Vinci Daa Code - Another taste of Life at bangalore

Well, here I am, survived from my annihilation planned by some anti-social elements this summer, and am very much in one piece.
To start with, let's take Bangalore Rains. They were, it seemed, somewhat "Khafaa" with lele coming down to Bangalore, and wanted him out asap. They had their own plans, and tried their best to Soak Lele amap (as much as possible). But lele stood firmly, beared everything with that 24 * 7 * 365 smile on his face(always present, check anytime), and finally emerged victorious. Believe me, it ALWAYS rained when lele had to leave the office, and that was weekdays, so it never rained on weekends. This went on for two weeks.
Now to partho. We had a good time in the same PG, and since Lele lived far off, and we just a stone's throw away frokm the office, we never had to worry about the Rains. Also, we have a bit different opinion about bangalore, since we seldom had to travel in bangalore, and Lele had to everyday. Again, we had decent food in our PG, which makes our opinion different from Lele about Bangalore.

Finally, me. I had a nice Roomie for these two months, who entertained all of us all along, and at the same time worked very sincerely. Shaunak was just lovely, sometimes annoying, but since we saw a guy, surpassing him in this trait, I was happy with Shaunak.

We had some of the very nice times togather, specially when we watched the movies, and even special is when we watched 2 Austin Powers back to back, and kept on repeating the movie's one liners till our training ended :)

In the office, I was lucky that I got Visual Studio, and was unlucky that I got Visual Studio 97, and had to work in C. Lele did some excellent work, and his resume sort of sent his guide flat( the number of Programming Languages he knew and all), as told by partho.

On the last day, we had some photographs with the office employees( our guides, to be precise), and we left bangalore with a joy filled heart ( the joy of returning to the sweet home).

We enjoyed bangi a lot lot lot lot, and yes, I missed out those three IITK chaps with us in our PG, two of who were in our company only. They gave us a glimpse of the IITK Life( which needs a separate post), and had a good time with us, once again credit goes to Shaunak.

Finally, the title of the post....One of the major things I did in my liesure time at Bangalore was that I read Da Vince Code( In fact all five of us did that at Bangalore only), and then saw the movie ( this one too). One of my punjabi friends, who accompanied me called it Vinci daa Code.(which finally means the same thing).

I also request others to post, specially to Katoch, Karwa, Shravan, Samya, (though he regularly did on his blog, in a different way), and Vaninder (though he kept poking us with mails filled with loads of his programing jibber jabber). All of you, please do.

>> Call of the Big BGLRE <<

Back to KGP at last !

It has been a hell lot of time before coming back to KGP, and during this vacation ( or training for some of us ), I missed this place the most. Well atleast things will be a lot easier this semester, and while some of us are maroing nehles I am content with my satti.

I did my training in Bangalore, and well that had been a really bad experience when that comes to food. I dunno about what Partho / Puspa have to say about that but as per my opinion Bangalore is one hell of a over bloated , over popularized city that can come crashing down anyday. During the initial weeks, I decided that hey I am in southern half of the country, so why not experiment and eat the south indian cusine for a while during the training period. That my friends totally turned out to be a total disaster. I arrived in Bangalore a on Sunday, a day before the training starts. I had expected that Bangalore would be a burner on my wallet, but had optimiustic expectations from the city. I went out on day one searching for a good food outlet. To my astonishment, there were more bars and bakery stores as opposed to the restaurents. I was feeling very hungry, so I entered a bar cum restaurent outlet. Food, ahem, rice was all that I could find. I eat of rice at home, but only rice is not an option for me . Rice seems to be the only input for a cook in Bangalore.

Day two brought more dirt spashing on my clothes with help of the generous rain that filled up all the roads completly. Regarding the rain there is strange co-incidence or shall I say evil intent on part of someone, to deliberately rain when the I step out of the office. The rain altered its time so that no matter how much I vary my check out time it always rained the heaviest when I am most vulnerable to it. Days passed by and this thing repeated with exact precision for 2 weeks straight ! After that the rain got tired of soaking me and rained very intermittently ( at Laaaast) !

The weather in Bangi was always pleasant no matter what time of the day it might be. This was the only plus point that I can find that Bangalore as a city has to offer. I asked one of the employee about the weather out here, and this is what he said - " Bangalore has a quite pleasant weather, but ten years back it had a weather of its own ". Sweating in Bangalore is strictly prohibited.

Our training was also of topsy turvy experience. The most comical and stupid thing was about the way the company protected the company's source code and how you can get a file from the World Wide Wide Webbbbbb. The statistics say that to transfer a file of any size, any content, to your computer from WwW will take you approximately 1 day of work.

This roughly what I did this summer and it would really nice if you do post your comments to this ( or otherwise I shall roast your email !!! And Haunt You Until I know What You Did this Summer )