Guyz... this is how i got into my college!
May 30th 2005,
Maa... where are the photocopies of my birth certificate and TC? its getting late!!.. "its in the front zip of your black bag" screamed my mom "dont forget to take your towel " Okay, i said.. dumping everything inside the bag.
The Train started with a cranky noise! "why did you reserve in this train pa?" i asked my dad, displaying a dissatisfied face! "Your marks left me with very few options" snapped my dad clearly showing his disappointment with my marks! 'But its Okay, the seat is comfortable' i tried to ease the situation ! !
May 31st 2005,
"SHANMUGA ARTS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH ACADEMY" read the majestic arch, which stood above the main gate of the SASTRA varsity! standing beneath it gave me a happy feel.. probably due to the security of getting a seat for sure.. Second session in the forenoon was the slot given to me! we entered the building even before the first session.. slowly the buzz started.. Officials started moving hear and there, making sure the day is the hotteset and tensed day of my life till date! I walked across the lobby eagerly awaiting my slot to come. I cant think of any better situation to understand Einstein's Relativity theory more clearly! My clock refused to move and the whole world stood frozen before me!
Slowly time went forward. The only good thing that happened till then was, i sat opposite Ramya, thats what i assumed, as their parents called her Rummy! A gorgeous girl, with a strikingly beautiful face, pointed nose and a small forehead which was covered by a layer of hair! She was calm and composed, a very rare quality in girls under tension. At the moment I even felt ashamed for getting tensed! My dad, who was trying to know more about the college, striked a conversation with Rummy's parents.. ten mins rolled by.. "This is Ram, my son" atlast came the words from my dad, and the adrenaline started shooting up.. I was waiting for this moment.. to say "HI" to rummy!.. I even started dreaming of sitting next to rummy in the last bench, as i was confident that even she will get the same department, what am gonna get as we both were in the same slot!
But slowly came the bashing News from her dad that, rummy was not actually interested in SASTRA and she wanted to do B.TECH back in chennai with her friends! Now i can understand why she was so calm!
The dull LCD display screen flickered one again.. Finally my name was there.. in the fifth row.. A broad smile on my face.. Called the names of all the GODs i know!.. I entered the room with all my cerificates and took a seat before the computer.. "Electrical and Electronics - 112, Electronics and Instrumentation - 20, Mechanical Engineering - 140..." Read the display board.. I was starring at the board not knowing what to do.. suddenly turned towards a professor standing nearby and asked the stupidest questuion in ma whole life "Good morning Sir, are these courses good?" as if hez gonna say "No, they are not!!"...
i did the math (i liked the subject.. atleast thats what i claim :-P)... compared the three numbers.. 112, 20, 140 and came to the conclusion that Electronics and Instrumentation was the hot and happening course as it had the lesser number of seats left out! so i wasted no time picking the INSTRU seat and came out of the counselling room as a achiever!! But the happy feel was short lived as i heard the news that INSTRU was a small department and had only 30 seats, which actually made my logic of choosing the course wrong and made me feel novice! "But still I got a SEAT" was what i told to myself and felt happy once again!
"Congrats!" said my dad... saw a smile in ma dad's face after a lomg time.. "By god's grace you got a seat! we hafta go to a temple first! " he said relaxing on the Bench put near the parking lot!! "paa.. Go's grace was there ofcourse... but my hard work too was there..." slowly, the Iconoclast inside me came out, which clearly indicated that, i was out of the TENSION times and into Green zone now!!
July 10th, Sunday, 2PM,
Entering my Hostel Room, Sandipani Sadan,
"Hello ppl... (Thrusting my hand forward ! ! ) This is Ram.............."
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
CAT - () - MANIA ! !
Folks, this time i wanna share my loev and everlasting relationship with CAT ! ! (CAT here, doesnt mean Katrina Kaif, but the cOMMON aDDMISSION tEST - that is what every indian guy thinks of, ofcourse next to Katrina Kaif :-) and i am no different from them!
i started off to take AIM - CATS with Time institute a year ago and i still remember the first test and my fabulous performance in it!
Now, i can relate Paulo Coelho's words in ALCHEMIST to my story.. "Its the Theory of Favourability" or the Beginner's luck! which will enhance your desire of attaining it. A good Omen ofcourse!
As days passed, i began to dive deep into CAT preparation... err.. to be frank, the more i did was talking about CAT rather than preparing for it!!.. anywayzz.. just like any other tyro, i too learnt mathematics by applying it to the real life!
The PROBABILITY of a girl falling for me, the PERMUTATION and COMBINATION, we guyz applied to calculate how many of my friends will turn up for the weekend boozing, the NUMBERS which showed my poor bank balance and the TIME i wasted to doing all sorta nonsense!!
