Friday, July 29, 2005

Goodbye Goa...

As i write this post, i am tryin to recollect alllll...almost all the things dat may have happened to me in Goa in da last 20 years..dats since i was born...of course i cant..but its so difficult to leave Goa...!

Shall miss the beaches, the quite alleys and streets at our place here, Panaji most of all...the cool free-from-contamination air, da BEST people in da whole world, all my friends and relatives, and of course my parents whom i love so much...yeah but me goin ahead to the next city now only to accomplish somethin..to achieve sometin great...my job, my MBA preps...just prayin to God dat things work out well for me...

As of now i dont know where i shall be ahead - Bangalore, Chennai or God knows where...but for me headin once again for a month to the city of all IT dreams...dats Bangalore...! So till then blog - ciao!!

Thursday, July 28, 2005

packin up for a new life!!

phew!! da days seem to be goin fast n i cant kinda help it..time's comin soon to say a goodbye to Goa...

decided to take up the TIME AIMCATs which are commencin from July 31st...n TIME's got no centre here...so well off to da nearest city to ans them..dats in case Caritor doesnt begin now for me...ie back to Bangalore...da city of dreams for a Software Engineer...but i am not one as of now - of course passed out with a 76.7 in da final year and with a 71.4 aggregate tag on my head now and printed for good on my resume - i go ahead...

What awaits me at Bangalore are a lot of things - my cuzin, apparently with whom i got to stay with, but just got da news dat he will be in Sweden for the next 2-3 months..so ab mujhe mera pataa thikanaa maloom nahin...shaayad kisi friend ke yahaan..jahaan kismat le chale - (dash of philosophy - excuse me)..

4 now mw packin up...just now mom's voice pierced the air - 'what about ur shoes? u dont have to take them?' yeah.more weight to the innocent arms...put it on..i can carry da full world..no probs at all - 4 now its just 2 bags..filled more with MBA preparatory material than my clothes n other stuff...coz thats what i shall be doin more there i guess...aimcats every sunday n preparation thruout the week just in case caritor doesnt bring itself out in da middle of the month..preparations will go a bit slower then...

feelin a bit dumb havin to make my parents pay up for the MBA stuff(application forms etc)..when i wantd to do it myself this time...still i shall be able to manage a huge chunk of it so no probs...hope the stayin at Blore is managed easily..

Da only thing that remains - mite not be able to edit da blog for a while now...so its up only until my last post which i guess comes on friday mornin...friday evenin i set off...!2

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

B A N G A L O R E !!

Really a long time since i edited my blog...reasons for a sudden trip to the city which mite be my future home - the city of all IT dreams - Bangalore...

After my best friend set off on July 7th, dejectedly staring at the pc at nice brought me upon the arrival of a red letter mail in my gmail inbox...i rubbed my eyes to see nuthin but a call from Motorola for a technical test...(i had applied to the company some days back)...well n the test was the day after that day - Saturday 9th in the morning at 10 am...

The events that followed were fast-paced and hectic...had a brief sleep only of about 3 hrs dat nite after havin packed the luggage and arranged my certificates etc for which mom n dad woke up to and helped me out..the next day the bus tickets were taken n bfore i knew it, i was takin a nap on the KSRTC bus to Blore...

After quite a long journey (realised that day dat KSRTC buses dont take the margao - karwar route but go via Hubli)...reached Bangalore at around 7:30 am n there were only 2 hrs or so to reach the company for the test...had already called Kiran (introducing my close friend who was having his final semester internship at Motorola that time)...his brother Arun( introducing my second closest pal) came to pick me up from Navrang theatre where i got off the bus n took me home...

After a quick bath and breakfast i was off to Motorola with Kiran in a rickshaw (cost us 90 bucks - the b**st***s...daylite robberies i tell u...da test began exactly at 10..was surprised to see that it was totally a new paper and none like the questions of the recent test papers which Kiran had sent me the previous day...howeva got into the mood immediately n found that the test was fine - not so bad after all...da link-list data structure programs seemed comfy too...although the second program dint make ne sense (remind me to revise my theory of short n long integers later)...

Once da test was done my primary objective of being at Blore was done...n the remains was to enjoy with my friends..meet my best friend and party!!...This of course was to follow in da next 3-4 days...now yeah..cant possibly rite down evry bit of it...just a gist of da events...

