The only girl I admired so far for her awesome brains lost her companion of life for life. They were 2 beautiful minds together. Infact I got to know this news of their separation in body very recently after almost a delay of half an yr. I am saddended by the news. it got tears to my eyes. Thats ones of the times i felt the ques "why" echoing in my head but you see life moves on!!Even though i never met her husband, i heard few instances of that guy where i got to know that he is just like me(except that he is much much better than me). Now that hes gone from this planet, I bow to the courage of this girl for all the bold moves she has taken so far with respect to this guy.
Awesome girl...carry on..I salute your spirit. Im sure someday you will come to this page. Hope we meet atleast once in our lifetime in person!!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
melbourne ahoy
i finally made the first overseas journey of my life. Melbourne. A land of varied cultures. gripping with anger and restlessness .ofcourse only in the suburbs. Its a beautiful place. quiet and neat. Its very cold and windy even though they claim it to be a summer.I stay very close to the sea and so I guess the climate amplifies its exremes. I enjoy travelling in the trams here. The govt runs one free tram to roam in the city for every half an hr eevry day. I m impressed with the supermarket here. lotsa choices for yoghurt, chocs , biscuits and juices. i just went berserk yest. I blew 117 aud yest night coz i am as such an impulsive buyer.I still need to blow a similar sum to buy what i really need.
the chics are good to look at. I wonder how some of them can still show their skin when it is cold outside.I didnt see a traffic cop so far. everybody stops on red and goes on green.The pedestrian has to press a button on the pole to get a green signal for himself to cross the road. I saw a lotsa famous car brands here. mostly luxury cars but I also noticed that there are speed limits in the city.Oh..of what use are thelexus, bmw,ferrari,mazda,totyota,ford etc when you cant speed up much. Some corners of the city have got cameras too. So you break the signal or speed up beyond limits then you will get a ticket to your place.
The roads are smooth. no speed breakers whatsoever..or even potholes. The road somehow is mixed in such a way that even during rains, the grip of the tyres can be maintained.Most people dress in black.Ofcourse lotsa fashion but still usually its black or white.I stayed at an expensive place for 4 nights initially and then I moved to a lil expensive place and then finally found rental space in a posh locality.I am staying in a studio apt and am not sharing my room with any anybody so far leading to the shock of so many people. Everybody in the office is either sharing their house with their spouses or else 3-4 friends.I am spending a big chunk of money on my rent instead of saving it by sharing the accomodation.
I still have my teething probs with respect to my stay here but yes, a good experience so far. I am currently leading a student life in a way. But yeah, it wont last that long though.
the chics are good to look at. I wonder how some of them can still show their skin when it is cold outside.I didnt see a traffic cop so far. everybody stops on red and goes on green.The pedestrian has to press a button on the pole to get a green signal for himself to cross the road. I saw a lotsa famous car brands here. mostly luxury cars but I also noticed that there are speed limits in the city.Oh..of what use are thelexus, bmw,ferrari,mazda,totyota,ford etc when you cant speed up much. Some corners of the city have got cameras too. So you break the signal or speed up beyond limits then you will get a ticket to your place.
The roads are smooth. no speed breakers whatsoever..or even potholes. The road somehow is mixed in such a way that even during rains, the grip of the tyres can be maintained.Most people dress in black.Ofcourse lotsa fashion but still usually its black or white.I stayed at an expensive place for 4 nights initially and then I moved to a lil expensive place and then finally found rental space in a posh locality.I am staying in a studio apt and am not sharing my room with any anybody so far leading to the shock of so many people. Everybody in the office is either sharing their house with their spouses or else 3-4 friends.I am spending a big chunk of money on my rent instead of saving it by sharing the accomodation.
I still have my teething probs with respect to my stay here but yes, a good experience so far. I am currently leading a student life in a way. But yeah, it wont last that long though.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Bored!!
yes, im bored of my life. I guess its time
1. i catch some good fish to be my GF. i tried for one long time back..i failed. the chic came back after 5 yrs but now i am not keen abt her... And recently , i thought of offering the same post to another girl...well... this one is not the one too..
2. I go on vacation - pondy and chennai on my list.
3. change my job and be part of something that gives both pleasure and money...(accenture and IBM...hold the gates open for me!!)
4. I wanna go abroad atleast once to find out if its worth leaving this place. ( US or Aus or eur)
5. join spanish class again. (this lang makes me feel good)
6. or..hold ur breath...do MBA again from the top 5 b schools as per my list.(IIM-A,B,C,XLRI,SPJain)...why these? coz its not worth doing from any other in india.I cant think of studying abroad because ivy league wont admit me.
I guess I have been thinking more about 2 and 3 more often these days. Well, i like my work.its more like setting up a unit in infy....but...the sarkari stuff bugs me.