There are so many good aspects of CAT which comes handy in guys' life so much! even though my AIM-cats miserably failed, i wont say my preparation went in vain. certain short cuts, learnt for CAT helped me to solve INFOSYS aptitude paper in a real quick pace, and also was able to help a gal who sat beside me and created an impression!! so... KUDOS to cat preparation!
when it comes to show off, am second to none! when questoned about my performance (even after scoring only 75 to 80 percentile :- ) i would say "yea dude!! it was fine! ".... sorry guyz.. this is the influence of personality management courses,, especially,, positive mirroring and stuff, taught to me by CORPORATE INDIA :-)
This is how, my story of CAT preparation goes!! when yu ask for the puporse of life to a 22 year old in INDIA, it would be CAT and its a great feel to prepare and fight!
i started off to take AIM - CATS with Time institute a year ago and i still remember the first test and my fabulous performance in it!
Now, i can relate Paulo Coelho's words in ALCHEMIST to my story.. "Its the Theory of Favourability" or the Beginner's luck! which will enhance your desire of attaining it. A good Omen ofcourse!
As days passed, i began to dive deep into CAT preparation... err.. to be frank, the more i did was talking about CAT rather than preparing for it!!.. anywayzz.. just like any other tyro, i too learnt mathematics by applying it to the real life!
The PROBABILITY of a girl falling for me, the PERMUTATION and COMBINATION, we guyz applied to calculate how many of my friends will turn up for the weekend boozing, the NUMBERS which showed my poor bank balance and the TIME i wasted to doing all sorta nonsense!!
There are so many good aspects of CAT which comes handy in guys' life so much! even though my AIM-cats miserably failed, i wont say my preparation went in vain. certain short cuts, learnt for CAT helped me to solve INFOSYS aptitude paper in a real quick pace, and also was able to help a gal who sat beside me and created an impression!! so... KUDOS to cat preparation!
when it comes to show off, am second to none! when questoned about my performance (even after scoring only 75 to 80 percentile :- ) i would say "yea dude!! it was fine! ".... sorry guyz.. this is the influence of personality management courses,, especially,, positive mirroring and stuff, taught to me by CORPORATE INDIA :-)
This is how, my story of CAT preparation goes!! when yu ask for the puporse of life to a 22 year old in INDIA, it would be CAT and its a great feel to prepare and fight!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Th3 sO cAll3d SOFTWARE ENGINEER ! ! !
Folks, i wanna share some feelings of mine about SOFTWARE ENGINEERS and ma experiences with INFY in this forum.. i may seem garrulous! so pls bear with me :)
First of all i wanna start with my training in INFY...
October 3rd.. 3:00 PM..
Maa... where is my socks.. Its getting late (Actually the train was at 8pm!! ). I was so happy and smiled and cried like a baby who doesn't know how to vent out its feelings. even though the clock was perfect with a new duracell battery,i checked it time and again as it seemed moving fast.
October 3rd.. 6:00PM..
Time for promises!!
My parents and my sister dint ask me for anything, but as a "nalla paiyan" who got the coveted job of software engineer(lol), i promised to buy the whole of mysore for them, even though my salary was only 10k... :)
its 6:30... its time to leave!! echoed my dad's voice!! i rushed here and there... looking and every other place to ensure that i haven't missed anything!! and looked at the mirror for one last time to make sure that i appeared perfect to give the best first impression to all the girls who will travel along with me in the train to mysore!!
folks.. here ends my happy story!!
The horror stories of "THE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL" started in the train itself.. Deepak aka siga.. guyz, you may know him as hez also from sastra, called me and the first sentence he told me was "Machi... atleast one outta 8 is sent out from the company
during training it seems da..". I had the feeling of watching RING movie at midnight that too alone!!
October 5th.. 8:30AM..
INDUCTION HALL!!
"Welcome all to the family of Infosys.." HR was speaking.. " you are about to start your career which is dreamt by millions of students across INDIA. Period. This year the gross intake is........." suddenly i came back to my senses from rainbow dreams
when the words GROSS INTAKE rolled out.. though it was usual that, corporates alwazz talk about about gross intake, this time, those words, almost made us feel insecure about the job!
Training centre was like an army rehersal ground.. Educators, who were nice to be with, outside the campus, became martinets, the moment they entered the class room..
(folks... hereafter i wont mention time and date, as we hardly knew either of them when we were getting trained :) )
Slowly the days rolled by, everyone became everyone's friends, just to add one more person to share their fear and sorrow with :).. Even though the life at mysore was ironical, where they provided 32 inches wall hanging HD TV, but you can hardy
watch your fav song/movie, an Air conditioned room, which is seldom visited by the inmates (most of the ppl spent all their six months in our training center itself), everyone started enjoying that life.. soon it became the HOME for all of us.. frequent
birthday parties in the nights, booze parties in the weekends and a lot more made us enjoy as a family! I managed to clear all my exams and got a decent grade too.
