Three weeks ago, we were working on a project's pre-release task and I was asked to stay in office till 3am. Though they didn't force me. I agreed because I was Excited to stay late night. My actual plan was to stay till 4, later I thought of boarding train at 5am in lingampally. Work started in the evening at around 6pm. And it went on fine. I sat observing the whole work. Unfortunately, we faced a problem with system's disk space and our work got stopped. We tried in 3 different machines and nothing worked for us. I unlocked my cell phone and looked at time. It was 1am. And Sridhar wants to go home as he need to come early in the morning to solve the issue with project manager.

I don't know what to do and I even couldn't ask sridhar to drop me as he need to travel 30km to his place. Anyways, I stepped out of the campus at around 2am. Asusual I reached nearby bus stop. I know that there will not be any buses at that time, but I don't know where to start. So I opted bus stop. Luckily, I saw a guy coming on bike. I asked him for lift and thank God he stopped. He said “Ok” when I asked him to drop me at lingampally. I didn't spoke much with him. Had a silent journey.

Got down at lingampally. I started asking for lift again. For some part of time, no one stopped. Atlast, God answered my patience. Infact I have nothing to do other than maintaining patience. One guy stopped for me. I told him that I need to goto miyapur. He said “I'll go till R.S Brothers”. Hmmm I don't know where it is but I acted as if I knew it and said Ok. It took just 3 minutes to reach RS Brothers and I felt to myself “Hmmm it is damn near”. I wished him Goodnight and started staring at vehicles.

After few minutes, I requested a car to stop. And to my surprise, it stopped. I repeated the lines “I need to goto miyapur”. That man replied “I can drop you in next stop”. I accepted :-P. Had a short talk with him about my night stay. And I got down in no time. I started requesting again. After sometime, another car stopped for me though I didn't request for lift. I was shocked and bent myself to talk through window. When I was about to start speaking, he asked me in hindi how to goto kondapur. For a moment, I smiled and replied him that you should take a right turn near talky town. He looked confused, and as anyways I need help, so I told him “I'll show you where to take that right turn if you can give me lift”. He hesitated. Then I said showing my ID card “I work in TCS”. Remember, all this conversation was in hindi. God knows how I managed Hindi tenses. Lolz. He accepted me to get in looking at my ID card. As soon as I sat in, he started talking in English. Oops,, I felt “poor guy might have got irritated with my hindi”. He told that he works in mindspace. Had a nice and short experience with him. He sounded very different. When I wished him Goodnight, he replied back “hope we'll meet again one day”. Interesting guy.

I started requesting again. And this time, a bullet bike stopped for me. He is a mahindra satyam's employee. I came to know by looking at his tag. He accompanied me (or vice versa) till Miyapur. Had talks related to my delay and project clients. When I said thankyou, he said “no one gives you lift at this time. I don't know how you reach your place. Takecare”. I just smiled. Whatelse I can do??

From lingampally to miyapur, I came by four different vehicles. And I wondered myself how many more vehicles I'm going to stop. But luckily, one uncle droppped me till kukatpally on bike. He looked aged (infact he is) and so he didn't show any interest to speak. I just told him what made me to stay till latenight. I reached kukatpally very soon as it is traffic free time.

In kukatpally, auto stopped for me. Auto was going till Balanagar. He demanded 30rupees. Anything is Ok at that time. Right? So I boarded. I got down at Balanagar. Went to Cafe which runs 24*7 (through back door.. lolz). Had a cup of tea and started walking to my home. When my home is 500feet away, I saw four dogs. Huff.. that was the only moment I got scared. I felt bad because I got scared after reaching my place.

However, I reached at around 3:45am. Looked at the mirror as I generally do. And I felt as if I had a thrilling night journey to my place. I strictly don't want this to happen again.

P.S: I thought of writing this immediately, but I couldn't make it in time. Anyways I believe in Better late than never :P.

I'm in office, leaned back in my seat.. waiting for files to get copied from australia's network to ours.. eye lashes trying to meet.. but I forcibly pulled them apart and looked at my desk board's quotation "keep smiling.. the next minute will be yours". Suddenly I got an idea to write a blog, but I couldn't access any sites. So I Pressed "Start + R", and then typed "notepad" to start scribbling. I was struggling how to start, but finally decided to start writing the way I started writing.

