Settled or Settling!!!

Just came back from a get-together from a friend's place. It was a day out and the snap of our gang is inserted here. 

On 20th Jan 2008, we will be completing 6 months in UK. We have a huge group os friends and though we miss Malaysia and India, this is fun. Office is going fine. New territory is exciting.

We will also be celebrating our anniversary next month. 1st year has been cool yaar...life hasnt changed much from bachelor days just that I have a companion for good n bad things...ha ha ha...

-Shameek

Durga Puja in London

Guys the last weekend has been absolute fun...I have not had similar fun for a long time.....The Durga Puja started with two of our friends coming from Manchester on friday...they are staying with us....On Saturday we went Harrow and the Puja is known as Panchamukhee....for this you Soma and the frens were preparing for 8 hrs...the evening was good fun...the event was chaired by Mayor of Harrow...and the evening program had a Bharatnatyam performance by Ananya and performance by Bengali band - Dohar...the speaciality of the band is they dont use any musical instrument with electric output...it was lovely.....they entertained us for 4 hrs and made ladies of all ages dance.....yes 60 year old were dancing...

i enjoyed the company we had the whole of the weekend and IT HAS BEEN BEEN A BLAST...

i will update the blog abt sunday and tomorrow's function by tomorrow......cheers...

i need to hit the sack now....

Weekend of 27-28th Sept - Get-togethers

This weekend was fantastic - 27th Sept we had a get-together with my old colleagues and frens from HCL Malaysia. We met in Wembley in an India Restaurant - food was good and place was noisy so we were completely at home....

yesterday evening we went to Luton to meet new-found frend in UK...The frens are because of Soma's interest in networking through Social networking sites....The gang is awesome - boisterous and no-holds-barred kind of people......the party went on till 2am when sanity dawned and everybody though of going back to home....we reached home at 3.30am....

Today morning, we joined fitness club for very obvious reasons....ha ha ha and in the afternoon were at a frends place for lunch....cool????

Last Two weeks - Bangalore Travel and Get-togethers

I was in Bangalore week before last and found some welcome changes...First of all the new airport is good, though I felt it may not suffice for the traffic growth in next 2-3 years....the immigration is efficient and quick...There is a long elevated highway coming up on the way to Elex city...though the pace of construction is slow, i feel in couple of years when the construction is completed the traffic will ease...

I also got a few opportunities to fine n dine in choice of places in Bangalore - Leela's Citrus and Taj Gateway's Karivalli.....Citrus's buffet spread is excellent and yeah we tried a wine which was bloody costly INR 32,000/-...goosshhhhh....Karivalli has real tasty Sounthern Coastal choices.....and the decor of Karivalli is lovely.....

Also the Geofrey in 'The Royal Orchid' is a good place but I felt real let down by the closing time of Bangalore pubs...what studpidity - the pubs are supposed to be closed by 11.30pm......

Yeah i accomplished another feat this time - purshased sarees...I was enthused that I should purchase Mysore silk for Soma....And you will be amazed that once i landed in Mysore Silk House I ended up purchasing 5 sarees in flat 15 minutes......I was helped by my brother but you will agree that its a feat...ha ha ha

The trip was eventful professionally also....

When I was in Bangalore, the new TV in UK (which we purchased in July) went faulty and presently we are w/o TV...this is good in a way as we are forced to look at other avenues of entertainment... we have subscribed to LoveFilms.com which is a DVD rental service provider and the collection it has is fantastic...it also efficientlt dispatches DVDs....cool service....By the way it is a division of  amazon.com ....

Anniversary.....cheers

This weekend was special. We celebrtated 1 year of meeting each other. Last year 14th Sept we met in Delhi.

Last year when we met we went to a Pub in Delhi, this year we went to a American-Italian joint....the place was awesome - noisy, good food, excellent concoctions and cosy decor.....

The rest of the weekend was hectic....We accomplished a MAJOR task of squishing extra household items.....

This week I will be travelling to Bangalore...

A new post after a longtime.....

It has been really long since I last updated our blogs. Things have been hectic at our end. We moved to UK in July and have been settling. We visited a few places in UK - Brighton, Peterboro and few parts of London.

It is a totally diffrent world compared to Malaysia (where I was for last 6 years). Traffic enforcement is tougher, eating out is rarer as it is REAL costly, public services are better and efficient.....bla bla bla....u will have heard about this......WE ARE LOVING IT!!!!

And yeah we purchased a BMW....Check out the snaps in picasaweb.google.com/shamgho9...there are other snaps also...check those....

Soma is looking for job and most probably she will join someplace soon.....

Cheers

Dinner amongst the stars.....

It has been more than 2 months since I last posted. Thats is because we (Soma and I) were busy with marriage, reception and then honeymoon...Soma came with me to KL after marriage and she has settled now.

Today we went for dinner to Menara KL's revolving restaurant which is 250 m above the ground. We were awestruck by the beauty of KL and her skyline. And what a fantastic spread in the buffet.