Bangalore Experience

Well this was an experience!!

Firstly we have been used to luxury staying at the Novotel therefore when we went to the Zoo safari, it was a bit of a shock. Hold on tight kids, there are monkeys even before we get into the zoo!

We never heard Gabby scream so high and loud. Monkey snatcher everywhere. we had to hide our fruit, as those cheeky monkeys kept on coming towards us.

Phew we are safe on the bus at last!

Really....
This was another adventure. The people tried to squeeze as many people on the bus as they could, the windows were so dirty, we could see a thing, no air conditioning and the bus has no suspension what so ever so we literally leap out of our seats every couple of seconds. I (Esther) could not contain my laughter as I held on tight to Gabby and watched Daniel and Sarah fly.

There were some good times. I loved seeing the white tiger. It came right next to Daniel and my window. It was bigger than I thought tigers would be. It The bus felt like it was going to fall of the edge of the mountain as the driver was going so fast and we were on the edge and there were bumps everywhere. that part was scary. (Sarah)

This was not like my school bus.  We saw tigers, lions and bears.. Oh my!! ( Daniel)

Gabby hated the zoo, the monkeys and the wild dogs. she would scream when they would approach her, but still wanted to grab her water bottle. She was not going to let them have that!! She loved the bus ride and felt like Katy Perry in 'Roar', so we played the song for her later that night.

Wonderla

A water resort and theme park (we thought similar to Queensland's WET 'n' WILD. according to the promotional brochure). Not too crowded. But how wrong we were.

Quite good for an Indian park, huge rides, waterslides, two wave pools, calypso relaxing river ride etc.

It was just there were people everywhere. Most of them didn't know how to swim and would just grab onto the nearest person to help them get up from the water. So mum held onto us like glue. she would yell at us every 5 minutes not to dare get the disgusting water in our mouths. In the queues, the people all stank, as the girls had coconut oil in their hair (As it is good for cooling and moisturising hair) but when it gets wet, it really stinks. I felt like throwing up. the water was so dirty, even when we up to our ankles in water, we couldn't see our feet.

Being in water on a hot day though, Daniel and Esther still had fun.

Joe @ Work

We were in Bangalore as I (Joe) was working out of the Accenture office. I would leave the hotel at around 8:00am and return around 7:00pm. So really no change from Melbourne. He gained a new level appreciation of the dedication and intelligence of the people here out of Bangalore. 

Working remotely and talking to Melbourne colleagues was easy enough but the overlap in working hours was only 3.5 hours; so mornings was a frantic to get anything done. No wonder we all work so late in Melbourne (Especially You Kaushal and Nagendra). 

Shagin Accenture .Net Team Lead and Good Bloke :) 

Everyone was awesome and so welcoming. Some of these team members I have been conversing over email, IM and phone for almost 4 years and to finally meet them was awesome. Having been on the team to select Accenture it was something that I had been wanting to do for sometime. As much as I loved my Bangalore team I still miss my Melbourne team and they miss me too.