Captain of the Month

Last of AOL Tech BNG Parties

This is definitely the last of the parties hosted by AOL Tech BNG.
Date: 27th May 2010
Venue: Barbecue Nation

Tech Leadership with the Blue Monster - Ascend in '10 trophy

Most obvious that the feelings were mixed,disturbed emotions,confused state of mind for most of them while others were on their own trip. The only question I had was what made the difference, was it the company,the client or was it Me... I believe I made the difference to situations that I encountered and shall only get better with time.

 We made a good team - PK,RON & VISH

Great journey with great people- memories shall be cherished for long...

Tech BNG bids adieu to AOL Members

A beautiful journey that was started on July 11th 2002. My entry into this beautiful world was on June 11th 2004. AOL has decided to close business in BNG on 31st May 2010, no regrets but a great learning and many thanks to all those who have guided me in the success story thus far...

Just thought of uploading a video with a slide show of some pictures on you tube & hence this post
BNG Tech bids adieu to AOL Members

TPL Finals

TPL Semi-Finals

TPL Week 5 Results

Matches played - 5, W-3, L-2

TPL Week 4 Results

 

Matches played - 4, W-3, L-1

TPL Week 3 Results

 

Matches played - 3, W-2, L-1

TPL Week 2 Results

Two matches played - W-1, L-1

TPL Week 1 Results

Shine in '09 WINNERS Q4

It is indeed a moment of great satisfaction when your hard/smart work pays off.Second site level award won by BNG - Shine in '09 Q4

The bash was held in Lake View Farm, whitefield on 21st Mar 2010 and here's a glimpse of the events of that memorable day.

Started off at 1200 Hrs with a warm welcome and the first activity was playing dumb charades.

CCC's v/s Leadership playing dumb charades

Folks enjoying lunch

Lemon & Spoon Race

          Best Moments Captured

Team playing Volley ball

Vish's Chargers - TPL II

The race never stops and so does excitement on the WINTECH floor. After a round of brain storming and picking lots for the matches to be played, it was decoration time.

I had preserved the banner for Vish's Chargers that was made for Season I. Along with the banner we have a few more things lined up including some merchandise from Deccan Chargers home store.

Proudly hoisted the Banner as in the pic above on my desktop and I'm sure looking forward to some good cricket and engagement from my Team.

Deccan Chargers Rock !!!

Doddamakali Fishing Camp

A wonderful getaway with wonderful people. Not much complications that arose in planning the Leadership outing to Doddamakali fishing camp on 13th & 14th of Mar 2010.

Praveen did the booking and got us an extra discount of 20% on the bill.

Started off in 4 cars at 0630 Hrs and a delicious breakfast in Ramanna near Yediyur lake. The journey was interesting and short and by 1200 Hrs we were descending down the hill to the base of the camp. The view on both sides were amazing. And the excitement just kept rising with every turn that the vehicle took.

Welcome lemonade which was followed by lunch and then the endless fun that began.

We jumped into the water with the life jackets on and the Trampoline just kept us going with laughter unlimited.Playing volley ball on the sand with never before seen dives was fantastic.



Barbecue by Ron and sandy  was the highlight of the evening.

Kedar was experimenting with his Cannon digicam and this was the best portrait that he captured of Sandy.

An awesome outing ,the memories of which shall be cherished for long...





Standing top L-R: Sampath,Anish,Vivek,Kedar,Ronald,Steve
Sitting top row L-R: Lokesh,Shameer,Praveen,Preetham,Thomson,Sandy
Sitting middle row: Titus
Sitting last row L-R: Kuldeepak, Vishwanath

Tech Premier League - Season II

Background: After a phenomenal success of TPL during March 2009 , Tech leadership decides to launch TPL season II

Fixtures: Six tech teams on the 6.1 floor of Explorer block of ITPL are all set to enter the field with their brigade of players and one can for sure say "More Battle than just a Game"

Objective: Engagement and Competition cannot get better as it's a race for fame and records never before seen in the History of AOL TECH

Launch Date: Official launch on 21st March 2010

Updates: As & when there is enough blood on the ground

Fun @ Work

Blazer Day -27th Aug 2009

Hmmm.... Stephen Ernest our Boss's idea of Blazer for Tech leadership came true on 27th Aug 2009.

