The dear departed

Dear reader,

It's been almost eight months since I met you. The last time when we spoke, I was pretty much elated about my birthday and what happened since then? How is life on earth? Well, it has been a surprising year so far with a series of (un)fortunate events .

March 10th, 2009 A.D ended in a happy note. Truth to be told, When I joined this company, I had absolutely no idea of staying back so long. To me, it was just a temporary job to avoid any suggestions and advice that would come in all possible direction, free of cost. But then, very soon, just within a weeks time, I lost my interest in finding any better opportunities. This office to me seemed like my college, we have always had fun whilst work. We were often referred to as the best batch e4e has ever seen . Days just passed by happily until one fine evening our trainer looked extremely disappointed, which was quite bizarre. After about 30 minutes of interogation, he opened up. Before he could say something, the telephone rang. It was our Senior Manager and he wants to meet us. There was absolutely no commotion because we were so stupid to believe he just wants to put up some usual questions like if the A/C is working or if the chappathi from the cafe is fully baked.



To our surprise, our manager was accompanied by few men who carried some white papers and laptops. The old gentleman among the two introduced himself as the senior manager, human resources department and he has come down from bangalore. Ha, by now we should have got a clue, right? But no, we still thought its about the chappathi kurma. The lean figure cleared his throat and addressed us in a rather unusual deeply remorseful tone. I felt like watching a Christopher nolan's movie. I had no clue why he should suddenly show up and pat us on the back for no apparent reason. Our vacant expressions made him put it right on the face - you guys are fired. Yes, we were ousted. Apparently due to some law suit, one of our clients cancelled their contract and the company had to lay off some fresh fishes, and that was us.



That was a disheartening evening, I was forced to write my first resignation letter. I can still remember prabhu asking the HR - Sir, can we atleast stay for some more time and leave by end of day, as usual?. Unfortunately, the answer was NO, as expected. One among us asked the HR if they could just transit us to another project for which we got yet another disappointing response - We'll get back to you if there is a need. Soon in minutes, we were evacuated. We walked down the stairs to see the cabs were waiting to pick us, it was all preplanned, dammit. Honestly, I haven't felt bad even at the school or the college farewell, this just shook me off. We couldn't take it up but though, we had no choice than to walk back home.



The following weekend, we planned on a trip to mahabalipuram. Yes, the same place which saw us a few weeks back with utmost fun and happiness. It was decided at the trip that this batch, the infamous batch 14 will meet up every month end at some public place. But, it dint happen more than thrice. Yes, it's quite true that time heals. Few of us were lucky to get a job and others were still hunting. Among the few lucky, I was one. I was called back by my company and was offered a job in a higher level of support for which they don't normally recruit amateurs. Radhika and I reported back to e4e on march 20th, 2009.



Radhika is the girl who has a wide reputation of being jovial, friendly, bubbly and brilliant. Ever since I met her, we have always had fun pulling her leg. Her vibrant laugh is what one could remember when they think of her. Once, she playfully said that I'm like her brother and hence supposed to support her and not to tease her. At that time, I never realized I have a lovely sister who would trust her life with me. Since day 1 we were good friends, always had nice time and If there is one thing that made me feel better in rejoining this company, it was her presence with me. I might not have taken it up if I were the only one.

As was told before, this process is supposedly a higher level project and hence was full of experienced people. We both looked like hobbits. Having tagged "freshers", we were given a corner seat in the hall amidst the highly 'educated' people. It is quite natural for anybody to take time to acquaint with someone and for us, it took a long time. Apparently, my dear colleagues were not interested to acquaint with us and at any given time, it was only rad and I who were found together. We became really close and thats when I contemplated my mom's words. She often tells (read it as cribs) that our home is missing a female kid and that I should know to raise a younger sister. Well, perhaps she is right. If it wasn't radhika, who else would have called me 'anna'? or to be precise, "Dai anna". Yes, she is the best sister a guy could get. I always tell her, I wish she was born my sister for which she giggles and tells - dai mokka podatha.

