publishing a blog magazine by pulling in content from ace bloggers and at present they are hunting for ace bloggers they have a contest running now more info click here the first prize is a cool 25k $$ a nice pocket change to have I must add.

The teams visit there was to promote bloggingtofame.com and I Guess they must have done that well for me nope I don’t think I have the makings of a fame blogger so will stay out of the contest hahahahaha