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Days without internet

Life is amazingly beautiful. Internet was like oxygen to me. Today I'm sitting in my flat typing this (with mobile internet, limited speed and data) without broadband or fiber optic internet. Since last Monday I don't have my ACT Corp internet connection working. So what's beautiful about life in this? Let me tell you. As a 11th grader, I wanted to read more. I read a passage about a possible meteoroid hit in my english book over and over again. But somehow I got distracted and attracted (or addicted) to digital content like movies, serials and games. My reading desire almost vanished. When I see people talk about Harry Potter books, I felt so bad and envious. First few days without internet, I started watching low resolution videos with mobile data. Then I continued my quest to get three stars in all levels in angry birds. Couldn't pass time with these. Started watching old classics in my hard disk. Still couldn't pass time. Your mind is so deceiving. It alway...
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Wanna be happy? Be productive

I remember taking it from some motivational slide, someone shared either on office spam mail or on facebook. But this is the core of how I find happiness these days. [Advice mode on] When you do something new or something that nobody else in your league did, it gives you immense happiness. (Am I a narcissist?) Let me put it in a different way, being productive doesn't necessarily mean that you have to produce something. In my opinion, if you wanna be productive, just do something meaningful and good, from a third person's point of view. For e.g. if you help someone by putting some extra effort or by spending some extra hours, that's being productive. Such an action brings joy in your life. (This one is like a micro post, but that's fine. Its been so long since I posted anything. )

This part of life - Software Development Engineer. Really?

As it goes, blogging after a long time. At office now and its Saturday, this is different as this time I was requested to come. Last one year a lot has happened. Mom and dad opened and closed the shop. Now house renovation is going on. Ragu is Assistant manager now and Siva is doing his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering. I did whatever I wanted in my internship to get this job. Not sure if I really got this job because of that. Since joining as an SDE, I never worked much technically. Its all going with the flow and learning whichever is interesting. Now into some technical team, thank God I'm out of finance. When I was working too much as an intern, I wanted to get into a phase where there is no big work and no tough deadline. God gave me such a work - configurations, got good friends as well. But its not valued by people around. So I had to fight with upper management to get me out of it, though I was interested in doing it. Only worry was, what if I was asked to touch that all...

Awesome battle on bugland

I landed on bugland when trying to do one of my not-so-much-interesting tasks. First I was puzzled as to why I'm dragged into this place because no one came here before by taking the path I took. This path was not so tough for others who traveled via this before. Even if there is a mine on a rarely stepped corner of a pathway, I use to step on it. Same way, I stepped on a mine in my current task (can't tell it in public, as it is related to Amazon). This mine is so powerful that it threw me to a dangerous place, the bugland, which is dark. Being dark is the biggest problem in software development because we cant find how or by which way we came here. Imagine such a situation. Its horrible. So I was there in a mysterious way. I called upon a rescue expert Mr. Shri who usually saves me from every blast. This time Shri was too busy that he couldn't see me struggling in bugland for almost a week. I lost hope and started to enjoy the dark because darkness has its perks, you ar...

Second Internship.. Transformation time

Right now I'm in my room near Kondapur RTO, Hyderabad. Its January 1 and I'm celebrating new year with my mobile and laptop. Its a long time since I posted the last one about Expendables experience. Okay. How is my life now? What I'm doing?? Actually, I'm doing my second internship with Amazon. Hope I'll get converted into a FTE here as a SDE. This time its not like my first intern. Back then I had relaxed deadlines, no pressure at all. I tried doing more than what they needed last time. But this time, they want me to do more and I'm stuck with this little laziness. Talked to the supreme leader about the opportunity of being converted, all he said was to be triple aggressive. Actually I got full energy and started working setting up some alert-type stuffs and I'm happy I did that. Then I got into a work where I had to deal with some left over piece of code. I'm interesting in creating things and I'm not inclined towards finishing up things which...

Exp"e"nd

Today was truly awesome till now.. Expendables 2 @ Central cinemas :) Okay, what so special about this? Is this not just another movie in my college life? ;) No its not just another movie. Its something special. Actually the plan was - me, boss and wind going to watch ex2 today. Morning I just text'd Bird and Santhosh about the plan. Informed everyone to come to parking lot by 8:50 and we just could decide it there. I was late. Saw Santhosh and Mohan at gate, told them to wait at parking. I reached there at 9:10. Shocked!! Bird, Aank, Santhosh, Mohan, Boss were all waiting there. The best part is everyone were ready to watch the movie. No class tension. No "oh-that-faculty-saw-me" issues. People are ready without any hesitation in the morning for the first time. Its just great :) Watched the movie. For me its second time in Tamil. Planning to watch it in English very soon. About the movie - It'll satisfy every fan's expectation. For those ppl who see these ...

Excited and confused :) !

Whats up?     --> Microsoft interview date announced. Just three more days to go. Excited :)     --> Starting a new venture. Good opportunity to learn and stay safe with some income. But am I ready for this? Confused!! First I thank God for the excitement. Today - 14th August 2012 (just one day before Independence day). Morning, at the very beginning of the day, I asked myself "Am I really independent?". The other guy (Hulk style, sorry if its too much. But I feel it as Other Guy s most of the times, as more than one inner voice speaks when I'm in the above mentioned states) answered - "Obviously NO. Though you are not much dependent, you never use your Freedom to speak at right times". Agreed. Who else knows better about me? The reason for the hesitation in using my freedom to speech is fear. Fear that I may lose my value at the receiver's heart. But my friend Murugesan proved my theory wrong. He is one hell of a man. He just expresses if he th...