Dont know why a sudden urge today to think about this 'forgotten blog'. Just referred my last blog post entry. I wrote that a week before going to Jamshedpur to join in TATA Steel.
Two years have passed, I am still with TATA Steel. May be a very fast recap of what all happened in the last two years, I can put here.
July 1st 2009- Joined in TATA Steel, Jamshedpur
Aug 2009- I was posted at Chennai. Became the first person from the R&D division of TATA Steel to be posted at Chennai.
Sept to Dec 2009- Totally frustated about the life I was leading. Wanted to become a student once again
Jan- Feb 2010- Was exposed to the activities of Bhumi Chennai. Deciding to be a part of MAD.
Mar- May 2010- Back to boredom. Feeling of loneliness.
June 2010- Got an unexpected friend (male) through google chats.
July 2010- Parents telling me that I should get married in a year. Fear of not having seriousness in life.
Aug 2010- Two real bad things happening in life.
Sept to Nov 2010- Temporary escape from parents' pestering wrt marriage.
Dec 2010- Meeting the gal ( who is going to be my wife in 3 months time) in her office cafeteria.
Jan 2011- Getting engaged.
Feb 2011- Life seemed to have some meaning. Some unexpected happiness.
March 2011- Real tragedies in the job
April- May 2011- Leading the job life with very low level of enthu
June 2011- Understood the power of Hope
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Trivandrum --> Calicut --> Chennai --> Jamshedpur
Almost one year back, I started this blog. Showed so much enthusiasm to put some stuff for the first few days. Then like many a blogger, I started to forget that I have a blog . Today any way I am going to post something here.
My MTech course is over. I bid adieu to IIT Madras last month. To be exact, I came back home on 18th May. Today is 18th June. One month, I really enjoyed the vacation. Visited many of my relatives. Watched around 220GB of movies. :) . Yeah, I bought a 500GB external hard disk before my MTech course got over. Now it is time to start my preparations for going to Jamshedpur.
I am joining in TATA Steel, Jamshedpur on July 1st. There is no direct train from Trivandrum to TATA Nagar (Jamshedpur). So I am going to catch the Alleppy Dhanbad Express from Ernakulam. I am going on 26th of June along with my friend Srijith ,who is also joining there. I will be reaching there on 28th and we are asked to report to GT Hostel No 1, Kadma. My parents are also coming with me. This is for the first time I am going to Jharkand,which was once a part of Bihar. Today I realized that though I did my BTech in NIT Calicut ( Calicut is about 450 kms from my home) and MTech in IIT Madras. ( Madras is more than 900kms away from my home ), I used to get long vacations and used to stay at home for atleast 3 months in a year. But now I am going to Jamshedpur, which is more than 3000kms from my home and the frequency of visiting my home is going to reduce.
But I am very excited about my job. Joining in TATA Steel is going to mark an end to my 20 year long student life . (2yrs KG Class+ 12 years school+ 4 years BTech+ 2years MTech). I am going to join as Researcher in the R&D and Scientific Services Division, of TATA Steel.
My MTech course is over. I bid adieu to IIT Madras last month. To be exact, I came back home on 18th May. Today is 18th June. One month, I really enjoyed the vacation. Visited many of my relatives. Watched around 220GB of movies. :) . Yeah, I bought a 500GB external hard disk before my MTech course got over. Now it is time to start my preparations for going to Jamshedpur.
I am joining in TATA Steel, Jamshedpur on July 1st. There is no direct train from Trivandrum to TATA Nagar (Jamshedpur). So I am going to catch the Alleppy Dhanbad Express from Ernakulam. I am going on 26th of June along with my friend Srijith ,who is also joining there. I will be reaching there on 28th and we are asked to report to GT Hostel No 1, Kadma. My parents are also coming with me. This is for the first time I am going to Jharkand,which was once a part of Bihar. Today I realized that though I did my BTech in NIT Calicut ( Calicut is about 450 kms from my home) and MTech in IIT Madras. ( Madras is more than 900kms away from my home ), I used to get long vacations and used to stay at home for atleast 3 months in a year. But now I am going to Jamshedpur, which is more than 3000kms from my home and the frequency of visiting my home is going to reduce.
But I am very excited about my job. Joining in TATA Steel is going to mark an end to my 20 year long student life . (2yrs KG Class+ 12 years school+ 4 years BTech+ 2years MTech). I am going to join as Researcher in the R&D and Scientific Services Division, of TATA Steel.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Am I suffering from discomgoogolation?
