Its been almost a month since I have been here. Its a different experience all together. So thought of writing my thoughts on how do I feel about the roads over here, driving experience etc etc.
I know its a bit weird kind of topic. But still, after having driven an Indica around for 4k kms in Bangalore, and seeing variety of cars over here, I could manage an opinion of my own.
Disclaimer - The thoughts written over here are completely of my own. I have to prove no one wrong. All my comparison done is by my own driving experience. People may completely disagree with my point of view.
I have driven my car in and around Bangalore. I have run through many rough roads, passed over many potholes, cross many humps, some of which I had to downshift to first gear and few other may be 2 or 3 where in the bottom part of my car touched the road (with 5 people on board).
But still I was very happy with Indica Vista Terra Tdi. It used to give me good mileage and it had bucket loads of space. But when I saw other cars, many a thing still eluded me. Like the initial pickup of a diesel hatch was very low. Every other petrol car used to overtake me when I slowed down and crossed a hump. It never bothered me. Since I was very much aware of it while buying the diesel hatch.
The problem of poor pickup once cropped up on the two lane Kanakapura road, where I had to overtake, a sand truck, when the driver gave me a handsignal to overtake, I dint have enough zip, rest of the time, there was on coming traffic. But in every other situation, it worked well, really well. Infact it was a gem.
Initially I used to think, what is the point in having a high end car sedan / SUV in India, you need good roads to touch great speeds. Its a waste of money. But after seeing loads of cars over here, I feel, owning a sedan in India and driving it on pothole and hump laden roads of Bangalore is the bestest thing.
Why?? Check out below.
There are no roadhumps over here, absolutely no potholes. the only hump I could see is in my office within the campus, where there is a deviation to the basement parking.
Diff - How will you test your car's shock absorbers on a flat well laid out road.?? Even an entry level hatch can match the comfort of a sedan on this road. (might be the leg room and AC etc mite come into picture but apart from this, I feel rest is the same).
In India, if you have a high end car, you can put it to thorough test and then find out whats the real comfort in the highly paid car.
Most cars over here I see are automatic geared.
The real fun comes with gears, without gears it more like driving a F1 car in a computer game, where you want to compete with people but with less pain. Or you can imagine driving a ungeared two wheeler.
I feel its with humps and potholes which determine that, its an awesome feel to own a huge high end car in India, coz its there where you can literally outperform the smaller cars. Yes I had to slow down at every pothole whilst the bigger SUV s with 15 inch + wheels just glided over them
And regarding high speeds which comes into picture. There are superb roads in and around Bangalore, so you can put it to test there.
If I am given an option to choose between speed and manuverability, I would definitely choose the second one.
Cheers,
Sandeep
First visit to Hubli, Dharwad
My first visit to Hubli, Dharwad was in the year 1992. I was there to attend the marriage of a close relative of mine.
Its almost 18 years back, but still I can recollect many instances of the trip. I had been there with my cousin's family.
Hubli and Dharwad was awesome during the early 90's. Now also its awesome, but the traffic thing just got the better of it.
I fell in love with Hubli, Dharwad because of its, then calm streets, good food, and the weather.
Infact, I travelled to Belgaum first, I can recollect I stayed at Hotel Satkar. Then I came down to Dharwad. Those days, the steam trains used to run between Hubli to Dharwad. So the Dharwad station had a turn table.
It was fun going to the station, sitting there watching trains come and go by. Now the story is different, the twin cities have changed a lot. The turn table still exists in the railway station, but it has never been used after the conversion to broad gauge has happend.
We visited lots of places around Dharwad, Yellamana Gudda, Gokak, Saundatti, Ramdurg,
Apart from this, we also purchased lots of Dharwad Pedha from Mishra Pedha.
Also one more incident I remember was @ Belgaum, where I ate Kunda for the first time. My parents gave me Kunda ,mixture and milk and told me to have the same. I found it very very difficult to consume milk with a sweet. Could not eat much of it.
Apart from this, I can also recollect, my mother and aunt, took us to the Potdar jewellers in Belgaum. I recollect sitting there for more than an hour, while my parents were discussing about some pattern on the jewel they were planning to order. (I have never again been to that place till date, coz there was absoultely no need).
So these are my sweet memories or recollections of my first trip to Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum.
I might have gone to Hubli or Dharwad before this, but I do not remember anything about the same.
