Every one and every time, when the new era begins.. so as the survival series begins. It happens every time one's leave the house and underlying shadow of parents or the loved one's. The time which is always quoted as experience time, when one's began to know what all world is build off, the kind of people lives around you, the way environment behaves with you, when even natures thunders with the heat sun and cloud rains and which get added up by the so called govt potholes and brilliant transportation activities.
I am from that everyone who even faced the crucial initial day of survival series in kolkata. It was utmost learning experience for me. It taught how to eat up the crude situations and one thing that there are kinds of people not just various people but variety of people who will do anything for money with two face enact, soft at face and killing at heart. Below how i faced my initial days with such cool peoples.
I step downed from the satabadi express at Howrah station at around 9:30PM, a step toward the newly upcoming so called professional life,with lots of hope and inspiration and hopes to face the future. Holding a big heavy bag, as i approached out on platform so many coolie's starting anting for the bag and the charges so high, my god i moved out with so little penny form home, i had just no idea that i had fallen in such a costlier place. So i decided to carry my bag all by self. Out sides hoping to get some route direction i asked the taxiwaal's, guess what they starting talking each other and the end result, we dont know but if you want to go there it will cost around 400Rs. Again shocked. I didn't had mobile that time so i wasn't able to call my friend. Some how i called my friend from phone booth, got the route and utterly bitterly i reached the friend's house and quest for survival began. Next day i did my joining in IBM ie on 16th june 2006 and after that some of our college mate decided to had a flat by 18th june i.e. sunday. And for that to happen the treasure hunt for the house should must begin on saturday and to be completed by the end of saturday ie 17th june 2006. As planned we all meet on saturday 17th june 2006 at some predefined place and quest for home began. With all our contact we tried to reach some flat but they didn't favored anyone's luck. I called up my friend prashant who used to work in IBM kolkata and he gave us some broker number but with precaution that it will charge us with one month rent in case of finalizing the house. Called up the broker and planned a meeting and went to see the room, the broker guy told that they will try to had it available under 10 to 12k as we were 6 guys, so thought 2k per head is not an bad idea. Well the broker was the first fellow of its kind who can screw up you as much as possible for his needs only. And we got screwed too. The second in the row was our first landlord, the so called wife of an IAS office in CJ block. The old lady's son and daughter might have left them, and she can only think of money. I still remember how she used to talk to us, like she is our grandmother, very calmly and happily. But the way she used to count every money, the greed was so vivid in her eyes. Her eyes used to widened up, let me give you synonyms condition: just watch a hungry dog tied to something and put a piece of roti just out of his reach and observer how the dog licks his tongue frequently. Every time i went to give her the money i felt the same. I never knew how she accrued to had so much of greed thou being the wife of an IAS officer. Well all in a hush the life began there with my friends.
Every morning we used to run for the Office to DLF for the training in the buses and the crowd was just the perfect for a well began. The Buses used to be so much crowed and tight packet that you never need to move once placed inside the bus . It used to be summers and the situation used to become worst with much crowd that by the time we reach to office, we were filled with full of sweat and it appears that we had just taken a shower.
After all day exhaustive training we used to be so tired that it was hard for us to walk as we had no proper dinner arrangement in those early days. The only option was for us to walk to karunamayee (saltlake) around 10 min - 15 min walking distance (at my speed) and everyday we used to eat roti and dalfry (the only good thing available.). If we tried to have something else it used to be complete messed up. One of my friend just eat Paneer roll for the dinner in a special way. He used to unroll it and eat like roti and panner dish.
This going to office with killing crowd and in the night same rumali roti (+normal roti) and dal fry wasn't enough to energize us as rest of things in their nearest location was out of our pocket budget range. Not only this there was no privacy in our flat as the money mingled landlord lady used to stay over our head, i mean over our flat and their worker used to access our rooms any time, none of us was liking the on going situation. Also when they used to have party we had to move out to one room (we had two room to use). It was irritating. So we planned to move out with a strategy thou it was costlier as well it failed 90%.
But before that the hunt for dinner directed us far far away form our flat. Its was so far it used to take around 30-35 min to reach there, wow everything we will do for a good food. We used to get good chapati (roti) and dishes, some time we used to eat up more than 10 roti's, well the food was really nice and good and at reasonable price. Dinner problem was solved but walking such a long distance was killing.
Before we leave the house we needed a new house. For that I and my friend rohit gave a complete search to colonies in DLF next to our office so that we can escape the long torturing crowed bus journey. We had word with every security guard thinking that we might get the room without the broker. We even got some ray of hope from the security guard from the building of Green wood park colony, that also because of he too was from bihar. But luck wasn't in our favor.Finally we got the broker the number from our team lead and we got to see the room and deal got finalized for the room and finally the time came to implement the plan to leave the room at CJ. Good luck or bad luck old landlord lady got some major health problem and got hospitalized and we moved out easily but the two month advance rental was going to stuck as we were in that house for just 1 and half month and we cannot get the money back with out giving the 2 month notice.
Finally We move out with our reasons and shifted to Green wood park (next to office) in the first week of aug 2006. Initially we had nothing specially next to building there was no shop or market. We had no aquaguard neither cooking arrangement. First few days we had our dinner at cafeteria or we used to go our usual place. After some time.. we came to know about the tiffin system and made our pact for dinner with tiffin system. For some days we liked the food. The best part of having the dinner in house with tiffin was that for water we used to go to office with bag filled with one or two empty bottles and used to return with filled filtered water. Well you got to do everything to survive. Things went like this for a while, then one day we got the leg of cockroach in the dinner tiffin. uhhhhhhaaa i didn't had my dinner that night and next day we fired the tiffin waala. But what next.
