Training to Production.

( I had written this post on the 3rd day after getting into production. It has been over 3 months since then but i forgot about it. So I am publishing this post now. At the time of writing it, I was feeling a bit nostalgic about my training days. Things have changed a lot after that and now I enjoy doing work in office as well. Have learnt a lot in these 3 and a half months into production)

The last few months of my life have been quite eventful. I went through some of the best (and also most stressed) times of my life. Well this was the transition from college life to professional life.
I left my home town on 7th july for my fisrt job. We were told that we would be having some training before we actually get posting. And what a training it was! I never knew I could do only with four hours of sleep everyday until I completed the training though with moderate scores. At one moment passing the training exams itself seemed to be a Herculean task. But thankfully I passed it without failing in any of the tests.
Like college life this training period has also become reminiscent of the past. I made some really great friends during this period. Well, when everyone is in some boat then this mutual feeling of going through tough times gets people close a bit fast.
There were exceptions to this also like my friend N. He was a person who will always complete his assignments first, will get out of exam hall first, will never study till late night and you guessed it, even then got the highest marks in all tests consistently.
On the other hand were people like me who somehow managed to stay afloat though by working hard, that is according to my standards because I didn’t study this much in whole 4yrs of engineering.
Anyways, alls well that ends well. During training I was dying to pass the training and get into production and finally when the day arrived to get into production I realized how attached we had become to the campus.

As regards my liking :- training classroom V/s life in production, here is the comparison
During we were not bound by cubicles and had friends all around us, in office we have cubicles and software engineers around us.
Remaining in classroom even late at night meant having fun with friends alongwith studying, being in office for late night means coding, debugging etc.
In the hostel we knew even people from other batches too, here we don’t people from the adjacent cubicle.
This comparison can go on and on…
Conclusion for my preference. Do I need to mention it now after the above comaparison?
Well, in continuation from the last mail I can make out one thing: as we are going older, our circle of close friends is decreasing, the tensions are increasing, life is becoming more and more mechanized. Well can’t write anymore of this feels like we are going downwards from here maybe because of current state of my mind…dunno..

college life comes to an end..

So finally the much dreaded day arrived. Though it was a harbinger of my corporate life but this thought of ending of college life has been lurking in some corner of my mind from the past few days and making me a bit uptight.

Day before yesterday was the my last day at college...Though I had waited for this day for the past four years but now when this finally arrived I wanted to be the last thing to happen.

I had some great memories related to my college life and on the last day as I was sitting in the lawn and closed my eyes I felt re-living each of those memories…the first day, freshers, ragging, boring lectures, functions, the happiness at getting placed, the B’day bumps, the flood in hostel, training period which will forever be the best 45 days of my life , the tea in canteen, bunking of classes(mainly in first year because 2^nd yr onwards we were confined to a prison a.k.a IT block), leg pulling of friends, our so called technical words (only members of our bhasad gang can understand it) etc. the list can go on endlessly. It felt as if it was just day before yesterday that we took admission, freshers on the nxt day and farewell today. The 4 years which seemed torturous and to be stretched for eternity then suddenly looked a very small span of time. The college which we detested four for years became a reminiscent of the best days of our life. And this loathing is because of the college or rather private college as a system. Otherwise this period of life was truly rocking.

I learnt a lot of things in college too, to deal with people, to put forth your views, to cope with sudden shocks both from colleagues and college authorities, to deal with some horrible teachers while at the same time gaining the best from good ones. And yes it helped me develop one more skills :- covering the whole syllabus in two days max irrespective of its size and then to pour (or rather vomit) whatever u know in the university answer sheet.

Yesterday was spent in getting the originals back from college so there wasn’t much time for other things apart from a small get together at a friend’s house.

But today all my friends left for their homes. I knew this would come some day but still made me feel a bit uptight. Afterall 4 yrs is not a small span of time. But like everything else this feeling will subside as time will pass.

This post is dedicated to all my friends of our bhasad group!!

21 days 4 exams..

Well this time I am having one of the longest exam schedule which for some reason has been extended twice. This is how our endsems which were supposed to end on 28th of may will now be ending on 4th june :-


16th may:- We get the admit cards in which the exams are scheduled on dates 17, 19, 22, 28.
As always this datesheet was a big letdown. There is some invisible power guiding the university of Raj officials to have less gaps for harder exmas and in plenty for the easiest ones. This time also there was just a single holiday for ACA (one of the toughest courses in this sem) which was scheduled for 19th and 5 day break for elective subject's paper (to be held on 28). Neways we thought xams would be over by 28th and then we would be free birds but this was not meant to be.

