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Monday, March 20, 2006

Musings

Well I really dont want to write anything on love, relationships, marriage, AIDS, sex. I thought i will crib a bit about my life in general. But then realised that the few people who do read my blog are people who know me well. Once i start cribbing about life i might lose the few readers that i have. ( ya i know i hav started cribbing already)

I thought i will just mention thoughts that have been running in my head over a period of time....

1. I still have not decided what i will write.....maybe i hav no thoughts......

2. no wait i do have some thoughts.....and its not about sexy gals

3. neither is it handsome guys....

4. I dont know why i leave so early for work. I get up at 6 30 in the morning. Catch the bus at 7 and reach office by 8. I try to beat the temperature. Yes i reach office by the time the temperature is 25 degrees. Everyday i cross MG road and see the barricades put up for the Bangalore Metro. I can see people straining their necks to see what the barricades are hiding. What do they expect....railway tracks? Well who am I to complain. I too did that for a week.

5. I read blogs the whole day. I come to office at 8 and read some blogs. I have breakfast at 8 30 and then read some more blogs. I see my manager come in at 9. Give her a smile and continue to read blogs. I also have pre lunch and post lunch blog reading sessions. Once its 4 30 in the evening then who can work. I continue to read blogs. I read them till 8 in the evening. When do i work?

6. I do not work in office. Being a software engineer u would have expected me to have written mind boggling C codes. Well I havent. The only thing i have used is the printf ( for the uninitiated thats the magic thing that prints stuff on the screen). Its helped me a lot in debugging and win laurels for me and my company.

5. I irritated my ex manager during the appraisal time. Gave him fundas on people management. Gave him the feeling that the whole project would have be scrapped if i had not been there. He took a month to decide my rating and came back with it last week. I got rated as ***** ( well people do u really think i will mention that in the public domain......and of course its not a 5 star rating.....thats only for movies like K3G). I again drilled him about the whole appraisal process and tried to prove to him that the bell curve method used for calibration is full of flaws. After 2 hours ( the meeting was scheduled for half hour) he asked me if I was a MBA graduate of was I pursuing an MBA somewhere. I decided to stop lest he planned to change the rating.

6. I have never felt lonely. I have my companion with me always sitting on my head. Its my thinking cap. Its been with me all my life ........ wait a sec, i think i will dedicate a whole post to it.

7. I am not going to talk about my blooming love life.

8. I feel very insecure about my career. All i want is a job in which all I am doing is travelling. All this software thing is crap.

9. My manager just came in and i smiled at her.

I think its time to add few more printfs.........

6 Comments:

  • //hello world
    printf("You are really getting good at this! good thoughts though... \n love to read about ur thinking cap... well guess the complimentary thing i have always with me is my speaking mouth! and ya u can freely discuss ur blooming love life...\n and ya da u like it or not.. u re allways cribbing... ");
    // this is where i stop showing off
    // my extreme knowledge of
    // printf :-)

    By Blogger Rupam Bhattacharya, at 9:20 PM  

  • #satya
    sorry i had to remove ur comment....did reveal something i didnt want revealed....
    anyway there are many more things i do in my workplace other than read blogs and put printfs...did exaggerate a lotin the post. I hav gained a lot of knowledge in a particular domain. And the project for which i was appraised was a lot of development work and it got saved from being scrapped with me playing a major role. Not simply did i get ***** rating.
    but i agree i havent learnt any new prog language. But i also believe a programmin language is only a tool to implement a concept. The other things in the development cycle play the major role

    By Blogger Sriniketh S, at 6:12 AM  

  • #satya
    Well if i take the literal meaning of a null pointer exception then u r rite!!!!! actually i dont think i will even try to declare a pointer in the first place leave alone initialising it!!!!!!!!

    By Blogger Sriniketh S, at 6:41 PM  

  • what's going on?? this is not a chat place... i really wanted to read satya comment which srini deleted to maintain some secrecy... and srini better write blogs than chat with this fellow...

    By Blogger Rupam Bhattacharya, at 7:37 PM  

  • Hey the musing stuff is real good. I know how much you think, especially when its someone else's business. Like, That Guy and That Girl fought da. And you go , "Is it... let's analyse the reasons".

    And i want to know what Satya wrote. Infact I'm ready to swap your secrets with him. Now i'm one of the few girls who knows you from when you were 4, until now, right.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:54 AM  

  • in my defense -- i am a "C expert" (!!!!) and i didnt notice u were talking in java

    By Blogger Sriniketh S, at 6:22 PM  

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