ILR - HSMP - Tier1 Success Story @ Birmingham PEO - Jan 2013

ILR - HSMP - Tier1 Success Story @ Birmingham PEO  - Jan 2013

It was that time of the year when I had to extend my VISA to continue to work in the UK.
I had a few doubts about the ILR process, but reading blogs, forums and talking to friends not only put an end to most of the doubts but also relaxed me through the process,

A few questions remained  and on the day of ILR Interview all those were cleared and I have now got an approval for Indefinite Stay to remain in the UK.

I thought I will outline what I went through which could help the prospective candidates.

First and foremost, find out if you are eligible to apply for ILR using the UKBA website
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/settlement/applicationtypes/ 

Book and Pass the "Life in the UK" test from the below link  - Try to book this well in advance. It took me just a few days reading and using my Smartphone app for a few hours to pass this test..  you need to score atleast 18 out of 24 multiple choice questions... - Dont worry about this much, it is very basic and you can pass it very easily
http://lifeintheuktest.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/


You are only allowed to book your PEO appointment 28 days before your 5 years completion, else your appointment does not stand and they would not see you at the office.
You can start booking appointment online from the ukba website 42 days or 6 weeks in advance.

This was the most tricky part, new appointments are made available every night at  12am, you will need to create an account and have lot of patience to get some appointments.  The website is a bit cranky from 12am and 1am  but this is when you would get the best appointments.

Also, keep searching for appointments once very hour during the day time as well, I got mine when I was casually searching 3 days before.   Good luck with this


I got an appointment in Birmingham which is what most of them recommended as unlike all other PEO offices, in here they verify the documents first and only if they find most of it is good, they would ask you to make a payment, considering the amount it is a very sensible way..

Now on the actual day itself, this is what I went through

1.  I went almost an hour earlier than my appointment, some PEO offices do not allow candidates earlier than 30 mins but the staff at Birmingham were very courteous and let us take a seat after confirming the appointment  and security check

2. About 30 mins before the appointment you would be handed a token number and procedure information which is very helpful

3. At sharp 10:40am, we were called inside for the application assessment

4. During the assessment, I was asked for only the following documents
     a. Application form ( SET (O) )
     b. Passport(s) of both Applicant and Dependent
     c. Life in the UK Pass Certificate ( Applicant`s and any dependent`s)
     d. 12 months Payslips
     e. 12 months Bank statements
      f. 2 Recent passport size photographs ( 45mm*35mm ) of Applicant and Dependent
      g.  Marriage Certificate
      h.   Council Tax bills / Joint Bank Statements  ( to prove that Dependent was staying with the Applicant for 2 years)

Note : I had carried 6 different forms of letters to prove that my Dependent was staying with me for the last 2 years but the officer only wanted Two proofs of which he only took one Bank statement page.   I also carried P60 for the last 5 years and various other documents but apart from the above I was not asked for any other documentation.     It is advisable that you carry as much of documentation but only provide as much as the officer asks for, DO NOT try to give them too many documents and confuse them, it will only complicate your processing.

5. Once the officer was confident that all documentation was good, he told us "everything is good" and asked us to proceed to the Payment counter.

6. Once the payment was taken, we were sent back to the Waiting Place, It took around 1  hour upto this point

7. 10 mins later, we were called for the BIO-METRIC details, where we gave our finger prints and also photos were taken  and once done, we are asked to wait for further 15 mins for the bio-metric results

8.   15 mins later, we were told that everything with the application is good and also the payment has gone through and were asked to come back around 2pm for a decision

9. When we came back at 2pm, we were told that our Application was approved and were told that the Bio-Metric cards would arrive by Post. We were given
  a. Approval Letter
  b. Bio-metric card information and when it would arrive
  c. payment receipt

The staff were very friendly and the service provided was excellent, I did not mind the extra £600 which we had to pay for the premium service, it gave us a peace of mind.