Spent most of the time at their house as mostly Kiran was busy later...so was with Arun...met my best friend a couple of times...she was placed in Siemens and was stayin in a guesthouse temporarily given by them - in contrast with another friend who was stayin in a posh colony (ahem! Raheja Residency)...also managed to check out some cool places like Forum at Kormangala with Kiran where lunch was at McDonalds...and also had dinner at a nice place called Green Onion on Brigade Road (man i luv those places)...

Managed to catch Sarkar on Monday the 11th...a FANTA FABULO movie...RGV(Ram Gopal Verma) does it again...with absolutely brilliant performances from the entire starcast - especially AB bfore the interval and AB Jr after the interval - a nicely balanced version...go watch it - i saw it for 45 bucks at Tribhuvan near Majestic...but u can catch it at PVR or neother multiplex...the movie is even worth a 150 buck ticket...!!!

Also stayed over with my cuz on Wednesday nite...a bachelor who works at Wipro Embedded and is a real great guy...have always loved his company coz i can get to learn so much from him...maybe i shall be stayin with him in the near future..n maybe dat shall be too early from now...the mocks are gonna start soon n i dont know when i shall land up next in Blore coz Caritor isnt yet out with our joinin letters...

All said and done all the party time overshadowed my loss of the job - i cudnt make it thru the test...cudnt understand why but yeah was dejected as it had been one in a million chance...howeva decided i shall try my best for a better job in Blore...

Left on Thursday n was back on Friday the 15th mornin at Goa...intime to see my grandma who had arrived last week (sigh!)...Blore had whiffed away like a dream but seemed more than real to me now...sumtin bout the city -

Bangalore had changed from good to bad n to WORSE now...movement in the traffic had been sickenin and tiresome...we mostly roamed on bikes (Arun's new Wind)...but used to get terribly bugged when caught for long in a jam with the traffic counters showin 90 minutes to go etc etc...howeva the pollution and travel with the traffic maybe were the things which did make me lose out on a lot of energy when i arrived at Goa back..dats why my health hasnt been so good in the last 3 days..howeva i am feelin much better today...reasons enugh for editing the blog...

Blore is cool n happenin if u want it to be...in reality the city of dreams for an IT professional but even worse that Mumbai in several other cases as i have noticed...

Check it out!!!

Friday, July 01, 2005

Cleaning up...

Am I tired or wat?? I think this is the last time me clearing my shelf n papa’s…lies above it…got a whole lot of assorted stuff spread out on the floor yest nite which I have spent the morning cleaning up…now ninety percent of it is safely tucked in the buags – a major of which will be leavin the house soon…either with me, or with my cuzin for her engg studies, and some for my junior engg boy who pays me so well..(grin!)

Arranged the stuff exactly like I wanted it…the newest stuff bein the nearest – none other than my MBA preparatory stuff – assorted from TIME, CL, IMS etc etc…gotto go thru the whole lot in a span of few days now…few days shit – Caritor seemed to be least interested in callin us to join soon – rumour has it that we mite be called in the third week of August or so, which sounds so late..for now I think I have already applied to more than 20 companies but not a reply from a single one. My resume isn’t that bad eh? But of course it lacks the mammoth percentiles bestowed by universities such as VTU and Annamalai down south, due to which the only guys beatin us to the jobs are the southies…me kinda tired applyin…n will be more bored now waitin for Caritor’s joinin letter…I’ve got a score to settle with the people there…

Got used to wearin these 3/4ths now…dey look cool and will suit me when I’m outa Goa…poor me don’t even know whether me at Chennai or Blore itself…help me God…!!

Recovered soooo many things while cleaning up in the last 2-3 days…my KG-I report card, stating me perfect in all respects of studies but a final remark – ‘rather talkative’…cant understand if children aren’t talkative who will be? Maybe she was grading me relatively to the class dat time…the rest all bein sad souls who cudnt utter a word…but acc to my mom they all used to chatter a lot too – just that when the teacher came around, she used to see me with a broad smile…which from some angle appeared like that of a thief – aur phir mera time aa hi jaata tha…

In the midst of the cleaning process, was reading another blog and got a load of some real good pics of IIMK…mannn its like a summer resort on a hill station or something…the campus and the views around are breath-taking…wonder who ‘studies’ there…but it seems to be the ideal place for dat too…at once IIMC seemed to drop down from the image I had of it…but well – IIMK zaraa door ki baat hai – with an average batch profile of 24 months workex (as I heard later)….ahem! for now IIMs hi to zara door ki baat hai…!

Cant write more for today…gotto go off to do some more cleaning..n got a bday party in an hour and a half…so gotto rush to dat…!! Catch ya later…