Final year Tour - 95 December

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2000 end - DDG Tour

Photo memories of a nostalgic tour!

I was a great man on those days... with all my fans around...
i was very thoughtful on those days... full of ideas!
i have never drunk in my life... but i am always "fit" all the time!!!

Top of the world - anoopg

If somebody would be give me money for studying and writing exams it would have been good... I really enjoyed doing that in the past..!!!

family photo - 30yrs before!!!

a family photo taken more than 30 years before! nostalgic one... Now i am in the agregroup of the people who are standing... hopefully i should have a photo now.. and also 30 years after...

btw: the dress my cousin manoj is wearing is my dress! my mother gave the best dress to him, and gave me the ugly stripes one. I protest!

UKG Classmates

It seems I have become darker by the time i reached UKG!!! Many of these friends were with me till my Pree-Degree ... and I still have contacts with atleast few!!!

Classmates!

My first classmates... ! There should not be much difficulty in indentifying me. so no prizes, but i would be curious to know ur findings!!!

Naming!

I always like "naming" people... but sometimes the joke becomes serious and then i stop that...

today i named Raju as "Khadol Khajan" - bheema's son

That became a hit. so perhaps i should name others using characters from ramayana and mahabharatha.

In NeST me and aneeja had named many --- using Malayalam cartton characters

myself - Moli
Vinod - Boban
Anil - Vakeel
Aneeja - Vakeelinte bharya
Manaf - Patti
Varghese - Dinkan
KP/Das - Vikraman/Muthu
Suraj/Dheeraj - Lottulodukku/GulGulumal
xxxxx - Unnikuttan ( man, i cant remember his real name)
Smitha - Meena
Shaji - Chettan
Jyothi - Chechi

We stopped it when it became flash in NeST... time for restarting troubles!

SSLC marksheet

In my school days.., all used to tell us SSLC marks are the most critical. Everytime, everywhere everone will ask. Even for jobs that would be a critical crieria. The full of kerala will be writing the exams, and the exams are (were) scam-free. You will be measured against the best in kerala etc etc.. Thats the reason why i studied hard..

But these days no-body asks. So I just thought of puuting it in blogs

No other use!

Even for address-proof I am using passport ... ( just remebered my passprt expired in september, so thats also useless!)

Last year, This time

What was i doing.., last year this time....

2005
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Dec 16: Attended telephonic interview
Dec 22: Got Offer letter
Dec 26: Gave resignation to my old company after 9 years of association
Dec 26: father in law fell into a man hole and injured his legs

2006
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Jan 5: operation for father-in -law
Jan 9: last day at my old company
Jan 17: New company!

How was 2006 like ? Mixed feelings!

Tinkle

Tinkle
Originally uploaded by poonaji.

kkg used to buy us - balarama, poombatta, balamangalam, muttashi.., amar chithra katha, ambili ammavan etc etc child magazines.. and occasionally tinkle and chambak..

i always liked Tinkle very much.. it was very much different....

now in the name of lachu .. i have started buying Tinkle.. but she is not that much patient to hear stories,,, and i dont have that patience to tell her also..!

but i love reading Tinkle.. loved to be back with Chamataka.. why Doob-Doob is always creating trouble for his friend Chamataka, i am not able to understand.. so back to my favourite passion - reading child comics..!

we had a huge collection of binded - balarama, poombatta , amar chithra katha etc etc -- but some 6 or 7 years ago while cleaning up the house - everything was dispersed by my parents - if i had known i would not have allowed - its a huge loss --

perhaps i should start collecting fresh.. for lachu's child !!!! ( may be having vision like this is stress free !!! )

Remaining pages

Just wanted to note down the remaining travels ----

Japan ( 15 Oct 2001)
India ( 20 Oct 2001)

>> My marrriage was about to happen on 3 Nov ( i hope i got this date correctly, although i boasts i am good in remembering dates)... i had to go for a customer visit just before that.. i was very happy... went to Hitachi and had discussions... my main purpose was a visit to Kobayashi... to see our dear Mina san, Misa san and Family.. and invite them to marriage... i slept that night at Baba san's house.. it was nice being part of a japanese family... Baba san gave me rice balls for eating as breakfast in train... It was nice to be back there...

japan ( 2 Oct 2002)
india ( 27 Dec 2002)

>> After doing projects for Yamaha, Toshiba and Hitachi... it was nice to be part of Sony... back with Kamiya san, our old yamaha manager.., and Riyaz was the business development manager at japan office... it was a nice trip... but officially, i dont know! ( there are scope for more blogs!)

