When we cut and ate jackfruit on a trek - TTTT 60

Jack fruit is one such fruit which you do not want to get your hands dirty with. Its difficult to digest unless you are used to it. But to get to the point where you get to eat a jack fruit you need to slog your hands of cutting and peeling the huge fruit.

This happened during our recent trek around Karnataka Goa border. We entered a village on our first day, we were too late to move out of the village. Hence thought of camping in the village.

It was 5 pm in the evening when we reached the village. Very soon it would turn dark. Few of our guys were resting, while our two guides were doing something very interesting outside.

They had brought down a jack fruit from a tree opposite to the house and they were cutting and peeling it. After 10 minutes, I too joined in. It was a sticky mess peeling the jack fruit.

In the end I ate 12 or even more pieces of jack fruit. I cleaned my hands which were now sticky by rubbing palms with oil. But I was cursing myself for eating so much of jack fruit. Jack fruit is one such fruit which is very hard to digest.

The guide made fun of me for fearing the unknown. In the end I was glad I did not throw up in the night nor had a problem in the morning.

Alls well that end's well..

Cheers!

When my client / business partner thought I knew German!!

For two weeks we have our German business partner in India. They arrived last week and came to office on Monday. For the first day they sat in a meeting room towards the end of the floor. But on the second day they came and sat next to me as there were empty spaces next to my seat.

Not sure why they decided to sit amidst the team instead of meeting room, but yesterday while on Friday, on two occasions the business partner started speaking amongst themselves in German, I was quietly observing and on one occasion they were conversing in German trying to find out where was the dustbin, for which I directed them out of intuition.

They then got a doubt if I understood German.. I had previously told one of my German colleague that it was my 4th time working with German client. And as much as I like working with them, I hate to admit I do not know German.

How about learning the same.. Well, yeah probably will give it a thought!

Cheers,

Relief from work

After working hard starting january february all the way till mid of june, braving summer going to the gym office resting on weekends, I found some time finally to head out of town. It was for a 3 day trek on the eve of Ramzan.

It turned out to be one of the best decisions, though we traveled by train, we ended up doing a whole lot of trek and thoroughly enjoyed the 3 days.

I will write about it shortly. Also I need to cross 50 posts since its half year mark. Last year I consciously decided not to hit a 100 posts, because someone who always insisted me to write 100 posts was a bit down after losing their pet dog. Hence last year I chose not to write a 100 owing to this reason.

Cheers!