Trip to Amsterdam@18-19th April 2015

It's been a long time since I wrote my last blog. This blog is all about our Trip (Me and my Wife) to land of Tulips, Amsterdam.

First Day (18th April 2015)

So, as a responsible husband, I woke up early on Saturday Morning to get ready as our departure time was 07:15 AM. The journey starts in a bit unwanting way as we have to switch our seats couple of times due to booking tickets without reservation  (Lesson learnt for future trips :- Always reserve your seats while booking). Finally we got a seat in front of each other. By 09:30 we reached "Amsterdam Centraal" passing the scenic countryside landscapes and windmills.  On station, we got confused regarding trvael tickets as here , unlike other countries,  one has to buy separate ticket for Trains and one separate tickets for other channels (Trams, Bus, Metro's). Finally we reached our Hotel arnd 11:00 AM. We took some rest and left for "Kukenhoff"  at 12:15 PM.   It is very far from Centraal and it took us about 2 hours to reach the site (including waiting in the long queue at Schipol).  But all this long journey and tiring queues are worth once you see the breathtaking views of plethora of Tulips.  Whole area is filled with different variety and colors of tulips.  We took several selfies (Thanks to the Selfie Stick invention)  with the Tulips. We came back to Centraal by 7 PM and then we went to DAM Square. One thing I must say, I felt Amsterdam more lively than Brussels , Munich, Salzburg and Dusseldorf. We took the dinner at Indian Restaurant "MotiMahal" and reached back to our hotel@10:30 PM.

Second and Concluding Day (19th April 2015)

We woke up around 8 in the morning. Took the bath and left hotel at 10 AM. Somehow my mood was not good (Oh  God!! What should I do about my Capricious moody nature). We started our day with the Heineken Experience. I must say it is worth visiting as you get to know about the Brewery process and about the Heineken family. The experience concluded with the free Bier and Canal Cruise to Heineken Brand Store. After that we went to Rijksmuseum which I felt more famous for
"I AMSTERDAM" letters. Crowd was almost mad and busy in clicking pictures with those letters.
Luckily, there we got to see very interesting street dance by couple of performers. That was really good as some of the moves (Head Spin and One handed dance) were really awsome. We returned to Centraal by 5:30 PM. We ate Pizza as we were feeling bit tiring and hungry. We stayed in Centraal till 9 PM. We boarded the train back to dusseldorf and reached our home by 11:30 PM

The trip was good especially the Kukenhoff and Heineken experience.

Trip to Pune

Few days back (03/09/2010), I got a happy news that i have to fly to Pune on coming wednesday(08/09/2010) for receiving an award from my client(British Telecom). I was very thrilled and excited as BT has chosen me for such a prestigious award. Immediately, a thought of meeting Pawan (which is also in pune) strike to my mind and i called him at the same time. But after some time, i was in dilemma whether i had done the right thing by informing Pawan of my visit, as one of my very good friend Nikhil is also staying with him but due to my mistakes and egoistic behaviour we stopped talking to each other. No of questions started jogging into my mind:

How will i face Nikhil ?

Is it right to meet him ?

How will he react when we meet ?

One thing that is much needed to say that it took a lot of courage to accept your mistake and making reforms to correct it. While writing this blog, i am very happy that i showed that courage to meet my angry friend.

Day First@Wednesday

Finally, i boarded Kingfisher Airlines@4.40 PM to Pune. The Flight experience was very bad.Due to bad weather flight got some jerks and it started swinging up and down. But by God's grace, love and affection of all my readers, i landed on Pune airport@6:30 PM.

