Bidding Adieu to the Nizam's City

I guess the time is nearing for me to leave Hyderabad though the exact date is not known. The time I’ve spent here isn’t much but there are so many things I’ll miss when I leave this place...

1. Spending time with Ravishekhar (but hope to meet him when I go to Chennai and he comes there for a stint).
2. Meeting Mr Uss Murugan.
3. Chittu’s antics… I am still confused (guess he is also not sure ) whether he is Karthikeyan M or Karthikeyan Mahendrababu or M Karthikeyan or…
4. Hearing Mr Uss’s thoughts about Hyderabad and his musings
5. Bala’s gr8 adventures with his team… we regularly discuss them at night… atha ketkama yengaluku thookam varaathu!
6. Bala’s cooking – Thanks to bala I had home made food here as well
7. Chittu the beverage specialist – bala regular food la king na Chittu specializes in all the beverages and gave us a variety of beverages (no I am not talking about the hot ones… we haven’t grown upto that level in our room!)
8. Bala-vin stock market anubavangal….. every week we can hear bala saying… “oh that useless portfolio mger..”
9. Bala’s other portfolio mgt
10. Varada’s arguments and ‘thathuvams’
11. Late night discussions on Chittu's doubts with Varada
12. Varada's new point of view on different things
13. Varada looking into the monitor as if he is the one steering the whole company even when he has no work
14. Chittu trying to wake-up Varada in the morning
15. Shankar’s (our colleague) logical arguments
16. Vinoth’s madras tamil… avan annan Sagar mathiriye!
17. Vinoth chitta otrathu (infact all of us do that)
18. Our regular get-together at food court for lunch and all IMPORTANT discussions in food court as if we only meet there :D
19. Meeting my old friend ‘Baby’ Ashwin here
20. Weekend oor suthal... may be less by other's standards but more by mine
21. Oh yeah I almost forgot… those super fast rides with our very own Racer Varadarajan

All the interesting happenings at hyd itself demands more than one post and I hope to put a separate one later.

Oh no I am an Electronics Engr!!!

Engineering counseling is a big turning point for everyone but it was a complete U-turn for me and my buddy Ohmprakash. During higher secondary there were two things that bothered both of us very much.. Chemistry and electronics section in Physics. We couldn't get the head or tail of it. We finally decided that we will NOT take anything related to chemistry or electronics in UG. I also dreamt of entering automobiles in UG but somehow I never conveyed it to anyone.. infact I never dared to. I went for counselling and I saw what I wanted on the display... openings in automobiles and mechanical engg. in good Govt colleges. At that time I left the whole thing to my Dad and how will he know that I actually wanted somethingelse.. he chose one of the 'hottest' fields for me Electronics & Communications... aiyayo!!!. It took sometime even to realize that I would never be a automobile engr. When I make a mistake will Ohm do it right? Afterall we are known to do exactly similar things in many aspects... Ohm who dreamt about astronomy also chose transistors and resistors over stars and galaxies. But Ohm did go back to chase his dreams in PG though he isn't working in the field anymore. My own attempt to go back to automobiles almost materialized but my 'scooter' had other ideas.

My first Post

My first attempt at documenting anything about myself. Well there are no guarantees that I'll continue this in the future or even tomorrow for two reasons...one - I am only good at starting things but not continuing, two - I am very bad at multi tasking (something "MBA's" like me are supposed to be good at!) and I prefer one work at a time...even if it's simple!! . Currently I don't have much work which has prompted me to try blogging (hope my boss doesn't read this!! ) . Intended audience... well my friends ofcourse! ... but anyone is invited! Honestly I don't know how many of my friends will be interested in this.... in any case I take this as an opportunity to look back at whatever that has happened to me over the years and to reflect on them. The intention here is to take an objective view of all the happenings. Memories are short and hence inadvertantly I might be focusing on the recent happenings more than the old one. And ofcourse as I finish covering the major past happenings I'll come to my day to day happenings at present.

‘Scooter’ explained… for all my non-BIM friends!!

Well what's with this name scooter? My nick name at BIM for riding one grand old yet sturdy Bajaj Chetak(Thanks to Athiraman). Actually this is the first time I've declared the name to anyone myself! Now I must also share all the nicknames I've had till nowKathrika in school, UK in Engineering, scooter, chik and Rowdy at BIM (there were few others too but these were the most prominant). As u would have noticed there aren't many and not without a reason... I don't like people calling me with nicks (though I make the mistake many times by calling others with their nicks) and my friends have also reluctantly stopped using them. But BIM was a lot different. I couldn't stop people from calling me scooter. I even tried promoting Rowdy over scooter as the later atleast sounded better to me but everything was in vain. So here I am... scooter!!!And what's with this "scooter-ride" thing? If u've driven a scooter that is just a few years younger to u or for that matter older than you and you've tried riding it at neck breaking speeds (come on don't think beyond 70 ... old scooters won't cross that) u'll notice one thing... u r completely out of control... this beast with a 150cc engine in it's belly won't easily stop turn or do whatever u want! And that is precisely how my life has been... something out of control.. not that it went out of control on it's own but just as the driver who allows his scooter to go past 70 I let my life to take a path of it's own and somehow it has taken the right path on it's own.