Laptop and Internet finally!!!

No more sneaking the few minutes on Gmail and Orkut in the office, no more worry about security policy. All I got to do now is log into my new net connection using my new laptop and I am good to go. This blog has just received a new lease of life. Let’s see where I can take it from here.

Night Shift

Recently out here there have been rumours of night shifts.
This is the result of some atrociuosly low bidding done in order to get a contract renewed.
The justification for the new timings is that things will now be managed from Offshore. Hence the need to support at night i.e. daytime in the US. Although the night shift timings are not yet official, people are already freaking out.
I am not saying they should not. After all, such extreme timings warrant a raise (which seeing the current condition of the economy, is highly unlikely). If not a raise then atleast some perks (taxi fare, good food, some extra holidays). But I don't see any of the things in our future.
Those who are onsite say that onsite is hell. Well they are being payed a pretty high amount to stay out there. And they don't seem to be too eager to come back. Funny is it not, that people will so gladly walk into the fires of 'hell'.
Most people in my project are either experienced or married(which means they will not come for the night shift), or they are on their way out.
I fear that it will come upon me and the few other rel;atively inexperienced people.

A New Beginning

Long time since I posted on the blog. In fact, my blog has ceased being a blog, and turned into a memory of past times. I haven’t made an entry since I left for Noida to join my TCS ILP (Initial Learning Program).
TCS does not exactly give its employees the freedom to access Google, Orkut, blogs etc. So my means of communicating and speaking to the world has been through my emails from my TCS mail id. However, the unwritten rule here is “Thou can do anything as long as thou shall not get caught.” Seeing my colleagues access various banned sites (the ban is enforced by means of a rule and not a firewall), I have decided to bring my blog out of its slumber.
So if any of you have not read anything in it till now, take your time. From now on everything I will send will be on this site. It’s the end of long mails which many of you have complained about.

aurevoir mumbai

well
almost at the end of my leave..and i noticed many things while i was down here
life never stopped moving on here in mumbai...everyone has their own work..someone has to write applications for universities in the goraland
others have their jobs...some have made progress in their love lives(rajesh)...still others are not even here for most of the time(infy,hsbc,amdocs)...
and to top it all i am missing kolkata...9 of us living in the same house and having fun
i do not get sleep here in mumbai...roll around for hours till 1 to sleep..moreover in mumbai the tickets for movies are too costly..140..its a rip off..
in kolkata the sunday matinee is 50 rs...60 rs in a mall...what can i say...i could not even see 'taare zameen par'...hope my friends wait here for me in kolkata to see..
the weather in mumbai i unusually hot for december..when my plane landed it was 29 degrees and it was 930pm..
but mumbai is mumbai....
and i find out my friends have not waited...they have seen taare..in kol and i have to see it here with mom and dad..awesome movie..gives a great workout to the lacrymal ducts..
i have to leave tomorrow..spent the entire day at my cousin's place..it was her bday and i was the official photographer...
10 days have flown by..and except for the slow nature of kolkata..i am kind of happy to return..i actually refer to it as home..
have not been able to meet all my friends..tht is the only regret..
nehow..until next time...

vids from kolkata

here are some videos which i thot ull might enjoy

haba-dhubi at home


mornings in kolkata