Do you like kisses?

This happened when I was packing up from US to India. During my stay a lot of people at the hotel helped me with so many things. Among them was 'Tony' my cab driver. He used to take me out for shopping, indian stores, hotels and office using the Hotel's shuttle. So while am returning I wanted to gift him with something as a token of gratitude. So I asked Tony to come over to my room after his work.

I had planned to give him chocloates. My friend Anush told that the variety 'kisses' would be very good. So I decided to give him that variety. when 'Tony' came to my room, in that urge to give away the chocolate, I peeped into the fridge and was digging for this packet as there was a whole bunch of other chocolate packs (which i bought to bring to India). So here goes our conversation..

Priya: Hey Tony i thought of giving you small gift

Tony: Oh Rhea (he pronounces my name like that) thankyou but thats ok u pack for ur trip

Priya: No no .. I wanted to give u something. Do you like kisses?

Tony: !!!

Priya: When I peeped out of the fridge i realised what i asked and immediatley corrected - "Do you like kisses chocolates :("

Tony : Oh I luv chocolates any variety will be good. Thankyou Rhea!!

with loads of vazhichals :(((((((((((((((( i bade him gud bye :D

Nan killi paathen

Padma is known for her typos and typing tamil in english in our gang. Some should really use their brains to read and understand her messages . Few of the incidents which I remember.

Nan killi paathen
We were using IPMessenger an internal messenger to send messages inside office. Once Padma wanted to inform Geetha that she has seen the movie, Ghilli.
Padma : Hey nan killi paathen di
Geetha: (With lot of confusions and after a discussion with Ramya, who also couldn't understand what it could be) Oh. En?
Padma : Enakku romba pidichi irunthuchu.
Geetha: (Again discussions with Rums continues) Endi killi paatha?
Padma : (Without understanding the confusions) Songs kooda nalla irunthuchu.
Geetha and Rums: Oh iva ghilli padam pathi solli irukka pola di =))

Oru 'i' extra va pottuten ithu thappa
Once Padma sent some forward about India and in the message by mistake she has put Indiya. I went to her to ask about this. And the conversation goes......
Geetha: Hey mathathula ellam thappu panna ok...Athukkaga country peraye thappa type pannuviya di!!! :(
Padma: Endi enna nu type panni irunthen?
Geetha: India va Indiya nu type panni iruntha di...
Padma: Oh apdiya...enna di oru 'i' extra va pottuten....ithu thappa...
Geetha: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thayar Perumal ku wifea???

After finishing our lunch we usually either go for a walk or sit at padam's work place for a chat..
and my duty is to update a short bhakthi story(bakthi kondu vara trying grpku) part of our chat. I started with a story room about Sriranga Perumal.

A staunch beleif of mine is that priya has got better interest and also an enthusiastic follower for bhakthi stories, was put under a question that day :)

Self: Sriranga Perumal romba shakthi,perumaloda thayar ku thaan vishesham anga.

priya: oh appadi enna vishesham thayarku?

Self: Srirangam kovil la oru place la thayar oda hands impression irukum tharaila.

Priya : oh edhuku di andha impression?

Self: Once perumal varum podhu thayar apapdiyeah velila varama door la eti parka try pannalam ,appo kezha tharaila impression vandhucham.thayar inga padi thanda pathni.

Priya: oh..ana thayar edhuku perumala sighting , thaayar na perumaloda amma thanae !!!

Self: ila di loosu thayaar na perumaloda wife thaan.. avangala 'thayaar' nu koopiduvaanga.. nee verbal meaning eduthukaadha.. ufff.. Oh My God!!!

Priya: Oh appadiya..naan sutha thamizh la thayar na amma nu eduthukiten :))))))) (idhuku onum koraichal illai)

Immediately everyone started laughing,including me..

I made a point no more technical bhakthi term in front of others =))

Are you not from educated family?

