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July 11 Minnesota Malayalee Association PicnicIt has been a dream for me to work in US, not just for the extra few thousands of rupees I would earn, but also because I love to see places and meet faces. I had to wait an awful long time for that to come true since most of my colleagues did their trips more than once and I still was waiting and waiting. Finally things went on fine and I got my bit of luck too. I stepped my foot in a foreign soil on 8th of June, 2007.
This has been my first trip to US and hence everything here was new to me. The place where I am, Richfield, is a little remote place. Around 10 miles from Minneapolis downtown, this is a very calm and quite place. I have seen people saying that comparing to other places in US itself, this place is very dull and boring, and I seem to like the place so far for the beautiful landscape and the romantic weather. And here where I live, is full of Indians and mostly from my company itself, so that was actually helping me not to feel out of place in this newly relocated piece of land.
It was slowly getting acquainted with this place, I had no hurries obviously, and that's when my colleague Sandeep Chandramohan told me about the Malayalee association here. Sandeep has been in this place for a while and so is better acquainted with the facilities around. He wasn't sure about the details and suggested to me to search Google. Hurrey, my first search itself returned me what I was looking for.
Minnesota Malayalee Association. Yes, this is what I was looking for. I was pretty happy to see this and to know that the Malayalees here have already established an association here though it's common for Malayalees to establish an association where ever they go. This basically means two things to me. There are a few fellow Malayalees around which will help me if I need to take advices and alike. Obviously, settled Malayalees are good stores for good food.
 And secondly, good Malayalee girls. Actually this should come first, but I thought why I should give a wrong impression to you guys by saying that first. In fact, I'm pretty decent in these matters. No misunderstandings, please.Now I need a means of transportation. In this country there are a few issues I've been facing going places. One is that the addresses are so short that it's tough to figure out the routes and second, if you are lost you are lost, that's it. It's tough to find someone on the road and ask his help for directions. So the first thing I did was querying a friend of mine in the same company whether he would like to join me. His reply was that he is already going there being a part of the volleyball team and he will definitely take me there. So all set for the grant event.
On Saturday, June 30th I got up at 12 that day which was quite early considering my weekend routines. I was all ready to go for the function by 1.30. That was the proposed time we all would meet up before we go. There I met a few comrades like Baiju, Varkey etc. Most of them were married and had cars and hence transportation was never a problem. I took Varkey's car with Sunil and then we moved off.
Varkey and Sunil both are Malayalees brought up outside Kerala. So their Malayalam too was fun to hear, and I was enjoying that all the way. We reached there by 2. As you would have already guessed, the first thing I looked around was girls. My eyes really disappointed me showing me only a few kids and some obvious mothers and grannies. Guys were high in number in comparison and they were in almost all age groups. They were serving lunch there and to my surprise they served burgers, salads and a few typical American dishes and not anything in traditional Kerala style. My hopes of a good evening died then and there.
It seemed there were taking their own time before getting the whole events kicked off. So I spent my time getting to know Sunil's friends, and obviously feasting on the junk foods they were serving. Luckily they also had soft drinks and watermelons. I stuffed my stomach to the brim but kept my eyes of beer which was also being served for the evening. I kinda avoid beer mostly, I seem to be much happier without it and has developed the skills for getting intoxicated without that.
VallamkaliThe first event of the day was Vallamkali, or that's what they promised us. We had a lake there close to the park called Bush lake where boating was being organized for a nominal fees. We earlier had paid annual membership fee and the event fee and so we didn't pay anything for the ride again. The race was being conducted in aluminum canoes and each team comprised of two persons. I and Sunil decided to be a team. There were around 8 teams initially but by the time the race finished two more teams came up from the spectators for the excitement others created.
Sunil is suffering from shoulder problems lately. It was not advisable for him to put pressure on his shoulders, the doctors had strictly told him not to. So I asked him to sit in the back of the boat while I will do the rowing from front. The way the canoe ride works is that the guy in front rows hard to give enough momentum, while the guy in back equally rows as well as steers the boat. But Sunil was so low in confidence in steering the boat and coupled with the few doubts he asked on how to do it, gave me the impression that he is not going to do good sitting back. So I allowed him to sit in front, which he also wanted to do.