Things again moved back to zero, we had nothing, no proper drinking water,no dinner arrangement, no cooking ways. Time was to act then panic. So firstly we Implemented Aquaguard, for that i searched net for the aquaguard office, called up and we got the aquaguard guys next day at our house and within 2 days we had the aqugurad in our house- water problem solved. Ran for gas agency, asked some of our neighbors for help then called upon some of the gas agencies. Bad luck continued to rove around us but finally we made it. We got the gas so the basic fooding problem resolved. But we needed someone who can cook well and pretty for us. We even tried cooking even on our own, well that was very tough for us to coordinate and in the end it used to be a mess. Again took the help of the same security guard ( who once gave assurance of letting a flat without broker) and we finally got working maid at a reasonable price and problem for lunch and dinner was solved. Our luck shined and little market and one or 2 shop opened up and so the basic needs were easily patched up. Soon we had the TV and cable and thus the entertainment problem coped up as well.
Thus the life got back on track with more ease but not without a fight. Now we have almost everything for us and our friends. We can serve our friends and guest well enough. In all i forgot to add up about our new landlord, He is such a gentlemen, he treats so well and comfortably whenever we meet him. Well we are happy to have a gentleman landlord like him.
So in summary my life moved from tortured bus journey, greedy broker and old landlady, with roti and dal fry dinner or a miles walk for good dinner along with tiffin food with cockroach leg to now with every basic necessity to live a peaceful life atleast. Yup the requirement never saturates but yes they are under control.... as we are moving.. :)
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sunday, October 07, 2007
Sanjay's B'day...
8th August.. a common day in the life of many peoples, but not so common for us why ? Bro its sanjay's b'day .
Hmm Most of you might not knowing who is this sanjay.. Okay but from where to start..its a long long long story... not so long either.. just stretching it too much. He is my roommate cum best friend, he is too from the Kharagpur (IIT ) + from Navada (Bihar).. all these places already have a big link in my life.. but thats not the reason why today i am writing about him. He is special, he has different approach to think visualize about everything, whether its the game of Cricket or the discussion over girl, the two extreme ends of life.
If your are with sanjay my dear you will enjoy the time to the fullest, he will never let you go down, he keeps the environment up and glow. you feel enlightened and vaticinated being with him. He makes every doubt go away, he is always there for the friends. He is a true friends. I have seen the reality. He doesn't care about money when he is with friends. He is so simple and trust worthy a very first impression will make you to be his friend.
The best part, if you really wanna know more about him, make him drink a lot and the fun will me more when you drink as well, he will be open up like anything , even more open than a open book. I just love to drink with him, especially when I Rohit (my other roommate (He is also a "class" friend)) and sanjay when we have this drinking combo session then the real fun begins.. full masti.. enjoyment, dance lots of lots of bhaat, singing, real feeling comes up, we make lots of planning and its not like that we forgot next day, we keep all those things up in the thoughts. Sanjay in itself is bomb, if sanjay and i joined together.. things gets accelerated, and if rohit joins as well, its becomes a TNT and if Prakash Ranjan (my 3rd roommate (Another "Class" friend)) gets in too, then the combo becomes deadly and we are the dynamite, we creates a wave of zeal of fun and environment, i still remember how we matched out every one in the last orion party . We even messed up because of our own way of enjoyment. All four of us makes things different.
Hmm in the flow of excitement , i just got deviated from the main topic the birth day of sanjay.
It was the 8th august we planned to celebrate the b'day of sanjay as i was leaving the same day to home (bokaro), but i don't want to leave without the celebration of sanjay. We ordered a cake from the Catheline from the eden shop, shopping complex to where we all live. This is the cake which we ordered.
We placed some candles over the cake.Now The time was to lit the candles and blow a whistle to blew off the candles. We wished him once again, a very happy b'day.
Well the thou i was in a hurry we had a great afterwards when i returned. Thanks sanjay for being in my life, its great to have a friend like you... cheersss.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
My 'Off'-ice 'oFF'-ice
Most of must be mesmerized by the word 'Off'-ice 'oFF'-ice, what exactly does it mean and what am i trying to implicit. Here what does it means.
For the first time when i commenced my blog writing (whose inspiration i got from my best friend Nishant neeraj who is a very fluent blog writer and observer), i was not sure what to keep the title of my blog work. Going through the bewildered flashes of my life time moments, i came across so many moments which could have been at the position of BLOG TITLE. But all those would have posed only my past, I wanted to have something which can reflect my past, present and future as well. The present is my office and future passing through the office and past, my last one year official activities which cumulated my present.
So it was decided that my title will have Office feeling in it. But why Two office i.e. office office, well my story of official life or so called professional life has gone two phases over the time line from 2006-2007. Hmm also i was inspired (Thats what bollywood says) by the serial OFFICE-OFFICE .The two time line about my professional life is quite a common one and every one might have faced at least once in his/her carrier. Its the time when you are once bombarded with hell lots of thought regarding the amount of work you are going to face in next few months and in actually you get what, even you know nothing. I almost did nothing for three months and once i felt like why the love of god i am here. I was so lost that i lost my basic calculative mechanism. I was started feeling that what i am ? With no work i got rusted and soon going to get corroded badly by this feeling and in the end won't be able to do anything in the near future. That the period of my official life which actually was 'Off' and ice chilled i.e. Off to office and Ice static my life and thus first 'Off'-ice.
The second stanza of my office life came with a new hopes and aims.I still remember the my last Orion party (last year 2006), where i drank too much and chucked all my bad experiences with a expectation for a new life. Ohh New year, for the first time it came with good aspirations. I had work, the thing i always wanted and it came in with lots of learning and interactions. I got hurdled with work and my work place became a more fun filled and charged. I made so many new friends, i realized the meaning of team after getting to work with my team mates. I joined the basket ball team and made a difference in the playing and enjoying the game. Things were moving ahead for me. The 'Off' state move to Off, means Off is oFF (-ve to -ve is +ve.) and same ice static life has now been the ICE- the one which gave me the quick smooth and fluency. My life from static and stuck changed to active and fluent. Thus the next word came to 'oFF'-ice.
here is my office and colleagues.
I know some might think what a rubbish.. but the above presented idea is what i have felt about those words and i tried to put forth my official life in those words. The day my life changes from the current scenario, those words will start exclaiming those feeling, after all, now these words are my feeling, my ideas and my new vision to life.
