My Team

Straight out of college I was given the job to lead a Team ..almost 22 of them...some of them much experienced than me...ohh I am using past-tense here just to update my blog with events I missed ..but dont waana miss bloggin em...ok...back to the story then..I was replacing Tathagat Dey..doesnt that name sounds like someone genious...and so he was!..The most brilliant and the Best TL around..given the responsiblity of the biggest project ever bagged by the company...and here I was..a lazy ass..still trying to find out what I was doing in a BPO after engineering. I was with him for almost 2 weeks...used to sit with him..learn all the tricks..trying to understand what he tried to explain things in a language ..which sounded more like a alien language to me..you know how those top rankers tried to explain maths problems to you...thats exactly used to feel. But then we became really great buddies...and he also explained the other things in a workplace...yeah..corporate politics..which was evident coz..there were some really incompetent people at great positions..no wonder theres a culture not to call "sir" to seniors;-)
Finally the day arrived...it was tats' last day..and i was shit scared...that i will be sitting alone at his desk from the next day! But as things passed I slowly but steadily picked up...all thanks to my team..my biggest strength...we had become great frends...freaking together...goin for muvees..dint feel i was outta college....!!!

India Twenty20 champs!

Finally a day of celebrations for indian cricket. India wins the twenty20 world cup in South Africa!..The fans rejoiced so much that made one feel as if it had rained after ages on a desert. Cricketers made demi-gods...pics of shirtless dhoni everywhere. Sponsors and State govts immersing them in pool of wealth as our humble Ganpati bappa was beng immersed in that polluted so-called lake or shore in your neighbourhood. Its really insane to see a full page ad from indian-oil to congratulate Rohit Sharma...and the very next day..after all hue and cry by hockey players you see an ad almost 1/8th the page congratulating the whole hockey team. This shows the equation between the national game and cricket clearly. I guess its high time that the BCCI takes a big-brother status and takes care of other sports in India too rather than churning out cricketers born out of politics of states. That mercedes-benz or porsche gifted to yuvraj and RP Singh could have bought decent hockey sticks or may be even good pairs of shoes to many underpreviliged sportspersons of India.

The workplace

Its really wierd when you are working as a Team Leader to a really competent team having more work experience than you. But then thats how corporate policies are...wierd!! I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that I would be leading a Team and managing a process in an Outsourcing firm after 4 yrs full of gears, mechanics, hydraulics and other scary stuff...yep...scary..now life seems so simple. But theres a but..somewhere within me lies a void that keeps on pricking me reminding me to use atleast the "M" of mechanical engineering before I end up doing a MBA..if et all it happens. But the lifes the biggest comedy of errors you can find..and you can just sit,stare and have a good laugh at it.

The Government

Sunday was the day when i gave my gang from my complex where i stay. We call ourself "The Government"...wierd name for a group..but thats exactly how we are! Lazy, Careless...and most important, we never break rules...we only make newer ones..thats our policy..why break rules when you u can create a new to get things done..well thats how govt operates isnt it? Lemme introduce you to the Ministers...Rohan aka Ruan, the futbal star among us..eats,lives and even sleeps with his football..then comes Dinesh aka Dan..the only commited person in the gang...a perfect BF..then theres the old-monk...Chirag aka craig..loves the way he is..and me aka Viz. So the govt had a blast at pop-tates at rmall..our fav hangout. 1 pitcher of rc and Minty cool...the latter was my order. yep..m the only teetotaller in govt. After a litre or two of beer ..u knw how ppl feel hungry..we decided to head to tandoor corner.Me, dan and ruan tearing the tandoor as lions do to the deers..craig..is a chicken freak...he chickens out eating chicken...dunno y...but no chicken has stayed in his stomach for more than a minute...but this day was an exception...his head started spinning at the very sight of tandoor. He went out...as we were busy going with our tandoor..we realised that craig wasnt at his place...dan went out to look for him...n der we have...the old monk...almost unconcious..lying near the joint...dan dragged us out...almost forcibly separating us from the yummy tandoors....and there we saw him...lying down...after some time..hes back to normal...n we head towards...ccd...this was the last place expected after gulping litres of beer and munching kilos of tandoor...but as i say we are the govt...we can do nething.We tried to order sumthing different each...all sounding different..bt the end result was more or less the same. Sum genius minds might hav worked hard to think of so many different names for the good old coffee.

The first blog...yeah right!!!

This is the second time I have attempted to start a blog..its really difficult to update the blog everyday...but then i guess I Couldnt resist the temptation of recording probably the most exciting phase of my life.
There I was..in the HR dept of my office..yeah I have started working...waiting for the executive to take the photocopy of my marklist..which i proudly held. I couldnot stop smiling seeing the "4o" in refrigeration and air-conditioning(RAC). Ask any engg student and you will know why 40 is the most important number in his life..perhaps even more than his/her birthday. Its strange...but that 40 was even more satisfying than the 68% that i got overall. The marklist brought all my memories of 4 years where me and my gang tried our best to be everything but an engineer! The executive took the marklist from me. "welcome to caliber point" she said. My smile dissapeared as soon as i heard that thing. I was like.."Is this it?? Is this the end of my best days!!?"..well i guess so. 4 years....was a life time!!!