Pawan came to receive me. It was very excited to see him after a long time. He was looking smart and healthy. Hey dude, be like that and now don't put extra weight. One thing i want to mention over here is that from last few months, bonding between me and Pawan grew stronger.Thanks Bhai for your support and time in my bad times. Finally the D-Time came . I entered into their apartment@Magarpatta City and Nikhil just offered me a slight glimpse which is more than i expected in return to my mistakes and wrong behaviour which i had done to him during my onsite period. I was surrounded with a very guilty and uncomfortable feeling. I was so ashamed of me that i was trying to avoid eye-contact with him. It was around 10:30 in the night and still Me and Nikhil did not share any words. After that we started drinking beer. I managed to finish two beers but still it requires lot of improvement to match up my Guruji level@Pawan. By the end of the day, we (Me and Nikhil) just exchange few words. Thanks to Beer for that.


Day Second@Thrusday

Next day, i woke up at 7 in the morning and left for Award Ceremony. Function completed around 2:30 in the afternoon and then i left to the Magarpatta City with a feeling and motivation to do more better in my carreer. I woke up 7 in the evening after a disturbing sleep.There was no one in the apartment and the thing which i feared most in the trip happened.Nikhil came from the office and now we were only two in the house. I wanted to talk to him but words were not coming out of my mouth. I again tried to avoid eye-contact with him .

He Started conversation in a very furious mood and words "Main tujhse baat nahin karna chahta" which is expected for a guy like me. One thing i again want to mention over here is that some times your mistakes lend you into very troublesome and helpless conditions. I was not able to talk to a guy whom i talked most in college and want to talk for the rest of my life. I was not able to share my feelings with the guy who has supported me most in my life.

After some time Pawan also came from the office and he put up an idea to visit SHISHA " A Pubbing place in Pune". But as expected Nikhil refused. After some Chit-Chat between Pawan and Nikhl, he agreed to come with us. Thanks Pawan for taking him with us. Sorry Nikhil, if that event/night had wasted your time. Now what to say about Shisha. It's my advise to all the drink and fun lovers who are in Pune, please-please visit this place . It is a perfect place for booze and partying. A perfect ambience and the performance of the live band addded the more aroma, more beauty to that ambience. The gradual unconsciouness from alcohol with the soothing noise coming from the Rock band, what can one expect more in life. Finally a long-awaited event also occured on that day. First time in my life i took tequilla shots. I was feeling the sense of achievement after that. One thing i need to mention over here is that it is the pre-requisite and post-requisite of taking tequilla, which makes this drink so pouplar. The way of taking salt before drinking and then way of taking lemon after drinking made be feel excited. As i was the fresher in this tequilla adventure, i was not aware of how to take salt and other things. I know you all are thinking then who has told me all these things. Any guess? No you all are wrong. It was not Pawan. It was our little kid, Nikhil. I was amazed and shocked when he was taking tequilla shots. Then i realized that our little kid is now become a grown up. After taking two tequilla shots and two vodka packs, i started feeling unconscious. We left the bar around 11:30 in the night. I think during our way back to home i spoke some senti statements which made Pawan agitated. Aisa tha kya bhai? Finally the day ended when we slept around 1:00 AM.

Day Third@Friday

Next day i woke up around 10:00AM in the morning with a little bit of hangover. Pawan prepared a very good Poha for the breakfast. Bhai you seem to be a good cook now. During afternoon we started watching movie and doing chit-chat to each other.Now i started feeling comfortable in the Nikhil company. Thanks to him for giving me one more opportunity to rectify my mistakes. But i know, still he has not forgiven me completely. In the evening we went for much-awaited movie. Are bhaiya apne Robinhood Pandey ki " DABAANG". One thing i want to mention to all the movie goers, please watch this movie. Salman Rocks!!!!.Finally i slept around 3:00 AM in the morning after watching one more movie which is completely different
from Dabaang i.e " FIRAAQ".