1. i catch some good fish to be my GF. i tried for one long time back..i failed. the chic came back after 5 yrs but now i am not keen abt her... And recently , i thought of offering the same post to another girl...well... this one is not the one too..
2. I go on vacation - pondy and chennai on my list.
3. change my job and be part of something that gives both pleasure and money...(accenture and IBM...hold the gates open for me!!)
4. I wanna go abroad atleast once to find out if its worth leaving this place. ( US or Aus or eur)
5. join spanish class again. (this lang makes me feel good)
6. or..hold ur breath...do MBA again from the top 5 b schools as per my list.(IIM-A,B,C,XLRI,SPJain)...why these? coz its not worth doing from any other in india.I cant think of studying abroad because ivy league wont admit me.
I guess I have been thinking more about 2 and 3 more often these days. Well, i like my work.its more like setting up a unit in infy....but...the sarkari stuff bugs me.
Physiotherapy again!!
I have joined the physiotherapy at wockhardt bangalore again. I wake up at 5am everyday and goto physiotherapy ...and my day eneds at 11.30pm. Its been a very long time since I have done my exercises properly. Since it is high time for me, I have joined it and I go there religiously. Somehow that pain is good. its been more than a month..so I stretched a lil more.And thats it...the pain suddenly shooted up...now im limping again...immense pain in every step..but i dont allow my leg much to rest so i try to limp and walk till my destination.Thanks to that pain i remembered few things of leelavathi hospital again:
1. the smiling face of nirad vengsarkar, my doc... the guy who gave me a second life in a way.
2. the shaving of my leg and my scrotal sac twice.
3. lying nude in front of a 45 yr oldie as well as 20 something girl..too shameful but no choice.
4. the inability to move the leg by an inch...
5. the gushing of the blood to my feet which made me feel as if acid is poured on the inside of my leg right from the thigh to the foot.
6. every step made the rod in my thigh hit some muscle in my buttocks adding more to the pain.
7. the pitiful and "odd man out" glances of different people
8. a 1000 cold needles simultaneously pushed on my knee when they apply a cryo( a sack which covers ur knee in the right angle with very cold ice water flowing thru it.
9. umpteen tubes flowing in and out of my body
10. Hot water bath when i was on two crutches which made me feel alive as it was a lil buring and i needed it to overcome the other pains of my leg.
11. the graduation of my self from total bed rest to a wheel chair to double cructches to single ccrutch to painful steps to bad limps to my current state of "close to normalcy" walk.
12. the hard to breathe feeling when the operation was about to start..even though i was trying to put a smiling face and cracking PJs, it was difficult to breathe..uff...
And today i was smiling at myself because i have survived those painful instances and still battling some of them till date.However, the most painful days are over... only good times ahead!!
1. the smiling face of nirad vengsarkar, my doc... the guy who gave me a second life in a way.
2. the shaving of my leg and my scrotal sac twice.
3. lying nude in front of a 45 yr oldie as well as 20 something girl..too shameful but no choice.
4. the inability to move the leg by an inch...
5. the gushing of the blood to my feet which made me feel as if acid is poured on the inside of my leg right from the thigh to the foot.
6. every step made the rod in my thigh hit some muscle in my buttocks adding more to the pain.
7. the pitiful and "odd man out" glances of different people
8. a 1000 cold needles simultaneously pushed on my knee when they apply a cryo( a sack which covers ur knee in the right angle with very cold ice water flowing thru it.
9. umpteen tubes flowing in and out of my body
10. Hot water bath when i was on two crutches which made me feel alive as it was a lil buring and i needed it to overcome the other pains of my leg.
11. the graduation of my self from total bed rest to a wheel chair to double cructches to single ccrutch to painful steps to bad limps to my current state of "close to normalcy" walk.
12. the hard to breathe feeling when the operation was about to start..even though i was trying to put a smiling face and cracking PJs, it was difficult to breathe..uff...
And today i was smiling at myself because i have survived those painful instances and still battling some of them till date.However, the most painful days are over... only good times ahead!!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Venkat
I dont know why but i was staring at the sky right from my bus start. Its a beautiful sky today. and all of a sudden i remembered this moron called venkat. venkat was my best friend from +2. He is the more civilised kinds and i am the villager kinds. Somehow we got on with each other. Actually he was one of the few guys who made a mockery of my english speaking skills. Oh yes, till my 10 std, i didnt know ay other language apart from telugu. So some of my classmates hurt me so much that I decided to learn the language at once and teach them a lesson. Thats how I have started learning language and venkat helped me with it.
