Hosurians Morning out at MTR on 16th Apr 2017

The recent  landing of  Sundaresha  at  Bengaluru  brought  the  Hosurians together.

We  have to thank  Ravi  the torchbearer of  Hosurians  for arranging  the  breakfast on Sunday and it was no less than a mini project and it was a conundrum for Ravi to solve.

Let  me list out the constraints first ;

Shashi  was  not available on Saturday morning  ( for attending  gym)   and  Saturday afternoon ( afternoon siesta) .

Shankara  was  not available on Saturday morning  for he gets up late and  he can’t miss his badminton.  He is available on Saturday afternoon and not evening (  visit to temples).

Sundaresha  the apple who landed  from US  for whom the outing was arranged  was  only  available on Sunday morning upto  10.00 AM  after  which he had to attend a  Namakarana.  

Saturday  full day he was  busy in counting the number of vehicles added to the Bengaluru traffic. By the time he finished counting another thousand vehicles got added.  He has to make a special trip from US dedicated  to only counting vehicles. 

 Sundaresha  you  better use  RFID tags and scanner to make your task easier. 

 I heard  during the manual  counting , Sundaresha  missed many two wheelers  counting , since he was appreciating the  drivers.  ( He was muttering to himself  why i left Bengaluru , lot of pretty  things are always moving  and  i can easily travel  two hours  from Whitefield to Vijaynagar and also  listen to FM  music as an added benefit)

Shalini  who recently joined  WIPRO  on the request of Mr Azim Premji   had  to set up the entire HR system for  Wipro and  was  fully  busy on Saturday.

 Her first day in office was spent to find out  where the canteen is located  and she  found out  that  there are  two big  quees  for taking lunch.  One quee for taking tokens and another quee  for taking lunch.   She has  now unwillingly started carrying  lunch box  from home.  Her   first  project  at  WIPRO  is cut out. She  is planning to bring the canteen  department which is reporting to facilities under  HR  department . 

Myself  Padmanabh  was  not available  on Saturday  for a genuine reason , for i had to spend the full  day in college since it was the last working day  before our holidays start. In our  college if  we miss the last working day and the first working day  then the entire month is counted as leave and  i will have no salary and  have to be a temp  at  MTR  for one full month.

Saturday night   i was not available since i could not miss  my   common  swimming batch  between 8.00 to 8.45 PM.  ( do not ask me the meaning of common sessions)

Ravi  finally  had  to spend  an entire day in framing  a linear programming  problem with so many constraints  and he  finally solved the problem.  Hats  off to Ravi for putting  few  extra   grey hairs in the last  few days.

It was  finally decided  we will  all meet  at 8.30 AM  on 16^th Apr 17  at  MTR  in JP Nagar , very near to shopper stop.

I reached  MTR  with Prajwal and  Shivani  at  8.50 AM.

Since  i  am a  faculty  and used to  taking attendance  and   i  took attendance of the people who came . (  attendance  only for Hosurians and  attention to others who were not Hosurians )

Kumar  Uncle  and  family had reached  earlier and  Kumar  uncle was already sampling idli  and vada on our behalf.   Sundaresha  was all lost on how to book tables.  He was trying to book tables , where people  were already sitting.

Shashi   ( Mr  Hosurian  with his rippling biceps and undertaker structure )  had  reached  along with Poorvi.      Since  Undertaker  has  retired , now  Shashi  can throw his hat into the ring. 

Vidya  was absent  since  she  had  to get  the fridge   repaired at home.    Shashi had used the fridge  for  weight lifting   on the previous day and kept it down with a heavy  thud and it had stopped working.

Shankara  had  come  with  Sharmila   and  Amogha and Lasya priya .

Ravi reached  in time with his family. ( Sushma and  Anu).

Shalini  along  with Pushpa  aunty  came  late  and i marked them absent.  They are  the people staying closest  to the  MTR hotel in JP Nagar. I asked  for an explanation  from  Madam Shalini.

Shalini  had to visit the temple in the morning and had to pray  for herself  and then  for the Hosur family.    

She  also  had to  pray for  WIPRO’s  health  and   Trump’s  early  departure from presidency.

Shalini  you must  realise  that  if  you want  IT  companies health to improve , you have to visit    temples  everyday and perform  Pujas.  One suggestion  from my side is  get a  Trump’s statue installed  in a temple near  your house  and pray to him. He is the only one who can save.

Another  alternative is  for  every HI B visa  to  get approved  one urlu seve  to be done  and  it is a tall order and the  benefit is  every  Wipro employee  will  become trim and fit , even if Visa does not get approved.

We  all helped  Sundaresha  to book  tables and we all moved to the AC  room which was  almost empty  and we all filled  it with noise.

  

Initially  we  ordered  idli and vada for all.  Next order  was  for the Masala dosa.  Later some people ordered for Gulab  jamoon  and  fruit salad.  Finally we washed our breakfast down  with bisi bisi coffee.

It  was  a small and   a  memorable  event  and thank’s  Ravi  for  arranging  the entire show.

Some snaps of the outing is given at the end .

Bye  to everyone  until we meet  for the next idli.

Eatingly yours

Padmanabh.B