I have travelled to the twin cities a lot many times after this, yes, everytime, I have fallen in love with the twin cities more and more.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its almost 18 years back, but still I can recollect many instances of the trip. I had been there with my cousin's family.
Hubli and Dharwad was awesome during the early 90's. Now also its awesome, but the traffic thing just got the better of it.
I fell in love with Hubli, Dharwad because of its, then calm streets, good food, and the weather.
Infact, I travelled to Belgaum first, I can recollect I stayed at Hotel Satkar. Then I came down to Dharwad. Those days, the steam trains used to run between Hubli to Dharwad. So the Dharwad station had a turn table.
It was fun going to the station, sitting there watching trains come and go by. Now the story is different, the twin cities have changed a lot. The turn table still exists in the railway station, but it has never been used after the conversion to broad gauge has happend.
We visited lots of places around Dharwad, Yellamana Gudda, Gokak, Saundatti, Ramdurg,
Apart from this, we also purchased lots of Dharwad Pedha from Mishra Pedha.
Also one more incident I remember was @ Belgaum, where I ate Kunda for the first time. My parents gave me Kunda ,mixture and milk and told me to have the same. I found it very very difficult to consume milk with a sweet. Could not eat much of it.
Apart from this, I can also recollect, my mother and aunt, took us to the Potdar jewellers in Belgaum. I recollect sitting there for more than an hour, while my parents were discussing about some pattern on the jewel they were planning to order. (I have never again been to that place till date, coz there was absoultely no need).
So these are my sweet memories or recollections of my first trip to Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum.
I might have gone to Hubli or Dharwad before this, but I do not remember anything about the same.
I have travelled to the twin cities a lot many times after this, yes, everytime, I have fallen in love with the twin cities more and more.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Why do I love a weekday holiday ??
I love the idea of having a holiday during the 5 working days of the week. Its something which makes me go GA GA, or you can say I feel like I am on moon, whenever there is a holiday on a weekday.
But what is the reason behind it, since when did I start loving them?
Frankly speaking, it was since I started working, I fell in love with this idea. But I can recollect it was during my childhood days, that I first experienced weekday off and YES, I still remember the same.
The year was, I think 1986, and I was in pre-nursery. I have stayed @ Malleshwaram for the first 15 yrs of my life. So the pre-nursery was close to the railway tracks, somewhere in Malleshwaram West.
It was one such days, (during a weekday), that a leave was declared, not sure why. I came to know about the holiday only once I reached the pre-nursery. Infact my father used to drop me over there.
So I came back home and yes, I had food and slept, played and played the whole day.
It was the beginning, since then I have had so many days off during the week, many of them have been memorable, once in HighSchool, the school was closed on a working day, that too on the day of a test. Nice. So the whole day we played cricket and came back and started revising for the next day.
Such is the impact of a weekday off on me that, in my first company, I have bunked office few times on Monday, not because I was unwell, but just due to the fact that, I am lazy and wanted a day off during the week. And yes, the whole idea peps me up !!!
So here goes the first post in the collection.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But what is the reason behind it, since when did I start loving them?
Frankly speaking, it was since I started working, I fell in love with this idea. But I can recollect it was during my childhood days, that I first experienced weekday off and YES, I still remember the same.
The year was, I think 1986, and I was in pre-nursery. I have stayed @ Malleshwaram for the first 15 yrs of my life. So the pre-nursery was close to the railway tracks, somewhere in Malleshwaram West.
It was one such days, (during a weekday), that a leave was declared, not sure why. I came to know about the holiday only once I reached the pre-nursery. Infact my father used to drop me over there.
So I came back home and yes, I had food and slept, played and played the whole day.
It was the beginning, since then I have had so many days off during the week, many of them have been memorable, once in HighSchool, the school was closed on a working day, that too on the day of a test. Nice. So the whole day we played cricket and came back and started revising for the next day.
Such is the impact of a weekday off on me that, in my first company, I have bunked office few times on Monday, not because I was unwell, but just due to the fact that, I am lazy and wanted a day off during the week. And yes, the whole idea peps me up !!!
So here goes the first post in the collection.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Few posts which I have in my mind
Couple of weeks back, suddenly a thought came to my mind. How would it be, if I write about interesting days of my childhood and teenage days. Though most of them were as memorable as it can get, but I can recollect few of them very well. So here I am finally deciding to write about them.