Once we all went for a treat to Sangeetha hotel. Nama onna oru edathukku pona gupchip nu iruppoma.....ellarum orey looty. Yup!! gud fun. Very noisy. Nobody could sit in the room. We did not mind anyone. We were there to enjoy and we were fulfilling our aim. Shilpa and Renu are known for their loud laughters. They laugh, laugh and laugh. Suddenly someone having food from the hotel who couldn't bear our noise came to us and shouted... "Are you not from educated family? Why are you making noise like this?"
Guess what, everybody from the gang started shouting at him back. Eventhough we knew what we have done might have disturbed others, we couldn't resist him pointing it out.

At that time we were angry. But, now when we think about that incident, we burst into laughter.

IQ meter

This happened during our training period at cpt.We were a batch of eight.Myself,bhargavi and kb are from the same college.So we know about kb and we will not beleive anything he says.But the most innocent soul called chithi was also in our training batch and she happened to sit next to kb one day.they were talking something for nearly one hour and suddenly chithi called me and bhargavi.the conversation below
Chithi : Ramya, ivan(kb) solrathu elam unmaiya?
Ramya : ena sonan?
Bhar : avan ena sonalum unmaiya irukathu!!
Chithi : etho IQ meter nu onnu irukam
me and bhar : (giggles) mm aprum
Chithi: atha thalaila maatuvangalam,odane athu namaku evlo iq iruku nu sollidumam
me and bhar : enga irukam athu?
Chithi : bangalore la kandupudichu irukangalam. Avan thalaila vechu paathadhum, IQ meter-ae vedinjiduchunu solraan!!!
All of us : burst into laughter as usual

Terrace - Our lunch area

Our company opened a new branch and a couple of our friends were moved to the new branch.In the new branch there was no dining area.But there was a mess in the Ground Floor.Our company had permissions for the employees to go and have their lunch at the mess.

We used to share everything.So if somebody orders food from the mess everybody will share.
We are a big gang and the only thing we know is to talk...The same happened in the mess as well. Since we made a lot of noise the mess owner asked us to keep quiet.

Nangaellam maanastheenga!!! oru avadhoor varathai kaeta pothum pongi ezunthuduvome...

From that we day we stopped going to the mess.We were thinking where to eat..We cannot eat in the office..we can go to chithi's place but it is not possible everyday..Finally we decided to eat in the terrace..It is a open terrace but there was some shades near the wall .We all used to sit next to each other near the wall and have lunch..Later we found that was the place used by our office security to have lunch...

:-(((( but whatever it was... we used to have a gala lunch time sharing 8-10 lunch boxes of variety lunch everyday :D

5 minutes variya!!

There was a suicide in our office. After sometime everyone became normal and came back to their routine. But namma thalaivi Shilpa was still scared. Once when everybody in the office left to home, namma sincere Shilpa was still working and had to take a print out in a room in the first floor. When she went there nobody was there. She checked in the next room. Arumugam was there. She decided to call him for company. She went to him and asked

Shilpa : "Arumugam antha room la yarum illa. konjam variya??"
Arumugam: "What??"
Shilpa : "Oru 5 minutes thaan. Konjam vaayen."
Arumugam : !!??!!! Enna kekka vara?
Shilpa : "Print out edukkanum. Anga yarum illa. bayama irukku. Athaan"
Arumugam : Athai theliva solla vendiyathu thaane #-o
Shilpa : :D:D:D:D

Juice kudika ponome :S

Once there was water shortage at Velachery Office. Since there was no water in the restrooms, our gumbal decided to go to Subhashini's house close to the office. We were little embarrassed to go as a gumbal as someone will figure out the purpose of visit. So we were very cautious and checked that no one noted us. Arumugam was sitting very close to the girls place probably he would have known where we are going. We slipped during lunch, on the way we met Arumugam just on the opposite side..

Arumugam: 'Ellarum gumbala enga kelambiteenga?'

Ramya: (Proactively answered - 'intelligently handling-ama') Juice kudika porome..

On the way back to office we met Arumugam again..

