Ulagam Urundai - Friedman was wrong :P

I have moved to the same locality in chennai where I was staying after three long years. My friend KKP is kind enough to accomodate me in his house. Lot of things have changed since I left the place three years ago but every place I see reminds me of those magical nine months with my friends here... Ulagam unmayilaye Urundai thaan!!

Now that I've told about this place I'll tell you how I came here almost 4 years back....

Engg final year.. vanthathu just naalu company for campus interview ( number thappa iruntha naan porupu illa!)... antha naalu company layum kotai vitachu.. antha nerathula u need to have some motivation to continue illaya... besides I was desparate to come out of electronics.. there was only one way to come out.. do an MBA... eureka!... and that is how I informed my dad that I'll do an MBA but I didn't proceed solidly on that front beyond a point... it had it's impact after a long time though.

Engg um mudinthathu.. enna seiya... velai thedalama? At that time I had an eye for embedded systems caz that was one field that would take me closer to my dream field Automobiles!!.. so I decided to do a course in embedded systems and that is how I came to chennai to this place for my training. The company promised me a job once I am successful in the course. So now aiya was a trainee in a CMM level 5 company (koncham peethikalam ... thapilla :P )

But things weren't easy after coming to chennai. After coming here my health detoriarated. I came to know that I'll have to be operated but didn't really want to tell anyone about it. If my parents come to know they'll discontinue my stint at the company for sure and take me back home... the worst thing possible caz I wouldn't get my dream job and my future will also become a question mark. So I took the boldest decision of my life (looking back it also looks to be the silliest!! ) - to postpone the operation and keep the whole thing to myself until I get my job.

Things were already difficult... but as if that was not enough we had a bugger above us in the training. One thing came to light after interacting couple of times with him - this guy is definitely a fake and all his 'experience' were only on paper. Add to that there was another bugger who completely lacked practical knowledge of anything in the field and if at all this guy was really working somewhere before it would have been as a teacher (ofcourse thappa teach pannitu thaan). All the trainees in the dept were locked in the company politics between these people and there was hardly much happening and whatever we did were out of over own interest without any input from them.

Disillusioned other guys started applying outside but I was stuck in a dilemma.. applying outside at this stage would only jeopardise my chances of working in anything related to automobiles as the jobs on offer for someone like us was predominantly in application software. Many left before the training was over.. I somehow held on hoping goodtimes will be back... goodtimes were back but there were lots of twists to it.