1st Aniversary

Today i have completed one year of my work life. Though i am not in the same company which i joined one year back. This one year played an important role in my life. I enjoyed my working life.

Flashback:24th April 2004

First person i met in the previous company was Bharat sir, who took my first round of interview. A very nice and smart chap indeed. Always liked working with him, we are good friends and i still like the way he deals with the situations :) Thanks a ton bharat sir for a gr8 break. I liked the work culture and everything abt it :)

Then i met Sripad Sir: Assitant Manager, who also took a small round of interview.

And the final round was taken by MM sir (MD). The ultimate round of my life. I was questioned on all the HR fiunctions and was told that once i join a recruitment firm then the options of joining a corporate is very tough. That was little demotivating for me but i had my own points. After the interview was over MM sir asked me how much time will i need for joining them. I was little hesitant. I did not want to commit anything at that point. To be very frank i had a marketing offer (the field which always fascinated me) so i wanted some time to choose between the two fields. I requested MM sir for the same. He agreed and smiled. Interview went for an hour. He came down with me to first floor where bharat sir was sitting. He made a remark saying that " We have selected her but she hasnt selected us yet". That was embarrasing for me. I liked MM sir and till date i respect him for his values and ethics. He has always guided me and supported me.

26th April 2004: Finally after thinking and consulting from my friends and well wishers i planned for HR field. First day at office & i was nervous. So many things were in my mind. What if i am not able to perform, what if they chuck me out because i am not able to meet their expectations, what if... All my queries were gone after the first day. Work envoirnment was just too good. Colleagues were friendly. I always felt at home.

Just one month back i joined a new company. But i still miss my previous organisation where i spent some quality time and did some quality work..i guess..:)

Today i am happy..i am sad..i am having mixed kind of emotions. Happy for completing one year successfully. Sad that i am no longer working with the previous company. I am just confused?

I am still alive...thankgod!!!

I am thankful to god...why? read this...

Friday was official holiday for us but few of us were working as work load was just too much. Saturday (most awaited day) i planned for a club with couple of friends. Morning got up at 8.30a.m just to do the follow up work with my candidates who were scheduled for an interview in Hyd. Then slept again after giving them instructions. After an hour called all my friends and fixed time and place to meet. We decided to go to country club at Mysore road. Well a sensible decision i guess. We started at 1.00 after having our breakfast.

Reached there at quarter to two. Now comes the best part of my weekend. i wanted to try swimming. I am scared of water. I guess scared would be a decent word in my case. Drowning is a very common act from my side most of the times :( But this time i was determined. I will learn swimming and will take out this fear out of me. So changed to a swim wear and with all my efforts entered into the pool. For this training i did not take any professional coach as my good friends assured me that they will teach me how to do it. Good i thought. Unnati did not enter the water as she was not feeling well. So with great courage i made up my mind and asked Amit to help me. Poor guy. He told me the first lesson... I listened to him patiently. so did accordingly.Now he told me to swim a little. How can i am just a beginner?

I gave an excuse saying " I remember Sapna (my senior) doing only this on her first day of swimming class that too when a professional coach was the one instructing her then how can u expect me to do all the things in one day." He shouted at me saying " u want to learn or not..all these days u were eating my head saying that u want to learn and now when the day has come u are giving excuse...if u dont want to learn then sit in a corner and watch others like a 3 yrs old kid." It was bad...on all the weekdays i shout on him and today he got a chance to shout on me :( so did accordingly...well not to mention that my first attempt was just pathetic...i was under the water searching for a support. Well it was just 5 feet and i cud not balanced myself. Shameful i thought. It was bad..i need to learn and i need to take it as a challenge.