For the first time when i commenced my blog writing (whose inspiration i got from my best friend Nishant neeraj who is a very fluent blog writer and observer), i was not sure what to keep the title of my blog work. Going through the bewildered flashes of my life time moments, i came across so many moments which could have been at the position of BLOG TITLE. But all those would have posed only my past, I wanted to have something which can reflect my past, present and future as well. The present is my office and future passing through the office and past, my last one year official activities which cumulated my present.
So it was decided that my title will have Office feeling in it. But why Two office i.e. office office, well my story of official life or so called professional life has gone two phases over the time line from 2006-2007. Hmm also i was inspired (Thats what bollywood says) by the serial OFFICE-OFFICE .The two time line about my professional life is quite a common one and every one might have faced at least once in his/her carrier. Its the time when you are once bombarded with hell lots of thought regarding the amount of work you are going to face in next few months and in actually you get what, even you know nothing. I almost did nothing for three months and once i felt like why the love of god i am here. I was so lost that i lost my basic calculative mechanism. I was started feeling that what i am ? With no work i got rusted and soon going to get corroded badly by this feeling and in the end won't be able to do anything in the near future. That the period of my official life which actually was 'Off' and ice chilled i.e. Off to office and Ice static my life and thus first 'Off'-ice.
The second stanza of my office life came with a new hopes and aims.I still remember the my last Orion party (last year 2006), where i drank too much and chucked all my bad experiences with a expectation for a new life. Ohh New year, for the first time it came with good aspirations. I had work, the thing i always wanted and it came in with lots of learning and interactions. I got hurdled with work and my work place became a more fun filled and charged. I made so many new friends, i realized the meaning of team after getting to work with my team mates. I joined the basket ball team and made a difference in the playing and enjoying the game. Things were moving ahead for me. The 'Off' state move to Off, means Off is oFF (-ve to -ve is +ve.) and same ice static life has now been the ICE- the one which gave me the quick smooth and fluency. My life from static and stuck changed to active and fluent. Thus the next word came to 'oFF'-ice.
here is my office and colleagues.
I know some might think what a rubbish.. but the above presented idea is what i have felt about those words and i tried to put forth my official life in those words. The day my life changes from the current scenario, those words will start exclaiming those feeling, after all, now these words are my feeling, my ideas and my new vision to life.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Phoenix - The Indian Cricket Team
Dreams.... isn't a dream, Actually how many of us believed that we (the 1 billion Indians ) will witness, the Indian team reaching making up to finals of first T20 World cup, I believe none of us had any such hopes. The Dreams for any such expectation from Indian cricketing teams was like expecting a donkey ass to win the horse race. Guess what!! looks like the game is still alive and hopes to keep the light of spirit burning in our hearts.
Yes, friends a shocking wave have ran all over India, and its not the earth quake or tsunami or any Katrine, its India shining in the T20 world cup with scintillating performance, where everyone is rising and shining with the glow, out shining everybody. The entire world is swinging in the spirit and entertainment by the Indian cricketing stars. I believe this mighty star team on paper has shown some courage to outrage everyone, defeated every prodigious team, to prove that we are still alive to kick butts and to know them we will not give up, we will not fall down, we will not die, we will not loose with out a fight, that we will give them a hell of war before they give any second thoughts about Indians. I believe the Indians are back in action to kill them all, avenge the shameful defeats and to gain back the medal of honour.
Its the same indian team who saw all of us a dramatic exit from the world cup, not even qualifying for the super eight, what a disappointment for whole of world and a big loss. Its the same team who lost from the upcoming young Bangladesh team in the world cup, the one game which showed India back to the door of the India from the world cup. Its the same shameless Indian team which let whole of India feel hurt, down, painful, pathetic , miserable and pitiful. The team being with so many medals batching records in there pockets and still wasn't able to save a game for their country. That was a day when everyone was in a rage to shutter down the Indian team, every optimistic heart was crying with a pain, the pain of not being defeated, its was the pain that this Indian never saw the spirit, the fighting spirit, ragging eyes, straight from their faces it appeared that they had lost the spirit for the game and so they lost the hopes for the game and fell down up-sides down just like rider fells from the bull ride in the end.
bUt looks like the spirit has starting sparking to shine the lost hopes of Indians. The lost feeling is rising up again, the heart has starting beating again all in the same fashion, as it used to be earlier. This teams of India has shown that fighting spirit, the spirit which is gonna uplift this team to level of trust, that anything's possible in the game with India, stating that you cannot take it granted for anything. The fight is on and is still going on, exhilarating the power and strength for the first T20 world cup.
Something has changed rather many things has change and still changing and which of these changes made the these changes valuable enough to be counted and strengthened enough to be preserved in the so called India scenario. They changed the captaincy to one person who is not much experienced playing out side the country and who had never captained at any level of his cricketing carrier, they kept the most senior level player out of the league, the biggest three aces for the Indian cricket, U know whom am i am talking about, they backed the team with players which was once thought to rusted enough to be used ever, but all these changes are doing well, not just well , well enough to uplift the level of enjoyment for Indians and to keep the thrill, the chunk and the passion alive.
Team India has sprout at the most auspicious time. The mos hot and happening in all this game is the finals, which is gonna be between Indian and Pakistan. Well any game between India and Pakistan has its own standard and quality and thrill in it. So many factors adds up when India plays Pakistan and every men and women in India feels the game, a kind of war runs in the veins with blood, teethes gets stitched, palms recks to fist and eyes grooved with anger and with a feeling of revenge, to avenge the lost pride grows abruptly. Yes The match becomes a one hell of a match, A match to be remembered forever and ever.
We are going to witness for the first time in the history of world cricketing, INDIA vs PAKISTAN finals and that also the finals of a world cup, the first ever world cup for T20. There was a thrill and excitement just by the name of match between India and Pakistan, but now the things has grown exponentially in all levels when it comes to the final, the finals of first ever world cup for twenty twenty.
One word just don't keep fingers crossed hoping for the win, but we all have to support the team with our voice and it should be loud, so loud that it will make entire Pakistan deaf and let the entire world know that we are coming for the cup, we will have the trophy and we will crush every one in the path, as we crushed Aussies and South Africans and most proudly we did one so as we can do it again. As this time the war is for honour and pride for the country. So the only message to rest of the world prepare to visualize the mighty third world war which gonna shocked the entire world and universe.
