Sabarish

It’s safe enough to post the following now, of a crime committed long back, and it is time the world knows what happened that fateful night at Chennai where three aspiring students (lets call them Sha, Sun and Sab) had gone to participate in the Imagine Cup 2005, only for two of them to be betrayed by the third. This is a story of betrayal and back stabbing and of stealing a brilliant idea and also the code and other hardware rightly belonging to Sha and Sab – all for a prize at the Imagine Cup.

The demented and jealous Sun enters as the unsuspecting Sab works hard on the comp

Sun back stabbing poor Sab

“Et tu Sun?….aaaahh!! help!!!” - Sha and Sab are shocked and scream for help…but alas…

Sun then targets Sha and chokes him on the bed

Sab is barely alive…and this time Sun goes for the throat

Once Sab and Sha are out of the picture, Sun goes on to steal their code and ideas

As Sun is about to leave with some gadgets, he notices the camera capturing his every action

 A desperate Sun commits suicide in front of the camera…or did he?

No one knows what happened next…

Apart from these photos, nothing was recovered. No bodies. No code. No idea…

Wait a minute…the idea with quite a few modifications recently resurfaced at some distant land…could it be….??

Disclaimer: All characters are purely fictional and any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

After procrastinating for far too long, I’m finally getting around to writing about my trip to Kerala, way back in April. We had a long weekend because May 1st was a holiday and decided to leave in the evening of April 28th and return on the morning of May 2nd.

The three day weekend was the perfect chance for some of us to get away from Bangalore and have some fun. The planning bore fruit and although Rishabh couldn’t make it, another champ, Ankith joined us.

After leaving office early, we — Sunil, Sharath, Ghana, Raghavan, Ankith and myself –finally left on 28th April (Friday) evening in a Qualis (cab) to Kerala!

Our cab for the trip

The start wasn’t very good. While waiting to pick up Raghavan on Hosur road, we witnessed an accident. A mini bus tried to avoid a speeding two wheeler and swerved straight towards us, he then swerved again and the bus went flying and landed in a ditch, barely a few metres away from us. Luckily noone was hurt, except for probably the bike rider who was thrashed by the public for causing the accident and yeah the bus was a goner, it probably had to be craned out of the ditch. Later our cab developed some problem and we had to stop at a service centre for quite some time to get it fixed.

 

At the service station

The rest of the onward journey was long but fun! We all had a nice time talking various things. The major theme for the evening was love and relationships, which the “newly-in-love” dudes were busy talking about, while Raghavan and I enjoyed laughing at them and reminiscing about our own past relationships…they have no clue what’s in store for them!

   

Food!

Most of us didn’t sleep much that night in the car, or did so only in brief phases. We were all excited about the trip and eager to reach Munnar, our first stop. Next day early morning – we were treated to the most awesome entry into God’s own country, Kerala. Will write about that in another blog post!

Another nice weekend with lots of friends, family, a puja and a couple of birthday treats in it!

On Saturday met up with some of my friends from college to celebrate Sashi’s birthday. We originally planned to go for Da Vinci Code, but thanks to the protests it wasn’t released this weekend, so we ended up going for Pink Panther at Inox. The movie was hilarious and though not in the league of some other comedies (like the Naked Gun series), it was good fun! We later had a nice long lunch at Cosmo Village near Garuda Mall.

I had to leave after lunch and join parents in visiting my sister’s new place near South End circle and after that to visit grandma (mom’s mom) who was my at my aunts (mom’s sister) place in Jayanagar. Returned home to watch India lose a good match.

On Sunday had to wake up really early to go to Dad’s brother’s place for a family get-together and puja. Met lots of cousins and relatives!

Had to leave the function after lunch and head to Rohan’s birthday treat. Rohan is probably one of my oldest friends – i’ve known him since standard 1, when we were classmates in Bishop Cottons! Deepak Pillai and Sandeep Rao also came and we spent some time at Crosswords looking for a gift for Rohan and later went to Mojo’s for lunch and to Corner House for dessert!

Spent the rest of the Sunday at home reading a novel I bought at Crosswords – Holy Cow by Sarah MacDonald. Also read many friends’ blogs and uploaded more chapters of Ashok Banker’s King of Ayodhya at epicindia.com.