friendship

So...back after a interval....sorry was so engrossed with the routine...did not reallly get time to pendown something....today i thot at anycost i shd write....so when i was thinking what to write....thot why not talk abt friendship...which is one of the vital relationship that happens to anyone during thier life apart from family and love....family is something which we do not get to choose....but this is not like that...friendship is something for which we are the creators....we choose n pick our friends..and i tell u getting good friends is something like a boon....becos the relation does so many things to u that even a family,spouse or children cannot do at times...for example there are certain things that happen in ur life that u can share only with ur friends....if u think and see the relation seems magical.....people from two different gender,caste,creed and even race become friends...this relation doesnt see anything....even for a marriage the basic qualification is that the guy n gal shud be from same caste...and when u want to work somewhere there are some basic qualifications or experience reqd....but only when we make friendship we dont even think abt anything..and once the relationship is established its becomes lifelong sometimes!!!!!!Having spoken so much abt friends and its speciality ......its always important to make friends with like minded people so that it last long.....and also it shud not be with any motive in mind....if u move wth someone or extend a relation with someone with some expectation in mind then it purely becomes a business ..but frankly these days many friendships are made for one expectation or other(but i am not talking abt that kinda relationship)....and coming back to like minded people...why i said this....if u have friends who can think and be like u....its so nice...you will feel it when u are low or running at bad times....u may not tell explictely tell them what u are going thr....thy themselves will know it...and top of it they will come with some solution for u or if not atleast lend a shoulder that u can always lean n cry!!!!!!i am telling u this out of my exp...i have hard times and tough situations...i will completely loose faith in self and will be running low on morale....zhoooooooooooooom mantra kali...i will find one or my other friend by my side somehow...and if i am with them some how i regain my happiness and the lost confidence....and they are the ones who always wish good luck for u and belief in ur ability than urself.....and with them u can be urself....whatever the situation can be ,.....u can be urself.......thats the best part of it....
To conclude....i really thank god for giving me wonderful persons as my friends....and one such friend is my life partner!!!!!what more i can ask god for......i cherish all of them and what difference they have done to my world.......saying thanks will be formal....and definetly dont need it from me to be with me.....but still....BIG THANKS for coming into my life and making my life better!!!!!

Interview blues...........

Haan....this is my chosen topic for the day....i have chosen to write about it because i am currently going thr this phase due to my failed Singapore trip......i really need a job to keep things going....so been attending quite a few so called unsuccessful(why becos i couldnt bag any offer so far) interview calls...whats so disgusting is not the fact that i am not being selected but it is way the interviews are being conducted or poor recruitment and feedback system thats operating these days in IT industry..i have not come to this conclusion just with one or two....i have been noticing quite a few things with this whole recruitment process which in my opinion needs definite change or improvement so that the people are not getting frustated at the end of the day even though they are not getting selected.to elaborate things the very simple thing that i annoys people is the walk in system....they advertise that walk in with resume and walk out with offer .....but this whole system is a real chaotic stuff...though i agree to the fact that we need a job so we need to go thr the interview process and also go thr some stress interviews...but these days its really testing people's patience...in one of the walkins i have attended i was really waiting for nearly 5+ hours but still my CV was not thr with the initial screening process also...when i agreed to go for this particular interview the consultant (i need to write a seperate blog regarding this IT recruitment firms and consultants for the kind of service they provide) told me that my cv was pre screened and the whole of the process may take 4-5 hrs...so i was prepared for it..but only whn i reached there i did realise that the CVs will be screened on the spot and then sent to the panel....so the consultants actually to increase thier count and get thier commission simply send people by giving false information....and on another occasion where i had got a call for a urgent opening for which if selected they infact asked me to join in a weeks time which i was also ready...i had attended two levels of interview cleared it on same day and for the third level the very DM(delivery manager) in charge directly called me and even asked me that after the client interview to come to office next day to take KT(even before releasing the offer) and then after one or two days of KT i can join a week later completing the HR formalities...he was really making me feel like coming aboard the very next day and take the work....but then things really changed after the client interview...once the interview is done he promised to call me the next day morning...but its really one week now i still did not get any calll....what so annoying in this incident is not the fact that i did not get the offer..but then atleast some amount of professionalism...atleast a curtosy call to say that things did not go on well or so wouldnt have made some waht feel better than being treated like this...infact the position that was available was not 100% suitable for me...he knew it at the time he got my cv....but after knowing this and taking me to three rounds and client interview and all he did not turn up to be a professional or gentleman to make atleast one curtosy call...but this is reality and how the industry works...if u need something or someone u go to watever extent....but when u dont need it u really dont even care about it...this sucks..and finally one more interesting thing as i said earlier i wanted to tak about is the IT recruiters who call and arrnge the interview on behalf of the company...i do agree to the fact that people need not be IT savvy to source people for a job opening..but then i suggest people who do this kinda sourcing shud really spend some time in understand the technology or the profile for what they are looking for candidates...by simply looking for key words and scheduling interviews is really waste of time for both candidates and the technical panels..this is not a issue with the external recruiters but also the company rec hr who do this sourcing..for example there may be application or a tool which may have different components to it...people may have exp in one fo the component but the actual reqt s for another component...but these people merely looking for the application name and just send the cv for the interview...after calling both the end will realise it was a right profile for the job opening...its a mere waste of time....this is something i go thr a lot....they just see cognos in profile n call...i need to ask the qns to them which they are supposed to know before they call people....but they work in a a lousy fashion..they dont even want to know what it is..even if we explain they dont have the patient to hear us...they simply say this cognos is there in ur cv i wl send the profile to client...but what in cognos i have done and what client want they dont even want to clarify......
so this is how my experiences have been going so far and its never been a pleasure offlate to take up interview .....really hoping for getting something without these hasles...but i know that is too much to ask for...but then if the trouble is little less also i am very happy to accept it...so i wish my self good luck to fight with the blues and land up into something ASAP...
ciao.....................