Btw, all of a sudden how did I get an idea to write about this?
Two weeks back over the weekend, I saw few kids playing hide and seek whilst I was sitting in the park and muching over Murukku, it looked cool, I thought, miles away even in India, we used to play hide and seek when we were teenagers / kids, may be till 10 yrs back. So like is I found enthusiasm to write about my childhood days.
So thought about it for a day and came up with a whopping 15+ items in a single attempt. I hope I recollect more, I hope I write about all of them and also I hope I label my posts.
I have no particular interest in knowing that, anyone else apart from me is reading these posts. These posts are just for keeping me entertained and making these childhood memories everlasting.
So here are the topics:
1. Why do I love a weekday holiday ? Story behind it.
2. My handwriting as a kid.
3. Introduction to my childhood friends ( N, Nsis).
4. Why do I love stationeries.
5. Why do I collect coins?
6. My summer holidays at my grandmother's place.
7. Playing hide and seek, in the dark, during evenings, across localities.
8. Hubli, Dharwad visit for the first time.
9. Music I listened to as a kid.
10. Small wonder @ N's house.
11. Richie Rich @ N's house.
12. Cycling across Malleshwaram, Mysore Lamps.
13. Of playgrounds and cricket.
14. Walking on railway tracks in hot sun, during holidays.
15. Friends Circulating Library.
16. Vivekananda College grounds and cricket.
17. Watching old movies on DD1.
18. Trip to Koppa, Chikmaglur.
So planning to start one by one and add more entries to this list.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Btw, all of a sudden how did I get an idea to write about this?
Two weeks back over the weekend, I saw few kids playing hide and seek whilst I was sitting in the park and muching over Murukku, it looked cool, I thought, miles away even in India, we used to play hide and seek when we were teenagers / kids, may be till 10 yrs back. So like is I found enthusiasm to write about my childhood days.
So thought about it for a day and came up with a whopping 15+ items in a single attempt. I hope I recollect more, I hope I write about all of them and also I hope I label my posts.
I have no particular interest in knowing that, anyone else apart from me is reading these posts. These posts are just for keeping me entertained and making these childhood memories everlasting.
So here are the topics:
1. Why do I love a weekday holiday ? Story behind it.
2. My handwriting as a kid.
3. Introduction to my childhood friends ( N, Nsis).
4. Why do I love stationeries.
5. Why do I collect coins?
6. My summer holidays at my grandmother's place.
7. Playing hide and seek, in the dark, during evenings, across localities.
8. Hubli, Dharwad visit for the first time.
9. Music I listened to as a kid.
10. Small wonder @ N's house.
11. Richie Rich @ N's house.
12. Cycling across Malleshwaram, Mysore Lamps.
13. Of playgrounds and cricket.
14. Walking on railway tracks in hot sun, during holidays.
15. Friends Circulating Library.
16. Vivekananda College grounds and cricket.
17. Watching old movies on DD1.
18. Trip to Koppa, Chikmaglur.
So planning to start one by one and add more entries to this list.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Books I am reading
I have not been able to read much during the year 2010. Main reasons being travel to ITPL, somehow lacking interest in reading, reading technical stuffs (trying to clear interviews) and unable to find good books. But, yes, I have been an avid reader of few blogs over the internet, some blogs I have gone to archives read and read and read loads of posts.
But now that I have registered myself at the National Library @ Bugis, I am able to borrow upto 8 books for a period of 21 days. Yes, thats a whopping large number. I love reading, yes, my wish is to read through loads of FAMOUS FIVE books all over again.
It would bring back loads of childhood memories or infact teenage memories, some of which I shall document shortly.
So as of now reading Carrie by Stephen King. Awesome read, reading while I am travelling in metro, reading while I am walking in the station, that much I am loving the book. I hope I do not end up reading it at workplace.
Apart from this book, I also found, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, " The story of my experiments with truth " @ Mustafa. So brought it and started reading it, but somehow in midway lost touch and its been a week and a half since I stopped reading it. Need to finish it quickly.
Apart from that I have 6 other books from Library amongst which is another book by Stephen King. Will read that one too, very soon.
Cheers,
Sandeep
But now that I have registered myself at the National Library @ Bugis, I am able to borrow upto 8 books for a period of 21 days. Yes, thats a whopping large number. I love reading, yes, my wish is to read through loads of FAMOUS FIVE books all over again.
