One year of life @ IBM-Bangalore

May,23.This was the exact day when I smelled the first freshness of the Bangalore city last year when I came to keep my life moving hand in hand with IBM. One year of my work with IBM, my heart is filled with mixed feeling of joy, achievement, pride out of accession of things I dint knew earlier and also feeling of dissatisfactions at the type of work I had to do, which I could not refrain at times. The transformation of a geeky looking college student with not many thoughts in his mind, to a person with responsibility at work and at family has been quite remarkable when I look back.There were a lot of moments to cherish in this past one year at IBM-Bangalore, Making of many friends,some them who became very dear with time, the tours and movies which we enjoyed together, The fun and frolic which we had at work place with colleagues, the resorts, Discotheques, Rock shows of SonuNigam, A.R Rehman, The fashion shows which set the ramp on fire at IBM blues and many other things....The change of integrity to make myself an astute individual after completion of certifications and winning a few goodies as prizes in various competitions is a definite achievement for any one to boast of.But one thing which I have been carrying with me all the way from my Intermediate is still with me,making the nooked corner of my heart feel alone,lonely in the absence of my parents and all my family members. My mind is jammed with lots of people whom I can think of with in just One year after coming here,some of them almost there to say as best friends,and some of them good companions and very few acquaintances,

I have treasured the friendship and company of all these
friends in this one year.....
Vinil,Narendra(Alias Modi),Bhavani,srikanth,ratnakumar,
Ravi, Vinay,JV,Gowri, Suresh, Phani,Vishal,Girish,Vidhya,
Subburajan,Ramesh, Gokulnath, Mohan, Sreeni,
All my Almaz mates Alex,Archana,Boopathy, Eldho,Ganesh,
Harry,Jaydev,Raji,Prabhakaran,Ranjit,Suguna, Sandip,
MuthuManohar,Sankarnarayana,Santosh,Devibala,
Balakrishan .....

Guys please remind me if I forgot any one of you,its a humble request.

The "CODE" Speculation

The much propelled controvertial hipe of the movie Da Vinci Code,has,as it seemed to have come to an end,has screwed up again.The Protest of the clergy and the christian communities and the aggitation across the country has taken root again.One thing I could not understand is, why was not that much of importance and global recognition in terms of opposition not given to the 40 million sold copies of the "book" Da Vinci Code.As we planned to watch the movie on the First day last show in the PVR,Forum Mall,we were denied any ticket for uncertainity of its release,despite the nod given by the Indian Government. I don't understand the reason why our people are expending so much of energy on what the world has accepted as a mere fiction after it has been released in 44 countries,including the Vatican.The world has moved on since it burnt heretics at the stake.What purpose have the bans ever served? if in case this movie is going to be banned,it is just going to feed the pirating industry more.If the movie goes underground,people hitherto unknown would vent out,like the danish cartoonists and the book Satanic verses which became the most coveted book after its ban.Are we a catholic community not turning intolerant,aiding and abetting the all pervasive fundamentalism? Surely as an enlightened and democratic community,can we not match fiction with faith? In fact the verdict is alredy out,The film has already been canned in cannes,the faithful may call this the devine intervention.When the film promises to die a death by boredom,it will have its closure.A layman seems to have understood the film better than the protesting laity.The way,the intervention by the name of protests has progressed,has for sure has demanded some heads down.

Its all about Me,Myself,Shishir & I

Thanks For Sudhir and Kiran who happened to send me this Sawaal Javaab interview,sametime with snip of time difference,which,I happend to learn, is the most posted or tagged writing in the Blogger world.I tried my hand at it
Here is what I know about myself......

1. Were you named after anyone?
Haa... my dad keeps telling me this story of SHISHIR KUMAR GHOSH (Editor,Amritbazaarpatrika!!!,WestBengal crosscheck--> 10th
History book). I happened to be named after him,after his Death in JULY 83,.

2. Do you wish on stars?
No I dont!!! They align themselfs to aid my way.

3. When did you last cry?
I dont remember....It was really plenty longs back, and I know .....Real Men Don't cry

4. Do you like your handwriting?
Well, Mine is the best compared to none, But I like Anvi's more than mine.Now a days fingers have been replaced by fingure tips anyway....

5. What is your favourite meat?
Hmmmm "meat"... me eat everything, Recently had Squids and Frills,liked them also ^yummy yummy^

6. What is your most embarrassing CD on your shelf?
Non Bootable Windows XP Proffessioal CD Gifted for by bday....

7. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
I wish YOU would be a GIRL,then may be I would :P

8. Are you a daredevil?
Sorry... I can't risk my life.I love it

9. How do you release anger?
Hmmm...Had to think for that... if nothing is in my vicinity, may be Yell like in Hell.

10. Where is your second home?
What is a second home?

11. Do you trust others easily?
Depends on my acquaintances or relations with them,Coz I was conned a few times.

12. What was your favourite toy(s) as a child?
Hey... does any kid know whats his favourite one?? If a new one comes,The old one is gone...

