The Transition...

Is there more to life than a series of transitions!? each phase lasting a variable amount in time and space. As they say...the entire philosophy of life can be summed up in exactly 3 words..."It goes on"...no matter whatever...life jus goes on... Am writing this at the end of one journey and at the start of a new one...and i jus am wishing..which one will be my destination journey...I know i still've got a long way to go before i can reach the final one...

K lemme start this one from as far as my memory goes...

My very first day in satyam... Orientation... in Viceroy hotel Secunderabad...were supposed to report in masha allah(One of the Satyam facilities in Secunderabad..)...and they take us on an elite bus to an unknown location...and when we get down...well we are already inside the five star...i know Satyam sure knows how to make its employees feel they are on the top of the world...and that itself was the first transition for me...coming from somewhere like bhilai...landing into a five star...i realized life was changing for me...things were gonna change...and may be it was then that i felt for the first time that i will be one among the "EXECUTIVE" people...it felt great...i was gonna be one among the Saahab family...that was the impression we got with all the stars of the hotel cast upon us on the first day itself...Anyways...Documents submission...amazing five star lunch...lots of intros...and finally masti... its over after all the dancing and dramatizing...of course with a news from great Mr SURI PONNADA that the ELTP preassessment is scheduled for saturday...assemble @ Mayfair @ 7:30 in the morning to catch the bus to STC...Bahadurpally...also strict instrustions saying forget your saturdays and sundays till you are an ELTP... k fine...went home with the same...grudging and things...
First day inside the Satyam STC Campus....amazing place....i was dumbfounded by the beauty...and the poshness of the locale...never really had seen such a place in my life...knew i was among the elite ones...being a proud satyamite...the assessment was anyways bad and with a full round of scolding from suri ponnada...you people from chennai comiong to satyam and making the whole environment dirty...you people have still not come out of your "College culture"...stop being this way...be proffessional...etc etc...bla bla blaaahhh...so were finally done for the day...and came to know that the next step was to attend our induction into satyam...were not sure of what it meant...but this was all that we were told...assemble @ CC sharp 9... :)
Induction into Satyam....then had no idea of what we were being taught...ya ofcourse the business structure of the company...info about the clients...development centres outside india...inside india...per quarter turnovers...big shots of the organization...etc etc...had no idea of y we were being told all this...and almost slept thru majority of all this gyan...now i know y i was so "dumbfounded" in satyam... :) Anyways...had a lot of fun activities on that one day...lot of interaction sessions....lotsa new people whom i said a hi to...and it was in totallity a good day.. had fun was happy being a satyamite and all those great feelings that come with the "SATYAM" tag.. :)