Venkat and I stayed close by in secunderabad. We were in the same class. We played ping pong together everyday. Infact, playing TT has helped us bond better. then we started downloadig loads of music. he had a comp in those days and i didnt have one. Then we started playing computer games. We started competing each other in those games. Then we started playing snooker. he was rich enoough to sponsor my games but at a price. I mean the 2 rich guys play the game first. I wait for one of them to lose and then i used to play..Sometimes I didnt get my chance. Eitherways, i owe him a lot as I used to see the world through him.Latest songs, movies, games etc...are all thru him. I was not that civilised in those days and so I used to go to his house everyday as he was the only one i could hang out with. there were time when he didnt wish to see me there but i went there.Later on, I understood whe to go there and when not to go. Perhaps from then on, he used to call and only then i used to go to his place or for snooker. harish used to join us too. We became a trio.
Soon i have learnt good english that I started playing with my classmates . My interest i economics and commerce grew too. We competed with each other in those subjects too.Then the time has come to join a grad college. So we wrote the etrance for Bcom (Hons) from vasavi, khairatabad. This coll is the best for Bcom (hons)Venkat and I made it to this college.Harish couldnt. the funny part here is that Harish aces in acads pretty well but he somehow cant do much in entrace tests.So venkat and I stayed there for a coupla months. Then we though we will write BCA exam and all 3 will study together. This time all 3 of us got into diff colleges. Since we dont have ay more chances we went our ways. But i continued going to venkat's coll as it was on the way to my coll. I became one of his grp friends too. So we were a bunch of 13 people.
There was one girl called deepti. And this guy fell for her even though initially he hated her.I warned him initially to stay out of her reach as she was not 1/10 of what he is in terms of intelligence. After sometime, that girl and I got into some stupid fight. He took her side and so we parted ways. Ofcourse I apologised later for a mistake but it was too late i guess. He started keeping me out. So I stopped talking to him or meeting him altogether. He didnt stand by his word on a coupla occasions and so i gave up on him. he left for US. Deepti also left for US the next yr and joined a better coll than his. They got married and are happily settled on the west coast (hillsboro- intel).
after he left for US , we didnt speak for almost an yr or two. We clung to our egos. Then we gave up on our egos later and we were alrigth but u see, when u love somebody and u lose them..and u build high walls...and then later on if u r trying to break the wall, it still wont be like the old times..can it be?So we smile. I behave the way he wanted me to behave long back (civilised kinds)...he was his own self...but yeah we both knew what game we were playing.
I attended his marriage..and served badam milk to his wife which was a shocker to her as she was not expecting me to be there in the first case. i replied " I like making people drop their jaws..at the same time there r better things to pursue in life than petty quarrels"..and i walked away after that. Oh yes, i was actually very hurt on losing him.but yeah as they say time has healed certai things. I stopped thinking about him for long now. when he came to india last year, I went to hyd to meet him..spent a day with him and came back.
The gap still remains!! and perhaps will remain forever!! We used to talk for houors and now i dont know what to talk to him.
Venkat and I stayed close by in secunderabad. We were in the same class. We played ping pong together everyday. Infact, playing TT has helped us bond better. then we started downloadig loads of music. he had a comp in those days and i didnt have one. Then we started playing computer games. We started competing each other in those games. Then we started playing snooker. he was rich enoough to sponsor my games but at a price. I mean the 2 rich guys play the game first. I wait for one of them to lose and then i used to play..Sometimes I didnt get my chance. Eitherways, i owe him a lot as I used to see the world through him.Latest songs, movies, games etc...are all thru him. I was not that civilised in those days and so I used to go to his house everyday as he was the only one i could hang out with. there were time when he didnt wish to see me there but i went there.Later on, I understood whe to go there and when not to go. Perhaps from then on, he used to call and only then i used to go to his place or for snooker. harish used to join us too. We became a trio.
Soon i have learnt good english that I started playing with my classmates . My interest i economics and commerce grew too. We competed with each other in those subjects too.Then the time has come to join a grad college. So we wrote the etrance for Bcom (Hons) from vasavi, khairatabad. This coll is the best for Bcom (hons)Venkat and I made it to this college.Harish couldnt. the funny part here is that Harish aces in acads pretty well but he somehow cant do much in entrace tests.So venkat and I stayed there for a coupla months. Then we though we will write BCA exam and all 3 will study together. This time all 3 of us got into diff colleges. Since we dont have ay more chances we went our ways. But i continued going to venkat's coll as it was on the way to my coll. I became one of his grp friends too. So we were a bunch of 13 people.
There was one girl called deepti. And this guy fell for her even though initially he hated her.I warned him initially to stay out of her reach as she was not 1/10 of what he is in terms of intelligence. After sometime, that girl and I got into some stupid fight. He took her side and so we parted ways. Ofcourse I apologised later for a mistake but it was too late i guess. He started keeping me out. So I stopped talking to him or meeting him altogether. He didnt stand by his word on a coupla occasions and so i gave up on him. he left for US. Deepti also left for US the next yr and joined a better coll than his. They got married and are happily settled on the west coast (hillsboro- intel).
after he left for US , we didnt speak for almost an yr or two. We clung to our egos. Then we gave up on our egos later and we were alrigth but u see, when u love somebody and u lose them..and u build high walls...and then later on if u r trying to break the wall, it still wont be like the old times..can it be?So we smile. I behave the way he wanted me to behave long back (civilised kinds)...he was his own self...but yeah we both knew what game we were playing.
