Congratulations to people of Andhra Pradesh and Congress party workers for electing YSR and Manmohan Singh for another term!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
YSR Zindabad... Congress Zindabad
Congratulations to people of Andhra Pradesh and Congress party workers for electing YSR and Manmohan Singh for another term!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Friday, August 17, 2007
Welcome Pennsylvania!
It is been a long journey since then I started my job at BBBY in New Jersey. I have learned a lot and it was wonderful to be part of dynamic team and most importantly under the leadership of Su. As circumstances and priorities changed, I have to work towards new goals and tried different options.
Learnt few biggest lessons during this process and lost a wonderful opportunity at Cisco. At the same "MS - world wise" interview process ended on a disappointing note. I hope I will not repeat such mistake by putting 100% efforts on a single interview.
Then.. landed up in Philadelphia on an assignment that require none of my skills and my experience and views. Being consultant, that's how this field is and I have to embrace it. Browsing through my favorite rent.com brought me to Pennsylvania! The place I live is really wonderful when compared to NJ. I am confident that our journey will be smooth and we are very happy being a Pennsylvanian!
- V
Learnt few biggest lessons during this process and lost a wonderful opportunity at Cisco. At the same "MS - world wise" interview process ended on a disappointing note. I hope I will not repeat such mistake by putting 100% efforts on a single interview.
Then.. landed up in Philadelphia on an assignment that require none of my skills and my experience and views. Being consultant, that's how this field is and I have to embrace it. Browsing through my favorite rent.com brought me to Pennsylvania! The place I live is really wonderful when compared to NJ. I am confident that our journey will be smooth and we are very happy being a Pennsylvanian!
- V
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Punaraagamanam
Chaannalla taruvaatha malli ee blog dummu duluputunnanu. Kshaminchandi!
Tondarlo oka sarikotha post tho vastanu! Stay tuned!
Tondarlo oka sarikotha post tho vastanu! Stay tuned!
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Friday, January 5, 2007
Five Principles for Happiness in 2007
A good article to start 2007 on a positive note!
Five Principles for Happiness in 2007
courtesy: anonymous
Five Principles for Happiness in 2007
courtesy: anonymous
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Saddam Hussain
A determinstic ruler hanged brutally .. my deepest sorrows to people of Iraq and the family of Saddam!
A great leader never feared to die at gallows!
May your great soul rest in peace!
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Our Times Square Adventure
We have been to New York Times Square to celebrate New Year. we had lots of fun and had lot of surprises to both of us!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Nuthana Samvatsara Shubhakankshalu
Oh Nestama,
Nuthana Samvatsara Shubhakankshalu!
Ee nuthana samvatsaram kotha velugu.. nuthana vutshaham nimpi.. chepatte prathi kaaryam neraveraalani asistu...
Oh My Friend,
Wish you and your family a Colorful and Happy New Year 2007
May this new year bring more joy, happiness, prosperity and cherish your dreams!
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Setting up IIT in Basar, Adilabad (district), issues we have to face
Setting up IIT in Basar became an issue and every politician, educationalist talking about it. Initially they might have thought Saraswathi Devi temple sentiment bring the IIT sooner, but looks like they did mistake by choosing that place and controversy now. We group of students have raised same questions during that time and no one listened to us.
Basar is very remote place with no signs of place for higher education. Basar do not have the basic facilities a town consists of. The place barely has two roads, temple complex and some commercial establishments around temple for devotees. Literally it has no scope for development.
Any research oriented institute must have industry connections and access to diversified industry personnel and infrastructure easily and well connected to the city and trend. Some people argue that setting up IIT will prosper the industrial development activity around that place are absolute ridiculous. There are hardly any industries in Basar. The major industries are: Sugar industries near Bodhan and Kamareddy, seed processing facilities and rice, haldi and oil mills. In this corporate economy where quarterly profits are must, no industry is going to be setup in that area that has no natural source of raw materials. Any premier institution being setup must go to places where huge industrialization happening not vice-versa.
Keeping industry connection in mind OU started PG center in Biknoor, Nizamabad (120 KM from Hyd) with MSc chemistry (Sugar Technology) for Sugar Industries connection. It was big failure. OU at one point of decided to close that center because of lack of funds, staff and not many interested students.
It is very hard for students to go and study IIT course and live their all years until they complete their education in a virtually remote area with no social life. I am sure the staff will run away from that place for sure no matter they build a multiplex and shopping complex. It is the driest place in all means. If anyone still argues blindly that the place has scope for development are prejudiced with their mindset. I will give an example of the District head quarters and the situation in that city.
I have studied MCA in Nizamabad for three years and we had tough time even though our college was very good and our management did their best to keep us in the college. I feel people must know the hardships we had faced in the district headquarters itself.
Facts of NZB:
It is a district headquarter
Major business trade hub (haldi, paddy and commodities)
People are highly influenced by Mumbai cosmopolitan culture.
The town is major educational town in the district for Inter and Degree.
Nizamabad have one Engg. college, 4 Degree colleges (1 Govt, 3 Pvt). I guess some more added for each Revenue division recently.
3 PG college (2 pvt, 1 Govt – Biknoor PG center).
It is 31 KM far from Basar.
Single line (meter gauge until end of 2004, now broad gauge) Rly station connects Secunderabad and Mudhked.
1 2 star hotel, around 10 lodges with 50 to 100 beds capacity.. Most of them are badly managed.
