Challenging Days!!

 I always wanted to experience hostel life and I did get one such opportunity. I was in a confused state when I chose to work on Ruby on Rails(ror) technology when I was trained in another stream.Just before joining my new project, I got few unofficial holidays and I utilized it to visit the Chilkur temple.

My one and only wish was to get into a java project even when I knew that it was impossible. Sometimes wishes too get fulfilled.I was asked to travel to bangalore on a short duration project which was on C++ technology. After we reached bangalore, the technology was changed to java.I was on cloud nine that time.

I will never forget my first day at bangalore.  I took a bus from office  at 5 p.m to my cousin's place which is located at the heart of the city and I reached at 10 p.m. With no charge in my mobile phone and no PCO's near the bus terminus at that hour, I really dint know what to do. Thankfully my cousin was waiting for me for the past 2 hours in the terminus. I never curse Chennai for its traffic anymore.

Little did I know that sometimes what we learn during engineering course also helps us in projects. I still remember my staff telling that these concepts cannot be implemented practically and my project manager was telling me to implement the very same concepts.

The topic was very dry and I hated it from my college days. Each day passed and still we could not find a solution. I was thinking if I was really qualified for this IT job. It is hard to believe but I had a draft which requested release from this project which I deleted next week.

I was accompanied by 2 guys who were more caring than my own brother and may be that is why I dint miss my family much.Thanks to my colleagues who traveled all the way to Bangalore . I knew them only by their names and I had'nt spoken with any of them for more than 5minutes also.When we told about our project , they told we can do it and instilled a lot of confidence.We had a team outing to Wonderla and it was like getting back to my college days.


Someone knocking at the door on the stroke of midnight, traveling at midnight because of late running of buses, stranded on the national highways and waiting for a alternate bus at 2.a.m, living in a 3 BHK flat all alone for a few days, walking all alone to reach quarters and realizing that the clouds have turned black sooner, sleeping at 2 in the morning and waking up two hours later to start the next day etc etc
I would rather say those days as adventurous rather than challenging.

Life is full of challenges.If we think we can do it, there is always a solution to any challenge which we might come across .

Few Days of Corporate Training

With lot of enthusiasm to join in my dream company ,I entered into the ILP(Initial Learning Program) premises. I was completely surprised to hear a presentation from employee of the topmost management rank on the very first day. The day ended with a session on ILP followed by document verification and the bank account opening. The next day We had sessions on how to use the library, PAT test and sessions on i-security and health and safety. I was very happy when I was batched in J2EE stream . The theory sessions are very interactive and help me revise the concepts . The Biz-Skills sessions helped me in overcoming my shyness and start working as a team. It also helped me in knowing how to behave like a professional. I wish the coming days would help me to become project ready.

Life After College Days!!!

When I completed my 12th board exams and had a more than 6 months long vacation, many of my friends who were at college then told me that this is a rare opportunity and told me that I will never get such a long vacation. Now here am I, sitting idle at home whiling away the time waiting for yet another long vacation to end soon and those same friends tell me that this time will never come once I become a corporate. Looking back I cherish each day of my college life not because I liked my college or affinity towards it but because of the wonderful set of FRIENDS who made each day memorable.
One of the biggest problem I face now is waking up early in the morning and now I wonder how I used to get ready and be on time to catch the bus all the 4 yrs. I feel  I was more updated with all the news around the world during college days ,thanks to the 2 hr journey to and from college which allowed me to gossip about anything and everything. There was something called Rules and how much fun was it to break those .
The excitement about getting placed in a company even before your final exams are over is completely lost when the joining is being postponed month after month and when you find your other friends working in some other company.
The worst or rather say embarrassed situation is when you attend some family functions and when people around you ask about what are you up-to these days. However hard you try finding a best suitable answer to the question , the answer seems to end up as sitting idle at home.
Now I can remember the HR panel who interviewed me asking as to what I would be in 2 yrs or so. If only I knew I would have answered sitting at home and waiting for the joining letter.
When many told me that I could have utilized all these days and learnt something useful, I replied back that these holidays have made me learn the art of patience and I am very sure I can even give a lecture to all the campus placed candidates about learning to be patient.
Life is very much uncertain and I just wish I never expect anything from it.I never want to look back at my life after college days because now with my joining in hand and dreams of corporate life , I just hope I enjoy the days ahead.!!!! :) :)

Walking Through The Lane !!

