So far so good!

Being here in Bangalore for past two months has been so good to believe. Nor that, I never thought of scribbling something over here, neither that, I didn’t have any time to make the posts happen. It’s just that there have been plenty of do-ups for me these days and I always found myself lost in refurbishing the same as in I’ve lost the touch with rest of the world.

The very first day, we kicked off with signing on bunch of papers, in a hurdled way and some hundred odd times. I never knew what were the clauses and terms mentioned over there on the pages. I guess, the Taj thing really worked off good till six in afternoon. The whole day was just so embellishing, despite the fact that, I met so many new identities and had given my best try to get multiplied with all of them. The Piper caught my attention during the lunch and it had been really nice to meet him with his “Perhaps – Probably – You Know” verses. And I bet, the rhyme he makes really works well for the whole suite of folks. The following five days were probably the best part of the learning activity at the Big Blue. Having said that, the professional attire of a person needs to have a competitive suite of  all those traits and blah blah blah… This was all we were being harnessed with throughout the YI and C2C sessions. Let me say, I had a very good experience there participating in the activities and raising hands for volunteering and smiling at the converts of raised  hands into the level of volunteerism.  Really, I think of this as in we had great fun. So far so good!

The next season had something else in its store. It was making all my colleagues feeling sleepy and dying hard to keep themselves awake to catch up with the technical part of the training session. Anyways, It had to be there and we are done now. The main story is still under the cover. The Big blue pays you really big (at least for the first month) and you are lost somewhere in do’s and do not’s with the grands you get in your hand. I never imagined I am gonna loose my 6020 which was the one and only mean which I used to keep her bantering all the time and checking if she’s lost somewhere, one having the only keys which i had pressed as many times as in minutes I have lived so far, the only handhold device which I banked on to check if everything is fine back at home, the messages, the forwards and all sort of things which keep you emotionally attached, somewhere at some points to someone in some way. As RTR quotes this, “I can understand the grief of losing a close friend”, yup dude she was my BlackBerry and I know you too have suffered the same. I somehow learn this event of loosing the gadget was really critical for me as I had lost all the contacts. And first month salary had been credited just on the previous day, hence 5320. Rest, I am gonna miss you a lot, oh my sleek and lovely 6020. Ok… great…. so far so good!

Meanwhile, I never had any taste of the purple haze, so been there and tasted it. And bet you, The Piper and Akkhi are the best company to have on purples and hazes. The names which I am living around with these days goes like, Mads, PR, Jha ji, Khan sa’ab, The Piper, akkhi, The G guy, Devil, Tiwari, Shanky, Ping Pong, Pinks, Subhade, Sai…. and so on. No offense intended, my sincere apologize to the missed outs. The cubical has still to be defined, so I don’t know how the co-ordinates are going to turn up in near future.

I don’t have any conclusion for my words here. I don’t see any boundary and scope for the ones I know here. I don’t see any constraints to be resolved here. I don’t have any heavy discussions to go on with anyone here. I just feel insatiable and perpetual which boosts me to step up onto the ladder. I just see the things the way they come to me. I just like the feeling of having endless words with my comrades here. I see everyone has a vision in their eyes and I look into the future and see all the visions are being well surmounted. I don’t believe in the-dreams-got-shattered thing anymore. I feel like, I am a kid sitting and playing under a big banyan tree, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.

It feels really good being here with a real big family!

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

There were some distant trees under the sun, leafs segregated, roots in sand, branches broken, fruits podded down on earth. There came clouds all together and bursted into tears seeing the trees dying of thirst. I played my distant chords and friends like you played the note in sync and the smile that you pass turns me all green again. Keep smiling as you do!

Eyes

Looking into the horizon early this morning, then staring straight into the east, when the sun rises, when I rest against a walldrobe on the terrace, when I start leaning against the walls, I see the scarlet color on my palette being added, which is red bright and I smile at the sun and ask him to add the scarlet on your canvas too. The sun smirks at me and says that I have been shining insatiablly strong all these years when I look into the eyes of your life to color the lakes on this earth. The sun paints it blue and the eyes go hazel and blue. That makes me smile and the whole day is again, the blue.

And now, I bring you “Shahi Paneer”!

Nonetheless, continuing my tryst with Paneer stuffs, We’d Shahi Paneer in our menu yesterday. Didi had come, so, I just thought of it and prepared all by myself again. Feeling the outstanding taste and colors of masalas for the recipe gave me a hint to start over it again. So, it was rather yummy. We all liked the taste of it and enjoyed our dinner with Butter Veg-Naan and Green Salad. (We all are pure vegetarian, excl. Me, an Anda-terian )

But, alas, for days ahead I won’t be able to have my hands on cooking! Job life’s calling! Bachelor again! sigh!

Independent INDIA, 61.

India will be independent in a true sense when, we will be able to call off all non-India movements which are producing offspring inside the country by some small group of ill tempered people. We are under leverage of something called Inflation in a truly bad sense. Corruption has taken a shape of profession these days. Surprisingly, when some one, a gentle soul, doesn’t intends to take a bribe, his/her colleague starts babbling to him, which sounds like… “Oh, poor chap, you are getting off-track now!”

There are many more things, which will need a group work and an integrated approach to get rid off. Hope, we as an individual, We, Citizen of India find this situation serious one and start working on it. And, we all know, where and what we need to work on!