Arumugam: Ivlo seekiramava ellarum juice kudicheenga (giggling..)

Gumbal: heehehee ssssss.. with tons of vazhichals we came back to office =)))))

Kalandha Saadham

Shilpa was planning to stay at Madhu's place for weekend, a g2g plan. Madhu's place was at Ambathur far away from office at Adyar. They were traveling by train.. Shilpa was damn hungry by then. While travelling..

Shilpa: 'Hey enaku semma pasi aunty ena panni vechirukaanga, pona udanae kotings thaan velai ok?'

Madhu: 'Sooper.. innaiku enga veetila kalandha saadham ready-a irukum, sapitadalaam'

Shilpa: 'Kalandha saadhama - apdina'

(It's a terminology referring 'mixed rice' Shilpa was not aware of it)

Madhu: Adhan Lemon rice, Tomato rice, coconut rice, pudhina rice and thayir saadham

Shilpa: 'Hey enaku idhellam thaniya thaniya kudunga.. idhellam mix panni enala sapida mudiyaadhu.. neenga idhellam mix panniya sapiduveenga? :-S

Madhu: !!! enadhu?

Shilpa: Nee thana 'Kalandha' saadham sonna.. naan ellamae onna potu kalakuveenga nu neachien hehehe

Madhu: !!!! burst into laughter

Indha HR oru loosu!!

Reshmi was always fast and waits for nothing, its difficult for others to keep up her pace. Once while chatting with her friends..

Reshmi: Hey indha HR oru seriyana loosu..

Friends: Yen ena aachu, ena sonna

Reshmi: Naan onnu ketein ava onnu solra

Friends: Apdi nee ena keta, ava ena sonna

Reshmi: Naan AK epo varuvaarnu ketein, ava Bangalore poirukaarnu solra

Friends: Nee modhalla ena keta

Reshmi: AK enga nu ketein

Friends: !!!.. andha question ku ava badhil solli iruka.. ne adhukula unoda 10th question poita.. adutha question kekradhuku munnadi wait pannanum previous question-oda answerku.. Ipo yaaru loosu? (giggles...)

Reshmi: !!!!

kai vita soup

One incident which cannot be forgotten in my life...Ofcourse all our incidents in our gumbal..still idhula naan romba badhikapattava..:-( As usual koothu adika we had a getogether in sangeetha hotel.

Except me n bhargavi all of them were working in velachery office..So konjam timing gap la naanga late a vandhutom..kadamayeah ganiyamana indha makkal had justfinished their starter meal with a soup.After giving an entry to the place i picked up a leftover soup bowl ( (irundhalum paravalai sapidaravangalai parthu summa iruka mudiyuma ;-) ) with full enthu with my usual pace.

After having a sip, geeths n rums thooki potanga oru gundai.."Soup" which i had tasted was ignored bcoz unknowingly someone washed their hands in that bowl.Initially i thought they were just pulling my legs.So when everyone started telling the same..kai alambina soupai ya sapita i started believing it..

Still discovering was it really true???? enna kodumai saravanan idhu !!!

SQL Books Online

Shilpa and Madhu were working on SQL, yep they were freshers. When they had a doubt on 'Correlated subqueries' they went to discuss about it with their PL.

Shilpa n Madhu: Sir could explain about 'Correlated Subqueries'

PL: Ok, but before that did you guys check the 'Books Online'

'Books Online' is nothing but SQL Help, but our freshers were not aware of it at all..
Both were BLINKING and did not want to reveal their ignorance :D

Shilpa: 'Books online-a' goto Start->SQL->then.. Madhu interupted Shilpa suddenly with her bright idea..

Madhu: 'Hey google-la poi Books online podu di vandhudum'

PL: Burst into laughter and said, its right over there in the Query analyzer you just need to click on 'Help'.
'Edhellam google-a thedanumnu ilaya konjam too mucha theriyala ..'

Shilpa n Madhu: :S !!! returned with loads of vazhichals!!