Despite economically well developed and trade hub and most importantly district headquarter the challenges we faced are:
No staff to teach computer subjects or any engineering subjects (I heard this from Vijay Engg college guys)
No good library to cater professional students. Every college has a small academic library of their own.
No college book stall for books (you can place pre order and it is damn expensive) and it is monopoly.
Not much of places to spend few minutes peacefully.
No social life except going to movie.
Don’t even get good food even though that place is expensive. For students it is very difficult to survive unless we have our own arrangements.
The bottom line this town is not student friendly.
The hardships we had are:
The college we studied was founded by well settled business family and they spent lot of money in promoting the college and getting the best staff and tried all sorts of methods to retain the staff. We had hard time to get lecturers to teach the computer subjects Osmania University introduced for MCA course for 2000 batch. Every week one new lecturer joins, next Monday we never see him again and in some cases, they continue for a month and jump. We used to complain. College decided to go with guest lecturers and used to spend 100000 Rs to bring guest lecturers for each subject for a week from JNTU and other city colleges providing hotel accommodation and transportation. They used to hate that place for lack of facilities. Since we don’t have good library, our college requested students itself to buy books for library and get reimbursement. Even then we used to feel shortage of books.
Very limited full time staff and they too retired staff used to teach for non computer subjects. Our seniors, juniors and we used to teach for Degree computer subjects and in other institutes/colleges and in our college itself. There were some enthusiasts in computer field who helped Nizamabad to pickup the trend and they helped people to familiarize with it, but they too used to depend on the same staff. Few weeks back I talked to my friend and situation has not changed.
Health care in Nizamabad is good compared to surrounding places. Unfortunately it has reputation of treating patients unprofessionally with unnecessary tests and wrong treatment. The district Govt hospital politics issue still going on because of the private hospitals mushroomed around the district hospital and to siphon patients to private clinics.
Have no parks and facilities to relax out or spend free time. We have one park and it is occupied by beggars and district administration encroached 80% in constructing offices in it. We have a district sports complex ground and it is like gymkhana. The only happening place you see athletes practicing and people jogging around.
You don’t get anything including tea twice a month for any tense situation in the district. Curfew situation appears every time a police or naxal killed in encounter.
Not allowed to go out after 10PM. Public are not supposed to roam on roads without reason beyond 10PM. If you do it, you must prepared with genuine reasons (keep tickets and have any valid proof) and inform your near and dear that you are going out on some specific purpose. (If you are in between 16 to 40 yrs old just to make sure you have some witness in case they don’t believe your words). Town is heavily patrolled during night for safety of the people and they check every bit of it if they found suspicious. Police itself avoid moving in uniform alone and if they do it, they roam in civil dress. If Police want to move around, they must move in groups with another force protecting them all the time. If you go to any tea bunk and police come to have a Tea doesn’t get surprised to see a security party covering the group of police and public from all sides with AK47s.
For any reference books, software or any major stuff we have to run to Hyderabad. You don’t get any assistance in learning or coaching. It is 5 hours journey and costs couple of hundred bucks for return journey. Winter is coldest and Summer is most horrible. This area has huge drinking water crisis in summer (I guess it is common).
We don’t even get Tea also beyond 12 midnight in the town. Only place until midnight we have is opp. rly station. We have been questioned by Police while having midnight chai during exams. In case you don’t get food and everything is closed, drive 15 miles to reach Dichpally NH7 road where you have Punjabi dhabas to serve Chai. From Basar it is 45KM to NH7.
Nearest places of interest are around (up to 100Km) Basar (a temple and bathing ghat on Godavari banks) holi place but still we visit to go and hang out on the banks of Godavari, Pochampad dam (Sriram sagar), Ali Sagar dam, Nizam Sagar dam, Kunthala water falls in Adilabad. All these places are good in winter and rainy season. Tour to Bodhan sugar factory also two hours thing as most of the plant was closed down because of negligence by the government.
This is the situation of Nizamabad and you can imagine situation of Basar now. With IIT campus we can resolve all basic needs, but it is very hard for people to live in four walls to study most reputed courses and spend valuable life in such dry place. Most importantly, even if IIT is setup and sourroundings are developed it may take another 20 years to bring it up to the speed of other IITs. If it is any other metro like Hyderabad, the gap will be less than 5 years. This is one of the key fact we should keep in mind while setting up IIT. BITS Pilani also starting its branch in HYD for the same reason since Hyderabad is good in all means. We must consider all these facts and reconsider setting up IIT near Hyderabad surroundings.
Basar is very remote place with no signs of place for higher education. Basar do not have the basic facilities a town consists of. The place barely has two roads, temple complex and some commercial establishments around temple for devotees. Literally it has no scope for development.
Any research oriented institute must have industry connections and access to diversified industry personnel and infrastructure easily and well connected to the city and trend. Some people argue that setting up IIT will prosper the industrial development activity around that place are absolute ridiculous. There are hardly any industries in Basar. The major industries are: Sugar industries near Bodhan and Kamareddy, seed processing facilities and rice, haldi and oil mills. In this corporate economy where quarterly profits are must, no industry is going to be setup in that area that has no natural source of raw materials. Any premier institution being setup must go to places where huge industrialization happening not vice-versa.
Keeping industry connection in mind OU started PG center in Biknoor, Nizamabad (120 KM from Hyd) with MSc chemistry (Sugar Technology) for Sugar Industries connection. It was big failure. OU at one point of decided to close that center because of lack of funds, staff and not many interested students.