End of the day we were informed about the technologies we were gonna be trained on...and i was wondering...ow man is this really so important....and i knew the serious stuff started there.. they said 30 of you are gonna be in Oracle...and the rest in Mainframes...was very happy hearing this...hardly knew what difference it made...but was sure...mainframes is better than Oracle any day....sparingly aware of the hardships this technology thingie is gonna put me in...and hardly had any clue into the intricacies of this technology stuff...all i knew was that Oracle is something i already know and def Mainframes will be a better option...ie if i was given an option...ha...now if you ask me to turn back time...to the day i had this induction thing...i wud def no doubt...go and chose Oracle...you know for obvious reasons....and for those of you who dunno the IT intricacies...well read on to find y Mainframes was sucha wrong technology.. :)
Owkay...anyways...we were ionformed to be in the West wing/East wing..(Sorry i don remember which wing it was exactly..)..so classes started...they told us that we will have classes for a couple of days immediately followed by assessments...and we HAVE to get min 80% to pass...owkayyy...we being jus outta college...and almost the whole batch being from our great great CHENNAI...where mugging is a way of life...i mean children here are i think taught to mug straight from the times the zygote is formed in the womb...they all felt this was one great exam of their life that everyone has to top with 100%...uff i was in the worng place i realized...they all took it more importantly than even their final sem exams... DS, OS now this was one subject that kept giving most of us troubles right from day one...first the facilitator was absurd and when we got the best of the facilitator...well the subject itself became absurd... one paper that i dint clear till the end of the training tenure...no matter how many times i got the questions database...now if answers are wrong in the database what can you do!!?? or may be the entire evaluating system of the online test was wrong...yeah that was what we used to say when we dint clear any tests....we kept complaining that the database has wrong answers...the evaluation doesnt happen properly...the answres dont get registered properly...etc etc...think of new innovative reasons not 2 pass the tests...but i must tell you...those were the days...really "THE DAYS"...i mean now when i sit back and think of my ELTP days...well i can remember some things very close to my heart...no matter even if they gave pain in those days...these are some memories that will always bring smile/tear to my heart...some things very special to me...which have evolved me to what i am today...my first program manager...who always felt i jus dress smart but am no "PROACTIVE" at all...who always said i don study for tests..but keep talkin to guys all the time..and even when i get a 100 in some paper...she announces my name in the flunking list..she used to love me i think.. :)hmm...then the amazing raghuveer/raghuram/raghu sir...and his stories of mithun chakravarthy...and rajnikant..had fun in his classes...the various assessments and reassessments..and re re assessments...he hee he..the amazing CC(Convetion Center in STC...)...the amazing CC Cafeteria which used to full with our batch people...pulling each others legs...laughing..fooling around...our early morning shifts...our busses to STC...which we used to miss...and then call up the bus Rep to stop the bus for us..our saree sessions on teusdays...our great great Nagaraju Doamala...who always used to say that he is the best...and the best...and that mainframes is the best becuz of him...and also that even before we finish our trainings we will already be in projects...becuz there is some greaaaaaaaaaaaat big project coming for Mainframes...(As if we dint know that our prev mainframes batch has been comfortably warming the benches in Satyam for more than 9 months.. :))hmm...our great Seminar sessions...those were the only things we used to wait for...those were so amazing...different funny topics..different funny comments..and most great was the different funny people they used to pair each other with...it was all fun...the whole CC used to be like a picnic spot...play and have fun and come back..ha and how can i ever forget the great day when Domala said that the whole CC was built in 59 days...stoutly praising the Infrastructure of Satyam...and what happens the next day!!?? well the whole CC roof falls down cuz of heavy down pour of rain...we jus cudnt stop laughing...Domala was running here and there to make the place look normal.. :) hmmm...and some days later some cat runs accross the CC stage...and then some pegion comes inside the CC..with all the gaurds running behind it as it flies from one pillar to the other...thats the infrastructure...ahem ahem...no no am not tryin to put down the company...jus some memories.. :)

will continue with this later... see yu then...the transition wil continue..

Five Point Someone...

When you are an avid reader…you can pretty well read anything and everything on this earth…and its not every once in a while that you come across a book that touches the right strings of your senses or your hearts…ya you may read a hundred books and relate to some or the other part of each one of them…but then there are those very few which urge you to start living with the characters of the book…
Am writing here about this book that I wud have read a couple of times before and everytime I get a different feeling…may be everytime i skipped thru the pages jus to know wat exactly happens at the end of it all…but this time I read this book reading every line of it…almost reliving my days gone by…ya I know when you read something interesting you always carve an image of the characters and start imagining….but with this book it was different…though I did not even carve out images for the characters…I almost felt they were living with me…as if I am living some days of my life gone by…i am enjoying every bit of it...and then this strange sorrow surrounds me as the pages of the book are indicating that the book is gonnna get over soon…I jus wish this book doesn’t get over so soon…as if some part of my own life is getting over here…may be many of you are thinking I am exaggerating things here…but to tell you the truth…I almost lived with the characters of the book…hari, ryan, alok, neha, prof veera…I know exactly what the writer must have felt when he says “four years of freaking craziness to get a degree…” and when he writes about the convo…how much I wish the book not to get over at all…I know how many “it sucks…and change the system” phrases I used being a part of my college freakiness…but at the end of it…the day I was going home after finishing my last project viva and comprehensive viva….how much I wished to be back to one of the classrooms and reliving my four years at the doomed insti…to be back in the hostel terrace chatting, gossiping, reading some Sidney Sheldon/Nicholas sparks…jus hiding away from the warden, and other management ppl…or jus even for our group studies which never actually happened anywhere ever except at the hostel roof…ohh what a view at nite when even the OMR dint even look like a dreaded rd…jus the most beautiful rd in the whole of the city…and finally I missed the convo…as not being one of the toppers had very few chances of any notice of me being absent in the convo…now when I look back…I can jus say…what wonderful four years at that…the most amazing days of my life..
Ok coming back to the book…I know I got carried away by my emotions for my own college days…no matter how cramped those were…ya so about the book….this book really touched me…one book I jus cant read and put back on to the shelf…it really holds a part of my life…the moments I lived with the characters…the moments I kept goin back to my own life with these people….it was an amazing experience…I relived some very beautiful days of my life…and wished some days could come back for good….and wished i really was at the hostel corridors…or @ sasi’s….or @ the insti roof…