13. What class in school/college do you think is totally useless?
"Biology", Hypothalamus,Mytochondria,Nematyhelmenthis Brag !! I would have been the same me,even if I dint learn them.

14. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
"Sarcasm"? is that from English ?

15. Have you ever been in a mosh pit?
Yeh Ofcourse, on Dec31st 2005, IISC Bangalore.

16. What do you look for in a girl?
A girl who trusts me,Doesn't feel to be dependent on me,Who spares time for both of us, who is daring enought to face life as it comes and ofcourse with Beauty and Brain conflated with Caring nature.

17. Would you bungee jump?
Given a chance,With a parachute and protective gear may be,Just to say to myself that I am not acrophobic.

18. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
Yes I do, most of the times

19. What's your favourite ice cream?
Chocolate chocolate and only chocolate

20. What are your favourite colours?
Light Blue,Dark Black and Pink.

21. What are your least favourite things?
Never Ending Serials on TV,Damn them !!!!

22. How many people do you have a crush on right now?
Its dynamic,may be its 4.25, I dont seem to crush the last one fully...

23. Who do you miss most right now?
I always miss myself,coz I always find replacements for everything & everyone. Not me.

24. What are you listening to right now?
Chand Sifaarish --- Fanaa

25. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
Sounds crap !!!! How would I be a crayon?

26. What is the weather like right now?
Cool and pleasant,there was a continous drizzle all night.

27. Last person you talked to on the phone?
Just couple of minutes back I spoke to my Manger :p

28. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
"Face" ---the chehraa ofcourse.

29. Do you like the person who sent you this?
Ask the one who sent this to me.

30. How are you today?
I am, as I am always.. cool and casual.

31. Favourite non alcoholic drink?
Chocolate Milkshake

32. Favourite alcoholic drink?
Wish to say a name, may be "Fosters" as my friends say, but din't taste one tilldate.

33. Natural hair colour?
Black

34. Eye colour?
Bruzzlles black,with a spell of magic.

35. Wear contacts?
No,not tried yet.

36. Siblings?
One Sisty, younger to me, Ammi.

37. Favourite month?
July ---> Anyone laughing, kick yourselfs,Ofcourse thats the month in which I was born.

38. Favourite food?
All Indian Cusines,specially Southern Food and Our own Hyderabadi Biryani.

39. Favourite day of the year?
This year it was Jan 1st....Call me back!!!!!!

40. Have you ever been too shy to ask someone out?
Yes,more than the No of times I can think of.

41. Scary movies or happy endings?
Any movies that are not boring,Don't mind Art movies also.....

42. Summer or winter?
The solace of the warming sweaters .....love them...definitely winters

43.Holi or Diwali?
Diwali,I love those sweets...family meets...tambola games... and ofcourse crackers.

44. Do you like your name?
Shud have some guts to say this,but frankly... I dont like my name....I prefer something more shanky Fanky...

45. What book/magazine are you reading?
I moved Your Cheese,catch 22..Multi tasking

46. What's on your mouse pad?
I am on a laptop now :P

47. What did you watch on TV last night?
Din't watch TV yesterday night.

48. Favourite Smell?
Smell of Rain in summer, smell of biryani,and smell of Petrol.....Dont laugh now,I know most of u have the same taste as me.

49. Have you ever regretted breaking up with someone?
Yeh with 2 of my bestest friends

50. Most tiresome thing you’ve ever experienced/done?
I am never tiered of anything.....I just lack some time at times...but can cope with it....


Seems I am done with the assignment.......

God without me or Me without God?

I have been a person who firmly believed in the elusive theams of spiritual existence,God was always in my mind atleast in my hardships to thinkabout,infact I never missed reading a single stanza of the daily spiritual preachings in TOI, striving for peace of mind,never did I skip those sojourns to temples on thursdays, to say everything good and bad to Baba and in search of solitute,all my B-tech days.But now, procastination took over anything and everything compelling me to lead the life of one among this hapless class of aimless individuals.Sentencing "TIME" is a lame excuse ofcourse, I knew that,it seemed that I was literally lost in time when I said no to my moms question of my regular thursday morning visits to Sai temple,this beeing special thursday. Am I transforming my inner me in to a nihilist? am I tiered searching for something beyond life? God knows !!!! should be the immediate answer,may be that is why he forgot me when I did the same to him for all these days,I dint realise that until just yesterday...I was in my own world bothered about none,talking to myself all the time leading a lazy life of all those lackadaisical lot.