It is very hard for students to go and study IIT course and live their all years until they complete their education in a virtually remote area with no social life. I am sure the staff will run away from that place for sure no matter they build a multiplex and shopping complex. It is the driest place in all means. If anyone still argues blindly that the place has scope for development are prejudiced with their mindset. I will give an example of the District head quarters and the situation in that city.
I have studied MCA in Nizamabad for three years and we had tough time even though our college was very good and our management did their best to keep us in the college. I feel people must know the hardships we had faced in the district headquarters itself.
Facts of NZB:
It is a district headquarter
Major business trade hub (haldi, paddy and commodities)
People are highly influenced by Mumbai cosmopolitan culture.
The town is major educational town in the district for Inter and Degree.
Nizamabad have one Engg. college, 4 Degree colleges (1 Govt, 3 Pvt). I guess some more added for each Revenue division recently.
3 PG college (2 pvt, 1 Govt – Biknoor PG center).
It is 31 KM far from Basar.
Single line (meter gauge until end of 2004, now broad gauge) Rly station connects Secunderabad and Mudhked.
1 2 star hotel, around 10 lodges with 50 to 100 beds capacity.. Most of them are badly managed.
Despite economically well developed and trade hub and most importantly district headquarter the challenges we faced are:
No staff to teach computer subjects or any engineering subjects (I heard this from Vijay Engg college guys)
No good library to cater professional students. Every college has a small academic library of their own.
No college book stall for books (you can place pre order and it is damn expensive) and it is monopoly.
Not much of places to spend few minutes peacefully.
No social life except going to movie.
Don’t even get good food even though that place is expensive. For students it is very difficult to survive unless we have our own arrangements.
The bottom line this town is not student friendly.
The hardships we had are:
The college we studied was founded by well settled business family and they spent lot of money in promoting the college and getting the best staff and tried all sorts of methods to retain the staff. We had hard time to get lecturers to teach the computer subjects Osmania University introduced for MCA course for 2000 batch. Every week one new lecturer joins, next Monday we never see him again and in some cases, they continue for a month and jump. We used to complain. College decided to go with guest lecturers and used to spend 100000 Rs to bring guest lecturers for each subject for a week from JNTU and other city colleges providing hotel accommodation and transportation. They used to hate that place for lack of facilities. Since we don’t have good library, our college requested students itself to buy books for library and get reimbursement. Even then we used to feel shortage of books.
Very limited full time staff and they too retired staff used to teach for non computer subjects. Our seniors, juniors and we used to teach for Degree computer subjects and in other institutes/colleges and in our college itself. There were some enthusiasts in computer field who helped Nizamabad to pickup the trend and they helped people to familiarize with it, but they too used to depend on the same staff. Few weeks back I talked to my friend and situation has not changed.
Health care in Nizamabad is good compared to surrounding places. Unfortunately it has reputation of treating patients unprofessionally with unnecessary tests and wrong treatment. The district Govt hospital politics issue still going on because of the private hospitals mushroomed around the district hospital and to siphon patients to private clinics.
Have no parks and facilities to relax out or spend free time. We have one park and it is occupied by beggars and district administration encroached 80% in constructing offices in it. We have a district sports complex ground and it is like gymkhana. The only happening place you see athletes practicing and people jogging around.
You don’t get anything including tea twice a month for any tense situation in the district. Curfew situation appears every time a police or naxal killed in encounter.
Not allowed to go out after 10PM. Public are not supposed to roam on roads without reason beyond 10PM. If you do it, you must prepared with genuine reasons (keep tickets and have any valid proof) and inform your near and dear that you are going out on some specific purpose. (If you are in between 16 to 40 yrs old just to make sure you have some witness in case they don’t believe your words). Town is heavily patrolled during night for safety of the people and they check every bit of it if they found suspicious. Police itself avoid moving in uniform alone and if they do it, they roam in civil dress. If Police want to move around, they must move in groups with another force protecting them all the time. If you go to any tea bunk and police come to have a Tea doesn’t get surprised to see a security party covering the group of police and public from all sides with AK47s.
For any reference books, software or any major stuff we have to run to Hyderabad. You don’t get any assistance in learning or coaching. It is 5 hours journey and costs couple of hundred bucks for return journey. Winter is coldest and Summer is most horrible. This area has huge drinking water crisis in summer (I guess it is common).
We don’t even get Tea also beyond 12 midnight in the town. Only place until midnight we have is opp. rly station. We have been questioned by Police while having midnight chai during exams. In case you don’t get food and everything is closed, drive 15 miles to reach Dichpally NH7 road where you have Punjabi dhabas to serve Chai. From Basar it is 45KM to NH7.
Nearest places of interest are around (up to 100Km) Basar (a temple and bathing ghat on Godavari banks) holi place but still we visit to go and hang out on the banks of Godavari, Pochampad dam (Sriram sagar), Ali Sagar dam, Nizam Sagar dam, Kunthala water falls in Adilabad. All these places are good in winter and rainy season. Tour to Bodhan sugar factory also two hours thing as most of the plant was closed down because of negligence by the government.