It would bring back loads of childhood memories or infact teenage memories, some of which I shall document shortly.
So as of now reading Carrie by Stephen King. Awesome read, reading while I am travelling in metro, reading while I am walking in the station, that much I am loving the book. I hope I do not end up reading it at workplace.
Apart from this book, I also found, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, " The story of my experiments with truth " @ Mustafa. So brought it and started reading it, but somehow in midway lost touch and its been a week and a half since I stopped reading it. Need to finish it quickly.
Apart from that I have 6 other books from Library amongst which is another book by Stephen King. Will read that one too, very soon.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Thoughts of offers turned down.
Finally I found some time, to write down few stuffs, which have been echoing in my head for the past few weeks. Today I am kind of confused, the ghosts of the turned down offers are haunting me badly than before. Why does the grass always look greener on the other side?
Its not that I am absolutely hating what I am doing currently, but once the thought of rejected offers, kicks in, you tend to start thinking too much about them, then you start making mental calculations about how much you could have saved in India and how much you can save over here etc etc and you end up with a number which you are not impressed and you start re-calculating all over.
Yes its true, this thought shall haunt you for days together. But for me I have learnt to deal with it. Though I cannot escape from such thoughts, I tend to get over it pretty soon, like in a day's time. So tomorrow should be a brighter day for me.
But in such situations its more convenient to think about the positive side of the situation rather than the monetary side. And above all God gives all of us the best of opportunities. So I should consider this to be a golden opportunity and move on. Yes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Its not that I am absolutely hating what I am doing currently, but once the thought of rejected offers, kicks in, you tend to start thinking too much about them, then you start making mental calculations about how much you could have saved in India and how much you can save over here etc etc and you end up with a number which you are not impressed and you start re-calculating all over.
Yes its true, this thought shall haunt you for days together. But for me I have learnt to deal with it. Though I cannot escape from such thoughts, I tend to get over it pretty soon, like in a day's time. So tomorrow should be a brighter day for me.
But in such situations its more convenient to think about the positive side of the situation rather than the monetary side. And above all God gives all of us the best of opportunities. So I should consider this to be a golden opportunity and move on. Yes.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Time to post something
Hey there.. After moving over here. I am not posting much.. Yes its true. I do not get to access internet a lot many times. So weekly once, when I decide to come to the browsing center, I make up my mind to post something. So today is one such day.
I purchased a new laptop yesterday. It made me poorer by 1099S$. I still do not have internet connection. But once I do have that, I shall regularly post something.
By the way, I have a new thought of posting a whole bunch of articles on my childhood memories. Those memories which can never be erased. Those memories are evergreen. So one day, I finally got a thought to put something over here. I know, no one apart from me, would be interested in the same. But it would leave me much happier. Yes blogging makes me happy - MARK MY WORD.
So once I have internet at my house, I shall post random topics about my days as a kid, as a teenager and also some posts relating to my engineering days.
So I have loads of topics to write about. I shall single them out in my next post.
Till then..
Cheers,
Sandeep
I purchased a new laptop yesterday. It made me poorer by 1099S$. I still do not have internet connection. But once I do have that, I shall regularly post something.
By the way, I have a new thought of posting a whole bunch of articles on my childhood memories. Those memories which can never be erased. Those memories are evergreen. So one day, I finally got a thought to put something over here. I know, no one apart from me, would be interested in the same. But it would leave me much happier. Yes blogging makes me happy - MARK MY WORD.
So once I have internet at my house, I shall post random topics about my days as a kid, as a teenager and also some posts relating to my engineering days.
So I have loads of topics to write about. I shall single them out in my next post.
Till then..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Another week comes to an end..
Yet another week comes to an end.. Its been a fun week. Now weekend, spending some time at the browsing center, as well as Little India.. Kinda settled into the new environment. Workplace seems to be cool, I get going by early 7 30 am, and come back by 7 pm.
Travel is involved but nothing as compared to the one I did in Bangalore.
Cheers
Sandeep
Travel is involved but nothing as compared to the one I did in Bangalore.
Cheers
Sandeep
Bangalore is Bangalore
A week away from Bangalore, India, I realize Bangalore is Bangalore. There is nothing close to being at home and being at Bangalore. I used to hit the highways on weekends with pretty ease. I would drive a lot, infact lot, 100+ kms within half a day on Saturday. Now I am gonna miss all those things.