The Indian Lions and Tigers are so ready for the 'Ghosh and Kawaabs'. Yes thats the Phoenix, Go Go my Phoenix, The Time is ours to show the world what we are.
Yes, friends a shocking wave have ran all over India, and its not the earth quake or tsunami or any Katrine, its India shining in the T20 world cup with scintillating performance, where everyone is rising and shining with the glow, out shining everybody. The entire world is swinging in the spirit and entertainment by the Indian cricketing stars. I believe this mighty star team on paper has shown some courage to outrage everyone, defeated every prodigious team, to prove that we are still alive to kick butts and to know them we will not give up, we will not fall down, we will not die, we will not loose with out a fight, that we will give them a hell of war before they give any second thoughts about Indians. I believe the Indians are back in action to kill them all, avenge the shameful defeats and to gain back the medal of honour.
Its the same indian team who saw all of us a dramatic exit from the world cup, not even qualifying for the super eight, what a disappointment for whole of world and a big loss. Its the same team who lost from the upcoming young Bangladesh team in the world cup, the one game which showed India back to the door of the India from the world cup. Its the same shameless Indian team which let whole of India feel hurt, down, painful, pathetic , miserable and pitiful. The team being with so many medals batching records in there pockets and still wasn't able to save a game for their country. That was a day when everyone was in a rage to shutter down the Indian team, every optimistic heart was crying with a pain, the pain of not being defeated, its was the pain that this Indian never saw the spirit, the fighting spirit, ragging eyes, straight from their faces it appeared that they had lost the spirit for the game and so they lost the hopes for the game and fell down up-sides down just like rider fells from the bull ride in the end.
bUt looks like the spirit has starting sparking to shine the lost hopes of Indians. The lost feeling is rising up again, the heart has starting beating again all in the same fashion, as it used to be earlier. This teams of India has shown that fighting spirit, the spirit which is gonna uplift this team to level of trust, that anything's possible in the game with India, stating that you cannot take it granted for anything. The fight is on and is still going on, exhilarating the power and strength for the first T20 world cup.
Something has changed rather many things has change and still changing and which of these changes made the these changes valuable enough to be counted and strengthened enough to be preserved in the so called India scenario. They changed the captaincy to one person who is not much experienced playing out side the country and who had never captained at any level of his cricketing carrier, they kept the most senior level player out of the league, the biggest three aces for the Indian cricket, U know whom am i am talking about, they backed the team with players which was once thought to rusted enough to be used ever, but all these changes are doing well, not just well , well enough to uplift the level of enjoyment for Indians and to keep the thrill, the chunk and the passion alive.
Team India has sprout at the most auspicious time. The mos hot and happening in all this game is the finals, which is gonna be between Indian and Pakistan. Well any game between India and Pakistan has its own standard and quality and thrill in it. So many factors adds up when India plays Pakistan and every men and women in India feels the game, a kind of war runs in the veins with blood, teethes gets stitched, palms recks to fist and eyes grooved with anger and with a feeling of revenge, to avenge the lost pride grows abruptly. Yes The match becomes a one hell of a match, A match to be remembered forever and ever.
We are going to witness for the first time in the history of world cricketing, INDIA vs PAKISTAN finals and that also the finals of a world cup, the first ever world cup for T20. There was a thrill and excitement just by the name of match between India and Pakistan, but now the things has grown exponentially in all levels when it comes to the final, the finals of first ever world cup for twenty twenty.
One word just don't keep fingers crossed hoping for the win, but we all have to support the team with our voice and it should be loud, so loud that it will make entire Pakistan deaf and let the entire world know that we are coming for the cup, we will have the trophy and we will crush every one in the path, as we crushed Aussies and South Africans and most proudly we did one so as we can do it again. As this time the war is for honour and pride for the country. So the only message to rest of the world prepare to visualize the mighty third world war which gonna shocked the entire world and universe.
The Indian Lions and Tigers are so ready for the 'Ghosh and Kawaabs'. Yes thats the Phoenix, Go Go my Phoenix, The Time is ours to show the world what we are.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Chapter ! (1).
Chapter ! (1).
Every been to college or faced the hostel life, If yes then u must have encountered a enormous different kind of peoples. The peoples who surrounds u all the time, the fellows which formulates the group the one u call ur gang. The friend circle with whom u spend most of ur loving and masti time. The time which you even want to forgot, cannot forget. The time which builds you, lifts you to the points of various thoughts, version of ideas, innovative and calculative ideas. The discussion, the fight over thoughts and irritation of frustrations and helping each other in times of crisis.
Those were the best days of my... rather say everyone's life.
Here i trying to formulate how our wing so called RKCGE formulated.
Let me introduce the few first characters of my wing which in actually help in the creation of my wing.
Here are they
1. Gaurav Nema (Uffh Haramkhor): The stud of Mech Dept DR:1. garland piece :1.
2. Dharmendra Kumar (Uffh Dharmu): Myself , just a member of Fellow from Elec Dept: me nothing but always ready with a solution. Garland piece:2
3. Neeraj Kumar singh (Uffh Baby da): another maagoo from Mech but remained most of time in chaaggi.. .: Unique creature hard to understood but been very soft at heart. Garland piece :3.
4. Abhilash Sahoo(uffh Sahoo singh): Another maggoo from Mech most sincere and bhola bhaala guy the simplest trust worthy fellow when he joined the wing. what he is now ..hmmm is a completely different story. He was source of inspiration for something called as family: Garland piece 4.
5. Nishant Neeraj(Uffh Naishe): Another fellow from the Mech, Been a stud very hard working and motivatingm, Always ready to help us, gives ideas and many more. Garland piece :5.