US ( 26 Jan 2003)
india ( 23 Feb 2003)

>> My detroit visit... i enjoyed this US trip very much... I was send because our hardware expert Prakash could not get Visa... so it was a very light trip for me ( as i am big zero in that, but unfortunately had US Visa)... i by-hearted all the commands/messages and when the Yazaki hardware guy will say "switch on parklights".. i will send the command 00 80 xxxxx....... he was very impressed with my "memory skills"... later Prakash also joined us.. but i was still looking into my core competency area... ! all electronics of car being tested in a bench was a treat for my eyes!

After this all "blank years" --------- was busy with family life --------- now a first cycle of family life is over --- perhaps ready for trips ----- any offers from santaclara?? else Japan ?

pages from travel diary

travel pages
Originally uploaded by poonaji.

travels make and breaks life ......... i was fortunate to have lot of travel in my career...

some years back i had noted down all my travel days in my diary.. ( image attached..)

last day Biju was searching for all his travel dates to US, and he was struggling to find some of the entry/exit days.. he needs that for applying H1B Visa..

Although i dont need any H1B or any other thing -- i though of my old diary pages.. brought it back this time...

i am very much fond of dates.. ( not dating ) .. when i saw dil chahta hai.. i saw similarity in the joker lover who loves saif's girl ( whats her name ?) and me... both of us are fond of dates...

no idea for a blog.. so thought of publishing the dates... from the time i first landed in japan on Feb 11 1997 ....... the last visit to Detroit sometime in 2002, and the two week visit to japan just before marriage in 2001 is not recorded.. so i have to search in my passport for that later...

Travel ........ days
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Japan (11 Feb 1997) --- First visit to Japan
India ( 26 April 1997) --- Back to India
Japan ( 14 May 1997) --- Back to Yamaha
India ( 3rd July 1997) --- For taking US Visa
US ( 10 july 1997) --- First time landing at Seatlle, dinner with gates
India ( Aug 15 1997) - Me and Vinod had a scare at the air, as our flight had to fly back, as control systems in failed... consolation was - no checkings at Indian airport as it was independence day
japan ( 24 Aug 1997) - Back to Yamaha
US ( 20 Nov 1997) - Back to US
India ( 21 Dec 1997) - To see loved ones
japan ( 10 Feb 1998) - Fourth visit to japan within a span of 1 year
US ( 3rd Mar 1998) - 3rd Visit to US
India ( 30 April 1998) - Back to India
Japan ( 10 may 1998) - 5th visit to japan
US ( 13 may 1998) - Again to US, sanjose
japan (30 June 1998) - Back to Japan
India ( 6 Aug 1998 ) - To India
US (13 Aug 1998) - 5th visit to US
Japan ( 17 Nov 1998) - back to Japan
India ( 18 Dec 1998)
japan ( 5 jan 1999)
US (10 Mar 1999 ) -
Japan ( 7 may 1999) - last days at yamaha, packing up things, emotional farewell
India ( 12 May 1999) -
US ( 5 June 1999) - last days at Seattle
India ( 2 Aug 1999) - Back to India
US (14 Sep 1999) - Visit to Neomagic in Yamaha's invitation!! i was very sad to leave yamaha and i cursed all my managers. But a successful visit , and Riyaz was also present
India ( 27 Sep 1999) - back to India
US ( 26 Oct 1999) - As Neomagic onsite co-ordinator... Very good days at Grove apartments with lot of friends...
India ( 25 Dec 1999) ------- back to india
US ( 27 May 2000 ) - Back to Neomagic and Castlewood as onsite co-ordinator
India (24 July 2000) - back To India

In my jathakam it says I had "rajayogam" till 25 years... i have not checked after that what happens.. anyway it does not seem to be as mobile as earlier.. there have been only three more visits after that

will check the "jathakam again!

WITH MAMMOOTTY ON 25.4.83

WITH MAMMOOTTY ON 25.4.83
Originally uploaded by poonaji.

Me..., with Mamootty.....!

I dont remember whether Mamootty was a star in 1983 or not.., but during the last two decades he definitely is a SUPER MEGA star.. and he looks like this even after 23 years..!

Also it seems my baldness was there even when i was a kid.

chatroom

chatroom
Originally uploaded by poonaji.

A nice old photo taken during jan 1997.....

all the campus recruitees from tkm, model, tvm were put into a small hall, with rented machines... we also had a seatless and machineless Riyaz..

U can see me third from left.. next to Vinod and Riyaz ( V 3 had one machine to study device drivers )