Yes for sure. But this is an altogether different experience. Sometime in my life I had to spend time out on my own. I have been with my parents for all these years, now was the time to stop thinking about luxury leisure etc etc and it was the right time to get some right exposure.
I see loads of cars in Singapore, all are of different makes. You name a make of car, there you have it in Singapore. I saw one Scorpio parked the other day over here. Apart from that, I can see lot of Swifts. Apart from that, I see Pulsar bikes here and there and also Yamaha Rx100.
So found a cyber center which is cheaper than the previous one with 1$ per hour. So am into it again.
Yesterday evening had been to Mustafa's center on Syed Alwi road, which is pretty close to where I reside. In the shopping center, I bumped into my friend, with whom I spent the next two hours. We were chatting, sitting in front of the shopping center, meanwhile his friends were busy shopping as they were leaving to India by Monday.
Finally, they could not find a cab on the busy Syed Alwi road and I decided to show them Lavender MRT.
To their chance, they spotted a cab and off they went.
Also had been to the Expo at Suntec City Mall. Found a laptop from acer for 1198$ i5 processor 4 GB RAM, loads of goodies with it. But I feel, it was too early for me to buy a laptop. Will wait for some more time.
So till next time..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Yes for sure. But this is an altogether different experience. Sometime in my life I had to spend time out on my own. I have been with my parents for all these years, now was the time to stop thinking about luxury leisure etc etc and it was the right time to get some right exposure.
I see loads of cars in Singapore, all are of different makes. You name a make of car, there you have it in Singapore. I saw one Scorpio parked the other day over here. Apart from that, I can see lot of Swifts. Apart from that, I see Pulsar bikes here and there and also Yamaha Rx100.
So found a cyber center which is cheaper than the previous one with 1$ per hour. So am into it again.
Yesterday evening had been to Mustafa's center on Syed Alwi road, which is pretty close to where I reside. In the shopping center, I bumped into my friend, with whom I spent the next two hours. We were chatting, sitting in front of the shopping center, meanwhile his friends were busy shopping as they were leaving to India by Monday.
Finally, they could not find a cab on the busy Syed Alwi road and I decided to show them Lavender MRT.
To their chance, they spotted a cab and off they went.
Also had been to the Expo at Suntec City Mall. Found a laptop from acer for 1198$ i5 processor 4 GB RAM, loads of goodies with it. But I feel, it was too early for me to buy a laptop. Will wait for some more time.
So till next time..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Reached on 5th June, started with work on 7th June
Yes.. I finally relocated to Singapore on 5th june 2010. And its been a week, now that I am kinda adjusted to this place and joined work as well, I have a now found a cyber center where in I could punch in few lines.
First of all, let me tell you something, in my 26 yrs of existance, I have never stayed away from my parents. Not even for a month's time etc etc. I have never travelled alone without my parents to other town ie away from Bangalore.
Now I was in a situation where in I had to relocate to a different country altogether, stay away from parents, relatives etc etc. But I accepted the offer, it is a good learning for me.
Thats it for today. I do not have a laptop to keep posting regularly.
Thanks God for this wonderful opportunity, to learn, to grow up. I would like to thank Goddess Mahalaxmi of Goravanahalli, my prayers are answered. Thanks God.
Cheers,
Sandeep
First of all, let me tell you something, in my 26 yrs of existance, I have never stayed away from my parents. Not even for a month's time etc etc. I have never travelled alone without my parents to other town ie away from Bangalore.
Now I was in a situation where in I had to relocate to a different country altogether, stay away from parents, relatives etc etc. But I accepted the offer, it is a good learning for me.
Thats it for today. I do not have a laptop to keep posting regularly.
Thanks God for this wonderful opportunity, to learn, to grow up. I would like to thank Goddess Mahalaxmi of Goravanahalli, my prayers are answered. Thanks God.
Cheers,
Sandeep
A special thanks going out to special people
I would like to thank God for whatever I am today. I had been to Goravanahalli Sri Laxmi Goddess temple in the month of February. I had written a previous post about the same, but I had not written as to what I had prayed for.
So here it goes..
I had prayed to Goddess to relieve me of my current job, ( which involved travelling to ITPL ) and also requested for some luck in finding a new job
Infact I would like to write that, my prayers have been answered. I now have a brand new, different workplace, to report to. Thank you Goddess for answering my prayers.
I also have loads of people to thank.