We were not in the first 4 teams which went, so we could see the way other teams performed and how the whole thing works. By the time we went to drive it, we were so perfect in theory. But the boat had other plans, it was steering us unlike what I was originally planning to do. Its no kid play, steering the aluminum canoe was too demanding for a seasonal enthusiast. The objective of the race is to row to one end of the lake, take a small flag which is lying there and get back to the starting location itself. By the time we finished rowing one side; we both were feeling the tremendous pressure of blood rushing through our muscles and brain and were getting exhausted really quickly.
When we reached one end of the lake, rather than the canoe going to the shore, it hit something on the bottom itself. So I asked Sunil to jump out of the canoe and get the flag. I thought, since the canoe already hit a stone on the floor it shouldn't be that deep, but the fact was the water level went quite high there, close to his waist. He got all wet when he jumped off and obviously wasn't feeling good about it. Neither was I, not because he was wet, but because of the fact that the force he gave when he jumped off was swaying the canoe wildly. At one point it seemed that the canoe might turn upside down but luckily I could manage to keep it up straight. Now that we got the flags, we started our way back.
At this point all the four teams were near close and competing highly against each other. I was confident at that time that if I could row fast, I could easily win the race. But my body power was depreciating fast and had to slow down to a very pathetic pace. Sunil was also wearing out, and the lack of pace was making it so tough to steer the canoe from behind. We then didn't try to increase the pace, though even if we wanted to we wouldn't have been able to do that anyways. We slowly moved toward finish line and we finished the game in a little over 6 minutes. We both were totally exhausted and tired, had to lie down in the grass for quite sometime to get enough strength even to loosen up the muscles. There were a female team which was also competing and amazingly they didn't finish last. So finally, in the whole team strength of ten, we finished fourth overall. It wasn't that bad considering we hadn't done that in a really long time. Actually, this was Sunil's first time.
VolleyballThe second event of the day was volleyball. Sunil was also competing as part of one team which Baiju was captaining. Varkey was also part of that team. They played really well though the other team wasn't giving them a good competition. Apart from the first 3 points which the opponent team scored first, they didn't even score a good total. They had given up the game in the first set itself, the second set Baiju's team won comfortably in a huge margin. This was the finals of the tournament which was conducted the prior week and so within this single game itself the Volleyball competition was over. Kudos to Baiju's team, it's their second consecutive win in two years. One more win next year, and the trophy is theirs for ever. Tug of WarThe next event was Tug of War. First it was organized for the women. It wasn't a planned team they were having; they just made one team out of the available few who were ready for it. And as what it happens always, one team was too strong for the other. The game was one sided with one team winning comfortably. It was fun watching, the loosing team didn't let go the rope even after the other team won it comfortably. The game gave some lighter moments during the day. That helped us to get over the fatigue we had after the boat race. For the next men's game too the same set of events happened. One team was too strong for the others, and if in case you haven't guessed it yet, I was in the weaker team. This time too the other time won in two straight direct sets, but let me tell you, they didn't win it easily. The match was a very tight one with the power battle extending over minutes in each set. That was quite exhaustive too. And before we could rest ourselves enough, we got the call for one more game. The team that won against us competed against another team in the meantime and they won again. So the team that lost second time wanted to compete against the team that lost first. So the team was all up once again, against the rope which was eating up the carbohydrates from the participants. This time too, the same sad plight happened. We lost again. This time the match was even tougher, it was quite funny when I think about it now for the reason that in between the match I got bored too and let the rope for sometime to exercise my hands. Ayways, who is worried about winning! Our aim is just to have fun. And that we did in all our ways we could. ThambolaThis is one of the two games, Mallus always do whenever they have a group event. The other one, called Anthakshari, was luckily not played. Here they improvised the existing game but not just calling out a number, but by combining that with a quiz. The organizer will annouce a question and we have to strike off the answer in the cubes if we had that. Most of the questions were like one singer singing a song and we had to find the movie in which the song was originally included. That was fun, with all these NRIs trying to wonder about the songs and the respective movies. Finally, when the game ended with the lucky participants winning a few prizes (The full housie winner got $20 in cash). Finally we had the prize distribution ceremony with the president of the association giving away prizes. Thats when I got to know that there were other events too which was organized in between, but only for kids though. Finally a few photo sessions, a lot of hi and byes. The event is over. It was an amazing day indeed. Had lots of fun, ate and drank a lot, pushed my body to the maximum physically and then got to see a few Malayalee faces. I loved the day, and is infact looking forward for the Onam celebrations from these guys itself. Hopefully, I'll get a taste of