It is quite natural for someone of my age to comment on seeing a guy and a gal moving so close. And it happened in my case too. I was put to many discomforting questions and sarcastic comments. But as someone said, my reaction most of the time was, "Quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn". One fine evening, my trainer passed a comment on us in the class in his usual "funny" tone. Rad immediately responded by telling him, in fact, them that Vishwa is my brother and requested them to stop making "fun". In spite of this, I still have had tough times till date.

One thing which amuses me is, what the bloody fish bothers them? and this little question is still a conundrum to me. Well, the day when we moved to production, we were put in the same team and continued to help each other at work until they formed a new team. It was when they seperated us for some 'brilliant' reason. I was put to some discomforting questions and phew, It was quite hard. But hey, as they say, Time is a powerful medic. Things dint bug me as I continued not to bother. As days went, we had more nice times, celebrating our friends' birthdays, hanging out together with friends and all that fun. I still can remember, rad is the first female apart from my mom to have shed tears for me(Though, we were just kidding that I was hurt). It'd take light years for me to describe how affectionate she is and how much I love her. sigh! .. Damn, I've started mumbling.

It's been almost 8 months since I joined this work but it seems like 8 days. In the month of march, when I joined, I wasn't bothered about rad joining wipro in the late december becuase I always had a thought that december is far away. My computer's CMOS battery is kaput so I have to set the system date after every bootup , huh. One fine day, when I took time to find what day it is, I realized its november. The same day, rad said she is planning to put down her papers. This is of course a good news. Yes, I always want her to be in a better job, at least she. But then, there is always a small worry that she is leaving. Yesterday, I was happy to hear that she has got her d.o.j, the much awaited d.o.j and whats more good is that she has to report in chennai itself. She always tells that she don't want to miss her parents and family and yes, her prayers are answered.

Well, today she has put down her papers and is awaiting her relieving orders from the company. If am not mistaken, she will be off this place in a week. During this eight months at e4e, I have learned a lot, a lot about computers, a lot about people, a lot about life, a lot, a lot. I am going to miss something that kept me going all these days, my sister's presence. I am sure rad is going to have a great time ahead, I wish and I pray to god that all her endeavors are a mammoth success. And I am also sure, she will be my side, forever. Rad, I promise to bug you wherever you go. To commemorate, ladies and gentlemen, let us all "LOL" for a minute and bid farewell .. :)

All the very best sis .. :)
Your lovingly.

Happy birthday dude!

Today's fortune: Today you will see a fortune cookie that you have never seen before.
- Orkut

Orkut is sometimes right. Tenth of March '09 not only marked special occasions like Holi and Milad-e-Nabi, but also the aging of a simple earth descendant who seldom celebrates it. It all started with a simple albeit very special greeting card sent by Sundar (My first ever B'day greeting :) ) which was later followed by a series of surprising events accounting to a wonderful day. When the clock tower at the Allahabad observatory showed twelve, my mobile phone released high frequency sounds which we often call as "Ringing tone". I was surprised and elated to see my friends wishing me at the stroke of mid-night. I knew everyone was tired after returning home from work place, But still they stood awake just to wish me - How nice?!! :) .. Thanks everyone!! And, It's certainly a great delight to hear a happy birthday song sung for you at the stroke of mid-night, that too on a conference call. Thanks to Rad, Rat and Sangi and Oh, Thanks Mr.Mozart for such a lovely composition (Although this one sounded like a typical Yuvan. A reprise? Oh well :P). Soon in minutes, I went to sleep, happily. The next day, as usual I woke up late and hastened to office. I was thinking whether to goto office or not because I had to goto my college in the evening for my graduation day. I know about my college, they strictly follow the "IST". I thought I could goto office and leave from there, and so I went. Whatever happened at my office is just indescribable, or at least to me, it is. I got my first ever b'day cake... An exquisite shirt... A photoframe - enamoring souvenir!!! Thanks a lot guys!! (If there is any other better word to express my gratitude, I'd be happy to use that.. )

Love you all.
Visu.