18th may:- I was just having a look at the newsapaper in the liitle time which my prep for ACA allowed when i across a university notification. It said that the exam which was sheduled on 22 will now be held on 31st of may. Still i consoled myself by thinking that it's just a matter of 3 more days and after 31st we will hold a nice party to celebrate completion of 8th sem. But even this was not to happen. We have to come to terms with one more shock. Even three grueling years of BE( grueling in the sense that we did everything except studies which are to be done just a couple of days before exams) in which we have come across a lot of such unexpected notices hadn't prepared us for what was to come after couple of days.

22th may:- I was again reading the newspaper and this time i had lot of time for it as next exam was on 28th. Again i came across a university notification. I looked at it only to find my worst fears come true; the exam has been shifted one more time and now will be held on 4th june. Now this is what you call a complete mess.

Now we all know about law of free exapansion of gases. Analogous to it is the law of free exapansion of exam syllabus:-
The exam syllabus tends to fill the complete time availabale it for completion.
So at the end of day it does not matter whether you study for 4-5 days or just 1 day, ultimately you will be able to cover the syallbus nd will score same marks (+/- 2%) . So this long break between exam are not meant for studying rather they tend to take away that intensity required for completing the syllabus. And yes one more thing where ever i mention complete syllabus it means only that much syllabus which will allow you to attempt the full quota of 5 questions from total of 8 questions. After all why study more when you know only just 2 and a half questions would ensure that you will pass the exam and the extra questions you do are a bonus. :D

As of now it's only 29th of may and i have to somehow pass a few days before i start studying. But wait..who knows I may again find a notice in the paper telling about further extension.
In the end, one thing is sure, these exams have become memorable for me, but all for the wrong reasons :(

update 1: It is already 2nd of june. I was studying for the exam which was to be held on 4th when there was a sms alert on my cell. I just checked it out to find (yes you must have guessed) that the exam which was to be held on 4th has been postponed and no new date has been given by the unversity. This time the reason is this reservation issue taken up by gujjars in rajasthan (more about the issue in next post). Was just wondering I will be able to take this last exam of BE in this coming month. Still there are 28 days to go. For the time being I am just keeping my fingers crossed.

update 2: Finally we have got the date of our last exam. It's 14th of june. Hopin that exams do get over this time.

update 3: The exams did get over by 14th...and the title of the post stands changed as 29 days 4 exams.

Recovered my first blog..

This blog isn't my first attempt at blogging. I had started a blog about an year ago.I had started it thinking i'll be able to keep posting on that blog. But it was just one post and then the end of it. Somewhere down the line i forgot the username and the password and started with this new blog.
But then that blog was in my own name so i wanted to recover it any cost. It was on older version of blogger. I tried to recover many a times but without username password every attempt at recovery was a failure. I had also forgotten the e-mail account from which i had confirmed my registration. So it also proved to be a bottleneck in my attempts at its recovery. Tried getting password assistance by entering all the email id's i could remember but still no success.
Finally i thought other way round. And this time i knew it would work...was the master stroke.
I posted a comment on my own blog....and voila!! it worked. I checked all the e-mail id's and in one of them found a message telling me about the comment. Once i got to know the e-mail id used for registration, the rest was just a cakewalk.

But now theres one more problem...what should i do with the older blog.
Lets c...

prayers are answered...

finally m back to a bit of blogging...after a long long time..
in between some quite uneventful things happened which kept me a bit occupied...

My granma suffered a massive stroke brain hemorrhage in later part of feb....it came to us a bolt from the blue. Never in my thoughts i have felt that s'thin of this sort can happen with us. She was admitted in hospital for about 15 days and has her right side fully paralysed.

She has been the nicest human being i've ever come across. Never said ill of any body, spent the maximum part of day in praying to her goapal jee. Very softspoken kind hearted. Then why why on this earth destiny was so cruel to her.
This incident has made me think a lot about life...i mean...u never now what will happen in the next moment. There she was on the fateful day having tea at about 5:00 in the morning and then it all started..the cup fell from her hands..her right part started becoming motionless and by the time she was rushed to hospital a lot of damage has been done.. was treated by some of the best neurophysicians at agra..Apollo nd sir gangaram doctors were also consulted but all in vain..
I feel like that all this was anlogous to the movie city of angels in which the doctor feels that she can't do anything to save a patient. Its all destiny that plays its part and she's just a medium for that. If a patient has to go it will no matter how hard u try..Same was the case here...the doctors couldn't do much. Just stabilized her position but the damage that has been done can't be reverted..

