College life Vs Professional Life

Searching Our Life inside IT Campus is Not Real Life......
LAST 1 Year in Chennai
Oasis to Mirage

I would like to express my transition from real freedom to assumed freedom. I am here talking about my transition from my college to the booming IT industry. I would like to pour my one year experience of the so called glamorous and fun filled IT industry.

We used to wander those spacious heat filled open grounds and dirty class rooms with just 50Rs. in pocket and plan the whole week with that budget. But now we wander along the well cleaned, fully air-conditioned corridors with about five to six credit cards in our pocket planning where to swipe the cards. Credit cards eagerly waiting to eat next month's salary. I can't believe that it was just one year before that the 50Rs. seemed to be lacks now, lacks seems to be nothing.

College canteen, Tea shops were the favorite hot spots where we spent hours together, having a hearty chat with our buddies forgetting the whole world. But now Cafe Day, Quickies, Baristas have taken those places. What a coffee cost 2.5Rs last year has now gone up to 50Rs a cup.

Those precious days where we used to laugh for nothing, while chatting or while playing or even when you fail in your paper because you have got 30 marks for a empty paper. But now you rarely smile except the smile for the forward you just received or the smile to your PM to impress him.

Hate ness and Ego were the words you haven't heard in those days. You smash or hit your friend for some reason and the next moment you walk along him with hands on his shoulders. But now you doesn't like the guy sitting beside you because he's getting a salary 10k greater that you or he's always being appreciated by your PM. True friends are hard to find here

In college if some one is talking badly about your college you can find your blood boiling inside even though you don't like your principal. But here loyalty is the lost word, whenever someone is talking badly about your company you join them to criticize your company. You join the company with the resignation day in the mind, is this loyalty. Don't mind I have also planned my resignation date.

You have seen the late nights only on the eve of the exam, where you rely on your friend to wake him/ her at night 1 or 2. And how can we forget those last minute tensions in exam, you remember that only just before entering the exam you find that you have forgotten to revise a important question that your friend suggested that it will surely appear on this exam. You rush back and flip those Xeroxed pages with tension. But today you work at least 2 days a week till 1 or 2 in the night to deliver something to your unknown client who is at US or UK. You are aimlessly typing at the useless word document that your PM asked you to finish with his tailor made smile. Loads of tension with calls from home, with your eye lids eager to kiss each other and you promise them to allow it a little later, cursing Bill Gates for inventing MSWord.

Writing all these to celebrate my first anniversary at this field. It seems I have been in my own desert where I have realized that I am moving from the warmthness of the Oasis to chase a mirage. A mirage that promises a lot of thing, but still its just a mirage. When I turn back I can find thousands chasing that mirage with a ID card around their neck. I wish all the best for them.

Cheers
Dheeraj Kumar

Life is Beautiful...

Today morning it was a pleasant feeling altogether....
no reasons for that...as i had a good sleep i was feeling good..

when i left my home for office, first thing i saw was a small kid with his father going to his school (kindergarden)..
what a time it was?.. time of our innocence...time when we started facing new world apart from our family...new people ,new place, new things...

then as i moved further i saw school boys and gals going out for a scout...
its that period when we make friends,know how to live in a society and how to work for the benefit of it...we get first taste of tension during our exams and results...sometimes we see sucesss and sometimes failure....we get introduced to sports...we fall...we break ...but we would never stop..

walking along with them ( scouts) i realised how quickly i reached station....
when i got down at station ( Greenways Road) i saw some college guys doing fun masti...

teenage is that period when we explore our world on our own principles...period when we feel we are more smarter then our parents.. we love to disobey them..but also go to them when we are in trouble..then we feel our parents are more or less right....but still continue to make wrong decisions..its not that we dont know...its just for thrill..to be cool in crowd....get crushes..... broken heart...valentines day more important than independence day ( dats because all days for us then are independence day)..

i reached my office..there i saw people on computer...on meetings...
age of reaponsibilty.....age of earning bread and butter...we know our parents are getting older....we become serious...more focused..want promotions...no time for entertainment as life itself becomes one.....
i had many people around me when i left my home till i reached my office...but i cudnt see them...as i couldnt relate my life with them....
maybe in few decades i will.....
till then..

HAPPY LIVING...

Some Questions and their answers :)

Some Questions

Well... Someone send me the list of questions.... Lots of questions here and I'm only happy to answer :D

1. Last Movie You Saw In A Theater:

Theatre? Well last one was Sarkar Raj starring Amitabh,Abhishek and Aishwarya.

2. What Book Are You Reading:

'Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus' by John Gray.

Last Read:'The three mistakes of my Life' by Chetan Bhagat. I just finished this book.

3. Favorite Board Game:

Carom Board . Be it on board , I love playing that game. Yah sometimes Cards.

