Yes, we were :)

EDIT: Pics uploaded

Zeus was extremely benevolent on us as he controlled the lightning n the showers enabling us to enjoy the trip to the max. As I was writing the last post sitting in the office waiting for the bus to pick us up, one of my cubicle partners was watching the satellite images of India and the reading the forecast for the next few days. He said tht it was written “Lightning and thundershowers for next 5 days in Ratnagiri. 100% precipitation”. Frankly speaking we all were thinking of changing the destination reading tht n infact one of the guys went back home. (Ssshhhh… don’t tell anyone tht we didn’t return him the money we took as advance for bookings). Poor poor chap!! Also damn those meteorological ‘experts’ who can’t predict properly (well not damn but tht was for not predicting correctly) coz it didn’t rain (except for a strong drizzle for around 20 minutes) for the last 5-6 days. In short, we had an awesome time at the beach n this time more in the bus.

Ganpatipule is one of the so-called best locations in the western coastal strip of India. So-called coz in the pics on sites it seems more amazing than in real life. I m not saying it is not gud but it is definitely not among the best. The main attraction for ppl (mainly the devotees of Lord Ganesha/Ganpati) thronging to this place is the swayambhu (self-originated) temple. For more info on this, u can read frm the link I had given in the last post. Though the idol n place was sometime back as it was, now the govt. to attract more visitors has constructed an artificial temple kinda structure around. Also the main beach is literally bustling with ppl littering the whole place (suckers!). Luckily we had the M.T.D.C beach to enjoy which was really clean.

The bus as usual witnessed noisy scenes but this time it was more special. It was Sarath’s b’day on the 3rd of June n so before leaving (2nd nite) some of the colleagues (who were not coming) gave him a sound beating under pretext of advance wishes. In the bus after cutting the cake he got the usual b’day bumps n the next day someone would just say “Sarath it is ur b’day today” n almost everybody would join in to gift him punches again*. Another poor chap! We have various teams in the company out of which one is almost consisting of gals n I had heard they were a dominant lot n everybody feared them. Since we guys were busy in project (yes yes now those who say I don’t work in office should hang their heads in shame :D), we never had time to show tht we rule the company. The trip n the last whole week gave us tht opportunity n mind u we … mostly myself emerged victorious. Pranks, pranks n pranks was wht we were upto n those gals agreed tht we were the SUPREME like Zeus.. he he he. Ameesh was excellent at his creative abilities n modified the song XLRI ki kudiyaan to suit the mood and wrote down 5 wonderful stanzas for the XXX ki kudiyaan **. Pradip was best at his funny self and when he vanished for around 1 hour we thought he might be taking a nap but he came back dressed in coconut/palm leaves (clothes within too) posing as an adivasi (tribal) n did the jungle dance. Swati enthralled the crowd by singing beautifully some songs by Celine Dion n one Hindi song. So all in all, everyone was at their best n enjoyed to the max :)

* Tarun n Navdeep celebrated their b’days recently. As Tarun is helping me out in the blog template he will be spared frm the bumps n Michelle, Navdeep’s teacher n myself have chalked out a plan to hit her. So she is gonna get hit very very bad. Also, Ishita n Keshi will be celebrating their b’days in next fortnight, so we have more sessions of kick-boxing coming up *evil grin*. I know b'dates of some bloggers only, so pls list ur b'dates in the comment section. Dont worry, I won't hit u if u promise to treat me with a chocolate cake like Archie.

** Pls note tht XXX doesn’t mean tht we have some *ahem* stuff here, just tht project names r not to be disclosed. :D The cam batteries died off just when we guys were ‘bout to sing. So, we had a repeat telecast of it on the company terrace. The size is too big, around 48 Mb. Does anyone know any site where I can upload this big video for everyone to watch?

Pics will be uploaded on Monday. Have a gr8 weekend :)

P.S.: Sites have been blocked here. So, orkut n e-mail frnds pls bear my absence (till we crack the firewall again). I m amazed why they left blogspot out of the firewall (might be it will have its turn too).