WOW !!!!!!
Today only I am able to logon to my blog from my office. It feels great, especially when you are knowingly doing something wrong. (You dirty mind..What else were you thinking about on a public forum ??)
I won't write much today. Its Friday 7:00 P.M. So time to booze....Pardon me. I am that kind of software engineer who likes to slog on weekdays and hates to spend anything more than 9 hours at office on Fridays.
See you all on Monday. Till then, just chill !!
P.S.: Jyada filmi ho gaya kya ?
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Home coming and then
Hey..How many of you are working in some private organization in India(Not in home city) and still haven't visited your home for one and a half years ? I know, the number is very less..But then I am one of them.
So what prompted me to stay here at Indore, away from my home, for such a long time ? Do I have (For that matter, I am not seeing someone at Indore !!)..Well, the answer may seem ridiculous, but its true. Its an exam called CAT.
Yes. If any of you are a CAT veteran, then you will understand. And this is third time that I have attempted CAT. CAT has taken its toll not only on me, but also with my family members.
Last time, in CAT 2006 I had 3 IIM calls (OBC Quota man !!!). Then I prepared for GDPI, attended them, waited madly like an pregnant lady, and finally the quota fiasco was over in April,2007. So was my chances of making it to an IIM. But then it was the ideal time to start prep for CAT2007. And me, being an ideal CAT aspirant, did the same thing.
Finally it was over on Nov 18, and I was just ready to visit my home. It is in Durgapur,West Bengal. Wow...It felt great to have 2 weeks leave.But the time before I start my journey was better..As soon as I reached there, it seemed that time is passing by very fast..And 2 weeks was over in just 2 weeks !!!
I am here again at Indore this week.
Lets see if my staying at Indore for 1.5 years makes any impact on my CAT results.
All the best to all CAT takers.
So what prompted me to stay here at Indore, away from my home, for such a long time ? Do I have (For that matter, I am not seeing someone at Indore !!)..Well, the answer may seem ridiculous, but its true. Its an exam called CAT.
Yes. If any of you are a CAT veteran, then you will understand. And this is third time that I have attempted CAT. CAT has taken its toll not only on me, but also with my family members.
Last time, in CAT 2006 I had 3 IIM calls (OBC Quota man !!!). Then I prepared for GDPI, attended them, waited madly like an pregnant lady, and finally the quota fiasco was over in April,2007. So was my chances of making it to an IIM. But then it was the ideal time to start prep for CAT2007. And me, being an ideal CAT aspirant, did the same thing.
Finally it was over on Nov 18, and I was just ready to visit my home. It is in Durgapur,West Bengal. Wow...It felt great to have 2 weeks leave.But the time before I start my journey was better..As soon as I reached there, it seemed that time is passing by very fast..And 2 weeks was over in just 2 weeks !!!
I am here again at Indore this week.
Lets see if my staying at Indore for 1.5 years makes any impact on my CAT results.
All the best to all CAT takers.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
My Friends - Part 1
I have made the promise (to myself) to post my daily e-diary here. But then, the forgetful soul I am, I always forget my promises..Sorry for that.
Today I am going to write about some of my friends...
There is a proverb saying "A Friend in need is a friend indeed.". when I was a mere school-going kid, I used to use this maxim in my essays whenever I got any opportunity...But truly speaking, I didn't fully realize neither the meaning and nor the depth of this. When I was going to school. Not even during my engineering days...Yes I have made many friends there, but none was close to my heart...Except one during my school days...And another in my engineering college...First one is Prasenjit Roy...And second one is Tapan Pal....
And mostly I got to know my true friends when I was struggling with my first job at Mumbai. Those were the painful days...Three long years..2003 to 2006....And Tapan was there with me. In Syntel...Infact he was my flat mate there as well. When we went to Mumbai in July, we stayed in a hotel in Churchgate. We got up early in the morning. At 5 O' clock…Then be in a queue to use the toilet. I mean we were not in a position to afford any good hotel, that too at Churchgate. Then be ready by 7: 15.Run to Churchgate station..Catch the train to Andheri…Got down there by 8:15.catch the office bus there..Reach Seepz by 8:30..And enter the den to face new quizzes and assignments. Now I must confess that I was ( Was or Is ??..) pathetic in programming stuff…I hardly wrote 10 programs in the whole 4 years of my engineering life..Then the dreaded faculty used to come..Hardly teach something. And take everyone for some test. It was real tough after those 4 years..I swear…We left office at around 7..Went to some other place to find a flat ( Read shelter) for us, a kind of broker who won't take much brokerage ..Then we used to meet at 9 near our hotel. Have dinner. Went to room. Revise whatever has been told to us in those training hours.
