..First few days, I was travelling a lot as I’ve been relocated to chennai after Mysore. Relocation to chennai just means I’m both happy and sad ( ping me if you wanna know the reasons). Now, to the training part.. It was boring indeed. I had to learn a few things which i did learn a few years back.

Well, There is 4 hours of internet in which I’m blocked to access almost 99% of all sites and that’s virtually no internet This will continue till Jan’09 as that’s when my training get over. I’m kinda sick at being there. Certain ground rules which I always intend not to follow but I had to..

Coming to the study part, I spend lotta time reading books nowadays which my fellow trainees are quite surprised as I’m not books-read and gain-knowledge kinda person. Answering to this question here : Consider if you’re one among 100 students and 99 of them are reading and you can’t watch TV as it might disturb them, no internet, you can’t play as there is no one t0 play with. What else can ya afford to do? Of course, I must join their party and read along with them.

Well, the same thing looped for a month or so and Now, I got my first salary. I was wondering if i was worth to get it as I’ve done nothing so far other than ’swipe in’ and ’swipe out’

Mabbe, after training, they wil squeeze the juice outta me i guess

Trip Schedule :

July 31st( Chennai)->Aug 1st( Coimbatore) -> Aug 2nd (Bangalore).

July 31st :-

I was all set for my trip to Coimbatore. It’s a 11 Hours bus journey from Chennai and I was going alone as none of my frds were int’d. My next seat was occupied by an IT professional who came from college which i’ve never even heard of, yet he was speaking so high of his college

Aug 1st : -

Reached Coimbatore at 5.30 AM and I’ve to go to a place called ‘Saravanampatti’ which is a 30 mins bus journey from Coimbatore bus stand. Wondering why I’m going there? To meet my frd ‘Jesly’and more importantly, attend a job interview with ‘Bosch’. We were having a nice chat abt bosch( as Jesly works in Bosch now)and some usual stuffs. Interview was to be held at 3PM so I had ample lot of time to prepare myself.

Also, I was carried some computer networking books with me to prepare for the interview( Not for Bosch interview but for another interview in B’lore). I ogled thro’ these books for 3 hours or so. In the meantime, Arun Raj ( my college mate) seems to be int’d in Bosch interview and crashed at jesly’s place.

Arun is quite a funny fella and if he’s around, there is no short of funny moments and here’s one among them.

Me: What have you been doing these days?

Arun: Nothing much, dude!

Me: Hey! I heard that the company you were placed,has announced that the intake will be really late. Is it?

Arun: yepp! thats true..

Me: What are you gonna do til then?

Arun: Planning to join a BPO and work for a while.

Me: You applied?

Arun: I did some stupidest things.

Me: What was that?

Arun: I never found a BPO in Salem( a town in central Tamil Nadu) and so, I searched in Google with keyword ‘BPO in Salem’. It returned so many results and I was happy to see many BPO which I’ve never seen before in Salem and started applying one after the other.

Me: any response?

Arun: Fuck! Little did i know, There was another place called ‘Salem’ in US of A and I applied to the BPOs there.

Me: ROTFL!!!

After all these moments, we reached the company and only to find that there were around 1000 pple before us waiting for the interview. We were patient and waited, waited… Atlast, we were called for 7PM batch which will take atleast 1 hour to finish. I got impatient and had to leave early as I had to catch B’lore bus. So, Flopped!!! Trip to Coimabore was a mere waste.

Now that, I was hoping to catch the b’lore bus and indeed, I was onboard. If things went well, I’d reach B’lore at 6AM.In the meantime, I fell sick. Got a throat infection which made me to speak in a tone which might hear like a Martian and things got really worse.

Aug 2nd :-

But it was one of those unlucky days,I had never imagined. At 3AM, in the mid way b/w Coimbatore and B’lore, there was a sudden tyre failure( like in Hamilton’s car, Hungarian GP ). It took nearly 2 hours to get the bus on its fresh wheels.

Reached B’lore at 8AM, only to find that I still have 10 kms to get to my cousin’s place.Thanks to Sathish Anna(my cousin) who escorted me to his house. We have to hurry as we had just 1 hour for the interview. Again Thanks to him.. He dropped me there if not.. I would have not reached there on time. The Company is… Well, you find it for yourself. Clue: San Fran’cisco’.