Team outingungo - v 2.0

"There are two kinds of people on planet earth : Those who like sequels and those who don't"

- Yours truly.

Team outingungo!!

I just remembered one of the famous maxim, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" - Rightly said. After a fatiguing month of work, we guys wanted to have a change, a change that brings entertainment and whence came the thought of a team outing, just to freak out to some place and have fun. It was when Mr.Whatever-I-do-Just-for-kidding asked for suggestions, the places of interest were Mahabalipuram, Tada Falls, Theme Parks and Oh, not to forget Dakshin Chitra. After analyzing factors like distance, cost, fun quotient, global warming, recession, dollar exchange rate, Kashmir issue, blah blah and more blah blah, consensually we agreed upon Mahabalipuram. Tada falls was ruled out just because someone said that the place is frequented by "Ghosts" that which periled the gals.. (ROFL big time). So, Pallava's place it is, decided. When to go, was the next question. Unfortunately the saturday which immediately followed happened to be the "Valentine's day", the day on which they celebrate the beheading of a poor saint who left a piece of paper reading "From your valentine". Well, commemorating that, some of our "Romeos" and "Juliets" had plans for the day, so we had to procrastinate the plan to Feb 21st, the next saturday with loads of expectaions... :)

2009, Feb 21st, Saturday, 06:13 HRS IST:

*Birds chirping - Sun rising up - Pankajam maami next door chanting kandha sashti kavacham - Muthu, the milkman yelling "Amma paaal"*

Followed by muthu's squall, the alarm disturbed my sleep , I just woke up to see if earth is still rotating , and thats when I realized its saturday, the day to execute the mega plan. I hastened and managed to get ready by 0700 HRS. According to the plan, I was supposed to take Mr.Call-me-don-everyone-in-orissa-does with me to Saidapet, where we would be joining the rest of the team. And so, I called him up to check his status quo - no response. Even after a dozen of calls, I got no response. Bloody hell, I immediately called up Mr.Vasoolraja-Kamalahaasan-Lookalike and informed him the situation. He along with Mr. All-in-all-alaguraja-sidekick tried to contact our "No response" guy- No use. I then started to his house with utmost wrath and when I reached there I saw a 3/4th clad typical north Indian guy watching some crappy SRK movie on his desktop. Luckily, he helped me in waking up our bloody defaulter. Soon in minutes we were on our way to join our team. Having informed Mr.Powered-by-muscles-driven-my-martial-arts we joined our team at VGP and our journey commenced.

Well, as was expected, the journey was fun filled, absolutely. It started with the Not-so-fatal beatings to our defaulter for the delay, which was then followed by the usual entertainment activities like singing, dancing, screaming et al. Soon we reached our first place of visit, Mutukadu boat club, which is on the way to Mahabalipuram on the East Coast Road (This place houses one of Tamilnadu's "largest" boating house). We heard a low grunting noise even after the driver had killed the engine, Oh, that was our Mr.I-hate-being-called-a-brother-this-is-outrageous. His tummy rumbled. In fact we all were hungry, So we planned to have our breakfast. Ms.I'm-not-fat-the-word-you-are-looking-for-is-chubby-dammit helped us in getting hot idlies from HSB. After devouring the day's first food, we were all set for the boat ride. To our disappointment, there were no pedaling boats. All we had is that 'Dhurrr-Dhup-Dhup' Motor boat and the 'Aiyelesa' rowing boat, with the helper rowing it. Well, we made groups of four and chose 5 rowing boats and presto, we were on the water, rowing rowing rowing towards the horizon! (Over exaggeration, I agree :D). The ride lasted for about 1800 seconds(sounds so long no? :P) in which we discovered an atoll, took pictures for the orkut part, splashed the contaminated H20 over each other and finally, returned to base. One Mr.I-swear-I-am-as-young-as-you-people-are gasped and reported that the lower atmospheric layer of the Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha is too hot today and suggested some pesticides to quench our thirst- Righto, Done! What now? Ah yes, a small game of Volley ball in the scorching sun. I remember seeing Ms.Don't-call-me-a-glutton-its-just-a-spoon-extra-that-I-eat! (serving spoon of course) chasing the ball that which rolled on the floor thrice in a minute. Well, what else do you expect from us? We are rookies! :P