Where should I start? Start with the definition of the high fundae word that you have put in ur blog title...or better start with the circumstances that made you realize that u r suffering from that...Many of my friends (non IITians) believe that IIT life is very hectic and as I am in the second year of MTech, they suppose that I am busy with my project work... When ever I chat with my friends, they advise me to concentrate more on my MTech project and to stop wasting my time, staying online almost 24 hours a day.. The reason that I give for being online is : "We should utilize the facilities provided by the insti to the fullest extent" [:P]
But wait a minute..What are you doing in the cyber world for 24 hrs a day?? Dont say that you are searching for some thing that is related to ur project work, dont say that u r chatting with some one special..Yesterday, I realized that there are many people in the world who are facing the same problem as mine..They just keep on browsing the net for hours and finally end up forgetting what they were actually searching for. They feel stressed when they cannot access the internet.. One of my IIT Profs explained about such a situation and introduced this word, "DISCOMGOOGOLATION"to us .. Unfortunately, I am also suffering from that..[:(]
After that class, I was interested to know more about that. So I started WIKIing and I got some facts which I am putting here. The term is a combination of "discombobulate", which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google. Yeah, google has become a verb for us. " Do some googling dude" means " Do some search in the net". Nearly half of Britans - 44% - are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey."A galaxy of information is just a mouse click away and we have become addicted to the web" .
I was not able to google out the way to get rid of that. :(
But wait a minute..What are you doing in the cyber world for 24 hrs a day?? Dont say that you are searching for some thing that is related to ur project work, dont say that u r chatting with some one special..Yesterday, I realized that there are many people in the world who are facing the same problem as mine..They just keep on browsing the net for hours and finally end up forgetting what they were actually searching for. They feel stressed when they cannot access the internet.. One of my IIT Profs explained about such a situation and introduced this word, "DISCOMGOOGOLATION"to us .. Unfortunately, I am also suffering from that..[:(]
After that class, I was interested to know more about that. So I started WIKIing and I got some facts which I am putting here. The term is a combination of "discombobulate", which means to confuse or frustrate, and Google. Yeah, google has become a verb for us. " Do some googling dude" means " Do some search in the net". Nearly half of Britans - 44% - are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey."A galaxy of information is just a mouse click away and we have become addicted to the web" .
I was not able to google out the way to get rid of that. :(
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Introspection
Hey author of this blog..It seems that you have almost forgotten the fact there is some thing like this, which you have started a few days back ...U posted almost 2 months back.. A few questions you have to answer : Is it because you have become very busy these days?? Or is it because you didnt get any thing worth posting in your blog? What prompted you to start a blog?
As author of this blog, I have the responsibility to answer the above questions .In one sense, I was busy. In addition to the usual project work, which any way I have to do, I was involved in a few more things in the past few days- Onam Celebrations in the Sindhu Hostel ,Onam Celebrations of Kerala Kala Samithi and finally Fresher's party that we gave t0 our Thermal Juniors. It is not that I did not have any thing worth posting, but I could not find enough time to sit peacefully and write some thing in this blog.
The answer to the last question that was raised could be answered like this. I started blogging in May. It was just a way to escape from boredom. What to post was the next question . Initially, I thought of posting techie stuffs in my blog. That might have fetched more readers for this blog. But later I decided to start posting some of my personal experiences. Never did I think that I could find people who are willing to spend time to read my blog. But to my surprise, some of my friends, though not interested in writing comments in the blogs, encouraged me to write more and started to discuss with me about my blog.
As author of this blog, I have the responsibility to answer the above questions .In one sense, I was busy. In addition to the usual project work, which any way I have to do, I was involved in a few more things in the past few days- Onam Celebrations in the Sindhu Hostel ,Onam Celebrations of Kerala Kala Samithi and finally Fresher's party that we gave t0 our Thermal Juniors. It is not that I did not have any thing worth posting, but I could not find enough time to sit peacefully and write some thing in this blog.
The answer to the last question that was raised could be answered like this. I started blogging in May. It was just a way to escape from boredom. What to post was the next question . Initially, I thought of posting techie stuffs in my blog. That might have fetched more readers for this blog. But later I decided to start posting some of my personal experiences. Never did I think that I could find people who are willing to spend time to read my blog. But to my surprise, some of my friends, though not interested in writing comments in the blogs, encouraged me to write more and started to discuss with me about my blog.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Marriage for research
The second year of my MTech has started.. Most probably, this is going to be my last year, as a student. The question of Phd is not infront of me now. My parents are compelling me to go for job after my MTech. When I expressed my interest to do 'REsearch', my mother found out a solution. 'You go abroad and do Phd after your marriage.' I am 23 years now.So if we assume that 26 years is the optimum age for marriage, I have to wait for more than 3 years to do my Phd.