John P Henry our client had come down and it was the season of Tech Film Festival - our contest for CCC's.

It was a coder-oi material blazer that we froze on and the tailor came to office to take measurements and it was a prompt delivery.

Blazer Day Album

It was a great feeling wearing the blazer - the day was so bright and colorful.

It was also Nisha's birthday.

The pictures are also a remembrance of the day that may repeat itself with a few new faces added or deleted.

ONAM 2009 -late entry

Well, this was pending for a long time along with a few others and today the 25th Dec 2009 I had plenty of time to work on my blog & hence this post.

Onam Pics

We had done decoration for diwali and Nisha was quite disappointed that we are not doing any decoration for Onam. My self and Ron joined hands with Nisha & Anish and celebrated Onam in the traditional best we could afford.

With only a few flowers purchased the rest of our decoration was done with the help of plants from ITPL (luckily no one was caught plucking flowers and leaves from ITPL property)

Every time WE do something different it only goes to prove Unity in Diversity :)

Shine in '09 WINNERS

After a long and strenuous struggle and should I also say slogging - BNG does it for the first time in AOL's history of winning an enterprise level competition.

The year 2009 witnessed some amazing performance from BNG and quarter three Shine in '09 was Won.
A lot of processes which we started back in Feb and Mar payed off with this victory.

Tech party was organized at Unwind Island off Sarjapur ring road on Nov 8th 2009. Ronald and Myself played MC's for the evening. It was a great fun filled evening with VP's and senior management present to reward the CCC's who had won laurels not only to themselves but also for the site.

Songs,Dance and prize distribution for Tech Film Festival (the internal contest) was followed by the inauguration of the new contest - TechAthlon-"The Amazing Race".

A fine dinner and a good get together for techies.Site remained closed from 1730-2230 Hrs.

This shall be a moment in my stay at AOL that cannot be forgotten.

A glimpse of the moment that was captured :)

Kaka Bay – Coorg

Though not a confirmed trip till 18th April 2009 midnight, it was another memorable trip from AEGIS where the WINTECH Leadership enjoyed to the core.

After going through all the tariffs of Jungle resorts and fishing camps, we froze on Kaka Bay near Virajpet in Coorg. A wonderful place, adjacent to the river.

We left ITPL at 0420 Hrs on 19th morning, enroute breakfast and everybody fell asleep. That’s when Latha woke me up telling – vish our vehicle has a break failure. Luckily it was not a high way and the driver stopped the vehicle by applying hand brake. No other option left, we had to wait until a mechanic came from Hunsur and repaired it. It was lunch time when we arrived at Kaka Bay. After a full meal we all fell into the water with the life jackets on.

Rafting, boating and swimming followed until we were all tired. Then the usual round of a long walk, gossip and chat. That evening was lucky for me as I won 700 rupees in three Cards game with Irfan & Ron. Camp fire with dance was simply awesome. No one knew when they fell asleep.
Next morning after breakfast we headed back to Bangalore. Lunch and icecream at GoniKoppa was delicious. Sometimes fun never seems to end when you have good company, be it work or a picnic. This trip was soon to be followed by another amazing trip with cousins to Gokarna and Murudehswar.

Pictures of KakaBay - Coorg

Best Buddies

Life takes new wings everyday with the kind of friends we make. Here at AEGIS 10th April 2009 was called as Best buddies day.

Myself & Ron had planned or was it by design we know not , but we were determined to win this contest.

We had to make a collage & come dressed alike. We chose to wear black and black and the pic. above was our collage.No doubt we won the contest but were also applauded for the kind of Team works we exhibit.

Feels good to participate in such contests and show that BEST BUDDIES do exist !!!