I totally recommend any prospective applicants to go for Birmingham if you want simple procedure, peace of mind for your application

Note: a note at the end , I cannot promise all applicantions would be this smooth, it all depends on the officer and also how complicated your particular case is in terms of meeting the requirements


Wish you good luck

Lake District and Isle of Walney

The winter is now gone and the bright summer is here.
Me and Rajitha were ready to rock the summer.

Drove to Leeds and stayed at Anil's house on Wednesday night ( 27th April 2011 ).
It was University time the next morning, went to the Bradford and submitted the project proposal, Jeff is my mentor for the Project and he was a interesting person.
Jeff is a British who is married to a American and was fun to talk to, he listened to the project proposal and gave his approval to continue my work on the Project ( IT-BPO Challenges )

After the university work was complete, we drove down to the Lake district which was really beautiful, we visited a few lakes in the afternoon and evening, spent some good time at Windermere, we went row boating and on a passenger boat for a ride. Row boats were fun and tiring.

Reached Travellodge in Borrow-in-furness, had a Pizza from the nearby Dominos. I had to login to office to do some work, because the Wi-fi was not free in the hotel, I found out that we can connect using the IPhone 3G, once connected did some work and went to bed.

Next day morning ( 29th April) we got to know of a island "Isle of walney" nearby from the hotel staff. The island was just a couple of miles from the hotel and it was a super surprise. The Island was really beautiful,  there were hardly any people there and non commercial. The island was a few miles long and if we walk for 30 mintues, we would reach from the north to the south and if we walk 15 minutes we reach from east to west.  We spent a lot of time playing by the beaches and walking along the coast.



we drove back to the lakes again and spent rest of the day there. It was time to go back home but then we thought why not give Blackpool a visit which was very nearby from here and also it was a bank holiday and we would get bored if we go back home that quickly.

We booked a B&B and drove to blackpool. The next day morning we had fun at the blackpool beach and also the rides at "Pelasure beach".

Went back to the Anil's house ( leeds ) and had a wander around the Leeds city centre and then drove back to Bristol on Sunday night.


It was a unique experience as we had gone out alone for the first time ( without friends) and also most of it was totally unplanned, we just decided which places to go the previous evenings and just had fun.

when I saw her

When I saw her, I did not know whethere she was the right girl for me.
But it was the face that I could just see and forget everything else.

Great deal of confusion

It is not the first time this thought has arised in the last few months but the thought starts here and then ends very soon with no right decision. The quicker the decision can be made, the better it is.

So the Big Question - should we be continue to live here in the UK if yes then how long OR should we be heading back home ???? ( I can always add a few more ????? ).

I am sure there are several people who are in the same state of mind as me.
so when it comes to me, I have been here over 4 years now, it was fun and it was an experience much different then the one I have had for 23 years back home. It is very exciting some days, yet a another day at times, makes you feel sad of something you are missing back home at times, makes you feel happy that you are away from things some times. The experience by no means is something of a regret, it has never been. This few years have thought me many lessons many to cherish and very few to forget.

But then all this good things would soon become boring if a decision is not taken on what is to be done at the earliest. It is said that the flowing water is the most pureset of water than the stagnant one.

It is almost decision time. It is not a decision that I have to take overnight, I have a while before I decide but the confusion makes me worry and have a few sleepless nights.


All in all a very confused mind, some day for sure we will back to where we belong but until then lets enjoy every day as it is.

I say this several times theories are controversial, yet another example for that.
They say "Be happy with what you have, have fun everyday" and at the same time
They also say "Dont become too comfortable and too content with what you have and Dont fear to Dream Big..", now you can always ask who is this "They", it can be friends, it can be "theories" from experienced and most of the time It can be my "Inner-self"

....................A Confused Mind

debate sessions

I always used to wonder why they have debate sessions in schools / colleges.. it is not which side you choose.. it is how much you can influence the audience and more important judges.
Same theory holds good in life. for ethical reasons, we always use the topic which seems right. There is always an inner self..

few thoughts..