6. Gaurav Priyadarshi(Uffh GP): Bigger waala stud from the Mech and rock guitarist. Bigger waala Garland piece : 6
7. Nihar ranjan dalai.(uffh nihar singh): Finally someone from the Elec dept: A very sentimental and emotional guy. The one thing you cannot be sure about him is when his mood will change and what will be his next move i mean he was unpredictable and always be there for you. Garland piece: 7
8. Abhishek Prakash.(--Called now as Best Friend for any reference): well the word "Best friend " attached with a lot of irony. What a s**t guy. If i can roll back the time spent with my wingmates i would love to erase the chapter belong to, so called as Best friend. He is not
9. Apurv Mathur.(uffh Budhha, Uncle etc): The guy from the Biotech, he is another unique piece in the garland of our wing. Garland Piece: 8.
Story line 1. Creation of wing.
The story starts all the way when we all joined RK in our second year. For one year i was with the seniors in senior wings for the year 2003-2004. I believe it was a terrific year for all of us.
It was the spring semester when the chaos started for formulation of the wing for the second year students.
I along with my two room mates apurv mathur and neeraj kumar singh, we pledged that we will stay together in the same wing wherever we make the wing.
So finally the quest for other such fellow begins. I with my roommates and one of so called friend Nitin who proposed for formation of new wing and took the lead for grouping the wingies. The search was on fellow like us looking for a new wing. Guess what when we were complete with all the members and would had actually created a wing my fellow nitin got the proposal from a senior wing and he left which actually ruined everything. That was the first betrayal which actually tauter us, soon other left too. The time was passing and our initial run was a failure because of faithless engine.
Somehow we finally managed to group friends for our wing. But there was a problem, see problems, one thing which cannot be terminated, its the root cause for all hells and wells, its the act for which we need to react, perhaps just to overcome this, we usually get the concept of being proactive. The Problem this time was the location of wing we searched, maintainenc secy was not ok with the location opted. So in total we all landed with the RKCGE ie RK C ground east.
Well in total it wasn't was a bad choice after all we were happy and satisfied, all my room mates were near to me and those whom we might me knowing for the first time came to know a lot better in the process of searching other as well for the wing.
There was another key to this all process, well we call him Tauseef (TC) a simple smiley boy always laughing and cheering with big smile. I still agree we did some injustice as we were not able to take him in our wing, but he was always our wingmate.
It took no time and we developed gr8 between us. We had a completed faith in each other. But as newton's law suggest to every action there is equal and opposite reaction as well, I mean to say if good thing is coming expect the bad be with you. As most of you know if things are going smooth then perhaps your moving on the wrong track, rather this all faith and goodness was the symptoms of blindness of understanding the people around us.
This was the beginning of our understanding of people, the different kind of people, facing the nature's of attitude, ego's of act, behavioral of work and the most important fact the two face's of people.
In total everyone get shaped during this timeline of hostel life. So as i. I faced so many guys and girls and every one different attitude and nature. Not going very far away i meet all kinds of people in my wing only. This chapter is just the beginning of the true story we faced in last two year of my college life. In such a short spam of time i saw the trust worthy guys like Nishant to s**t traitor guys like Abhishek prakash, confronted changing emotions of Abhilash, visualized the real low ego of baby da and saw the real agony of nema for quest and in all frustration in us.
Let me give provide the brief testimony for my wing mates.
Gaurav nema: From a very small village Sujalpur(MP). very studious guy and his only effort posted him with Department rank #1. The most special about this guy is hard work attitude. If he takes some takes for completion he will flex all his muscle to complete it. The best part about this guy is that he don't know how to ride a bicycle and just rely's in 11number bus(alias walking) and his takia kalam his haramkhor. Well he has lots of guts, as because he once told his research scholar as "Haramkhor".
Neeraj kumar singh(Baby da). This is another guy filled with lot of hard work and dedications. He used to study so much but some how he was not able to get more than chaggi in the exams. Why? after lots of research we came to know he used to give more time to teach other like Shubhang and Abhishek prakash then to give the time to himself. Even he had very low ego so low that any one used to tease him, but now after tease he has learned a lot. In total he has a lot of patience and dedication towards work. He is soft at heart and helpful. I believe he was scared of something, what was that even we don't know.
Abhilash sahoo. The biggest transition ever i had seen in my life.The credulity guy used to be simple and filled with joy and humor but something changed him so much that at some point we hardly used to had any talk, we were out of touch with him though liking next door and we remain no more trusty to him. One interesting thing about him was complete lingering to his any kind of work.
Nishant Neeraj: Amazing fellow, unique behavior, churned with trust and faith, nurtured every one with helping ideas, innovative at paint, creative with keyboard and many more...
Gaurav Priyadarshi: STUD thats the only word comes to my mind. He is good at everything.
Nihar Ranjan Dalai.: The emotional Sentimental guy. Even he is a stud and put forth everything when starts a job. One thing which he believes most was that, he is surrounded by bad luck, he thinks bad luck was his best friends. Well i hope the situation does have changed.
Abhishek Prakash: The list for this is never ending. From the list i reminded its not the good list its the black list. A whole black bible can be written about him. It will be illustrated in one of the chapters.
Apurv Mathur: Prono uncle - just had one job watch movies and TV serials and all other stuffs available over the LAN across the 24/7 span of period. In thing about this person was that if no body is out there to help you, count this person to be on your side. Its his this feature makes him everyone's best friend, a true one.
These were the unique and special creature of RKCGE. The story of each will begin in the forth coming chapters.
Those were the best days of my... rather say everyone's life.
Here i trying to formulate how our wing so called RKCGE formulated.
Let me introduce the few first characters of my wing which in actually help in the creation of my wing.
Here are they
1. Gaurav Nema (Uffh Haramkhor): The stud of Mech Dept DR:1. garland piece :1.
2. Dharmendra Kumar (Uffh Dharmu): Myself , just a member of Fellow from Elec Dept: me nothing but always ready with a solution. Garland piece:2
3. Neeraj Kumar singh (Uffh Baby da): another maagoo from Mech but remained most of time in chaaggi.. .: Unique creature hard to understood but been very soft at heart. Garland piece :3.
4. Abhilash Sahoo(uffh Sahoo singh): Another maggoo from Mech most sincere and bhola bhaala guy the simplest trust worthy fellow when he joined the wing. what he is now ..hmmm is a completely different story. He was source of inspiration for something called as family: Garland piece 4.
