Birthday Bash and ZNMD

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, The movie we guys wanted to watch, cos we guys too live by the same principle. Thanks Raghu for booking the tickets, and thanks to Reagan for making it. Last time Reags commented on FB that he will fly down from Canada if we went for a movie together and it did happen. 

3 Birthdays in one week, why wouldn,t there be a celebration.

Planning to nominate 2nd week of July as Pirt week. 

Unfortunately out of the 5 guys gathered, 3 of them were Birthday Boys, So Ram Charan and Arvind couldn't deliver some Birthday bumps to them.

Great Movie & Yummy pastry, and it did not end there, we guys had a  lavish dinner and we finished the day with a long drive. 

PS: Pirtans We are lagging behind in our target for 2011

Shankar's Madhuve

Marriages are occasions where I dont know how to wish the groom. Should I congratulate him or wish him luck. I just say " All the best mate". Here is the glimpse of the the marriage for all who missed it (Ehsaan, Loy and others).

This weekend we will be having a general meeting and the main point of discussion would be on whether Shankar should be sacked from PIRT or not. I think it would be wise if we sacked him after his treat!! Well guys lets not find some happiness in other man's pain, cos we all have to go through that pain, unless we decide to be a bachelor for life like Ram Charan.

Official PIRT Attendance: Vinutha, Naveen, Ram Charan, Khalid, Raghavendra, Srikanth, Shuaib, Arvind and how can we forget the man - Shankar

Raghavendra's Birthday !!! :)

12th July

" Happy Birthday Raghu "

1 done, 7 pending!!

If you guys are wondering what is it, its Shuaib's treat. He got a new job, bike, laptop, mobile, etc. He might have got a lot of new stuff but he is still happy with his old "Friends". Here is a quick look at our First Dinner party in 8 years. Wondering why it took that long, probably we guys had to grow up to go out in the nights.

Good get together, nice dinner and a night walk in commercial street, which is healthy to our eyes. Hope there are more such days or nights to come.

Shankar's Engagement

Feb 6th


Shankar has stepped to the next level.

Srividhya & Shankar

Pirtans Wishing Luck to Shankar

Fun Session

Like always we guys had fun, Thanks to Raghu, who came from Hyderabad. Thanks to Narasimha's Guest appearance. Thanks a ton to Naveen's French Kiss Beard and Many thanks to Vinod Kambli. Last but not the least, Thanks to Shuaib for not coming.

Now Pirtans, be ready to hear all kinds of excuses from Shankar for not attending the PIRT events. ;-)

Click here for the Engagement pics

Naveen's Treat !!! Maiya Maiya

30-10-2010

A long pending treat from our very own Naveen. Its been about 4 years since he got married a job, and at last we got what we all deserve, an excellent South Indian Thali for lunch at Maiya's. After a lot of nagging and pressure from the Pirtans, Naveen, our Delivery Manager decided to treat us on 30-10-2010. All of us (Arvind, Ramu, Raghu, Sriki, Shankar, and Shuaib) were ready and there was no update from the Ultimate-Man Ambro and all of us thought this is a April fool's Treat, just like the April fool's Trip that was played well by Naveen.

Apparently Naveen was busy and late Morning we got a call from him and all of us were relieved that we dont have to pay for what we eat. 

The Unlimited Meals that was served there was more than what we could ask for. After lunch all of us were so full that we all sat outside for some while. All our stomachs were about to Burst.

Since he has finished his vital role for his current profile he is now promoted to "Delayed Delivery Manager "from "Delivery Manager". Lets all consider this as a promotion.

Its now time for other pending projects, Pirtans who have not yet delivered will be directly reported to Naveen. So, go ahead and perform your role, all your promotions are waiting.

Raghavendra's Birthday !!! :)

12th July

Raghu!! Its time for u to feed us the cake.

Many more happy returns of the day !!!

On this sweet day, may god bless you and send more angels down to earth to protect u...

Wish you success and prosperity in life and hope u get the best of everything, because you deserve the best!!

Bowling

Shuaib's Birthday Bash at Amoeba.

It was supposed to be Shuaib's Birthday Bash and RamCharan, Srikanth, Raghavendra and Arvind Made it. To the funny side, Shuaib did not turn up!

Ramu, Arvind and Raghavendra at Amoeba

Any sport is always fun and all of us were bowling together for the first time. Though only the four of us made it, we had some good fun.

Scorecard at the end of 10 rounds

R= Ramcharan, S= Srikanth, A=Arvind, R=Raghavendra. Srikanth won the game with 85 points.