Do you know your friends ?

sometimes I feel I dont know anybody any well
even the closest of my friends
I only assume that i know people well,
until one day I am hit by a strom of ignorance.


Be scared only if it is your fault
otherwise you can just laugh on it.

Where are you !

mornings feel a little different, I wondered why..
then I knew it was a missing hi and a bye...


I know you are away and that is just for a few days
but doesn't stop me looking for you as I open my eyes with the sun rays
in a hope that just in case miraculously a msg pops and Hi it says

first 12 years of me.. somethings to remember.. somethings to forget

March 15, 1983 was a nice and pleasant day or was it ? somewhere in a remote village of Andra Pradesh my parents had their first baby and fortunately or unfortunately that was me, named Nagashankar, some call Nag(a), most of them call Shankar and a handful like to say Shan with Love. It has been an amazing journey this 26 years, it is not the end or not even half of what it would end up, however I felt I should recap these years before all the memories are burried deep down which cannot be digged out later on. Not much I can remember of the first 4-5 years but from all that my relatives and parents told me, being the first kid of my family I was always taken good care as a child having more than all the luxuries that a lower-middle class family child can have. Happenings from around the Age of 5 are the ones that I can remember nice and clear. I loved to play cricket like most of the kids of India, I was around 5 when I had a fight with a group of kids may be 2 or 3 years elder to me because they would not include me in the team, so I went to the play area and told them nice and clear "If you are not going to let me play, I can do the same" and stood in the middle of the field stubborn and one of the kid from the group takes a stone and throws right on my face which just misses the head and hits just below the left eye as I fell unconscious there on the ground and was rushed to a hospital and had a few stiches on the face. My mother says I might have lost about a litre of blood that day. This is something I always want to forget but the Scar on my face that I see everyday in the mirror never lets me forget. As a Kid I was never troublesome, I always used to do my homework on time and I always stood 1st in my class right from lower KG ( LKG) till I completed by Secondary School except in two instances after I moved to bangalore later on. I was was never demanding but the problem was I was never at home, running around the streets was one of my favourite hobbies, even as a Kid I used to get back home hours after the sun-set and get beaten up for that as I used to be on the play ground all the time be it a week-day, sunday or a public holiday. I was 7 when I stood first in the entire school and my Head-master gave a double promotion and promoted me to 3rd Std from 1st as a recognition for my efforts. My teachers asked me to read 3rd Std syllabus but then I had this strange feeling that I have missed out on something by not reading 2nd Std syllabus, I used to borrow books from my previous friends in the leisure time of school to read and catch up just out of interest. A year later upon my head-master's suggestion, my parents shifted me to a different school which was well known and even in the year 1992 the strength of the school was around few thousands and each class had like 6 sections ( 4th std sec A, B C and so on ). Going to this school was a life time experience for me. The school was not next door to my house as the previous one was, I had to change two buses to get to the school and it was around 10 kms, it was a serious challenge as there were now 100's of kid;s in each year competing. I became a bit more tough during the course of my studies in this school both mentally and physically. Days when school ends by afternoon I used to get lift from two-wheelers at times and walk some odd days, literally 10 kms walk just because I knew I could. One of the best things to happen during this time was I met two kids Chalapathi and Sridhar who went on to become two of my best friends during school time. But sadly enough I dont know them anymore. I seriously wish I knew all this websites like orkut / facebook at that time so that I would never loose contact with them. By 9 I was enjoying the time away from school and places away from home a bit more and knew that I need more money to buy things and to be able to roam around a bit more other than just the school and home, so along with my friends we used to bunk classes and submit fake leave letters to my teachers and spend time playing cricket and roaming around places in hyderabad. I used to ocassionaly steal some money from my dad's pockets and sometimes from my mom's purse. I know of one situation when I was caught and beaten up. Back home I had a friend in Nandini, right from the time I return from school till the time I get to bed I used to play with her all the time, jumping hoping studying, eating, all in all everything with her and at times we used to do some really naughty things which I laugh at today. There were some ongoing problems in my family and eventually in 1993, my dad had to shift to Bangalore for the purpose of work. It was January and a very odd time to move places as it would affect the schooling to a great extent but my parents could not help but move on. Luckily for me I got admission to a school in bangalore in Feb, It was a small and normal convent school but the challenge was to complete the entire syllabus of Fifth Standard in 2 months time and to be ready for the exams in April. My parents and I knew I can somehow manage all the subjects expect for one "KANNADA". Until this point in time I never knew that there is one such language called kannada that even existed. Though the script used was not very different from Telugu, I hardly understood the language and more over time pressure. Then came an angel in disguise of a teacher, she was called Sumathi and my class teacher, she gave me all special attention that I needed to understand this new language. I used to go to classes in the morning, go the tutions in the evening and then most of the night taking notes of the past 8-9 months by borrowing books from kids who were kind enough to lend books to me, esp one called Purushotham and the other Manjunath, luckily I still talk to them and meet up with them even today. A Month and a bit more somewhere in April 1st week, I had enough confidence to go for the exams. All the efforts were now put to test and believe me I came out with flying colors and got 77% overall and some 60% in Kannada. For the first time I did not stand 1st in the class but it did not matter as that was one of the toughest two month I have had in life so far and I was so happy to get through. I cried in dis-belief, cried in happiness, cried for the relief that I got, my parents and teachers just didn't;t know what to say, they were just happy and mom and dad cried and told proudly "I knew you could do it my boy and we are really sorry to put you through this". Those words are still in my ears and I think of it time and time and feel really happy about it. After the results, the next year onwards I stood first in my class replacing my best enemy in my school - Manimekala, she was one popular girl known for her for walking style and beating up boys all the time. I had real pleasure in edging her out in the academics throughout until the Final exams in 10th. By now I was already very famous in school especially due to the strong academics. Life was really really cool especially because of the attention I used to get in school and back home but among my friends at home, I was just another kid and I used to like that equally well. That is the recap of the first 10-12 years.... watch this space for the next part of this series. ;-) Thanks for reading..

