Snap of a visitor to my garden..!

It is not very often you see, a wonderful sight of insects like these.. So thought I should not miss capturing them.

The race of life !

Here an interesting stuff from a forwarded mail, that attracted my crazy mind... who ever written this is an intellectual.. hats off..!

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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the fastest lion. If he cannot, then he will be eaten.

Every morning in Africa a lion awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the slowest gazelle. If he cannot, he will die of hunger.

Whether you choose to be a gazelle or a lion is of no consequence. It is enough to know that with the rising of the sun, you must run. And you must run faster than you did yesterday or you will die.

" This is the race of life."

N2N : 2 - The Cloudy Days !

NULL to NOW

This is in continuation of my previous post: N2N : 1 - Null, The Absolute Beginning !

Chapter 2: The Cloudy Days !

Time has put an end to all our sleepy sessions... We have completed our trainings and moved into projects.. I have been assigned to software testing, I do not know on what basis! Those days, I did not have much idea on s/w testing; but still my mind said that is not the one I wanted to be doing. I wanted to be doing some challenging works, with all the energy and sparks of fresh engineer mind. But life doesn't always give you, what you wanted. I was going in the way, life take me; so as my career..!

My first project was to perform testing of a media management product, which can organize, podcast all media files and communicate with electronics devices like car stereo, home player, TV, Nokia Mobiles N series etc. through WiFi and UPnP technology. The cubicle of our project team looked more like a small theatre/lab rather than a work place.. There had car stereo, TV, home player, WiFi adapters, media collections etc, etc scattered apart from our computers. We could use these devices as our choice of interest in watching movies or listening songs etc as a part of work.

For the next few months, I was going along with the stream, enjoying music, movies during work. The product, in-fact was great idea as a whole; this product even got best innovation award in consumer electronics section at international level. And also, I have been learning ABC's of S/w testing from this project.

But deep inside myself, I was thinking, if I m really doing things which fit to my abilities! No... Absolutely it was not! My work in that project was, something that any normal person could do; it doesn't require an engineer's mind to do that work. And more over, I felt that work very boring. Those were cloudy days of my career; and I keep thinking deeply on how to get rid of this..

Though I was late, I requested management to move me to a more challenging project. There has been some good attempts by management to move me to development project; Thanks for all the attempts by good hearts, though it was not fruitful.

At the end of the drama, I was requested to continue in the same project. The reason being, there had been frequent attrition from my current project already. For the sake of hell or heaven, I did not argue much. That is the way, I always been since from my childhood. Sometimes, this character brought good to me... but some times, I have paid much for being so...

My first attempt of swimming against the stream collapsed there. Life was again flowing along the direction of stream; and so as my career..!

[To be continued]

N2N : 1 - Null, The Absolute Beginning !

NULL to NOW

I would first tell you what "NULL to NOW" is... I just wanted to put together all the crazy incidents, thoughts and the path in my career life from an absolute beginning to now...

PS: I have tried my best to avoid criticizing or pinpointing anyone, who has been a part in my way here... Still my dear colleagues, If you feel, something pointing about you, it is not intentional or meant to be so.. I am just expressing myself...

Chapter 1 : Null, The Absolute Beginning !!!

Like any other newbie, who comes out of an engineering college to a corporate world, me too had lot of energy, enthusiasm, expectations on that day.. lots of passion to start a good career. I woke up too early that day and with great enthusiasm... precisely @ 6.45AM, which is a kind of too early by my own standards ;) . Then got ready in fully formal dresses & shoe and started to the company with a file having all my certification and offer letter. You know, the file in my hand was all, what I earned in life so far, with 21 years of education...!

All this days after I get offer letter, I was imagining about this day.. I was expecting a big organization with all hi-fi facilities... When I reached in front of the office, I realized it is a very small organization in a double floor building with limited infrastructure and around one hundred people. And that is where I started my career as so called a software engineer... As saying, 'First impression is the best impression'!! ...and I did not let the spark, energy and enthusiasm to get collapsed..

The next few months were training period... you know, how would one feel to sit in a training classes on the first few days of corporate life.. After all we were fed up with sitting in classes, seminars and sections for a long period of 4 years in the name of getting an engineering graduation.. I had to say, it was quite boring (Sorry, my mentors & trainers, but that was fact..) The training in the first few months dispatch the fresh spark and energy with in us... They taught us .NET, Frameworks, S/W testing, Configuration management tools, Java, J2EE, blah blah blah. (To be honest, I don't remember the rest.) ..

May be the training organizers thought, they could inject all of this into our small brains with a one month training sessions.. But one thing they haven't thought is, so many lectures, professors and teachers attempted to do the same for years in our college/school life and failed... And in real fact, how far we learned from those training is always a question mark, who on earth knows.. I've never tried to judge that.

But there was something else I am learning above all these sleepy sessions.. That is the helping, motivative, humble and down to earth characters of some senior colleagues, even in the situation where they don't require to be doing so... Until that, I never expected people in the rank of CEO, Founders etc, would come get introduced to fresher-trainee in person, have lunch together or personal talks! That is something which make you more comfortable, especially when you are in a new corporate world. And along with that, it also gives more responsibility, by having a feeling like you are watched by all..! May be it was just a business tactics, and this outcome was, what the company exactly wanted to happen.. But anyhow I liked the humbleness and helping behavior of some people, even when they are at heights..! I just captured that to my life as well.