Just couple of attempts and i was able to swim in the shallow but short distance only. Took rest for sometime and tried doing it all over again. Others were enjoying and i was practising wat i learnt few mins back from them. Unnati kept on smiling...i just told her..dont worry babe next week u will be in and then i will see u :) After sometime i was doing little better. I was doing it all alone and then all of a sudden one leg could not find the floor below...whats happening i thought...i was loosing my balance..oh shit i was just standing on the edge...i just looked at unnati and told her " pls tell them i am in deep". Unnati did not understand the terminology and she passed the message happily saying that " u know!!! she is swimming in deep". The voice from other side came " Oh good...she is progressing". (p.s- deep was just 12 feet)

Oh god i was just on the edge and the only leg suppoting me was also loosing its grip. I looked at Amit and shouted " Amit i am in deep". Idiot smiled from the end and said " good". Oh gosh...how do i convey the message i thought...Actually i was using the wrong words..i realised it when i started gulping the water. Then i looked up..and shouted for Help. Then those buggers realised what i meant by "Deep". By the time they reached i was in deep water and fighting for my life. One hand grabbed my right hand and pulled me towards the shallow. I sank to the bottom, rose to the surface seconds later, spluttering and choking. I was safe. Nothing much happened but that fear increased as the encounter of death/something like death was just too bad. Took rest for few mins and decided that i will swim in deep water. Amit just told me to cross little portion diagonally without any help and he wud wait at the other end. The thought of it scared me but i wanted to take this out forever. I swam the distance. Repeated it couple of times. Everytime he set a target increasing the distance and i was supposed to reach it. He did it so perfectly. One end used to be in shallow and other in deep. Four hours in pool and i learnt 50%. Just need to increase my stemina. Thats what they told me :).

After this swimming session we went to play snooker. It was fun. i just loved it. Then TT. This i played with unnati as Amit and Swaroop are too fast in TT. Then lastly came to Badminton court, wooden floor but a properly managed one. Played one game with swaroop. Not to mention i lost it ;). After 10 years i played badminton. I missed my schooldays. Then i realised how good i feel when i play. After 10th grade, life was just school and studies...then that horrible hostel with no games..and then this mba which made us sit in college till 9.00 p.m. And remaning time of day with those stupid assignments.

But now i will be regular with my hobbies. Next weekend also i am planning to go and will continue this as far as possible. Well sunday we did not go again to the club as we were just too tired for anything. I had a bad backache coz of badminton. Today feeling little better :)

Hostel life rocks!!!

Well there is always something in my life which is spicy.

The hottest of all now is a blog which describes abt my hostel life in graduation. The best hostel i have ever seen in my life. The time (3 yrs) we spent there.

Whats here: The mastis we did ...some secrets revealed...mysteries solved...some confessions...some facts and myths abt girls and girls hostel.

Contributors: 2 people. Reema & Ships (whoelse)

What are we doing here: We are just brushing up our memories together :) . Most of the incidents from hostel will be posted over here (exceptions are always there ;) )

No hard feelings for anyone :) including the warden who imposed so many restrictions ;)

I am infecting others also

I m spreading this virus of blogging badly it seems. I made my friend reemu to create a blog and she has started posting also. Good babe!!!!

Reema is the girl who actually helped me a lot. She was my rommie for 3 continous year and was one who played a gr8 role in the transformation of my behavior. She always used to write her dairy and that made me jott down my feelings. i still have that dairy which i used to write in my hostel. I havent completed it. Occasionally i write in that. Now i write all the important events of my life.

Love u and miss u dear :) keep in touch and keep blogging...

yours truly
:)

Tresspassers will be executed

Today i am enjoying my holiday at home. All my friends are working but i am the lucky one today (they enjoyed their holiday last thursday and i was working :( ). I had plans for today but nobody around to go with so took proper rest. Did all my washing, ironing and cleaning work on saturday so no more backlogs, now can rest in peace.

Evening was getting bored...so came out with my bag with nothing in my mind. Had no clue as where i was walking towards. Started towards Cunningham road and saw my favorite citi bank atm..so thought of withdrawing...then walked few steps and saw this Sify cafe, had nothing to do so just came to check my mails. After a long time i am "VELLi" ;)

As usuals browsed some blogs...Wanted to ask this to u?

Is it wrong to read someones blog? well i am not reading any strangers blog..i m talking abt a person whom i know for past 8 years. i got his blog from google search. He is not aware of this. I read all his articles and check is blog almost everyday and occasionally comment on them but dont leave any information behind. i know its bad..but i cant stop reading his blog and at the same time cant afford to tell him the fact.

Am i doing a wrong thing. I dont intend to hurt him? Waiting for ur comments...