This is the situation of Nizamabad and you can imagine situation of Basar now. With IIT campus we can resolve all basic needs, but it is very hard for people to live in four walls to study most reputed courses and spend valuable life in such dry place. Most importantly, even if IIT is setup and sourroundings are developed it may take another 20 years to bring it up to the speed of other IITs. If it is any other metro like Hyderabad, the gap will be less than 5 years. This is one of the key fact we should keep in mind while setting up IIT. BITS Pilani also starting its branch in HYD for the same reason since Hyderabad is good in all means. We must consider all these facts and reconsider setting up IIT near Hyderabad surroundings.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Road conditions in New Jersey
Everyday I have to drive 20 miles to work of which 5 miles is surface and the rest is GSP (Parkway). I feel sick of the way the surface roads are designed here.
The most frustrating thing about the surface roads are: They are SINGLE lane. If you have one slow bummer or any creepy driver on the road, the whole road is messed up and you face this problem all the way.
What makes me feel sick is: The current roads are wide enough to convert into a double line with little effort. It will help us in moving slow moving cars in right lane and passing cars on the left lane. It eases traffic and never blocks for those who want to move ahead at the pace they wanted to.
Also, the drivers are very rude and impatient in honoring signals. They jump the signal even if it is orange/red and make us delay. They honk as soon as the light turns to Green. How can we accommodate the signal jumpers and the guys behind who keep honking for few seconds while we wait until the intersection is cleared. I am afraid whether it is only me or someone else thinking in the same way? :rolling my eyes:
The most frustrating thing about the surface roads are: They are SINGLE lane. If you have one slow bummer or any creepy driver on the road, the whole road is messed up and you face this problem all the way.
What makes me feel sick is: The current roads are wide enough to convert into a double line with little effort. It will help us in moving slow moving cars in right lane and passing cars on the left lane. It eases traffic and never blocks for those who want to move ahead at the pace they wanted to.
Also, the drivers are very rude and impatient in honoring signals. They jump the signal even if it is orange/red and make us delay. They honk as soon as the light turns to Green. How can we accommodate the signal jumpers and the guys behind who keep honking for few seconds while we wait until the intersection is cleared. I am afraid whether it is only me or someone else thinking in the same way? :rolling my eyes:
Monday, December 18, 2006
Monday blues
Every monday I keep big TO DO list and start very early to work thinking I will finish it by end of the day. To my surprise by end of the day, a new set of items come into my TO DO list and they get finished too very quickly. But my original TO DO list never finishes.
I try my level best to make sure I finish all creepy work by friday and keep myself free for *new* MONDAY. I am afraid, I cannot get such Monday in my current job. :(
I try my level best to make sure I finish all creepy work by friday and keep myself free for *new* MONDAY. I am afraid, I cannot get such Monday in my current job. :(
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Boozu dulupesanu
Chaala rojula taruvaatha blog boozu dulupe panilo *new* Blogger beta use chesi template update chesanu. Some how felt this new look is cool! Template layout designer chaala cool ga vundi. Ee new tool naa lanti nirakshyaraasudi pani easy ga cheyyadaaniki veelu kalpinchindi.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Telugu Paluku
With the help of my two other online friends, we put together our thoughts to start a website. The purpose of the website is to share information related to Telugu and provide a community forum to discuss ideas, experiences and things we face in our everyday life.
తెలుగు పలుకు
I am sorry to admit that I am kind of Arambhasurudu (A guy who starts things very fast and never works on it until completion). The site started with lot of enthusiasm. Later everyone of us got busy in life and no updates made to the website. I realized lately that I should spare time on regular basis in updating the website. I have updated the web site today. Hopefully I will continue adding content or at least an useful link/blog to the pages to meet the basic purpose what we have thought of six months ago.
-V
తెలుగు పలుకు
I am sorry to admit that I am kind of Arambhasurudu (A guy who starts things very fast and never works on it until completion). The site started with lot of enthusiasm. Later everyone of us got busy in life and no updates made to the website. I realized lately that I should spare time on regular basis in updating the website. I have updated the web site today. Hopefully I will continue adding content or at least an useful link/blog to the pages to meet the basic purpose what we have thought of six months ago.
-V
Sorry
Sorry raa.. this is nth time I could not keep my promise.. to update you every day or atleast once in a week!
Wifey joined me recently. So we are busy settling up ourselves and understanding each other!
keep u updated now on... promise! :)
Wifey joined me recently. So we are busy settling up ourselves and understanding each other!
keep u updated now on... promise! :)
Thursday, September 14, 2006
I am back.. not alone!
Hi!
I dont know where to start.. days.. weeks.. months passed by since my last post and could not update it. Sorry about it.
During my absence in this blogosphere... so many things happened in my life. The most memorable one is a new person entered into my life! She will be with me forever and we are together forever......!!
My circumstances and a worry used to bother me a lot and made me to go through most critical phases of realization and learning process in my life. This blog itself shows some of the things I could express it out. If this would not have happened I would never realized the value of life. I am very happy that God gave me an oppurtunity to go through it.
During all these days I am graceful to few people and who were with me in every moment of my life and helped me to achieve what I could and supported me all along. They are my friends! Without them in my life, my existance have no value. I pray God every moment to keep us together no matter what comes in our lives.
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Was busy
I was busy last month with lots of work and so much was going on personal front.
Have learnt from another mistake I have done on one of my lowest self esteem point I get into some times. It is not a mistake, it is my weakness that puts me in trouble. I express it out and get into the situation I have been to.
Anyways.. everytime I am learning something big in my life!
Have learnt from another mistake I have done on one of my lowest self esteem point I get into some times. It is not a mistake, it is my weakness that puts me in trouble. I express it out and get into the situation I have been to.
