Emperors on the move

At last August his here!

August at Kaz is the long awaited month of the anniversary party! (Kaz actually started in June, but we do the anniversary party in August because it fits with the software world's tendency of taking it easy in August worldwide!)

This year we are off to the great triangle trip of Delhi - Agra and Jaipur. The trip is code named "Emperors on the move!"

Ten days of non-stop furti!

Lets go, lets go, lets goa!

With our anniversary party “Odyssey” over we are having a post party depression. Life should have been just an endless stream of back to back parties!

Anyway, Odyssey was a supreme success. Tweleve days of non-stop furti! Check out some the places we’ve been to on the google map here. But before you do that here are a few interesting but random trivia about Goa:

1. Goa became independent from Portugal in 1961! So Goa has been a part of Portugal from 1510 to 1961!

2. 40,000 Indian troops walked in to Goa on "Operation Vijay" to make Goa independent.

3. Goa became a full blown state as late as 1987. It was a "union territory" before that, since it never wanted to part of Maha Rashtra.

4. Mangoes of Goa can rival that of Bangladesh and goans have passions about mango almost on the same level as ours.

Go Goa

There is one high priority thread running at KAZ now. Dev rooms to hallways to rec room - just a single thread. The thread hangs once in a while to stop everything. Not a masterpiece in design but none of the superstar developers seems to mind!

The thread has just one constant “Goa”!

 

This year’s anniversary party at KAZ will be at Goa. The party is codenamed “Odyssey”. A lot of planning is going on to make odyssey a success. There must be something for everyone (since anniversary party also means friends and families) and there must be enough fun to talk about for a whole year (until the next party at least!). A lot of pressure on the odyssey team. 



Oscar Wilde’s last words were reputedly:  “This wallpaper is terrible – one of us have to go”. I know there is not even the thinnest of relevance for this quote with this post, but somehow I feel it captures the feeling of this trip very much!

So Go Goa …