Where are we going in this new corporate world, where everyone is busy. Noone has time to talk to others nor will they try even to acquaint with others. Similar is the case with friendships. The difference between college day friendships and corporate friendships are very evident. Friends are supposed to help you out of any difficult situation, even if it is going to affect your friend in someway. Normally friends will do that, they won't be thinking about the outcome when they are helping you, nor will they be expecting anything from you in return, that's true friendship and that is there still in campuses, i think. In the corporate world, friendship is nothing more than having a cup of tea together and talking during that time. If you are in trouble don't expect them to be there to help you out, they will first think about themselves,what if i try to help him out?Will it bring trouble to me? If I help him out what is my benefit? After all these thinking most probably they will think it's better that we confine to ourselves and make a move on without thinking about others.
Some may disagree with me on this, but i am not saying that everyone is like this, there are a few who are sincere, but the majority are like this. If you still disagree just watch carefully and you can find it out for yourself if you have a fairly good observation skill.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Point of interest
A point to bear in mind for all those are worried about something or the other:-
If you can solve your problem then what is the need of worrying? If you can't solve it then what's the use of worrying?
So cheer up :) and keep going
If you can solve your problem then what is the need of worrying? If you can't solve it then what's the use of worrying?
So cheer up :) and keep going
Thursday, April 9, 2009
How I Got My First Job
Once again my memories travelled back to the past, to our college days, S7 going on and it was placement time. Companies coming to take those whom they think are efficient(may not be the case always). Every now and then our placement cell announces that some company is coming to some of the colleges and we all will be going to the college where the campus recruitment is conducted.
One day the campus placement cell announced that a company Ernst&Young is visiting Baselious college for campus recruitment. I havent heard of such a company till then and any how we decided to go there and attend one more test. In the morning there was a short presentation about the company and then only we understood that it was one of the most reputed firms in the auditing field and is having a shared service centre at technopark. After the presentation there was an aptitude test and after that they said that after lunch we will be divided into groups and each one of us will have to speak on a topic for 5 minutes and the topic will be have to be picked from lot. On hearing this I was not at all interested in staying back any longer as i never ever liked to have a public speech and also my communicative skills are not the best. So I thought of going for the film Classmates which was running house full at that time.
I put across this idea to many but all of them rejected that idea saying that it is one of the craziest of the ideas having come this far for the purpose of attending the test, they wanted to stay there. I was not at all happy with their attitude as i wanted to runaway from the scene somehow and get out of the trouble of making a public speech. My last resort was the one of my friends who was my neighbour and also my classmate, and as he is crazy about films i thought of persuading him and taking him with me for the film. But he too broke my heart with a NO. He also told me that we have come this far, so now just attend that too and we can go for film some other day and i was like a man stranded in a desert without knowing how to get out of there. So after everyone disagreeing to my good proposal i had no choices left other than to attend the session which is the next hurdle to a job.
We all went to the rooms to participate in the presentation session. We were divided into groups of 15 and soon the public speech started. I got a relatively easy topic to speak on 'Television - a knowledge box or a nonsense box'. After the public speech we left for our homes and on our way one of my friends informed that 6 from our college has been shortlisted to attend the interview the next day at Technopark. I was one among those shortlisted along with Hidesh, the one who made me stay there, and some others. The next day we were there at the office in Technopark waiting for our turn to attend the interview. I didnt have to wait much before they called me. The interview was over very quickly, i think within 10-15 minutes, a simple one. A small self introduction, then few questions from what all things i have mentioned in my resume, a brief description of our mini project, seminar that i took on my college and a few questions based on the descriptions that i gave them. I was pretty confident in giving them the answers as i was pretty sure that they wont be having much knowledge in electronics department. Then came the real test, i was asked to write a C++ program to sort an array of numbers, it might sound very simple for a computer science student, but it wasnt all that easy for me. I took the pen and started with a "#include" statement thinking of how to write, then suddenly one of the interviewers told to my relief that there is no need to write the syntax, you just give us the logic. I was pretty happy hearing this and explained the logic to them, they seemed very happy and told me that you can leave for now and we will be informing you the result within a week.
Weeks passed by and I didn't get any update from the firm, and i almost forgot it and one night before a university exam one of my friends called me and told me that i was selected, but to my disgust the one who held me back from skipping the public speech was not there in that list.
Once there in E&Y, we had an english training course, and in that we were asked to speak about some of the incidents in our life and i narratted this incident and once my speech was over my trainer shook her head and said it was one of the craziest way of thinking.