Anyways.. everytime I am learning something big in my life!
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Saturday, June 3, 2006
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Tulips
My last weekend (6 and 7th of May) in Michigan was spent roaming around as the weather was pretty good. As part of this adventure, I have been to Tulip festival in Holland, MI to see tulip gardens for the first time in my life. Liked so much and some of them are really beautiful.
Here are the pictures I took.
Flickr Album: Tulip Festival!
Here are the pictures I took.
Flickr Album: Tulip Festival!
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
One week Passed by
Successfully finished one week in one of the busiest places in US, New Jersey. I could adjust to this place easily. Have missed the route many times, took so many wrong turns and exits so far.. but making progress.
I was worried about the job when I came here. I could see pretty good progress at work. Right from day one, everything is going smooth even though I have given new work which I never did so far. I am confident I can perform this. It is an opportunity to work in full cycle development with 100% environment. I also have my day to day operational stuff to be handled. All I have to do now is to perform. I have been put three months review, so have to prove myself.
My Boss is dynamic and cool person. My friend used to tell and I also believe in that "Working with a good manager is a key factor in growth". I could see that difference. She went through the details I am supposed to do and take ownership of some of the tasks. Whatever I talked to her and other guys when I was here for interview are noted down and asking me to perform. Whenever the issue comes, they are making note of what I spoke during interview. Thank god I did not speak anything stupid which I did not do.
Coming to housing, I am having good time in searching and talking to people. I am getting calls to my AD and getting to know how many kinds of accommodation and situations we have to see in sharing accommodation. I am concerned on this now, since the kind of responses I am getting. I wish I get a good room mate. I went to little India or "Desi Adda" Edison during weekend.. I felt very happy to see so many Indians and people around. Met few people whom I know.. One guy made me crazy while driving.. I should be more careful while driving in New Jersey. The place I live now is very near to Newark Airport.. Here it is more difficult. A single line is treated as double line and people squeeze into it. Getting adjusted to it.
I was worried about the job when I came here. I could see pretty good progress at work. Right from day one, everything is going smooth even though I have given new work which I never did so far. I am confident I can perform this. It is an opportunity to work in full cycle development with 100% environment. I also have my day to day operational stuff to be handled. All I have to do now is to perform. I have been put three months review, so have to prove myself.
My Boss is dynamic and cool person. My friend used to tell and I also believe in that "Working with a good manager is a key factor in growth". I could see that difference. She went through the details I am supposed to do and take ownership of some of the tasks. Whatever I talked to her and other guys when I was here for interview are noted down and asking me to perform. Whenever the issue comes, they are making note of what I spoke during interview. Thank god I did not speak anything stupid which I did not do.
Coming to housing, I am having good time in searching and talking to people. I am getting calls to my AD and getting to know how many kinds of accommodation and situations we have to see in sharing accommodation. I am concerned on this now, since the kind of responses I am getting. I wish I get a good room mate. I went to little India or "Desi Adda" Edison during weekend.. I felt very happy to see so many Indians and people around. Met few people whom I know.. One guy made me crazy while driving.. I should be more careful while driving in New Jersey. The place I live now is very near to Newark Airport.. Here it is more difficult. A single line is treated as double line and people squeeze into it. Getting adjusted to it.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Settling up...
Getting used to the complex traffic of this new place.. the traffic in this place is so confusing and irritating..Not many people obey traffic laws and the lanes are used it double or single lanes whenever they want.. for guys like me.. it is difficult.. but getting adjusting to it. People complain about LA traffic.. but I learnt that it is one of the best to follow rules and road sense after seeing the way people drive here. Since two days I am doing the same thing otherwise I can not survive.. Hahahahaha :)
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
I am back
I am back. :)
So many things happening with me.. I took up a new job and had a very warm welcome at new work place. Keeping the experiences, lessons learnt I am doing my best to perform well and hoping everything works well here in this new place. I pray god that everything goes well in my new work place.
So many things happening with me.. I took up a new job and had a very warm welcome at new work place. Keeping the experiences, lessons learnt I am doing my best to perform well and hoping everything works well here in this new place. I pray god that everything goes well in my new work place.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Taata!
The day has come.. I am leaving Michigan today. Right from the day I moved in here, the weather is pretty different snow fall, rain and everything. Since three days rain is pouring and I had tough time cleaning up apartment, selling furniture, packing and shipping my stuff.
I am going to miss so many things which are become my part of me. I wish I will visit them again if I get a chance.
I wanted to write up a lot on the things I have come across but I dont have time.. so ending it here.
Taaata Michigan!
I am going to miss so many things which are become my part of me. I wish I will visit them again if I get a chance.
I wanted to write up a lot on the things I have come across but I dont have time.. so ending it here.
Taaata Michigan!
Friday, May 12, 2006
Free bird
Now I am free bird..
One of my sorrow is over. I quit the project I have been in to until now. The people I was associated with directly are highly unprofessional, no trust, mean and narrow minded bunch of stupids. It is one of sickest working environment I ever seen. My optimism, open ness, respect to values and ethics become useless in front of this bitching people. I repent for my decision of taking this job after seeing the way things turned out.
As part of this frustration and trauma, I have to resign from my consulting company too to get things straighten up in my career and my decisions I have made that costed me a lot.
I am very happy now that I am starting new career, new life with new hope and spirits.