Kerala feast then. Pictures of the event are uploaded here. http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2090293096 October 03 Mysore Bike TripHow would you feel when on a Sunday morning you go for a ride in the bike on along stretch of one-way smooth road with no traffic and no signal lights to stop you? Thrilled? Yes, absolutely. That's what I felt too. A lover of long drives, a passionate traveler and a fun-seeker, in these roles which I play, I took the most of it on this ride to ecstasy. It was just another Sunday morning when we (me, Manoj and Sujesh) decided to take the best of it by going on a trip to Mysore. I thought they were talking about going on bus, was really wondering whether we will get seats on the bus since its Desera season there, and then I heard them say "bike". It could have been an easy trip, our initial expectations were that the trip would only be 100 kms one way, but only discovered it to be 150 when we already past 25 kms from Bangalore. One of sujesh's colleagues 'Nishanth' also joined us for the trip. Not experienced in long journeys and high speeds, this chap had a pretty rough time being with us. Feeling sorry for him, but it couldn't have made better. After getting up late and repairing my speedometer which wasn't working for the past couple of weeks, we started after 11 AM. After the first 25 odd kilometers which was through the roughs of Bangalore traffic, we then gained on the momentum. It was the newly inaugurated Bangalore-Mysore four lane road and it was truly a stunning road to drive on. There were little or no gutters on the road, traffic was so rare, no pedestrians, no signal lights, no sharp turnings and no police checking (Manoj owned a Kerala registration bike). Had our breakfast at around 11.30 and then we really stopped only at one place to have a drink of water and that too after two hours. We were virtually flying at a consistent 80 kmph and much above. Nishanth was asking whether we could slow down a bit, but unless I'm not confident of myself and my drive, why should I satisfy his requirement and kill the thrill of the journey? He got more scared when we saw an accident on the way, but it was when we almost reached Mysore, so the slowing down then didn't really mean anything. It was an accident when one Tata Sumo tumbled down a slope almost 2-3 times. Hope nobody was hurt; we had to leave the place since it started drizzling then. We reached Mysore by around 3. Heard that the place would only open at 3 PM. So we decided to have lunch. Parked the cruisers infront of the townhall and then went in search of a hotel. Since it was a Sunday, we could find only one which served not so good food. Still had to take it for the sake of not missing a lunch. By the time we came back it was 3.15. When we looked at the entrance, we were horrified to see a really huge queue there. Its desera season, we could have expected that. Pathetically, we didn't. There was no point in waiting over there for hours to see the palace. The palace itself would consume a couple of hours and more to see. We need to rush back home too. A night drive would be much slower and dangerous due to the chilling climate and wind. Moreover, my colourblindness would trouble me more at night. So we went to Chamundi hills, spent some quality time there, took some decent enough photos went to see the huge bull on the way down and then climbed back by around 5.30. We then were going to Botanical garden, Vrundavan when we saw the beautiful Karanji Lake on the way. Nishanth was very particular about a boating there. The climate was also pretty suited for that. So we decided to cancel Vrundavan and went to Karanji Natural Park. Including the camera and parking charges, the per head consumption of ticket fare seems to be little too much for the entrance, but the boat ride pulled us in. There was also a Butterfly garden there. But to kill the excitement, there was already a huge queue for the boat ride and the butterfly garden was around one and a half kilometers away which will be closed by the time we reach there by foot. But there was one bird sanctorum in the park where we could really get in close proximity of the birds. Forgetting the chickens which were running around, we saw a few peacocks, white peacocks, hornbills, swans and a few others. That made it a worth enough trip. After a cup of coffee and a handy needed rest, we started our way back by 6.30 PM. It was late and it was getting dark. So we didn't want to go anywhere. We headed back right the same way we came in. This time it was a bit slower for the reasons mentioned before, but the ride was equally exciting. Except for a few times when we couldn't sight the road well enough, we kept on our pace. We had our dinner on the way from the famous Kamat hotel in Channapatna, bought a few handicrafts (which I wanted to buy from the last time I was there) from there. Sujesh was driving Manoj's bike for the first few dozen kilometers but since he was lacking in pace and since he wasn't that comfortable on a long ride, had to give the rider seat back to Manoj. Manoj exceeded all expectations and put forth a good enough competition with me in speed which we both enjoyed. We reached back home by 10 PM and after viewing the snaps we took, we slept off hoping to kill the tiredness by the next day morning. The road all the way up and down was so beautiful and so were the road sides. Photographers could spend a lot of time taking pictures on the way but that will kill the pleasure of the drive. Luckily, none of us were good in that and so we carried on. It was a great journey on bike, my second best in terms of the distance (my best is to Hogganakkal which is 180 kms one way). Will love to go for a ride once again in the same path. Awesome trip!!! August 22 Mannus Wedding TripMannu (Rajesh) got married yesterday, i.e. 20th of August. His marriage was fixed so long back. He was so anxious to get married. His phone bill was climbing fast. He got wedded with Leema, who is presently doing M.Tech. I wish the couple a happy married life.