April Ending Anecdotes

"01-02-03-04-05-06" waiting to post the new one at this time,I have been waiting to compile this post since two days,as one Forwarded mail professed some Gnaan, that this time never comes again (2 minutes and 3 seconds past 1 O'Clock,On the 4th day of 5 th month in the 6th year of this century Huh!!!! that was tough to scribble) .but not to be, Team Meeting from 12 noon was the hurdle to blame,anyway,this day has been the most satiable and satisfactory day for me after those B-tech days,I opine.
After numerous senti blogs, getting back to my "natural" stuff; taking liberty to assume myself to be one amongst the greatest persons to have undented Humour of my own,here is what I can "manufacture" to be written immediately: and wow may be this is what my mom meant when she said preserving the good things....
Mail from Vinil said the Gretest PJ of the year,curious to open,the mail read....Our ageold friends Tortoise and Rabbit Headed for another competition, this time in the IIT entrance exam,Torto scores 75% and Rabbit 80% but Guess why torto makes it to the University???? ha ha ha Coz torto won the old running race betwen them....I could not stop my bursting laughter after I read this sentence "SPORTS QUOTA".
After that with full intent and made up mind, I went to Mallaya hospital to give Blood to My coleague's mom.He asked to look for some one with O+ve blood,I couldnot refrain myself from saying "I WILL",then I just checked out the back of my IBM badge in confirmation of my blood group and set out, I was a pretty satisfied soul, It was 2 years since the last time I donated in my college.

The World For Me

Reassuring : When I sit with my friends
Beautiful : When I help
Desirous : When I visit my hometown
Indifferent : When I blog
Different : Everyday
Exhaustive : when I argue
Difficult : During Project deadlines
Deceitful : Sometimes
Marvelous : Rarely
Exciting : On tours
Peaceful : When I stroll in the moonlight
Exhilarating : When I drench myself in rain
Rejuvenating : During festivals and movies
Ecstatic : When I get mails from my dear ones
Declinative : When I loose
Naughty : When I BirdWatch :)
Strange : Always

Drifting Of Dearest Friends

Ever noticed how at this stage of life one by one our friends have started drifting away from us - transforming into formal acquaintances from close friends? Some reason or the other, we are getting separated from each other. It troubles me, might be because the adolescent kid inside me has not yet been able to give way to adulthood so as to have enough strength to face these harsh realities. I still find myself immature, troubled with slightest difficulties... In about an year, I would be away from all the close ones, I knew that. Few of them from my College are even getting married! And it descends upon my heart like a melancholy for no obvious reasons.Will friends stay close with the passage of time? Its difficult to predict, even more difficult to observe yourself. Sometimes I feel I'm getting too much involved in things, or getting too much social, but what's the problem with that? I wonder if there would be a day when everybody would be busy in their professional lives and would lose meaning of our friendship. I just wish that never happens. I read somewhere - Friends don't drift apart universally with time. It's your own decision to shut off your eyes, so that you don't acknowledge them.

RDB --- Reality Defined Brilliantly

Off late, I have watched many Hindi and Telugu Movies,But one Movie which had struck the strings of my heart and rang a thousand bells is Rang De Basanthi (RDB)


It says - A Generation Awakens... And it tries the best shot.

In this contemporary rendering of the legendary story of Bhagat Singh, director Omprakash passes on the message to the young generation brilliantly and almost effortlessly. In an unusual but highly effective format, the scenes shift from historical to contemporary settings flawlessly and it's easy to assimilate the smooth transitions. A.R. Rehman's music with Prasoon Joshi's lyrics create a magical effect.

With its great script, the movie keeps the audience spellbound. The imagination, however, becomes too much in the latter half of the movie when, in protest of Ajay's flight accident, the five young men shoot the defence minister and then broadcast their feelings on the radio.
The movie poses a problem - of the nation gnawed by politicians. But, leaves it at that point without giving a solution. It fills the youth with enthusiasm, with aggression, with devotion, but stops at that. Swades, on the other hand, was more realistic with a direct message.

P.S. One particular line which I found more than impressive : "College de gate de is taraff, hum life ko nachaatte hain... to dujji taraf life humko nachaatti hai... dhim lak lak dhim dhim lak lak!!"

Thirsty Days....

I was just skimming through My old Diary of B-tech 2nd year and 3rd year where I found This masterpiece of mine,thoght it would certainly deserve a place in my blog

That was those parched dry summers in Anantapur where my entire B-Tech guzaaraa thaa, It was like finding an Oasis in a desert,when one looked for Rain.I still remember the day when I wrote this little poem,Just after comming from the Cricket match against the CSC branch in the College Tournament.....
It goes....