Day Fourth@Saturday

Next day we have to take a cab early morning for Matheran ( A picnic Spot in Pune), so we all wake up at 7:00. We started our journey around 8:30 AM. But the start was not good as we lost the path. After travelling additional one hour we reached to the destination. The spot was very scenic. We covered various locations and finally returned to home around 9:00 PM. Then again me and Pawan started drinking.This is the time for Whisky(Glenfiddich) now.But the smell was so bad that i hardly took one sip. But nothing can stop Mr.Pawan. He ended with the two packs. During this party, we forgot to order food and all the restaurants were closed by that time. But we were relaxed as we had a great chef with us. Mr Pawan again showed his cooking skills by offering us "Chhuki hui Roti". And the tiring and exciting day ended@12:30 AM

Day Fifth@Sunday

Finally the day came of my returing back to Delhi. My friends had chosen one of the best locations for the lunch named as "SUKANTA". Hey buddies, really the food was very good. And finally i boarded the plane to Delhi@6:40 PM. During the flight i done some retro-inspection and want to share few things :

i) Mr Pawan, what a guy you are. Thanks for all your support and time during my trip to Pune. If you were not there, i cannot even think of coming to Pune. Tere saath daru peeke maja aa gaya.

ii) Nikhil, i am admitting publicly that i had done all the mistakes and i know you still angry with me. I know that it will take some time for you also to forget all the things which i had done. Please take your time. It will be very painful for me if you forgive me half-heartedly or just for the sake of forgiveness. I will wait. I want the same old relations with you (where i used to call you@anytime and lot more things)

iii) Thanks Paretha for coming with us at every location. Thanks for your time.

I want to thank God who has created the circumstances for this trip. This trip has strengthened the bond of friendship between me and laddha and i may get my lost friend after this trip.

Rain-Rain Come Again

Rain-Rain come again
Eradicate our sufferings and pain

Soothing noise of rain drops
essence emanated from wet sand
make me joyous and elated
I started dancing and playing with rain forgetting all my worries
But now gone are those days and gone are those memories.

Everytime my heart started praying with the thundering of clouds
sometimes GOD listens , most of the time he prouds

I want to feel the shimmer droplets on my head
But your reluctance making me feel bad
and now condition is,am started feeling dormant and dead .

I always fails to understand your nature
In some areas you brings floods and in others drought
I know we deserve this affliction and punishment
As we are responsible for pollution and deforestation for our amusement

I want to walk barefoot on the lush green landscape
But I have lost this right
As I am also involved in this poignant atmospheric rape
Everywhere I can see only mammoth buildings and pollution
India is progressing? People Think again ,I feel it is an illusion

Mankind, wake up now, this is an daunting suitation
Nature is very angry and fuming on us
As Famines in Rajasthan,recent cloudburst in LEH
is their way of anger demonstration

Still we have time , let's start doing plantation
and keeping aside materialistic gain
Otherwise we have to think thousand times and repent
when our future breed put up question "What is Rain"?

Hey Rain, I accept my selfish nature and misdeem
Now I will try by level best for nature's lost redeem


But for the time being
I plead and say these lines...

Rain -Rain come again
Eradicate our sufferings and pain

My First few days of my First visit to Onsite

After reading the title of this blog , you may feel surprised that how come i think of writing blog on this title as almost a year passed since i being to Onsite.Yesterday night , these memories jogged into my mind and then i decided to share my this experience with my loving audience.

I was very excited when i came to know last year May , that i m going Onsite . This news pumped up the blood level of my family as i was the first to go abroad and there was festive environment in my home due to this news .

Finally on Aug 29 2009 , i reached Ipswich, near London. As our plane was about to land on Gatwick Airport , my heart started pounding very fast not in excitement but in fear and the vast loneliness that was awaiting for me .

I was feeling very hungry , tensed and my pick up taxi also got late . I was without phone , don't know what to do , don't know how i informed my taxi driver that i am already in . No one was there to guide me , to help me out . I was feeling as i am in " NO MAN's LAND".

Finally i spotted out my taxi driver. At that time he is no less than a messenger of GOD for me . We started our hour and a half journey to Ipswich. I was so completely drowned in nostalgic feelings that even the side by Scenic beauty , pleasant weather failed to soothe me. I was just managing smile to veil my uncomfortability and homesickness from Taxi Driver.

