Monday, January 30, 2006

Educated to become Irresponsible...

Yes,thats the word I have got for the set people who have learn a lot still don't know the simplest of simple things in life.

Wondering what I am speaking about its none other then the state of Drivers on Road creating these unproductive congestion just to satisfy their ego that they were the ones who reached the Congestion Point first ha ha losers real losers pretty soon they come back to earth just to realize that they are ahead of none and its not a 100mts Olympics Race to reach this point. Its simple a futile effort to make life worser for one and all.All that knowledge,all that money, and all that experience,on road has failed to enlighten their small mind to let go their ego,to let go others to drive away understand everyone is getting late to office or back home,but closing all possible outlets on the road doesn't make any sense.

I know I am not perfect with traffic rules,but I am sure am far far sensible. Today morning I was in a middle a terrible congestion from a junction met by 5 Cross Roads 4 of then narrow ones.Vehicles from every direction successful reached the junction.But its just too late,many other have done so sooner only road where vehicles were moving a little was to my left but that to was fast getting filled up by those most irresponsible citizens(The ones I was speaking about in the previous para).The second these people see a queue on road waiting,god gives them the intuition to simple take to the right hand side drive a free passage for those fortunate ones can digest atleast those bikers who come front maybe even those auto guys who were born with a driving license,but never the ones who sit inside those Santros,n Sumos who simply see to that they block any possible route for exit.

Back to the scenario..Road to the left was moving and vehicles are lined up at the road to my right to go through that moving road peacefully...an auto and Qualis try to block that passage from behind me.....
I simply rotated my vehicle 90 degree so that neither of them can block it..Everywhere else its a jam. I thought of the simplest rule to congestion clearance...Block all the routes and clear the one that is most free flowing.

I got a sense of relief and success when I saw a few vehicle move ahead and clear the way..not for too long when someone blocked that simply by moving their car in between,well supported by an auto.I realize that I failed badly,wanted to get down and throw a Stone at the car,but feared that I might get booked on a nuisance case :). Fed up I myself took the left and found my way out between those vehicles just to find a Huge Car blocking the road I had to take...what can I say..."IT ALL HAPPENS ONLY IN INDIA"

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Whacky Weekend In Chennai!!!

This blog post is a typical snapshot of the activities i did last weekend from 2oth Jan - 22nd Jan in Chennai.
It started of with a visit to my childhood house in Annanur(now Thirumullaivayil) with my dad.Following it was a my stay in my moms cousin house(also the place where my mom and uncle grew up.Saw the Mirror which my mom used to stand before for hours together when she was young :) )
Then met Few of my friends from Sindi Model Senior Secondary School,Chennai....
Next day was filled with Cricket in excess.
Morning 6.30-8.30 - ground cricket with office tigers team
here n there lotsa - Cricket 2005 Pc Cricket with brother
afternoon 2hrs - Indoor cricket

Had been to the popular Marina Beach,Chennai almost after more then 4-5 years...with my family,moms cousins arun and prabhu and thier friends sarathy,bhaskar,karthik and Mouli...
dont remember when was the last time i spoke sooooo much....
its was a hell of a blah blah blah

Atlast Salty Beach Water Waves find me


Boating @ Marina (not me someone else :) )


Evening Sky Near Beach Filled with Kites.Also seen in the Light House

It Gets Darker

Had also visted relatives house for Lunch that same day..was fun good food,good people around nice experience when compared to the monetonous me,myself and my house experience in bangalore.



Finally Ended up with having nice tiffin @ Murugan Idly shop for dinner!!!!
And surprisingly next days WL - Wait Listed ticket confirms and am on my way back to Bangalore....

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

TGWIN - Thank God We Are In Novell






Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Significant events of 2005 in my life

(Not in any order)

My Best Friends Wedding.
It was probably the most memorable event in my life so far,to see my best friend getting married and move into married life.
Was fortunate enough to attend it at the muhurtham :). Those few moments where her life takes a turn.

Getting Sisters from Juniors.
Best find of the year 2005 was to get a gang of sister from my super-super juniors. Used to spend awesome time during my college lunch hours in their class and in BDA Complex(next to my college).

Microsoft Student Ambassador.
Me and few other fellow student champs were made as Student ambassadors glad to get that recognition for our contributions as student champs to the community.

