The Life aheadPersonal Blog of Ratish Naroor

I decided to make a career move to join the software development division of Fugro NL .The company is into geosurveying and geoscience services.Headquartered at the Netherlands , the development teams are also at Australia,UK and US .
I had to relocate to Navi mumbai as this is the only office setup in India .Really finding a bit difficult to adjust with the fast life here and missing my friends elsewhere .
I will be working on the next generation applications in Fugro and hope I will do my best here .

Its my last day in Philips Innovation Campus Bangalore .The campus showed me how MNC’s work and how much they care about the employees here .It also helped me in getting me some great friends whom I think will surely have contacts in the future .Philips really helped me in learning many new things and showed me how innovative employees should be in their work. I can assure anybody joining Philips will really have a nice time

Radhish does it again .On Friday night when I was working at office , I got his call saying he didn’t get the tickets for going to his native calicut and asking me whether we can go for a trip tonight .I was confused whether to make a plan like this ,At last I came up with a plan to visit chikmagalur .
We started late night driving towards chikmagalur. I managed to get some maps and details on the place we are going to visit. The drive was great .Nobody slept that much but when it was almost 4 am I started feeling sleepy. Slept for some time and when I got up we had reached chikmagalur. Had a black tea and then started of to see the wonderful kemmanagundi hills .The roads started to become bad from there but driving between the forest was nice .Got chance to see some hybrid monkeys , I think Langurs , but none gave me a pose to take a snap.
We got a place to get refreshed, the horticulture guest house .It started raining in the afternoon when we reached there but that gave us some time to take rest after so much driving . We planned to cut short the trip to one day , so had to plan accordingly which places to visit. At last decided to trek the hills and visit the Kallathigiri waterfalls .Due to lack of time we had to miss the famous hebbe falls .
The trek was really nice.It was not that steep so was easy to climb the hills. Reaching the top of the hill was the best part where you will have view of the whole area. The wind was really blowing at us with good speed. Got a chance to shoot some nice snaps .The hill top was worth visiting .After trekking back we started off to the waterfalls. It was a small falls with a temple near it .Lots of tourist also hangout at this point .The temple visit made our trip a religious one too.
The drive back was a bit hectic for me due to lack of sleep. But radhish and myself exchanged the driver seat to make up the whole distance .
Some of the snaps can be viewed here .

Its been sometime I was planning to take my parents for an outing . The Trivandrum trip on the previous weekend gave me a chance to plan something .We decided to visit ‘Ponmudi’ for one day .Got the accommodation at the government guest house with great difficulty. We started on Saturday noon with my cousin Anoop also joining us. Its only 53 kms from our place .The drive was nice as we didn’t find in difficulty to reach the peak .We drove directly to the guest house .Kept the baggage and started off to reach the mountain peak .The climate was simply superb as compared to the climate prevailing in kerala state now .The mountains were really nice to take some snaps .We trekked two mountains and the peaks were really nice place to rest after the trek. Met two Russians too on the peak who were also really amazed the view they had on top.
The next day early morning we started to drive back .We planned to cover the Meenmutti falls also ,which is on the way back to Trivandrum .Meenmutti falls also require a trek of almost 1 km to reach the waterfalls point .My parents found it a bit difficult at first to cross some of the parts of the trek but I know they would have enjoyed it .After the walk we had a swim at the waterfalls .That was really refreshing .
Some of the snaps can be viewed here .