Yet another reason why I'm a jerk !!

http://suhaaarts.com/




Thats my mom and the link above is her website... with no help from her son who did his graduation in computer science !! Well I'm not to blame completely, after all I never had a thing or patience to sit before the comp and design things :D

Anyway I guess its in my blood to appreciate art and that explains why I'm such a sucker towards arts & not science though I'm a science grad :)


Oh moreover she works for nearly 18hrs per day while I sleep for 18hrs per day on many occasions :D and did I forget to mention that she knows nearly 100 different types of arts from tanjore painting and sculptures to knitting, type writing etc ...
She sat down once to count and stopped at around 106 if I'm not wrong.
I speak of all those leaders and blah blah, I guess my mom does deserve a post dedicated for her


PS: I know I'm a lazy bum and haven't been posting. I MUST get back to post atleast one per week

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)

I cheat on her !!

Before you decide to be judgmental and start throwing all that gyaan on me, let me brief you, its all gonna be a disappointment ;).

So here I'm one day (27th) looking at my old friend with whom I have been for the last 4yrs. She hasn't changed a bit in these years .. although I tried to get her to do a makeover once she remained the same old self; beautiful, simpleton, plain, a little few extra pounds though; like one of the heroines from 70s ;). I was always proud to have her. I used to(I still do once in a while) brag about her when among friends, and they would tell me how lucky I'm to have her and how difficult is it to maintain the pompous ones they were with. But I changed, changed a lot in these 4yrs, I'm everything but for what I was back then. People change and its common, and I was thinking its time I change her too. Not that there is anything wrong with her, but I reached a stage where I can't just stay with her ... I needed more, I had my own desires(wants not needs) she couldn't satisfy.

Say coincidence, fate whatever but on the same day I see someone else.. gorgeous, extravagant, stylish, urbanite and ofcourse slim, like one of those heroines from the 2010 :D ... and thats it I decide to lay my hands on her whatsoever. All night I tried to tell myself that my good old friend is still perfect for me and its just the hormones kicking in disabling my power to distinguish between wants and needs and then there is this thing that I know I wont be able to handle such an extravagant miss for long.

28th morning ... I try to forget everything and stay with my old friend, went to office happily, some important work but overall a nice day, came back home by 6 and the urge to 'own' the beauty hit me again .... This time I don't think I fought for even a minute, I decided to cheat on my old friend. I decided to tell her I'm going away for a few weeks on work and so I did.

This is how the eventful thing happened after a lot of cogitating:

Started the bike went to the store bought the new HTC S710, removed the SIM card from 1100 and lo & behold I have a new mobile after using 1100 for 4yrs.

hehe I know such a stupid narration, I just wrote whatever came to my mind not even bothering to proof read it once, lazy me :D. I thought I'll say 1100 retired, but then I realized I still own the piece and could get back on it whenever I want so cheating sounded apt :D

I don't think posting the pic here is such a nice idea, viewers can figure out the story even before the start reading it :), but what the hell its a dumb story anyway ..so here is my new HTC s710 .....