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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Pragyan Mohanty

Fellow trainee at Ness, colleague at Ness

Pragyan is the kid in our training batch, the youngest. She has a great passion when it comes to photography and have taken a lot of quite amazing photographs. She is also very creative and made an album of photos with autograph pages for our friends in training who had been posted at Mumbai.

She is also extremely fond of good food and love to find good restaurants. She loves sweets and chocolates and always feels the urge to go out and get some after every meal ... She was there fore called chocolate vali bhai by our batch. She likes to go out and see places, enjoys traveling and loves to read books.

She is also very enthusiastic about social service and had actively been a member of a social service NGO while she was doing her b-tech. She is still in touch with them and would like to continue the good work when ever possible.

She is not much into dressing up and almost has no interest in make ups - some degree of tom-boyishness you could say. She tends to be serious in discussions at times and tends to give Vipin a hard time when he starts off with his Poor Jokes ... Anyway she is an interesting person I have met ... :)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Anjana Kumar

fellow trainee and colleague at Amadeus, Ness

Anjana is someone who is innocent, who loves movies, and who is quite open and speaks her heart (which Vivek might not digest at times, especially when she speaks about admiring someone else ... he he) ... She is still a kid at heart and often takes things too seriously. She does have a habit of worrying too much, no matter whether it is a big problem or a small one, and is a bit tensed about things in general. So we kind of don't take her seriously when she does tell us things with high degree of agitation ( well I believe she does know this too ... I guess we are too easy going, and don't scare easily).

But she is a real sweetheart and I will always remember that she made and brought me Palgoa ( a sweet made from milk) when I got a craving for it and had been searching for it for three weeks without success, and was sitting dejectedly over it ... she really made my day!!! She is quite helpful, and sincere, and a very nice person. She is also strong and I believe was tomboyish before. She had also learned Karate during her school days. Dear Jahnavi is in her team, and sits next to her, and often bugs her to no extend, especially when Janu is in one of her crazy moods. I am waiting to see Janu getting kicked one of these days.

I have to say she is someone I like very much, and is always true at heart. So you would have a friend you could trust, even if she might not join with you in making mischief. :) ...

Friday, January 22, 2010

Mouli Chakraborty

Fellow trainee and colleague at Amadeus, Ness

She is our delicate darling, highly sensitive to everything, cant shake hands hard, she cant stand too much sunlight, all together too vulnerable to the elements of nature and other people. So one has to be careful not to hit her accidentally or anything ... or you would be responsible for black and blue marks where you hit her.

Anyway during our initial training program she was sitting next to me and had suffered a great deal of my craziness. I had bugged her and played a lot of pranks on her (like suddenly pulling her chair, disturbing her while she is half asleep in her seat listening to lectures, sing horrible songs, and so on ... :) ..). Therefore I have to say she's got a lot of patience at least with me.

She is a good dancer, and loves to have fun. Loves good food. Loves to travel. She also reads a lot and we have discussed about quite a few books. She also endeavored to teach me Hindi, though I have to say since we don't meet as much now, the learning hasn't progressed much.
She also has got a good fashion sense and loves to dress up.

Now on the negative side, she is a bit short tempered, and might tend to get offended quickly, especially when boys tease her too much. But unfortunately she is an easy target (or maybe they are finding teasing her as an opportunity to talk to her - wrong method dudes!) and ends up in the receiving end of a lot of teasing. Most of it has to do with her affinity towards saying "Oh my god!" whenever something goes wrong and her highly expressive personality, where by she tends to enact what she says with her hands ... but well I think expressing using hands is a general Indian trait, where each person varies only in the degree of expressing.

She is someone you would definitely like as a good friend ... more on this dear girl later ....

Sanjeev Kumar

Fellow trainee and colleague in Amadeus, Ness.

Sanji is someone who is calm and cool, quiet and a bit reserved. He would talk a lot when he feels comfortable with company, but mostly takes his time to get settled with the people and surroundings. We have had a good rapport from the start, since we both happen to be big fans of a Japanese Cartoon - Naruto. So starting with that, I got to know him real well and he is a real good friend of mine, though we don't hang out all that much. He is really interested in sports, cricket in particular, listens to a lot of music, loves manga(Japanese cartoon comic) and is very helpful and friendly. He also has a good sense of humour and observation skills, and did demonstrate it by imitating several friends - mainly mouli and jahnavi ... :D. From what I know he is a very sincere person and loves to do things differently. He loves his family a lot. His favourite food is Aloo Paratta. And from what he has been saying he can cook well too ... And he loves to share poor jokes!!! I really do think he is a real great friend to have ... :).

