Trips Home

Tart just finished her vacation. and is lookin fwd to her next... maybe in february. esp with airfare bein so high..

Eco is off to Blore an then to kerala... his total travel time is a staggering 19 hrs!! where travel time is 2.5 + 12 = 14.5 hrs

TRIP 4

This was a 3 day trip. factually, nothing much was achieved.. We went big bazar shopping, had an obscenely expensive and shamelessly delicious dinner at Curries. This was our first dinner date. then we celebrated a birthday.

The dinner
Italian + Mexican. with a discount cuz of the IIM id card. predictably, the stomach becomes full way before the tongue calls it a day. Half the lasagna went home with us

The Dog

Achievements Update

Good things first. After much speculation Eco lands a Day 0 shortlist. Some Aussie bank with great promises. Then another one.

Now he worries if he will convert the best bankin job on earth..

No suspense there, He does.

The money, of course, is going to be superb. In Eco's own words : "richest men in India... UN General Secretary.. Cayman Islands.. Swiss Bank " I think i fell asleep somewhere here.

Then there is the question of PPO (paathi

padhichappam ooone-joli) . However Tart draws inspiration from the following illustration.

There is something so infinitely masculine about the job profile. One wonders why they even hire women. Take a look at one of their offices :

One Word : phallic!

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Tart gets her project ... Nothing fancy.. She likes to block it out.. I'll leave you with some indicative images...

Neglect

There comes a time when things must be decided with a certain sense of finality. Eco has decided not to blog here. He feels i have destroyed the sanctity of the place. !! Coming from a man whose total contributions would fill half a square of toilet paper. No doubt, he can write , and write well ona good day. But conscious neglect deserves a reward.
I am seriouslyconsidering converting this to rant about my life's ambitions.
ECO, if u read this, we can discuss this

The third trip

This one was impromptu, expensive, and needless to add, a semi disaster.

Bangalore is merciless to poor tourists.

on the uspide, tart and eco had their first flight together , in a teeny kingfisher flight.

As we stood on the red carpet, dripping water on the golden letters, i was busy cursing everyone i could think o f, especially the man in question.

On Others

Today, i spent the major part of my morning idling away time at work. .This activity caused me to wonder why people were getting married. every where i looked i saw orkut profiles of ppl from school and college who were getting married, having babies, and generally declaring love.

In a land far far away

This is the report on my last trip. I wasnt alone this time. and i have lost track of it if i am signed in as tart an eco or myself :P

i visit Eco again. it was a day trip this time.

I am planning my next trip.

i am wasting my life

i cancelled my flight plans.
my phone connection was cut.
i slept last night with thought of eco.
i have to study
my seminar was fun
coffee with ramaraju

The training From HElllllllllllLL

aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. . . .

tart and eco barely speak

tue an wed i was too busy crying in office at 11 pm etc. . . eco had exams. . .man!!!!

he thinks he may have flunked one. i had a test...
i have the coder neck and back pain. . . . i am so surpised. . .

Busy times for tart

The mad rush hasnt started yet. but the buildup is strong.

i am faced with many issues : debt , atm trip... salary beind a week away, a lonely birthday, intense training, weird ppl, a petulant lover(who'll kill me when he reads this!)

Eco, on the other hand is busy with his work too. but he still finds time to read Hp, talk to tart for hours on end and get drunk.

speaking about the vice, i have made a bet with eco about it. 500 here i come. . and speaking of coming, geographically, i mean(perv!) i am thinking about bringing fwd my sept end trip to ahd. sept 29 30. . . or maybe aug 2nd week? what say you, oo forces of destiny.

i also spent my saturday reading harryp , being hit on by some asshole in b&c and then being shouted upon by eco for telling him about it.

so much for cute guys. . no use. best to stick with the cute one in hand than the fat one in the bush.

and then there was the one that puked. . . i wish to maintain the blog as undefiled. i dont want to mention the unmentioned asshole : aditya.

siiigh. feelsgood to write. purge out of the heart the lurking hate. i feel cleansed.

TART

Training Trepidation

tart is scared.
of 14 hour days

at 0845 hrs wen she checked her mail, the firstthing she saw was the one asking her to register 4 the 600 hour 3 month course that wd end on 18 october. and that she did
sasw some u tube
bathroom break! 1113

The one that was supposed to be written together

July 28 2005

- nah. i'm no good at histories and embellishment.

July 14 15 2007

Tart and Eco meet

and this is how they met. .

i saw a camel on my way from the airport to-skipping the emptional details, i shall jump straight into the " OMG" part

i saw the insti by night, and as eco readily agrees, it can be intimidating.. very! the bricks in the beginning stretch can be a bit tiresome. especially for those who are used to walking on level surfaces(in high heels). But hello ! who's complaining. i'd walk on hot coals to be able to study here. so whats doddering on 8cm heels ?!

my fist stop was eco's dorm, which i must admit was a bit on the messy side - as in, omg there are broken lamps and brooms all over. his room, however wasn't just messy. it was dirty too. there were enough cookie crumbs on the table to feed an army - of ants, who, for some mysterious reason were yet to find out about this wondrous food source.

the balcony was what i liked the most. 3 hinged panels of wood that open to make your whole room a balcony! beautiful. there was a neem tree that formed the entire first floor view. of ourse, this beaut is lost on eco for 2 reasons :

1. loads to study

2. " oho, neem ano? i know only tennge and mango.. chakka. . . that is... manga , no no. . .er. . mlave. .... OMG dont tell anyone i said that"

the highlights of the trip included walking up the mini- harvard steps :P , meeting aditya, the tunnel and watching cheeni kum (dc++ amazing mone!!) the movie was a fun affair. lots of laughs. and a heavy dash of sarcasm. i wonder why it flopped though.

that about covers it all

oh. we also ate a lot of junk food and saw some chappie's version of Jeeves and wooster.