Back on the road to Mahabalipuram, Set wet gel in my hair, Strong smell of karvaad rising up through the air.. Oh well, we continued to execute the same old travelling fun algorithm. Soon in 30 minutes we reached the Pallava's place with a nice welcome by the cool sea breeze, greenery et al. I was just thinking, "Oh what a place to live in, no humongous population, no pollution, good". I was proved wrong in a jiffy when I witnessed a crowd of men yelling something, It was apparently a protest. Ah well, It all happens here, Welcome to India.. *sigh*. Since it was half past twelve, we thought we should have our lunch before the adventure and so we went in search of a good eat out. Heck, we walked almost a kilometer to refuel our ships and that food was not too fantastic as such. Well, If you have noticed, we have done nothing so far except the boat ride and its already 2 in the noon :D..

Truth to be told, there aren't many places to be explored in Mahabalipuram except those brilliantly formed lumps of consolidated mineral matter and the scupltures carved out of them. For the next 75 minutes we had an amzing time exploring every nook and corner. Well, If you trace our path travelled, every roundabout way we took was either because of a dead end or a ahem ahem.. (All hail valentines of the 21st century!)... We took pictures of every rock we climbed, every tree we sat under. Myself and Mr.I-am-not-a-manmadhan-it-happens-just-like-that were clearly ahead of the rest, running before them. And thats when I had a chance to experiment Sir Isacc Newton's discovery by slipping off a small rock (Aarva kolaaru, you see :D). When the clock on the wall struck four, we moved towards the shore- yay!

Beach volley ball is a nice game to play, but not with 10 people in a team chasing for the ball, Chaotic you see... We played a small game on the shore with the opponent team winning by a small margin-dammit!.. Soon after the game, we jumped into the sea. Initially some guys hesiatated to come in for no apparent reason, but soon in minutes they joined us (Anyway we would have dragged them in :D). It was just the two females, Ms. Maami and Ms.Pray-silence-for-here-lives-me who remained dry during the end of the day. And oh, speaking of which reminds me about Ms.Love-is-not-the-word-which-plays-in-my-dictionary-and-I-love-it (A.K.A Ms.Rowdy-And-Terror) being threatened by "THE GURU" for some matter of which I shall speak no more ;) .. So, it was seven in the evening when we called it a day and started our journey back home. The travelling fun algorithm was again called for, with the same enthusiasm efficiency, No matter how tired we were. Dancing, yelling, singing - It continued.

Ultimately, if you see, the purpose of our visit was not to explore mahabalipuram or not to learn about the sculptures of the great kings, for that matter. *yawn* ... It was just to have a day out, a day to relax, a day to enjoy with friends, and I must say, It was a wonderful day, totally!! Perhaps, the best day of the year so far :) ... (Oh boy, 2008 was a fiasco, no?) ..

Hoping to have more such nice days in the future..

Yours truly.