Now for a few days all this made me think a lot. Such a devout person had to undergo such pain and suffering, made me think why it happened, why god had to do this..

But i think slowly i have started finding answers:- what ever will happen will surely happen. Prayin to god will just give u courage and strength to face difficulties. People say that whatever we get is the result of our deeds in past births...but i don't know whether to believe it or not. Afterall nobody knows his past life.
I think that if something is bound to happen, it will happen, whatever may be the cause; whether u call it result of your deeds in previous birth or just keep it simple that it was meant to be like this only. But praying to god will keep ur hopes alive, u won't get tired by struggling, you will start finding ways to cope up with everythin, above all you won't lose faith.

I felt it myself. The past few months were extremely tough for us. Besides my granma's illness there were a lot of other issues which by themselves could have a lot of adverse effect on our lives. But it was all god's grace that we could keep our cool in these adverse circumstances and come out unscathed . So maybe it was all meant to be a learning for us. In between i have read the complete bhagvada geeta to my grandma. It has been a completely sublime experience for me. Though couldn't get it completely but was still very satisfying. If u are reading this blog and haven't read the bhagvad geeta then just give it a try.
Even now my granma is bed ridden. The various pipes and monitoring instruments have been removed but still she can't stand without support. We all are trying our best and one day m sure she was start walking as before. Afterall she means a lot to me.

This makes me remember a poem..i dunno the poet but here it goes:-

I asked for Strength.........
And God gave me Difficulties to make strong.

I asked for Wisdom.........
And God gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity.........
And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage.........
And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love.........
And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favours.........
And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed
My Prayer has been answered

personality test!!

I just happened to come across this tibetan personality test. Though i don't know whether it is authentic or not but as far as i am concerned its result showed some things which are true as regards to me.
Also last part cliams that watever u wish for in the course of test will come true. I usually don't believe in such things but still lets see where i am destined or if i am able to create my own destiny(from the point of being believer in karma).
Click here for the test.

Twin Wins.

In the past 24 hrs there have been two great victories for India, more pecisely one for India in the series win against West Indies and the other one for Tata by clinching the Corus deal in a battle that went to the wire.

The corus deal shows that now indian companies are ready to take on the world. It represesnts a new bold face of india which is not only a emerging FDI destination but which is also investing in other countries. Though this deal is not as big as the previous deal between Arcelor Mittal that made them the biggest steel makers in the world but it assumes greater significance because:-

1) It is made by a truly Indian Company i.e by Tata vis a vis Mittal which has majority of its operations outside India. In case of LN Mittal the only cause of our exultation over the deal was due to his indian origin.

2) It is valued at $12.1 billion making it the biggest takeover by any indain comapny in India's history which has seen it emerging as a major economic hub.

3) It also diplayed that Indian companies are willing to take more risks. If you compare tata's initial bid of 455 pence a share to the final settlement at 608 pence a share then u do not need to be a great manager or matahematics expert to see the increase in the valuation of the prized entity. This bidding process between Tata and Corus which went for 9 rounds and finally culminated in Tata's winning the battle shows the strenghth, courage, flexibility and quick decission making capabilities of Indain companies.

All in all its a great day ceratinly for the indain econommy at least. Considering that indain govt. has offered to help Tatas in every way it can, it should now be smooth sailing for the deal. Also with tata steel having the distinction of using the lowest cost steel processing methods without compromising on quality, the deal can be a money spinner for tatas in the long run. As for the present tata's shares have lost by about 10% in the single day mainly on fears that deal may have been over priced. This is always an possibility when a deal of such large magnitude takes place because it certainly puts some finacial strain on buying company. Seems like sitution will be improving soon, as Mr. Ratn Tata put it that investors may be taking a short term view.

The second win saw India's cricket fans go gaga over its win over West Indies(WI) thereby winning the series. All this was more hyped because Sachin has played a agem of in innings in the match (100 of 76 balls). The win has helped to reinstate some faith in team India just before when the stage is all set for world cup. Cricket is said to be game of chance. So for the time being lets hope it was not that chance rather was an indication of indian players coming back to form which is much needed before the crucial world cup begins.

So India seems to be poised to be the centre stage of great development with its anuual growth rate just touching double digit figure. If this continues then there won't be any stopping from its overatking of the US by year 2050 as suggetsed by a study conducted by Goldman Sachs.