> My teachers.
> My parents
> My mentors who taught me .NET
> My friends at my ex organization Satish, Sharath and Naveen.
Cheers,
Sandeep
So here it goes..
I had prayed to Goddess to relieve me of my current job, ( which involved travelling to ITPL ) and also requested for some luck in finding a new job
Infact I would like to write that, my prayers have been answered. I now have a brand new, different workplace, to report to. Thank you Goddess for answering my prayers.
I also have loads of people to thank.
> My teachers.
> My parents
> My mentors who taught me .NET
> My friends at my ex organization Satish, Sharath and Naveen.
Cheers,
Sandeep
Out the blues.. finally...
Friday, 28 May 2010 , was my last day at my previous organization. Everything went really really well. Came home with kinda happy feeling. Next day, I had a house warming function to attend. Somehow made my mind, to attend the function and did the same. But my body was pulling me to one side.
Past one month had been a total drain out for me. I travel close to 70 kms per day. Apart from that, weekends also had loads of travel for me. So finally I gave up. Saturday evening, I realized I had bad flu coupled with throat infection.
Two days and I was completely on antibiotics. Since yesterday, I am on a little higher dose. Friday 4th being one of the important days of my life. Loads of things to look forward. Hoping the grass is greener on the other side.
If not also, I have no one to blame. If I succeed in doing whatever I have planned, I shall have another story to tell, else I surely have failure as an option. But I have tried.
So as of now, happy with my antibiotics and listening to Peter Frampton - Show me the way..
Apart from that, washing my clothes and getting ready for Friday.
One of my closest friends and mentors., Chandrashekar S K is getting married on 4th June. Here s wishing him a happy married life in advance. Its sad, I cannot attend his marriage nor reception. But yes, I am very very happy for him.
He is the one who taught me .NET. So thanks to him..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Past one month had been a total drain out for me. I travel close to 70 kms per day. Apart from that, weekends also had loads of travel for me. So finally I gave up. Saturday evening, I realized I had bad flu coupled with throat infection.
Two days and I was completely on antibiotics. Since yesterday, I am on a little higher dose. Friday 4th being one of the important days of my life. Loads of things to look forward. Hoping the grass is greener on the other side.
If not also, I have no one to blame. If I succeed in doing whatever I have planned, I shall have another story to tell, else I surely have failure as an option. But I have tried.
So as of now, happy with my antibiotics and listening to Peter Frampton - Show me the way..
Apart from that, washing my clothes and getting ready for Friday.
One of my closest friends and mentors., Chandrashekar S K is getting married on 4th June. Here s wishing him a happy married life in advance. Its sad, I cannot attend his marriage nor reception. But yes, I am very very happy for him.
He is the one who taught me .NET. So thanks to him..
Cheers,
Sandeep
GoodBye (current org) ... Hello.. .(next org)
Yesterday was my last day at my current organization. The day went pretty ordinary. Nothing really exciting.. But I was more than happy to tell myself, that I will no longer be travelling the roads to ITPL.
The day started with me wishing few people good bye.. Then after which I needed few documents to be completed, since the concerned person was on leave. It was none of my job, it all happens.
At the end of the day, I can say, I am smoothly relieved. I got the resignation acceptance letter. Will get relieving and experience letter in a few days.
So since my task is done, I would like to thank few of my friends namely...
Naveen, Sharath and Satish...
We have had some great discussions over great food at Kadamba (ITPL) on Friday's in particular.
Apart from that, we had loads of things to discuss at workplace.
I wish all these guys a very best for their future, and yes, here I am trying to get ready for the next organization,
Cheers,
Sandeep
The day started with me wishing few people good bye.. Then after which I needed few documents to be completed, since the concerned person was on leave. It was none of my job, it all happens.
At the end of the day, I can say, I am smoothly relieved. I got the resignation acceptance letter. Will get relieving and experience letter in a few days.
So since my task is done, I would like to thank few of my friends namely...
Naveen, Sharath and Satish...
We have had some great discussions over great food at Kadamba (ITPL) on Friday's in particular.
Apart from that, we had loads of things to discuss at workplace.
I wish all these guys a very best for their future, and yes, here I am trying to get ready for the next organization,
Cheers,
Sandeep
Short Story #2 :)-
Short Story:
Scene ::
Guy #1 : While travelling to ITPL in the so called cage (ITPL shuttle), in the morning, one guy was proudly boasting, " My new car touched 120 kmph easily on Hosur Road ".