I still remember my first test at Syntel. It was about writing some algorithms for some 8/9 problems. Oh boy. Someone like me, who couldn't write the algo to find whether a number is prime or not (I guess its way too tough. For that matter, I won't be able to write it now as well after a healthy 4.5 years of experience), its gonna be a bad day. But then whatever I learned in engineering, I put all that skill at test. I mean copying skills. Yes I copied from my poor friend Tapan, who was incidentally not as bad as me in those stuff. Next day our training coordinator, Kaizad announced that the results are put on the notice board. And some poor guy managed to get only 40% marks. Mind this, you have to get 60% marks overall to successfully complete the training program, otherwise you will be kicked out of the company.
Well, I was pretty sure that 40%-wala poor soul is none other than me. But good heavens! When I checked the result sheet, it said I got 88%. And I am the second topper in my batch. For a moment I sighed. Oh! Then I heard my friend's voice. "How on earth can I manage only 40%", cried Tapan. Now that's strange. I mean, I copied from him. And whatever I have written on my own, I was damn sure, that was nothing but shit. Then I tried to introspect what went right with me.
And I found out. It was all because of my dad (I call him baba). Guess how? It was those days, when he used to sit in front of me with a stick and force me to practice handwriting. As a result, I have a handwriting which is neat. So that helped me to get those marks, as Kaizad was able to read those lines somehow. While my friend, with poor handwriting, suffered the setback.
Well I missed another friend there. Joydeep, the muggu guy. Tapan, Joydeep and me joined Syntel together, and we were classmates before. Now this is one guy, who has the ability to go to study in some top US versities, and still was with us, at Mumbai, struggling to complete the VB assignments at the training program. This guy is hell bent on getting confused in taking some decisions about his life as well as others, whom he knows.
Well…Enough good words about Tapan and Joydeep…Now face the reality….
First, lets complete about Joydeep..For the only reason, that, he is a normal guy. You won't find much amusing about him...Well he is good looking(Man.You owe a treat to me for this line!!). Not overweight, Something like 5 feet 8. Basically a good boy. Every father will surely want to have a son like him. Extremely obedient. Cautious about his duties and all that. But only one weakness. Yes Sir/Madam...You guessed right...Its girls...How much obessed ?..Let me tell you an incident...Sometime when we nearly completed one year at Syntel, a girl joined our project. Man she was like the "witches" we see in comic books..I mean, I know I shouldn't comment like this about someone..But then this is only to reveal the attraction my friend feels about the fairer sex...Now, during that time Tapan and Joydeep were both in the same project, while I was in another one. That girl joined their project. And I remember Joydeep was absent that day. So when we were having lunch at the resturant, we discussed about that girl..I mean Tapan and me. Nest day Joydeep was present, but he hadn't seen her yet. So he was damn curious. And someone told that girl about another member in their project team, Joydeep. Then the real fun begins. The girl came to Tapan( He was seated beside Joydeep), and asked him who Joydeep is. And Tapan gave one killer of an answer. He said "Hey. If you see someone going for you also..Samajh jana..wohi Joydeep hai"."
Now comes the gem of a person, my dear friend Tapan.
He is staying in USA for last two years…he weighs nearly 110 kilos (In his words its just one and a half quintal .U know he prefers to use a different scale, to make the numerical simpler)…6 feet high…Lost half of his hair from the front side.. When he sent me one of his pics, standing beside the Wall street bull in NY City, it was really difficult to identify my friend from the two creatures..Anyways, he is good at heart. And I mean it.
The other guy, my schoolmate, was not there with me after our 12th std studies…I mean I went to Jadavpur university, and he went to NIT Durgapur…Both graduated in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering…Then I went to Mumbai and joined Syntel and he stayed back at Kolkata and joined Cognizant..Now he is with Amdocs, at Cypras..Whereas I am with CSC at Indore..
First part ends here. Wait for other parts.
P.S. Part 2 will be published very soon.
Today I am going to write about some of my friends...
There is a proverb saying "A Friend in need is a friend indeed.". when I was a mere school-going kid, I used to use this maxim in my essays whenever I got any opportunity...But truly speaking, I didn't fully realize neither the meaning and nor the depth of this. When I was going to school. Not even during my engineering days...Yes I have made many friends there, but none was close to my heart...Except one during my school days...And another in my engineering college...First one is Prasenjit Roy...And second one is Tapan Pal....
