Today....1st May.. My Roommate left our flat...

My First job... a new place... apprehension abt the time at this new place... that was wat i felt wen i landed at hyderabad airport accompanied by my father.. I dint know a single soul in hyderabad..

My first day in office... induction program for new joinees.. all unfamiliar faces.. do i know anyone out there??? Yes... i do...just 2 classmates of mine.. Then comes a group of Telugu speaking girls.. i dont know them... the only common thing between us is tht we all r new joinees... we ( me and the telugu group) sit together for the induction... we get introduced... i find the group very warm... we get acquainted wid each other...

I come to know that they stay in the same guesthouse which has been provided by the company.. but in a different building... I also come to now tht the group also is newly formed..they themselves dint know each other before coming to hyderabad..

We decide to search for a girls hostel..but the plan flops on seeing the pathetic condition of the hostel... Then ... Gayathri.. the tallest girl comes out with a solution... a flat at KPHB or kukkatpalli housing board colony..a 3BHK.. we check out on it and we all unanimously agree to stay there...thankx to Gayathri...

And...from then on we hav been living happily here...except yesterday... The girl who found out the flat for us left the flat...reason being her marriage being settled.. It did feel odd to all of us..its been 10 months that we hav been staying together.. laffing continously on silliest of jokes... facing problems together... small internal strifes but still bonding together again...

Today as i was saying but to her... tears welled up in my eyes... she was going for better.. but we hav got used to each others presence around ... we definitely will miss her.. n yes.. last nite it was her topic that we continously spoke on... her gud qualities... negative ones.. etc...

Noww tht she will b flying to US in a couple of days... i wonder whether we will meet ever.. coz we all will get married in some 1-2 years from now... n after tht..
I just couldnt say Gudbye to her yesterday.. i felt i was meeting her for the last time..as i wont b attending her marriage ..thts the exact time i hav to be at my home town... i knew even she was feeling bad while saying bye...

Its been 10 months.. 10 months of teasing her... arguing wid her... advising her... doing things together... n now..she wont b there..

Today as i write these thoughts down... i just wish a life full of goodness to her.. may the almighty show her the directions when need be... may she b happy in her new endeavour..called marriage....

Wish u all the best dear.. we will miss u....

Reminiscences of my Life : My First Job - CA Hyderabad

Well guys, I wonder if it is possible for anyone to pen down in words ,the ecstasy when they first join their job and they get their first salary. Same thing applies to me too. I got placed thru campus for CA India pvt ltd in feb 2006 and the joining was supposed to be in June 2006. and here I am.. working for CA since then... I will make an effort to jot down my feelings about CA, my first job here at Hyderabad.

I joined here on 14th June 2006... I just had 2 of my classmates joining wid me and we all were put in separate teams and separate projects. So that made me fend for myself. I dint know any person, and I dint have any accomodation. I along wid 5 other Telugu girls who also had joined wid me, started the search for a flat to stay... we initially searched for girls hostel, but our search returned no results, as the hostels we saw couldnt be called as fit to be lived in... So finally on the last day when we had to vacate our company accomodation, we found a spacious 3 BHK at a place called KPHB...

Initial hardships for a person who couldn't be called a Telugu girl... The Telugu language itself. I found it prety tough to even get to the basics of the language... but then gradually with time, i could manage to understand wat ppl spoke.

There started my life into this corporate world. The ways I had to cast and mould myself to fit in this new culture were myriad. Software field seems so lucrative at the start.. but then wen 1 goes into this field and gets adjusted to the lifestyle, your needs start to increase.. anyways thts an altogether different blog topic...

Talking about CA, how these 24 months passed, m stil not able to forget... I made lots of really cool n trustworthy friends here who can be with me in times of despair... I found ppl here whose sight i couldn't bear to stand... There were people i met, so indifferent... so ful of life sometimes and dull at other..

At times you feel so bad about leaving your first company, but then at some times you just feel like getting lost from there... and it happened to me many a times.. Many a times I met people at CA who looked to be so nice and caring, but turned out to be backstabbers. and beware dear friends, it could happen to you too... thts how I realised ...my friends who had been telling me tht "there r no friends in this field" is so very true... Tht was my exp at CA... but who cares... we find such people in every other field... isn't it... just coz you found 1 rotten apple, can you term the entire basket as consisting of rotten apples??

way way... seemingly too frustrated??? wel frankly, i really dont find CA to be a place where campus selected enggrs should join... the virgin dreams and hopes for a lively environment tht is portrayed at the time of joining directly from college is crushed under the harsh reality of so called professional life... Its not just about work, i mean thts wat we really r here for... but can you imagine a fresher coming out of college hoping to make a career in a particular technology is made forcibly to work in a technology he is least interested in?? and thts wat exactly happened to me at CA... even though I took it as a harsh reality... but it stil haunts me sometimes and makes me wonder if I would hav been better off if I hadn't joined CA...