A small Footage of the happenings and the miss happenings.

This will give you all an idea of what you people have missed. Hope the others make it the next time.

After Bowling Snack at Mc Donalds.

Aal izz wel......

One fine day, Shuaib from the planning and the motivating department had planned for a movie: 3 idiots and it was scheduled on the 3rd of Jan 2010. The Pirtans who so ever wanted to come had voted in the blog and our Analyst-Advisor RamCharan Booked the tickets online.

On Jan 3rd we watched 3 idiots at *ex cinema

The movie was great and we all had a great laugh. It was a good mixture of college life, friendship and life after college. The movie showed how eager two of them were to meet their third friend.

It also showed how eager we were to meet

The movie was about 3 engineering college students and their college life... so what better group can watch this movie than us: 6 engineer friends. The funny part about this is, during interval everyone went away and got snacks for all... and there were so much that it took long time to finish it.

Aal izz wel

We don't think we could have enjoyed this movie with any other group, as every character in the movie had a resemblance to someone whom we know from our engineering life. The movie was like going back in time and watching our own college life... only that we were not in a hostel and none of our college mates committed suicide.

Lunch at Ullas

After the movie we stopped at Ullas to fuel ourselves and it was a great time spent with friends. When you are with your pals, you can always say "aal izz wel"

More pics

Birthday and New Year Clebration

We celebrated the New Year along with Priya's Birthday who was born on the 1st Jan. Srikanth, Raghavendra, Shuaib, Ram, Reagan, Arvind and Priya went to Barista on MG road, where Priya treated us.

Pirtans got her a cake and also played a "Happy Birthday" song at Barista. This is our first celebration of 2010.

Since Ramu's new initiative, there will be more of such celebrations.

Cauvery, Chennapatna, Kanva reservoir and Muthathi

Trip to Cauvery and Muthathi is another venture of the PIRT. It was a one day trip and Raghavendra, Srikanth, Naveen, Shuaib, Arvind, Ram Charan and Reagan (From left to right in pic) all came together for this.

The Pirtans planned for a 2 day trip. The planning went on for more than a week. So many calls, messages, mails and conference calls were made for the "Saturday-Sunday" trip. Even on Friday night we were not able to decide on the destination, mode of transport and the people who are coming. It was so funny. We simply could not decide in spite the talks and chats . We would agree on something and after a day it would get scrapped. Then on Saturday we decided that we will "just go" somewhere and decide about the destination. That was am awesome idea. On Saturday we called and asked Reagan and Shuaib to get their cars and both agreed, so one problem was solved. By saturday night 7 of us had confirmed.

So, on the dawn of Sunday we just left......

We did not know where to but just took a direction and we hit the highway. On our way we took few detours and explored the roads and you can see what we came up with. We saw some amazing landscapes and empty places which we had for ourselves.

Kanva Reservoir (above) was one of the places that we visited. The weather there was amazing and the when we were on the reservoir we could see the horizon (below) as there were no buildings and we could see the rains in the distant. Slowly the passing clouds came over us and we all had to run for shelter.

The reason we had a get together was to decide and plan for a 2 day trip. Select the place, transport, the dates and the people who are coming. We had so much fun that we totally forgot about the motive of the trip and did not plan about the trip until we stopped by to have tea on our way back.

It was not the best season to visit the Cauvery/Kaveri but she was as elegant as always. Though this trip was not planned it was far better than all of our planned trips. Only when you plan you know what is right. So, nothing went wrong and we just drove randomly and enjoyed the freedom. This was actually a "Pre-trip Planning session": A trip to plan about a trip.

These are two unique feature of this trip and that is the speciality of PIRT, no planning but effective execution.

Its good to have friends, its great to have good friends, its greater to have so many good friends and its greatest to have so many good friends for 7 years.

Photos from Sriki's Camera
Photos from Arvind's Camera
Photos from Reagan's Camera

Go Karting

One of the outings after PIRT was formed; Go Karting at Patel's Inn in RT Nagar. Ramu and Arvind planned to meet and they had to make a choice between Go Karting and Bowling. Soon the word spread to all Pirtans and all decided to go for Karting.

Reagan(7), Nishad(2) and Shankar(8)

Shankar and Nishad taking the sharp cure in a heated race.

Ram Charan trying to give a lap lead to Arvind.

Race between Shankar, Raghavendra and Nishad.

Highlights of the video:
1:04 Raghu's Skid
1:31 Shankar bangs in to tire wall
2:18 Starting of the "Climax"

Commentary: Reagan, Ram and Arvind

More Photos

After the races, we all had lunch together and had fun there too. Later we went to Narasima's house and there Narashima was treating us like guests and giving us a lot to eat and drink but we were all full by then. We hung there for some while and then left.

