Steel Friends

Yesterday , I was going through the Orkut Album of my friend elan... One of the photo  in his album  (which i have uploaded here) pulled me back to my School days.....I was doing my 5th Standard in Rose Mary Matric School at that time .. 

I  had been actually forced by my teachers and friends to participate in  a dance event....(as they require one person to fill  and also all the others from my class are in some other events :) on the occasion of Republic Day Celebrations.... 

I do remember that day... My mom was waking me and my sister   early in the  morning(my sister have also participated in some other dance event) . I was very reluctant to  wake up ..I said my mom that im not going to dance... My mom forced me as much as she can ..In the meantime my sister got ready and she was showing  her dance rehearsal to my parents which irritated me to the core...

Finally my mom played a great drama... She told me that my teacher called her just now and told "If praveen is not coming today, we will fail him in 5th grade"..hearing this..I believed it might be true and hurried up  thinking that, if  I dance today , then she will promote me to 6th grade...My dad dropped me at my school  and  finally I danced for some hindi song. of that time.. 

Elan, Selva and Kutty in this photo are still having touch with me and we do communicate frequently about everything.. When we were studying 5th standard,  We named ourselves as the "Steel Guys". (heavily influenced by WWF telecasted at that time in star sports) We intentionally fought with other useless week  and slim guys of our class whom we know that will not fight  back with us  and celebrate our victory by going to some Bakery shop and having a mini-Pepsi ..In those days, Having Pepsi is a biggest sin in my family....One fine day we also saved a grand sum of 500 rupees.... The day we named ourself as  "Steel  day " :) ..and we had a Full-Pepsi on that day ;) ..... 

The friendship we had on that "Steel day"  exists between us for more than 14 years and even at this moment in the same wave length...  I had tears going through this old  photograph which remembered me the Steel Day. I was not sad; but it was nostalgia at its very best. .... 

Best Moments in Life

There are moments in each and every one of our lives , when certain small things happen , which just brightens up your life . No , it will not change your life for ever , but will make you feel alive.

On June 19, 2010 Around 5:00 PM, I was at my office bugged with the PL/SQL code.... As usual i don't   have patience to find out the error, I came out  of my office....
The climate was cool and had signs of heavy rain
Instead of going by bus or auto , I started walking to my home..which was about 3 km from office....

On  the way , I was happened to cross the (24 X7) busy mumbai - Pune Highway with around 20 people struggling to take a step ahead as the signal at the level crossing screwed up....  , I realized  a small cute girl ( age will be around 7-8 ) holding my hand....
As the no of cars and buses were minimum at a particular point of time everyone started moving to  the other side ( or in the other words pushed me to the other side ) in a matter of seconds.... when i reached the other side i realized the kid who was holding my hand have not yet crossed the road and still waiting on the other side..... she was starring at me from the opposite side....


I felt really bad and returned to the opposite side to help her ... This time she held my hand more firm than the previous time.... and told me something in hindi ( hell i cant understand hindi ) ...After few minutes, we crossed the road.. and when we reached the opposite side she smiled at me and said something in hindi..... i told her my favourite hindi sentence "muje hindi nahi maalum" and tried talking to her in English..But she replied me only in hindi.

We walked together for few more distance and atlast she ran towards her small hut which was in a slum... she said  something to her mom (I hope it was about me..) and her mom too smiled at me....

I felt proud that i could help one small girl in Maharashtra...

Moments like this can make you feel something , something which tells you that there is some good reason why you are alive . ............................

My interview Experience

It was my 4th year of my Engineering...when many guys thought about clearing the arrears and few thought about getting placement... I thought about making a Short-Film  with my friend Balaji....
I have attended Interview in Wipro , Infosys, Syntel , Bosch, Iflex and 8 other companies totally unprepared and even while writing Aptitude test for Interview.. I ll discuss about the movie with him..


