Last week I shifted to the Bangalore campus of my company(supposedly short term). I had kind of got bored with the pink walls of my Hyderabad office. There is a limit to which you can like pink. Pink on a girl looks very sexy. On a wall, it’s a disaster. And let me tell you, it was not only the wall. Pink was everywhere, on the partitions, on the carpet, on pillars, just everywhere. Here it’s blue, much to my liking.
This Bangalore campus is huge. It is the biggest in India. There are more than 40 buildings inside this campus, plus a nice hotel. I will be staying here for the next 3 months at the least and will have ample opportunity to explore this campus. The first thing that hits you in this campus is its greenery and weird buildings. Don’t know what fascination has this company with weird building structure. Let me give you some example. There is a 5 storied building which looks like a front loading washing machine. Just at the middle of the structure they have a huge round glass piece on both front and back side of the building. It really looks like a front loading washing machine and even people call it that.
Then there is another building which is in the shape of a lotus. And it is a food court. Now food courts are supposed to be big, so that they can accommodate maximum people. But this one, due to its unique structure, hardly accommodates 50% of the maximum capacity that it should. Clients are sure going to be impressed with such building structure, but employees' convenience, huh…well who cares for employees these days. One more building is completely made of glass in a pyramid structure. Few poor guys sitting inside that building have to face the sun ray coming through the glass whole day. That’s why most of them look darker than they really are (I am not one of them. I guess I am just slightly dark by birth).
The thing I liked most about this place is the gym. I am a person who never goes to the gym regularly. I can motivate myself to go the gym for consecutive 5 days, max. After that I have to pull myself towards it and that is difficult. But if you have a gym which runs from 5 PM in the evening to 8 Am in the morning, one need not bother actually. I can go after office hours, after dinner or in the morning. Now who would not like so much flexibility in life? Plus these are really hi-tech gyms (even the star hotels don’t have such gyms), which is an added advantage.
Another facility, because of which I am impressed with this campus, is its food. 6 food courts with 12 vendors, each serving different kind of food. Just awesome. Plus most of them are open through out the night (add two 24 hour CCDs too). Today I found out that I can have Chinese, Italian or Mexican food anytime I want, even at 3 AM. And the taste is not bad at all. Though I will have to control myself, otherwise the whole point of going to the gym goes down the drain. Well, let’s see how that goes.
There are several more small observations I have made about this campus. Shall pen them down, when I have enough.
PS1 – Next one about a normal guy’s life.
PS2 – Sunday Football and spiritual session at Jijaji’s place (aka P ka S)
This Bangalore campus is huge. It is the biggest in India. There are more than 40 buildings inside this campus, plus a nice hotel. I will be staying here for the next 3 months at the least and will have ample opportunity to explore this campus. The first thing that hits you in this campus is its greenery and weird buildings. Don’t know what fascination has this company with weird building structure. Let me give you some example. There is a 5 storied building which looks like a front loading washing machine. Just at the middle of the structure they have a huge round glass piece on both front and back side of the building. It really looks like a front loading washing machine and even people call it that.
Then there is another building which is in the shape of a lotus. And it is a food court. Now food courts are supposed to be big, so that they can accommodate maximum people. But this one, due to its unique structure, hardly accommodates 50% of the maximum capacity that it should. Clients are sure going to be impressed with such building structure, but employees' convenience, huh…well who cares for employees these days. One more building is completely made of glass in a pyramid structure. Few poor guys sitting inside that building have to face the sun ray coming through the glass whole day. That’s why most of them look darker than they really are (I am not one of them. I guess I am just slightly dark by birth).
The thing I liked most about this place is the gym. I am a person who never goes to the gym regularly. I can motivate myself to go the gym for consecutive 5 days, max. After that I have to pull myself towards it and that is difficult. But if you have a gym which runs from 5 PM in the evening to 8 Am in the morning, one need not bother actually. I can go after office hours, after dinner or in the morning. Now who would not like so much flexibility in life? Plus these are really hi-tech gyms (even the star hotels don’t have such gyms), which is an added advantage.
Another facility, because of which I am impressed with this campus, is its food. 6 food courts with 12 vendors, each serving different kind of food. Just awesome. Plus most of them are open through out the night (add two 24 hour CCDs too). Today I found out that I can have Chinese, Italian or Mexican food anytime I want, even at 3 AM. And the taste is not bad at all. Though I will have to control myself, otherwise the whole point of going to the gym goes down the drain. Well, let’s see how that goes.
There are several more small observations I have made about this campus. Shall pen them down, when I have enough.
PS1 – Next one about a normal guy’s life.
PS2 – Sunday Football and spiritual session at Jijaji’s place (aka P ka S)
