Thursday, August 31, 2006

Its been a while...always feel like home at blogger :)

So good to write after a long long while. First I owe a lot of thanks to people who have been around me, at blogger, outside blogger..always inspiring in their own sweet ways...love you a lot for whatever you guys have been to me :) The world definitely has a lot of ups even when the downs try to desperately suck you into it :)

So updates as of now...

Left Mumbai and headed straightway to my friend with whom I was envisaging to start up an enterprise of my own. Apparently, both of us having the same wavelength for the project, did not take too much of a time deciding what to do and how to go about it.
So we started "travelogues", a travel company which endeavours to make travel plans for people wanting to travel towards Darjeeling and Sikkim, the gateway to the Northeastern part of the country.

Travelogues is about a month and a couple of days old baby. We are operating from Kolkata and Bangalore with our head office in Sikkim.
The response from people to whom we have spoken the idea of travelling towards those parts has been quite positive. We are in talks with a couple of organizations at present and hopefully we would be able to give them a trip of a lifetime if we take them to these places.
We have been offering specialized travel packs which include the following -

1. Adventure tourism
2. Trekking
3. Village and Eco Tourism
4. Regular sightseeing

The details of which is quite an elaborate one :) If someone is interested in specific details, I could answer the same :)

Why tourism? Someone asked me? All of a Sudden? Well hoestly speaking, I always wanted to do something on my own. A regular 9 to 6 work schedule has had never been my idea about work. My idea of work was something which I give 100 percent and atleast get 50% of it..atleast on the satisfaction front.
On a tiring day from work in my previous company, as I rested and stared at the celeing, tired and completely drained out, the first question that would come to me would be this:
"What if I had sweated out this energy in something thats my own?" Maybe that was a selfish notion but the fact never changed. At the end of the day, the feeling was just so overwhelming.
Sometimes working for 4 hours was such a trouble with the mind playing a lot of games...u know what i mean to say..today I work for almost 20 plus hours, trying to figure out things here and there..how to go about things..how to see that my customers get the best of deals...what hotels to reserve..what cars to provide..if teens then what kind of enjoyment would they relish..if elderly, what kind of music should the driver play...et al..all minute things but very vital....cos travel is all about the comfort life can provide..and a customer is just paying you for relishing the small happiness that they can get in taking a sojourn :)

So lots of things happening at my end..am learning, but enjoying every bit of the learning :) meeting a lot of people, focusing towards spreading the network and trying to give it my best shot in whatever I intend to do :)

That's a lot I have spoken about myself and what I have been doing in these days:)

Hope this is not boring. Its 2 a.m. have been listening to "Someday i'll be Saturday night" for the nth time as of now...lots of things to catch up with...catch ya guys in the next blog soon..and yeah i hope i do mean it when i say soon ;)

Once again, thanks for being there guys..love you all a lot and a little more....:))))