Guy #2 & Guy #3 : " how can you drive your 1 week old car at that speed ? "
Guy #2 : Since the engine bore is new, it should be driven carefully at max speed of 80 - 90kmph.. for atleast a month..
Guy #1 :: Oh Thanks for the information.. I will take care hence forth.
Actors in the story::
Guy #1 :: Manager in a reputed IT Company. Has been driving cars for over 5 years. This new car being his second acquisition.
Guy #2 :: Looks like a mechanical engg by profession ::
Guy #3 :: By stander or a regular interupter in others' conversation. (and that too with a loud voice).
Things which surprised me::
On an average, Even an SSLC drop out owning a moped knows, not to drive the new vehicle at higher speeds, since there is a run-in period.
Why the fuck, the Guy #1, a manager in a reputed IT company with years of driving experience behind him, and with the power of internet (blackberry) behind him, not know about this. I mean how can he forget about the run-in period, that too being his second car ?
Neva mind, nothing drastically happend. But yes.. sometimes, makes me wonder, what do managers actually manage ???
Cheers,
Sandeep
Scene ::
Guy #1 : While travelling to ITPL in the so called cage (ITPL shuttle), in the morning, one guy was proudly boasting, " My new car touched 120 kmph easily on Hosur Road ".
Guy #2 & Guy #3 : " how can you drive your 1 week old car at that speed ? "
Guy #2 : Since the engine bore is new, it should be driven carefully at max speed of 80 - 90kmph.. for atleast a month..
Guy #1 :: Oh Thanks for the information.. I will take care hence forth.
Actors in the story::
Guy #1 :: Manager in a reputed IT Company. Has been driving cars for over 5 years. This new car being his second acquisition.
Guy #2 :: Looks like a mechanical engg by profession ::
Guy #3 :: By stander or a regular interupter in others' conversation. (and that too with a loud voice).
Things which surprised me::
On an average, Even an SSLC drop out owning a moped knows, not to drive the new vehicle at higher speeds, since there is a run-in period.
Why the fuck, the Guy #1, a manager in a reputed IT company with years of driving experience behind him, and with the power of internet (blackberry) behind him, not know about this. I mean how can he forget about the run-in period, that too being his second car ?
Neva mind, nothing drastically happend. But yes.. sometimes, makes me wonder, what do managers actually manage ???
Cheers,
Sandeep
Short Story #1 :)-
Short Story:
Scene :: While returing home from ITPL, in my so called cage (ITPL shuttle), I sat in front of a lady. The lady was accompanied by a guy (might be her friend) who also sat in the same seat.. I thought this guy was trying to impress her.. Never mind..My bad..
Result :: I ended up listening to whatever the lady spoke for a period of 1 hr 45 mins.. (I mean she spoke continously all through the journey with or without a lil break )... , and that too, 95% was all .... whatever...
Inference :: What a pathetic way to welcome, a well deserved weekend..
Question to be asked :: Why did that lady (or ladies) speak so much ??
To whomsoever it may concern :: Avoid sitting in front of ladies.. as long as the lady is unknown to you.. esp when you are travelling for such a long time..
Tips :: Try playing music a bit loud to distract her, or just get lost from your seat to somewhere else ... ( I should have tried this )
Jeee..
Cheers,
Sandeep
Scene :: While returing home from ITPL, in my so called cage (ITPL shuttle), I sat in front of a lady. The lady was accompanied by a guy (might be her friend) who also sat in the same seat.. I thought this guy was trying to impress her.. Never mind..My bad..
Result :: I ended up listening to whatever the lady spoke for a period of 1 hr 45 mins.. (I mean she spoke continously all through the journey with or without a lil break )... , and that too, 95% was all .... whatever...
Inference :: What a pathetic way to welcome, a well deserved weekend..
Question to be asked :: Why did that lady (or ladies) speak so much ??
To whomsoever it may concern :: Avoid sitting in front of ladies.. as long as the lady is unknown to you.. esp when you are travelling for such a long time..
Tips :: Try playing music a bit loud to distract her, or just get lost from your seat to somewhere else ... ( I should have tried this )
Jeee..
Cheers,
Sandeep
One last time from Reliance Connect @ ITPL :)
Its my last day, @ ITPL, at my current organization. Not sure how the relieving process is. Having loads of doubts whether I will get relieved today or not. But I am positive.
