Discovery Bay Beach

Yesterday, after the heavy lunch, had a nap and went to discovery bay beach to generally unwind...its a really nice place too go on a weekend evening to relax n have a good drink/wine/dinner/coffee/juice and have ur time in the evening sun....good beach...decently long stretch tough not anywhere close to the long beaches of Tamil Nadu (all of India in fact)....

(especially having been brought up in Chennai....right near Marina...n having been thr so many times this seems really really tiny....)

overall a good way to spnd ur evening...nothing much for me to write abt how to go and things...u can find evey little detail on the net...go to http://www.dbay.com.hk/icms2/index.jsp or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Bay for more details.....

crashed after coming home...nice sleep...n back to pavillion today....work work n more work :)

Feast

today i was a in a mood to cook...made bisibelebath.....kathirikkai kari....thakkali pachadi....mixed veg curry :) yoooooooo.....manasara saptachu...now onto some beach or sumthing :)

Another relaxed weekend day

Today has started in a relaxed mode...again...nothing to do but cooking :) break fast n lunch.....thinking of going to some kinda beach in the evening.....

was thinking abt sumthing very interesting...one of my friends....is in a team...out of home town...infact out of home country....not too lucrative but very good for profile, resume, etc....has some family problems...gotta spend a huge amount to bring the family or has to leave the team and move back.....n the guy has promised for 2 more months in the team....he comes to the team lead n manager to help him thru the situation......the way he is...he can be flexed...he hasnt decided anything yet......so as a leader/manager u r in a position to influence the guy into a decision.....

so...if u r the leader of the team...wat do u do? wat shud u advice this guy? what is gud for him? if he stays n brings the family with him....he loses a decent amount of money but may be...jus may be...he will have a profile which will help him in the longer term...if he leaves...he breaks a commitment....but he doesnt lose too much...he has been in the industry for more than 7-8 yrs....so he can get back a good enough role in a very short while....so as a leader/manager....WHAT to do??!! team or person? money or profile?

Tired Sunday

Last weekend sunday was a really really tired...sleepy...day....but sadly had work to ddo!!! forced myself to complete it after slleeping ages to get out of the tiredness.....

Puliyotharai

.....Amirtham

ohhhhhhhhhh naan panninen....n ready made puliyotharai powder vechu.....but stilll...it roxxxxxxxxxx

wowwwwwwwwwww i can slep now :)

Clearwater Bay Walk

HK is an amazing place if u want to do some hinking....nature walking and relaxed enjoyment amidst nature.....last week...we, the gang, went to Clearwater Bay Walk which is a low to medium difficulty walk in and around the Clearwater Bay Country Park...this is a walking cum mountain biking trail not extremely famous but really very nice...easily accessible as well...

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Take a MTR to Tsuen Kwan O station...which is in the aptly named Tsuen Kwan O line :) From the Central/Admiralty/Wanchai in the Island take the Island Line to North Point and move onto Tsuen Kwan O line.....From Tsuen Kwan O station take 103M mini bus and once onto the Clearwater Bay Road, keep looking out, you will find a lot of entry points in to the trail...this trail goes very much in parellel to the road for 2-3 kms and so has 2-3 entry points from the road....keep your eyes open and start walking....

This trail practically is a EASY one but there is a detour that once can take to climb the High Junk Peak....which is the top most point in and around Clear Water Bay and thus provides an amazing view....this climb is really steep and reasonably difficult if the day is sunny...so the Low to Medium rating.....see some of the amazing views....
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we had selected a really sunny and so it was very very tiringggggggg....during the trek you would not get water or food or anything...so its best tot ake whatever is needed from Tsuen Kwan O...some water and some fruits should do the trick....both available at the MTA station...heard from previous trekkers that the Tin Hau temple at the end of the trek serves good sea food but havaent personally tried it.....I probably would not, am a veggie ;)

These two weeks

Has been extremely hectic in a professional sense....but reasonably rewarding as well...reward in terms of my own self belief increasing....i am doing some things which I havent done yet in professional life n it has been really good to see that it really works...I AM ABLE to do it :) wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww what a feeling....

stretched is probably a very liht word for what we went thru as a teeam this week but end of the day.....friday....everyone around says...good job dudes....thanks for staying...amaaaaaaaazing :)

After the commercial break

After the commercial break....am back....had been off to India on personal work for a week and then been in a very tight week in office.....weekend has been rocking as of now...details on further posts :)

Chennai is simply amazing...superb climate for all the 7 days i was around....n luks like it has been tat way this week as well...climate change seems to have a positive effect as well in some corners of the world...brilliante

36 China Town

This is the reason I am awake...n I am posting...I really wanted to sleep but my flattie (room mate is roomie...flat mate shud be flattie...rite?) was seeing this and sharing the same hall...I had to watch it tooo...but it was decent....

as long as u don expect a major killer thriller...the movie is very good to spend 2+hrs...jus moves on with practically nothing but some timing comedy n some flashy babes....but worth watching once if u have nothing else to do in life....