Yes i will say tht m not tht happy working for CA... but then ppl wil say tht I could hav spoken to higher authorities and got myself the field tht i so much enjoyed... but but but... I had already raised this concern and it fell on deaf ears... I had heard tht the HR system of a company if strong, can attract or retain employees... but wat if the HR system itself turns hostile??? You raise a request today at CA and it wil b addressed after eternity.. or if you r unlucky enuff, it wouldnt b answered at all until n unless you ask repeatedly for it...

You think I am only criticizing?? well... I had those high spirits wen i had joined CA and the HR had told me at the time of recruitment tht the work culture is one of the best out here... but if u gonna believe my words then... dont believe wat the HR tells ... be sure tht pratically it does happen... ask ppl who hav been working there...

I dont say CA is a bad company... CA is a very gud company.. a place where opportunities are created.. not gained... a company where everything seems to be fine.. but just becoz of certain processes not falling in place, and certain people the work culture gets hampered... so should i say tht all the apples in the basket are rotten??? Nopes.. I dont hav the right to say tht... well if things turn out to be just fine...

Now let me concentrate on all the gud things tht happened to me at CA...
As i said earlier. i made quite a lot of gud reliable friends. I found a lunch group 4 myself whom i enjoy being wid... I found a manager so very concerned whose people management skills i will always appreciate... I also found a manager whom i can call as totally apathetic...

One noticeable thing about CA i would like to highlight are the facilities here. A well maintained Cafe, good games court, a gud gym with proper instructor, gud pantries etc... A place for freaking out i would say... wenever we feel bored at our desk, the best thing we can do is either take a cofee break, hangout in the Cafe or just take a games break... No one stops anyone from doing wat they feel like as long as the work remains completed...

Another thing is the trust which is shown in employees. Like in other companies tht i hav seen, security personnel will not ask you any question the moment you flash your ID cards... and also anyone can just walk around the company with CDs, Pendrives, mp3 players and even Laptops. No one checks your bags here at the entry and exit doors... one flash of your ICard does the job... probably i will not find this kind of environment elsewhere...

anyways.. those were some good and a bit of bad experiences from my side... tht winds up this topic friends... Things do turn out to be gud here... though evry system has its gud and bad points... but still we like the system ... just becoz it makes us feel comfortable.. and CA has just done this for me... The Life experiences i had over here will remain forever down my memory lane...and yes, definitely i would recommend my friends to join here whether they be freshers or experienced. freshers get lot of self testing time here and Experienced people gain more of it... So in short, thumbs up to this gr8 company, my first job and a new life. Wil always have CA as my first choice if i someday decide to change my job!!!

Reminiscences of my Life : ISquareIT days - Pune

Destiny takes man to places he never ever had imagined - This is what life at ISquareIT has taught me. Being associated with I2IT was a distant dream for me, for never did I, after my Engineering thought about joining a post graduate course away from my Hometown-Goa.
Of Course I wanted to continue with higher education, and that aim of mine, brought me to this distant place.

Whenever any fresher joins a college he’s always scared of ragging, the same thing I thought would be my fate, but life in I2IT was such fun, no senior junior language out here. When I first stepped into I2IT, I felt I had come into a sophisticated world with all the complex structures and infrastructure around. My life seemed to take a route which was beyond my imagination, but slowly it turned out to be just another college and my perspective towards life did change after my stay out here.

Being at I2IT, as I see myself almost for the past 1 year and a half, it has been a great learning experience as well as living experience.
My first trimester in I2IT was fun, with most of the lectures being off; we just had 4 subjects to study. Classes combined with the networking students, more time was spent chatting and knowing each other. People coming from all corners of India, with diverse languages and diverse cultures, and yeah, how can we forget the Koreans!

Our seniors had so called arranged the Fresher Party, totally different from the ones we had during graduation. But yeah, the common thing for me was the DJ Party that used to be at my college.

The best thing I learnt over here is “Making PPTs” All the lecture notes going out as PPTs , just going through them at the last minute and going for the exams, whether be it mid terms or final trisem exam became my study habit.
I remember visiting the I2IT library hardly ten times in my entire stay at I2IT. Never had the need to do so, especially when we had the readymade PPTs. At least for me, they were the only source to rely upon during my trimesters.

Guest lectures at I2IT were always compulsory. I remember going for certain lectures just for the sake of it and just to show our faces. We had earned a rapport of being the class with the least number of people attending the guest lectures. Who would by the way want to dress up as if for weddings, guys in their blazers and girls in the college saree! For people like me who hardly knew how to drape that thing and handle it altogether, I2IT has given a good experience! I can now get dressed up in less than 10 minutes. Thanks to I2IT my mom was very happy she wouldn’t have to spend time teaching me how to wear it!

