Thursday, September 29, 2005

dont know what title to give...

Blogging a stupid and boring phase in Oracle 2day...me had fever yest nite and am still tryin to overcome the weakness caused by it...n heh...i cant seem to do it!

Trainin seems to be a real dull period in Oracle SSI - at least for me it is...learnin on how to work with Oracle Applications - and will continue to do so in the next 2 days...of course i think Friday evening is Oracle Day so mite be excused off then..for now me planning to take some rest/do some preparations for CAT(which isnt goin newhere believe me)...or even attend the function - keepig the probability of me gettin a coat(suit) by Friday above 75 percent, but i dont think that will be da case...

Some consolation - at least the new trainer is good, knows his concepts well inspite of going a bit faster than normal. Of course lets not forget that he is the CMD of some company and hence has a good amount of experience. He seems to be patient with us and yea, good to talk with too...wont mention his name - he wudnt like me doin it...

I think the training carries on for another 2 weeks or so...after which i shall be assigned to my 'destined' cubicle...(OH GODD long awaitin it!!!)...at least for the sake of the phone...now evryone knows how much they want a cubicle and their personal space along with a phone so that they can cu-chi-coo with their girlfriends and get reminded by their parents that 'betaa..do get me so-and-so the next time u come home'...evryone wants it, howeva no one mentions it...bloody why cant people speak out their emotions?? Does the feeling of sitting in this training class with a guy to preside over the session give u airs of bein a corporate executive - or does it take u back to ur school and college days..?? i wud lay my bets on the latter!!

guess i got another 10 min before the trainer starts the rigmarole again...n what do i have here?? a pc...so i continue surfin for the time being...n contemplating what will happen in the next few days of trainin...

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

My first company :)

FINALLLLY me accessing the net from the second largest s/w company in the world - Oracle itself - to be more precise Oracle SSI - Solutions Services India. SSI is basically a consulting company, and i am an Associate Consultant - to tell u the truth i still cant figure out why me called so - though i have some vague ideas.

SSI interacts with da Oracle country, ie the Oracle offices mainly at EMEA and APAC, who in turn interact with the clients and get the job done from Oracle SSI, which is located here at Bannerghatta Road in Commerce@Mantri. The job basically involves consulting in the sense upgrade and introduction of new features which the clients desire in the their products, and also development of new services(to some extent). So dats bout the gist of it - who cares as when the sal is high eh?

Well bout da induction - we had it as any other XYZ IT company - there was nuthin 'Oracle' bout it...normal talks and presentations from the various departments in SSI - like the HR, da managed services etc...along wid the normal masala of the Communication Skills programs - which was thankfully conducted by 2 XIMB graduates who i must say were really excellent...dat was a good time...

At present a highly bugging and boring guy is trainin us on the tech stuff - SQL to begin with...continuin with pl/sql blah blah yawwwwwn...too borin for a non-developer like me...hee hee...well not so much too..wanted to get into dbases so here I am...lets get goin wid it now...

Ciao for now!!

Friday, September 09, 2005

ORACLE - here i come!!

Pancham of Ganesh Chaturthi today...n we are all busy...gettin ready for preparations of the nite when the ganesh visarjan is there as well as the preps for leavin tomm for Bangalore...mom n dad comin with me - nice holiday for them too...leavin by train from Vasco - a change of trains in between at Londa...

Parents and relatives kehte hain-'beta Oracle acchi company hai- use chhodna bewakoofi hogi- CAT vagaira ke baare me sochna chhod de'...well well well - does Oracle mean the end of the world? Does it mean that i have acquired all that i have to in life ? How can i discard my options now itself...when i havent even given my best to CAT and all the other exams to follow? Can i just leave my dreams stranded? Certainly not..

Howeva i am most certainly excited of the fact that Oracle happened for me - and well just 3 days separate me from joining it...shall edit you next on joining Oracle officially from my blog...till then -
c ya at Bangalore!!

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Ganesh ne vaapas bulaaya...

Know i havent edited you for long blog - but just as i had told i will...well da month that passed in Bangalore had actually been the month where i did learn a lot...to write evrytin bout it is actually out of bounds, coz there is so much which happened...listin the main events here -

- enrolled for TIME Aimcats - defintely worth takin them...six are over and my ranks are hoverin in the 1100's...want to pull them up to the 500's which is definitely possible...i answer them at St Francis College at Kormangala where i used to stay with my cuz...

- enrolled for Career Avenues Mock Cats - slightly on the easier side but here are the actual teachers who can give one a real feedback on how to answer the paper etc etc...struck up one 60 lately in one of the papers - but nowhere does that mean that it will be easy enugh to do dat on Nov 20...

- used to travel to Richmond Street almost evryday to go to Career Avenues(cav for short)...real tiring as i had to get down on Double Road and walk ahead from there..the buses wud neva wactually go there..

- usse yaad aaya - one great achievement...the BUSES - which i have got a good heck of by now - i mean the bus numbers which most people dread coz they tend to be hard to remember...n most of the times u have to change two buses etc to go to a single destination.

- Another thing which happened recently - my Ganesh gift i shall call it...made it thru Oracle - to be precise Oracle Solutions Services India or OSSI for short at Bangalore...here were the proceedings
-> 6th August called for test at the OSSI office at Commerce@Mantri on Bannerghatta road(sweet dreams of IIMB)...
-> Test in mornin comprisin of aptitude, math, englisn(exactly of CAT) and tech stuff too(databases and pointer programmin-picked for Y Kanetkar)...bombarded it like netin- probably main reason why i got thru...a good score
->selected among the top 33 from the 300-400 students- (this was following an essay - topic -'Finish what you start'...wrote real well - quoted examples of da Software Industry itself...
->immediate interviews...mostly HR kind..but main tech part bein of the Final Year project on which i was asked a lott..but went well...
->told to leave as we wud be notified later...guess wat - first notification aft 2 weeks (had almost given up hope - only for the fact that it had all gone real well)..sent a form which i was told to fill along with updated resume and send to be called for da next steps of entrance...me was surprised..
->waited for one week...only to see the offer letter itself in my inbox on the next friday..elated like netin!!

Now back to Goa to an awaitin thrilled parents...after havin spent some great time with my best friend who was who equally quite thrilled bout Oracle happenin...and me bein selected as an Associate Consultant (ahem!)...and what a great occasion - Ganesha Chaturthi itself...party time indeed!!...So me here for the next 2 days now n leavin on friday with parents to Blore...where i have found a pg at Kormangala...Oracle joinin on Sept 12th ie coming Monday..so maybe i can edit some more of you after i join there..

till then blog - tada!