जीवन

शायद मैं ऐसा पहले न था जैसे अब हो गया हूँ।
जाने जीवन की कौन सी पहेली में खो गया हूँ ॥

बदलाव

वैसे तो मैं इतना भी बिज़ी नहीं हूँ की एक ब्लॉग भी न लिख सकूं, लेकीन इलेक्ट्रोनिक सिटी और मेरे पुराने ऑफिस के बीच में इतना उलझ गया हूँ के मुझे कुछ और करने की फुरसत ही नहीं मिलती।

आगे ख़बर यह है की आजकल वीवान भाई साहब कुछ ज्यादा ही मस्ती करने लग गए हैं। बस उन्हें तो चाहिए की वह हरदम बाहर ही घुमते रहें। बहुत शैतान हो गया है आजकल

हम तो बस इलेक्ट्रोनिक सिटी से आजकल काम कर रहें हैं। अपने नए प्रोजेक्ट में काफ़ी काम है और उसी की उधेड़-बुन में लगे रहते हैं। सोचा की आज हिन्दी में पोस्ट कर के देखते हैं कैसा लगता है। तो इसलिए हम आ गए अपने इस होम पेज पर.

Vivaan

He is such an adorable human being. His face shows innumerable number of expressions everytime you look at.

One moment he is happy, the other, sad,
One moment he is good, the other he is bad (no ... not really bad)
Transformation from :-) to :-( in a fraction of a second,
Sometimes he is real, sometimes he pretend.
I Feel, how I wish I was him,
Always bubbling up to the brim.
But, thats life as they say,
Never in your own way ......

Where Am I?

Its been the longest hibernation period for me from my blogosphere. I was busy shuttling between Wipro M2 and Electronic City offices as I have started helping a test automation project. The news of my current project is that its going to close in a couple of months from now. So after a long long wait of 2.5 years finally we received the news a few days back when customer's head of outsourcing was here. As a token of appreciation we got the latest model of IPod Nano 4GB. "All's well that ends well."

At home, I am having a good time with my parents who came to Bangalore on 21st May.
Vivaan
My son has started to talk in some crazy language which only he can understand. He knows now, how to get attention. He is always curious to look outside the door and windows of our house. He now has started putting his arms up in the air to let us know that he wants us to carry him around.
He is always looking towards the door and is always interested in going out.
Yesterday we went outside with him and it was raining heavily. After finishing our work we came back home. But as soon as we entered our home, he started crying. It was apparent that he didn't like our idea to return to home. All the while when we were out in the car or in any shop he was quiet and patient but all hell broke loose when we came back.

Uncertainty Prevails

Uncertain Times @ Office

Change is the only Constant

Another Monday

The weekend was pretty happening in terms of getting in touch with some old folks.

Firstly, I got a call on Saturday from Yashowardhan Shukla who was my classmate in XII th standard at Nagpur. Spoke to him after whole 14 years and was really happy to get back in touch with him. He is working with Star News as a news producer (ahh.... I still have friends out of this IT business ...)
Chatted for a while and talked about our good old days at Nagpur and the days spent in VayuSena Nagar hostel........

Yesterday I met Shipra after a long gap of 4 years (I think so). The surprising part was that she had come to Lifestyle for shopping for her marriage which is next week. Her fiancee is from Norway and he was also there with her buying some Sherwani's and Kurta Pyjamas for his marriage.....

World is definitely a small place and I am sure that people with whom we lost touch years ago will cross your way at least once in your lifetime. According to me this is one reason for all of us to live happily as each day brings something new for you.

The weekend that was

Back after another weekend. Today my son Vivaan is 0.5 years old. He is getting naughtier day by day and his screams seem to be louder each day.
I saw 2 movies this weekend -
1) One missed Call (I was thinking of watching this movie for quite some time now) - It is a kind of OK movie, not very scary but average.
2) U, Me aur Hum - Pretty decent movie with an interesting storyline. Lot of emotions weaved into the story. Sometimes Depressing but at the same time clinging to Hope. I was not sure about this movie earlier and was not that much interested in watching it, but after I saw it I had to change my opinion. Songs are not good especially when you know that the songs are composed by Vishal Bhardwaj then you definitely expect something more out of the music. Background score was by Monty Sharma (of Saawariya) and was kind of average.

Back in office

Finally I am back in office after 2 days of good training and 1 day of holiday. Tuesday and Wednesday I went to a training "Self Leadership - A Discovery". I was a very interesting training and I would recommend everyone at Wipro to experience this. It involved lots of fun like expressing emotions in colors, expressing yourself through collages etc. etc. and making presentations on "Brand YOU".
I have never spent so much time on finding myself ;-) in last so many years of my job. I am hoping to implement some of the learnings from this program. Let's see how much I succeed in the same.
Then yesterday was a holiday and I was at home during the day and went to see one of my friends Sunil Tufchi in the evening. But my son Vivaan would not let me sit there for long and he cried a lot when we decided to come back home.

Now again the weekend is here, so let us see whats there in store for me this weekend.

Learnings All the Way

Today at Electronic City Campus of Wipro there was TeS Confluence -
A two day program organized by the Testing Services Group of Wipro Technology. I have never been to this event in last 2 years but this time I thought of going there and see whats it all about.

2 Very Interesting talks were there which I enjoyed thoroughly:

1. Non-linear growth of IT Companies -- Believe me, even I was not very comfortable with the topic because it seems to be pure management jargon like topic but when Prof. Rishikesh of IIMB started talking I got really interested and involved in the talk. It was all about Growth of IT with Value Addition and Innovation.

2. Competency Development in IT Services - It was totally un-related to the topic but extremely interesting because of the person who delivered it. Prof. Sadagopan Founder Director or IIIT Bangalore. He is an amazing speaker. I had always wanted to listen to him once since I came to Bangalore in the early 2000. Many astonishing facts were put in front of us by Professor and time and again he emphasized on the Importance of Testing as a Career which was really good and would have motivated many developers (so-called) to get into the Testing Domain without thinking twice.

Disappearing Act

Wondering where did I disappear?
Suddenly Subodh is busy these days. With so many things lined up one after the another.
@ Work: Pretty busy these days as the testlink tool is behaving wierdo after a lot of trial and errors for upgrading the version from 1.7.0 to 1.7.4. Still breaking my head. Also the last regression test cycle has started after a long delay and the team needs to finish it off in 2 weeks flat. With Prashanth's absence I need to take care of all the status updates and telecons for another 7-8 days. Going to be pretty hectic.

@ Home: Vivaan & Vivaan - Keeps me busy most of the times.
I also met one of my very old colleagues Vivek Shrivastav. He is one of the good friends I have from the IMR Global days. He is still in the same company (Now its called CGI) and had come to bangalore for some official visit. I went to Purple Haze on Friday night (No, I didn't take any alcoholic beverages there) and then again met him on Sunday night at the good old Madan Pub.
Chatted for a long time reliving our good old days and remembering all our pals in IMR Global.
I got too nostalgic and started remembering my days at IMR. All the good and bad things which we did in Bombay during those days.