Sleeep

Has overcome me today.....Have been stretched for the whole of the short week....n now all i want to do is sleep :)

Slept from 1AM to 12noon and thinking of a 4-5hr post lunch siesta...life is good...oh my dear blog...see you and trouble you tomaro :)

Dragon Boat Festival

Today is some Chinese festival...where the Chinese race boats...with very interesting decorations....Mythologically, there was a period when the Chinese King (the Chu Government) used to be a tyrant and there was a very famous poet (Qu Yuan) who tried to give advice to the King to correct him but failed...Having failed too many times, he committed suicide by drowning into the river and there are two branches to the story now....one says...the boats are raced in an attempt to try to find his body before any sea animals end up troubling the body....the other says....the boats are raced with the big drums to scare away fishes...so they wont eat the poet's body....thanks to wiki...I know so much...there is another aspect as well, they eat rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo...


We had been off to see this event at the Stanley Market....The race and all were pretty neat and the beach was a good place to look at but it was a little disappointing that the boat decorations were no where close to what is seen in snaps if u google...I guess the Stanley Market Boat Race wasnt the best place...I hear Sha Tin in New Territories probably is the best....Check out one of the snaps.....the decorations were really minor compared some of the other boat racing festivals I have seen....



But overall an average day....Came back from this...had a long freewheeling argument on nothing with two of my other bachelor friends here....n then slept...woke up...lazed around...in effect doing nothing :)

Airline Tickets!!!

How amazing...there are sources to get tickets at cheaper than the airline's own website...y do the airlines want to hurt themselves? Wudnt the online website be cheaper for the airline companies??? Whats the business model there?

Anyways...I can see the other side of the story as well...the airline agency industry has its own economies of scale...

but wen u r a customer...u seem to see things that u don see wen u r part of the industry :)

I probably can change my blog title to perspectives...somehow each blog seems to veer towards this one word!!!

Aval - Sila varudangal munnal paditha kavithai

kavithai ezhutha kettargal....ore vaarthaiyil sonnen "Aval".....aval ennai kettu irunthaal innum surukkamaga solli iruppen "Nee"...........

This literally means "I was asked to write a poem and I said 'HER', had she asked me I would have made it even shorter 'U'"

Arputhamana kavithai, aazhntha sinthanai.....BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!! 8-10 varudangalukku munnal paditha kavithai...aval aaayriram mayilgalukku appal irukkayil inru manathinai neghiyachcheigirathu....

For the Non-Tamils....I am trying to say that I read this 8-10 yrs ago...but I remembered it today...n it makes me feel weak being seperated from her by thousands of miles....

HER

!!!!!!!!!!! Thats one part of my wandering thoughts that I had blocked out of the blog till date....All that with a reason...DOnt ask me who, why, where, how...ONE DAY....yeah ONE REALLY FINE DAY.....she will be with me....n thr wud be changes galore.....me will become us....my wud become our....my views may change....my impressions may change...but two things are certain...the SVK will be the same....n the web URL would be the same.....

SHE roxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

n while in her thoughts...in her "aura" life roxxxx as well

END of the weekEND!!!

Monday beckons....A hard day's work...after two days of hard rocking (yeah this time it truly was ROCKing) enjoyment :)

Somehow today I am filled with thoughts of a playground filled with more P.Ed. masters than boys and girls really wanting to play.....more rules and change of rules and more time spent on that than real game...why but why?

But I guess its just a passing dream....By the time I get to office tomorrow it should all be fine...my arbit dreams long gone (is it really arbit? and is this symptomatic of no sur in surREAL) and mind filled with enthusiasm to beat the nearest competition by a mile....energy to make more out of every moment than your nearest neighbouring knowledge worker....

Hoping for a nice day tomorrow...infact it shudve been a week but this is short week. The Tuesday is a holiday...Thanks to some Chinese something....festival? birthday of a leader? I dont really remember...Shud look it up...But all the same, its a holiday and one more walk on another HK country trail beckons....

Thinking of it...I really do like HK...living in HK seems so much more easy and comfortable....but yeah I am missing one thign badly...the comfort of her being next to me.....lemme hope I can get her here toooooooooooooooooooooo