How can one forget about the hostels at I2IT? The Takshashila, Nalanda and Mithila.. I had stayed at Nalanda 4th Floor for the entire span of stay at I2IT...Little did I think before joining over here that I’ll be staying in a Co Ed hostel! But life over here is also nice, I got the opportunity to closely observe people both guys as well as gals. And yeah, I did make a couple of very close friends out here too. I, not a very keen movie watcher, became a movie freak, thanks to the hostel inmates and the movies being circulated on IP Messenger.
And yes, never in my life will I forget the cold water baths that I had to have in winter, the poor me, coming from an equable climate, this cold water baths did add to my body resistance! No amount of complaints could ever solve this issue.

The place for us to hang out and chill became “Saundarya” –a garden restaurant which we frequently visited for any reason of partying, be it placements or birthdays or GPA. We can never forget our local “Cafeteria” the place for late night birthday parties.

First trimester just passed by so fast, giving us a taste of being an ISquareITian and before we knew it, we were into the second. The second trimester brought with it tremendous amount of workload and pressure of assignments, projects and mid terms. Also the second trimester brought us together as a class. We no more had combined lectures except for one or two. Amongst the busy schedule also we made couple of friends and that added the spice to the life at I2IT.

Stepping into a new arena of technology was what I2IT led us into, combined with the different aspects of life that it made us familiar to. Team building is a major value added by I2IT. This was how the second trimester slowly merged into the third. With more knowledge building up, placements also started with full swing. We would be in a span of another 3 months, either would be project trainees or employees.

The third trimester brought along with it lots of mock aptitude tests and technical tests and lots of preparation. The guest lectures had subsided and its place was taken by the company presentations. Now dressing up was for a purpose- the purpose being a job or a project, and watching the presentation on I2IT became a daily affair. The parties did continue, parties thrown by people who already got placed! The parties keeping us wondering, when it would be our turn to make merry!

Now into the final semester and just 3 months for the course to get over, I still used to wonder how this one year and a half was passing by. And then it was.. i had got placed before I knew it.. I was placed at CA India Hyderabad.. a totally new place i had never been to before... Used to always wonder... how difficult it would b to adjust in a totally new environ... And ya.. i had become so attached to my friends at I2IT that i was finding it difficult to accept the fact tht soon we will b departing...

The fourth Trimester.. or Semester was a project Trimester... lil busy becoz we had to travel daily for 24 KM.. It was my first corporate experience.. though not a very rosy one... but stil.. it used to b fun..being wid friends... The weekend Movies (ESquare, INOX), The CCD, Barista, Burger Kings,Chaitanya Parathas... Pizza Huts, Pune Central.. everything continued .. n with a renewed life.. we had got so used to this life now...

And ya... trips to Saundarya had become more frequent.. with we partying even for no reason.. Mite b the thot of not able to see each other after 3-4 months made us b together all the more....

By this time we had been accustomed to our Teachers n Labs.. n all the people over there.. The thought of departing it was a terrible feeling .. Our Teachers. now knew everyone of us by names.. .n I2IT had become a HOME for us...

The fun and frolic atmosphere that I'd been experiencing at I2IT is still being continued by our batch as well as juniors and will be continued forever by future fellow ISquareITians.

This was the story of my stay at I2IT. All people out here will have a different tale to tell but not quite different from the one I just now narrated. Their experience at I2IT will almost be the same with minor variations. I don’t know what life has in store for me, but my experience at I2IT was one of the best experiences in life that I will be treasuring and keeping in memory forever!
The I2IT culture will continue to evolve for more years to come, and I2IT will go places, we will have memories deep within our hearts.

Reminiscences of my Life : School days

School days... those days, when everything around you seemed so innocent, so lively, so colorful... School days... Tensions of studies, skirmishes between friends and patchups... competitions, sports, pranks in school ... those school days...

Rightly said, school days are the most memorable days of ones life... My Life?? Well i wen to 2 different schools... my first school St Anthony's HS Mapusa... I completed my lower KG to 7th std in this school... My uniform consisted of a white blouse and navy blue pinafore, a neck tie, blue canvas shoes and a house color badge, a blue belt and yeah a house color tshirt to be worn for Mass PT...

I dont remember many things happening in this school, thanks to the weak childhood memories. I can remember myself better through my 5th standard. Though vague memories of KG do linger around, they r not so strong so as to become the topic of my blog...

Well, i can remember my fifth standard and onwards, those class assemblies, Mass PTs, exams, sports day, annual day etc. I never took tuition classes during this time... so evenings used to be free to do watever i would like... and yeah... I dint make much use of the time tht i got in the evenings except for either sleeping or playing.

