'A horrible trip where almost everything went wrong'. I was in penury when this trip was planned and still i decided to come aboard.Even a vague recollection of this uneventful trip years from now will remind me of the lesson "spend money wisely".
We (trip members) were famous fifteen from Windows differentiation team with 3 core committee members Kaaru (Kareti),Venkatesh (Benky),Shashanka (Shawshank ).
Lets start with 'WHY' and 'HOW' trip idea came into being.It so happened that MyCommunity 1.0 team members had just concluded a technical meeting,where ppl realised that Community was almost feature complete and then aroused the question "NEXT IS WHAT ?',we hit on the idea of a trip which started off as a "trip exclusively for community team".Then we listed the all the possible options from kashmir to kanyakumari .One by one all options disappeared for many not so apparent reasons .Mathematically following happened :
(Many Possible Options)/(Not so obvious reasons for not visiting a place)="Chikmanglur"
So,it was fate as you may like to call it that of all the possible places we pin pointed a small circle on the map of karnataka called "Chikmanglur" to be preffered hot found favourite destination.Then it so happened that this information got leaked to win-diff group and other members expressed their desire to waste money and we readily joined them in.It was finally decided that trip will be a all win-mobile differentiation team trip.
Kaaru who is also popularly regarded as 'Sinister of General Affairs' in win-mobile had precariously planned booking of the trip bus.He deserves a special mention here as he made sure the bus had a push-back,a TV ,a sound system and most important of all ,a Telugu speaking driver.Its for an another matter that TV never worked and sound system produced utter nuisance but surprisingly push back worked well.On paper he kept his promise though almost ignominiously.Then there was this 'finance secretary' Mr.Benky sir,who ofcourse kept finances of the trip and clever Shawshank who was the trip coordinator.Both abetted in kaaru's master plan.Plan was definitely well thought and the committee to adhered to the plan perfectly.The main and the only problem was to visit a wrong place at the wrong time of the year.
Things started off pretty well on the day of the trip.We started off early morning from office premises and collected other trip members on the route to the infamous place.We were in a merry mood in the bus.This is a good time to make a mention of key actors in the trip,"Biggest Boss" (Ramesh),"Big Boss" (Ashok),"Big Sir" (Sanjay),"Sena" (Ashok sena),"Ranjuu" (Ranjan),"I-Gireesh" (Gireesh-"I" borrowed from "I-Phone") and others.
We reached "TexWoods Resort" ( Resort ??? huh...) @ chikamagalur.Resort had promised so much in their website.Indoor games,Swimming pool,Bonfire,Music,Fishing and seeing "Tigers" etc etc etc most of which it never had or were simply exaggerated.For Example:There was a Swimming Pool but without water,there was bonfire convenience but there was also rain,there was a Music system but i am not sure whether it worked and then there was also this eighteenth century "Carom board",which was the only indoor game which they shamelessly proclaimed so boldly on their website.Anyway the food was great there for Non-Veggies but was equally disgustful for Veggies.Luckily i belonged to the former minority set of ppl.
After a late lunch we marched towards the coffee plantations.It was raining consistently but not very heavily.We were blissful and were hoping for a good time. On the way Amith innocently said that if i managed to find a blood sucking creature called "LEECH" then i show this disgraceful worm.We continued our journey by walk towards the plantation.There somewhere we took a steep turn where mud was particularly moist and damp.we continued the march.Suddendly Amith experienced some thing which i am sure he never wanted to experience.He found a leech hanging by his naked feet and sucking the blood out of him.He panicked and he appeared as if someone had put a burning iron rod on his backside bottom.With some Salt we managed to resue Amith from the slimy and stubborn clunges of Mr.LEECH.After seeing this everyone became prudent and started checking their feet.Some were lucky in getting 2-3 leeches hanging by their shoes or feet."Sena" in particular was extremely lucky as he had a staggering total of 8 leeches on his feet by the time the trekk ended. -----> To be continued