Aur ye aapka doosra sawal :)

Friday the 30th, will be a memorable day in his life. After a prolonged boring life, this day witnessed something Interesting/Inspiring. It so happened at his work place when he came late by a few seconds after the dinner break. Hot seat, as they call, is a practice invented by some ingenious guy wherein you will have to sit before a group of people and answer to whatever they ask, whatever. Unfortunately, he had to be the first candidate for the Hot seat. He of course had a rough idea about the questions that will be asked and also was he afraid of the answers to be framed. It started with a pretty obvious question, "Tell me about your love/crush". Well, poor guy had to tell something to convince the inquisitors. As it went on, plethora of questions were asked pertaining nothing but girls and relationships(Well, what else would you expect? huh?). Truth to be told, he was nervous, and whence came the spontaneous answers, which were partially right. Upon giving it a thought now, he thinks he should have told what he felt, actually. Anyway, As one Mr. SRK said, "Abhi picture bhaki hei". So, once he was done with the damnation, Rangachary, One of the Trainers, was asked to take up the Hot seat and so did our gentleman. The next one hour or probably more(Well, they were not following the clock!) was absolutely great.
A lot of questions were asked, from girls to guitar, beer to betrayal and more! (FYI, Ranga is an upcoming sound engineer, a music aspirant). Our guy was quite intrigued by the way ranga managed to answer as well as to advocate(Well, not exactly). If its not speaking philosophical, "Life is not so hard as it looks, it all depends on the way how you take it". That's what he learned from Rangachary, Balaji and Ananth, three nice men from the training department. Well, the last time a question was thrown, it was ananth on the hot seat who pretty well managed to end it on a good note following which Ranga called it a day. "Ahem, Restroom's inviting-Lift's opearting-Cabs waiting- Alright, lets leave". Having said that, he took the cab, reached home and is now writing some crap to put up in his blog. Voila, its done!

** Few questions asked to him

> Your first crush.
> Expectations from your life partner.
> What attracted you the most in your crush?
> If you were to date someone present here, Who would you?
> Happy/Sad moments.

And quite a lot "vetty" questions. It was fun though. He could have answered better. Anyway, Thou shalt speaketh again!!

Yours truly.

Even I was Taggged!

Hi. The following post is nothing but a piece of junk just to make sure this blog is updated frequently :) . I have no idea about this Tagging Kalachaaram, Sundar tagged me for no apparent reason and here it goes.

1. If your lover betrayed you, what will your reaction be?
Et tu brute?

2. If you can have a dream to come true, what would it be?
A nice cottage on a hill station, beloved one sitting besides and... Ah well, *sigh* ..

3. Whose butt would you like to kick?
My sucessor.(Hell, he is better than me!)

4. What would you do with a billion dollars?
Start an engineering college and make more money.

5. Will you fall in love with your best friend?
Thats how it starts no?

6. Original Q: Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?
Umm.. being loved. Oh wait, depends on the person. :)

7. How long do you intend to wait for someone you really love?
Until i see someone better.

8. If the person you secretly like is already attached, what would you do?
Add her in orkut and yeah, whatever.. *yawn*

9. If you like to act with someone, who will it be? Your gf/bf or an actress/actor?
Nayanthara or any other female who looks c00l.

10. What takes you down the fastest?
Digital Signal Processing.

11. How would you see yourself in ten years time?
Playing counter strike condition forty two and as usual, having fun.

12. What’s your fear?
Solitude

13. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Basically vetty. :P

14. Would you rather be single and rich or married but poor?
Option 1. But yeah, The latter one follows.

15. What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
Well, I don’t have much time after I wake up. I will just brush, bath, eat and go to play.

16. Would you give all in a relationship?
Never. I will realize well before that stage!

17. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
The one to whom I haven’t made love before, Or the one who was better.

18. Would you forgive and forget no matter how horrible a thing that special someone has done?
No I won’t. But then, since its someone “special” I can pretend(Ah I must.. )

19. If its your last day and you have one call to make, whom would you call? Dont tell me your mom. Someone else.
Pepsi Uma.

Three most important expectations in love:
1. No idea.
2. Still No idea,..
3. Ah yes, “Good looking”.

20. List 6 people to tag:

Well, frankly, no one visits this page, if suppose inadvertently you came in, By the holy powers vested upon me, I hereby tag you!

Welcome 2009 !

A very happy and prosperous New year to all ...!