How much should you make???

Yesterday was the salary day, which is supposed to be the best of all the working days in the month.
Sometime back when I was studying, I had a big list of the things I wanted to do, when I will start earning. So many things I wanted to do.
I remember the day I got 1000 bucks for teaching C as I was considered to be a good C coder in college. I used to enjoy reading more and more books on C. The book I liked the most was “Test you C Skills”…. which had some sample code and you need to find the output. And best part is the output used to be something else than that you would think of. Also the book has a very good explanation about why the output is so. Wait…. I am not publicizing the book.
We used to have open books test, which I cleared most of the times. Those were some of the good moments in life.
What happened to those 1000 bucks? I spent those the very same day buying all the things I wanted. And I was actually happy to get those 1000 bucks. Not that happy to get the salary in my account.

Salary has become a need which ends up paying all the bills/cards.

On the Last Day

Another Last Day mail…..
I really don’t feel that I am about to complete "2 years" working in this team. What made me realize this is, when people started leaving the company. I am feeling bit bad about this guy leaving CA. Have I really passed so much time that people started leaving?
Today I got “Last day at CA (Date: 29th July)” mail from Sudheer. I knew that he is going to leave soon. But I didn’t know that he will leave so early.
I was actually surprised. I feel like he joined us, just few days back and time has come to say Good bye to him.
He is a very good, polite and kind hearted. This is what anyone who knows him will say. I haven’t met anyone who can be so polite even when things are not going the right way. Seems he doesn’t know how to get angry. He always speaks nicely. I haven’t seen him getting angry over, anything you tell him. We actually used to make so much fun of him. I wish everyone was calm and polite like him.
Evening everybody in team gathered in the conference room, to hear and speak something about sudheer. It is actually tough to speak about someone, specially when he is leaving. Sudheer was not at all sad about leaving the company. He actually was looking happy about his decision of leaving the company. He left the company in just 9 months. I feel it was tough for him to work in this kind of envt. When asked what was his happiest and sadest moment after joining CA? I feel he wanted to say... his happiest day was today when he is leaving the company. And sadest of course everybody can guess.
I had very less interaction with him. But he can actually impress you with the way he speak.
I wish him a very good luck and hope he will be in touch wherever he goes.

There are few more people in the queue to leave.

Don't Just Forward e-mails

Today I got a forwarded mail from a colleague of mine, which most of us normally would delete after looking at the statement which says:

"Forward it to these many people otherwise you will have bad luck for these many years and all".

I would have deleted the mail straight away.

But this mail had some written, which stopped me from deleting it:

“Something major will happen which you have been wanting”

And other thing is

“The phone will ring right after you fwd this mail”.

Hoping this I forwarded the mail to 10 people. As I was eagerly waiting for phone to ring. And yes it did ring. But But But. It was not my mobile phone. It was office landline ringing.

And it was Sarath calling for some issue. “Was this the thing I was waiting for and forwarded this mail to 10 people?”

Anyways my suggestion to everybody is: Don't forward any mail which says “Forward it to these many people”

Is Change Always a Good Thing???

Now that I am not that busy in morning, as I have stopped going to gym. Also as I reach office early, I can best utilize my time writing blogs. Well everyday is a new day. You plan to do things and you feel that you continue doing those things throughout your life.

Even I made many plans.
1) Like going to gym regularly. I did go regularly for few months. But then my friend Pradnya, with whom I used to go, left the city. So even I stopped going.
2) I started playing Lawn Tennis sometime back, which now I have stopped. We have a very good Tennis court in campus. And sometime back I used to go for Tennis classes. I am just a beginner. But I enjoy playing still. I remember my Instructor Saying : “HIT THE BALL. DON’T PUSH THE BALL”.
3) You make friends. You want to be with them forever. But this probably can never happen.

"Nothing is forever".

The company for which I work also says “Change Always”
There are many more plans you make in life. You feel things will be the same forever. But circumstances and situations will net let things go the same way.