One of my sorrow is over. I quit the project I have been in to until now. The people I was associated with directly are highly unprofessional, no trust, mean and narrow minded bunch of stupids. It is one of sickest working environment I ever seen. My optimism, open ness, respect to values and ethics become useless in front of this bitching people. I repent for my decision of taking this job after seeing the way things turned out.
As part of this frustration and trauma, I have to resign from my consulting company too to get things straighten up in my career and my decisions I have made that costed me a lot.
I am very happy now that I am starting new career, new life with new hope and spirits.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Full cycle of consulting life
My full cycle of consulting with H1B and living a life of its own coming to an end. These days are my most challenging and darkest days I ever lived by paying price in terms of my life, money and experince and what not. Anyways I must have to go through this phase of life to understand what are the problems in career and personal life.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
have to edit blog also..
will post the edited content later as this is not the right time to do it. :|
Stupidity at its best
Since then I told my boss that I may have to travel to Canada and to India if possible, he came up with an idea. The idea is to make an Oracle DBA who dont know or ever heard a word of Teradata to a Teradata DBA. It is an idea floated by boss and it is happening now.
They knew I worked in Teradata database internal and server software development and they made a plan to get a DBA at no cost. Fine! Everyone does expect some talent being shared among us and have no issues with it. I told and explained the situation to the folks that it is not a day or two task, he must go through basic training and certification to atleast understand the architecture to be a Teradata professional before he reaches to a DBA level. Without my words, they made him offically a Teradata DBA by themselves and started taking him to meetings without even informing me where I should represent. He know nothing of Teradata but since Boss is helping him out he is on cloud 11 to be in that slot.
I have seen my friends who finished all 6 certifications and still having hard time in doing it on the system. Being a TD master, I find myself challenged when a strategy issues have to be answered since I do not have complete understanding of the system or not encounterd to such domain yet.
When they asked me to train this guy, I told clearly the process and training cycle he must follow to get to that stage. We spent years to understand the architecture and internals to reach this level. He comes to me with all sorts of questions everyday and I explained him.. he thinks if he gets the script and commands he can do better. He do not want to learn anything beyond that, all he want is tips and tricks to get around and make things done. It is a huge data warehouse platform and do people invest this kind of people to manage them?
I am open to explain all my day to day activities (which I already did while leaving to Canada) and basic troubleshooting information. I can not create clone of myself right in a week? I can make him to atleast understand the basic stuff if this is business critical.. but we already have one backup resource who is handling this platform even before I joined the project. So why do you need a second backup when it is not critical?
These stupid smart asses think that if I give out all the code and documents, they are confident that they can handle it without any new resource and feel enough for them for this moment. My co worker is a ***** and she was trying so hard since three months to get every piece of code and command I execute to do my job and keep the system running. When I argued about providing every piece of stuff I do, she made huge fight more than twice. She gone to a level where she took it personal and stopped talking me as earlier. We have three external pieces of tools to deal with and she is directly handling them. She dont even want to give access to them as she is so worried about her job security. Even when it was necessary she just avoided after so many requests and never want to share a bit of information on that part. Why the hell these guys expect from me the same when they dont have attitude of sharing information and work in collbarative environment?
I worked with many teams, individuals and learnt a lot by sharing things across and thats the reason why I am here. I always believed working together and helping each other, sharing information and thoughts will be useful for growth. But if mutual exhange of information is missing, I see no point of doing it and especially the scenario I faced looked so mean to me.
I never seen such stupidity at business critical systems management level. I feel bad for being associated with such team where they dont have basic ethics and professionalism and trust and understanding of professional environment.
I am really paying huge price for my mistake I did 6 months back. :((
They knew I worked in Teradata database internal and server software development and they made a plan to get a DBA at no cost. Fine! Everyone does expect some talent being shared among us and have no issues with it. I told and explained the situation to the folks that it is not a day or two task, he must go through basic training and certification to atleast understand the architecture to be a Teradata professional before he reaches to a DBA level. Without my words, they made him offically a Teradata DBA by themselves and started taking him to meetings without even informing me where I should represent. He know nothing of Teradata but since Boss is helping him out he is on cloud 11 to be in that slot.
I have seen my friends who finished all 6 certifications and still having hard time in doing it on the system. Being a TD master, I find myself challenged when a strategy issues have to be answered since I do not have complete understanding of the system or not encounterd to such domain yet.
When they asked me to train this guy, I told clearly the process and training cycle he must follow to get to that stage. We spent years to understand the architecture and internals to reach this level. He comes to me with all sorts of questions everyday and I explained him.. he thinks if he gets the script and commands he can do better. He do not want to learn anything beyond that, all he want is tips and tricks to get around and make things done. It is a huge data warehouse platform and do people invest this kind of people to manage them?
I am open to explain all my day to day activities (which I already did while leaving to Canada) and basic troubleshooting information. I can not create clone of myself right in a week? I can make him to atleast understand the basic stuff if this is business critical.. but we already have one backup resource who is handling this platform even before I joined the project. So why do you need a second backup when it is not critical?
These stupid smart asses think that if I give out all the code and documents, they are confident that they can handle it without any new resource and feel enough for them for this moment. My co worker is a ***** and she was trying so hard since three months to get every piece of code and command I execute to do my job and keep the system running. When I argued about providing every piece of stuff I do, she made huge fight more than twice. She gone to a level where she took it personal and stopped talking me as earlier. We have three external pieces of tools to deal with and she is directly handling them. She dont even want to give access to them as she is so worried about her job security. Even when it was necessary she just avoided after so many requests and never want to share a bit of information on that part. Why the hell these guys expect from me the same when they dont have attitude of sharing information and work in collbarative environment?
