Shimoga Trip – Spectrum’s Second Anniversary Celebration

Spectrum completed two years in MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Spectrum consists of the off-campus batch consisting 31 members who joined MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd. on 19th April 2004. After two years our strength diminished to 25%. Even between work pressures, though we are working in different projects for different customers at different places, we occasionally gather together to celebrate some occasions between us. When we celebrated Spectrum’s first anniversary in MindTree we conducted a get together at our cafeteria and invited Subroto Bagchi, Babuji Abraham, some of those who gave training to us in MindTree and people function representatives. This year, we were not is a situation to gather together like the previous year, since were working in different offices of MindTree as well as we were spread out in different geographies. So we planned an unofficial spectrum trip to Shimoga, the home town of Shilpa Revankar – one of us.

Sunset view from Kemmangundi Hill station

Thanks to Shilpa; who organized the trip very well, planned the locations to visit, arranged the stay and dine, cabs for traveling in and around Shimoga. We will never forget the delicious dishes; Shilpa and her family (father, mother, brother and sister) prepared for us during our stay at Shimoga.

We were not able to cover all the exotic tourist locations around Shimoga in two days. We spent almost the first day completely at Kemmangundi – a hill station. We trekked through the mountains, visited a temple, climbed up the hill against a small stream that formed small water falls here and there then watched the sun set from the top of the hill station.

Few snaps from Kemmangundi

The second day we went to Honneramaradu, back water of dam, where visitors are provided small boats of different sizes and shapes, as well as swimming suits using which one can float on top of the water, which were very helpful to those who don’t know swimming. Unfortunately we were only allowed boat rides since those facilities require advanced booking from Bangalore – Lalbagh botanical garden. On the way back, we visited a wild life safari park, the load cry of the pea-cock still echoes in our mind. We had a safari and saw lot of lions, tigers and other animals in the park.

The two day program at Shimoga was remarkable, the climate is very good. Even though it was summer time, we never felt tired of the heat of the sun.

Some more Snaps from Shimoga

Spectrum Completed One Year In Mind Tree

To celebrate the event of one year completion in mindtreeMindtree, Spectrum went on a trip to Ranganthittu, a bird sacntuary near Mysore and the near by places on 15th April 2005. Spectrum consists of me and my friends, who joined Mindtree on Arpil 19th, 2004. We are 31 in number. We consists of people from almost all parts of India.

We assembled near Mindtree Consulting Pvt ltd, around 8.00 am and started our journey towards Mysore around 8.30 am. 17 spectramites joined the trip. On the way, each of us talked about our one year experience in Mindtree and about their interests, and about how do they feel about other spectramites. On the way we had our food from a restaruant, don't know which place it is.

We reached Ranganthittu around 12.00 PM and after a small rest, we went inside the bird sanctuary. It was a very beautiful place with lots of greenaries inside. The main attraction of the place is boating in the lake. While boating, we can see lot of different kinds of birds in the tiny islands in the lake, as well as corcodiles in the lake.

Later we went to a nearby temple, went inside the temple, after that we had some sncaks and cool drinks. We moved to a river nearby, and had the lunch which we have brought packed with us, from the bank of the river. We rested there for some time, then spent the rest of the time in the water.

Here are some more photos.

Spectrum's First Anniversary Celebration

We, Thirty-one graduates joined Mind Tree on April 19th, 2004. Our batch includes people from almost all part of India, and it’s a perfect mixture of Indian culture. During the last one year, only one of us left Mindtree. On Tuesday April 19th, 2005 we decided to arrange a small cake cutting function at Mind tree’s cafeteria, which is named as Neem Tree. We invited Subroto Bagchi, COO & President of Mind Tree and delivery heads and those who lead our training program when we joined Mind Tree. We called ourselves spectrum and the individuals as spectramites. We enjoyed a lot during the training periods and organized many programs in Mind Tree. The SPARCS activities where mainly done by us, the spectramites. Our training was over by 2 months and we were allocated to different projects. Even though we were separated by projects and distance, we were in touch through small gatherings and mails.

This kind of a program is organized in Mind Tree for the first time by a batch. The function started at 6:30 PM, few of the spectramites shared their experience in Mindtree. The guests like, Subroto Bagchi, Babuji Abraham, Srinivas B Rao etc, shared with us what they felt about us. Later we cut the cake and sang Happy Birthday to spectrum. Subroto pointed out that spectramite's willingness and mentality to come out with the celebration themselves, and not waiting for somebody else to come and say "Congratulations for the successful completion of one year in Mind Tree" is really great and he asked us to keep up this enthusiasm through out the life. Nandini Ray and Sharmila Prakash presented us with to nice Hindi Songs. I played the Tamil song, “Ennavale Adi Ennavale – Kadhalan – Unnikrishnan” for spectramites. Later we all went for the dinner in Chung's restaurant, Jayanagar 4th block and reached back home around 10:00 pm.

The one-year in Mind Tree changed our life a lot. We learned many things technical and many other soft skills through organizational training programs and from people of Mind Tree.