My enduring experiences till now

Jul 2011--Sabarimala hill

-------------- Amid moderate rain i was climbing the holy sabaramala hill,Barefoot on pricky stones pathway.It was not easy ascending the hill,first time and being alone didn't help either.I stopped midway sat down and had glucose water paid the guy and started my ascend,I was sprinting in anxiety to reach the top faster and after about 10 Mins i needed a break that is when a hand fell on my shoulder,He gave my wallet apparently he  was following me from the glucose vendor shop where my wallet fell down and he was asking me to check the wallet if everything was fine,I don't even remember if i thanked this guy properly he was lost in the crowd quickly.


Mar 2011--JFK Airport

----------I was flying back to India,I had to move to an international terminal from the domestic ,While coming i paid(overpaid) a 20$ tip for helping me find the right terminal,This time i decided to find on my own.I had to take a train for that,After checking with the airport inspector i boarded the train but was still not sure about the right terminal,Was about to get out in the in correct terminal that is when a voice from outside asked me to stay back for going to the international terminal saying the correct one.

 There is some thing positive about both these incidents,may be i would have lost my cards and whatever little money i had in the wallet if the guy had not given it back to me and may be i would have gone out at some other terminal and would have come back to the correct one if that person wouldn't have told me.

The faith in god will only increase the faith in the divine intervention.Why am i posting this now? I don't know,May be this is the one way i can thank all the people who have helped me till now.

My College Woes

What happens when everything seems to be smooth in life ?
You tend to assume that your life has become routine and you start thinking you need a change and if your not so intelligent you end up doing some thing like me :)

I was happily chilling on weekends and even weekdays some times and i started thinking i have no goal ,so i decided to join a PG program and with experience the automatic choice was MBA and you can literally buy the certificate from some of the distance offerings.

What have i done? as always picked the hardest and costliest path to PG.:D.Its a course in IIIT which is technically of no value because its not a degree its like a eligibility certificate given  by IIIT to do masters and why did i pick it?:) because i thought i cannot do MBA and will not be a good manager and what happend ?:)

1)Attending classes with a major release in office.
2)Attendance is a mandate and i cannot afford to loose it as it counts of your marks
3)you will have assignments every week with a dead line time with minutes and seconds to upload 
and with a set of rules to follow while making the scripts
4)you write a mid term exam just in a month's time 
5)You realise there are 2 mid term exams and 1 final exam before the sem

and the worst part the course is for 4 years :-O and you will have to get avg cgpa of 7 to get a degree



 Loaded with work in office ever since i took this course i managed to submit 4 assignments in a month and waking up at 3 AM study :-O for exam.


 I started writing this post into a week after picking this course and today after 2 months i realized didn't have time to finish it.

 3 assignments  1 mid sem(with a very bad score)and the second mid sem coming up am just picking up myself to study and its just the beginning am just wondering(rather worried ...) if its going to be a happy ending :-O

And Normal Service continues...

Its been a low key  & routine 2 months except for some good news that Lalli cracked amazon.Its not been easy for her professionally and it was a major confidence boost.I Continue to live on the edge of  my finances while everything we spend seems to be essential to our living :-) ,My office life is no longer intersting with similar work but i seem to be getting into a comfort zone after being promoted 3 times in less than a year..(Without hike) , I know such things happen only with me  never got promoted in GE despite working really hard then I get promoted here 3 times in less than a year without pay hike and if you think it really cant get better than this then i go Onsite to HQ with only a corporate card and end up spending more from my pocket :).Well i always hope things will only get better but yeah whenever you know there is appraisal season coming you get desperate.

The other funny aspect of my life seems to be peope sharing their personal/financial problems with me,Some times i hardly know the person and they would come to my desk and share all their problems including their ctc,hike and bonus some times i have little choice but to continue shake my head  which am really good at.

Am desperate for a vaction but my current finances i thought it would be better to conc on my work rather than thinking abt a holiday ,Am just hoping things would get better in coming months or else its going to be a uneventful year.

I have decided to write more to really break my routine.

Stressed 'UP'

Feb,march have been really intersting months in my life what started to be a very low key and usual routine time until  everything seemed to go wrong.
I re entered my routine after the goa vacation and some how it didnt go well as it usually does with me,less work combined with my failure in clearing interviews added to my woes,Slept late everyday till mid feb where i bumped into an article about repetitive stress and i could relate the symptoms to mine :) ,I tookup an ergonomics session and even registered for a special one one one on stress after reading that article luckily though the one on one session didnt happen.The work timings of my wife were not helping me either

After scaring my wife with these my so called stress symptoms i wanted to overcome this feeling, I tried a variety of things like taking Vitamin B tablets ,writing blog late night and even attempted to write a short story to divert myself but then i had to do something really different
and  i tookup yoga in office from 6-7.