Cake - Header vendaam Footer podhum

Reshmi a fresher software professional was always engrossed in her work. Recently she had been working in the Reporting module where she just completed the Reports header and footer code. Her gang called her in for the evening break where they slipped to McRennet close by their company..

Shilpa: Hey gals ellarum cake sapidalama, what you guys want sollunga..

Everybody ordered their choice

Reshmi: 'Hey enaku Cake Header vendaam, Footer mattum podhum'.
(She meant that she did'nt need the cream part of the cake..)

Everybody: !!!

and they burst into laughter

Bondas eating Bondas

Shilpa and Kavitha are freshers in a 2-year old software company. Both of them are on the plumpier side. The company announced the opening of their new canteen at 4pm for snacks. Guess what! the 1st customers were our Shilpa and Kavitha when they heard about hot 'Bondas' they could'nt resist..

They slipped to the canteen before their PL could trace them, ordered for HOT Bondas and did'nt notice that their PL's have already formed a group having tea.. The girls desperately gulped the delicious Bondas and did'nt notice that their PL was just in front of them..

They walked back to their cabin wiping off the oil :D. Their PL was standing in front of the cabin they had to enter and was talking aloud to another PL 'Eshwar'..

PL: Hey Eshwar

Eshwar: Yes Sir..

PL: Have you ever seen 'Bondas eating Bondas'

Shilpa n Kavitha: !!!

Simple-a mudichiteenga!!!

Renu was working in a Software company, her Project Lead was distributing sweets to everyone on the occasion of his 1st son's birth. Renu walking into the office was not aware of the reason for the sweets distribution, when the PL gave her the sweets..

Renu: Ena sir vishesham

PL: Enaku payan porandirukaan

Renu: Ena simple-a mudichiteenga...

PL: !!!.. (after a while) Oh sweets a soneengala :-S

Renu: !!!

Rendu Gu(i)ndy Kudunga

I was traveling in 21E at Chennai from Santhome to Guindy, as the bus started to leave the Santhome bus stop, a lady came running with a kid and rushed into the bus. I guess she was new to the city and did'nt know the places too well.

She urgently asked for the tickets..

Lady: Conductor 2 gundy kudunga (she meant Guindy)

Conductor: !!!.. Endha edam ma?

Lady: Gundy

Conductor: En kitta irukradhu unaku kuduthita naan ena panradhu.. hahhaaa

Lady: !!!

All of us burst into laughter, but poor lady did'nt understand what he meant :-(. Finally he issued the tickets to Guindy

Brief Intro

Well we have to know what type are each one of them..

Geeths

• Very brilliant, very bold, scared of dark rooms alone :D
• She married 'Ravi' yes only successful 'Luv marriage' in our gumbal.
• Ravi is practicing Company Secretary, has an office of his own.
• Cute son 'Kavin' just 1.4 years old.
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> HP -> Atlas Systems
• She's in .Net, Tech Lead (Java layum poondhu vilayading :D)

Anandhi

• Intelligent, there is no topic in the world where she says 'I dont know'
• She talks right from java, current affairs, politics, credit cards, vacation packages. shopping, cooking, latest trends, kids OMG (Oh my gudness!! what not....)
• Lovely daughter 'Asmi' 3.5 years old.
  
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> Wipro -> Perot Systems
• She's in j2ee, Tech Lead

Bhargavi

• Very very sincere, hard worker, career oriented
• Very very comical, she can bring a hell lot of laughter by her serious comments / suggestions :-)
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> Calsoft-> Dell-> Robert Bosch
  
• She's in .Net, Tech Lead

Anush

• Very cool, only daughter to her parents - apo paathukonga chellams of india
• Very keen in getting back home from office, especially 'No weekend work huh' mind u range :D
• Wonderful singer!! - Nobody can follow lyrics as she does :D:D
  
• She's married to 'Srini' settled in US San Francisco
• Left job after marriage
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> Accenture
• She's in J2EE
  

