Mama Mia and rebirth of a Mallu for four days!!!

When Slot three slaughter is just hours away, when the readings are not yet done. The days when a 300 second snooze in alarm is valued more than anything is so near, I remain like this still reluctant to agree the fact that i am back in Ahmedabad!!!

Time you spend with your loved ones, family...friends... It flies like anything. I feel like it was just few hours back that flied to bangalore and now here i am back sitting all alone again.

Its so easy a life with no mails, no calls, nothing to do. Enjoyed the movies i saw, including Mama mia. coz if i were here, i would have been worrying about the time i am wasting. The food i had was tastier coz i was not having just another lunch or dinner but i was having food ( though the stuffs like crab n seer fish taste amazing whenever u have it).

Being a son, being a brother, being a true friend... everything adds meaning to your life. I have heard my bro telling he spends at least an hour a week just to call up old acquaintances. I had never realized how happy people become when they realize you were there spending some time just to meet them. Its not always about what you are. But its always about what you were. Its your "were's" that make your "nows".

Being in harmony with nature, knowing what you need to do, doing what you like, taking a day off, simply those few things add a lot to your life. Driving through the Bangalore roads, still remembering all those shortcuts, bribing bangalore police , an icecream from corner house, a movie at the forum mall and above all moms-food!!

Oh, i how hard i miss everything..Waiting for the next vacation..Wondering how to start the readings for slot three.

When i know the time is ready to start all over again, i do adhere!!!

A tale of four software engineers

Facts to understand the tale:
All four engineers got their degree in computer science and engineering from government engineering college Thrissur,Kerala. Stayed in the same hostel block (Kaveri- so called C block). Now working as software engineers, silicon valley,India.

A brief intro:
Software Engineer 1:
I , Me and Myself
Designation: Systems Engineer
Firm: Siemens Information Systems Ltd
(No more description about myself)

Software Engineer 2:
Dilip T.P
Designation: Systems Engineer
Firm: Siemens Information Systems Ltd
One of the most awesome dude i have ever met in my life. Always seen with girls. Guess i am the first friend he had of his own gender. That did made a difference in me too. Even though i too had a lot of 'girl' friends, he made it like lot of girl friends only.. though there were good guys too as my buddies.
We were almost always together n accompanied by girls which earned lot of reputation of us.
Enough of Dilips intro...

Software Engineer 3:
Dinil P ( Even his parents dont remember this name nowadays, i take the full honours for naming him Makkako which shortented to the "Makku")
Designation: Systems Engineer Trainee
Firm: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
He never cares for anything. The coolest of characters you can find in any campus. If he wish he will write the exams, he gets the internals he wishes ( a big story which proves this will be updated later). And above all he managed to clear the burden of supplimentary exams and managed to join TCS so he could stay with us. Rest... happy and late for everything as ever.

Software Engineer 4:
Maneesh Kumar B
Designation : Software Engineer
Firm: Xalted Services ( though its gamble telling one name, he follows a kangaroo path for the matter of companies)
Like Dinil he too joined 'our company' late and happy for the fact that he lives with high caste guys. Always interested in assets. Assets for him simply implies buying home, land etc and never even managed to buy a tv for our house.

More than enough as intro, this cant be called a tale, its a narration of a part of our lives. A small incident which happened during the eventful twelve-thirteen months we were together.

June 17,2007
Location: Yo China, Koramangala, Bangalore
Like one of the usual nights we spend out, driving in our Ferrari ( the car eased our life at Bangalore, thanks to Deepa chechi, Dilip's Sister who bought the car with her hard earned money and gifted it to her brother. Since i was the only person who knew driving it was alomost like mine :) )

Like all normal software engineers, we normally have dinner from posh restaurants during the later part of every month because we want a safe "All credit cards accepted boards" to dine or we normal go for an half tea and break fast from vigneswara, the small tiffin center near our house. And we are among the breed who forgets what you have your wallet when you dine with your friends.Oh forgot to mention, we are moving out to an awesome home soon, located at BTM Second stage, a 2 BHK. Why cant four engineers who take home around hundred thousand bucks every month afford a 12 grands home? We could n we did!

We ordered some chowmein, chicken dishes and coke. Dont know how, but somehow we started thinking about our future(kindly note: the tale will be so boring from this stage). So someone had an idea, guess who? me of course!!. Wherever we are, we will meet on the same day after two years. All three of them were of the opinion two years is a very short span of time and most probably we will be staying together itself. So the span increased. On 17th of June 2012, we would meet.

February 25, 2008
Dinil's last day at Bangalore. He is leaving Bangalore (Bengaluru by this time) to join HSBC Hyderabad. One of the things we never expected, did happen. I still remember how happy we were to hear makku is going to join TCS Bangalore. The arrival which ended our solitude.

The first day three of us spent without talking to each other...

May 19,2008
I am no more an employee of Siemens, i got relieved last friday. I am on my way home. Will soon relocate to Ahmedabad. By this time Dilip and Maneesh had to shift to a one bed room apartment in the same building as they couldn't afford the rent.

I dont know how they spent the remaining days together.

August 7,2008
While i am writing this from my room in iima, trying to figure how all these ants are coming out of my R61; none of us are together. Makku is happily 'sleeping' with Chandu and Dhanyal, old college mates. Dilip and Maneesh had to move out due to some reason.
If one year could make such difference in peoples life. I wonder what we will be doing by the time we meet on the seventeenth of July 2012.

Lesson learnt: Never underestimate the value of time

Thus ends the story of the four software engineers together.

Making of an MBA- Prologue

this will be a series of posts, which will be updated in regular intervals about the life here at IIM-Ahmedabad..provided i get time for the same.

Now to start.. the preparatory classes are going on (this is just a back to college kinda stuff, like reminding u , u have to study to get good grades).

The place is awesome, if i had not been to my Siemens office; i would have rated this as heaven in terms of facilities. This has a huge difference in the sense that corporate giants are providing all the stuffs to make money n here its for our future only.

Back to the prep course, the guys joined with me n sharing the classroom r nuts!!!, two of them from TCS, no offense makku(my ex-roommate in Bangalore who used to work with TCS, so people do call him his actual name Dinil... Did i go wrong?? who cares..its makku)..ya TCS.. these guys are here just because they ran away from TCS. One had a client in Dhaka, he had to go onsite, he considered his life more precious.. fine the other guy had some govt office in kolkatta as his client centre..Bengali's considered his automations eventually would end up in demolishing their posts, rest is history...

Better stories were yet to come.. CTS fellows this is true.. A guy was working with CTS Bangalore..24*7.. he usually took breaks for around 1.5 hours a day.. for sleeping n other daily chores.. finally he resigned.. prepared one whole year for CAT n he got thru...

These guys n gals don't even believe that i used to work in Siemens from 9 to 4:15 n all @Siemens still managed to finish all stuffs on time. Thank God i was with a product based company..

Yet another reason to miss my company...

Its time to prepare for my quant session for tomorrow...

coming up..
Part I..

An attempt to write...

an amateur in writing, poor in skills, but an attempt was made

first with

http://www.esnips.com/web/sudeepkrish-Mystories/A%20two%20year%20old%20love%20story.pdf

and then

http://www.esnips.com/web/sudeepkrish-Mystories/One%20plate%20Kharabath.pdf

and wish to continue with more