Farewell 19-05-2006

One of the best part in my life: Engineering

The four years of engineering went by so fast. Academically what i remember is for the first month of the semester nothing is done (we just wait for our previous semester results), then starts the first internals. Three internals with a gap of a month and in no time 3 months are gone. Now there is cricket, throw ball and other stuffs in between these months. Three months have passed in a blink. Then is the lab records, assignments and lab internals in the fourth month and at the end of the fourth month starts the study holidays and lab externals and continues to the fifth month. Fifth month we have our Externals. and finally our semester holidays for a month. In no time a semester is over and the waiting game starts again.

When I joined East Point, I never thought that these four years will be happiest years of my life. I loved the company of my friends. Am proud to say that the Friendships that i have made in my engineering is now more than 7 years old. Its very hard or rather impossible to have so many friends for such a long time. Though I have been close to a very few of them, i have also had a good time with others. I will never forget our IS Cricket team, which will walk into the ground without any practice and invariably walk out with a winning note. The only team (out of 17 teams) who had girls in their cheer group. The days in which we played late and did not get and source to get back home. On one such day we took the brick tractor to reach Avalahalli after winning a cricket match, the days we cheered for our throw-ball team, the walks from our college to Bidrahalli bus stop was so much fun every single day, the bus rides in the college bus that was filled with chattering mouths and non stop FM, the days we bunked classes using sports, culturals and ISE forum as excuse, the days we argued with our lecturers, the days when we were thrown out of our classes, the days we got caught for something, the days in which we were late to class, the days in which we made fun of our lecturers, the days when we played hand tennis with our class mates in the class during breaks, the days when we struggled not to sleep in class after the lunch break, the days when we ate our lunch during the class hours, the days when we couldn't control our laughter in class, the days when our friends got caught for something and the way we laughed about it, and lots more.

those fearless days of youth are gone. If I could rewind time then I will come back to relive these days!!!

With time memories fade, but not the ones like the birthday treats and birthday bumps, the fun we had in ragging the juniors and the frolic we had after getting caught, the mass bunks, the Kannada and English classes which we never attended, the break time chai ritual, the shared egg puffs and mountain dews, the group studies, the internals, the internal questions, the corridor talks with other class students during breaks, the prayers that i sang in others ears during assembly, the holidays, the naughty pranks, the bike rides and drops, the exams and its fear, Visiting friend's place, the 3hour lab periods which we finished in 1hour, the fights, the rackets in class, the rumors, the celebrations, the long queues for paying examination fees, the last minute preparations, the last glances of the books which we never opened after the exams, the 3hour exams where i couldn't control my pee, the tension of exam results, the shameless laughs shared after having a back or bad results, the revaluations, the ever postponing assignment dead lines, the unsubmitted assignments, the talks during class hours, the discussions about previous day's match and movies, the happiness in making other class students jealous, the friendship bands, the smses, the gud mrng and gud nite msgs, the movies, the things we shared, the stupid jokes, the pulling of others legs,

Those happy old days are gone but not out of my heart

I thank you all who has been a part of this journey.
I wish I can be a student again and meet our friends every day!!!

I have failed to make much better memories after the farewell. All of these are making me live another day.

Farewell Photos (high definition)

An Irish Blessing to all of my FRIENDS

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.

Marriages Of Friends

Click here for Invitations

1> Bhavya's Wedding

Place: Bangalore
Date : Feb 2008
Attendance: Vinutha, Swarna, Nishad, Arvind, Khalid, Shuaib, Savitha, Shwetha VV, Chaya, RamCharan.
Pictures will be updated soon

2> Savitha's Wedding

Place: Bangalore
Date : 23 May 2008
Attendance: Mahendra, Shiva Kumar, Arvind, Bhavya, Vinutha, Rajendra, Reagan, Ram Charan, Nishad, Swarna, Chaya, Prasanna.
Pictures will be updated when available

3> Chaya Rani's Wedding

Place: Bangalore
Date : 29 May 2008





Attendance: Shuaib, Nishad, Arvind, Srikanth, Shankar, Raghavendra, RamCharan, Ganesh, Swarna, Savitha, Bhavya, Shwetha Rithisha.

After a long time we friends met and the occasion that united us was Chaya Rani's Reception, we all had great fun and it was like a great get-together. All of us had dinner together and stayed late and enjoyed each others company, wish such days come again and again....

