11.09.15

Came back to Mumbai via bus not a big deal actually. But the bus journey was from Lonavala to Borivalli not to Gandivalli after 4 pm beacsue it will take 3 hrs to reach the destination so we thought it was difficult somehow we managed and with the help of some persons in the bus we reached our place in Kandivalli smoothly. As usual both Saturday and Sunday went as shopping and sleeping.

14.09.2015

We went to our office with full of happiness because the days of almost 26 days in Lonavala gone up like full of sorrows. But Mumbai gave me a sip of curing medicine to getup. After the reach a new guy was there Mr.Surjith who is doing some data entry jobs in our company we got to know when we conversed. Boss Mr.Sir called us and said I spoke to Mr.Y who is owning a landscaping company in Chembur and I will send you there now as you wished (We asked him to send to Mr.Y company to get some exposure while he was talking with us in Lonavala) Surjith will help you out to reach Chembur by train because you guys are new to Mumbai and not aware of local train travel and all, he added.

With help of Surjith (native to Mumbai and his home is just behind our Pg) we took tickets and came to know that a return ticket of worth 40rs for 2 persons is enough to travel to Chembur with multiple trains actually it’s the first time we travelled in these type of local trains. We thought we have to go to Dhadhar and where we can get Chembur train. But the real case is not like that we have to go to Dhadhar and from there to Kurla and finally from Kurla to Chembur by another train. It hardly took 1 hrs. to reach Chembur. As per the instruction of our boss we went to west side and finally found the building where Mr.Y Company is located. Actually we asked a guy is doing flower business there that where is the Ambedkar silai(statue) ? He simply asked as ‘are u Tamil?’  After hearing of the word silai which means statue. We had to wait for 30 minutes to meet Mr.Y due to meeting. Finally after 30 minutes we met him and he became very close to us within minutes it might be due to he was only 29-30 years (I assume) young generation guy. He asked us for our interest so he could concentrate on that we discussed some common things about can we earn money more in this field and what are the problems you faced when came up to this field like that and all. He simply said us to start your company and to run successfully you guys kindly work for some 4-5 years and then start your company so there won’t be any loss and you will have hope that you are doing right and good and all. After some years your company will surely give profit to you when everything has been set up like auto mode, he said. He introduced another person who is working for 25 years in that company with his father and he is doing maintenance work. Finally he introduce a guy who is looking up the nursery and plants which is owned by them and he has also been there for 20+ years and who is Tamilian and started to talk with us in Tamil when we met. Actually Mr.Y is also half tamilian he said to us but don’t know to speak. Mr.Y said us you guys come to the nursery which is walkable distance from the company and the Tamil guy will teach you the propagation and details about plants. He took us to the nursery and actually people won’t call it as nursery because every plants are placed before the house and will look like fantastic garden in front of the house. But due to inadequate place they simply placing the plants in front of house with neat manner and its giving aesthetic value to the house and some 3 houses are also covered with plants which is under rent.
These are some of the clicks in the nursery :D

Finally with the good blessing and bye we returned to Kandivalli and he said tomorrow we have to come to Anderi to see a site and a Horticulturist (MSc) lady will help us to see the site. With lot of tiredness due to train travel and wrong bus which we took to return I’m typing this post today but everything going to fine tomorrow .

15.09.2015

Hand lawn mower, mostly used for mowing in small lawn areas.

Hand lawn mower

Snail problem in Hemigraphis plant

1^st day Aamy valley city (Photos will be updated soon)

Packed everything from the room and car picked us to lonavala.It took 3.30hrs for 130 km to reach Aamby valley from Mumbai. While travelling as usual we enjoyed the beautiful nature of the hill,grasslands,clouds which are heading towards roads and event driver couldn’t see the road clearly the clear vision must be 6ft distance only. What a climate OMG !! . When we reached the aamby valley city Naveen kumar (did aeronautical engineering in Bangalore and wanted to be a pilot but time made him to be here in aamby valley nd working for the musical fountain). He helped us to take in because in aamby valley the persons who are working there or who have a guest house will be permitted. But Naveen is not directly working under them and he is working for our company and helping and maintaining, doing the show in aamby valley. He provided us stay and food which will be costly much more because the things had been like that. He took us to the lake where a control room was there and in that lake a mass structure of pipes were connected with lights and all .when we entered the room in 6 rows totally 60 boxes were present of height 6 ft. Everything which present in the control were costlier. With Chinese company collaboration our company did this project 3 years back and from the starting itself Naveen take care of this fountain. Now he is having only 4 assistants ( 4 persons from lonavala but not skilled as Naveen and being here for last 3 months) and in the first day itself we came to know about submergible pump which was repairing when we entered the room by the 4 persons. So we could observe that and after checking everything by boat Naveen took us to the fountain area in the lake by boat. I took 1.30 hrs. to remove the submergible which already there under water and fixed this good one there. Actually the entire set up is go until 40 m depth. Among 4 Michael went down to the water and remove the screws/bolts and it helped them to remove the submergible pump and as I said earlier they fixed the right one there. There are 3d nozzles, 2d nozzles, lights etc. which we could seen easily and nothing we knew about that . At 3 P.M we returned to control room and had our lunch with the four they don’t know English much but understand somewhat and we don’t know Hindi that’s the funniest part..