It was a daring attempt i should say  as i never took  exercise seriously in my life.After 3 days every part of my body was aching but then i already overcame that bad feeling which i termed as stress And now everything seemed normal and my work was back for a brief time when i had to deal with a priority production issue in my code.

I really dont know if it was really stress and if its bad for health,But it changed my perspective towards health and life so it worked for me more positively,I stopped worrying about lack of work and started learning new technologies and decided will join some other team asap.A testing 2 months finally ending on a high.

And it was not over yet.

The last working day of march i got promoted  a pleasant surprise and a new high:-) and just because i went thru all that in feb it was an awesome feeling.

Well we really dont know what life has installed for us.

Best Half

I know that person means everything in my life  and for a person whoz more of an introvert being aware shez the only person in this world with whom you can share anything and yet i fight with her for silly things.
Shez the only woman of that age who enjoys my company :-) knowing that am married,irritates me with her stupid child like accent,calls me Husband (haaaaaaasbaaaaaand rather).
it has been 14 months already.Its been a fantastic journey we miss eachother when we are busy with our work ,There is always this hollow feeling when shez not around and even when we fight although we dont maintain eye contact we feel comfortable.
It reminds me of something which happend in 2011 i just realised my dream of goiing to US but then  i also realised what would it be like missing a person whom you love seems like.It was a short trip but then i pinged my manager that i want to go back in a week's time(Although i didnt come back for 3 weeks) it was then i realised what she meant to me.
itseemed like AR rahman composed Newyork nagaram song for me i played this song almost daily during my 3 weeks stay
I was anxious from dubai where i had to wait for 8 long hrs and finally after reaching hyd and taking a taxi i got a call from her and ironically we fought :)
We got offically engaged in 2011 october 09-10-11 the date to be precise and married in december 2011 and we fought a million times in between but then it hardly took any time to patch up.On the marriage night normally the bride starts crying and for some one emotional like her i expected a big scene but to my suprise she smiled and was more than happy coming with me.

Now after 14months with she in deep sleep beside me am more than happy to write abt her in this blog,people say marriage is all about compromising and adjusting,All i can say is ihave any qualms compromising for her.
I feel the relationship will go to a next level when we get married to the loved one contrary to the common perception that the love is lost after marriage.

Vacation 2012 ,An Experience

Its been a year since i took vacation.I just took ONE casual leave the whole year and can u believe i worked on that day as well,Probably am the only employee on this planet who gets sympathy and apologies from his manager for making a call on vacation.

Its been a event ful year marriage,starting a seperate life staying away from parents,Shifting two houses getting promoted ,attending interviews and finally going on a holiday.

Unlike many people i some how stopped liking taking an off on weekday am not sure if it is because of my love towards work or job insecurity.
Finally i decided to take a week off for a vacation.We checked for kerala(No tickets),others Expensive,Goa was a viable option

After a horrible bus journey we reached goa(horrible not because of the company but because of the bugs or the veg puff which i ate before boarding the bus for which i had an allergic reaction.Country Club is 20 kms from panjim,I had my doubts about the accomidation and food there.But i was wrong the room was pretty good and food compared to the sita veg restuarent there was awesone the fact that it was complimentary.

View from the balcony of our room.

Footprints :) In Calungute beach

We took a activa bike on rent and started first day we have been to fort aguada,calingute beach,really loved the vibrance of the city .Fort Aguda was abt 30 kms from where we stayed
Fort aguda was total dissapointment.After travelling for abt 45 mins there was a light house and jail and nothing else to see.We took the route back towards the hotel and went to calingute.
Water in calingute was very clean but not sure if it was because of the holdiay season the crowd was a bit on the higher side  but the beach was worth going.
after spending for abt an hr and taking some snaps me went to the restuarent in the hotel where we had some delecious food jeera rice and roti were really good.
I had a very bad opinion on country club before visiting Goa Am not really sure abt the other branches though.

Sunset view from the ferry

on the same day we went to baga beach in the evening.It was not as clean as calingute.
The ferry ride was great (In the indian style) although he didnt keep up with  for the too many things he promised.

Next day we relaxed for a lot of time and went to anjuna beach post lunch,It was different Loud music being played inthe background a white weirdo with long hair dancing.
                    
                                   Beautiful Anjuna Beach

Westeners sunbathing.It was the cleanest beach i saw in india really awesome we had good time taking pics playing in the water. 

After coming back we had a wonderful candel light dinner arranged for us
with a local singer performing for old hindi tunes

Pool side candel light dinner with music

Overall it was a fantacis experience worth visting.We already were planning to visit next time unlike ooty and kodai where we decided that we wouldnt be going again to those places.

The return journey was pretty good with the joyful memories unlike how it started.

PS:Wednesday morning just reached home and my phone starts ringing

M:Ani sorry to disturb but we have this issue and i say am back from vacation and my wife gives me this wonderful glare back :) and i rushed and switched on my laptop.:)