Sounds crazy? It might sound so for you, but certainly that is the way things work at Yahoo! Well, today we had a Quality Engineering group consisting of 160+ people gathering at Wonderla for a conference till noon and to get indulged in the fun activities later on for the rest of the day! All the Yahoos reached office an hour early to start their journey to Wonderla, which is about 50 kilometers from the office locality. Folks were already in the fun mode and many started having fun while … Read more… about Conference at Wonderla!
Tirupati & Srikalahasti visit
On the early morning of 6th, I started my journey towards the world renowned temple of Sri Venkateshwara in the holy city of Tirupati. This is hardly an hour journey from the village where I spent the initial 3 days of this tour. I was at the foot hills of the temple to get the darshan token as I had planned to climb up the hill by walking all the way. Unfortunately, the officials weren’t issuing any darshan tokens as the number of people in the God’s abode were very less in number as compared … Read more… about Tirupati & Srikalahasti visit
3 days of Village life…
I am too lazy to write this post after such a relaxing and great time over the past one week away from Bangalore. Though the temperature conditions were very humid and dry, it was never felt tiresome! Well, the first three days of my visit were very much limited to Kumbhaabhishekam at Sri Venugopalaswamy temple in my native village - Kamachinnayya palle near Penumuru. There were a number of deities in the possession as the temple was renovated after a long time. I learned that the temple was … Read more… about 3 days of Village life…
Away from computers and city!
Yes.. i am planning to stay away from computers and mobiles for a week! Its nothing unusual, every year around January 15th I used to go on vacation. This year it is a bit delayed. I will be on vacation the coming week. Planning to go village side and spend some time in a calm and silent environment. This is a kind of refreshing and rejuvenating period to keep me going for the next one year! In the past few years I am getting more and more acquainted to computers and the electronic gizmos. I am … Read more… about Away from computers and city!
Cricket Mania – Y! vs Y!
Today we played a cricket series. It was Yahoo! Vs Yahoo!, yes its Yahoo! QE team Vs Yahoo! Ops team. The venue was National College play ground at Jayanagar. We played the game in a 3 match series comprising of 10 overs per side in each match. Yahoos had turned up in a pretty good number for both the sides by 1:30 pm as we had planned earlier. We lost the toss in the first match and Ops team decided to bat first. We were able to contain them to 50 runs off 10 overs by bowling first. Chasing a … Read more… about Cricket Mania – Y! vs Y!