I worked with many teams, individuals and learnt a lot by sharing things across and thats the reason why I am here. I always believed working together and helping each other, sharing information and thoughts will be useful for growth. But if mutual exhange of information is missing, I see no point of doing it and especially the scenario I faced looked so mean to me.
I never seen such stupidity at business critical systems management level. I feel bad for being associated with such team where they dont have basic ethics and professionalism and trust and understanding of professional environment.
I am really paying huge price for my mistake I did 6 months back. :((
My H1 Blues
Last two days are most stressful days at work. I have been into different situations but not this kind of one ever. When they want to fire us, they do not use any discrimination in giving pink slip right away. Why the hell they make it a huge issue when I want to leave the job for my good? I don't understand this logic.
I submitted resignation to my current job to come out of one of the frustrating and mean work environment I ever come across and to take up my new assignment. Since then I informed folks, everyone is on their toes.
Here are the challenges:
-> A stupid middleman (recruiter who works on % basis) making every effort to keep me on the project for another month. This dumb ass called me and threatening over phone and try to explain the basics of the business and consulting process. He is such dumb ass that least bothered to follow up my paper work with 2nd Sub and not even informed me the start date and details of the client (I came to know that my start date is changed just before I was starting to Lansing. I bought flight tickets and booked hotel before itself. I had to wait in the motel paying from my pocket at the cost of that stupid's mistake). Now he is worried since his % of billing will not come.
-> The 2nd sub tells me that he can pay what ever salary I want and he is promising me good billing rate. What the hell he was doing these many days and where did he get extra billing rate? Does it mean, he is already being paid decent rate by 3rd sub (I could not get the details of how much I am being invoiced by the vendor).
-> 3rd sub never tried to contact me during all this period and now also.
-> The 4th sub/the master contractor to the client( to whom I directly report) going through all means to get his work done which is due on 6/24 and not in this week plan or not even in this month plan yet as far as I know. It was not on plan nor it is not part of the work I supposed to do this month. I really pissed off when they asked me to finish in 3 days/24 hours a month worth of tasks and planning activities for a production release. We don't have any high level design/plan for that. How can they expect me to finish that much work at this moment? It is not a small one. Their plan is to have that stuff in hand and then work on the actual documents and plan to look better to the client. I understand every job role have some business goals to reach and to perform, but they have some limitations and constraints which they should have understood. I felt they took me for granted.
-> My employer HR says he is losing money on me which is stupid. If he is not making enough money why would he accept that rate and put me on payroll?
-> I am not directly associated with client and except I work under their name and their guidelines. Client dont want to know and know nothing about the practices and the way the master contractor does things to look good to the top level bosses.
I understand that in consulting all the above things are common, but the attitude of the people whome I was directly involved made me feel so bad for the kind of work I did in the past 6 months. One painful thing I felt was, they seem to have no trust on me. One best example is: They knew that I can not finish things in 8 hours and I have to connect to office and work from home to finish off pending backup/restore jobs late night. They disabled my VPN yesterday without informing me as soon as I informed them that I resigned from job. Yesterday few things did not work well and our system was slow. I left work in middle to take some break from the headache and went to volunteering. When I tried connecting from home it kicked me out. I have to run back to work without dinner to make sure things went well. My afterhours badge did not work either. :(( Luckily one guy came in from no where (to refill coffee vending machines) and gave access to the office after verifying my ID. I have to work until late night to finish the stuff and have to provide the information he asked for. When I asked my boss about this, he did not admit it was disabled. I know that system very well and they did it. Whom to ask for justice? :(
I thought of providing some basic outline document to help them out and wanted to have a smooth transition. But all these folks made the situation worse and literally put me in stressful situation just to save their ass. Why do I have to face this situation? Why should I help these folks when they are so mean and stupid to me?
I feel like, I did a mistake of taking up this job with 4 layers of sub contracting. I have to accept this job since the new company who processed my H1 is not ready to take me into payroll unless I find project on hand and I can not continue working on L1 after my H1B visa was approved. Since time was running out at that time and other circumstances forced me to take up this one. I was optimistic..but my optimism did not work infront of these people.
Lessons learnt.. endless.. I need time to overcome this situation since it is still going on and I have to get everything done by Friday including my relieving letter and COBRA insurance to make sure I have a health insurance plan from Saturday onwards.
I submitted resignation to my current job to come out of one of the frustrating and mean work environment I ever come across and to take up my new assignment. Since then I informed folks, everyone is on their toes.
Here are the challenges:
-> A stupid middleman (recruiter who works on % basis) making every effort to keep me on the project for another month. This dumb ass called me and threatening over phone and try to explain the basics of the business and consulting process. He is such dumb ass that least bothered to follow up my paper work with 2nd Sub and not even informed me the start date and details of the client (I came to know that my start date is changed just before I was starting to Lansing. I bought flight tickets and booked hotel before itself. I had to wait in the motel paying from my pocket at the cost of that stupid's mistake). Now he is worried since his % of billing will not come.
-> The 2nd sub tells me that he can pay what ever salary I want and he is promising me good billing rate. What the hell he was doing these many days and where did he get extra billing rate? Does it mean, he is already being paid decent rate by 3rd sub (I could not get the details of how much I am being invoiced by the vendor).
