Cat and girlfriends

For the last 2 months I have been carrying a book on geometry in my bag that I take to work. Well its the CAT material from IMS. If there was a way in which I could master the subject by just carrying it around and not going through it maybe by now I would hav disproved the pythogoras theorem. I have been carrying it around just cos I had gained some inspiration from seeing my roommate preparing for it.

Lots of prep material for CAT is usually lying around in my room. The preparation by my roommate was so intense that some creatures (other than me) gained quite a lot of inspiration and decided to make the same room their home. Ironically the creatures were cats. So last friday as I reached home I saw 2 cats (or rather kittens - cos they were young) in our house. There was also a weird smell in the room. After chasing out the cats we did search for the source of the smell but after a futile search my roommate sprayed some room freshner and continued with his CAT material. The cats and my roommate had mutually inspired each other.

On a totally different topic....there is this site called Meebo. Now this site lets u access the messenger services like yahoo and msn. Very useful if the firewall in ur office doesnt let u sign on to the messengers. I have been using it only for a day and I felt that it was also able to show u people who were in invisible mode. That sounds ridiculous but the utility in itself is very fascinating.

There was this comment in my last post asking me why my posts usually have the topic girl friends in them and my "inability" to have have. Am I that desperate. Well I really would not like to get into this bf-gf chakkar but the concept of relationships have always left me intrigued. Given a chance I would like to delve into the topic. Maybe I could leave my current job and become a relationship counsellor.

Choices and decisions

So as I try to battle it out against all the enteric crap that I hav and also an upset stomach I was just trying to arrive at a decision on some of the things that I plan to buy in the near future. Yeah I know its surprising that I actually plan to buy something. The shirt that I am wearing as I type this post is 6 years old and the jeans around 8. Coming to think of it I find that majority of the clothes that I have are at least 4 years old.

Well I still think I will carry on with the same clothes and leave that department of shopping to my mom.

But coming to the first thing that I plan to buy. Its a two wheeler. Now I at present have 4 options - a honda activa, a honda unicorn, a TVS apache or a pulsar. U could ask what is a activa doing in the list of bikes. Actually an activa is the only vehicle that I can drive. But I prefer a bike only for the fuel efficiency considering the ever increasing prices of fuel. So a lot of indecision there.

Now the other thing that I want to buy is an ipod. No I am not really a listener of songs nor will I be making full use of that gadget but somehow its just a craze to own one. Maybe its closely related to the domain in which I work. But there is this other player from Creative called the creative zen player which is in many ways better than the ipod but a bit costly. But the option of not buying a player also exists. So a lot of indecision there too.

Actually when I look at these trivial dilemmas that I have at present and think about the number of life changing decisions that I have taken till date I find that they are very few. Actually I can really think of only 2 decisions that I have taken till today without consulting anyone and on my own instincts. And they have both shaped my life to what it is today.

It was the year 2001 and I was in the CET cell for the counselling. Now the CET brochure always specifies every year that they do not counsel and its only a seat selection process. But till today we call it counselling. Ok I was in the seat selection thing. I was due to enter the hall at 10:30 as a part of the second batch on the first day. I had come with the hope of securing a seat in RVCE hopefully in the electronics dept. But as I went in I found no seats available in the branch of my choice. I could have opted for computers in RVCE but observed that there was a seat remaining in the electronics in a college named PESIT. Now from the moment I entered the hall I was constantly hearing about this college being compared to RVCE and the seats were fast filling in it too. I had really not done any sort of research on this college and did not even know which part of the city it was in. I had no idea about the lecturers or the placements. So when my turn came to select the seat i had the option of computers in RV or the last seat in the electronics dept of PESIT. I really do not know what made me choose PESIT and I can never find out where I would have been today if I had gone to RVCE. Maybe I would have ended with having a girlfriend.

I was standing in sector 58 in noida in the year 2005. Thats a satellite town near Delhi. I had just joined as a software trainee in CSC and was looking for a house on rent along with a coule of my friends. It was seven in the evening and we were deep in conversation with a house broker when I received a call from my mom. I had been offered a job in *******. The posting would be in bangalore. Now I had a dilemma. One the one hand I had just joined CSC 4 days back and also it was my first job but on the other hand I was now being offered a job in a company I was familiar with and a work profile that suited my qualification. Five days later I flew back to bangalore. I will never be able to find out what could have happened if had stayed back in noida.
Maybe I would have ended up having a girlfriend.

PS : I never really had to choose my lab partner of my project partner during my college days.

Gyan sharing

So after a spell of enteric fever and enteric meningism i am back to bangalore. Now what the hell is this enteric fever. Well i was told its the other name for typhoid. On the internet i find the meaning of enteric as "Of, relating to, or being within the intestine". And this is the meaning of meningism. Now how did they relate the 2 words and conclude it as Enteric Meningism remains a mystery. But I figure after spending half their youth in attaining that MBBS degree and a fortune in fees the doctors (reserved canditate or otherwise) have the right to come up anything they wish.

So I spent 19 days in my house and missed 13 working days. But the best part is that the sick leave in the place I work is on a honorary basis - which in simple words means unlimited and all I had to do is produce a doc's certificate. I lose none of my previlege leaves and also get paid in full for the days i was in sick leave. Who am i to complain.

Now what did I learn from this experience. I have learnt 2 things.

1. Health is the most important thing in life.

2. Life is not just about work. Work is only a part of life.

When we young professionals just join the industry we feel we are the pillars of the company. We feel like kings. It is good to have that feeling but we must be careful not to overdo it. What do I mean by that. Well do not over strain urself by trying to grab more responsibilities than u can actually carry. We accept anything our managers ask us to do and at times by accepting to do thngs more than what we r capable of we strain ourselves. This causes a deterioration in health (both physical and psychological).

I feel the best way to get our lives under control is by getting married. Uh how is that going to help? Well I have heard until u marry ur mom will take care of u and then its the wife. At least i will have someone to who will cook rasam and rice when i reach home. I more reason to start looking for the rite gal.

Now that i have shared my gyan let me get back to my 12 hour sessions in office.