Starting something New

So here I am on sitting on a eventful and a joyful 23 years. Time to move on finally. It is an irony that my resignation has got postponed to the exact same date as my birthday; but I can live with that. Lavi kept telling me that people start new journeys on their birthdays. I convinced her that my new venture into the world is starting and it's starting because my "era" at Infy is coming to an end. The end is starting on this very day officially.

I have finally sent the letter, it looks smooth and crisp with lotsa professionalism in it; well I atleast I feel so. Till I sent that mail to my PM I had been restless. Let me see how I feel in the coming days. I am going to leave some good friends back here; but I glad this change is coming along.

There will a few things I would miss at Infy; the luxury of having 5 different newspapers to read, reading rooms, super fast computers, the very good Amul food parlor, the coding of course, brainstorming sessions and many many more.

There are also a lot of things I wont miss and I'm damn happy about that.

I am a little nervous now as usual (though as usual I don't show it to anyone). Let the negotiation of my relieving date at Infosys begin.

As usual people here are trying to make it hard for me, but the harder they push the stronger I'm sure I'll become.

I hope I wont be a fucked up manager; I'll make things tough for people for sure but in best interests. I'm glad my work ex has made me interact with some pretty
crazy managers; I'll handle people better for sure.


Yeaaaaa!!!!

An Eventful Sunday

Yesterday evening was packed with different emotions. It started with an awesome surprise. I was given a very warm surprise b'day party from my dear friends; Anupam, Nisha, Satheesh and Vineet. It was ploy well worked by Satheesh, who coaxed me into it by telling me to come over to Coffee Day to help him for “personal reason” (in detail on this reason soon). The venue got changed to Marrybrown in the due time due to some “logistics” problem. The venue didn’t matter to me, so off I came to MB (late as usual) and Satheesh was waiting outside. He had been calling me every 10 mins and telling me to come over quick.

So in we went, and took a couple of seats, and guess who walks in; the full gang with a huge chocolate cake. I don’t know if anyone has ever thrown me a surprise like this one before, but trust me, it felt good. As you can see from the picture, “the icing on the cake was just perfect” :D

There was gift box; nicely wrapped up which was bigger than the cake. We all enjoyed the cake first, and I moved on to the gift. And lo, it was an original Arsenal cap. Buddies, buddies; thanks a lot, anything Arsenal totally wins me over.

The cap fitted well and was baseball style; grey in color, the red Arsenal logo with a tribute to Highbury. “Perfect”, I said.

So after a couple of intoxicating lemon ice teas (this too is LIT) and some burgers we left for the beach.

Soon I was flying off my bike; due to a misunderstanding between Satheesh and me, our bikes almost hit each other and I skidded and slid away.

I was a little dazed and bruised but nothing too bad. There was blood all over but strangely no pain. I guess you never feel pain when it really hurts too much beyond a point. Everything just goes numb. So picked myself up and washed the wound up (anupam meanwhile had got some stuff from the medic).

My poor bike was contorted pretty badly. I had to adjust the front guard to make it mobile again. I also tried to adjust the rearview mirror back in place, only for it to come off in my hand. Hmmpphh..

So I told my friends to go onto the beach and headed home. My Dad was indifferent and that was in fact reassuring. He helped me clean it up and told me move on. So I picked up the broken pieces and got ready. I treated myself to a brand new T-shirt my parents had got the day before and headed to the beach.

Reached my friends soon; and had a good evening out in the beach. Chatted along with some drags; talked about life, MBA, and life again.

I forgot to mention that I fell right in front of a temple, and thought I should go to one in the evening. But it was too late, 9 PM came too soon. But I was able to go to the temple in the morning today right before catching my bus :D.

All this in a day in which I was able to catch up “Age of Empires”, “Red Alert 2 ”, “Sega Rally 2” and a movie “The Fog” at home.

Bye bye "Son of Moto"

I've finally moved on, so thought I'll have a fresh template for my blog. This is the best I could find. I like the different colors all complementing each other in this template.

The Moto era is over!

A Political View

This is the political quiz that is getting pretty famous across bloggers. Gives you a decent idea of the kind of person you are, after filling up a question of popular and controversial issues.

As usual I stand alone in the IV Quadrant.

Crashed!!

Crash was different, and I like different. I don't know whether it is Oscar material, but I doubt if anyone does know what that "Oscar material" exactly means.

It was movie that put people in difficult situations where they need to take decisions that could alter people's and their own lives. For this single reason I appreciated it. Overall a low budget and simple movie that raised a lot of eyebrows on why it did get an Oscar. But it is fine with as long as they don't end up giving it to some godforsaken piece of film.

One more thing I was happy about was that it actually did not have a sad ending. The last thing I needed yesterday after a good day's fun was something to mess it up. I wasn't in the "appreciate a movie for what is portraied" mood, hence the movie was perfect. Simple & elegant, with good twists.

Working from MCity

Some pictures of my new workplace. Its coming up really big, New Chennai!!

In Front of Bldg 1:

Food Court:

Bldg 1:

Lets see how long this lasts :)

In Waiting

Its been a year since my crusade started. Now I have to play the waiting game. It's funny, I am finally lost for what needs to be done in the short term. I hope time just flies by.

Setback

After my previous post "the only form of revenge is success"; the first step has been a small failure (I'm being modest here). Lets us see how this setback shapes up.
I am pretty disappointed, but things have gone so very wrong these past couple of weeks that I guess I am prepared for anything these days, or atleast I keep telling myself that I am prepared.