Sambar boys - Easter weekend cycling trip

I would like to mention our team name before I start this Blog.

Team: Sambar boys

On behalf of our wembley vetties [http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community.aspx?rl=cpn&cmm=34300818] community, our guys have travelled across different parts of the world [USA, UK & India). Most of our guys always had a well-planned trip. Few of us did not have any plans until Friday the 3rd April 2009 afternoon and our friends decided that these guys (ie Sambar boys) will spend time in preparing Murugakkai
sambar for their entire Easter long weekend. This thought might be influenced due to my presence in the team :-)However the bondage was broken by our team members with their considerable amount of team work.
The trip was executed in the same manner as a software project life cycle, starting from collecting use case, requirement gathering, planning (assigning / dividing the work assignments to individuals), implementing, testing and also bug fixing (of course, we fixed most of our bugs which were similar to fixing bugs in our SDLC. We found the root cause, but fixed it in a completely different place than the original defect - one of our cycles had problem and we decided to debug the issue. We thought the problem was with the brake of the back wheel. We used the tool kits, repaired the brake and fixed it perfectly(thought so). Even after the fix, the cycle was not moving!!!??? Later we realized the problem was not due to the brake, it was Jagg who twisted the front handle bar :-)

Want to tell one more thing about Jagg, Jaggu was simply superb, more enthusiastic. Whenever and wherever we stopped for refreshment and photo sessions, he used to complete the sessions quickly and was heading towards the destination. All of us were amazed by his enthusiasm and eagerness towards the goal. (Though he had to receive trashing from all of us, in the next few minutes :-) Just kidding without his extensive support we should
not have succeeded ... :-)

We also want to thank IT giant, our major sponsor C*S UK Technologies Limited for their extensive financial and moral support.

The travel plan and maps were made ready before we started on Saturday 11th April 2009 morning. Fortunately or unfortunately we did not progress the way we initially planned and everything went with dynamic decisions.

We started from 18 crown walk Wembley to London Victoria by Cycle. We managed to reach train station at 9 AM (early morning :-)) and also managed to get the discounted group tickets to Canterbury including return ticket.

We reached Canterbury and explored few **** and the town centre as usual and headed towards Dover.

Luckily we got the guidance from our sponsor IT companies client employee at
Canterbury for Dover cycle way. We were thrilled, excited and also tired
travelling on the cycle way to Dover.

Though we were extremely tired and thought of taking the train to go to
London, we did not give up. Instead, decided to cycle from Folkstone to
Canterbury by cycle.

Guess who's leg and Head towards me ??? (Masala !!!!????)

Village roads, Military camp site, Tennis courts, Horses and farm houses were simply superb in the country side and we really enjoyed each and every
moment.

On the way to Canterbury (4 miles to reach Canterbury) I saw a pub and My
"Lakshmi" sorry my cycle did not allow me to move further!!!

We had a very good time with "Bar assistances" and also with some of the Belgium trekking guys. They recognized us with "Slumdog millionaire". But what to do, we donated our Bombay mixture to the slum trekkers sorry Belgium trekkers.

On the way back home we were searching the "Lamp" sorry Lion sorry Yes "Deer"

We did not plan this round trip initially but after come back from trip we searched internet and realised that it was a best cycle round trip option
[http://www.sustrans.org.uk/webfiles/leaflets/canterbury%20.pdf]

Yes Finally we did it.