Slowly the ultimate day seemed visible to us. it was nearly our graduation day. after that, only HR classes for ten days and no more stream training. we guyz decide to have a class party for ourself. our batch manager (charming, lovely and a b-e-a-utiful
young mallu lady ! ! ) chose 3 people to help her for arranging the party. i tried hard to be one in that lucky three, but in vain. but uck was on my way, one of the guyz whoz from chennai, wanted to go home that weekend and he dint have ticket but i had. so he got the ticket exchanged for that spot in the lucky three!!.. thats when, Jim Carrey's dialogue in the movie Ace Ventura came to my mind.. " I had a dog, and his name was BINGOO ! ! !...."
The party was amazing and we had DJ too arranged for that party!! i danced with my batch manager for some time... it was a blend of two different things which made me happy!! first of all dancing with my manager, second of all, the happiness of seeing jealousy in the eyes of some of ma friends!!
Guyz.. this is how, life went on in mysore!!
mysore taught us the SQL code for life..
"SELECT happiness FROM life
WHERE days = less and fun = more "
~cheers~
First of all i wanna start with my training in INFY...
October 3rd.. 3:00 PM..
Maa... where is my socks.. Its getting late (Actually the train was at 8pm!! ). I was so happy and smiled and cried like a baby who doesn't know how to vent out its feelings. even though the clock was perfect with a new duracell battery,i checked it time and again as it seemed moving fast.
October 3rd.. 6:00PM..
Time for promises!!
My parents and my sister dint ask me for anything, but as a "nalla paiyan" who got the coveted job of software engineer(lol), i promised to buy the whole of mysore for them, even though my salary was only 10k... :)
its 6:30... its time to leave!! echoed my dad's voice!! i rushed here and there... looking and every other place to ensure that i haven't missed anything!! and looked at the mirror for one last time to make sure that i appeared perfect to give the best first impression to all the girls who will travel along with me in the train to mysore!!
folks.. here ends my happy story!!
The horror stories of "THE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL" started in the train itself.. Deepak aka siga.. guyz, you may know him as hez also from sastra, called me and the first sentence he told me was "Machi... atleast one outta 8 is sent out from the company
during training it seems da..". I had the feeling of watching RING movie at midnight that too alone!!
October 5th.. 8:30AM..
INDUCTION HALL!!
"Welcome all to the family of Infosys.." HR was speaking.. " you are about to start your career which is dreamt by millions of students across INDIA. Period. This year the gross intake is........." suddenly i came back to my senses from rainbow dreams
when the words GROSS INTAKE rolled out.. though it was usual that, corporates alwazz talk about about gross intake, this time, those words, almost made us feel insecure about the job!
Training centre was like an army rehersal ground.. Educators, who were nice to be with, outside the campus, became martinets, the moment they entered the class room..
(folks... hereafter i wont mention time and date, as we hardly knew either of them when we were getting trained :) )
Slowly the days rolled by, everyone became everyone's friends, just to add one more person to share their fear and sorrow with :).. Even though the life at mysore was ironical, where they provided 32 inches wall hanging HD TV, but you can hardy
watch your fav song/movie, an Air conditioned room, which is seldom visited by the inmates (most of the ppl spent all their six months in our training center itself), everyone started enjoying that life.. soon it became the HOME for all of us.. frequent
birthday parties in the nights, booze parties in the weekends and a lot more made us enjoy as a family! I managed to clear all my exams and got a decent grade too.
Slowly the ultimate day seemed visible to us. it was nearly our graduation day. after that, only HR classes for ten days and no more stream training. we guyz decide to have a class party for ourself. our batch manager (charming, lovely and a b-e-a-utiful
young mallu lady ! ! ) chose 3 people to help her for arranging the party. i tried hard to be one in that lucky three, but in vain. but uck was on my way, one of the guyz whoz from chennai, wanted to go home that weekend and he dint have ticket but i had. so he got the ticket exchanged for that spot in the lucky three!!.. thats when, Jim Carrey's dialogue in the movie Ace Ventura came to my mind.. " I had a dog, and his name was BINGOO ! ! !...."
The party was amazing and we had DJ too arranged for that party!! i danced with my batch manager for some time... it was a blend of two different things which made me happy!! first of all dancing with my manager, second of all, the happiness of seeing jealousy in the eyes of some of ma friends!!
Guyz.. this is how, life went on in mysore!!
mysore taught us the SQL code for life..
"SELECT happiness FROM life
WHERE days = less and fun = more "
~cheers~
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