Weekend of relics..

Sometimes somethings unplanned give a lot of unexpected happiness...and thats what i experienced in this weekend...i had a great great time with one of my old friends when i least expected to see him over the weekend... :)
I jus got a call from him saying hes gonna be around for the weekend...and i dunno why but i jus felt i have to meet him this time as aunty wil also be around...and it was almost an year since i saw her as well...i jus decided upon dropping in2 their home for dinner on friday...and believe me i had such a good time talkin 2 him and aunty...was really taken back 2 the days in hyd when all i used to do was be in their house and enjoy.. :)
I mite not meet this friend for long now...and i jus wanted to make the most out of it...and there i was...heading towards the Chennai Port staff quarters...i dunno why but am so very fascinated by everything associated with the navy and port...i was happy being there....seeing the navy people...and i tell you these navy people have damn good looks...the first day was jus pulling each others legs...talkin about every thing that had passed by in this whole year when we hadnt seen each other...havin fun and being happy for each other...missing my dear friend (his sis..)...but ya finally we called her and even there we dint stop sayin baddies abt every other one around.. got back home in their car at about 11 in d nite...and promised uncle that i will be back the next day..

And next day they wanted me to be there by afternoon as they wanted to visit a passenger ship...alas i cudnt make it and the ship left before i cud reach their house..anyways...we made up for taht by goin shopping...and don yu know shopping means life 2 me.. :)
though it wasnt a shopping intended for me...but yu know how mush i can enjoy shopping...and i really had fun...we dint buy anything as everything that my friend wanted was normal adult size but sadly none of them fitted him..and we finally concluded that he should visit the kids section instead...had some food @ kfc...and headed back home for a heavier dinner...had major fun shooting each others pics and funny videos...had an amazing dinner with a variety of goodies...and finally rested in the private beach where we had close encounters with so many different sized crabs...!! and i dunno how on earth can anyone find crabs beautiful...i mean they are always scary with those creepy eyes, and poisonous tentacles/antennas or watever they are that they keep pointing towards you....may be in a position to tell you clearly that KEEP AWAY FROM ME....and still some very amazing people have some really special conversations with these scary species..say things like...ohh sweety yu are sooo beautiful...come come i'll click a pic wid yu...and finally when the sweety actually comes near them they throw those sweeties to other sweet innocent people who had no idea of the sweet conversation between 2 rare species...and thats how i got to meet this one big crab that crawled/creeped over my leg cuz it got scared by some very smart guy who wanted a pic wid the sweety.. :) anyways it was all fun...cuz i screamed so loud that they sentry would have actually thought that some tsunami came and hit me(hit me alone i mean...cuz everyone else including the one who scared d crab were laughing out loud..)...by the end of all d photo session, singing, roaming, and eating and shouting and laughing and crying...i was dead tired and so was everyone around...and it was well time for me to get back home....it was already 11:30...and we finally got int the car...and that was the end of my 2 days of memoirs...when i relived my good old hyderabad days...i was just simply HAPPY...and thats what mettered to me most...