fete de la musique ...

Today i.e. 21st June happens to be World Music Day, and Alliance Francaise my French tutorial institute along with French embassy and Novotel and Airtel organised Fete de la musique, in other world a music festival. Organized very well by the students of the institute it started with classical Indian music, then moved on to classical western which included opera and then jazz, pop, instrumental, r&b, rock and finally dj ...
it was a feast to the ears. I simply loved it. Consisted of a pretty decent crowd, I was expecting more students but was pretty amazed to see nearly 30%foreigners(mostly French) and 30-40% elderly music lovers(say above 50) and the rest of them mostly families. Very few students or software guys. Overall around 1000 guys, should I say?
And then its in Novotel, so booze was flowing all around... it took LOT of resistance from my side as I need to drive back home :)

Anyway just wanted to give a quick update on the concert, so a small blog. I would say this is one of those must do things & don't miss the chance if you happen to be around next year same day :)

Celebration

Celebration means……
A winter evening.
Four friends.
One barsaat.
Four glasses of chai.

Celebration means……
Hundred bucks of petrol.
A rusty old bike.
And an open road.

Celebration means……
Maggi noodles.
A hostel room.
4.25 a.m.

Celebration means……
3 old friends.
3 separate cities.
3 coffee mugs.
1 internet messenger.

Celebration means……
Rain on a hot tin roof.
Pakodas deep-frying.
Neighbours dropping in.
A party.

Celebration means……
You and mom.
A summer night.
A bottle of coconut oil.
A head massage.
Gossiping about absent family members.

-Courtesy Yahoo fwds (Though a very old one, worth having in my blog)

1 yr at work

Please assume this is posted on 4th June 2008 :D
So yes I finished 1yr @DELL, doing good definitely good, and definitely worth all the infringe during placements not sitting for most of the dream companies (but for 1), I got and do get all the time I needed, to finish things I always wanted to, and with a decent pay for a bachelor :).
People might complain; there are people everywhere who complain, not everyone is happy either in MS or Yahoo or Amazon or ... the high paying companies. Well my point is there are people who always complain about the work they are doing and there are people who adjust and adapt to the environment and make their work life merrier, luckily I have been one of the latter. I wouldn't call my work remarkable, but I did leave a good impression with the managers and senior lot .. so far so good.

I joined the firm when it is doing very bad and is trying to make a comeback, the first thing I got to learn is whatever you do, whoever you are, you can be kicked out without second thought if you don't place yourself properly. The first thing I saw in my work is layoff with a 10% headcount reduction and then rampup of projects retiring almost 4000 projects. In my one year I worked with 3managers on two domains Finance & Sales, the 1st manager left as a part of layoff, the 2nd team got dismantled and the projects retired and the 3rd team is about to breakup and by month end I'll be working with a new manager.I worked on 3projects, the 1st one retired, 2nd one is scheduled end of life in December and the 3rd one will retire in an yr or two.

So in such a situation people can do two things, complain there is no stability and not able to put full effort on a single project and blah blah, or learn to deal with ambiguity, learn how important is positioning in a company and learn how you can use the time you have, the domain knowledge and the resources company provides to help career progression.


So ya well the point being, I'm happy and planning to stay here for another 2years (salary is a trade off I accept to deal with). I don't think I'll be kicked off unless something drastic happens. To all my readers esp juniors (if any), the key to stay happy is to stop cribbing & work on the things you don't like.

- Too much of gyaan, end of post (no proof reading as usual)