Tart

The bug bites

Tart is suffering from fever cold etc

so is eco.

boring blog this is

Tart's update on Eco

Eco is in the coolest place: "dont u wish u were here?"

this post shall not deal with the place, but with the person.

The evolution of ECO

day 1 : hectic pace . . .free at 145 am!! hes lovin it
day 2 : hectic pace. . . he is given full courses work !! and work 4 monday an sat
and so on an so forth!
Eco loves his schedule. eco loves his food

gender insensitised abid eh on girl friends : 3 of their mallu gals are A_a . . .
Aparna, incidentally will join Tart's place in July. also, she never replied when tart messaged her. hm hm..

Working Day 4 : food isnt all that great. . QM prof is the best!!!!
Mallu men are slightly off centre. . eco's continued discoursese on workEx guys

4 MECians in eco's place. . . WOW!!! and tons of mallus.

The journey continues. . .Assignment runs. . .Club runs.. . .Life is Fun. Eco is sometimes stressed. .one day he went without his prep. but hes loving it. . and tart is too!

After the recess

There has been a long gap in this monologue.
Tart is busy. doing what, she wonders. . ech day mercilessly fuses into the next.

Daily Schedule _ using company transport

0700 reveille
0800 leave
0839 reach D
1030 leave D for CMC
1145 others start clamour fro break
1230 leave CMC for Del
1300 lunch
1500 leave D
1700 Leave CMC
1817 leave D
1945 Home!!!!
2100 dinner bath over
2200 sleepy call eco? nah!
2245 sleep

aaaand, with no company transport, tart leaves at 10!!! and is home by 515!!! the return trip is often with ajay choudury. who,incidentally has shown tart the insides of 3 of his pvt vehicles so far. here's to more! however, tart and her friend arch are slightly embarassed by the fact that he gives them a home drop, even though they vehemently ask him to drop them on the way to his place.. . they are not going to use ajay transport today.

One week Over

Tart has completed a week in office. 6 days rather. and she feels that she has broken her spirit enough to actually get up every morning and report in time. Phew! what an impact

Nonsense

Distance increases affection. Why?
Because distance implies less interaction between mental energies. Which in turn leads to less conflicting scenarios when mental energy, henceforth referred to as M.E., of person A tries to counter, overpower and establish supremacy over the M.E. of a person B.


Since M.E. of A is not engaged in a constant battle of one-upmanship over M.E. of B, it gets a bit 'simpler' leading to a decrease in the magnitude of M.E. resulting in a lower energy state. Which signifies stability. So, does distance lead to stability?


eco

Eco echoes the popular sentiment

that it is bloody hot nowadays. And more so, when ur placed under duress + obligation to visit the hottest city in the vicinity.
Got back to Kochi after spending 3 days in Chennai, without a doubt the worst place i've ever been to. The adjective might be deemed to be exaggerating in nature, but the way I rate places, Chennai belongs right in the relegation zone. (wonder whether anybody else have introduced sporting terms in this manner..I've always been innovative + imaginative....... + egoistic)
The routine for these 3 steamy days involved sitting in the 1 AC room available, coming out to grab some food, and going back to the room and so on and so forth. I wasted 3 days of my precious life by going to a place that is HOT and subsequently trying to stave off the heat by sitting somewhere cold. How ridiculous. Another of my gifts is that I can sense accurately when my writing starts to get boring...


eco

Tart is in Heat

IT is hot. and when i hear shouts to end the pun i know to listen.

Tart is getting tanned. She also missed Eco. Carrying 30 kilos of luggage up down and everywhere has crapped up her muscles.

FAct Sheet

0630 reveille
0730 reveille encore
0845 pickup by mayas brother
0915 reporting Tart sees her name is misspelt verywhere,Damnednorthies and their aryanisation of everything
she then went and practised her hindi on the auto person - 24 rs . this place uses metre thank God
from there, she orders lunch at her residence (henceforth called crap ville CV)
march to the posh place. (TR)
and then to wrpa up some of her stuff from there. cut her hand on water bottle. suck her own blood.
net place in TR that is here!
She must stop now
next stop is t.i.m.e.


PS : she signed over many forms - - - hope she din enslave herself to davey jones
.

Tart

Toodles, Tart

And thus she leaves, Tart begins her journey now. Of course she is yet to finish packing her shampoo,oil, brush, etc. she is yet to wash her matted hair.

But trivial details apart, she will be gone in about 2 hours. and she is scared.

Here's wishing Echo and Tart all the very best. May they escape from cliches.


Tart

The Fellowship of the Ringless

There is nothing intimidating about moving to a new city. Not when the company provides you with accommodation. Ah but yes , then there is the fact that they still haven't told us where the above mentioned house is. And I leave tomorrow.

But griping apart, I'm moving, and I'm sure I'm happy in some deep recess of my frustrated and cynical heart. Uh uh. And then there is the fact that I wasn't supposed to join until after next mont acc to the offer letter.
"Damned be the vacation plans of the new recruits," said the pointy haired man (sorry Mr.Adams) in HR

Having personally suffered monetary losses as the Company played cruel games with my future, I am in no jolly mood, swinging my legs and waiting to join the fun crowd of geeks. my ticket home had to be cancelled. Here's the irony. They called me as we were drivin out, after having paid a huuuge sum of money to buy the ticket. 5 minutes b4, and i wdnt have had to pay 5c 4 a trip i never went on

TART