5. Nishant Neeraj(Uffh Naishe): Another fellow from the Mech, Been a stud very hard working and motivatingm, Always ready to help us, gives ideas and many more. Garland piece :5.
6. Gaurav Priyadarshi(Uffh GP): Bigger waala stud from the Mech and rock guitarist. Bigger waala Garland piece : 6
7. Nihar ranjan dalai.(uffh nihar singh): Finally someone from the Elec dept: A very sentimental and emotional guy. The one thing you cannot be sure about him is when his mood will change and what will be his next move i mean he was unpredictable and always be there for you. Garland piece: 7
8. Abhishek Prakash.(--Called now as Best Friend for any reference): well the word "Best friend " attached with a lot of irony. What a s**t guy. If i can roll back the time spent with my wingmates i would love to erase the chapter belong to, so called as Best friend. He is not
9. Apurv Mathur.(uffh Budhha, Uncle etc): The guy from the Biotech, he is another unique piece in the garland of our wing. Garland Piece: 8.
Story line 1. Creation of wing.
The story starts all the way when we all joined RK in our second year. For one year i was with the seniors in senior wings for the year 2003-2004. I believe it was a terrific year for all of us.
It was the spring semester when the chaos started for formulation of the wing for the second year students.
I along with my two room mates apurv mathur and neeraj kumar singh, we pledged that we will stay together in the same wing wherever we make the wing.
So finally the quest for other such fellow begins. I with my roommates and one of so called friend Nitin who proposed for formation of new wing and took the lead for grouping the wingies. The search was on fellow like us looking for a new wing. Guess what when we were complete with all the members and would had actually created a wing my fellow nitin got the proposal from a senior wing and he left which actually ruined everything. That was the first betrayal which actually tauter us, soon other left too. The time was passing and our initial run was a failure because of faithless engine.
Somehow we finally managed to group friends for our wing. But there was a problem, see problems, one thing which cannot be terminated, its the root cause for all hells and wells, its the act for which we need to react, perhaps just to overcome this, we usually get the concept of being proactive. The Problem this time was the location of wing we searched, maintainenc secy was not ok with the location opted. So in total we all landed with the RKCGE ie RK C ground east.
Well in total it wasn't was a bad choice after all we were happy and satisfied, all my room mates were near to me and those whom we might me knowing for the first time came to know a lot better in the process of searching other as well for the wing.
There was another key to this all process, well we call him Tauseef (TC) a simple smiley boy always laughing and cheering with big smile. I still agree we did some injustice as we were not able to take him in our wing, but he was always our wingmate.
It took no time and we developed gr8 between us. We had a completed faith in each other. But as newton's law suggest to every action there is equal and opposite reaction as well, I mean to say if good thing is coming expect the bad be with you. As most of you know if things are going smooth then perhaps your moving on the wrong track, rather this all faith and goodness was the symptoms of blindness of understanding the people around us.
This was the beginning of our understanding of people, the different kind of people, facing the nature's of attitude, ego's of act, behavioral of work and the most important fact the two face's of people.
In total everyone get shaped during this timeline of hostel life. So as i. I faced so many guys and girls and every one different attitude and nature. Not going very far away i meet all kinds of people in my wing only. This chapter is just the beginning of the true story we faced in last two year of my college life. In such a short spam of time i saw the trust worthy guys like Nishant to s**t traitor guys like Abhishek prakash, confronted changing emotions of Abhilash, visualized the real low ego of baby da and saw the real agony of nema for quest and in all frustration in us.
Let me give provide the brief testimony for my wing mates.
Gaurav nema: From a very small village Sujalpur(MP). very studious guy and his only effort posted him with Department rank #1. The most special about this guy is hard work attitude. If he takes some takes for completion he will flex all his muscle to complete it. The best part about this guy is that he don't know how to ride a bicycle and just rely's in 11number bus(alias walking) and his takia kalam his haramkhor. Well he has lots of guts, as because he once told his research scholar as "Haramkhor".
Neeraj kumar singh(Baby da). This is another guy filled with lot of hard work and dedications. He used to study so much but some how he was not able to get more than chaggi in the exams. Why? after lots of research we came to know he used to give more time to teach other like Shubhang and Abhishek prakash then to give the time to himself. Even he had very low ego so low that any one used to tease him, but now after tease he has learned a lot. In total he has a lot of patience and dedication towards work. He is soft at heart and helpful. I believe he was scared of something, what was that even we don't know.
Abhilash sahoo. The biggest transition ever i had seen in my life.The credulity guy used to be simple and filled with joy and humor but something changed him so much that at some point we hardly used to had any talk, we were out of touch with him though liking next door and we remain no more trusty to him. One interesting thing about him was complete lingering to his any kind of work.
Nishant Neeraj: Amazing fellow, unique behavior, churned with trust and faith, nurtured every one with helping ideas, innovative at paint, creative with keyboard and many more...
Gaurav Priyadarshi: STUD thats the only word comes to my mind. He is good at everything.
Nihar Ranjan Dalai.: The emotional Sentimental guy. Even he is a stud and put forth everything when starts a job. One thing which he believes most was that, he is surrounded by bad luck, he thinks bad luck was his best friends. Well i hope the situation does have changed.
Abhishek Prakash: The list for this is never ending. From the list i reminded its not the good list its the black list. A whole black bible can be written about him. It will be illustrated in one of the chapters.
Apurv Mathur: Prono uncle - just had one job watch movies and TV serials and all other stuffs available over the LAN across the 24/7 span of period. In thing about this person was that if no body is out there to help you, count this person to be on your side. Its his this feature makes him everyone's best friend, a true one.
These were the unique and special creature of RKCGE. The story of each will begin in the forth coming chapters.
Till then sayonara.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Twenty-2 hrs 2 oFF-ice
"Twenty-2 hrs 2 oFF-ice"
Begin of........."Twenty-2 hrs 2 oFF-ice".........'T' ,this is the first word popped in my mind when i was about to start new season of blog.. so whats all fuzz about this 'T' even i don't know but things will be revealed in the next blog.
Most of you know about this so famous TV serial '24', The rush hour for the hunt and save the lives solve the case where each hour is counted and every second thrashes.