Though the date was known long back, only two from Bangalore could make it. Me and Manoj. Sujesh and Anoop had some work in office and Sunny went to U.S a month back. We could only leave on Saturday night, since Manoj didn't want to waste a leave on Saturday.
We took the Island Express (Bangalore - Kanyakumari Express) and left Bangalore at 10 PM. There is a thattukada in Majestic Railway station which serves Bread Omelet. Manoj used to have it every time he takes the train, but I don't take the train so often, so hasn't seen that before. It wasn't that good as he projected it to be and adding to that it was quite costly too. The price was twelve rupees (Four slices of bread and one egg would hardly cost 5 rupees) which was a little indigestive for me.
We reached Ottappalam an hour and a half late. We were supposed to reach there by seven, but the train reached by 8.30. We had a splendid view of the Kerala scenery on the way though. As usual Manoj was busy explaining the praising that part of Kerala (Palakkad) to which he belongs. Rajesh had informed us that they will leave by around 8.30. So our worst fear was that they would leave before even we reach there. But luckily they also got delayed.
We rushed to Manoj's home which was at a distance of a five minutes walk. Took a quick bath and a haste breakfast. Manoj was on his toes, so couldn't eat much. But I took my time and had it patiently until they started to walk. I hardly could eat three idlis by that time.
By the time everyone was ready to leave for the marriage, it was 9.30. The marriage was at Kecheri which was more than an hour drive from Ottappalam. To add to the misery, the amount of travel space seemed to be too little. My gang, which then included Manoj, Rijish, Abhilash, Rajani, a sub-junior at CUSAT, and three friends of Rajesh who came from Madurai, had no room in any of the cars or bus around. Fortunately, we saw a Toyota Innova taxi cab coming the way and we hired it on the spot.
By the time we reached the Keecheri, it was 10.40. The Muhurtham was between 10.30 and 11.30. Everything went on well. I could take a few good snaps (I believe they came out nice
 ). Had a good time with him at the dais as well. It was funny to see that Mannu was shivering. For the poor guy, the tension was too much to handle. But he did make that up nicely in the photo-session. God knows how I'm going to perform at a similar situation.After that it was time for the feast. Every marriage is a crowd puller because of this phase of the ceremony. Manoj was literally crying for a lunch by that time as he missed his breakfast due to the unnecessary haste. Since Manoj got busy at that time, he couldn't join the first batch. So I thought I'll give him company. The rest of the people including Rijish and Abhilash joined the first sitting itself.
It was real rush when the second queue was getting formed. The pressure from behind was tremendous. I was getting scared of the condition of a few little kids who were standing right in front of us. It took good effort not to press upon them from the push behind. Finally when the door opened after a long time, the crowd gave a horrifying push from behind. I was also jammed between the wall and the crowd, but feared the worst thinking about the kids. Luckily I believe no one got hurt. But the poor chaps couldn't manage the seat because the oncoming traffic was too high for the kids to handle.
The feast was good, rather it was excellent. I saw pavakka kondattam served along the feast. This is the first time I'm seeing that as part of feast. Rest of the dishes was also good. Had two huge pappadams and two payasams. The ada pradaman was also excellent and I managed to have three glasses of it. So did Manoj.