I was thinking very hard as to what I should do now. Yes, The clock showed just 5 a.m. Another short sleep was the only answer I could think of but when I closed my eyes. I couldn't sleep. Getting up from bed and trying to have a nice view of the dark roads filled with fog and the dewdrops in all the leaves of the tree was something totally awesome. Suddenly I don't know why but something inside me told to have a short walk this morning. I was completely surprised to observe that only myself, milk women and all the street dogs were present at 5.45 a.m . Although I am not that brave, I started walking through the dark roads without actually deciding upon my destination. Wondering why people who I met in the main road were all in groups yelling upon some gossip or other, I distanced away from them. I saw many people even grandmas and grandpas in their perfect walking costume with all the loose fitting clothes and even shoes, Seeing them I looked back to me , I could never walk with all those in me. I was walking in the Road less traveled now and yeah suddenly the electricity department  proved that they were all working perfectly. I could see no light at all, complete darkness . Now here was I in this road in complete darkness without knowing where exactly I was . I could feel someone else very very close to me. I tried to stop breathing and I could hear some footsteps. Now I became very afraid not because of what is to happen but I had not obliged to my mother, she had asked me to walk only after some sort of light comes. Now I could feel someone very close to me, With all the courage I had ,started walking. More faster footsteps could be heard. The footsteps went past me , I could clearly see the dog wagging its tail. I felt very ashamed of the way I had feared for just a dog.  I observed  many things around me happening all in just a very few seconds. Tender coconut  and arugampul soup selling people made quite a business from those morning walkers. I could clearly see how much people cared for their health. I was taken aback to see a size zero pretty gal trying hard to burn her calories in the maximum ways possible. I stopped and questioned her, her reply made me feel very guilty. She told me that she was not here to walk but to enjoy the beautiful nature around her as well as she told that she was working hard just to see how much energetic she was .She told me that this small brisk walk makes her very active throughout the day. Now I started walking at a faster speed checking whether I too was energetic All I could think was whether I would get up early tomorrow morning and enjoy the walk ahead. Although my mind told me tomorrow I should continue this habit of walking, Thinking about me waking up at 5 a.m that too on a holiday was something IMPOSSIBLE.

Unity is definitely strength

"Symposium" - I wonder how we actually conducted one without knowing the meaning. Thanks to our seniors and all the 1 day off or should say monthly leave for other college symposiums helped :P. I had always wondered why it was necessary to have a symposium conducted every year. According to me, This is the only best decision made by Anna university . I learnt or I should say We learnt a lot of new things which can definitely help in our future. My first surprise was in the way our department staffs encouraged us . Even the so called spy in my college Ayya , helped us get all our requirements from the management in the most easiest way

possible. Co-operation, Unity, Co-existence, Responsibility, Leadership qualities, Overcoming stage fear, Managerial Capabilities etc were some of the few qualities which I observed in my fellow classmates during the preparation for the actual symposium day. The most important thing to be noted was the way in which we were able to provide numerous solutions to all the problems which popped up all of sudden on the symposium day. I wondered why these solutions dint actually pop up my head when I was seeing a unexpected math problem or difficult question in my semester exams. I am proud to say I was a benevolent contributor and I cherish each and every moment of all the days we worked as a department and not as an individual and succeeded in making our symposium a great success.

