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.