And mostly I got to know my true friends when I was struggling with my first job at Mumbai. Those were the painful days...Three long years..2003 to 2006....And Tapan was there with me. In Syntel...Infact he was my flat mate there as well. When we went to Mumbai in July, we stayed in a hotel in Churchgate. We got up early in the morning. At 5 O' clock…Then be in a queue to use the toilet. I mean we were not in a position to afford any good hotel, that too at Churchgate. Then be ready by 7: 15.Run to Churchgate station..Catch the train to Andheri…Got down there by 8:15.catch the office bus there..Reach Seepz by 8:30..And enter the den to face new quizzes and assignments. Now I must confess that I was ( Was or Is ??..) pathetic in programming stuff…I hardly wrote 10 programs in the whole 4 years of my engineering life..Then the dreaded faculty used to come..Hardly teach something. And take everyone for some test. It was real tough after those 4 years..I swear…We left office at around 7..Went to some other place to find a flat ( Read shelter) for us, a kind of broker who won't take much brokerage ..Then we used to meet at 9 near our hotel. Have dinner. Went to room. Revise whatever has been told to us in those training hours.
I still remember my first test at Syntel. It was about writing some algorithms for some 8/9 problems. Oh boy. Someone like me, who couldn't write the algo to find whether a number is prime or not (I guess its way too tough. For that matter, I won't be able to write it now as well after a healthy 4.5 years of experience), its gonna be a bad day. But then whatever I learned in engineering, I put all that skill at test. I mean copying skills. Yes I copied from my poor friend Tapan, who was incidentally not as bad as me in those stuff. Next day our training coordinator, Kaizad announced that the results are put on the notice board. And some poor guy managed to get only 40% marks. Mind this, you have to get 60% marks overall to successfully complete the training program, otherwise you will be kicked out of the company.
Well, I was pretty sure that 40%-wala poor soul is none other than me. But good heavens! When I checked the result sheet, it said I got 88%. And I am the second topper in my batch. For a moment I sighed. Oh! Then I heard my friend's voice. "How on earth can I manage only 40%", cried Tapan. Now that's strange. I mean, I copied from him. And whatever I have written on my own, I was damn sure, that was nothing but shit. Then I tried to introspect what went right with me.
And I found out. It was all because of my dad (I call him baba). Guess how? It was those days, when he used to sit in front of me with a stick and force me to practice handwriting. As a result, I have a handwriting which is neat. So that helped me to get those marks, as Kaizad was able to read those lines somehow. While my friend, with poor handwriting, suffered the setback.
Well I missed another friend there. Joydeep, the muggu guy. Tapan, Joydeep and me joined Syntel together, and we were classmates before. Now this is one guy, who has the ability to go to study in some top US versities, and still was with us, at Mumbai, struggling to complete the VB assignments at the training program. This guy is hell bent on getting confused in taking some decisions about his life as well as others, whom he knows.
Well…Enough good words about Tapan and Joydeep…Now face the reality….
First, lets complete about Joydeep..For the only reason, that, he is a normal guy. You won't find much amusing about him...Well he is good looking(Man.You owe a treat to me for this line!!). Not overweight, Something like 5 feet 8. Basically a good boy. Every father will surely want to have a son like him. Extremely obedient. Cautious about his duties and all that. But only one weakness. Yes Sir/Madam...You guessed right...Its girls...How much obessed ?..Let me tell you an incident...Sometime when we nearly completed one year at Syntel, a girl joined our project. Man she was like the "witches" we see in comic books..I mean, I know I shouldn't comment like this about someone..But then this is only to reveal the attraction my friend feels about the fairer sex...Now, during that time Tapan and Joydeep were both in the same project, while I was in another one. That girl joined their project. And I remember Joydeep was absent that day. So when we were having lunch at the resturant, we discussed about that girl..I mean Tapan and me. Nest day Joydeep was present, but he hadn't seen her yet. So he was damn curious. And someone told that girl about another member in their project team, Joydeep. Then the real fun begins. The girl came to Tapan( He was seated beside Joydeep), and asked him who Joydeep is. And Tapan gave one killer of an answer. He said "Hey. If you see someone going for you also..Samajh jana..wohi Joydeep hai"."
Now comes the gem of a person, my dear friend Tapan.
He is staying in USA for last two years…he weighs nearly 110 kilos (In his words its just one and a half quintal .U know he prefers to use a different scale, to make the numerical simpler)…6 feet high…Lost half of his hair from the front side.. When he sent me one of his pics, standing beside the Wall street bull in NY City, it was really difficult to identify my friend from the two creatures..Anyways, he is good at heart. And I mean it.
The other guy, my schoolmate, was not there with me after our 12th std studies…I mean I went to Jadavpur university, and he went to NIT Durgapur…Both graduated in Electronics & Telecommunication engineering…Then I went to Mumbai and joined Syntel and he stayed back at Kolkata and joined Cognizant..Now he is with Amdocs, at Cypras..Whereas I am with CSC at Indore..
First part ends here. Wait for other parts.
P.S. Part 2 will be published very soon.
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