Some how, my lonely Journey to Ipswich was over . But i did not know that more trouble , problems is waiting ahead for me The guy with whom i planned to stay was not in his apartment. Driver also left , i was standing outside the house in an alien lane . Helplessness , loneliness and above all an empty stomach , i think these traits are enough to make any person succumb to drowsiness . I was also just about to give up , then i saw a guy in the same apartment. He let me in and
offered a coffee.

You won't believe size of rooms here are so small that i started comparing them with our bathrooms . There was only one bed,no space even to unpack my luggage .JetLag and cold weather outside forced me to put myself inside blanket on the bed. But how can one sleep with an empty stomach and it is not India where you can get things you like very easily . So the only option remained for me is to Cook. I had never imagined that i have to appear in the cooking exam on very first day of my onsite . But there was nothing in the house for cooking , no vegetables , rice etc. Then a thing striked into my mind that my Maa has packed some rice ,cereal and spices for my initial days . Since the start of my journey , i was feeling excited for the first time as i was reparing my first ever dish-> namkeen rice.Some how i managed to boil and bring yellow colour onto rice. After eating,i slept .

The rise of next morning brought the same irritation , helplessness . I was missing my home badly , cannot even talk to my parents . I was feeling so lonely that i shouted over myself for coming over here .

But as we all know , time heals everything , same happened with me . As time passed , i familiarized with new faces ,places and today condition is that now i want to go back . I don't know what is the driving force for that -- but sometimes i
feel it is because of money !!!!!!

Happy day in my life after a long time

It was Saturday (26th June 2010) . I went to Jaipur after a year , more important thing , i went to my College (NIT Jaipur) . The occasion was the placement of my dear friend , Dilip . I reached Jaipur by evening , thanks to Public transporation for their always delayed services . We were 6 peoples ,we had a dinner at Handi near MI road . Then we went to Jalmahal for ice-cream . During ice-cream adventure , all my college time memories at Jalmahal were jogging into my mind . The memories of ice-cream competition (chuski) between me and Ashish made me feel very happy and excited . I was laughing from inside . Then we went to Ajmeri Gate for the World's famous "Meetha Paan" .

After all this , we cruised to JLN Marg for our college "MNIT Jaipur" . While entering campus , I felt that i am still in college . I was feeling very fresh , young and animated . After that , we directy went to MNIT Guset House . At the guest house entrance gate , i felt very thrilled and excited as it was the same guest house , where i sat for my first interview and got my first Job . The ambience of guest house was so cool (Now we have A.C in MNIT Guest Houses , i know it is very tough to believe) that my 4 friends caught sleep in an hour . After that , we (me and Dilip) went to place where we used to discuss our exam papers , where we used to celebrate birthdays , where we delivered GPL's . Yes you all are right , i am talking to all our favourite "THADI" . I ordered the same menu " Maggi and Tea" . This time no one was on Thadi to ask me for 1 Rs . No need to mention that 1 Rs Guy :). Then we had a long chat at Mool Singh Chauraha . I hope everyone is aware of this very famous place . We did a lot of bakar . I think after a long time,i involved myself in incessant talking . Finally we slept at 4:30 AM .It was one of my most memorable night after college life . I was feeling completely free , relax, having no boundations , no tensions .

Thanks to Dilip for giving me these beautiful moments ..

Enemy Growing in Onself (EGO)

This word Ego is very small if I count its words but its impact is very devastating . It drifts the closed ones , friends, happiness , peace of mind very far away from us .I know plethora of us are suffering from this and somewhere in the ride of life we left behind our closed ones due to this , but we deny to admit this . You all may be surprised that howcome my notions jumped on this subject .Few days back i got my frnd back ,whom i lost due to my Ego, then i decided to write about this simple looking but the biggest enemy of self .