How to make a Cup of tea!!

Its abt a girl and her unique style of making tea.

She had a guest in the office and was supposed to offer a cup of coffee...She took the guest to the Pantry. She wanted to offer the cup of coffee when guest demanded for a cup of tea, she went near the vending machine and stood there talking with her guest and in the mean time reading the instructions on the machine. She took 5 mins to read all those instructions but hardly understood as it was all technical (how to clean the machine) ;). She pretended as if she was in deep thoughts. To add to her trouble one of her aquaintance entered in the pantry. This person went and stood exactly behind her and waited for his turn.

Now this female had no option but to try. So glanced over the slab and 2 different type of mugs were there. Black and Cream color mugs. she lifted a big black mug (good choice isnt it) and placed it right down the coffee tube at the left handside. Now she started reading the options from Left to right

Options were (in the same order): Expresso,Black coffee, Light milk coffee,Decafe,Rinse, tea, cappuccino, Milk, Milk coffee.

Ahh she found the tea button finally and pressed it. Some sound came and some water came from the right hand side. She looked into the cup and nothing was there. She thought " does tea evaporates so fast?" But she did not give up and tried again with full Josh. This time when she pressed again water came from right handside and nothing fell in the mug. Her guest looked at her. She got little nervous. Man standing behind was wondering as what the jerk doing there for so long. She read the options again to confirm that she was pressing the right button. Third time when she pressed she bent a little to see whats happening in the machine and cup which she kept at her waist level. Then she realised that the water she thought was cleaning the machine is actually meant for tea. She managed a smile as if she conquered a long war. She moved the glass this time to her RHS and placed it below the water tube. Happily pressed the tea button and water came in the mug for the first time. She then recalled how her mom taught her to make tea on the burner. So next step was obviously milk. So without a second thought she pressed the milk button.

Her smile faded away when she saw milk coming from the left hand side tube. Her face turned white. The person standing behind got a free entertainment show. She then discovered that for making a cup of tea milk comes from a different tube and water from a different one, with her tremebeling fingers she pressed the milk button and placed the cup down the milk tube. Guess what happened.

Milk was in the mug ;) She now had milk and water solution in the mug so gave the space to the person waiting for long. Now she drifted the mug towards the slab where two tea boxes were kept. She looked in both the boxes and got puzzled. One tea box had yellow color tea bags and other one had plain ordinary color tea bags. She stared at both the boxes and picked one from both. She held both in each hand and asked  -"which one wud u like to take?"to her guest. The guest instead of looking at the tea bags started looking at her face. The person pouring tea for himself started smiling. Wicked one ofcourse!!! Then he could not control and said " Madam the yellow color tea bag which u are holding in one of ur hand is a lemon tea bag. Pls put it down."

Girls face expressions were worth watching. "oh is it" she replied and kept the lemon tea bag in the box and handed the sugar bowl to her guest and made a cute comment " Pls help urself" to avoid further funny scenes. She was feeling shy with all that happened. To avoid her embarrassment she said looking at both " actually i dont like tea and dont know how to make either. Lemon tea is the name i have just heard and never tasted. Both the people in the pantry started laughing at her stupidity. She smiled coyly.

This lady was no other than yours Truly...yes it happened to me on 12th march 2005. come on don't laugh now...Guest was one of my candidate(female) who joined the other day. Happens!!!

Bloggers be careful!!!

this is a belated post. i tried posting it but due to some blogging errors cud not. trying again!!!

Last saturday luckily i was working. I was just browsing and as usual started with my R&D stuff on google...came across this article.

When i read this i cud not believe it...Is it really true? was what i was thinking...but then whatever it is one should be careful...this was a warning for me i guess ;) I really need to be careful...thankfully nobody in this office knows abt my habbit (blogging)...

People get fired for blogging, shocking right? read here

I was thinking abt it and then came to a conclusion that i better not write anything related to office :)...well previously also i wrote some stuff abt my schedules... good god...precautions are always better ;)

Hot News: Good features at MSN Messenger now

I guess i need to install MSN again...As in the last post i told that i have already uninstalled all the other messangers i guess i did a little mistake.Good features at MSN now..

