I wanted to post this for 2-3 days but lazy. I had nothing important to do on Monday so was reading old mails. I happen to see the mail taht I had sent to Ashok (FIC HR) immediatley bfore the offer was rolled to me. There was a column for Reason(s) for Leaving and I had put “Not good exposure to Technology”. What a joke. I never faced so many challenges in any MicroStrategy prject in my whole life till now. Loblaw came out to be best of best.

I travel to and fro office with Mayuresh as there is immense pain in last three toes if I drive (and good for both of us as we stay in same building). On 3 km stretch of inner ring road there is just one place to take U turn, so road is jammed durin peak hours near taht u turn. One can pass through the jam in 30-60 second (50 m stretch). Well, the scooty in line of my bike around 20 meters ahead of me skidded off on sand which had become line mud due to heavy rains very early morning. Mayuresh asked me to pick up the scooty. I was pretty afraid of picking up the bike due to the weak joints after accident and moreover I was not confident of picking up. This female had skidded off exactly the same location where I met accidnet, just another side of road.

We were destined to meet accident. Mayuresh had mood to have good tea and in whole area there was only one good place to have good tea : Hotel Gangotri. But we had to take a conventional, longer and heavily trafficted route to reach there. Generally, we take a short cut so as to avoid traffic. Around 70 meters away from the signal, he was at 55-60. He applied break. That was late braking, at least as per me. My braking is very smooth, specailly I know I have to stop. (common, it is red lights, I cna’t ram into the cars and jump signal). Street lights were not working. Immediately after braking, bike ntered into a proper (and very dangerous) mud area around 20 meters long. Bike skidded mildy and he gain control of bike once again as Mayuresh released break. But he again applied break as he had to stop. Everytime he applied break bike skidded and everytime he released brakes he gain control. Bike was travelling in zigzag. This happened 7-8 times. He could not let bike brake relased and go smoothly as we had reached very close to the cars stopped at red lights. Finally he applied full brakes. Bike skidded and I fell off. While trying to jump (and land safly being injured in right leg), I strained my right thigh a bit. Bike got some scratches on leg guard and mirror. We escaped unhurt, lickily. One thing I must say, the accident was aviodable but Mayuresh handled it extrenely well too.

[19th July]
Hut – Get away in Hindi

I’m fond of Domino’s pizza and never been to Pizza Hut which is a even closer than Domino’s. But I thoguht pick up some pizza from Pizza Hut. I was told that it would be ready in 16 minutes.

Something I must say, Pizza Hut is more process oriented and people with smile. Pizza Hut Cash register is a chaos. They keep change in pockets. Mostly forget to or just don’t give remaining change. And Pizza Hut is a proper Dine in Restarunt, where as Domino’s is a Self Service. BTW, Koramangala branch is trying with a proper Dine-in concept. But, I still like Self Service.

Well, 27 minutes had passed and my patience was running out to wait. Someone named Kishore came and said that there was something wrong with Pizza cooking and he would require 5 minutes more to get it done. Damn annoyed of losing sight of my Credit Card for payment as the phone line at the cash register was not working, his refest just freaked me out. I just insisted taht I would rather like to goto Domino’s and I asked him to cancel credit card payment. With persitent request he obeyed. I got a VOID SALE credit card receipt and left. Lucky, I was saved from eating pizza of Pizza Hut. Soemthing that I have liked on Pizza Hut is Garlic Bread Spicy Supreme, but they have chnage the recipey since I had for the first time at Hyderabad. It is not so Hot anymore and they use big pieces of Green Chillies. I really miss that.