Life is very small , and this monster Ego makes it even smaller . The beauty of this disease is that it plays with our heart and brain .Our heart always forced us to kick on the communication by putting up sweet memories of good days in front of us , but then suddenly mind started putting bizzare questions
Why i talk to him ?
If he did not care for me why i will care ?
If i call him or initiate communication i will become smaller?

We need to eradicate ourself from these worthless thoughts or at least learn the art to gain control over it . I know its very tough , but believe me the end result is very soothing and placid . Now , we don't allow this poisnous tree inside us to grow any more which is continously sulking our happiness and satisfaction . I know , it will take time and strong will power to do this but we help each other by doing post on this blog .I strongly think if we rooted it out from us , we will make one step forward in the search of true happiness .

It's my request to every reader who reads this blog , take this an opportunity , pick your phone ,keep your ego aside and call your friends/relatives to whom you want to call from years . I know after reading this you all may pick the phone , but then you think this is all crap and cut the phone. But please don't think much , don't stop yourself to dial , don't let your brain to win over heart kyunki "KAL HO NA HO" . We can do STD ,ISD but there is no faciltiy to call in Heaven , so by reacting late and by too much pondering don't put yourself in such a helpless condition .

I feel my this writing worth enough , if it helps in re-union of friends and closed ones . So Please post your re-union date with your friends and relatives .
Mine was 10/04/2010 .

Dream of Every Tech Guy "ONSITE" !!!!

This word "Onsite" has a magical power .As the word hits the eardrum , it made people to feel as they are on Cloud 99 . It's my personal experience :)

Going Onsite is everyone's dream . I hope you all agree with me and we worked very hard to pursue that . But believe me this onsite is nothing more than
"MONEY TRAP" . Money attraction is so alluring , that it never allows your heart (Which want to go India) to win against brain (Which give money more priority). After spending some time at Onsite , i am sure one can increase his chances to become heart patient , as your Heart got so much stressed by fighting with Brain

Dont generalised it , but it is a perception of lot of peoples .But as we know coin has two sides , here also , i saw peoples who did not want to go back .

At Onsite ::

i) Here you have money but not happiness .

ii) Here you have good ambience, dream weather ,but how can one forget drinking Cold drinks with friends in schorching heat of Summer .

iii) Here you have mannerly public, highly disciplined people , but no one to take care in your bad days . No friends to play with the colours on Holi . No sister to tie Rakhi Strap . No Family to celebrate Diwali with you .

iv) Here you have good restaurants , diff variety of foods , but how can one compare this with food prepared by our Mother .

v) Here you have night life , but no good friends to be your companion .

vi) Here you can visit to diff so-called scenic places , but on the cost of leaving ur home , which is the best and most soothing place in the whole world .

A person has to lose a lot while coming to Onsite . I know , you won't agree with me because in starting i was also very excited but as the time passed
i realised i lost precious moments of my life which would not be happen , if i will be there .

Side effects of onsite ::

One become a good cook , good dish and clothes washer :)

But , i learned some good things here ::

i) Peoples are very disciplined here and they respect each other ir-respective of their Job/Caste/Community status .

ii) They care about their surroundings , which itself make their country cleaner .

iii) People here don't curse others and Govt. for any mishappenings .They itself take the responsibility and do all their bits to eradicate that .


I know , we have above qualities in India also , but it is not prevalent .If we follow above traits and create awareness among peoples regarding them , i am confident ,we will make India a best place to live in . And after that millions of Guys like me , need not to miss their country and home for this so-called dream of every tech guy "ONSITE" .

I hope whoever will read this will take it as an opportunity to bring a change in themselves and others . Someone has said Correctly " There is no specific time
to start good things" . So pls start from today . We the youth of India has immnese potential which we have already proved but in the favour of other countries. This time , we will do for us , the "INDIA" .

Regards ,

Sachin Garg