A Farewell bid to the Legend Anil Kumble

ANIL KUMBLE unlike most of the cricketers was never in any sort of controversies. He is calm on the field, answering with a smile to the irritating questions that reporters ask but at the same time aggressive when u give him the ball, it always amazed me how Kumble turned to a Leg spinner from a Fast Bowler, infact even now he just deceives everyone as a Spin bowler, he is the only spinner I can remember who can bowl over 100Km/Hr Speed and who says a Tail-ender cannot bat, he has made a century and also some very important contribution over the last 18 years.

Kumble may not turn the ball as much Warne, Murali, Bajji and other very well known spin bowlers but he is the 3rd Highest Wicket taker in the world and the Most by an Indian. How can we forget the test match against west indies when he came out to bowl with bandage over his head and the jaw, he did take a few wickets including the rock solid Brian Lara making match more interesting more than all that it is his fighting spirit that he is known for.

What a joy it was when kumble took all 10 wickets against pakistan in Feroz-shah kotla, I can never forget Javagal srinath bowling away from the batsman so that only Kumble can get the last wicket, the Bangalore match when Javagal / Kumble together won the QuaterFinals against Pakistan as they scored some 30 odd vital run for the last Wicket.

He is one of the most respected if not the the only among his peers, he is quiet but he can truely support his team-mates when need be, remember the Test Match Controversies in Australia, he backed the indian Team.

He accepted Captiancy of Indian Team when the team was left orphaned after Dravid stepped down and Sachin did not want the role ( with all due respect to Sachin, he is much better as a player than a Captian).