Rain rain where thou art
Bless the earth before it shatters apart

This unrepentant sun and this sultry sky
Gnawing my heart wherever I lie

My dry lips and my thirsty mind
And pains and agonies of all kind

My hands which could never learn to pray
And my heart which has only one thing to say

That its eternal hope sees that elusive light
That one speck among the existing plight

Move on where your dreams take you
Who says they don’t come true?

Treading forward on this thorny path
Whatever be the fury or the wrath

For, there awaits my dream, my soul
O rain! drench me and make me ‘whole’.

Start Believing In what ever You want to Coz U never know Which Comes out to be the exact outcome from The unknown....

Shailu's wedding

Shailu's marriage was really good,except the journey to Tadipatri.God that was damn disgusting!!!! No bus services from Anantapur, as once again faction brokeopen its hoods killing one in Tadipartri, there was complete Bandh in and around Tadipatri.... but Divya,Pradeep,Guru and I somehow managed to catch a bus atlast at about 12 midnight,thanked God for that, and in high spirits happend to meet most of my friends there at the wedding on the next day morning, some of them after about 9 months maybe...Still that one thing was aching pretty much....Bitkoo dint even bothered to say me bye before leaving......Had to say her good bye from distance, from my heart to hers...We stayed....she left!!!! Dont know why she behaved like that.....My bestest friend Ramakanth dint come to the marriage as he was suffering from fever

Well,I should be a really very happy man after looking at my monthly Airtel mobile bill today,385/-Thats about 75-80% less than my previous bills...Eurekha.....the reason for the drastic plumetting???? ha ha ha change of rate plan.....I have called all my keith and kin as always but really bedazzled looking at this!!!! "Thanks AIRTEL"

I should kick myself now as I could not call early to wish Ammi on her birthday,Dad called me and reminded me of my little sis's birthday I was a stupid to wakeup at 11 AM that day.....I dint forget to wish any of my friends on their birthdays...To be frank all my class mates wondered how I could remember everyones Birthdays to call them first, to wish before anyone did.I planned to present the i-pod which I pleaded my friend to get me from the states, to her.....But not to be now, as she is still 600 miles away in Hyderabad....

<< Most Confusicated Beings >>

It has never been so easy to understand the girls in my life....One beckons to back me up, wants me to care for her always,but hell is this!!!! why does she not understand me attimes,when I blub to be a bit busy with my schedules....I happen to scribble these words coz,the other day snippy almost flodded in tears when she called me and I could not talk my words with that utter freedom, as I was before my PC at my Office.says I am a changed man now....brag!!! nothing seemed to be so stupid after these words blew up my ears.....

Well, the other one din't even call for a long time,I dint even know her mobile no now as she was having high time at some other place away from her working environ.But I am sure when we come across at the wedding to be attended tommorow,she will blush in style as if she was waiting for me as never, I have to keep my nerves, to not to expose how badly I was hurt all these days,just to keep our so called "Best friends" tag intact.Chal !!!! The stories keep comming on and on,and I knew none is to be with me for my life forever....

Flight Of Imagination

Even the thoght of last wednesday brings nightmares....I was caught by the agitatted crowd while I was on my way back home after IBM declared an open holiday to all its Employees concernd for the employee safety....Even the next day was also an announced holiday by the Government of the state.So we had an extented holiday for five days....From Wednersday to sunday,But we were deprived of any means of entertainment in the city for 2 days,No parks were open no theaters functioned,none of the hotels or restraunts were serving their customers...It was tough to find food outside.All the roads were blank as never before,wanted to travel in those duely abandoned roads of Bangalore to reach my office in 10 minutes but threat overrode my wish.

Before that,on wednesday just as we started our work @ office, we heared news of the demise of the famous kannada thespian Rajkumar,as the news floated all around,it triggered great pandamonium in the city,Crowd went heywire,there was arson and loot in many places,people panicked to reach home soon,Broken glasses of buildings thronged all the roads...fear in the faces was vividly visible everywere....

Twodays after this happend.... Saturday,City wokeup roaring loud....People breathed a sigh of relief after mourning to the death of the legendary actor.All the chaios forgotten by everyone.....Hotels and foodcourts resumed their bussiness.....this helped us watch a movie for comforts on saturday night with all my friends......

My First Post :)

Hello, greetings to you for visiting my virgin blog....., Long time unaccomplished desire to kick start a blog, to jotdown what ever that meanders through my mind has sprouted roots today...And I suddenly have this urge to speak my thoughts. I will be confiding in here everything and I welcome all comments and counter thoughts, as you contribute to add color and/or straighten this meandering brook that flows through Life
I am gonna Blog Blog and Blog as never before as I have been given this chance to expand my horizons by speaking my heart out with all those whom I din't knew before