Simply Me
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
...And thats what happened
2 days to my 7 month anniversary and I decided to type some thoughts.
So whats been happening since my last post....
20th December, 2011: The very very special day in my life. R and I got married. People have told us that the wedding day is something you never remember. You know what, you might prove those people wrong. The day rushes by and a million things are happening around you, but you might just remember everything that happened... the way he looked... the anxiety... the joy... each and every moment. That was how it was for me. I remember him, my family, friends ... all those special people who added to our special day.
With the Satyanarayan pooja on Thursday, we proceeded to Pune for our reception on 25th December. A week with amma and we were back.
The New Year marked our visit to Andaman and an idyllic week at Port Blair and Havelock. It is oh-so-beautiful there. Needless to say most of the other Make-my-trip travelers were couples and most of them were fellow honeymooners... The beaches, the sunsets... everything makes for wonderful memories.
I have to say I forgot to mention my interview call on 19th December (nah, not really, just didn't wanna start the post with that). A technical interview in December and an opening in April and now I am back to working with KPIT Cummins Infosystems limited. (No, I joined as a new joinee. Not a transfer. This is a different project. No the kind of work is different though its on the same platform. Yes, the timing is 9-6 unless the project entails calls in US timings. Its the same distance as before - 18 kms, but twice the commute time. Yes, I have a cab to office. Work from home is indeed an option when necessary and my manager is pretty good about it.)
In all this time, we have been to Pune almost every other month and also visited family. We are trying to (still) get to know each other better. We are still thanking the heavens and family for helping us meet.
In this time, my friend Varsha got married. Purni now has a six month old baby and I am waiting for Shrads to give me the news of my becoming a pacchi soon. Suchitra and Mukta now have kids. Priyanka (Pradhan) delivered a baby. Deeptiakka and Dinesh Bhavaji have baby Diya... It seems that when you are happy (touch wood) you get to hear great news everywhere.
So now, I have a new family in addition to my old one. Everyone is trying to get to know each other. You know the thing is, a family is just as big as the space in your heart ready to accept it.
I do have 5 followers and I really appreciate you. So I am going to definitely try to be alittle regular in my posts. Hope to see you again soon. I leave you behind with some photos.
Thats R in his wedding revelry... looking all dashing and handsome...
This is obviously me... Smiling for all its worth.
A beginning to many many pics together
So whats been happening since my last post....
20th December, 2011: The very very special day in my life. R and I got married. People have told us that the wedding day is something you never remember. You know what, you might prove those people wrong. The day rushes by and a million things are happening around you, but you might just remember everything that happened... the way he looked... the anxiety... the joy... each and every moment. That was how it was for me. I remember him, my family, friends ... all those special people who added to our special day.
With the Satyanarayan pooja on Thursday, we proceeded to Pune for our reception on 25th December. A week with amma and we were back.
The New Year marked our visit to Andaman and an idyllic week at Port Blair and Havelock. It is oh-so-beautiful there. Needless to say most of the other Make-my-trip travelers were couples and most of them were fellow honeymooners... The beaches, the sunsets... everything makes for wonderful memories.
I have to say I forgot to mention my interview call on 19th December (nah, not really, just didn't wanna start the post with that). A technical interview in December and an opening in April and now I am back to working with KPIT Cummins Infosystems limited. (No, I joined as a new joinee. Not a transfer. This is a different project. No the kind of work is different though its on the same platform. Yes, the timing is 9-6 unless the project entails calls in US timings. Its the same distance as before - 18 kms, but twice the commute time. Yes, I have a cab to office. Work from home is indeed an option when necessary and my manager is pretty good about it.)
In all this time, we have been to Pune almost every other month and also visited family. We are trying to (still) get to know each other better. We are still thanking the heavens and family for helping us meet.
In this time, my friend Varsha got married. Purni now has a six month old baby and I am waiting for Shrads to give me the news of my becoming a pacchi soon. Suchitra and Mukta now have kids. Priyanka (Pradhan) delivered a baby. Deeptiakka and Dinesh Bhavaji have baby Diya... It seems that when you are happy (touch wood) you get to hear great news everywhere.