-> 3rd sub never tried to contact me during all this period and now also.
-> The 4th sub/the master contractor to the client( to whom I directly report) going through all means to get his work done which is due on 6/24 and not in this week plan or not even in this month plan yet as far as I know. It was not on plan nor it is not part of the work I supposed to do this month. I really pissed off when they asked me to finish in 3 days/24 hours a month worth of tasks and planning activities for a production release. We don't have any high level design/plan for that. How can they expect me to finish that much work at this moment? It is not a small one. Their plan is to have that stuff in hand and then work on the actual documents and plan to look better to the client. I understand every job role have some business goals to reach and to perform, but they have some limitations and constraints which they should have understood. I felt they took me for granted.
-> My employer HR says he is losing money on me which is stupid. If he is not making enough money why would he accept that rate and put me on payroll?
-> I am not directly associated with client and except I work under their name and their guidelines. Client dont want to know and know nothing about the practices and the way the master contractor does things to look good to the top level bosses.
I understand that in consulting all the above things are common, but the attitude of the people whome I was directly involved made me feel so bad for the kind of work I did in the past 6 months. One painful thing I felt was, they seem to have no trust on me. One best example is: They knew that I can not finish things in 8 hours and I have to connect to office and work from home to finish off pending backup/restore jobs late night. They disabled my VPN yesterday without informing me as soon as I informed them that I resigned from job. Yesterday few things did not work well and our system was slow. I left work in middle to take some break from the headache and went to volunteering. When I tried connecting from home it kicked me out. I have to run back to work without dinner to make sure things went well. My afterhours badge did not work either. :(( Luckily one guy came in from no where (to refill coffee vending machines) and gave access to the office after verifying my ID. I have to work until late night to finish the stuff and have to provide the information he asked for. When I asked my boss about this, he did not admit it was disabled. I know that system very well and they did it. Whom to ask for justice? :(
I thought of providing some basic outline document to help them out and wanted to have a smooth transition. But all these folks made the situation worse and literally put me in stressful situation just to save their ass. Why do I have to face this situation? Why should I help these folks when they are so mean and stupid to me?
I feel like, I did a mistake of taking up this job with 4 layers of sub contracting. I have to accept this job since the new company who processed my H1 is not ready to take me into payroll unless I find project on hand and I can not continue working on L1 after my H1B visa was approved. Since time was running out at that time and other circumstances forced me to take up this one. I was optimistic..but my optimism did not work infront of these people.
Lessons learnt.. endless.. I need time to overcome this situation since it is still going on and I have to get everything done by Friday including my relieving letter and COBRA insurance to make sure I have a health insurance plan from Saturday onwards.
Saturday, May 6, 2006
Bangaram Cinema chusanu!
Raathri volunteering chesaka.. ekkada late avutundo ani direct ga Detroit ki trip vesa Bangaram chuddamani. Friend ni pick chesukoni theatre ki vellam.. tickets konukkoni.. dinner chesi 9:30 show chuddam ani. Velthe 8:00 show inka start kaledu 8:30 kaavastunna. Idedo baavundi ani 8:00 show ki tickets koni movie chusesam.
Hard work tho successful journalist korukone oka yuva journalist ni factionsim tho mudigatti..premanu kalapadaaniki tana laksyaanni tyagam chese charactor lo Pawan Kalyan ni present cheyyalsina story lo director dharani gaaru three hours janalaki himsa chupittaru.. right from the starting frame. 30 mins scene artham ayyindi this is not a movie PK should act or consider. Viewers ni enni rakalu gaa himisinchaalo anni rakaalu try chesaru.. In all departments: hero ni establish cheyyadam lo, comedy, Villanism, Story concept, screen play and what not.. even in songs.. In every aspect of the movie roots to Malayalam extreme comedy, extreme factionism, extreme voilence and unnecessary scenes and sitations. For me it looked as if he do not know the basics of screen play. Overall ga one of the worst movie in Pawan Kalyan's Career. I would not have see such dud movie in my life.
Hard work tho successful journalist korukone oka yuva journalist ni factionsim tho mudigatti..premanu kalapadaaniki tana laksyaanni tyagam chese charactor lo Pawan Kalyan ni present cheyyalsina story lo director dharani gaaru three hours janalaki himsa chupittaru.. right from the starting frame. 30 mins scene artham ayyindi this is not a movie PK should act or consider. Viewers ni enni rakalu gaa himisinchaalo anni rakaalu try chesaru.. In all departments: hero ni establish cheyyadam lo, comedy, Villanism, Story concept, screen play and what not.. even in songs.. In every aspect of the movie roots to Malayalam extreme comedy, extreme factionism, extreme voilence and unnecessary scenes and sitations. For me it looked as if he do not know the basics of screen play. Overall ga one of the worst movie in Pawan Kalyan's Career. I would not have see such dud movie in my life.
Trip to Hollywood Pictures
Here are some of the pictures I took during my trip to Hollywood Hills Trekking.
Hollywood Hills Pictures!
Hollywood Hills Pictures!
flickr
Today I explored flickr to upload images and I become fan of the flickr instantly. I could upload my Ottawa trip images to flickr. I created a flickr badge and the blog editor is not accepting it.
Here is the link to the picture set:
Ottawa Pictures
Here is the link to the picture set:
Ottawa Pictures
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