All together, it was a fresh beginning to the world of software.. ! All the electronics and instrumentation circuit diagrams learned during 4 year life of electronics and instrumentation engineering has been thrown away and here the first step into a new world. !

The absolute beginning to the world of corporate life.. !!!

Next chapter of this series @ N2N : 2 - The Cloudy Days !

Some Good Quotes

Sometimes, smile can be like a drop of water in a desert..!

You smile, the whole world smile with you !

you cry, and you cry alone !

It is dangerous to weep inside your mind,
The open tears can easily be wiped away,
But the secret tears create scars in depth !!!

Silence gives rest to your mind,
And this means rest to your body,

Sometimes rest is the only medicine needed..!

Give lot of time for the improvement of yourself,
Then there will not be time to criticize others..!

:-)

That is life !

In this post, I would tell you about an ambitious boy, his admiration and dreams in his life and how he drive for that.

The boy I am talking about was in his early teenage and he lived in a small middle class family in a village. His village was so quite, calm and greenery to live a peaceful life. Like any other middle class family in India around a decade back, his home also was a combined family and all his relatives and everyone lived in the same home. Even with the financial limitations, his middle class environment provided him everything that is necessity in his life like education, dresses, good food etc.. But anything beyond necessity was just a hidden whisper in his mind that vanish very soon...

This small boy I know had the habit of dreaming an optimistic future. After all that is something he could do with out paying money. The surprising thing was that even his dreams know about his financial limitation.. the dreams were not much lavish.. his dreams were about having a more comfortable life.. something like building a small good house for them.. and buying a small car for their parents.. he had never even dreamt about being very lavish...

Days are passed.. months passed and years passed.. The boy studied hard to accomplish his dreams.. he has grown up now.. He has got a good job which earn a reasonable and good amount of money monthly..

Now his dreams were not much far from reality... He is in a position to realize his dream now. But it is then he realized that, he had lost so much during these years... The dream of the small boy, did not have much value now... He lost his parents for ever during these years.. His relatives are not living together in a combined family anymore.. they are all separated into different houses.. he is living alone with out any one's care and affection.. and his dreams does not have much values anymore..

Now he knows that is life.. Life is always been this way.. When you gain something, you loose equally or something more than it.. Life maintain an equilibrium...!!

Friendship Day - Make any sense?

Another Friendship day has come !!!

But does it really make sense to have one day out of 365 days for friendship ?!... I would say offcourse not! Friendship is not festivel like Xmas or Diwali that comes once in year and you will have to wait the whole year for another time..

Friendship is an understanding between two heart.. something which you experience, feel and share on a day to day of your life... Infact friendship is one which make every day of your life a celebration.. So offcourse, it does not make much sense(at least to me!) to have one day celebrated for friendship day..!

But what is wrong, if you this just an extra reason to celebrate and enjoy with your friends! If you think in that way, it is nice to have a friendship day.. Atleast a reason for celebrating with your friends!
So Happy friendship day to all my friends !

You are gonna leave me !

You are gonna leave me…!

I do remember our first meet, few years before,
the cute smile and gentle warmth of yours,
the kind of affection in your words,
that brought my attention and affection to you !

As days go on, You inspired me,
you advised me,
you encouraged me,
you charmed me

We ate together,
We played together,
We danced together,
We enjoyed together

We shared our thoughts,
We shared our secrets,
we shared our feelings,
we shared our heart

we shared our fun
We shared our glory
We shared our pleasure
we shared our sadness

We shared the delight of victory
We shared the bitter pain of defeat
You cared me every minutes of my life,
I enjoyed every second of it,

days are passed.. months passed
we were close together for 2 years,
close to the heart than anyone else
We loved each other than anyone else

And now, you are gonna leave me,
But I wanna see you again and again
again and again through out my life,
But you are gonna leave me...!!!

You are gonna leave me....

Back to the world of Blogs

I am back to the blogs again after long gap!!! It is been a while I was out of the world of blogs... I should better say..I have been out of my own life for sometime..! And now let me tell you why I have been out of this world for so long.!

Recently I happened to see a quote saying 'All of the animals except human know that, the principle business of life is to enjoy it.!'.. I should change this to 'All, except software engineers know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.!' Friends, don't kick me, when you read this post! I know you would call me mad, and this post as a crap!(of course blogs are invented to post crap thoughts, according to me!).

'Freedom with Responsibility' is a key point, most of the software companies uses to attract talents. And mine was not different in this.. but let me tell you, this suits in s/w industry in some way to attract talents... but in a slightly different way, who ever experienced this, they know this is the biggest trap.. You can redefine this phrase as 'who ever takes responsibility they get more and more responsibility and tension.. who ever takes freedom, they always have freedom!'

This is fact... in fact, I realized very late. And this was the reason I was out of this world..