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What a vacation!!!
(This blog is subject to change and refinement. All irrelevant details have been suppressed.)
Our final exams ended on June 10th, 2005. It was a satisfying end to a great journey.
What happened after that was more exciting. Wanna know what happened? Read on… It's not a secret anymore.
I have this tendency. My mind works the most, during exams.
It so happened that this concept of Ananyeah hit upon me during the exams. And I was waiting for exams to end. Once the exams ended, I started working on it full time. Me and
Now nothing comes easily and for some vague reasons I had to try for other job options. (How bad, I am not allowed to work on my idea even in vacations 🙁 ). I found myself in Bangalore, the IT hub. That week, I talked to many people in Bangalore. (Company directors, managers etc).
Suddenly, Mr.
“Got placed in a cool startup. They want you to be director. Come online soon.”
What?! What?! What?!
I was already excited about all the developments (or rather the events) that were occurring and then this one.
I messaged him back and you know
Now this is what it turned out to be:
An offer from a US company to start their India operations! They wanted us to start a “Private Limited” in India and they were ready to fund it. We were allowed to continue working in the companies that we were placed in and once we felt this company that we started is able to sustain itself, we could quit our jobs and continue working on it full-time. Sounds reasonable. Worth trying. That's what I felt.
So we started working on this for the next one week in
We had read about the starting of a company in “Management in Engineering” and now we were looking at the practical aspects of it.
Mr. CTO, was not aware that we were placed in IBM. When he did, he was shocked. He knew it was impossible for us to work on this offer. So he made another offer:
Work on an open source project for the next 3 months and at the end of it, I'll give you the entire salary what IBM pays you in one year. You then quit IBM and join us full time.
Reasonable again. Remember that I had not -joined- IBM and so I didn't know what IBM allows and what it does not. But when I read the BCG, I knew that even this would not be possible according to the BCG.
Meanwhile, Mr. CTO, who was not even aware of our problems, was in full-zoom. He sent us the “First assignment”. We found that the “First Assignment” clashes with the interests of Ananyeah. It was clear that, if at all we were working on this idea, we had to make sure that we also own it. So we told Mr. CTO about this. Mr. CTO changed the offer. We soon felt, he was trying to “utilize” us. We could not see any advantages of working with him or his company. So we declined the offer.
In the meantime, we had joined our jobs. And you know how my IBM offer mail began,
“Hope you are having a nice vacation, free from worries since your examinations are complete and you have an offer from an excellent company in hand.”
Well said!!!
(All people relevant to this blog, may write comments putting in their own experiences or blog about it in their own blogs. There is no point in hiding it.)
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IBM is the place you need to work!!!
The more I work in IBM, the more I learn about the system here, the more it makes me wonder “IS THERE ANY OTHER BETTER PLACE IN THE WORLD TO WORK? OR IS IT THE 'FROG IN THE WELL' KINDA STORY?”
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What a week!
What a week it has been!
It has been only a week since I joined ISL and my name has been put up everywhere!
Know why?
I participated in a skit (!!!) and my name was printed in all the posters put up to invite people.
“Me in a skit?”, you may ask, but it's true.
I don't know how I did, but I am sure it wasn't bad.
This skit was part of ISL Innovation Day. And for my efforts, I also got a cool memento. Thanks IBM, ISL and Deepu (director of the skit).
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So finally am in…
I am finally into ISL.
I didn't get my systems yet 🙁
So am typing this from Kulki's system. 🙂
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Shopping
I recently got my last stipend for the project. I had to buy something for myself. So I bought a new Timex MF-13.
Some features:
* Is Ana-Dig.
* Alarm.
* Stopwatch.
* Timer.
* A cool indiglo.
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And thus it ended…
It is a moment filled with satisfaction and grief.
Engineering has just come to an end. It is a sort-of near death experience. It's said, when a person is about to die, his entire past comes in front of him and it is all gone in a jiffy!!!