From ORKUT to FACEBOOK

I look back to the the day for which i waited impatiently.Yeah it is of course, the first day of my college life.After watching a lot of movies,It is quite obvious to find students expecting their college life to be like that,so was I.Thanks to the then famous  ORKUT,i was able to easily find my college friends even before the start of college.Having a cousin studying in that college and lots of friend through social networking sites,my first day was not that difficult to spend .I was completely shocked when i was taught lessons on the very first day unlike in other colleges where they had orientation programs.For the first 10 days,I would have told very bad things about my college to whoever I spoke to.I was blessed with many friends and that made me enjoy the days ahead.I enjoyed all the E.G classes (thanks to Punnagai Arasi).I thought all in my class were studying too hard even for class tests,may be it was because of the long holidays after their 12th.After taking my 1st semester exam  I realized that whatever I studied just one hour before sitting in front of the exam hall had a major portion in my question paper and to my surprise till my last semester exams this practice continues.With the 2nd semester,things dint go that easy for me.Electronics and Electrical subjects were puzzling me totally(I was happy that I dint take any electrical stream).Thanks to B.C.M(boys kaga class edutha master) subject,I cherish each and every class and the fun we had in that class.I was in II year,now i was no more a junior and this phase indicated that i was not going to learn my favorite subject-physics anymore.With the start of the II year, more computer science oriented subjects,more bonding between classmates ,Life was very very pleasant.All the tricks I used to play in the ADC labs will always make me feel nostalgic about college life.II year was quite hilarious,It must be mainly due to 2 reasons-the okay va OS mam and The best English speaking EVS mam and each of them competing among them for providing more laughter in class.Pre-Final years was the new title given to us.I wondered how i had spent 2 years in the college i initially hated to the core.I was completely for a shock for this was the shortest semester in my college life may be it was like that because of the Strike in my college.I realized that my class which had a three-forth of girls population became very much united in this semester which resulted in the kodaikkanal trip with ma classmates(Mini Iv).With the Pre-final stage going to end,6th semester Aca classes were eagerly awaited upon.We had the best discussion,gosips,games,assignment writing sessions,talking over a phone,taking as many pics possible,doing whatever we wished to in the presence of a teacher in a strict college was quite surprising.Now we were called the Final years.I was happy that mathematics was not going to be with me that semester.With the placement fever,I was happy to see each of my fellow classmate working very hard to crack the aptitude tests.Another surprise was the initiative taken by my college management for enhancing communication skills for the first time as told by my teachers.I was happy to find more percentage of students recruited from my class and equally sad that many of my friends couldn't get placed.With all these placement tension,We had to do all our record works in such a hurry.I had finished 19 labs successfully.I terribly missed them ,for i always liked practical sessions.With just 4 months more for my college life to end,I wonder how much I am gonna miss it.Hope FACEBOOK or the new GOOGLE + will  help me to be in touch with my college buddies.Thus the transformation from ORKUT to Google + i should rather put it :P:P

Praying and NOT Paying !!!

It is very difficult to find a HUNDI-less temple or a temple where there is no entry tickets for darshan  or even for archana tickets.I did find one in the outskirts of Andhra Pradesh(Chilukur Temple)also famously called as the VISA temple.Wherever you go in India,money plays a vital role in darshan of god.We never find a temple which has not been commercialized.Many people are quite unaware of this temple(Chilukur),in which the presiding deity is none other than Tirupathi Balaji,who has come here to give darshan to one of his favorite devotee.I recently visited this temple and it was my 2nd visit to perform the 108 pradakshinas.It is believed that anyone desirous of seeking a wish fulfillment from chilukur balaji  must first make 11 pradakshinas at that temple and after its granted,one must return to perform 108 pradakshinas.You wont believe me if i say that the darshan takes hardly 5 minutes but doing the pradakshinas are a tough task.We can see young students to grandfathers coming here to do 108 pradakshinas.Since the temple is quite small,you can see a minimum of 2000 devotees daily.I cherish each and every moment i spent in that temple and did want to write about it.So those who have belief in god can visit this temple where you only have to pray and not pay!!!