weekend dhamakas

friday nite we went bowling with rak's friends....ballu n veeru.....comp is always amongst veeru n ballu.......rak ends up 3rd and me last.....got many gutter balls.......played 2 rounds.......had dinner outside...........learnt to eat chicken leg with knife and fork.....was from nandos....a famous one here.........their lightning system was gud...they used bottles instead of light shades.....

then saw a movie.....the dark knight.......batman3 series...i dint like toh .. others liked it...i found it sick........and we had icecream too........was 12.20 wen we finally reached home.......

sat went to do some small grocery shopping in the sat market nearby and evening went to the onam celebration by the malayalee association here....oxford malayalee association....oxmas.....he he......initially i found it funny......then i wanted to get out of it......was mostly people from the medical proff....the lectures were so funny.....tht i cudnt help guffawing......it was like some politic fanatic who was banished from kerala and found a mike here to vent all his holed up emotions....he said that the fact that mahabali was stuffed down to hell was a big political move of tht era........even rak cudnt help it...we both started laufing loud......after our merry was met, we slowly turned around only to find people staring at us........funny tht dey dint find it funny!!! (similies hurray!!)

no no i'm not mad....its just the cold....haa then....it was gud to find mallu kids playing around..we get to see mallu adults now n then but mallu kids were first timers......

the only bad part was that the women and men sat separately....the women and the kids sat in the hall while the men lurked around the corners and outside the hall.......i was so used to stick around rak that wen i had to sit alone, i felt angry at the custom and finally broke it after some 1 hr......i fished him out and orbited around him for the rest of the event......one other amusing thing was that in such events you could wish out your spouse even though both dint have cells.....

there were some dance shows as well.....one father and his daughter played some 5 dances.......one of them duet.....others along with others......(this shud inspire chax.......hes so mushy mushy on having people in the same family performing along with u....he cud with his insider!!!)

was gud..saw the traditional thiruvathira kali as well.....after a while i got so tired by the music but rak wudnt budge......he wanted to make the most of the membership fee he had to pay.(:D 10BGP for each.and 4 GBP per month)......and so we had the sadya......it was a big queue and we were ravenous by the time we got our plates filled....the sadya was ok types...but the payasam was g8.....

we got dropped back by biju chettan.......and again it was 12.30 ......

sun was spent at home with an upset stomach......thanks to the sadya, the water bill would go high this time ;)

called up some of our batch mates around.....

yday went to visit another colleague of rak's who had just had a baby.....anika....goddess durga's another name.......we think the baby looks like her mom.......

we had our dinner there and i helped rashi babhi around......shes younger to me but i got the habit of calling all north indian girls as babhis...so cudnt help it.......

i tried making chappthis like her but i ended up in more world maps....someday my day wud come.......

and today yet another day......last week was adventurous with my job at mcdies......i found it v hard and demotivating at first but i dint want to run away from it......i dont like turning away like a coward and so mind wudnt let me......and now tht i am in control, mayb i wud leave it this week.....initially i was hesitant to even mention it..,,but yes the first day was v tuf.......i expected a friendly and easy atmosphere but the thing was full action packed..........missed novell very much......it was my ideal kinda comp......with the ideal colleagues...........it had all the bits and pieces i needed........:(... got a degradation kinda feeling and the s/w engineer in my head was taking insult in every job i was asked to do......moreover the people there hardly knew english.....they were people from nepal and bangladesh and they spoke urdu and broken english mostly.....thanks to rak's lucknow origins urdu was not all alien to me and i cud keep up but the broken english really broke my spirits.....it was something of the sorts of "i coming,i do that,u no do that" kinds.......it was dampening in the sense that i felt i was wasting my time there......but the fact is that with my visa type i'm not getting any software jobs here and mcdies was a gud start to a bank account atleast(cant open one here without a job),,,,,,my colleagues were rite.....sitting at home is v boring and so i've decided to stick along to mcdies till something better comes along......atleast it wud give me a chance to buy something for rak on his bday from my own pocket(hes too lazy to read blogs......he finds this annoying just as i find his games).....reminding of which ,,,initially it was too tuf to ask for money after all the years i've been independent......but now its easy

chethan bhagath's one day at the call center is being made into a movie starred by salman? saw it from some site yday........lucky chap chethan bhagath..........that was so simple a story and it became a best seller and now a movie too!!!