Personal Planner (module of Pragati-Open Source Project Tracking Tool at Novell Software Development (I) Pvt Ltd)
If there will be something I will be proud of till my lifetime it will be this tool,me and my team(Sushma,Swetha and Tabassum) started to develop under Mr.P Abrachan our project manager,mentor and the tools client.It was for this tool I got introduced to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Personal Software Practices(Yet to finish both the books,details are too heavy to digest by my little innocent brain :) ).Developing this tool in novell was a great experience and it totally changed my perception towards products,analysis,oodesign,testing and what not. Today am still continuing my work for Pragati at Novell only because of the opportunity I got to work on Personal Planner.Thanks to all who were involved with me on this and while in novell
[My Team] Abrachan(PM),Satyanarayana(Dev),Krishna Kumar(SQA),Sridhar(Dev),Hari Krishnan(Designer-planner is good looking even to my eyes only after the design he made),Pavan Kumar(SQA),Kishore(SQA),Arunodayanath(statistician),J Veeraraghavan(MD) and Never to Forget Shalini Madhavan(Dev-was also handling all the communication with my college team who were working on Pragati).

The End...College Life and Begin...Work Life
The Much awaited Paradigm Shift in my life happened on August 3 2005 ...The day I joined Novell as a consultant was one of the most interesting career decision I took with absolutely no idea where its leading me to. I am still in the process of understanding the consequences as it goes in Matrix Movie: "We never make the choices,the choices are already made,we are here to understand the REASON,The PURPOSE of our very existence"

Parents Decision To Shift to Bangalore-End of Am the King style Bachelor Life :)
just kidding am still the king in house,that's what my family says...And quiet interestingly I agree to it.!!!

Working for Placement activities in my college[Vemana Institute of Technology]
Again I was fortunate enough to join hands with Mr.Prachet Bhuyan(HOD CSE dept),Mr RaviKumar(HOD ISE dept) and Cool Dude Sat(officially called as Satish,Student[ISE dept]),to work on all placement activities in the first half of the year. It used to give me immense satisfaction always to be part of this team and while working with companies that come to my college for campus placement.

New neighbor's arrive
Roshan and Divya moving in as my neighbor's was a pleasant event I don't want to miss talking about. They,my another neighbor sister Shalini and myself are still continuing to enjoy life time passing,almost gossiping(but not really coz neither of us enjoy gossiping)

Modern Ramayana Play by my college mates
Moving to more fun...Was the modern ramayana play that we enacted for our last college fest. Probably would not have been a significant event for many but for me it is as I was compering and also because of the loads of fun we had doing it.
[WE] Myself(Compere and as Ganguly),Rakesh(Lakshman),Arjun(Munna Bhai MBBS),Vikram(Rama), Nagaraj(Mass-Hanuman), Kalyan(Ravan), Sushma(Sita), Uttam(Cirket(Munna bhais dost)), Kaviraj(Audio Journalist),Darshan(Comedy News reporter)


College Graduation ceremony
Was significant as I was able to walk on to the dais and recommend our college Management to improve the placement facilities which I wanted to do for a long time improved a bit over the period (ofcourse nothing to do with me going and telling :) but atleast I got that satisfaction).Yet to become excellent.

Novell Brainshare Europe 2005
Pragati and personal planner got exhibited there and won lots of admiration. Proud to be part of the team involved.

Trip To Mahabaleshwar with Family
Man!!! How can I ever forget that for a heavenly trip to Mahabaleshwar near Pune Maharashtra. Spent the best moments with family after a long time. Terrific family reunion.

Two New Friends in life
Got two new friends after college life and interesting neither of them are from my office he he.Already have started raising hand or smiling at soooooo many people in office whenever we crossed for lunch or othertimes.People Networking and adding new nodes to my network never slows down.

Looks like this blog post will never end maybe because I am the type of person..Who will see even the smallest event in my life with utmost significance and enjoy them heartily.
If by chance anyone feels I have missed out one such event...Please send a angry mail to my inbox for me to apologize and add it to the list. :)


Thursday, January 05, 2006

Friends Birthday Party on 31st Dec 2005












Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Sunday, January 01, 2006

12 Inspiring Words

Time
Making optimum use of it ensures that goals get achieved than we could imagine.


Success
Symbolic Proof that we are moving in the right direction.

Vision

Anticipating new trends and evolving to satisfy them.

Quality
Withstands the tests of time and endures forever.

Target

Raises our level to display extraordinary performance.

Technology
Provides the cutting edge to become faster,better & More Accurate.

Dream

The power to convert fantasies into graphic reality.

TeamWork

Rising above the competition.

Satisfaction
Enriches true feelings and makes our world happier.

Relationship
Co-operation strengthens ties into a lasting association.

Achievement
It inspires you to rise & reach the top of the world.

WINNER

The power held by a winning combination is phenomenal.