All my bags are packed...

Just done with marathon session of packing. It is still 4 days to go before I leave this apartment but now it feels as if I will be checking out tomorrow. Can't believe the time flew by so fast and I am almost done with my work here.

Well... The stay here in New York was absolutely fantastic. Filled with a lot of eventful things. I ended up visiting almost everything worth visiting here. Be it the local site seeing here, the museums, Niagara or even Atlantic City. I sincerely thank Kripsa and the bunch of guys who made all this possible. Otherwise I would have never got an opportunity to see it all in one trip. Every single trip of these is filled up with amazing memories which will always bring smile to my face.

This weekend is destination Florida. I am excited and looking forward to it and stuff. But somehow, not so much. I feel tired of so much roaming around. It has been a while since I last slept till the time I wanted to. I guess a long nights sleep will do me some good, but I don't see it coming in near future.

For the first time in 4 weeks I am feeling lonely. May be because Kripsa left today and I am really homesick. This homesick thing is again really very funny. I know for sure that I want to go back home, but go back to what... empty rooms, or the feeling of not having loved ones around. I am really going to miss Niki when I reach there. I hope the time goes in fast forward and I get to see him soon... very soon.

I am indeed blogging after many many days. And thanks to that, I have missed out on writing about many things which were important at some point of time but seem insignificant now. I sat here with the thought of writing a synopsis of my whole trip here but looks like hunger is taking over. Chipotle's burrito bowl is inviting me. Got to go...

New York

My assignment in New York has finally started and I am here in my apartment. Have already visited Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Rockefeller Center, Brooklyn Bridge, Ground Zero, Wall Street. But the list of places to be seen doesn't seem to end. Have to do some shopping too.

NY is a great place. Very well organized. Walking on the pavements here is just so awesome. It is just like the way we see in movies. Though it still fails to qualify as a city of my dreams. Really good that I have Vamsi here. Otherwise with my sense of direction, I really doubt if I could have found my way through and managed to see so many places.

From the work perspective, met the big guys in the team here. Met with Laks, Shyam. Will go to the trading floor tomorrow... Hopefully. Already getting excited. Might meet Louie too. When Veer comes down on Monday, will go see Steve. The number of people to meet goes on and on too.

This is the first time in so many days that I am home early and not really sleepy. Still it will be a little difficult to complete my quota of sleep as I need to be in office at 8 am. Today I am just blogging for the sake of it. I don't want to not blog when I am here. I could have put New York in much better words. But too tired to think.

Ma Trip

I was a little psyched to see about 11 retired almost retired couples, 3 honeymoon couples (I still don't understand how can one go for honeymoon with 30 other people) and me going along with them. But in the end it did not turn out to be that bad.

Saw the famous Alcazar cabaret in Pattaya. The kind of prestige even shemales get there is amazing to see. The city sleeps during the day and is wide awake in the nights. Heaven for the denizens of the dark!!



The beaches... excellent!! Never seen more transparent water in the seas. Clean beaches, white sand. Too good. There is nothing like going underwater and touching the fish from there. Man, that was quite some experience!


This is what the tallest hotel in Thailand look like. Its Baiyoke Sky.



I really enjoyed the random walks on the streets of city. Cute people, very helpful. But was really longing to see people with bigger eyes!



Singapore certainly is a city of dreams. The infrastructure, transportation makes me feel as if I am staying in some gaav kind of place.
I feel every person should get an opportunity to see Songs of the Sea at least once in life. It is simply breathtaking.
Songs of The Sea

I have the valid visa to Singapore till end of 2009 and I am totally determined to use it!

Aamby Fuckall Valley

I got a chance to visit Aamby Valley, Lonavala, courtesy, my firm. I was considering myself lucky as I was one of the few people who got to visit the otherwise inaccessible place to common people. The place is really beautiful, very well maintained, good weather, but sadly, hyped up than what it should have looked as.

We had kind of negative reviews about Aamby Valley from some of the people who had visited it before. In spite of that we decided to go ahead with it just because of the aura around the name. We were 200 odd people, managing whom should have been a piece of cake for such big organization. But as it turned out to be, the hospitality was completely garbage. You expect such a big name to know at least A B C of organizing corporate events. But they fell short on all aspects. Food, booze, service and even in dealing with the contract that we had.

All in all, the thing which I was looking forward to, turned out to be utter disappointment. Hoping the Grand Maratha Sheraton to be a hit at least.

Nature is beautiful... isn't it..

The Bias River


The Great Himalayas