So now, I have a new family in addition to my old one. Everyone is trying to get to know each other. You know the thing is, a family is just as big as the space in your heart ready to accept it.
I do have 5 followers and I really appreciate you. So I am going to definitely try to be alittle regular in my posts. Hope to see you again soon. I leave you behind with some photos.
This is obviously me... Smiling for all its worth.
Sapthapadi
A beginning to many many pics together
A pic with family on both sides
Labels: A new day has come..., Aayi re aayi hai khushi..., Band Baajaa Baraat, Congratulations and celebrations, Yaadein reh jaati hain..., Zindagi ke safar
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Making studying fun...
So I'm studying for the SAP Certified Application Associate Exams... The pattern changed today i.e. May 1st and I really wanna be one of the first in the team to give the exam. But as I try desperately to study and my hands keep wandering to Mozilla Firefox and the Facebook tab, I have to think about the time I had really enjoyed studying...
There were my classes in 10th at Rajesh Study Centre (RSC) when we used to sit at the class all day and study. While one sir kept the doors unlocked for us, the other gave us treats of Samosas (in my case kachori) and soft drinks. Aditi, Sonal and I had a ball studying and chatting.
Then there were the engineering days, be it practicing graphics together or studying for IP, we have gathered at my house and studied... but not before 'Pet Pooja'... Pehle watermelon and then studies...
Then came the MCSE classes (I still can't believe I never gave the final qualifying exam to become MCSE certified... I stopped at 6 exams... can you believe it???)... Staying back after class, playing with the VMWare, making all those images, testing all kinds of crazy scenarios that took our whim...
But, in all honesty, this post is not about all those times... as we went out to Mezza9 to celebrate 3 years of the Campus 1 batch at KPIT(though our batch completes 3 years on 7th May), I got talking to Uday, our trainer, about all the fun we trainees had had. When I had first seen Uday, during the walk-in at Tejas Office, I had thought he was one of the engineers, a young guy like him definitely wasn't a recruiter. I am embarrassed to admit, that I had actually borrowed a pen from him since I had nervously left my pen case (yeah I used to carry one... Manish has even teased me about it being evidence that I was Uday's trainee) in my sack (yeah, I still prefer it to hauling around a purse). Imagine my shock when I walk in with 4 other people and see the same guy talking to a room of almost 50 people. It was later that I knew that he was, indeed, the trainer. 7 days of intense training both technical and V&A and I was a nervous wreck about the first exams. The exams left just about 15 of us with some shifted to the dev training and just a handful in Architecture (that was what BIP was called back then). Then around 6 more joined us for the product training and we were on our way. To cut a long story short our training started on 7th May 2007 and ended on 7th July 2007 (get it.. 7-7-07?) That's just the short of it, but what made it enjoyable was this...
We celebrated everyone's birthday with songs from Yogesh (if you look back through my posts... just search for the name Yogesh and you'll know... he is one incredible singer) and for some reason from me as well... Mimicry(I wonder if anyone remembers the Hyderabadi stand-up)... e-mails on our KPIT group (all sorts of non-sense including a chain mail.. again something you'll find somewhere in the posts)... the servers and workflows lessons with chocolates (needless to say all said chocolates were provided by Parag as it was a rule that whoever called Uday 'Sir' was to get everyone chocolates the next day. Parag had a ready stash of chocolates), the last day i.e. red day and cake cutting, the presentation 4 of us had given as a possible Sales team marketing Business Objects (I remember Manish saying, 'You said you get stage fright? I don't think so') and most importantly, the BOCD presentation that Parag, Sumeet and I had given. That gave us a lesson in presentation, addressing the public at large and in my case an idea of how to keep your mouth moving, making words come out of it and sound sensible even though your knees are shaking and you are on the brink of a panic attack.
The singing, writing on the glass partitions (drawing the workflows... not ruining the glass partitions), listening to music until Uday came back to the training room as we tested all the tasks, the laughter is something that I miss while I study alone today before my computer... Some of my batchmates are still in KPIT, though very few of the then architecture training team remain... just Parag, Nikhil K., Yogesh and I... Atleast 3 have left in 2010 alone...