Software giant Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its well known instant-messaging client Messenger, allowing Internet users to publish and track each other´s blogs, or online journals...Read more

and dont forget to read what Michael jackson did. Really a Gr8 star ;)

Dialer tunes

Everyday i have to speak to so many ppl over the phone that i get bugged with the ring. trinnn trinnn, awwww i am sick& tired of it..

The best part comes when i try a number and instead of the monotonous ring a music comes :) i find it so soothing...it actually relives me of my tension for few seconds...today i was totally loaded with work and cudnot spare a single minute for myself. Gave a call to someone and the music started all of a sudden...it was so unexpected that for a moment i forgot my work...all of a sudden a harsh voice broke the rythm...wish he did not pick the call...where will u get to listen the music free of cost ;) these tunes are actually good... range from Bollywood film songs to international hits, wacky sounds to instrumental music and even their own voice.

The other day i called one of my classmate and he had set a song from the movie Aitraaz and the song was sung by Adnan Sami "Gela Gela Gela" I like this song very much and also liked the movie. Its a remake of Movie Disclosure

Good concept..Mogambo khush hua ;)

"SORRY"

Yesterday somebody said sorry to me in the nite and i could not stop smiling. This is the word i hate most but love it when i look back into the past. Still cherish those memories

I was in the second grad and dad was posted in Surat. My naughty brother is three yrs younger to me. It was my summer vacations, the painful time for my mom. I used to fight with my brother on silly things all day and this fight irritated my mom to the core. Mom was fed up with 2 little monsters.

i was very particular about my things and eating manners those days. Hated when somebody used to put their hands in my plate while i was eating (though i have changed completely after hostel life). My brother knew this weakness of mine and used to call me a "copy cat". One fine day i was having my lunch and this idiot purposely put his dirty hands in my plate to take something. i hated it and left my food in the middle and went to keep my plate in the kitchen. I went to my room to sit in peace but this bugger followed me. I told him harshly to leave "my room" but no he wanted to sit on my head and eat my brain also. He started saying a poem which he made exclusively for me for irritating purpose. I could not control myself and threw a pencil at him. He also took my books and started throwing them at me. Suddenly he came and pulled my hairs. Gosh it was so painful..i caught his little arm and bit him deeply. He ran straight to mom crying...i know half of it was his drama..but was trapped and that too with a proof :( Mom came yelling at me and as usual started off " u are the elder one have some shame, he is a kid but u should be mature", who wanted to be an elder one..i never asked for it i thought but thankfully did not utter. Little monster came back to my room and was again on his mischieves. I could not control and ran after him this time creating a nuisance in the house. We were running in the house, banging the doors behind throwing the things on the floor and fighting like dogs when we saw mom striding in our direction with a chappal in her hand. Now instead of running behind each other we both were running to escape from moms beating. but badluck we reached a deadend. A big wall in front and no escape..there was a store room so we entered into that. The store room was full of trunks, suitcases and briefcases. We started climbing those as if were climbing Mt. Everest. Believe me climbing those thrunks were tougher than climbing the Everest


She entered the room and gave us instructions to come down. We both started looking at each others like 2 monkeys on a tree. When she saw that her instruction is not being carried out she threatened us by locking in the store room for 2 days without food.
We were left with no options but to come down. Slowly and carefully we both stepped down. She was waiting for this moment like a hungry lioness waiting for the its prey. She closed the door behind and picked her Hawaii chappal again. One here and one there. Very rythemic it was ;) But whats this she did not stop there..she carried on with the spanking as if she was washing clothes :( we both were screaming in pain and horror but no relaxation from the other end. I dont remember the count but definately she gave more than 7-8 to both of us. Even the neighbours wud have heard the music. Suddenly my gr8 brother fell in her feet and said sorry for more than 15-20 times in a single breath. Mom found him very courteous and told him to stand in a corner but i got the overdose ;) I was not able to recall this word "sorry". i heard it when brother said but cud not utter it as it slipped from my mind. After taking all her anger and frustration out mom left the store. I was sitting half broken kinds suddenly my eyes went into the corner where i saw the little monster standing and smiling. He gave a very cunning smile :X. Little moster was really a smart kid who saved himself from those extra dose.