I remember having quite close friends during these times, but now m not in touch with many but a few ones... those ones i can count on my fingertips. Though friendships blossomed during these times, it wouldnt be considered to be strong one specially in my case. It was only confined to playing together, sharing notes and sharing tiffins. One funny incident i remember is: I came home with 2 different types of sandals on 2 feet of mine, one was mine and one was my bench partners. School days seem so funny now, we had someone like a class leader called "Monitor" to monitor the class, whose responsibilities contained nothing but to control the class when the teacher wasnt present.

St. Anthonys was fun, we had huge assembly, specially on saturdays when we were compelled to wear our "House" color tshirts and badges and be present for the 1 hour assembly followed by the 2 hour Mass PT... It was fun in its own way though considering now tht we had stayed for 3 hours continously in the sun tht time, its not possible for me to stay in the sun now even for 3 min...

The sports day and annual day used to be so much fun in the school with ppl preparing and slogging out jus to make their "House" win... eveything revolved around points given to the house... Green charts for green house n so on...i remember making so many charts for the class tht there was no room for others to put their charts... even the class ranks used to give points to the house...

Come my seventh std and the best part was the debate competition, and i used to love tht... but i was present only till my 7th standard so could participate only for 1 year... there used to be so many competitions singing, drawing, handwriting etc. My favorite competition was the Fancy dress competition. I remember on one occasion i had become a nurse and my father had all the way to go to his friends house to fetch met the nurse's cap. and on another occasion i had become a "bhajiwali" or "sabziwali"... and i remember i had cried out loudly wen the naughty 10th standard boys had taken away all my vegetables from my basket on the head one by one... but i had got the 3rd prize for tht... My writing hobby had begun wen i had got the first prize for the essay tht i had written for the School Eco club...

I never missed my first rank in school... was also the teachers pet... i still meet my school teachers, and believe me, its so nice feeling to meet your school teachers... It feels so nice when they ask you about your job and life... wish i could get my school days back... I had to leave St Anthonys for some personal reasons and join another school in a different locality, I joined New Goa High school in my 8th standard.

New Goa High school was a very memorable experience in my life... It was here tht i got some close friends who are still very close to me... Life here was no different from any other school, but this school had the most number of state rankers in the SSCE board and was distinguised as one of the best schools of Goa. Though the school was very old and the building dilapilated, the spirits were always high... the teachers were too gud, the principal very nice to the students...
My uniform here consisted of a blue and white chequered dress, a blue and white belt and white canvas shoes...

we had home science periods where we were thought to cook, do embroidery and so on...homely things... so i can say i got my first cooking class here... we also were introduced to Red cross here... The competitions continued as usual... Ranks in my previous school were converted to grades here, and i would either get an A or a B+.

The best part of this school was the Anand Bazaar... normally used to b held in Jan or Feb. Students had to put stall and be present there for 3 days... this bazaar used to b present for 3 days. We used to collect all sorts of books, soaps, biscuits etc to be given as gifts to the ppl winning on the stalls... This bazaar used to teach us "Business"... So much efforts used to go towards this... Coz finally the stalls making the highest turnover used to get rewarded, and also the points used to got to the "House"...

My friends... every one so close... we had cried so much on our last day of school... almost every student and every teacher... The teachers at New Goa had become emotionally attached to everyone of us... The teachers knew us personally, each and every student in the class... If students studied in New Goa's, it was because of the encouragement and pains taken by our teachers... i still meet many of my teachers, and they seem to be so glad to see us too... Wenever we meet, it comes to so much time of speaking on various topics... the pranks we played in school... the punishments we got... Life was so different in our school.

But alas... since gud times dont stay for long, we grew up and moved in different directions... and since it is rightly said, all things change... My school too changed in the course of time... the building is no longer rickety... It is brightly painted, and stands more tall... 3 more floors added to it... the board scraped out the state rank system and so, we no longer can say tht we hav the highest state ranks... Its just tht once upon a time... we did hav...
Most of the Teachers hav retired... so even if we wish to pay a visit to them, it has to be their home, coz now no longer we meet them in school... and ya... it feels bad to see them growing old...ofcourse, we no longer hav the Anand Bazaar now... and the school uniforms hav changed too

And... the biggest ever change?? My school lost its old name too... From New Goa HS, it became "GS Amonkar Vidyamandir"... what could be better described as a change???
New Goa will still remain as New Goa for us even though the name says something else...

Those memories of my school life will always be rooted close to my heart and die along wid me... But these words written by me will remain forever... even though after some years this site mite close down... It will still remain as backup data somewhere as my memoir... My School days... those unforgettable memories... those lively days... those pranks... Those friends...