So as of now, I am posting this entry for one last time from Reliance Connect Cyber Center in the Creator building of ITPL. This cyber center has been helpful for many guys including me, who have no access to personal mails at office. I would like to thank my friend for his Reliance Connect ID " bornfrick ", the account which I did get recharged for a mere Rs 20 for half an hour. I would like to thank my friend who had enough patience to register himself as a user at the cyber center.
So here I am sending my last day mail from my personal ID to official ID so that I can send the same in the afternoon to my friends.
Thats it from me as of now. Will update the blog either tonight or tomorrow afternoon, hopefully I will get relieved by that time.
Jeee. Thanks Reliance Connect.
Cheers,
Sandeep
So as of now, I am posting this entry for one last time from Reliance Connect Cyber Center in the Creator building of ITPL. This cyber center has been helpful for many guys including me, who have no access to personal mails at office. I would like to thank my friend for his Reliance Connect ID " bornfrick ", the account which I did get recharged for a mere Rs 20 for half an hour. I would like to thank my friend who had enough patience to register himself as a user at the cyber center.
So here I am sending my last day mail from my personal ID to official ID so that I can send the same in the afternoon to my friends.
Thats it from me as of now. Will update the blog either tonight or tomorrow afternoon, hopefully I will get relieved by that time.
Jeee. Thanks Reliance Connect.
Cheers,
Sandeep
One of my all time favorite posts
Never knew such an inspirational post even existed. I have been reading Robin Sharma books a lot number of times, but this post just provided me the right kind of inspiration when I needed it most, that is now.
So here is the link to that post. Hope it inspires you too..
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/11/25/assrockets-and-opportunities-or-why-i-changed-jobs/
Cheers,
Sandeep
So here is the link to that post. Hope it inspires you too..
http://www.joeydevilla.com/2007/11/25/assrockets-and-opportunities-or-why-i-changed-jobs/
Cheers,
Sandeep
One of my favorite Bollywood superstar
Long time, since I have written about a movie I watched or something related to Bollywood. Incidentally I happend to watch Feroz Khan's Jaanbaaz on Friday Morning. Yes, I bunked office, even during my notice period. Can't help.
I have grown up seeing Feroz Khan's movies. ( I can remember watching Qurbani n number of times and Dharmatma. Apart from this I had seen Jaanbaaz, but only once.)
So watched the movie again. Yes, awesome movie, somehow I fall in love with movies of Dev Anand, Feroz Khan and few others. Will watch the movie again, if it comes up in future.
But here's a big salute going to the great man, for his unique style of film making and acting.
Hats off.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: Love the song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta.... Listening to it over and over again :)
I have grown up seeing Feroz Khan's movies. ( I can remember watching Qurbani n number of times and Dharmatma. Apart from this I had seen Jaanbaaz, but only once.)
So watched the movie again. Yes, awesome movie, somehow I fall in love with movies of Dev Anand, Feroz Khan and few others. Will watch the movie again, if it comes up in future.
But here's a big salute going to the great man, for his unique style of film making and acting.
Hats off.
Cheers,
Sandeep
PS::: Love the song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta.... Listening to it over and over again :)
Nightmare of a weekend
It was one such weekends, where in loads of events were happening, but at the same time, instead of me being overjoyed, I was kind of dull..
There were loads of things happening around me.
1. Visit to Lord Venkateshwara and Godess Padmavathi temple in Tirupati.
2. Kranti's marriage over the weekend @ Tirumala.
3. Abhijit's engagement.
Infact, I would have cherished this weekend for years to come if not for one gloomy incident involving, AIR INDIA aeroplane. Its something which really shook me. Somethings are beyond our control. But still I am very very upset.
Here's praying to GOD to give more strength to all those people who are in need of it.
Cheers,
Sandeep
There were loads of things happening around me.
1. Visit to Lord Venkateshwara and Godess Padmavathi temple in Tirupati.
2. Kranti's marriage over the weekend @ Tirumala.
3. Abhijit's engagement.
Infact, I would have cherished this weekend for years to come if not for one gloomy incident involving, AIR INDIA aeroplane. Its something which really shook me. Somethings are beyond our control. But still I am very very upset.
Here's praying to GOD to give more strength to all those people who are in need of it.
Cheers,
Sandeep
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