Back on Track!!!

it has been a long silence in this blog even though i had planned to write some scrap once in a week. It has been almost 5 months since i wrote one out here. I have been busy going through the technical blogs of microsoft that i forgot to write my own...

So i have decided to get back on track.....
The major happening in the last five months is the arrival of two beautiful angels getting into our lives. My sister's son and my Brother's daughter[Appu & ammu]. They have cheered up everyone in our home...



Will be scrapping here more often:)

Sweet Memories of 2006

Welcoming a Challenging Year Ahead.

One more Year says bid-adieu to us. Personally it has been one of the most happening year as I had mentioned in my last blog. Beginning of this year I was struggling to understand EDA (Enterprise Digital Assistance- Windows Mobile) technology and in the dusk of this year I am happy to be one among few techies who have worked with wide range of EDA. Beginning of 2007 would be joyful and memorable as far personal life is concerned. I would be a proud uncle(mama) and a proud Sitthappa(uncle) by march.

I would like to scribble more technical blogs from next year. I would like to thank everyone who have helped me, encouraged me and assisted me throughout this year.
I wish everyone a prosperous and great year ahead…

With this post I am putting up a picture which carries the most memorable moments of this year. From my bro’s marriage and followed by all the cousins and ended with my close buddy’s tying the knot with his long time love. The other pictures are of my best time I spend with my family during diwali and other festivals

Have a Great Year and wishing you a Happy New year 2007

Most rocking year!!!

This has been literally the most rocking year of my life. The year where lot of things happened in my life and the list is pretty huge to put it on here. Started off with my bro’s Marriage (which made my line clear) and ending with some remarkable projects falling in place in my professional life and I think next year would be similar to this as I have my fingers crossed for it.

The coming year has great prospectus in its hand for personal and professional life and I think I would be reliving the post as bachelor by the end of this year.
I wish everyone a Prosperous and glorious year ahead

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!!

Yellow tainted Friends

It has been almost one year since i landed up in chennai. A city which is hectic all the time and the weather making the scenario worse out here. In this one year i have been travelling to my office through all modes of transport from the local trains, buses and the most important Yellow tainted Autorickshaws which is also known as share auto here.

As this system doesnt exist in my home town coimbatore it made me little curious to travel in it. Now i have abandoned all other transport systems as too me buses out here are legacy systems which we cant rely on and the trains always doesnt suit our schedule.

I have met a lot of strange characters in the autorickshaws especially their drivers. even though they are strange they arent nuts but they seems to be sometime. The only hazard about them is they are over talkative. they would like to talk about business, politics, culture, automobiles and the list is endless. but sometime i really enjoy talking to them as its nice during evening time when u are coming back after a hectic work schedule...

i have made a few Ric Annas as friends... whenever they see me they would stop the vehicle and wait for me to get in and there would be regular dialogue from them " Romba nal acchu sir pathu". It would sound like they really care about you.

In this hectic world where they drop in hundreds and hundreds of ppl every day from point to point and yet they remember whom we. but as we are ppl who sit in cubicles for days and we meet quite a few ppl and we dont remember these guys sitting in the yellow tainted vehicles who pick you...

Wedding bells

I was nearing my home and I had a strange kind of anxiety and excitement in my face building up. My house was well decorated like a beautiful bride. My mom was waiting for me at the doorstep, as she gets nervous if we are late by a minute. All our relatives had gathered at our home, which was like pre-planned maneuver.

As I have lot of cousin sisters and brothers, our home was filled with them. Everyone wore a bright smile in his or her face. It seemed like they were enjoying every moment out there. Then I quickly realized that I am going to get married.

I wasn’t able to decipher the current scenario I was into. It seemed I was taken aback by the excitement. But I quickly realized that I didn’t have any clear picture even in my mind, of the person whom I would be exchanging marriage vows. I tried to recollect her face but it seemed like an illusion.

Then my veliya yedithiamma(eldest sis-in-law) came to my room. She is the person who has seen me grow over the years; the special thing about her is the smile she adorns. She asked if I was happy with the things around me. I told her that I am not able to recollect the bride’s face. She smiled again and went off.