But after that it was not good time for Abhilash or Manoj. They wanted to leave quickly. But the taxi drivers were told that every vehicle should leave only at the same time. They had more than an hour of restless wait before we could start our journey back.
There was a reception also in the evening. Since the venue was too close to his and Manoj's houses and did attend that as well. Ghee rice, Gopi Manchurian dry, Chicken curry, dosa and a few other dishes were served. Mannus other friends who couldn't attend the marriage were there as well. I did have a few new friendships made.
Finally by at around 8.30, we caught the same train back to Bangalore. It was a day full of journey. But the day was also filled with two huge feasts. So finally at the end of the day, it's a day well spent. Mannu, wishing you again for a wonderful life ahead. Hope you are enjoying your post marriage days. May 16 Hari weds NishaHari and Nisha got married on Sunday 15th of this May 2006, i.e. yesterday.
They had their dreams come true after nearly four years of affair. If I remember correctly, it was in February 2002 that they started seeing each other. I've been pretty close to them till then, so with a pinch of pride I can say that I know more about beginning of the relation than any of my batchmates. But after that I gradually kept off from them. It was my call; to me it was inevitable, but I'm criticized a lot for that decision even now.
Hari and Nisha had traveled a lot of south India as part of their career and in its hunt. But not together. Nisha did her project in Bangalore, then got job in Hyderabad and then later was transferred to Mumbai. Hari has been in these cities as well. Now they both are in Mumbai for quite some time from now. They sure should have had a great time there and now they are happily bonded legally as well.
Nisha had told me long back that their marriage would be solemnized during summer holydays cause there were quite a few children to attend the function. As told, their marriage was fixed in May.
Since the marriage was on a Sunday, we took the pleasure of being there one day before. My room mate Manoj has been boasting about his place Ottappalam, for quite long time now. This is a place where a majority of Malayalam movies are shot. We had planned to roam around the place on the day before and then attend the marriage on Sunday and come back. A weekend holiday in Palakkad, planned well and executed to perfection. 13th of May, though it was a second Saturday, was declared as a working day in my company as a compensation to an unanticipated holiday last month same day, which happened because when Rajkumar died on 12th last month, the mob who attended the funeral got violent and created some unfortunate incidents which disrupted public life for over a day. (Phew!! that was quite a long sentence
 )We reached there on 13th morning. After a good refreshing bath and refreshments, as usual we got late for starting off. Luckily Manoj could arrange two bikes for us. We were four in number, me, Sujesh, Manoj and Sunny. We started off to Nisha's home first, because Sunny was leaving the same day to Ernakulam. Since he doesn't attend functions on Sunday because he has to attend the church, he decided to meet Nisha the day before marriage.
One bike was a new Unicorn; the other was an old Bajaj KBZ. The KBZ was too old and poorly maintained that he hardly hit the 60 kmph mark, the gears were slipping, the brakes was hardly there and not to mention the missing horn and the rear view mirrors. A journey that would take hardly half an hour took around one hour to make.
We met Nisha at her home at around 11 AM. The home was just awakening itself for the D day. She was in a casual dress, there weren't much guests around. And the guy who is supposed to help everyone around, her brother, couldn't make it from middle east due to non-availability of leave. We stayed there for half an hour, teased her a little, shared new stories about ourselves and then wished her all the best and left the place for an adventurous day ahead.
We then decided to go to Keezhoor. Manoj told us that this place is in the background in a lot of movies and is a beautiful place indeed. We reached there by around mid-day when the sun was in its glowing best. It's a place which is full of mountains and valleys. There were paddy fields a little quite far and the whole place was looking remarkably beautiful.
We took a lot of pictures from there. For one snap, I climbed one steep rock and then was stuck there for sometime because I couldn't climb back down. Then I decided to take the risk and then climbed down some how. It really scared the shit out of me.
By the time we came back to Ottappalam, it was 3 o'clock. So we went to a hotel called Choice to have our lunch. It was a pretty good hotel and for the outstanding food they serve, it was exceptionally cheap as well. Felt so good to have delicious homely food from outside after a long time. To me, the food I get in Bangalore is pathetic. Even the kerala restaurants here don't serve good kerala food.