4. Favorite Magazine:

My friend and I used to read 'India Today' a lot after my 10th board exams. I don't read those kinda magazines now. I don't hang around with that friend either. :)

5. Favorite Smells:

Old Spice and other after-shaves, shaving cream, Denim (the deo), paints, kerosene, shoe polish.. that kinda stuff.

6. Favorite Sound:

Airtel Tone by A.R Rehman... From the last 5 years I am using that tone .. and still enjoying :)

7. Worst Feeling In The World:

Being unwanted, losing someone/something precious.

8. What Is The First Thing You Think Of When You Wake Up?

Time Kya hua hai re... Uffff ye Office...

9. Favorite Fast Food Place:

Mc Donald's.

10. Future Child's Name:

:D There are some names I really like. By the time I have a child, I'm sure I'll be bored of them though. The first name that I ever liked was Nikhil. I was in the 5th std. when mom read an article to me about a brave little 6 year old Nikhil escaping from his kidnappers. I decided that day that I'd name my son Nikhil. fifth grade I was in! :) hehe

Other names I like.. , Shashank,Vikas, Archana, Arpita,Aditi(this one is cute) umm.. will let you all know when I name my child :)

11. Finish This Statement. "If I Had A Lot Of Money I'd...”:

Invest. Maybe I'll also buy a house for myself to keep all my books. Mom very irritated that I don't give/throw/sell away even my notebooks, let alone printed notes of classes. Ghar par 2 self's only for books. hehe Hey I understand things better from my notebooks. Text books have too much info. That I'll need only later. I may. Later...

12. Do You Drive Fast?

Not yet.

13. Do You Sleep With A Stuffed Animal?

No. I make do with a pillow. I'm scared of stuffed animals..

14. Storms-Cool Or Scary?

Scary, yet cool :)

15. What Was Your First Car?

Mclaren in NFS 2... hehe

16. Favourite drink:

Apple juice. Anyday. Anytime. Second preference - mango milkshake.

17. Finish This Statement, "If I Had The Time I Would .....”

...learn to play the violin, Guitar.

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18. If You Could Dye Your Hair Any Color, What Would Be Your Choice?

Blue. Mandrake and Narda had blue shades. Mast lagega na ...

19. Name All The Different Cities/Towns You Have Lived In:

Hmmm.. Baliyali... Bhiwani.. Bahadurgarh..... bahal,..... New Delhi... bangalore and now I am in Chennai.... bahut ho gaye yaar ye toh..... :)

20. Favorite Sports To Watch:

cricket, football, lawn tennis and Hockey.

21. One Nice Thing About The Person Who Sent This To You:

She's cute. Only one nice thing? Naah.. She's a good stress reliever, fun to talk to, easy to mingle with:)

22. What's Under Your Bed?

My shoes. Yeah, I keep it under the bed in my room. Kabhi kabhi ants bhi aa jaati hai.,... hehe

23. Would You Like To Be Born As Yourself Again?

Yes. But I'd like to be born when India was in 1200 BC Or else, I'd like to be born Antarctica . Oh don't gimme those stares.. I have my reasons for saying that.

24. Morning Person Or Night Owl?

Morning owl. I sleep too much these days.

25. Over Easy Or Sunny Side Up?

What do you mean by 'over easy'? Sunny side up.. yup.. I'm almost always cheerful and energetic when I'm out of my home. At home, my focus is on the bed.

26. Favorite Place To Relax:

My bed.

27. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:

Butterscotch, vanilla . In that order.

28. Well you will send to to all your friend list.. Who will reply you First:?

None of the people I am going to send it.

*My room mates and I have Juice almost every night after dinner from the thiruvanmyur Shop. Yesterday, we did not go. Now, I have a cold. Because I did not have Juice? hehehehe...*

Ladkiyaan :)

The most loving relation every person has in his life are girls be it a mother, a sister or spouse everybody would agree with me that the warmth which u feel when being hugged by mom is much greater than that of dad….Dads have their way of showing their love but it is Mother who wins when it comes to preferring one parent. I can still remember the days of my childhood when i was in 2^nd or 3^rd standards and my parents used to ask me something like “Tujhe mummy aur papa mein se kon sa aacha lagta hai” Just for fun(Maze maze ke liye bechare bachhe ko dharm sankat mein dalte the… ) In front of both of them i never preferred anyone of them and always said “hmmmm..... mujhko dono aache lagte hai... ”(Diplomatic me ;) ) but as soon as my dad would go i would tell my mom in her ears “aap jayada aachi lagti ho... ”…. From that time to this time i hav always been fascinate by the basic nature of the womankind…

Uske bina ek pal reh na sakoge tum…
Usko pata hai ye keh na sakoge tum…
Isliye ladkiyan ladkon si nahin hoteen..

I think all people might remember these line from the movie.. HUM-TUM..... and in my opinion .. ye sab kuch sach bhi hai....

Women are priceless
Without women
Life will be without spice
Simply lifeless

So always respect woman... (women bahut khush hongi na.... ruk jao.... abhi agli post mein iss se ulta likhunga... ;))