I ran towards the room where we have our collection of photos. From childhood we have huge collection of photos, which are well preserved by my mom. I browsed through the album and I found one, which I thought, would be having the photo of my bride. But to my surprise, her face was not clear in the photos too, how unfortunate. I was overwrought after the failed coup to identity my soul mate.

As a final attempt I called my yedithiamma again, this time my own bro’s wife and asked to get me the mobile number of the girl. She got me her number. I just thought for a while before I called her up. The mobile had a heart beat ring tone just like my heartbeat was at that moment. She picked up the phone, and she had a really soothing voice and i really liked it. She asked me when did I reach home and as I Just started to talk to her, when I heard someone banging the Door….

I got up and realized that I was in my deep sleep and dreaming… gosh he he he. It was my yedithiamma who banged the door to wake me up as it was getting late for my office. I chuckled, as this was not the first time this kind of dream has occurred. There have been few episodes, where my friends and colleagues have gone through a similar dream about me having trouble on my wedding day :(.

But the happiest thing amid this chaos is that everyone congratulated me saying the bride was very beautiful. Everyday I fall asleep with the hope to see the beautiful face of my bride….emm that’s my short term dream though.

Gerascophobia ??

Fear of getting old !

YES!!! I am talking about my birthday. Technically speaking it was on 3rd June but my parents insist on celebrating the star birthday, where the date changes year after year. It’s confusion for my friends all the time as they aren’t clear about the date for my birthday celebration.

This time it was on 4th June and for a couple of years the celebration has been a low profile one. I dread suffering from FEAR PSYCHOSIS of getting older. I think everyone gets into this mode once in his or her lifetime.

During my childhood days, my siblings and me would wait for that special day. The main reasons then being that I get to wear a new dress, distribute sweets to my classmates, and above all escape from any scolding on birthdays. Then comes the transformation from a boy in shorts to a man in pants. Its after this transformation, the whole scenario changes and you start to worry about the birthday…as you get a year older.

This is the period of silent passage from the mid 20’s to the late 20’s which can be described as silent passage of uncertainty. As once you complete 30 birthdays you are half booda (Old aged). The time has a special place in your life, as this is the time we get our career on track and we meet our sweetheart and lot of blah blah happens during this time.

I am happy that there are lots of well-wishers, calculate this star birth date every time in spite of the confusions that loom around my birthday. I would thank them and esp. radha chechi who told me “think positive b'days add one more year to your life” I would like to take it in a positive way about my birthday.

know why a Project Fails ?

Its 3’O clock in the morning and am still in the office trying to complete the final testing before sending the package to the client. I think many of us have gone through the same thing again and again in our life.

When a project flops after so much of effort, I know how bad we feel about it. We would be going through the whole project and trying to figure out where the error occurred and it’s like trying to point fingers at each other to save our heads from execution.

I came across a project failure recently and it was like a rejection of your love from an adorable lady. To me it was more of a personal failure than a Professional failure as the whole effort for three months went in the drain. It’s like an artist spending hours on a painting and at the end of the day the viewers don’t end up appreciating the painting.

As per a survey taken few years ago on the IT Projects 51% of Project failed due to various reasons. I went through all the available resources in the Internet, books and had discussion with peers trying to find out the possible reason for this. At that time I got a forward from my ex colleague and it was titled Project Analysis. The mail carried a Picture, which is displayed down below.

It was funny one but it also reflects the reality of how projects are managed in the IT Sector. We aren’t sure what we are creating nor do the consumers have the idea of what he will be getting at the end of the day. In between there would be lot of promises made by our beloved Marketing team like a foxy politician. But as the saying goes “What ever happens, life must go on”.

After a short break from the hectic schedule a new project is assigned to me and I hope the next blog about the project would be on a Success. As my CEO told me that we are in a race and we are expected to win it ,as we aren’t playing for good will but then playing to SUCCEED .

Starting off!!!

Hi Friends:

At last, I have decided to create a blog of my own, following the footsteps of my sis.
But am not so sure wot shud be written out here;)
So please do come forward to give some great ideas ! :D

Have a nice time