A Bow to the legend and a Farewell Bid to the Most Calm Gaint of the Spin bowling.

Felipe Massa just misses and Hamilton gets to his First world Championship.

It was a Sunday and I didn't want to go anywhere today but had to go to Argos to return creative speakers that I had got. Soon after that I hurried home to watch the last of the Formula One Races of 2008 and the decisive one for the 2008 championship, boy it lived up-to the expectations of the decisive race. Start of the race and into a few corners David Couthard, the Man who has driven most races in the history of formula1 retired because of Nico Rosberg who hit him on the side, then it was under the safety car for a few laps.

It was a quiet race for Felipe Massa leading from the front, the title too far away from him now as Hamilton was always 4/5 on the track which would fetch with world championship anyway.

10 more laps to go and with prediction of rain, few drivers changed to wet tyres and few laps later there was a bit of rain, so being cautios all drivers changed to wet except for a few one being Timo glock and then on lap 69 it was Toro Rosso new hero who overtook Hamilton for 5th place and put Hamilton out of contention for the World Chhampionship, just less than a lap to go now and Felipe Massa won the race and it was now certain that Felipe Massa would be the winner but just 2 more corners to go for Hamilton, Timo Glock could not keep in on track and then Hamilton crossed the chequered flag in 5th place handing him the World Championship, It was too near yet too far for Massa, my heart goes to Massa. I was just shouting and screaming when Vetel passed Massa but then Seeing Hamilton cross the flag in 5th, I was just in tears and so was Massa, boy what a end to a thrilling race.

Congratulations to Hamilton but nothing to be taken away from Felipe Massa... he drove absolutely superb races but the Lady luck wasn't just there for him.. Lewis being in this situation last year deserves to be victorious. and thoroughly deserves the Championship and Wish Felipe Massa best of Luck in the future races.

bangalore blast july 25

I got up bit late that day, hurried to office to finish off work, it was Friday, 10 minutes after I reach office I get a message on google from my friend informing me about a serial blasts in bangalore, my mind just stopped functioning for a few minutes and I read that statement 10 times and then opened some online newspapers before realising it was true. My heart started beating a bit more faster and more worried, I called my immediate family members and friends some 7000 kms away to ensure they were all safe.

http://www.deccanherald.com/DeccanHerald.com/Content/Jul262008/scroll2008072681032.asp?section=updatenews

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080058856

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080058674

Bangalore along with Mumbai and other major cities in India are always on the hitlist for terrorism as it seems trying to disrupt the normal life in the cities.

I can imagine what was going on in millions of minds back in bangalore and people who have their loved ones in bangalore, it was so disturbing.

I could not work for the next half of the day, but when speaking to one of my friend this is what he said

"I understand that it is sad but we should not worry a lot about these blasts and by worrying we will only support terrors which we should not"

It immediately stuck my brian that the whole intension behind this terrorism and these terrorists are that people should live in despair and thinking of terror everytime, but this statement that my friend made is a complete defeat to their intensions.

My heart goes to the poeple who are affected in these blasts but I have no doubt the people who are behind all these will pay for the wrong deeds in some form or the other.

But the thing is what I can do to stop these or even reduce it remains a question ?

Arranged marriages

I came across a blog where a girl trying to defend her arguments about advantages and disadvantages of arranged marriages.

My opinion, I may be stupid but I like to be that way.

One can't everytime think of advantages and disadvantages in everything that one does, most of the time just one thing can drive the entire objective.

When our parents gave us birth, they never thought of pros and con's.:-)

some points I would to mention in support of a arranged marriage are these

The thrill of knowing a new person is life is same as that of in Love marriage.

It is a a phenomena between two families and not just two individuls.

It is a surrender of your Ego(s) in a arranged marriage.

Expectation are too little and whatever you get is a bonus and that helps in building a long term relation.

