TVS Visit Day 1

The day started out early at around 7 in the morning (yeah that is early considering that I mostly get up very late)... I was the first one to get up in my room and the first one to dress up and get down. But to my surprise I found that almost everybody did come down and had the breakfast in time and was ready to leave. In fact we were delayed a bit because the bus came late to pick us up :(

Breakfast was typical south Indian like idli and vada and pongal which and made a good eating. We were not allowed to carry cameras or mobiles to the factory. We started out close to 9 from the hotel and it took about 15 minutes to drive down to the factory. On the way we had a view of the TVS Nagar and TVS Petrol pump. The really nice thing to note on the way was that atleast 9 out of 10 bikes and or mopeds are TVS ... It has a really good name in product quality in south India.

Inside the campus we visited the plants, assembly lines, R&D etc and even though I want to write about it, its all damn classified :-( ... finally I have something that I can keep a secret and say no to my friends about ... nice :)

We came back from the campus at around 4:45 and we had to leave around 5:30 again. This was ambitious considering everyone was so tired but again to my surprise, we were all ready before the vehicle came to pick us up. We were taken to the Mahindra Ramee Guestline hotel which was about 20 minutes away from the hotel that we were put up in. The road connecting B'lore to Hosur is a 4 lane road and so that traffic moves fast. The hotel was the best types that I had seen and the dinner was on the pool side lawn of the hotel. The whole thing had a big corporate feel to it.

We were seated in groups of about 8 or 9 in which there were 2/3 freshers, 2/3 seniors and other super-seniors (aka the Vice Presidents :) .. we had lot of interaction and games .. our team ("The Dazzling Stars") won one game and that was more than I had expected :).

We had a best ethnically dressed competition and Anuj and Suchithra won it. I was told that I was the first runner up in my category .... but as they said "In the end .. it doesn't even matter"

Dinner was descent and the best part were the jalebi's. We left the place around 10:30 and reached the hotel in a couple of minutes. In the hotel we had a round of bakar that went on till 2 PM. Some of the people left early in the morning the same day ....

Contnd to day 2 ...