Balaji Darshan!!!!!

Balaji darshan......really divinely and everytime it gives a feeling that this time it was better than before...yeah i am taking about lord venkateswara darshan in tirupatti.....offlate...touchwood we have been visiting there every two months....i said touchwood becos i remember my parents saying right from childhood that Only if he wishes to give darshan we get to see him....else whatever u try we wont get it...and frankly once i even had that experiene of going to tirupati and not seeing him and returned back...but people believe me the return journey to my place was really horrible....so from then (even befoer that incident) i have a firm belief if gone to tirupathi without seeing him no return...but that time it was kind of a pressure from someother person who was part of that trip to return citing some reasons which are reasonable to THEM alone!!!!!!anyway without drifting from what i wanted to say....the main interest to write this piece is to share the good exp of the trips have made so far...especially by walking up the hill to have darshan....that is really entising...really am telling you walk and go ...am sure you wl get darshan so quickly and also the darshan even if it is for few seconds or minute(if lucky) it is really awesome...and for me everytime after the logn wait when i get to see the god my eyes is always filled with tears...it is sure out of joy....yeah i am like that...for me over happiness or sadness my eyes are filled with tears.....somehow that god is really mesmerising...he is really kalyuga perumal...though i am god fearing at times when i see scientifically i get a thot if god really exists...but definitly when i touch the soil of tirumala i really a divine feeling and also feel the existence of god....though people may say if the GOD exists why there is disparities among the darshans (like there are VIP crowd who just enter the main door and finish the darshan n leave in few minutes wherein the aam janta stands for hours together to just have glimpse of lord) but irony to it i feel the VIP darshan is available for persons who is a well deserving one cos any aam general public dnt get that access so that person shud have some extra skills or talent to reach to a level to become a VIP which is really adorable...intially i use to feel hurt and also angry at times why this disparities ..but later on i learnt to tell my mind instead of cribbing wy the system is like this try to become one who u are envying ot cribbing..so from next time i stand in queue and see some VIP i tell to myself whn my turn will come to come as a VIP....so this is also one of the management thinking...being positive ot assertive...or take things in a way that will benifit onself...but seriously one thing is for sure...till we reach the temple or the darshan queue we get to face lot f things i mean the things that really piss u off like the littering of public in temple premises,the taxi/jeep wala try to cheat you,the shopwalas really charge atleast 4-5 rs above the MRP rates in busstands and to be more specific the public toilets in tirupathi bus stands is one of the worst maintained and still they charge rs.5 per person and they do it this way by having a board above thier colelction table saying the entry fee is re.1...so like this lot of small things will piss u off till u reach the temple but once u reach there its amazing..frankly when u walk from down to uphill it is really 14 kms and it takes 4-5 hrs average to reach the top.....i am teling u out of experince...if we generally do a trek or a mountainerring the next day we may have real pains in jjoints for next one week or so..but this one the next day i am perfectly fine and ready for the routine...so its a good experience so far to especially walk and have darshan and the walks are very dear insense ina selffish way becos the food that we get to have enroute is really awesome...exp the DOSAS and lime sodas....they are my all time favourite(even my hubbys)...
so guys in all means the balaji darshan is really divine and awesome bringing some real good experiences so far for me and even the readers i wish u to have atrip down once in a while to this great place but pls while u go am sure u may have lot of negative things but still leave those thoughts for some time and just concentrate on god...am sure u have a really enchanting exp....
with this i am signing off...chau!!!!!!

The Reader's Digest "Anyway" - Quotable quotes

People are unreasonable,illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good,people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives
Do good anyway.
If you are successful,you will false friends and true enemies
Succeed anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and Frank anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tommorow.
Do good anyway.
The Biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds
Think big anyway
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs
Fight for some underdogs anyway.
What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
Give you world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

Train journey!!

So train journey..this is something which is always fascinating and given lot of experiences since childhood though i have nt travelled in trains when i was kid as my father doesnt believe in planned travel and also he prefers to travel by bus which for him sounds economical and he always decides on the last minute for any travel and bus is a friend of last minute deciders than trains...