So change whether its good or bad ... U survive.

My Weekends

I remember the time when I came to Hyderabad, some two and half years ago. New place, people and everything was new for me. It was not the first time I was going to some new place as Dad is in Army. So I have been to many places in India. But this time I was all alone in Hyderabad.
I didn’t know anybody here – No friends. I used to hate weekends. I used to wish if there were no Weekends or at least not two days off. I don’t have a place to go other than office on the weekends.
But slowly and steadily I started liking weekends like others do. Now, almost every weekend I go out. Even if I don’t go out I have friends to whom I can just sit and chat.
From last month i.e. June 21st some good time has started for me. I now enjoy my weekends. It not as boring and dull as it used to be sometime ago.
Now I feel weekends are really good. You really need weekend.
And 2 days off at least in a week is required.

Travelling in Monsoon Season

Rain rain go away,
Come again another day.
Little Johnny wants to play;
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again!

This trip I planned as soon as I was back from home i.e. on 14th of April. I am not very home sick. But I do feel bad when I return back. Reason being I don’t really enjoy staying here in Hyderabad. The day I was back from home I booked my ticket to go again on 4th of July. Bcoz I was missing home.
I came to know that it’s raining badly over there and some bridge also is broken. Just 1 day before I was about to leave I came to know that train also is taking some other route. I was really sad about it. I thought of cancelling the trip as flight tickets prices were very high. But mom and dad wanted me to come home. My friends were asking me not to go. How can I miss chance of going home? When I took the leave even my lead was not ready to give.
Finally I booked the flight ticket and did go. Seriously it was raining badly there.
“The city roads and junctions reel under heavy water logging”, “Traffic halted for hours on highways”. I couldn’t go out anywhere, was at home all the time. Returning again was a big problem as all the trains were taking some different route. I again had to take Monday off, bcoz of all these problems. Still I won’t say I won’t go if it rains.
I hope it rains. But not in excess, that you stop enjoying rains. :)

Tirupati Trip

On June 28-29, we visited Tirupati, Tirumala Devsthanam. It was a long awaited trip and finally Lord called us to be there on Jun 29th weekend. After reaching Tirupati, we straightaway proceeded to Tirumala Hills. Before starting the Ascent to Tirumala Hills, we need to get security test done. We took some rest at Tirumala and then took Lunch in Tirupati. It was a summer afternoon and was very hot. I feel temperature must be above 40 Degrees, but still cool breeze from the blessed mountains made it better.

After Lunch we visited two temples in Tirupati. These are:

*Kaleshwari Temple

* ISKCON Temple


We had taken darshan ticket from Hyderabad itself in advance. But got to know that… for that ticket line is really big. So we managed to get letter from the director, which helped us to get Accomodation (Padmavati Guest House) and AAD Tickets. On Sunday, 29th Jun at 5.30 AM was darshan time. We woke up at 1.00 AM. We all got ready and at around 3:00 AM, and started walking towards the temple. I have never b4 gone walking at this time. But you wont feel like its 3.00 Am as you see people all around. The line for darshan was like moving on and on. …. We were eagerly waiting to reach the temple. We had darshan in just a matter of 3 hours, which we didnt expect. And its really very peaceful. I really liked the place. The kind of peace you get. We all were hungry after Darshan. Wake up early and don’t have have anything 2 eat. That is bit bad. We were eagerly waiting 4 some place 2 open where we can get something 2 eat. Everywhere you need 2 wait for hours. We finally reached a restaurant, which was open and they were serving only small idli’s dipped in sambar and upma. We were really hungry. So ate Sambar as well as Upma. At around 10:30Am we started descent from Tirumala Hills and came back to Tirupati.
After that we went a nearby temple call kalhastiWe started at around 6.30 PM for our return journey and reached around 6:30 AM to our home.
I feel once atleast you should go….


Trip was very satisfying and we all were very happy.