I attended his marriage..and served badam milk to his wife which was a shocker to her as she was not expecting me to be there in the first case. i replied " I like making people drop their jaws..at the same time there r better things to pursue in life than petty quarrels"..and i walked away after that. Oh yes, i was actually very hurt on losing him.but yeah as they say time has healed certai things. I stopped thinking about him for long now. when he came to india last year, I went to hyd to meet him..spent a day with him and came back.
The gap still remains!! and perhaps will remain forever!! We used to talk for houors and now i dont know what to talk to him.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Reliance Kitchens - YUKK service
more than 2 months back we have ordered "Reliance Kitchens bangalore" to make a modular kitchen for our house in bangalore. The buggers are soooooo pathetic...uff....every time i think of them my blood boils....very bad service...its so bad that I have to mention here so that some poor soul could save his money if not his peace.
In case any of you guys are planning to get your modular kitchen done by these guys then beware...you are asking for painful days ahead...The carpenters take their sweet time. Their SCM is very bad too.No time management. I wonder how they can be so UNpunctual. Nobody stands by their word there. Even the quality of service isnt good.
I have to follow up with reliance kitchens bangalore every second day to get things moving atleast..YUKKKKK service... I dont have patience to search for a site and write reviews but will write soon.I mean, taking money and not providing service is one big blunder they have made. I m going to tell atleast 10 people about their blunder. they screwed up my attic too.
Friday, June 12, 2009
thinking again
i have been released from the teleceom project as per the big guy's order. Now im free as the SPM in the platform tema has left the initiative for something else. So i dont know whom to report to. I have already mailed the big guy twice but no reply yet..So i was thinking what next..
i found a whole lot of ebooks from one of my friends from pune. Finished eric segal's love story again as i cudnt recollect the story that i read more than a decade ago. then i started off with "rendezvous with rama"...this book seems to be interesting. Then I had a chat with few people.Today I have helped one girl decide her career path. When I started thinking about my own self then I didnt get a proper answer. I am going to get into solution space as part of this platform stuff. Looking at the mismanagement of my telecom project, I have realised that I shud get into some client interfacing role. Hopefully this platform stuff has it sometime later, a similar role. I guess I would also venture into IT sales if given a chance.
In the previous project, they were not handling the client well and so we , at offshore, got screwed. I wish I am there to handle the client.So yeah, i will do some ppt / presales stuff as part of this platform job and then will ask for sales. Perhaps I am getting bored and so want to venture into something that I havent done before!!!
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Am i HOT or what?
i was hardly on bench for 3-4 days and i got work offers with other divisions.
1. The SAP XI retail proj
2. The solutioning space of platform grp
3. my old telecom proj
Im shocked when I saw that each of the big guys involved with these projects is trying to fight for my services. I felt good coz I have a choice. The choice also made me think. I have bottomed all this work to one word - JUNK. Now i need to decide on which is the best junk possible. Yes, junk, i 'll tell you why.
The retail proj is into SAP XI which I never worked on. Also it comes with a temporary stand.After 2-3 months I need to move into SAP BPM.The platform thing is shitty because the guy who is heading it one lousy candidate who doesnt know where/ how to go. total gassy guy. I initially planned to join his grp but i gave up after listening to his responses to my questions. For a change I will be working with another person who seems to know a lil way around. But in the long term this team which I am going to start off will be merged with that Gassy guy's unit.The job involves more of preparing solutions in the tech stack space. S more of Research and more of PPT gyaan. The third one is my old project fellas. They have released me because i went hom early for 4 days continuously as against the norm of the project. I have spent 12-13 hours of work time eveyrday for the last 5 months but I kinda relaxed lil in the last few days. that made them think that i have nothing to do at all. So they released me. Within few hours of releasing me, they could feel the heat. They took some more time and started kicking sreevidya with the additional load. She kinda lost it but as ever she doesnt say it out unless asked for. The job with this telecom project is more into testing which is a differenet ball game altogether.So the time has come to decide the which junk to go for. unfortunately, i dont have the luxury of choosing it as i am a RESOURCE which will be used as per another RESOURCE's wish.
then the competition grew.My services are up for grabs by the guy who changes my project code first. So my telecom project fellas did that first and so I was into it again. But...destiny has got something else in store for me...out of those 3 offers that i had with me, one of them was recommended by the BAAP of the other 2 big guys. So the baap guy ordered me to get into platform shit starting today.So my telecom guys have no choice but to release me as their baap has given the orders. So here I am...venturing into yet another IT space.
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