Christmas Eve @ Shreevatsa

What better way to celebrate the Christmas Eve than giving something to the children. It gives one a feeling of being a Santa Clause. I have always wondered how Santa would feel while giving away gifts and goodies to the kids, I felt the same way today on Christmas Eve.

We at TCS celebrate most of the festivals with the charitable organizations and this time was no different. We divided ourselves into multiple groups and I was a part of the group that went to SOFOSH(Society of Friends of the Sassoon Hospitals,www.sofosh.org) to celebrate with the kids from Shreevatsa(meaning Children of God).

We reached there at around 3 PM and started with decorating the place with the Christmas Tree, Balloons and other stuff. We had also arranged for Cakes and potato wafers. Once near our completion the kids started coming out to celebrate with us.There were kids as young as 18 months to 5 years and they mingled well with all our volunteers (around 17). They were quick to mix up and one particular girl was standing in one corner one of the volunteers Prakash was trying to make her laugh and boy he did make some progress. The mere look on her face made me pick her up in my arms and she went on balloon bashing spree and in the end she was not at all willing to get down from my arms.

Then came the Santa aka Manish and the kids were overjoyed by looking at his arrival and so were we. Santa spread toffees amongst the kids and the overgrown kids which we were. He spent time with them and conversing with them in the bit of Marathi that he could speak. Then with the kids Santa cut the cakes and we had a jolly good time eating them.Once all the celebrations were done then we all returned to our respective homes.

Empty handed we came but not without the thoughts and memories which would remind us what one can achieve by giving something which would be very less to us but would mean the world to the kids. It gives me a pleasure to say that I am a part of a team which is keen on spreading happiness to the needy and would always remain a part of such team.

Mulshi Trip

Long Long Time since I met up with some of my good friends in Morgan. Had bitter experiences there though but these were the people who helped me come over and as someone had well said that "Good times are meant to remain forever". In short we had fun

Pune International Marathon 2007

This was an event I was waiting for long (ie : An year). This time we were running to raise funds for a cause too. This time it was for Ekalavya Nyasa. We had 23 runners fro the 10 K event and around 54 in the 4.5 AIDS Charity Run. It was fun and guess what I was able to run all the 10 K continuously without pausing which is a good sign. The event had good publicity this time around with celebrities like Sunil Gavaskar, Salman Khan, Aarti Chhabria and couple of Chak De girls coming along to cheer the participants. Completing the race was motivation enough for me to run the Mumbai Marathon too this time for the Half Marathon event.

To Rajgad we go !!

A trip to Rajgad was organised by our company. Had fun going out with colleagues. It was a wonderful trip there.

It was cool fun and a tiresome 3- 31/2 hours trek totally to climb up and back down from the peak.

Going Home .......

After doing lotsa shopping for the kid and after coming back to Pune, now I am all set to go to Calicut where my Family and the new kid in the family await my return.

When I reach home I get a glimpse of my Bhanja dearest, I start my vacations with full joy. I have really no clue about how time flied by as it was time for me to be back to Pune.

Took part in his naming ceremony where he was officially named as Prachet. But Mom and yours truly named him Rudra-Kanha. Rudra was named by me and Kanha by Mom ;-)

Back To INDIA !!

Sept 1 2007 is an important day in both my career and my personal life. I came back from a short stint of 2 months 15 days of so called onsite deputation. Had fun made lotsa friends and roamed places.

Landed at Bombay when I got the news that I had become an Uncle a.k.a "Mamu" . My Sis was blessed with a baby boy.

More updates to follow........

Atlast the rain gods said enough is enough and pulled down the flood gates stopping the rains. Getting the opportunity to go out we decided to go to Greenwich. Myself, Nins and Vaibhav made our way towards our destination Greenwich.