Happy to listen more comments

Clouds and just clouds

I have fallen in love with the clouds of late.
I can sit there, watch them for hours together while they move slowly overseeing me from a distance, they are so different from other natural beauties, they are so beautiful and makes me happy with every new glance, they are so pure and mild, they have the magic to float in the sky. Some photos that I have taken when I was in London last week.
http://picasaweb.google.com/nagashankarp/London

Some interesting facts about clouds on wiz kids
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/cloud.htm

Growing confidence as season progresses...

More and more games I play more and more confidence I get in me as a bowler. I am enjoying week-in week-out playing for Long Ashton though it is the 2nd XI Team.

Few weeks back, I bowled some very tight line for 9 overs and got rewarded, 2 wickets of which one was the best one I have had so far, pitched outside the off curled in to the batsman at waist high, batsman nicks it and straight to the slip.. amazing feeling that as a bowler, I enjoyed every bit of it, Again this week it was same pitched on the middle right into the batsman's body , nicks it straight to the hands of slip fielder, second of the dismissal this week was one pitched on the good length, straight through the defences of the batsman and dislodge the bails and directly into the middle stump.

Wow.. isn't that a wonderful moment.

First Win with Long Ashton CC

This week was for the Cricket Kit shopping, after a bit of search I managed to finalise on www.cricketsupplies.com and ordered my Cricket Kit.

Time for another match, at home this time.
After loosing 2 matches in a row this season, we were determined to win this match.

We won the toss and elected to Bat, it was a very slow start initially and later runs started flowing with the opposition bowler contributing more than half of the score at one point, later Ben and James scored heavily and we reached 268 in 45 overs.
I had padded up with my new Cricket kit but didn;t get a chance to bat as we were for the first time this season not All-out.

We had a good score to defend and started off very well with Me and Sam keeping things very tight, there were ocasional boundaries especially few down the third man but we kept going, Sam got 2 wickets and I was very unlucky not to get any, there were as many as 3 catches dropped of my bowling, 2 of them by the Keeper and one in the slips.

I tried hard but luck was not on my side.

As the pressure was building, the visiting team made mistakes especially to the bowling of Milne ( Spin bowler ) and he got as many as 4 wickets and a few more to Lambert and we Won by a Big margin and a win on the board is encouraging for the rest of the season to come by.

Mirror

Have you ever thought of different kinds of Mirrors, I didn;t mean the shape and size of it, the distinction is based on what it reflects, I know I know you would say that it is all about where the mirror is placed and lighting etc, but forget about all that for now.

I can think of 3 different kinds.

First of them are Mirrors those says you are handsome, wonderful beautiful and so on, these are mirrors which are amazing and you would like you see yourself again and again, however horrible you look, it says that you are really good and wonderful. I have one such mirror in my house.

The second kind which just reflects the exact image, the reality and the third kind which is the worst of the mirrors, however wonderful one is, it still says you are horrible, pathectic.

going a step ahead, it is exactly the same way we all have different prespectives about anything for that matter, upto you to decide what you what to really see and what you really want to reflect.
By saying that someone is good whether be at heart or in the physical appearance we could be creating more and more confidence in the person to be better and on contrast by saying you are horrible we make him/her even more horrible.

Cricket Season start with Long Ashton Cricket Club

Itz summer time and you can't miss out on any bright days here in UK. This summer as you all know I am in Bristol and within a week I managed to find a Cricket club to play for this summer itz called Long Ashton Cricket Club.
http://longashton.play-cricket.com

I was very eager to play cricket the english way after having enjoyed the flavour of it last season, once I got to know that there is a place from the ORANGE internal website, I called the guy who advertised the position the next minute.

It was saturday and off I go to the Cricket ground in Long Ashton.

We lost the toss and were put into bat, I wasn;t much interested in batting but more interested to bowl but I had to wait for my turn, when I told this to the captian, he asked me to bat at No 10 :-). The pitch was a bit wet and so there was very less bounce in the wicket and the opposition took good advantage of this by bowling some very tidy overs and eventually getting rewarded with wickets on regular intervals.