Of the Campus 1 batch, most are senior engineers, one ASME, one Manager but the fact is, the celebration still is big...
Wishing my Campus 1 batchmates and the two trainers Uday and Manish CONGRATULATIONS on our completing one more year at KPIT... As Anis Sir's e-mail said, Keep Walking...
There were my classes in 10th at Rajesh Study Centre (RSC) when we used to sit at the class all day and study. While one sir kept the doors unlocked for us, the other gave us treats of Samosas (in my case kachori) and soft drinks. Aditi, Sonal and I had a ball studying and chatting.
Then there were the engineering days, be it practicing graphics together or studying for IP, we have gathered at my house and studied... but not before 'Pet Pooja'... Pehle watermelon and then studies...
Then came the MCSE classes (I still can't believe I never gave the final qualifying exam to become MCSE certified... I stopped at 6 exams... can you believe it???)... Staying back after class, playing with the VMWare, making all those images, testing all kinds of crazy scenarios that took our whim...
But, in all honesty, this post is not about all those times... as we went out to Mezza9 to celebrate 3 years of the Campus 1 batch at KPIT(though our batch completes 3 years on 7th May), I got talking to Uday, our trainer, about all the fun we trainees had had. When I had first seen Uday, during the walk-in at Tejas Office, I had thought he was one of the engineers, a young guy like him definitely wasn't a recruiter. I am embarrassed to admit, that I had actually borrowed a pen from him since I had nervously left my pen case (yeah I used to carry one... Manish has even teased me about it being evidence that I was Uday's trainee) in my sack (yeah, I still prefer it to hauling around a purse). Imagine my shock when I walk in with 4 other people and see the same guy talking to a room of almost 50 people. It was later that I knew that he was, indeed, the trainer. 7 days of intense training both technical and V&A and I was a nervous wreck about the first exams. The exams left just about 15 of us with some shifted to the dev training and just a handful in Architecture (that was what BIP was called back then). Then around 6 more joined us for the product training and we were on our way. To cut a long story short our training started on 7th May 2007 and ended on 7th July 2007 (get it.. 7-7-07?) That's just the short of it, but what made it enjoyable was this...
We celebrated everyone's birthday with songs from Yogesh (if you look back through my posts... just search for the name Yogesh and you'll know... he is one incredible singer) and for some reason from me as well... Mimicry(I wonder if anyone remembers the Hyderabadi stand-up)... e-mails on our KPIT group (all sorts of non-sense including a chain mail.. again something you'll find somewhere in the posts)... the servers and workflows lessons with chocolates (needless to say all said chocolates were provided by Parag as it was a rule that whoever called Uday 'Sir' was to get everyone chocolates the next day. Parag had a ready stash of chocolates), the last day i.e. red day and cake cutting, the presentation 4 of us had given as a possible Sales team marketing Business Objects (I remember Manish saying, 'You said you get stage fright? I don't think so') and most importantly, the BOCD presentation that Parag, Sumeet and I had given. That gave us a lesson in presentation, addressing the public at large and in my case an idea of how to keep your mouth moving, making words come out of it and sound sensible even though your knees are shaking and you are on the brink of a panic attack.
The singing, writing on the glass partitions (drawing the workflows... not ruining the glass partitions), listening to music until Uday came back to the training room as we tested all the tasks, the laughter is something that I miss while I study alone today before my computer... Some of my batchmates are still in KPIT, though very few of the then architecture training team remain... just Parag, Nikhil K., Yogesh and I... Atleast 3 have left in 2010 alone...
Of the Campus 1 batch, most are senior engineers, one ASME, one Manager but the fact is, the celebration still is big...
Wishing my Campus 1 batchmates and the two trainers Uday and Manish CONGRATULATIONS on our completing one more year at KPIT... As Anis Sir's e-mail said, Keep Walking...
Labels: Congratulations and celebrations, Kitabein bohot si padhi hongi tumne, Yaadein reh jaati hain...
