Most memorable Day @ SAP Labs!!

After waiting for one complete year the day has come when our team has planned to go out somewhere!! No matter it was a team effort not funded from our team recreation fund. Destination was WonderLa! They call it the best place to spend a complete day and that’s the reason why we all have opted for it.

We have booked a “TATA Star” bus for the tour and all have to meet at a common meeting point "Garuda Mall". We all reached that place at around 9:30 am; and were still waiting for the bus to come. Finally it came at 10:00 am and we boarded it. The journey started off with the Bread and Jam as the breakfast, thanks to Venky who brought the stuff. Well thanks to Reena and Tiyasha as well who actually prepared those bread slices evenly spread with fruit jam!! Yummy it was.. :)

We stopped in between to buy some water bottles and cold drinks. I, Sudeep and Satish has decided for 2 games ("Hot-seat” and “dumbs arts") which we could play in the cab but not have yet started either of them. Almost 1/4th journey already over. Well again I have to start some stupid activities to make them start playing something and it started with "Raju Srivastava" show!! I acted for one of his comedy show and then finally we started Hot-Seat. I guess no body would have agreed to it if I would not have offered myself to be the first "Bakra" of the day!! Questions were fired on me..

And it started with the very obvious one!!What’s the name of your girlfriend whom you went to meet in Delhi?

Woops!! I met someone and I don’t even know that :), anyways I fooled around everybody with that questioner round, giving all fake answers!! Sorry guys..

Then it was turn for the newly married guy from our team.. Our Hero! Uday.

Sudeep: So how was the experience??
Uday: It was good.

Rajeev: What do you suggest to unmarried people about whether to marry or not!
Uday: Ya it really good to be get married..

Sudeep: Was it a Love marriage or arrange??
Uday: Love cum Arrange!!

Sudeep: Love first or Arrange ??
Uday: Love.

Suresh: So how long do you know each other??
Uday: 6th Standard..

Me: To ye sab pahele se chakkar chal raha tha!! Hummm..
Suresh: ok ok!! So you love each other since 6th!!
Uday: No man!! I proposed her in college.

Suresh: And what made you do that??
Uday: I feel like proposing her so I did that..

Sudeep: How did you proposed her??
Uday: @##$%^&)(*&^#$%^&*()_)(* Well!!! I said I LOVE YOU

Whole Team: Clapping!! :)

Ok it went away like that!! Next was Satish who was very clever in giving his answer perhaps "SERIOUS ANSWERS"!! Giving no room for us to crack a joke on him!! Probably we will catch hold of him next time :)

Anyways, finally reached WonderLa! OR (WONDERLA BIRD SANCTUARY for Boys!!), Ticket counters were still not opened so we starting doing our work :) Bird watching!! After all that is what Bird Sanctuaries are meant for :)) We have a little photo session and then after 11:00 am; we took the entry tickets. It was good to see that more n more birds were migrating from different places to this Sanctuary!! BUT THE BEST ONE WAS BLACK WITH PURPLE TOP :) Right Sudeep!! Well no comments in general, because different hunters have different choices :).

OK finally, we made Tiyasha and Reena as our guide and they have to decide upon the rides we have to go for. They first decided to go for the Dry rides and thus the first one was “WONDER LA BAMBA“, it was a good one to start of with. Then we went to “TERMITE COASTER & TRAIN“. I guess it was more for the kids rather than us!!



Next was among one of my favorites “DROP ZONE“. It was really a horrifying experience, imagine you are pulled up to a height of 100 ft like a cool and calm journey on a plane and then suddenly dropped from there as you see in Tom & Jerry shows (plane crashed and still you are moving and suddenly when you look down your complete body falls and your head is still in air), it was somewhat same experience!!

Well, after this ride most of our team mates decided to play safe :) Next one was “MIXER“, again a body-stromer!! We were hanging upside down and were moving in all direction by that damn “juicer”, finally we managed to come safe out of that MIXER- “grinder“.




Then we went for “TECHNO JUMP“, it was again a good ride, somewhat like “Marry-Go-Round” (We have that in Appu Ghar!!). Robin dared to join us in that and then finally he decided not to go for any of those after that :)

We went down to the next level of difficulty, through the rope mesh (“NET WALK”) where we can easily figure out some sandals and shoes lying under that mesh, proofs of past calamities.. The next one in the queue was one of the most dangerous, for each one of us!! “MAVERICK“. It was the most furious one, the slide has made us hang totally upward down and then it rotated us in 360 degree with a force that if our safety belts were not there, we would have thrown somewhere miles away from it.. I guess you can easily figure out that from these pics.


But the show of the day was still to come and it was named as “INSANITY“, I have never ever been to such kind of ride. You just sit in a very good looking chair, well designed and then once it start you got to know that this hurricane can rotate in all directions randomly and with a speed of you would have never expected. Well that really proves it name “INSANITY“!! Obviously after watching to the demo some more from our group decided to join hands with Robin, but frankly telling if you have been to WonderLa! and went away without taking a ride on this one then you have really missed something!! But it really takes a big heart to take this ride and point to be noted is I took this ride 2 times :)

This was enough for us, to call off for the Half day!! We decided to go for lunch and after a nice lunch and a Corentto after it, which made all of us feel sleepy!! So what was the best way to wake us?? Water rides?? Ya!! That’s the next destination.

First one to choose from the list was “LAZY RIVER“, and our whole team has just made the antonym of that name given to this ride. It was not at all “lazy” for us!! Especially for our main victim Venky. Well, the fun was to give a somersault to the person who is nicely and well settled on those round plastic air tiers. It started with Sudeep as the first victim and god know on which it ended up. The guard was behind us as we have already taken 1/2 hour for a 10 min ride and still playing in water. We loved this part the most and so we decided to go for it once again.

After this we all went for “RAIN DANCE“, we enjoyed there for around 45 min, it was a full of energy session, really a good experience to dance in rain and laser lights all around. Well, after that we all were feeling very cold, so we had snacks/coffee/Tea session and then was the time for the next major attraction, “WAVE POOL“, we spend a nice time there swimming in the waves and some of us joined in the competition, as of, who will be the person, who can be in water for the longest period of time, don’t really know who won the battle but yes of course it was not me :)

It was already 5:30 pm so we decided to complete our left our rides. We all headed towards next water slides; in the row was “UPHILL RACER“, “FUN RACER“, “HARAKIRI“, “WAVY FALL” and “VERTICAL FALL“. The most difficult one was the last one, no doubt it was marked with the “WARNING” sign in the WonderLa! Map :). This slide was inclined at the 60 degree angle and you are dropped from the height of around 100 feet then what all you can hear is Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! splassshhhhh!! That was it..

We all ended up all this fun at around 6:30 pm and then finally after a hot water shower we assembled to go back at around 7:30 pm, we had some fun in cab as well, few videos & snaps were taken, on the way back, it was also decided to go for the dinner together before we are back to our respective places, so the next destination was another bird sanctuary “Garuda Bird mall” !! This new name for Malls etc is now copyrighted by our team :) We all had our dinner there and then finally were set to go back. Well, it’s already 9:30 pm and that was the happy end of a beautiful and memorable day!!

THANKS A LOT TO ALL MY TEAM MEMBERS FOR MAKING THIS DAY AS ONE OF MOST MEMORABLE DAY OF MY LIFE!!