First overseas travel

Dec-22, this was the day I was expecting for so long. It was the day of my first overseas travel. All the purchases, phone calls etc are done and I was ready to take my flight. Everything was a new experience.

Check-in, immigration, security check... so many checks before we enter the Artificial BIRD. Fortunately my flight(Jet Airways) was on time. Boarded the flight by 00:30 AM on Dec-22 and it took off by 1:20 AM. Transit was at Brussels(Belgium), it is here we could find the chillness of the weather. It is around 4 C, still couldn't manage it.

We four from our company were travelling in the same flight. We reached Newark @ around 11:40 AM. While reaching the place of stay it is around 1 PM. The same day myself, with Stalin and few other colleagues (Kumar, Arun, Kumar) went to Times Square and saw the tree decoreated for Christmas near Rock Filler building. Wandered around the Times Square for few hours.

Sunday (23 -Dec) total rain, which made us to stay back in PG. Morning went to a nearby Church and attended the MASS over there. Beautiful and peacefull church. Dinner at Indian Street, Journal Square. Had some spicy Andra food.

Monday (24-Dec) :Obviously my first day at work in Pershing. A bit late to office the first day itself. Literally the office is empty as it is festive season in US. One of my colleague (Ravi Kumar Lavadi) took 4 of us (Me, Naveen, Arun and Sendhil) to his house at Butlake. It was really a dream house. Wonderful independant house, with all facilities. He has dreamt of his house and each small things in his house are very beautiful. He took as to Bridgewater Venkateswara temple. Nice temple with large number of people. Nice evening at Ravi's house.

Queensland - Team Outing (28-May-07)

I am coming back to blog again about a team activity that happened recently in my team.:)

After a long time we went to a team outing on 28-May-07 to Queensland.
For all of us the very word of "HAVING FUN ON A WORKING DAY" has pumped up the spirits :).
Nearly 30 people started from our office by 11:15 Am and reached Queensland by 12:15 (courtesy: Traffic on the way).
As we entered the Theme park, the first ride we enjoyed was the FREE FALL. Good ride at the entrance.
Then we had a list of rides that I enjoyed much. Go Carting, Centrox (this ride is available in only 3 places in the world. Facts given by the Queenslanders).
After having the whole lot of fun for the entire day, we started our journey back home at 8:15 PM.

In our everyday life, we come across lot of comical things and situations. That is what happened to us. On our way back after a 20 minutes drive we had a road
splitting into two. One on the right and the other on the left. None of us(including the person driving the car) were not sure about which road to proceed.
After thinking for few seconds, we decided to take the road on the right. Another 15 minutes drives made as realize that we are heading towards Queensland again :)))
It was real comedy expirienced LIVE.

It was refreshing, to get some time out of work and enjoy with team :)