Happy Independence Day to all the sane-but-inzane people out here!

Paneer-Butter-Masala

Let’s call it a day! Why not? Did you ever try this? (Girls excluded!;) ) Won’t you call it amazing if you get yourself serving Paneer Butter Masala to your family members with tandoor and Onion Salad, all prepared by yourself and that too on the very event of 61^st anniversary of Independent India. Well, to move on with my experiments on cooking and make my parents pleased, I did this. And Ummm, it was.. needless to mention, so mouth-watering ! Anyways, particularly this month, I have been experimenting a lot with some recipes and obviously Paneer being an all-pervading ingredient for most of the Veg Items (Pure vegetarians sometimes get, uh, taste-chocked as they hardly get any other stuffs, you see in parties, just to exemplify this.), it’s been my first choice to experiment on. And the item on cover is non other than paneer-butter-masala itself. Ohh, I have found a way to live on at my own taste and recipe now (Sanjeev Kapoor.. eeh ! ). Well, you may comment on like your wife will be the luckiest one in this world, and i would surely take it as a complement. But there’s something more in my store. By the way, I do make tea smell so, ah, so …. ok, I will serve you sometime for sure and you are free to comment on then.

P.S. ^^^ Recipe ??? That’s another secret !

27th August, it is!

I received a call from the Big Blue, an hour back, regarding confirmation of my on-boarding on 27^th, at the end of this month. She didn’t mention the location though and said that I will be informed about the same through the mail within a day or two. I do expect that the mail should come by this weekend itself. I just hope, now the hide-and-seek game will come to an end as soon as I join in. Seeing my fellows who already joined at different locations or those who have got their DOJs at least, made me a little frantic these days and I lost my cat’s attention meanwhile, making things juxtaposed with so many if- and-then logics, rambling the whole state of mind. It is really irksome replying people about the picture which is too vague to be depicted from the very beginning, ever since it had started getting loaded into the space. So, a sigh of relief, I must say. But, let me hold on, till I join in.

News-News! Absurdity prevailed!

Sitting at home, doing arbitigiri for a quite long time (if you count it, 55 days to be precise ) and waiting for the joining calls from both of my future employer makes me losing my grips on everything which intends to hone my skills as if I make it to top in the list of vellas. But, on the other hand, I have some other job, apart from offers, which keeps me sane. Thanks to my Pa, who keeps motivating me and who makes me learn the importance of time. So, where does it all lead to? A job is to be done, to take you on a long walk, atop the hills, up in the sky, where you could raise your arms and unfurl your wings of fly, taking off to the stars that you kept gazing in the process of becoming a cogent person since your were a kid.

Now, leave the day-dreaming part and here comes the picture of the day. I received a mail from my very first recruiter, and yes, it detailed my joining information. Alas, I go insane, why does luck didn’t favor me? “Perhaps I don’t work harder to be luckier enough” or “I am not that lucky to work harder” (Paradox-ed? True!). The news was two fold. One, confirmed that, I will be able to join in them (OR, they will able to join me. ). Two, tentatively, this will happen in Feb’09.

So, I am joining, also I don’t look forward to join in. Why? I have another offer which has kept me sane and where my joining is likely to be done by the end of this month itself. Again, don’t know if I am sure. They have played a lot of hide-and seek with all 2008 recruits. Anyways, the story doesn’t hint any interesting part to be told about. It was rather funny when I look back at it and that is not going to hold back my future in any case. I doubt, if I am taking you to the right place. Dude, you often miss the big picture, the vital part. You could be the star, of your world, if you learn some plays – Got tricks!! Leave it, the intrigue is still to be shaped out.

To end with the post, I am quoting a fellow’s words here when he was asked about “How to get hold on your sanity?” I am bit impressed with his words, read that post for a couple of times and realized, may be this is the right way to live with.

“Just make a picture of the day when you will be above or beyond all of this and sitting somewhere as a successful person… you will look back and laugh at this period. Think about that day and take it as an inspiration to remain sane, ‘coz one day, all this will pass over. This is just the period to be strong and fight it out.” Thanks a lot mate!

SimCAT 5 Lessons

Approach: QA-DI-VA

I am down with the scores that I managed in past two mocks. I tried hard to work on with the strategy.. But, I got stuck into QA section for 1.5 Hrs, scoring good enough there, but with a dismal performance in DI and VA, scoring in single digits in both (Gave 30 minutes to each of the section).

So, better, I should follow on some lessons.

Weakest Section: VA/RC (I am leaving RCs, I didn’t get to even take a quick look on these), ending up giving least time to this section. I am able to manage PJs, SCs, and paragraph completions. But I gave least time and distracted attempts and finally got messed up with my accuracy level a lot. So, Give VA/RC its due!

Lessons:

1. 1. Mismanaged time slots for the sections will end you up nowhere.

2. 2. Try to read all questions, scan through, otherwise, you might miss some sitters.

3. 3. Concentrate: Don’t let any parallel inner speech going on. That hurts your accuracy and you start waning.

4. 4. Be aggressive on the sums. Give no extra time if you get timed out for a particular one. Use buffer slot for these.

5. 5. Accuracy is more Important than number of attempts.

6. 6. No more tukkas! I am not lucky enough to make these things worth happening!

Sense of Solitude!

Just reminded!