Days passed.. 60 % of our classmates got placed in some companies.....and we both still discussing about the script in bus, mess hall and even while doing projects....  Though I doesn't care about the placement , People around me started bugging me... so I modified my resume (copy-pasted the resume of my friend who got selected in i-flex). I went for a hair cut as suggested by my friends and started preparing RS agarwal book as suggested by my lecturers and collected few materials regarding "How to attend an Interview" from Internet  ( Back ground Song in my PC: Oru tendral puyalaagi varudhae )


After few weeks of my preparation , An IT company came to my college for conducting Interview .. There were 4 rounds 1) Aptitude , 2) Group discussion 3 ) Tech Interview 4 ) HR Interview
 After a big struggle ( copying from a topper) , I passed the Aptitude Test .. The next round is GD
Guys who had attended the GD  told me  the topic was " Sports in India" .. so i prepared many things to talk regarding sports... I was seated along with 10 students  by a beautiful North Indian woman (HR) in a semi circular manner... My mind was recollecting facts about "Sports in India" 


Suddenly that beautiful HR gave the topic " Population In India" ..... WTF.. At a moment the facts about "Sports in India" vanished from my thoughts.. everyone sitting there started shouting "blah-blahs" about population in India ( like they are going to control the population growth and wont come for job ) ..and yeah.. i too shouted the same "blah - blah" ... those who shouted "hlab-hlab" were disqualified... since i shouted usual blah blah i was selected.. god damn :)...
They told us that the Tech HR is on the next day and asked us to leave..


DAY 2


I came for Tech HR with Database and OOPS books in my hand... Though i have studied those books before for semester exams, i felt i was learning something new at that time.. Before finishing the 1st book , one girl came and called my name... 


I went Inside the Interview panel.. another north Indian ( this time its not a woman) welcomed me.. He gave me the seat after confirming  that  I am Praveen...


now here comes the questions he shooted at me and what i thought in my mind and what i had told
LEGENDS - 
QHR - Question from HR
TTS  -  Thought to Say 
AT - Actually Told

QHR : Tell me about yourself

TTS : I'm just another human being with two eyes, one mouth , two hands and two legs

AT : Sir , My name is Praveen anand and... (blah - blah ) :P

QHR : good , praveen .. you have mentioned in your resume that u have knowledge in databases .. can u write me a query using joins ?

TTS : I even mentioned that my hobbies are watching movies and writing blogs.. why dont u ask those 

AT : yes sir.. sure 

/* he gave me a paper and pen and explained a scenario.. though i couldn't understand it completely,  i just wrote as an algorithm of what i heard */ 

QHR : is it what i asked u to write ?? i asked u to use joins and to make a database 

TTS : Still you cant understand that i dont know about joins??

AT : Sir actually there are 7 types of joins and a database is collection of information (//flushed out some unrelated definitions ) 

QHR : okay.. wat else u know in computers ?

TTS : watching movies, Playing Games, Orkut , Facebook, Twitter 

AT : C++ , Java , Basics of servlets and jsp, Oracle, VB.net

QHR : good you have knowledge is various applications.. But still you know only basics.. Being an IT student You must be  advanced in those

TTS : If i am advanced in all those things, then i must have gone for interview in Microsoft.. not here

AT : sir, I understood ...  i would learn them  in future for sure

 

QHR : Fine .. how long will you work in our company

TTS : As long as you pay me for my survival

AT : I ll fix my entire growth career in your esteemed Organization 

QHR : any plans for higher studies ?? 

TTS : If you are ready to pay, Then I ll do it for sure

AT : As for now .no plans sir. but if our company needs it for promotion issues.. then i may do it in future

QHR : Fine, praveen .. I'm satisfied with your answers .. any question to me ?

TTS :  do you have a daughter?? if yes whats her age and whats her mobile no ?

AT : sir, I would like to ask "If i am selected, What is my growth-path in our organisation?"

QHR : // told me some stuffs which i cant understand anything //

I came out and waited for HR interview

After 2 Hours
A girl came and read out a list of names.. The first name was mine.. I was really scared whether its a list of selected or rejected persons... Many thought it as a rejected list as it topped with my name
After reading those names,,,, she told " These people are selected and need not have to appear for HR round"
So, I got selected finally.. 


That's it.. This is my Interview experience ...