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....:))))

10 Comments:

Blogger Neha said...

FIrrssttt!!!!
Hey!U back in action!after all the action u have been doing outside the blogging world!
Travelouge!!Hmmmm..not bad!
Who knows, someday, when I actually would want to travel to Darjeeling, I call ya to make ma travel arrangements!
But all the best buddy!!!!!
Hoping this turns out to be successful in every way u have imagined and wanted it to be!

Rock on!!

11:07 pm

 
Blogger Tarun said...

Yes good to see an update.
Hardwork never went waste did it?
Good to now u have been busy.
Ciao

3:04 am

 
Blogger Dewaker Basnet said...

neha : yeah, im just a local call away ;) thanks for always being there for the first comment :) we are in the process of endeavouring for arrangements to south indian spots too soon...maybe surroundings of bangalore, karnataka, AP, TN and the likes...so soon we could cater to the south Indian needs too :)

the light house: hey tarun, thats a nice thing u have put up..thanks for always being tehre and inspiring in some way or the other mate :)

4:57 am

 
Blogger Keshi said...

hey WB Dewaker! Hope u had a good break. Sounds like it :)

Wish u all the best in ur tourism dreams!

Keshi.

11:22 pm

 
Blogger Dewaker Basnet said...

Keshi: thanks a ton for ur wishes...the break was fine..the grind is on these days ;)

12:56 pm

 
Blogger Rupali_Srivastava said...

Hey

Looks like you are doing some good work.

all the best !

Rupali

11:49 am

 
Blogger Still Searching said...

Great to see someone who had the courage to take the plunge and start out on your own... I am saying so becoz I have always wanted to do something on my own also, have a small business of my own.. its not a lack of creativity which is holding me back, probably its the comfort of knowing where the next pay-check will come from, or laziness, or just plain risk-averseness, but I've never gathered enough courage to tke this idea of mine forward.. so I applaud someone who has taken this decision and is happy to do so! Great work and best of luck for the future! Do keep us posted on how it goes..

3:32 am

 
Blogger Still Searching said...

Incidentally, I really like your blogname... makes you think!

3:32 am

 
Blogger Dewaker Basnet said...

rupali: thanks for the encouragement...appreciate your best wishes:)

3:23 pm

 
Blogger Dewaker Basnet said...

ruchika: first of all glad that the blog title made u think ;) always wondered myself too about that :)
and yeah i guess almost everyone at one point in time wants to start something of their own but only a few do it...and yeah paycheck is one of the most important criteria, definitely...u gt some ideas of starting something on ur own?? if u still have the desire, maybe we could discuss about it :) im serious bout it..who knows the catapillar of an idea would have wings one day...personally adore people who come up with ideas...dont let ur idea go away with u..if u feel its worth it, do share it with someone (not necessarily me:) or do it urself...who knows????

3:31 pm

 

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