Ladies at 40..

The car stopped beside my 2 wheeler at the petrol bunk where I saw this lady in a green shiffon sari and dunked in sparkling jewellry..Sitting beside her was a french bearded, sombre looking middle aged man who looked more like her slave than husband..She was in her early forties and yet had an enigmatic aura..I m sure she had many men drooling over her in her younger days..The necklace she wore I assumed were diamonds considering they were riding a plush Merc..

She looked at a lean man ahead of them in a motorbike and said to her husband "Can you believe this guy asked me out in college? Look at him..He has still not overcome my rejection..".

Husband replies in a hush tone "I cant believe theres a man in this planet who wasted an entire life for you..".

She replied, "That would have been your fate had I rejected you 15 years ago..And he would have been driving the car for me now..Lucky you!!"

Women are women at twenty or forty!!

A week in office..

Though I ve been working from past 6months, I m still a fresher..After 2 days I got allocated and as I stepped into my new cubicle, I got introduced to my new collegues..I switched on my PC, rearranged the things, put a few hangings on the board, pinged friends on how my new workplace is, played a few games of word puzzle and minesweeper, stared at a few test cases as if they were extra-territorial (infact they were!)..The days passed, I worked more and the rest of the things lessened as days progressed to next week..

The next week, my PL and PM were staring at me..I thought may be I was too overdressed for office and decided to dress a little subtle from the next day..Then when I was about to leave office i.e 5:15 dot, I get a call from her..I go running not to miss my bus..She started off sweetly but me being an expert at appearing to listen intently when I m mentally not even present in the vicinity dint pay heed to her..I guess she noticed my disinterest and asked me how many 'test cases' I had executed..I happily said 4 (great according to me and previous day was 3)..She replied "You know how many cases Chirag finished when he had just joined?". I said "Do I care?" (Ofcourse in my mind. What would life be without self dialogues?). She continued "He could finish 25!!..I expect you to improve..You have now entered corporate sector and blah and blah and can I expect you not to play games on PC..(But what would office be without games!?!)..I nodded to let the enormity of my crime sink in..And if you want to perform better, you can put in extra effort after office hours (why should I when I dont get any perks?)

She looked okay the first week..Now everytime I see her, reminds me humans are afterall descendands of apes..I sense a great prospect of a potential conflict with her..I love it more when I m an active participant..

Heading ahead..

Tears welled up in my eyes when entered the unknown campus all alone in the dark night..and my eyes were in same state when I exitted the same ediface this sunny morning..Now I had familiar faces bidding adieu..Every nook and corner of the campus felt like home..Was 6 months good enough to make it home? I guess yes..I learnt a lot..Not just Java, oracle, sql..I learnt that my country is really diversified as studied in textbooks..There were people from every corner of the country..Though we cheered different IPL teams, we were all similar in a lot of different ways..We all came here for a reason and with a dream: to build a career, to make money, to go back, to learn, to know, to make a difference...Some satisfied, some cribbing..some happy, some sad..But everyones excited to explore future and see whats in store for us like a kid opening fortune cookie..I hope someday satisfaction overcomes all my desires in my life..That day I m gonna be very proud..All I can say now is: Bring it on!!

System Engineer Trainee Life

Things I learnt while working..

Queue become an essential part of your life..Be it food court,loo,movie,parlour,
laundromat

Guys in formal wear with ties and yet not fussing to ride a pink ladybird

2-3 km walk is a cake walk..Infact thats a short distance..

Strive for excellence theory is not applicable..Strive to survive..

Stop praying external supernatural forces and started praying Dev Square (test implementation tool). It can at times do wonders..Believe me..

Wait for month end for salary to credit and say to it "I work only for you my
dear"..Whatever my status is Dad is still my ATM..

There are people from all over the country who have come thousands and thousands of miles to do the same job as I do and I thought 'Who the hell cares for this job?'

There is a place above us in map which is also part of India called North India..Excepting for AP,TN,Kerala,Karnataka everybody belong to this area..And people from there speak only Hindi..Not even remote English..

Home food is heaven..I love my mom..I dont mind 2days stale food as long as its homemade..

Now I realise the importance of weekends..Prior all days used to be chilled and weekends a little extra chilled..But now Friday evenings are a blisss...Not even a day old movie can make me stay there on weekends...
PS : I know SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, UNIX if you care...

I m back by public demand..

No posts in 2 months..Lots and lots of changes in those 2 months..It also marks a year anniversary..as in I m not in a dormant state on blogger..27 posts in a year is pretty descent I guess..

Late but never, wishes to Shilpa and Kishan for a wonderful married life together..The last word quoted..Special Thanks to all those people who travelled all the way to be part of the occasion..Pri to you whos reading this and for your full fledged encouragement and support towards me to continue to blog and Santi too whos religiously following my blog and demanding for updates and A for being my dance partner and most importantly BlackdranzerV6 whos an hibernating blogger for all the technical initiative taken..Thank you all..

I m now a single independent object oriented career focussed working women striving for excellence in a domain specific organistion..How cool is that?? I live alone, earn my bread, More on that later..

Mysore

Theres something about this city which makes you fall in love with it..May be its simplicity or its regal heritage or just its smalltown-ness...Mysore and its surrounding are hot shot weekend spots for Bangaloreans..For those who travel from far can easily spend a week here..

Towards North is the Srirangapatna town which houses of Dariya Daulat, Jumma masjid, Ranganathaswamy temple and moving ahead you find Nimishambha temple and Ranganthittu bird sanctuary..

Towards South is Bandipur wildlife sanctuary..Best time to visit is Sept-Dec..Another 3 hrs drive from here takes us to Wayanad in Kerala..

Go east and you will reach the Somanathapura temple and Talkad which has around 30 temples submerged in sand...Its amazing how Talkad is like a desert area amidst Cauvery river..It dates back to another story about the the old lady's curse to the Mysore Maharajas and hence the latter going childless even today!

Go west and you will find the land of Coffee and spices, Madkeri aka Coorg..Dubare, Nisargadhama, Nagarhole National Park are all in and around this place..Tibetian Monastry in Bylakuppe is not to be missed..

Brand Mysore lends its name to some of the most famous items the state is proud of..like the

Mysore silk fabric

Mysore sandal exquistie range of sandalwood products

Mysore Mallige, a type of fragrant flower and last but not the least

Mysore Paak, the very delicious sweet

I have done an extensive homework on this and trying to convice myself that a year long stay in Mysore's much hyped Infosys Campus is not going to be that bad..A two and a half hour drive in volvo will bring me back to my home on weekends..

Get ready..

Alright Rakhi ka swayamvar is over and she found a silly NRI and the two are part of another reality show which is like extension of their personal life..yes, taking care of the baby..I pity those babies who are crying eternally in the show..I dread to be such a baby...Brilliant are those parents who have left their wards in the hands of these mentally ill people..

As if the first season was not enough nightmare, NDTV Imagine has roped another con head for the next season...Guess who?!? Rahul Mahajan...I know!! Last season we saw men drooling over rakhi..though a horrible choice, I can understand it..But Mahajan?!?! but I m curious to see inane girls who will fancy coming to this show and fighting for Rahul and trying to woo this bonehead..Now I m all really looking forward to this..