My Top 10 of 2010

Some of the hearty moments, good and bad, as it happened along the year 2010!

1. A snowy visit to Ferry meadows.
2. Got permanent job.
3. Gained 'couple' of friends and lost quickly.
4. Blackpool trip - go carting, first visit to dance clubs.
5. My new hobby with Nikon SLR- Photography.
6. Finland trip - enjoyed superbly with jagan and richie.
7. York & Harrogate trip - a stay at richie's place.
8. Rahman Concert @ O2, London.
9. Rutland Lake trip - nice evening outing with roomie chetan.
10. Scotland trip - met raj in his den.
11. India trip - Hyd and Pondy - touched the past.
12. 5 star nights @ Novotel, Hyderabad.
13. In Hyderabad office as a 'Client'.
14. Woburn Safari Park & GoApe.
15. Nikon zoom lens 55-200 mm.
16. Mahabharata Kurukshetra war - a practical revisit & thinking - Gods are humans... once!
17. Enthiran - the 'defining' Indian scifi movie - watched twice in sheffield and london.
18. Spectacular Bonfire & Fireworks in Ferry meadows.
19. Ponniyin Selvan & Parthiban Kanavu - read superb tamil historic novels.
20. Christmas holidays - played counter strike for hours, watched avatar in 46" big LED screen just few metres away, awesome. good time pass with chetan and his friend.

oh! should I not stop at 10?

There goes an year in a blink of an eye!

woburn safari park

my first safari ride and... go ape too :-)

this is my second go ape activity, the first one in lake district where the trees were super high and hence super thrill.

The Hyd Trip

It was pleasant to be back in hyd, although a short stay. I was busy following my project plan but still had good moments with my team mates and friends.

Played Cricket [Runs in matches: 1, many, many, 0] :-), went to Chilkur balaji, shopped in Inorbit and had fun with friends.

A memorable one and yes, there is a small moment of pride for being back as a client to the same work place where you were an associate just a year back.

the scot trip

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/sets/72157624781996884/

I planned this with my TCS friend Subu whom I happened to meet in bus on my way to office. The plan was to roam in Edinburgh on first day, take a coach tour to lochness on second day and to visit Raj's place on third day and go trekking with him in a nearby falls.

Raj is my roommate in Peterborough who is settled in Edinburgh. Although a senior architect and a head of the family, he behaves like a friend to me and is very kind.

The first day went as per plan. We covered National Museum, ate at Kalpana veg restaurant, went to Calton hills and took a short walk on the Royal Mile street at night. The famous but usual Edinburgh castle was reserved for the last day,

The second day went busy with Timberbush coach trip. The guide was funny and more passionate for Scotland calling every top leaders in the world is from Scot origin, few include Bush, Blair, Brown, Cameron...

On third day, Raj picked us up to his home where we had delicious south indian food and started to falls of Clyde with him and his son. The sights on the way to the falls was superb. I was just shooting everything on the way in my nikon. He then dropped us back in edinburgh castle which was our last stop before taking the train.

a nice trip!

terrific trips ahead

yep, going to Scotland this weekend and flying to hyderabad on Monday and... going to pondy after 2 weeks,

so terrific trips... ahead

Get ready Nikon :-)

Finn trip

My friend Jagan came to Finland for nokia project (what else then...), so Why not a trip to Finn? but its not as easy as just booking and flying to Finland as I am in Tier1.

I need to apply for Schengen Visa but the Finland embassy wants to see everyone in person before issuing visa. So I applied leave and went all the way to London, they just took 2 minutes to look at me and get my passport for further processing. dah!

ok, I got my visa. Hoped for multiple entry so I could go other places in europe, but they just gave single entry. dah dah!

I was joined by Richard at Helsinki airport, stayed at Salo (jagan's place) and roamed in Helsinki and Turku. I was so eager to go this trip because of my new Nikon SLR camera. I started shooting more than 500 pics in first 3 days of my trip. oooooh! Jagan was not happy since his portraits weren't as good as expected, I think may be he was planning to give his pics for bride selection :-)

It ended as a nice and fun trip with some really awesome pics I have ever took.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/sets/72157624071749385/

my first trip to europe.

3 months

The longest time I was in a job outside India.

Its gonna be broken in an hour.

What did I do these 3 months. Here's the notes for you to develop

Jagan, Sheffield ::

Sriram, Birmingham - Isle of Man ::

Jagan, Mohanaram, Richard, Navin, Dutt Cambridge ::

Mohanaram, Jagan, Richard, Ganesh, Portsmouth - Isle of Wight

Every trip turned to be a good trip.

a trip to Godavari delta

The weekend visit to East Andhra for my colleague's marriage made me to think 'why not a trip around India?'

The lush greenary on the banks of Godavari & the small canal that runs paralled to the road (with farm fields on both sides till the end of eyesight), quietly energises the soul & eyes.

 

the places I touched...

Kakinada - Kotaiyah's Kaja is a special sweet of the town (something like Pulla Reddy in Hyd & Adyar Anandha Bavan in Chennai),

Yanam - part of Pondicherry Government (thats my town)

Thratchapuram - one of Siva's triranga spot in Andhra, the other two are Srisailam & K

Andervedi - where Godavari merges with the Sea

Amalapuram

Also this is the first time I am attending a marriage that took place at night 10:30 PM.

Thanks to Sandeep for inviting for his marriage & Prashanth for persuading me to join the trip :)