Well, I was really busy last week. Had to shift all my items to my uncle's house and also went on a trip to Madikeri.
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My last blog
Hey, no, I didn't stop blogging. This is my last blog as a project trainee from IBM.
Special thanks to
Also thanks to Kiran, Kulki and Deepu for all the support.
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Storm (mis)adventure
Where were you at 4 in the evening yesterday? Well, this is the question people would ask you if you were in Bangalore. Reason, the thunder-storms that stormed the city.
I had been to Bangalore to collect our IBM project certificates. My mentor, Kiran, had asked me to call him up to confirm where he is once I reached Bangalore.
I took the summer special train (12:00 o'clock) from Mysore. I reached Bangalore quite early – 3:00 pm (the train reaches at around 3:15 usually).
I thanked God for having reached early, since I didn't want to waste time on journey. I took a 333 to Airport Road and on the way called up Kiran to confirm he is in EGL. He said, “It is raining buckets here.” I said, “I'll try coming. Let's see.”
I realized what he meant only when I reached Domlur. It was raining elephants and dinosaurs (bigger than cats and dogs – couldn't get a better description) in Domlur. The bus driver asked, “Who's getting down?”
I looked out and was reluctant to get down since I didn't even have a jacket. He mercilessly said, “Get down soon.” I jumped out of the bus and took to the first shop I could see, which happened to be a tailor's shop. I stood there for some time. But the storm was so heavy, that I was getting wet even though I was standing under a shelter. I thought to myself, “No point standing here. Only my head is not getting wet. Why wait?”
I asked the tailor if he has a plastic cover, so that I can cover my head. I had decided to go to a rick driver and ask him to take me to EGL. This was a gamble, since if he said “NO”, I would be standing in the rain, without any purpose. The rain was so heavy, that I would be dripping if I stood in it for just 5 seconds.
Nevertheless, I decided to leave the shop. I mentally decided on a route. I thought I will get into the bus stop first and then go to the auto-stand, which was about 50 metres away.
I went to the bus stand and was already dripping. I couldn't get in, because it was already full of people like me, who were un-prepared for the rains.
I went to the auto-stand and asked the driver/s to take me to EGL. I offered them 30 bucks although it would not take more than 10. But no one was ready. I decided to head to Shanti Sagar. I crossed the main road and could see Shanti-sagar in front of me, but couldn't get there, because a pool of water (knee-deep) was in front of me.
I was totally drenched by now. I headed to the bus stand totally unaware of what I was upto. I got into some bus, which happened to be a life-saver.
It should be hardly 30 seconds that I entered the bus; I felt like people pelting stones at the bus. It got very noisy. It took me some time to realize what was going on. Huge ice pieces were falling from the sky. I thanked God and BMTC for providing me shelter at the right time.
It was about 4:30 by now. I dared not to get out of the bus. Kiran called me once, but I could hardly hear him because of the rain. He asked me not to worry about certificates and asked me to take care.
I called up my aunt and told her I am coming, for the bus that had entered would take me there. The rain subsided, and the bus left the stand.
It was a 4 hour journey to my aunt's house (ya, much more than the time I spent in the train!). It was “Look at the fate of Bangalore, when there are thunderstorms” kinda journey. Koramangala was flooding, with people wading through knee deep water.
It was a sight to watch 2 wheelers heroically entering the pool of water on the road, going off midway and then being pulled out of water with great difficulty. How I wished Pratap's camera was with me.
Meanwhile, my cousin called me and told me that a tree fell in 50 feet road and some biker got stuck. So all vehicles are being redirected. He wished me all the best to get home asap. I told him I'll reach by early morning and asked him not to worry.
It was 9 by the time I reached my aunt's house.
I was wondering if it was an incident only for me. But then, it is there in today's paper in the front page. And guess what the heading is:
CITY GROANS UNDER RAIN. DARKNESS AT 4 P.M.