Naveen's Birthday !!! :)

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

What happens in front of the trees

Yet again, Pirt's Secret agents have got some astonishing pictures. A PIRT couple was caught red handed, at 'Paradise Park'. Unknown by the fact that they were being spied, these two were enjoying themselves. 

A Spy cam shot, which shows the intimacy between these two

The other photos are too disturbing to be listed for public view.

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.

Naveen's Birthday !!! :)

26th October

Happy Birthday Naveen!

We are always with you!

Another slideshow by Smilebox

Ramu's Treat !!! Yummy Yummy

It was yet another celebration at PIRT. Pirtans gathered to celebrate a joyous moment, Ramcharan is now a permanent employee at SAP and he treated Shankar, Naveen, Srikanth, Shuaib and Arvind at Konark. All of us were more than happy to spend sometime together and have a great chat over the lunch. Like usual our meeting started and ended with fun. This fun filled lunch not only had great menu, but good jokes and pranks. It was good to spend some time with all the close ones... though we missed a couple of our friends who are not in town.

First we all met at Konark hotel and had heavy belting of soups, starters, kulchas, parotas, side dishes, puloav, rice dishes, ice cream, cake and sizzlers

The food was perfect and all of us had a verity of dishes and stuffed us with all the things that we could eat.

And not to mention the deserts..

After the heavy food, we took a stroll in commercial street and did a bit of window shopping. We all had bought a gift for Shuaib for his birthday and we couldn't give it to him as he did not turn up for his birthday bash (he also escaped from the birthday bumps). So we went to Ramu's house and there we gifted Shuaib a watch. After having a gala time in Ramcharan's house, we all had a small walk and had Coffee at Hotel Saravana Bhavan. It was time to depart and only thing in everyone's mouth was "when is the next treat and who is treating" and also "when is the next time we all will meet".... 

Hope we have more of such good days in the future.......

* 2 points for all who attended

Wayanad and Nagarhole forest

This again was a early morning departure plan. Arvind, Shuaib, Srikanth, Khalid and Naveen were all Picked up by Shankar in the Toyota Qualis that he had booked and we all left Bangalore before dawn. Shuaib from our Motivating and planning department was fully equipped with a lot of prinouts that had the route and a list of must-visit  places.  Srikanth had brought the main equipment: the Camera, to capture all the nasty things that we do. Naveen, Raghavendra and Arvind were the advisers and helped in decision making, While Khalid was in for everything and did not want to break his head over any issue. Khalid was on duty throughout the trip and had brought 2 official mobiles and a laptop and a Reliance netconnect to work from outdoors, which we used to check scores of the cricket matches.

Our first destination was Edakkal Caves, which is considered as a protected monument by the Department of Archaeology, Kerala. It is said that the caves were inhabited by people about 4000 years back. Trekking to this cave was a up hill task as we had to walk from the parking to the foothill, then we had to climb the hill for about 45 minutes on the occasional rugged steps. We enjoyed this up hill climb as we did not know that the cave is really far away and the cave was at the top of the hill, also the view of the tall trees and company from friends kept us engaged in a lot of talk and fun. After 45 min we reached the entrance of the cave where we had to buy tickets and we thought we had reached the cave and we were wrong. We had to climb the first half of the hill from within inside it, yes! we were climbing inside the hallow hill. We were surrounded by huge boulders and after the climb we came out and the second half we had to climb from outside, at last we reached the cave. After a tiring trek back down, it was time for some tender coconut and pineapple slices.

Trekking inside the hill

Naveen and Arvind investigate the cave carvings, while Shankar and Raghavendra pay attention

By the time we reached Wayanad, we had made a list of places to see and visit in an order with the help of the map and tourist spot list that Shuaib had got. But all our plans went in vain as we were denied entry through a particular city. There was some kind of Bandh and no one was allowed to enter and the whole town was empty, with few policemen and some goons. We had to get back and there are no alternate roads or parallel roads that we can take as most of these roads are on the hills and there are only one way. All of a sudden we were left with nothing to do, but return. So, the number of places which we had to visit reduced and we made new plans on the fly.

Waterfalls is always a great place to enjoy and we did not want to miss out on that. Next we visited one of the famous water falls of Wayanad, Soojipara Falls. To reach this falls we had to take a 10 minute walk  and another 30 minute trek. But reaching this natural beauty was worth it and we all had a dip in the water.

It was already too much of traveling and exercising to our legs for one day. By the time we go to city, the sun had set and we had to find a place to stay. We munched a bit in a cake shop and then we had dinner from a Udipi hotel, to get to the hotel we again walked a lot. Thought we did not get a great place to stay, we could watch ending of a Cricket match, which India won with an exciting ending.

Next day we got up early and set off to visit other places. First we went to Kuruva Island, an Island formed due to separation of a river into two parts and that again joins to form a single river. We got to see some birds on our way. The roads were horrible and stony. From there we went to The Pazhassi Raja Tomb (below), which was the last place visited in Kerala.

 We were all a little disappointed about not visiting many places in Kerala because of the bandh. So, Naveen suggested we visit Irrupu falls on our way to Bangalore. There was a lot of walking and hiking to reach the falls. We had a good time here, both taking photos and posing for it.We were quite surprised to see a swarm of Butterflies that were not affected by our presence and were fluttering by us.

Late afternoon, we entered Nagahole forest reserve. Though it was a bit early, we took a Wild life Safari. We got to see Spotted Deer, Monitor lizard, Sambar, Tortoise, Wild Boar, Elephant, Black monkey and many birds. After the safari, we were driving through the forest and we saw 2 elephants on the road side and our driver stopped near them so that we could see them and take a picture. All of a sudden the elephant turned and spread it's ears and gave a small charge and we all had some nerve rattling moment before we left from there.

A wild Sambar @ Nagarhole forest that had become friendly with humans.

Photos Part I

Photos Part II

Photos Part III

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

Funny Videos and Pictures

Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Cho Chweet Ambro!!!

Guess what Ramu and Arvind are aiming at???

Sarfraz being gang banged

Nishad getting drunk on a bottle of Mazza

Ambro trying to swing.. I guess

Shuaib after 10 years. (we found him in Irrupu falls)

Don't tease these animals

Nishad Playing Tabala in Savitha Mam's wedding.

Hey ppl pick your funniest pic or video. Many more to come. keep looking for this post.

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.

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.