Lessons i learnt with these kind of things in life:

Sorry: good way to escape..but say when u mean it
Thankyou: for everything a person does to you

:)

Deceptive or defective eyes

Few days back i was standing on the road side and was waiting for my cab.

There is a signal and a tree near to my pick up point so i go and stand next to the tree to avoid sun rays and heat. i take out my novel and start reading it without looking here and there. when i feel tired i take support of the tree and stand and again eyes in the book. When ants and other things start crawling and biting me then i realise that its rite time for me to move and stand without a support. When i get too tired of reading or when dont feel like reading after few pages then i simply close the book and start wandering here and there.

Thats how i behave/stand on the pickup point. Now one day i reached office and saw a person standing who is in his late thirties and lives in the same locality but comes on his own vehicle. Once he came in my cab and thats how i came to know abt him. So he smiled at me..i also returned the smile. Then he spoke " I saw u standing on the signal...i smiled at u but u turned your face" i started thinking when did i behave this way. Unconciously also i dont act like that. I smile at an enemy also then how come i was so rude to my colleague. Then i asked him " U saw me today? are u sure? what was i doing? i hope u are not mistaken (generally happens)". The person smiled at me and said "yes madame i saw u only..u were looking at the traffic and starring on the vehicles..i was on my bike" I tried to recall but nothing flashed in my garbage store(mind). I was puzzled. He then asked me "everything fine with u?" I managed a smile and said yes..i did not move..and tried hard again but was of no use. Then i realised my bad habbit. I went behind the person and said " Sorry sir, now i realised what i was doing..actually i was tired of reading the book so closed it and kept it in my bag...and when i was standing there i was thinking on various things...when i am engrossed in my thought process i cannot see or understand a single thing happening in front of me. I guess i was looking at u..but back of my mind i was lost in some thought process which made this situation to occur." The person smiled back and said " its ok i did not take it seriously...i wanted to ask u whether u want a lift or something coz u were standing all alone but i got scared of u". Good relief the person did not take it to his heart.

So many times this has happened to me...especially when i am all alone..i see things but i dont actually see them and ppl get the notion that i have ignored them :( worst happens when somebody knows me closely..they wonder what makes me behave this way...they start thinking of the conversation they had with me last..these kind of things actually make them feel that i am angry on them. Hope one day they will realise the defect in me ;) :(

Everything is fake now a days

Gosh i am encountering bad things these days. The latest story:

I scheduled a guy for a personal interview after i found him technically sound over the phone.

He came to the campus and i put him to the technical person for the personal interview. After sometime the technical person calls me in the cabin where the interview is going on. I enter the cabin and directly look at the candidate. He is not able to see in my eyes. I asked them " what happened". The technical person tells me that the person has got a fake CV. He is not working in any of these companies. I looked at the person in disbelief. I asked the candidate " where are u working then" he told that he is unemployed and is looking for a job. i thought ok may be he is not having something in his hand and that made him behaved this way. Next question i asked him was " have u ever worked in the companies u have mentioned on your profile?" he did not answer. after a pause i asked him again " Are u working? and if yes how many years of exp u have in real companies?" He slowly said " i dont have any experience and i m jobless"

Suddenly my technical person started off saying that " u cud be behind the bars..we can take a legal action against u...thats not the right way..we are a CMMi Level 5 company and firmly believe in process and everything is being checked here..blah blah blah"
i looked at the technical person ..he controlled himself..then i told the candidate " see its not the rite thing to do..i do understand your desperation for your job but these kind of acts can put u in trouble. How many times did i ask u abt your profile and everytime u gave me a nice answer...i found u technically sound and that was the reason i had arranged this interview"...he did not look up...he was ashamed of being caught red handed...finally i said " Mr.X i have no rights to give a lecture or gyan to someone..but if u really want to succeed in life be true to yourself" Poor guy listened to me patiently. Then i asked him politely to leave. He stood up and apologised. I was looking at his face..i did not feel bad coz he wasted my time and gave a BIG question mark on my work..but felt bad thinking that wat made him do so...umemployement???? or something else?

After that i guess i have witnessed some 7-8 cases. I dont know how do i perform reference check over the phone.