Amey was in Mumbai with his family after a long gap & everybody was approaching Alibaug, where he was based.His alibaug home.And thingsworked out nicely.Prakash Kaka decided to have a Satyanarayan Pooja on this nice occassion.Its a reguler yearly ritual at his place but this time since Amey was returning, I think he decided to push it few months ahead in December.He was hoping that he will sit for the pooja which ultimately he didnt so Kaka & Kaki only had to sit. Myself & Nam,two of us left Mumbai on a friday.Distance of approx.125 kms was reached in around 3-3.5 hours.Navin,Anuja, Bhushan who are Amey's maternal cousins were already there.All of us shared same age group, between 25-30 except Bhushan who is the juniormost among us. I think he was in his sweet 16.When we ... read more

For quiet few days, Nam has been talking about being to Alibaug.Agenda - Take their beloved Ashok kaka to Pali Devsthan & enjoy a family holiday.So when we got a office holidays worked out on office front, we executed what we have already planned. Worst plan was only both of us travelling & best plan was to have all..namely Vinayak, Mahesh, our Sasubai, Balakaka & Kaki.We settled for something inbetween.Previous day when Nam called up all of these folks,to check their availability,all confirmed except Balakaka who confirmed conditionally.He was travelling from Satara the previous day & while approaching Mumbai, he got stuck up, only to reach home very late that night.So he has withdraw. So on Christmas Day, December 25th, we left home around 10.30 pm.Thanks to our late arrival at home the previous day from ... read more

USA Fall 2009 - Pittsburgh & Ohiopyle It was a passing thought that crystalised so well that we ended up being is USA in Fall of 2009.How to utilise mandatory leave of 2009 & where to go was a question that we were pondering over for few days since July.Rome,Hongkong all featured in our discussions & even a thought of visiting Amey in USA that we at that time thought as wild!!Few days after it was a routine mail corrospondance btw Namita & Amey wherein in one of his responses Amey wrote that we shud be visiting USA this holiday.I dont know what happened but that mail from Amey made us fix our decision to be in Pittsburgh for our yearly holiday.In next few days I managed to book our logistics arrangements at some good prices ... read more

We always thought that whenever we go to London, it will be my official visit & Sonu's personal along with me.IN fact not only London but also all visits abroad.But you know what, so far its been the opposite. Its always been her official visit & my personal visit.This time was no diffrent.After transitioning from Asia Rates to EMEA Rates in late 2008,Sonu has streamlined the Options piece of EMEA Rates in very short span time.To add to team's knowledge, Management at JPM thought it would be worthwhile to send 2 key people from Mumbai to London for training with Middle office.Ofcourse Sonu was part of that. After making sure that all shraddha rituals for Baba are done, we left for London on Feb 14th.What could have been a better B'day gift than this to Sonu? ... read more

Here Iam sitting at Gate 15 of Terminal 4 on London's Heathrow airport. Windows in front of me offers beautiful view of Heathrow airport.I have just finished my Starbucks coffie which I enjoyed immensely while talking to Sonu on phone.There are no flights scheduled from these gates at this time so this part of terminal 4 is a bit less crowded & thus offers good environment to write a blog for someone like me. This is the first time iam writing my blog sitting at a international air terminal. Its fantastic feeling!Technology is good,isnt it!! My visit to UK was almost certain when I kicked off the NA Commodities self funded migration from B'mouth 2 months back.But then last week things at office took a sudden change (atleast for me) when Vivek during quarter 1 feedback ... read more