Here is my version of '24' in office, i Believe you might not have seen the amount of rush i have seen in my life 'nd just quoting one of my rush ... Which i call it as "Twenty-2 hrs 2 oFF-ice".
Start of........."Twenty-2 hrs 2 oFF-ice"........
Day one : 29th august 2007, Time: 05AM-06AM, Location : Howrah Station.
Surprised what am i doing in station, its return day form bokaro after Rakhi, well the home tour was even more rusty then what you are about to see and experience.
Well the day starts with cool guys at station, got a cab reached home easily by 5:45AM. Wow i don't remember the last day when i woke so early for a morning walk, the air was cool and wet shredding a naughty and warm feeling in me, the entire vision was clear. The sky was bit cloudy and little drizzle was all over. The best part was the beautiful morning smell which just clears your confused mind, when you feel free, tired less and floating.
Well all of this calmness was just a reminder for the forthcoming Cathrine
Time: 06AM-07AM, Location : in my room -New Town.
Finally I reached the home and luckily the room was open, as my room mates knew that i will be reaching room around 5 to 6. Without crashing their beautiful dreams i got in my flat.
I washed up myself from the so called cool journey of train and took a heavy shower.
Solved a day before KAKURO and lOOP in LOOP form the CT and had a glimpse of yesterday newspaper, some news and songs over TV. I had my belittled breakfast containing Tropicana Mango juice which were my asset in fighting with the cruel and crashed cases. I moved to my destination (Destination Office oFFice) to solve the open case and pick the case of the day.
Yes i launched myself in the early morning for the game about to begin. For information, my office is next to my colony where i live, 5 min walking distance.
Time: 07AM-08AM, Location : Office oFFice (IBM).
In the office: Most of you must be surprised why to oFFice at such a odd time, well as u know... "Jab kismat ho active to kya karoge ho kar reactive or proactive..." I means when all the odds are in yours favor then you needs no body luck.... let me through some background to all this happening.
I work in IBM-kolkata. Initially working only in one project, suddenly i got the chance to work in many other project simultaneously by the so called concept of Shared delivery. Well initially it was good to work in different projects, but the amount of work expanded and time-line declined. So to cope up i worked hard, as i had my policy that do not wait for time if you have job to do because once done you can sleep like a hell. The same thing happened when i was working with two projects NESTLE and PMI. Nestle being totally new ,the work involved a kind of R&D in code then to write down my code for full filling the requirement, so obviously it eats up a lot time, and PMI been cool till the day i took to doing a very high complex object well i wasn't aware that some thing could be so complex even. Seeing the complexity i defined the complexity as "Complexity – when this itself is so complex then you can understand how complex things complex things become when a complex word is attached to a complex problem, complex isn’t it. It’s very complex to understand the complexity because its born and build complex, I don’t know how the complexity is born but a complex-ity always grows complex".
It was 27th aug the day before the Rakhi when i got to complete a Nestle object before i could leave for bokaro. With full rush in my brain i some how managed to complete the program so that it can be sent for QA. Well the code was complete but not exactly appropriate for QA. (Quality and Analysis : A process for evaluation before a completed is marked for delivery).
The time I left for Howrah Station was 8:30PM and it took me 2hr to reach station anddddd i was back to howrah on 29th aug so in total how many hours i spent talking to my family .. Guess if you can ??
And since now i was back i got to complete the unfinished task, so back in the business.
I quickly reviewed the works left before leaving or rather say i went thru all the evidences for my first case which i left unsolved.
Time: 08AM-09AM, Location : Office oFFice (IBM).
With this hour entire evidences, issues and bugs had been fixed and so called object was ready for postmortem, thats what i call QA. Luckily or Unluckily the object was already sent QA, but lucky me the process of Postmortem wasn't started yet guess why, because i patched up the things well in time (The office time begins at 9:00AM).
Time: 09AM-09:30AM, Location : Office oFFice (IBM).
I Was taking a sign of relief, had a little chat with my colleague-come very good friend Pavan about what happened last day in the team as i missed lots of activities. There in the mean time i saw some manager with coat and tie, something popped in my mind is today something special going on in IBM and, as of the course yes, the NESTLE client for which even i works, was going to give a visit. For the god of being well dress, in contract i was in a T-shirt and jeans with chappals(rather say office slippers). See I got a run.
Guess what, when i was returning to home i was the only one flowing against the river, everyone was coming except me who was going.
Time: 09:30AM-10AM, Location : Back in the room.
All my room mate who works for the same project Nestle and one of my roommate was going in the same way as i had been. I quickly changed and took some lite breakfast and passed on this message that Nestle is giving a party, so most probably we would have dinner
So My roommate sanjay gave Bai(Maid work) off the for second half that means no dinner..
Time: 10AM-11AM, Location : Office oFFice (IBM).
I Rushed to office for the feedback for the work and to got any kind of update on project, thinking that we all will have dinner tonight with client. But GOD had some other master plans for me. The chaos all begins after reaching the office.
Chaos 1: the profile which was created for my object was actually suppose to be a change request rather than work request (Change request mean object already developed by someone and new changes are incorporated in it through my work ,while work request means fresh development).
Chaos 2: No party in the evening ie dinner, beccause we were supposed to attend a call for knowledge transfer ie no nestle party for me but my roommates will have.
Chaos 3: A new object was given to me, which was supposed to be delivered tomorrow as well.
For Chaos 3 we had little discussion over the new object about its functionality and process which need to be covered.
For Chaos 2 : As no dinner at home, simply because Bai got off for the second half . This means Chaos 2 ++.
Time: 11AM-12PM, Location : Office oFFice (IBM).
Now I started looking to resolve the Wrong profile, running form here and there in search for a solution . Finally some one rescued me, someone on whom i can alway put my blind trust, my Team lead Jatin Bhaiya and things got resolved more eaisly then my harsh expectation. A completed sign of relief.
After that i just wanted to have some good food as my stomach started to ache for foooooooood.
I gave a look to my object as well (Chaos 3) before lunch.
Time: 1PM-1:30PM, Location : Office oFFice (IBM).