What would a typical keralite do after a tiring morning and a heavy lunch? Sleep. Yes, we couldn't travel any longer and decided to go to Manoj's home and sleep. By the time we wake up, it was evening 6. Then we decided to rather stay at home and organize Manoj's computer. His machine was having voice issues and the folders were all so disorganized. Sunny was also getting late to leave. Manoj went to drop him. And by late evening Anoop kurian also arrived.
The next day morning, me Manoj and Mannu went to the near by temple. It was the same place where Manoj's sister Mini's marriage was solemnized. Since we were going to the temple, I borrowed one mundu from Manoj's dad which I decided to wear for the marriage as well. I always like to wear mundu. I feel keralites look good in kasavu mundu rather in any other dress.
We met Lekshmi on Ottappalam bus stand. I had asked her to come there since she was alone and couldn't go alone to the auditorium. We reached there in time, 10 minutes before the muhoortham. There we met Sachin, Sujith, Sreekanth, Prem, ... and handful of juniors. Female section was very weak. There were only three Dhanya PK, Dhanya Menon, Simi Menon.
The marriage was solemnized nicely. Me and Sujith took enough pictures. As a matter of fact, we were having competition there to see whose photos were looking better. We had a splendid time there. The feast was also good. And I did make a lot of noise and show-off with Lekshmi's new handy-cam. She said the video has turned out to be fine. I'm waiting to see it.
Lekshmi left immediately after marriage since she had to go to Trivandrum. We then got a call from Anup Vijayan that he is on his way. So we waited for him. Anup reached by around 3. He had his lunch and then we started our group discussions. In the mean time Sujith wanted to have some liquor, so we all went to Toddy shop. Almost as a pledge, I had stopped it years back, so I didn't touch. So did most of us except Sujith and Anup.
After sharing some light moments there we all parted. Sujith went to Thrissur to catch his train to Chennai, Anup and Sachin went to Palakkad, me Sujesh and Anoop retuned back to Ottappalam and by evening we boarded our train back to Bangalore.
Altogether it was an enjoyable journey and a memorable weekend. Thanks for Nisha and Hari for getting married :D. And best wishes for a very delightful lifetime too. Enjoy !!! March 15 Fly Like a Bird - ParasailingParasailing was one sport I only watched on TV. I used to love it. So when I got a chance to do it here in Bangalore, there is no second thinking.
It was organised by Care Adventures Unlimited, an adventure promoting organization established in Bangalore. Me, Remjith and Vinod Menon decided to go the moment we saw their website. We got confirmation last week and we were all set to go.
Remjith and Vinod took their bikes. I left mine at Domlur since three bikes were unnecessary for 3 guys. Me and Remjtih started off at around 9 from Domlur. We picked up Vinod at 9.45 and reached Jakkur Aerodrome shortly after.
From the distance we could see people doing Parasailing. They were riding so high. It was exciting as well as scary. I started to wonder how would it feel like looking down from so high up.
We saw the organisers there and paid the fees of 350 to participate. They took us to the other end of the aerodrome. There were a few other people who were doing parasailing. So we could observe first how it was done and how safe it is.
Of course it was safe, they were having a great time too. Only thing is that a guy who was very tall had a tough time getting off the ground. May be he was lil too heavy or tall, or may be he didn't do the procedure correctly. But that didn't scare us. We were ready to go.
The first guy they picked up was me. I dont know why. But then I had no issues either. I quickly got geared up. The parachute got tucked up nicely and the jeep which will pull me up is ready. The jeep started moving. I started to lift up, I ran a little and then pulled up feet up. Yes, Im flying.
That was so amazing. I started to rise up, I added on velocity and slowly climbed up to 40-50 feet soon. It was so good to be so high up, with nothing in between you and the ground. The wind was blowing strong, you could see land so far across and ofcourse when you look down, you have a different feeling. To me, it felt like looking downwards from a train when its moving through a bridge.
After flying for 5-10 minutes, I slowly landed. It was a smooth landing unlike expected. I saw a few people getting down on their knees on landing. Luckily I had a great flight, or rather sailing.
Then Vinod and Remjith followed. They also had a great day. Everyone enjoyed the adventure to the fullest. By afternoon it was over and we were left with splendid memories of a wonderful sailing done in the open sky. A beautiful morning, spent in an amazing fashion. I loved it, so did they.
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