It was raining outside. I was sitting alone in my hostel room, infront of my comp.. A perfect situation for....Hey, remove all those nasty thoughts that came to your mind. A perfect situation for writing a blog . The only solution for doing Phd is marriage. As some one rightly pointed out,
" It is easy to find a girl,
It is hard to find a woman,
It is hardest to find a wife. "
I have not yet found my girl friend, though I have many friends who are gals. I thought about the number of misses (read this as the plural of MISS) I kissed...Sorry..sorry..kisses I missed. .I wonder how people gather up courage to propose to a girl .....First propose, then date, then gather courage to kiss.. Nothing is going to happen..Let us believe in Arranged Marriage.. So first marrige, then Phd....ha ha.
(PS: Got inspiration to write this, after reading the blog of one of my friends. )
It was raining outside. I was sitting alone in my hostel room, infront of my comp.. A perfect situation for....Hey, remove all those nasty thoughts that came to your mind. A perfect situation for writing a blog . The only solution for doing Phd is marriage. As some one rightly pointed out,
" It is easy to find a girl,
It is hard to find a woman,
It is hardest to find a wife. "
I have not yet found my girl friend, though I have many friends who are gals. I thought about the number of misses (read this as the plural of MISS) I kissed...Sorry..sorry..kisses I missed. .I wonder how people gather up courage to propose to a girl .....First propose, then date, then gather courage to kiss.. Nothing is going to happen..Let us believe in Arranged Marriage.. So first marrige, then Phd....ha ha.
(PS: Got inspiration to write this, after reading the blog of one of my friends. )
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Old is gold
I just thought of those days (late eighties or early nineties) , when we did not have the Remote Control to control our TV. Those days we did not have so many channels. We just found fun in watching Doordarshan. We used to love a few advertisements as well. Today I downloaded a few of them from You Tube. I am adding them in this blog.
1) Hamara Bajaj
2) Natraj
3) Nirma Washing powder
Now we have lots of channels which are exclusively dedicated to news like CNN IBN, Times Now... But those days for English News, we depended only on Doordarshan. This was how the English news started in those days.
The next one that I am adding is " Mile Sur Mera Tumhara"
This is the last one I am adding today
Harthal= HURT ALL
Just another day in my life...I was thinking what to post in my blog ...Even after thinking for 1 hour, I could nt find any thing worth posting. At last, I started to go thru the messages in my mobile, as if I could get some important information in that. Found a message from one of my friends. "Angane Veendum oru Harthal. Hathal Aasamsakal ...." [ Yeah, one more Harthal. Harthal Wishes...more blah blah...].. I checked the date , I got that message. July 3rd. Typed 'July 3rd kerala harthal' in google and started to read the stuff...
I realized that there is a site dedicated exclusively for Harthal . They define Harthal like this:
" "Hartal" is a Gujarati word. "Har" means "everything" or "always"; "Tal" or "tala" means "to close". The word "hartal" means a day of mourning or protest, on which all the shops are shut and no-one goes to work or does any shopping. " What a nice definition for Harthal. It should be called as HURT ALL.
I was curious to know the reason for Harthal. Because there was a harthal on June 27th - a protest against some Amarnath land issue or some thing. Another harthal with in a week.... The reason for the Harthal on July 3rd was even more interesting. " Some Controversy in Seventh Standard Social Studies Text Book". The controversial section starts with a heading "mathammillatha jeevan" (atheist jeevan or more precisely jeevan who has no religion).
The lesson is something like this: A kid came for admission accompanied by his parents. Head Master started to fill the Application Form.
HM: What is ur name?
kid: Jeevan
HM: Good..nice name..Ur father's name?
kid: Anwar Rasheed
HM:Mother's name?
kid: Lekshmi Devi
HM raised his head (looking at the parents) and asked : What shud I fill in the place for the child's religion?
Father: Need not write any thing. or Better write NO RELIGION
HM:Caste?
Father:No
HM: what if this kid feels that he needs a religion when he grows up?
Father: Let him follow the religion that he feels as good..
I could not find any thing wrong in the above textual material.I dont know whether there is any hidden Communist Thought in this particular material.
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