On the other end I was so restless holding the ball waiting for my turn to bowl but it was soon time for me to bat as were already 8 down and I went into bat and got too tempted by the slower one the spin bowler bowled and threw my wicket away, I should have done better than that.

We were All-out for 68 in 33 overs. With not many runs on the board to bowl we wanted to give a decent fight.

We started off well by getting a wicket in the first over that Adi bowled and I bowled some very tight overs as well but because of the target which was a mere 69, the opposition eventually achieved it in 26 overs, I ended up with the figures
4-1-11-0 ( four overs , one maiden and 11 runs given away).

It was sad that we lost but It was a good first experience and I would play some more matches this summer and hope to do better than this..

Until the next match.. bye. and wish me luck :-)

A new start to a colorful World

ORANGE! what all can one think of

a color,
a fruit,
a river ( remember one in Africa )
and just one more
it is the name of the Company that I work for now.

It is a very colorful company as they are so many people in this office and it looks very lively as well unlike the one which i worked for before. it reminds me of the bangalore office.

I wish on this day that the days to come by flow like the river and not be stagent like a puddle.

I have managed to find an accomdation just around the corner about 8-10 minutes.
The accomdation is very spacious, neat and has a french window to the garden and I am not alone at home, it is a shared accomdation with 5 people and guess what all are from ORANGE.. this place looks more like a ORANGE city. :-)

I had to sign the accomdation agreement with the land lady.
other than the general terms and conditions there were loads of other terms like

1. if you loose the house key and call us for help, we charge you £20 and if you call us during night we charge £50 excluding the key making charges. :-))

2. If you dont allow the workers to enter the accomdation you would be charged £30

Just started cooking in the place now, I am somehow started to like cooking so I am not finding it as a burden rather enjoying it which is a gud sign.

have joined a club next 5 minutes walk from my house, it is called "Living well" so will get to spend some time, also have joined a cricket club and the first match is this saturday.. wow isn;t that gud.. with loads of positive energy flowing..


I am liking it.. or should I say the Mc Donalds way I m loving it. :-)

A story of one of the several peaceful souls on the planet Earth

There was this guy who wondered more often that why was he on Earth and what was he doing here, has he been sent over by the Lord by mistake to a wrong place or was it a gift for his doing in his last life, his present life was so easy going, this is how his daily routine was...

Sleep was his best friend, some call it lazziness but he used to enjoy every extra moment of sleep he can get. Although he never was out of his bed when the alarm rings, he still insists on keeping the alarm hoping to get up to the alarm bell one fine day.

Dragging himself out of the bed after a few motivational words from his soul, he gets up and gets ready, ready to spend the rest of the day also in peace.

walks to office as though he is walking in the garden.. or like a walk on the beachside, after half an hour of pleasant walk he reaches office.

after spending almost 8 hours in the office watching some video clips listening to music, chatting most the time and surprise surprise some or say little work when he gets bored of entertainment, he returns back home in the same fashion as the morning walk.

Back home time to decide which movie to watch or whatz on the sportz calender, spend the rest of the time with the laptop and go to sleep as early as 10PM.. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

last few weeks at Basildon

Another 15 days to go ! ! !

The time is nearing to bid a farewell to Basildon, the last 1 and 1/2 year I have spent was of a mixed feelings. Many happy days, some boring days, some days to cherish some to forget, whatever be it these memories are here to remain forever.

I wasn't expecting it to be the way it has been, Overall itz been a pleasant stay mainly due to Office environment which gave me enough freedom ( although there wasn;t a great deal to do from work point of view ) and also staying with Chagari made my life easier at home and not to forget the Vivid bharathi group, it made it memorable.

A new place waiting for me and a new experience to savour, hope to do something new, hope it has something new for me and something interesting.