Now let me start describing my day.
Note: Whereever I use Today in the context, it reflects both 24th and 25th september. You'll definitely understand the reason for this. If not, refer "P.S".

Everyday I usually getup at around 7am and I'll order my mom for hot water. But today I was bit lazy, and I got up at 8:30am. So I delayed ordering my mom. It delayed hot water processing. In fact, it delayed everything. I reached office at around 11:15am wondering what I'm going to say Sridhar (the person I was assigned to) about my delay. Luckily, he didn't ask me anything as he was very busy and I started acting as if I'm working on a task. Sometime later, he turned to me and asked- "what about yesterday's windows services issue??" I replied him- "Oh. I thought it got solved. isn't it?". He said "No" and asked me to search a solution for that. I started googling. Somehow, after surfing many sites, I got 3 solutions. One solution solved my case, and I informed him. This was the first time ever I gave a valid response to Sridhar's request. May be because of that reason, he said to one of our colleague- "See, even my junior started solving issues..". And I gave an obvious proud smile.

By that time, I was bit hungry and started to cafeteria to have my lunch. It was raining out heavily, and everyone was waiting for it to stop. After 15 minutes, it stopped, and almost everyone rushed to cafeteria at the sametime. That didn't allow me to eat happily. So I just had a paneer masala sandwich with few of my friends. Back to desk after few minutes. I was given some tasks and was working on them. Parallelly I was googling for our present project issues as it's release is planned in two days.

At times, Sridhar used to come on weekends, and everytime when I asked him a question "Do I need to come??", he used to say "pandaga chesko boss, Don't come". But to my surprise, he asked me to come tomorrow. I was speechless because I have gettogether planned for pranavi's birthday. I told him "I can't come, and though if I can come, I'll leave at 1pm". I couldn't read anything from his expressions, but anyways he asked me to come very early as installations going to start at around 4 or 5 am. By the way, I didn't say you on what tool I'm working. It is Installshield which deals with setup file creations and installations. So he wanted me to stay when installations are being processed.

In the evening, we had a team dinner at swagath hotel. Few members of the team were busy with bugs as project is scheduled to release, and Sridhar was one of them. So he asked me to attend the dinner on behalf of him. Lollzz.. :D. Dinner went on fine. I attended some around 10 calls during my eating process and I met two of my friends to receive a packet which has to be transferred to UK via Venky as he is leaving today. Everything well planned. Back to office after dinner.I was waiting for files to get copied from Australia's network to prepare a setup file.

Meanwhile, I went out to meet varsha as she is done with her job for today. Explained her about my whole day schedule. Talked to her for sometime, she boarded cab and I ran back to my desk to check whether the files are copied. Not done yet. The first para of this blog comes into picture now. So I started writing this blog, parallelly eyeing at few other things. Suddenly my cellphone's reminder reminded me off pranavi's birthday. Shame on my part. I felt as if I turned blogolic. lollz.. Called her and wished her. And I continued with notepad scribbling.

After completing this blog, I'll start with my setup creation as the files are ready. Later, venky will pick me up here itself. I'll goto airport to give sendoff. Later, as promised to Sridhar, I'll come to office as early as possible. Later, in the afternoon, I'll attend Pranavi's birthday. Later, in the evening, I may come back to office to work with my setup creation. So many "Later"s planned before. Huff.. damn busy.. right?? I don't know why, but I always love to stay busy. It keeps me happy.

P.S: I started this blog on 24th september at 11:45pm and it got ended at 25th september at 2am. So I couldn't differentiate both days and I used "today" to represent both. Warm birthday wishes to my friend Pranavi :)

It’s been a long-time since I wrote a blog. The reasons behind this time gap are training exam, lab evaluation, case study stuff, release formalities of training, entering into TCS. But to be frank, all these reasons never made me too busy that I don't even have some time to write a blog. I had ample amount of time in the last few days and I was even ready to blog. But every time when I sat to put in some stuff, I lacked words striking my mind.!! And with lack of words, interest got degraded. I tried to know what's happening with me, and I didn't get any answer back. But one thing I can say - “I'm not fine, but I'm happy ;)”