Suchku

• The most innocent person I have ever met
• Doesn't even realize if anyone is pulling her legs
• Man guess what she's so fast.. u cant catch up with her pace.., while she's asking the 12th question we would be just answering for the 1st one.. hahaha she waits for no one u c.. 'Time Tide n Suchi waits for None'
• She married 'Ganesh' - Researcher, settled in Bangalore
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> Accenture
• She's a QA Lead
  

Chithie

• Very cool, was very career oriented, only person who attended office sincerely even during her 9th month
  
• She's married to Mani, he's a CA settled at Chennai
• 2 loving kids son - 'Swamy' and daughter 'Shivani'
  
• Her world are her kids
  
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> Atlas Systems
• Was in .Net
  

Rums

• Very patient, not taken up by emotions, calm thinker and a gud decision maker
• She's the semma kattai in a grp.. I used to say if I were a guy I wud have definitely kothified her :D
• Yep bad guess was an arranged marriage.
• She married 'Vijay' working in TCS as a Business Analyst
• Settled in Singapore, left job to travel with her hubby
• Only son, 'Smart Sid' - Sidharth - 3 years old
  
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> CTS - > Atlas Systems
• Was in J2EE then a QA Lead
  

Padam

• Most lovable person in our gumbal
• Always welcomes u with her warm smile and consoling words whoever and whichever situation they are in.
• Married to Sriram, settled in US
• 'Pretty Sathvi' - cute lil daughter as her parents :-)
• Her career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> US
• Was in .Net then Websphere
  

Priya

• Well am a movie freak, I like my job ;-) vera velai edhuvum ilaadhunala prefer sitting at office hehehe :D
• Always fall in love with Movie hero's :D was SRK, now its Mahesh babu :D the list continues...
  
• No ambitions, am very sentimental, very very attached to my friends, luvvvvvv this gumbal a lot :D
  
• Love travelling
• Always need to stay with gumbal - hate loneliness
• Luv Mom the most :D
  
• My career path -> CPT (Changepond) -> Swide - > Verizon -> Atlas Systems
  
• Am a .Net Tech Lead
  

Luv,
Priya

Our Gumbal

Hey gujilees and gujalans!

Have you ever thought a group of girls can stay friends together without picking up fights hehehe.. Here we are about to complete our '6th year of togetherness' this June.. 'Evlo periya poiiiii sandai ilamaya.. semma kozhai adi sandai ellam potaachu irundhalum sticking together na paathukonga'..

Introducing our gumbal makkal

Geetha - 'Arivu Jeevi Geeths'
Anandhi - 'All in All Anandhi'
Padma - 'Bhakthi kalanjium Padam'
Ramya - 'Rums the Dhimsu' - semma kattais of india
Bhargavi - 'Alway cool Bhar'
Anusha - 'Always with a doubt - 'Enaku oru unmai therinjavanum' - Anush'
Suchi - 'Over oriented Suchi' - chellama called as 'Suchku'
Radhika - 'Our chella Chithie'
And finally me 'Priya' - 'Ever forgetful Priya' unmailayae 'Periya size Priya' - hmm have tried so many attempts to reduce.. only thoughts.. :-( always forgets implementing it hehehe..

We all met at 'Changepond Technologies' - aama pa adhae software field thaan.. no no.. thalaila adichuka koodadhu naangalum 'inji neers' aakum :D.
All were freshers - as usual in the midst of 'coding thadavals' v all got together.. and are friends till date. V have our group mails running.. except me all of them are married so v r pulling in their hubbies too :D'.

Will get their family fotos published shortly.

Yesssssssssss as u guys can guess its a 'Alli dharbar n Alli Rajyam formula :D'

We share lots of things right from job, home, hobbies, cooking, kids, shopping, get-togethers, hotels, visiting places, trips n tours, dera at each other home's so..on..

Will give a short intro on all of us and the fun v had together..

'ssssssssssss no guys in our gumbal :D:D hehehe'

Luv,
Priya