Now Chaya don't come to conclusions and decide to marry again and again :) !!!

4>Swarna and Kiran's wedding

Place: Mysore
Date : 18 Jan 2009

Swarna's Wedding is another day in our lives that we spent together and totally rejoiced the day. RamCharan had arranged for a tempo traveler as the marriage was in Mysore, We planned for a early departure and the pick ups were well planned, but the pick ups got delayed due to a couple of people....

Though the tempo traveler had some mileage issues and ran out of fuel on the way, the journey was well relished. On our way to Mysore we had breakfast at Kamat, who actually gave us a heavy bill. The travel time was completely filled with fun and laughter. Everyone was made fun of and "pulling others legs" seemed to be the theme for the day.
Once we reached Mysore, we occupied the top gallery of the marriage hall that was not taken by anyone. The whole gallery was for ourselves and we had a great view of the reception as well. we had a ball and later had lunch together.
Since the trip to Goa in December 2005 we had not been out side Bangalore as a group and after 3 years we traveled together

Attendance: Raghavendra, Shuaib, Naveen, Srikanth, Chaya, Divya, Indhu, Shwetha Rithisha, Vinutha, Bhavya, Shankar, Ganesh, RamCharan, Arvind, Nitya.

More Photos from Srikanth's Camera

More Photos from Indu Priya's Camera

5>Nishad and Deepa's wedding

Place: Kozhikhode (Calicut)
Date : 25 Jan 2009

This trip to Calicut by car was more like a misadventure. From the day we were invited, all of us were planning to attend Nishad's wedding... but the planning took so long and many of them were not able to decide if they were coming or not. Enough time had run out and we were far from booking tickets, so we went by a car. This Road trip was amazing.

Have a close look!! this is the simplest and fastest marriage that we ever witnessed. We actually wanted to kidnap Deepa (she has a lot of Gold) but Reagan wanted to cut Nishad's fingers (he had about 14 gold rings). Man these kerala marriages !!! I dunno whats with gold and malu weddings.

Attendance: Shankar, Arvind, Reagan, Shuaib, Rajendra and Bhavya.

Photos Of Nishad and Deepa's wedding (unseen pics: PIRT Exclusive)

Photos of the "Journey to their wedding"

Photos of Nishad's marriage and the voyage

?> Rajendra Malviya's Wedding

Place: Bhopal, MP
Date : ??/??/ 2008
Attendance: Nil

This is why you should always invite your friends to your marriage, see the video and u will know the consequences of not inviting your friends

Cast :
Victim: Rajendra Malviya.
Assaulters: Nishad, RamCharan, Reagan and Arvind.

PS: If anyone's name left out in the attendance, please leave a comment and they will be added soon.
thank you for your cooperation

Base for the formation of PIRT

The supposedly Goa Trip which later got converted into a Karnataka pilgrimage can be said to have laid the foundation of the Pirt. It was not a great trip but the people in the trip made the trip exciting. This was one hell of a trip that was very eventful. Since it was our last year of our graduation, our class mates decided on going for a trip and Goa was the unanimous destination. Many new relationships were made, and existing ones made stronger. We got know our class mates better and in a new way, the way that we have not known before, the way they are outside college.

We were in our 7th semester (Dec 2005) and everyone knew that, this was the last semester to enjoy. I would say that everyone did enjoy to the fullest. We started our enjoyment even before we boarded the swaraj mazda. Most of them have loads of memories that puts a smile on their face. The happenings in this trip is still spoken about and laughed over and over again.

Our Gang consisted of

Students: Arvind Shekar, Chaya Rani, Mahendra, Md Shuaib, Naveen Vasudevamurthy, Nishad Mohan, Raghavendra, Ram Charan, Ram Krishna, Reagan Bhaskar, Sandeep Gowda, Shankar Naidu, Shiva Kumar, Shwetha BC, Srikanth, Swarna Sree and Vinutha P.

Lecturers: Savitha and Veena.

Places Visited:

Goa, Shringeri, Murdeshwar, Goukarna and Koloor.

Buzz word of the trip:

Ling ling ling ling.

New phrases learnt:

1> you can go play with your b***s
2> Scratching as****e
3> Who is exploiting the situation

Since Graduation most of us did not meet each other for a long time. Each of them busy at first with job hunting and later with their work. Friendship faded away, communication among us reduced. Then came few marriages of fellow mates in 2008 and 2009 which was like a reunion. That’s when we revived our relationship and knew how much we missed it. Gone are those happy days but we still can make few happy moments out of the remaining life.......

Slowly the PIRT evolved.