After my entry into TCS Deccan Park, time never gave me chance to value time. I rarely used to look at time because when we are on bench, that doesn't make any sense.My time ignorance process continued for one complete week. And today, the day after a week in TCS, I seriously thought of putting an end to my struggle for words. Whole of the morning session was spent in cafeteria. Nothing has pinged my mind about blog. After our lunch, I went to library for the first time, along with Sneha and Varsha. To feel library environment or in other sense, to create library environment, I took one magazine from the rack and got settled in a seat. Though I was referring that magazine, I was thinking about what I should write in a blog. I told the same thing to Sneha, and I received an excellent reply- “write something re”. I just smiled and turned my eyes on to the book. Though I was not interested in reading that book, I was turning pages to find something interesting. Suddenly, I came across the line “struggling for words” which made me think. The line depicted my present situation and I decided to write a blog on this title. And my decision got implemented.

In the evening, we got our permanent ID cards. From now on, we can hear beep sound whenever we access our card :P. Though this beep sound is not important in the present context, I just shared as a matter of memory. By the way, at the end of the day, I'm happy for navya getting transferred to Chennai as she wished. Happy ending to my struggle for words.. and will be back very soon with glimpses of fun..!!

Nearly 10 months after my college, on march 18th 2010, I was called to strike the software industry. This date is already special to me as it is one of my friend's birthdate and I'm fortunate to start my career on this day. Though the days after college made me more lazy than ever, it also showed me the excess patience levels which I had. Anyways, whether we learn something or we unlearn something, it is always good to say Past is Past.

On 18th, at around 5 am, my cellphone's alarm woke me up. Few habits in life never change and of course they should not change. To make the previous statement true, I switched off my alarm and went back to sleep again. But I should really thank cellphones for introducing “snooze” feature, because of which the alarm shouted again after 10 minutes, and this time I realised and didn't shut my eyes for more than 2 seconds. My plan was to leave my home at 6.45, but I was ready by 6.30. I was dressed in a light blue shirt which my mom liked, and a black trouser which my mom insisted not to wear as it was/is black in colour. I satisfied both mom and myself. As I had 15 minutes more to start, I just provided some work to our mirror which is fixed in a pink coloured frame. Both me and my mirror experienced the new “me” because I had put on my tie that day. When I was busy setting my tie, my phone rang and it was Venky from UK. Though the time was not convenient for him to call, he managed to ring my number and wished me. I felt proud to have such time managing friends and received his wishes. Few minutes later, I started from home, went to kukatpally.

Met Varun there, and we both started to CMC gachibowli on our 100cc Honda Activa. I guess it is 100cc, i'm not sure. Let it be anything, we both reached our spot in time with an average speed of “some”kmph. We need to make few settings to ourselves before entering into campus. So we stopped few yards out from the campus, and this time provided some work to honda activa's mirror. We both felt that everything was fine except tie. Anyways, we entered into CMC with different emotions such as excitement, bit tensed, irritation created by tie, happiness, eagerness and the words goes on.

Everything till now was so interesting.. right?? I used 2 paragraphs for narrating 3 hours. And now I just need one paragraph to narrate my next 6 hours of the day. The narration starts now- we all were called in at around 9am. We were sent into CMC's auditorium, the place with less air and special light effects. Initially, there was a presentation about TCS. I have no words to talk about it now as I couldn't hear most of the presentation. Batches were divided later on. Document verification started. Had our lunch after sometime. Post lunch session continued with document stuff. Everyone waited eagerly/patiently until their chance to submit their 100 rupees stamp paper which has print of service agreement on it. At around 3.30pm, document verification was done and we were asked to leave. Spent sometime in the campus, and later started back home.

Before reaching our places, we went to yash's home to describe CMC's auditorium experiences. Shared our 6 hours experience in less than 6 lines. After less than one hour, we started back home. At around 5pm, I reached my place. Answered my mom's questions which I already expected. One hour later, I called Joseph, and I went back to kukatpally again to meet him as that day was his birthday. Right from the day on which I got my joining date, he made sure to tell me that my joining day was very auspicious day. So I went to him to share some part of the auspicious day with him, and of course to eat his birthday cake. Spent sometime with him, nearly 2 hours I guess.. and I started back home. Though my friend Joseph funnily quoted it as auspicious day, I feel it was really a very auspicious day to start my career..

P.S: I didn't expect that I can write this long about this day.. I rock..!!