So my experience with train has become really memorable and more relishing in 2009 that too between two destinations...yeah its chennai and bangalore!!!for nearly 4-5 months every week week i do up-down train journey between these two destinations and ofcourse alone!!!initally it was somewhat tiring and i get more tired when people ask "how come u travel every week" and esp " 5-6 hrs in trainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn wow" etc.... but then as the week started rolling out i started enjoying my travel and waited for the weekend to come....Every friday afternoon i use to take the 3 PM train from KRpuram station and reach my desti chennai in the evening by 8-830 where my dutiful hubby wl be waiting for his betterhalf to come and trouble him and his weekend(he never complained though!!!!!).i use to start from office in the afternoon as usual after giving some excuses(to my BOSS - interesting character will write abt him soon) and sometimes even without giving any and asking friends to manage and reach station....the train most of the time doesnt come on time ..so my train journey actually starts with observing some interesting conversations and happenings in the platforms....mostly there may be lot of tamil speaking crowd who are eagerly waiting to reach thier motherland(TN) and most of them who get in from that station are average 20-30 of age and most work in some xyz IT company(how i know it....he he he they all have the backpacks with thier co names or logo...so i assume they work for them and they are proud to cal themselves XYZ ian by having the bags and also they have all the latest gadgets like iphones,ipodsm,notebook what not.....).So these young geeks really provide u wonderful past time....they most of the time hook to thier mobile phones and obviously the otherside would be thier opp sex and much late the train arrives that much more the groundnuts brewing happens...and if u get to sit next to one of those cell gurus and u happen to understand the language...u will have good time...yeah i know eve's dropping is not a good habit..but then at 3 Pm in afternoon and unpredicatble southern railway trains its not that much of a bad idea to involve oneself in those conversations...mostly the conversaions are girl friend/boy friend types..and for all you know these dialogues and conversations will provide encouragement\inputs to the directors\writers for romantic subjects and novels...these are all only platform stories and once you board the trian there are lot of other things that you get to notice and follow till you get down....generally i travel by second class and the train i travel has regular/daily commuters who have pass or season tickets to travel in between destinations and though it is reserved train and has only two or three general compartments still anyone and everyone gets into the reserved boggies and top of it they even demand u to adjust a bit and sit though u have a reserved ticket....very rare scenario if i get to use my seat fully for myself and not being encroached by other co passengers...at some point in time they will a mishap and u cant even get up and attend your nature calls(hope u get what i mean)...But inspite of these short comings one can still enjoy the travel with the interesting things happening around....u can learn a lot....specially the railway vendors who manage to sell eatables,water and esp soup....they really sell and market the soup at one point u feel like buying and throwing it even if u dont want to drink...so much marketing they do the management graduates esp the marketing guys should really do a study on these guys...they manage to traverse through the sitting,standing and sleeping crowd and walk atleast 10 boggies to complete thier targets...(what and all u can learn)..And one more thing is that the crowd that get into this train are from diferent strata of life... ranging from a urban upper middleclass student,IT professional to a ticketless traveller,vendor,beggars,physically challenged people etc travelling in the same class...

When the train reaches mid way through we can see lot of college students getting into the train...there is a famous college(sorry now a deemed university) and the students get in like crazy to reach chennai (mostly the hostelides) ..The people who study in that college mostly are mostly from affulent class(becos the fee structre and facility offered are so) and inspite of it they tend to travel in this class as it is the shortest travel time to rach thier hometown....the train really become happening when the students take in charge and u dont realise when you actually reached the destination....The really keep u on with thier jokes,pulling each other within the group,thier campus stories etc etc....one of those journeys even one of the student travelled in the same compartment as mine was really souding interessing to me(Hope my hubby forgive me for this!!!!) and i was followiing thier group and thier activities till the train reached chennai...even the same observation was happening from the other side as well(thinking i am single and ready to mingle:) ).But after that one journey never happened to see the same group or the interesting someone again!!!!
So this is how my journey was for sometime last year till i got transferred to chennai completely...Even though i did not have the pain of travelling every week i somewhat felt that i am missing something in life for quite sometime after i shifted to chennai..One more encouragement in recent times to remember about train journeys is gautam menon movies(VTV,VA) where he would have given some cute romantic sequences in trains..So the train journet means different things to different people and its been a really meant a lot for me and in some part of my life it was playing a part in my life(yeah it was bringing back me to my hubby every week LOL)..With this i am signing off and catchya with more interesting stuff soooooooooooon...
ciao

First script!!!

Hmmm.....i welcome myself to the world of blog....really i am amazed by this concept of blogging...it is in my opinion one of the good things that is made available to the youngsters today to really express themselves....it had made lot of people to open up and write what they actually feel and to be precise it has been a medium of expression of people's opinion,thinking and also improved the writing skills of people....
First day..so kinda nervous...thinking too much as to what to write....most of the lines i am writing and clearing it immediately....too much stratching of head and work for the brain...so i am signing off now to come up with something interesting tommorow or in the days to come!!!!

chao.......