Monday, November 26, 2007

Bad Luck ....

With a pile of 300 résumés on his desk and a need to pick someone quickly, my boss told me to make calls on the bottom 50 and toss the rest.

"Throw away 250 résumés?" I asked, shocked. "What if the best candidates are in there?"

"You have a point," he said. "But then again, I don't need people with bad luck here."

- Becky Horowitz (Reader's digest)


Amazing point of view; aint it ????

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Catching Up on last 3 months ...


Several times during this self exile of sorts since my last post and today ... I did put pen to paper to write something (pen/paper sounds better than type .. ain't it ?) but somehow never did manage to go farther than a couple of lines ...

Anyways, a lot has ensued during the last few months ... so lemme summarize the important stuff point wise para wise … (those who require more details can get in touch with me ;))

Let me start with something that will give most of my friends sadistic pleasure ... Yes ... I have grown a year older ... on Oct 31st, I completed 27 years on earth (naturally of this birth ... with all these reincarnation movies coming up nowadays its good to be precise) ...

Another milestone I stumbled upon is that 5 years have gone by of my professional life ... (and also of my loyalty to Infosys:)) ... Damn … can't digest the fact that it is more than 5 years since I made the drastic transition from the enjoyable grueling of academic days to the ever demanding & competitive world of IT services ... Even in this world, all is happening seemingly too fast ... I have transitioned rapidly from a fresher to Software Engg to Analyst to Team Lead and now toddling towards managerial chores ...

Amongst all this; I earned an Excellence Award in my organization for my performance in 2007 (this is the third consecutive year that I have won this award :-) ) ... The award was presented by the Chak De India girl - Vidya (for those who just paid attention to her looks and can't recollect who Vidya ??? – She was the captain/goal keeper of the team…)

And yes how can I not mention the most prolific thing that has been happening all this while; my family members, relatives, close friends, not so close friends, neighbours, neighbours relatives and many other shubh chintaks can not stop advising (along with expert opinions, analysis, and believe it or not case studies too) me to get married and settle down in life … The pressure sure is mounting day by day … seems like some girl is going to suffer soon :-)

Lot has transpired in the world of sports too… the young Indian team won the T20 WC title :); MSD got promoted to lead the ODI team along with T20s (think of it ... he now leads SRT whom he has been idolizing all his time while growing up ... some guys do actually live their dreams...) RD was dropped from the ODI side ... Aussies continued their dominance over the rest of the world ... and Dhoni's boys swept Pak in the ODI series ... and yes this one needs a mention too ... Kimi Raikkonen won the F1 championship despite all odds (life sure is full of surprises) ...

Our very own bollywood too has some updates … RGVs aag has ceased … SLB has tried to do an RGV with Sawariyaa but he has to accept the fact that its impossible to beat RGV... OSO is just so-so … the pick of the lot in the last 3 months or so have been Johnny Gaddar, Jab We Met, Dhamaal to an extent …

Signing off for now and hopefully not for another exile … cya soon !!

Cheerio !!!