The worst thing aamby valley is there will be raining always it will triple the work by spending more time and in a year over 6 months the raining will be there and you can feel that for every 10 minutes drizzling to heavy rain.

Bandh karo ki chalu karna – which means Switch off and on again (I think) which we heard so many times and practiced it :P when they took us to light boxes and repaired some lights .

Finally we came to the operator room and showed show without using big speakers outside the room which is actually used while original show. Due to the presence of us specially he showed the show and gave a headset which helped us to hear the music along with the fountain.

Frankly it was better and when titanic music was coming my heart beat raised because Iam somewhat sensitive to this idiotic romance songs and all. Totally 8 computers were there and among one the headset was connected unfortunately my friend disconnected the headset when Naveen called us for something and the show also became worse and the fountain is not worked properly. Then only Venkat(among the 4 persons working here) said us without headset the show won’t work.

We ruined the show actually anyhow it was actually for us and we ruined it. Naveen said no problem be tension free and somewhat he inspired me because I know we made a big mistake and he didn’t shout at all and simply saying no problem.

Due to the musical fountain as live and my attitude became changed being in Mumbai and also due to those romantic songs played while the show. I simply called my friend ( :P ) and talked boldly which I have been trying for last 3-4 months but couldn’t make it. But I did it today and made a clever discussion which made me happy.

Naveen told us I know little bit only and I will teach you what I know (But actually he know more) tomorrow we will discuss about the fountain and step by step we will go further, he added further.

Day 2 in aamby valley

Independence Day of India

Again started the same light works and actually involved in fishing today. Unfortunately we couldn’t get any fishes but he guys in the fish club got fishes and told us to take photos with that and we understood that every people come here are just taking photos with fishes which was actually not done by them. So as it as the club man told us to do the same thing and why shouldn’t we miss that: P ? So we took photos hehe.

Today some decisions was taken by me and with some maturity by discussing with my friend ( don’t know ) and finally cleared that the friend must be my friend forever not anything else it felt good and something’s which I didn’t like but it made sense and diverted my entire thing into my career.

Day 3

Someone called Naveen in the morning and he might be the officer from aamby valley office and told him to do a favour of doing show today. Usually if a show is needed then it should be informed before 24 hours but somehow Naveen accepted for the show and we get ready for that. Out of 20 light boxes 11 were corrected and due to rain remaining couldn’t be corrected and for 4 sets of light boxes containing 5 light boxes three in 3 sets were corrected and in remaining one set only 2 were corrected but it’s not a problem for the show.

Rain is the biggest problem here it made some light boxes not working which had worked yesterday it was due to yesterday rain at night. After repairing all, the show has been fixed at 7.45 P.M. We poured some 40 litres of oil in a machine which will send the oil to the pipe near nozzles in the fountain and create fire.

Everybody in the ammby valey were informed and they came at 1 hr. before the show actually. At 7.40 P.M  the show was started but due to software problem the show stopped and did it again when we saw Naveen who went to every control panel boxes (totally 60 boxes of 6 feet OMG) and if

we touch the wires mistakenly even bones can’t be identified.

Manually he did everything and the show was went for 20 minutes and everybody enjoyed the show. But we identified some mistakes which couldn’t be identified by others because we worked here and could easily identified the mistakes.

Hats off to Naveen who made the show wonderful and no one couldn’t have a chance to see such a show but we got due to our company and Naveen.
Will u accept it when I say current bill for one show  is rs. 40000 ? and it consuming 280000 KW electricity per show