I came to know about some chaos happening in object of other colleague, as she had to deliver her object for same project NESTLE by the end of the weekend. I had word with her tried to resolved something.. but things we were out of control because of the tedious process involved in NESTLE which eats ups brain and patience both.
Time: 1:30PM-2:30PM, Location : Home sweet Home (Lunch).
Ahhhhhh!! Lunch time finally something to eat, my stomach was crying like anything. I was hungry like mad dog. Had Chawal dal and lots of bhaatt while eating. Actually Bhaat helps a lot in digestion. heheeee..
Time: 2:30PM-3PM, Location : Back to postmortem oFFice .
Had a little rest in office gave a lazy look to new object thinking, peace maaroo ki sab ho jayega.. Well these half hours were mine most peaceful, lazy, sleepy and cool moments.
Time: 3PM-4PM, Location : Postmortem in Porgress in Off-ice.
My peace ful dream broke when sanjay gave me the call that he is going to Nestle party. Early i thought we all would go somewhere for dinner, but along with sanjay all other rommies were going for nestle party, i was all alone, and when i am along i loose the temptation for going anywhere.
For the deviation of thought from dinner, I inquired about the object over which i worked in the morning, the one which is already under postmortem (QA). Status was QA in progress.
For the change again i tried to dig into the problem faced by my colleague, and we had lots of discussion over the process of nestle and discussion result was Nestle Process Suxxs.
Time: 4PM-5PM, Location : Postmortem in Porgress in Off-ice.
My object was still under the eye of suspicion ie postmortem . I was eagerly waiting for the QA completion. In the mean i worked over my new object and tried to plan some ways to fix the problem.
Time: 5PM-6 to 7 PM, Location : My Postmortem in Knowledge Transfer from on-site guys.
It's because of this reason we were not able to attend the nestle party as well as i missed my dinner too, soul reason for chaos 2.
Well The KT(Knowledge transfer) session was a major successes and exhilarating, thats what they must be thinking, the on-site guys, but the irony was i feeling sleepy(Not had enough sleep in train) and big time bore. It was a successful operation in terms of postmortem and nothing touched to mind, simple reason was: the topic to be covered was not at all connected touched ever by me(may be because i was new to this project). How long it went i had no track of time as it was crying.
As the KT session finished I was reminded that i am working in some other project as well i had not done any thing in that for past 2-3 day because of full involvement in nestle project.
With hard broken heart and sleepy eyes i decided to do something before i leave for home and right after the KT, I left for another mission: Mission PMI.
Time: 7PM-9PM, Location : PMI crushing Time oFF-ice.
The object in this Project was, complex most object ever encountered by me. I had some discussion over the object and decided to part to where i can complete.
The object had troubled my visualization of object in terms of code. I mainly try to see the functionality of object in terms of code which could be used to replace it, but one or anther reason i was not able furnish it. So i was trying to do this in blocks.
I had faced one good thing about this object, that is when ever we had discussion over this object, we encountered new issues.
So i started formulating some working logic and continued working over it.
Time: 9PM-11:59PM, Location : crushing Time Continue oFF-ice.
As i already lost the appetite for dinner i decided continue to work in PMI.
As the logic formulated after a long discussion i started the coding as well as to keep myself awake, i ran the music loud. Loud music help reduce other noise and helps me attaining good concentration.
I completed lots of portions of code but during coding another lots of doubts got generated as well.
Day two : 30th august 2007,Time: 12AM-1AM, Location : Postmortem result time Off-ice.
After hell of mind exhausting work in PMI i planned to see the results of QA results for the morning object in nestle.
Good: got some good valid points as well as some confused points as well. Summing up all the points, the postmortem was cherish full. So I decided to complete them.
Guess what all this time I was all alone in the office working over these issues, been accompanied by my room mate prakash ranjan for his some urgent work. Ahh!! a sign of peace.
I fixed all the issues provided by them. I was little surprised how all this time i was able to work with no sleep, last night in train and no rest through out the day. Well i believe that how i am built in.
Time: 2AM-4AM, Location : Hard Work Time oFF-ice.
I patched up all the issues and was planning to leave, but then suddenly the new object specification came to my view lying over my desk. The attention was sufficient for me remind that i still have some work left for completion.
My brain started automatically started thinking of logic thou i wanted to leave but at the same time i was planning what am i suppose to code. At one point i was discussing with me whether should i leave or continue to work and simultaneously i was working on the code. Only god knows the body wanted to sleep and brain hushed me to continue the work.
Finally coming back to my principle of job: When you have work to do, don't get biased by time.
Suddenly all my agony went away and thing became very clear. I closed my eyes and sensed the same morning smell, the one i felt when i reached flat early last morning. The things were so clear, no pain and sleepy eye ahh! seemed to gone.
I continued to work the new object and wrapped it up with complete coding and testing along with documented results and specification.
Time: 4AM-5AM, Location : Wrap up oFF-ice.
The coding done, documentation done only thing left was to send the new object to postmortem
and for that a profile was needed and i had no idea how to create one. This profile creation had already created one chaos for me and i was not in the mood to mess it.
I called my roommate prakash ranjan over phone who was working too. He knew these things.. and with his help i was able to complete my first profile successfully.
I sent the object for QA using profile and the clock clicked to 5AM: one day before i was in howrah station at this time, irony isn't.
Finally i was closing oFF the oFF-ice for the day.
End of ........."Twenty-2 hrs 2 oFF-ice"........
Time: 5AM-10AM, Location : Sleepy beauty...sweet dreams.
Time to bed. I and prakash ranjan both left for the home and last thing i remember was falling over the bed and then i was not able to recollect any dreams or morning bell call by dudhwala bhiaya (Milk man) or news paper boy. I believe, i was dead slept.
But i woke by 9:45AM why and how, i just had no clue. May be when i was going for bed i just told to myself that i wanna woke up at 10 AM.
Well what so ever be the case i was ready for office by 10:30 and been to office by 10:45AM
and work goes on and onnnn......
One hell of 22 hrs to office, i believe i cannot forgot it, So i blogged it for you all.
I do like to know what do U felt about this.............
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