One day the campus placement cell announced that a company Ernst&Young is visiting Baselious college for campus recruitment. I havent heard of such a company till then and any how we decided to go there and attend one more test. In the morning there was a short presentation about the company and then only we understood that it was one of the most reputed firms in the auditing field and is having a shared service centre at technopark. After the presentation there was an aptitude test and after that they said that after lunch we will be divided into groups and each one of us will have to speak on a topic for 5 minutes and the topic will be have to be picked from lot. On hearing this I was not at all interested in staying back any longer as i never ever liked to have a public speech and also my communicative skills are not the best. So I thought of going for the film Classmates which was running house full at that time.
I put across this idea to many but all of them rejected that idea saying that it is one of the craziest of the ideas having come this far for the purpose of attending the test, they wanted to stay there. I was not at all happy with their attitude as i wanted to runaway from the scene somehow and get out of the trouble of making a public speech. My last resort was the one of my friends who was my neighbour and also my classmate, and as he is crazy about films i thought of persuading him and taking him with me for the film. But he too broke my heart with a NO. He also told me that we have come this far, so now just attend that too and we can go for film some other day and i was like a man stranded in a desert without knowing how to get out of there. So after everyone disagreeing to my good proposal i had no choices left other than to attend the session which is the next hurdle to a job.
We all went to the rooms to participate in the presentation session. We were divided into groups of 15 and soon the public speech started. I got a relatively easy topic to speak on 'Television - a knowledge box or a nonsense box'. After the public speech we left for our homes and on our way one of my friends informed that 6 from our college has been shortlisted to attend the interview the next day at Technopark. I was one among those shortlisted along with Hidesh, the one who made me stay there, and some others. The next day we were there at the office in Technopark waiting for our turn to attend the interview. I didnt have to wait much before they called me. The interview was over very quickly, i think within 10-15 minutes, a simple one. A small self introduction, then few questions from what all things i have mentioned in my resume, a brief description of our mini project, seminar that i took on my college and a few questions based on the descriptions that i gave them. I was pretty confident in giving them the answers as i was pretty sure that they wont be having much knowledge in electronics department. Then came the real test, i was asked to write a C++ program to sort an array of numbers, it might sound very simple for a computer science student, but it wasnt all that easy for me. I took the pen and started with a "#include" statement thinking of how to write, then suddenly one of the interviewers told to my relief that there is no need to write the syntax, you just give us the logic. I was pretty happy hearing this and explained the logic to them, they seemed very happy and told me that you can leave for now and we will be informing you the result within a week.
Weeks passed by and I didn't get any update from the firm, and i almost forgot it and one night before a university exam one of my friends called me and told me that i was selected, but to my disgust the one who held me back from skipping the public speech was not there in that list.
Once there in E&Y, we had an english training course, and in that we were asked to speak about some of the incidents in our life and i narratted this incident and once my speech was over my trainer shook her head and said it was one of the craziest way of thinking.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Mouse in the House
One of the creatures that can destroy anything in this world - 'Mouse'. It eats up whatever it gets. It doesnt matter to the rat whether its a sony ericsson's headset, a purse, a hundred rupees note or an ID card. I was aware of the fact that there are lot of mice there in the new house, but didn't expect such a large scale attack from those warriors. Knowing that there are a few mice, we placed poison for the rats in pieces of tapioca, we found couple of them dead and placed the poison next day as well, but it was there in the morning untouched and there were no sounds from the roof top for a couple of days. We thought there are no more rats in the house, which proved to be a big mistake.
One day i was about to leave for office, i took my purse and there i could find a few holes and a hundred rupee note partly ate up by the mouse, the mouse wasnt satisfied with that alone, it cut the headset of my mobile into three pieces, tried to eat my office id card, but for some reason or the other it didnt, maybe it didnt like the taste of the id card,the rats had their revenge for killing their kins..........
The very same day i moved all my valuables from my no more safe table and put it on the open cubboard in the drawing room. Next day as well i found that the rat has entered the table and tried to create a havoc there, it ate up few pieces of paper that was left in the table. Now the table is no more safe and the rat has made me keep all the valuables scatterd on the open cubboard, as the rat is not bothered to touch anything thats kept open.
One day i was about to leave for office, i took my purse and there i could find a few holes and a hundred rupee note partly ate up by the mouse, the mouse wasnt satisfied with that alone, it cut the headset of my mobile into three pieces, tried to eat my office id card, but for some reason or the other it didnt, maybe it didnt like the taste of the id card,the rats had their revenge for killing their kins..........
The very same day i moved all my valuables from my no more safe table and put it on the open cubboard in the drawing room. Next day as well i found that the rat has entered the table and tried to create a havoc there, it ate up few pieces of paper that was left in the table. Now the table is no more safe and the rat has made me keep all the valuables scatterd on the open cubboard, as the rat is not bothered to touch anything thats kept open.
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