Goodbye, UK

It has been a fantastic two and half years of my life in UK mostly in Maidenhead and Reading with the fitting finale in central london. It resembled as if it was yesterday, but it has been tremendous couple of years, in which i had beautiful experiences of life, great friends, enjoyable vacations, tantalising tours to neighbouring countries, critical projects and what not.

I had struggled my first month in this country, not knowing anyone (i was new to TCS as well), but i had great roomies in Veeru and Anand, with whom i shared one of the best parts of my life. There was so much of camaraderie among the three, but the relationships grew from good to great as each day passed by.
Apart from the two, I shared a great relationships with Sreedhar Bhumaraju a.k.a Chirugaru, with whom, we had a gala time including vijayadasami celebrations.

It would be unfair on my part if don't thank my friends viz., Jegan, Sandy mone, Dharam, sudip, Dinesh, Krishnan (affectionately mama) with family, Ganesh and Natarajan for their outstanding support and cooperation which was extended during my stay and the relationships which i would like to extend for the rest of my life. Coming back to my UK experiences, the following would be list of things which would be in my memory forever.

1. Lonely nights in Kingswood.

2. Watching telugu movies with Anand and Veerubhai.

3. Fights between Ketan and Prabhakar during the cricket matches.

4. Won the runner-up in the badminton tournament conducted by Keyur.

5. Mimicry and Chantal roberts' walk by Sreedhar B

6. Cricket matches with Hitachi and ESL in Braywick Park

7. Visits to Birmingham Balaji temple, thanks to Sreedhar G for those visits.

8. Purchases of Yoghurt in Tesco (we were literally made fun by the whole gang).

9. Sutta sessions with Dharmendra and Bitching Fridays.

10. Humming and Jamming sessions with Sudip on ARR's tunes.

11. Watching Twenty 20 finals in Office (with whole office supporting for india) - courtesy - Kiran Alluri

12. First day first show for Sivaji along with TCS gang whistling for thalaivar...

13. Watching the Indian team in Lords for a test match.

14. Bought my PSR E403 yamaha keyboard and played vaseegara (zara zara) was scintillating.

15. Attended the MBA tour and fumbled in my GMAT examinations.

16. Had my first drink in Isle of Skye.

17. Superb italian tour with filmi finish of catching flights in the eleventh hour (thanks to Sandy and Anandbhai)

18. Had a great time with Krishnan Family in bristol (me best weekend in UK - undoubtedly...chumma it was like staying in FIL house...)

19. playing Table football both in London as well as in Reading.

20. Had a good pool sessions with Karthik "numeriq" ramaswamy and others.

21. Early morning deployments for provident with Flo and Paul.

22. Memorable Last day farewell at Reading with Anilbhai presiding the event. (Mams !! orey feeling irukku....one more JD Double with Coke...)

23. Great south indian lunches at Mani mama's place.

24. Badminton sessions with KK, Taha and VMS.

25. Implementation of TOD project.

26. Morning coffees with Selva (mostly with vadivelu jokes!!!) and Jegan.

27. Haircuts @ mohan ka melaram and Hyderabadi briyani @ southall.

28. Initial sightseeing tours with Ravikumar (HP)

29. Had a lifetime opportunity to meet Dickie Bird @ lords.

30. buying camera for Anand (ha ha what a comedy !!)...

31. Talking about kollywood gossips with chimbu and krishnan...(anney !!...vandiya naama vachu irukkom...sopanna sundariya ippo....??)

32. Had a beautiful afternoon walking in the woods with Manju...and discussing about ecology to ethiopian music.

The list would be endless and even though there might be few things which might miss in this lists, but would remain in my cherished memories.

This would be my last blog in UK and I may not quite often write my blogs in india, but still would write when i find time.

Wishing you all good luck in all walks of life,

~Lakshman~ (a.k.a white rajini)...