Farewell Party at work

Just 1 week passed that Sudheer left(29/07/2008) the team. And time has come for two more in the team to leave, with one person leaving the Team, every week. It looks like some season has started.
It’s just 20 people team. If people continue to leave at the same pace then in few weeks the team will be of size NULL.
Rohit left on 8/8/08. What a special day is this day. Its 08-08-08, means August 08, 2008…So what is it with this 888 that makes it special? Not only that it’s a good luck numbers but also the beginning of the most anticipated, most awaited Beijing Olympic! Yes OLYMPICS! For those who are sports minded people, it’ll be the time where their hours and eyes are set on their televisions for every game that they’re countrymen will be playing….
Rohit Leaving the team didn’t come as a surprise for anyone. He left for higher studies. He is a person who's got talent. A wonderful person to work with and was a great asset for the company too. A laugh riot, this person single handedly can bring to life any dull party.He really lights up the groups. We had a lot of laughs...Yesterday we (Buddy, Deepak, Rashmi and me) had a small farewell gathering at Rashmi’s house. We gonna miss him.
Another one who resigned, is Guru(14-08-08), my cubicle-mate. Miya is what we used to call him. The way he speaks Hindi is amazing which is called Hyderbadi Hindi. Soon he will be getting married. Wishing you all the best in your future undertakings! And don’t forget to call us for your marriage.

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY!!!

3rd August, some might wonder what relevance it has to this post. The relevance is not the date, it is the day. The first Sunday of August... Yes, it is World Friendship Day today and I wish all my dear and wonderful Friends a very Happy Friendship Day.


A quick search tells me only this:
In 1935 American Government had killed a person on 1st Saturday of August the next day his friend died committing suicide. In his memory American Government had declared 1st Sunday of every August as Friendship day.

We are receiving a lot of messages. One of my friends sent me a nice message. Here it goes,
“Its not an achievement to make 1000 friends in a year, but an achievement is when one make a friend like you for 1000 years.” Happy friendship day.


Hope you liked.


So here’s wishing every friend of mine a very Happy Friendship Day!! Every one of you has a special place in my heart and I’d like to thank you all for making my life that much more worth living!!
Hoping that these bonds keep on gathering strength with every passing moment…


Cheers

Wishing one and all a very happy friendship day!!

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.