Phew! I finally made to the interview building only to find that, 1st round is a written type with 50 questions. in which it had only 2 programming questions, some 10 Aptitude and rest full of electronics( I’m not an electronics student, if you don’t know me).Later on, I read thro’ the interview invitation that ” Candidates from ECE/EEE/EI/Telecommunications can attend” but I was an IT Grad. F**k! I was angry at myself that I should have known it before. Asking abt results? Obviously,I won’t be selected yet I was praying to God that i shouldn’t be selected even by luck. The reason is, ‘I still have my throat infection’. With this condition,I can never proceed further in the interview.

You might call it lucky or unlucky.. Of course, I was not selected. *Sigh of relief*. Well, after all these travelling, sickness.. I went to Coimbatore and then, to B’lore just for nothing.

Went back to my cousin’s house. After playing for a few hours with 2 lovely kids of my cousin’s. I packed my bags and went to B’lore bus stand. It was the worst Bus terminal, I’ve ever seen. It took nearly 2 hours to get onboard.

Aug 3rd :-

Back to Chennai now Home sweet home.

PS: I always dreamt about writing long posts.  I guess, this post would satisfy me

Sridhar and I are looking to re-start my old technical tips blog. Looking at the history of this blog, I never updated it often owing to the fact that I like to have a  wordpress blog intead of blogspot(except for the javascript insertion )

Well, as I mentioned in one of my previous posts that Google PR update got a PR 3 ( PR means Page Rank) to my technical blog. So, I don’t wanna leave that blog in ruins. In the meantime, Sri also was desperate to have an additional income to strive during his 2 yr MS in US of A. I decided to give all rights of that blog to Sridhar but being a nice guy, he don’t wanna enjoy all the benefits(nothing so far, mabbe in the future days) so agreed to give my share out of it.

Zooming closer towards the partnership of this venture( as I may call it so?), I’m sure I’d be the least contributor, thanks to my recent laziness. I hope Sridhar does well to take my blog. Errrrr.. our blog to new heights and more importantly, money that will assist his living in the near future. I’ve already noticed that he has started blogging there.

Btw, Forgot to mention.. Sridhar is pursuing his MS in CMU ( Carnegie Melon University).

@Sridhar Don’t again ping me to say abt you in my blog Just kidding!!!

…In the mid-July, with nearly 3 months after my end exams. A sense of sadness crept into my life for which none is responsible other than myself. First, I will list out what my friends are upto and I’ll justify this post.

( in Alphabetical order)

Anoop interns as a Junior Advocate after BE. Quite interesting

Arjun into ICICI bank.

Arun Vijay into Robotics R&D, Bangalore soon

Bala( Bodhai) into ICICI as well.

Balaji will be in Mahindra in a short notice.

Dhadi still dreaming to become as an Aussie.

Gopi supervising a project centre with most of his time occupied.

Guru working as a .Net Programmer.

Jesly in Bosch, Coimbatore( even got his first month salary but I’m sad that he didn’t show up after getting his salary

Jim preparing for GRE and will be getting into an US of A University.

Kadala worked in ICICI bank for a few days.

Lokesh as ICICI Manager( earns 6 lakhs/annum even as a trainee).

Nanda undergoing training in SGS.

Pambi as a student cum trainer in a company.

Rajasekar now undergoing his training in Virtusa.

Sathish( Vep City) making some online money.

Senthil and R.Sathish as supporting staffs.

Sridhar trying to make himself as a Good Programmer.

Sridhar( SSN) will be landing in US of A in August.

Srihari into many things so I had to do a new post just for himself

Suresh( REC), as usual working so hard for his image at College.

Thilak currently in Training (SGS).

Vignesh is working in…. Goddamnit! I forgot where he is now. Anyways, He’s at work

So, I nearly listed out most of my frds and their recent/future works. That just leaves me all alone with nothing productive in these days and for the upcoming days as well.

I happened to meet one of my seniors at school and miserably,a family frd of mine. On the outer, I know that he did a MBA at one of the engg colleges here in Chennai.

(Dont wanna reveal his identity. so, He’s marked as ‘X’)

Me: Hi.. What’s up?

X: Nothin much dude. Just gonna write my GRE exam.

Me: GRE after MBA.. sounds you’re gonna be an All hands person.

( after a month or so)

Me: Have you taken your GRE?

X: Yeah!!! Yesterday..

Me: Score?

X: Results not yet announced.

( I kept myself quiet. I don’t wanna end this here )

( 15 days later…)

Me: Is your results still not announced?

X: Yeah.. I got it man and I passed it. Score is 932/1600

(if you’re not aware, GRE scores will be a multiple of 10)

Me: ?????

Why did he choose to lie that he’s gonna take GRE or something( atleast he could have lied in things which he knows to some extent)?. You can lie but atleast make it to be a believeable one

Now, that I’ve played my part in setting a new Guinness Record( Indeed!). I got my Certificate too . But I was kinda felt bad when I found that India’s download count not even crossing 100k. C’mon Indians!!!

So, if you are also a part of this historic event. Go and get your certificate from spreadfirefox.com

After successfully downloading Firefox 3 in D-day( I mean, Download day), I’m proud that i’m part of a new Guinness record Quite easy to create a new record, isn’t it? Ha ha ha! First look at Firefox 3, it looked great as I never tried Firefox Beta’s or RC before as I wanted to have complete feel of it, all at once Will write more about the technical review of firefox 3 later.

On the day of firefox 3 download, I happened to install Google toolbar in Firefox 3 so as to check it’s compatiblity( I’m sure, it’s compatible.. Just incase) As usual, I was checking my feeds and later decided to check my blog to see its look in my new browser where I happened to find that my blog has a Page Rank 4.

Even a few months before, it has PR 0. Was it Google tool bar’s mistake or my blog actually has a PR 4? I never tried to investigate further. As of now, I’m happy

It’s been a while I’ve posted a convo in my blog. So, Here’s one for you.

It’s a convo b/w my frd ‘Sarath’ who was(or still is) in love with a grl ‘Y’ but eventually ‘Y’ rejected his proposal and this convo took place nearly one yr after that incident.Btw, you might wonder how did i get this convo. It’s not a case of hacking. Sarath himself copy-pasted this conversation later to advice him(as if i’m a pro) if he had proceeded with her in the right motto

Disclaimer: I’ve neither modified nor edited the lines. I’ve just added a english version for a few tamil words

sarath: hi
y: wat??????
sarath: first of all sorry….
y: 4 wat???
sarath : for all the things which should done before…
sarath : actually now oly i realize,, i miss one good friend..
y: how did u realize suddenlyy??
sarath : ellam kadavul saayal.. ( everything is god’s work)
y: kkkk
sarath : actuall i want to tell sorry for hurting u…..
sarath : here after i cant do this mistake in my life time..
y : okkkkk
sarath: hardly there is only one month for ending our college life, so in those days i ll be good friend for u pa….
sarath: while i have enter in college.. i ll afraid to see ur face, due to the mistake which i have done..
sarath: wat pa y no reply, pls tell some thing, nee ena mannipaya ( will you forgive me?).
y: leave it…..
y: its better tat v r lik dis
y: ivalo naal paesala ( we didn’t speak all these days)
y: ipo mattum edhuku paesanum ( why should we talk now?)
sarath: oh ok pa.. its ur final decision means i ll accept it….
sarath: anyway once again sorry sorry.. here after i ll never come to ur way..
y: ok…. bye
sarath kumar: ok bye… good night..

When people say that the whole world is into internet addiction. I say to myself, ” Hell, no way I ain’t addicted to anything”. But it is true, I’m indeed addicted to internet. I realised it when my internet usage got climbing up to some 18 to 20 hours a day. I was always aware that I should somehow get away from its claws and it happened naturally…

My internet connection is as follows:

*) 2.5GB Downloadable during normal time

*) Unlimited downloads from 2AM to 8AM

So, I used to browse/chat/etc during my 2.5GB quota and s/w, movie,etc at night unlimited timeline. This month, I had my downloads started at 2AM and forgot to close it before 8AM which led me to paying my bills extra, I mean, really extra. It was around 20th of this month. So, as I’ve already used my quota for that month due to my stupidity. I can’t surf around the internet for the next ten days apart from my unlimited downloads at night.

Maybe, it was the break that i was hoping for. Days when my router at the verge of smoking had all gone. Now, I had to use my internet just for a couple of hours atleast for this month.

P.S I had to finish this post before my frd turns angry for using his PC so long and throws me out

…After 4 yrs of slavery under the name of education, I’m finally free. I had a real dip in my engineering aggregate from 85.5 % to 79 % now. Unlike others, I got the whole concept of grading system very early. So, I knew that % is a mere float number which we should never be bother about.

If you bothered, you’ll get higher grades which subsequently leads into names like ” Topper”, ” Good fella” and also, lots of grls . But I fall into the other category, which is more interesting filled with excitement and a fair amount of exposure to real life.

Nevertheless I’m graduated as an engineer and I’m done with engineering for now.