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Vipin Jain

Colleague of mine in Ness,
fellow trainee.
This is in tribute to today being his B'day : 21st Jan - :)

Vipin is quite a character - and the first thing that comes to my mind when I think about him is a running race : we had it during our training period - very interesting incident. He was being chased around by my then roommate Sushma, who later moved to work in Mumbai, for some evidently inflammatory comment .. :D ... when I felt a sudden inspiration to challenge him for a running race.
He lost the race ... to his extreme surprise ( he kept saying - i never expected - u are too fast - i tried my best - etc etc immediately after the race ... guess he was taken too much by surprise to think ... ;)). But ever since he recovered his senses keeps giving the reason that he lost on purpose to hold the honor of women ... an interesting theory :D.

OK so we'll leave his embarrassing stories for now ... and continue with who he is ...
He is someone with exceptional observation skills, who notices everything from who goes where, what each person wears, and the list is endless ... He is also a very cheerful person, with a perpetual smile on his face ... He loves to have fun and go out, but also knows to take responsibilities seriously. He is also very caring and sensitive to people, and a quite good friend, who will always be there for you. He is an exceptionally good singer, and that should have been the first thing I wrote about him, if the running race hadn't happened.

He is also good at telling jokes ... (you would get to know when u meet him ... :P) ... and he claims dancing is the only thing he can never master. Anyway He is quite an interesting guy, who is real fun to hang out with ... and loves visiting new places, and music. He is now planning to start with guitar classes... will have to see what more interesting things he would do with his life ... :) ...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

MYSTERY OF ATTRACTION

Its always a mystery, why we meet the people we meet in life. Why we feel different towards each person we meet.

Why certain people have more appeal/attraction to you than others. Why different people feel this attraction differently and upon different persons.

We never completely understand why we like certain people a lot in a very short interval. Why certain people could mean the world to you even before you realize they do.

Why many a times the world conspires in a such a way that you will be forced to abandon some of these people who means the world to you for some others who also mean the world to you.

Why is it that you always have to make extremely hard choices at times about which world you want to loose, which of those dear ones you would have to hurt - and either way feel helpless and hurt yourself.

Why do we always hurt ourselves and no matter what, not bear that we ended up hurting someone we never wanted to hurt, and whose hurt will hurt us too.

Why do we choose to hide to the world the pain we feel, so that others who are dear to us do not suffer along with us?

Why do we not have the strength to stop ourselves from loving those we know would lead us to this heart wrenching situation later on?

Why is it that when we know deep in our heart that we made a choice which was the best we could make given the situation, we still feel lost and broken?

Why do we end up losing the meaning of life in the end and decide that since our happiness longer matters, let us at least give those who love us the most and those we have chosen to keep happy, what happiness they desire, by letting them do what they please with our life?

I know not the answers to all these questions ... but though I do not know - I feel better every time I ask myself these questions and more ... And maybe someday I will answer them in someways ...

Anyway I have to conclude love is one of the most dangerous element we have in life, which one can never control, and which completely rules our happiness. And no matter what those whom you love will always hold the power to make or break you. And any one of them can break you, and once broken it will take many of them quite a lot to make you whole again. Time as always is a healer to any one when they breaks. But scars from love will always be there in the hearts that were broken. Though we may choose to see the scars the way we wish - as something that will always be a hassle and pain or something to prove we have survived great disasters, we are brave and we will brave more as needed ... I hope I would always be able to see the latter and never fear the pain and the hurt - because love is a risk we will have to take and surrender to, willingly or unwillingly ... so isn't it better to be willingly go forth and take it head on and play a part in choosing our destiny rather than destiny hunt you down and make you miserable because you choose not to accept it but you still have to ...

My musings go on and on ... and its in my nature that I shall always take risks no matter the scars ... so I will take my time, absorb the pain, get over it and move on towards happier moments ...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Jahnavi Mohanambika

My training batch mate at Ness Technology,
Colleague and room mate as of today.

Let me see - Jahnavi or Janu as I call her is really someone unique ... on a general note she is a superb dancer - with a talent to memorize steps after seeing it just once, and she has a real good grace and style.

A reasonably good singer, with a love for melodies - mainly in Telgu but also in English and other languages ... An artist too who can embroider her own clothes ( shall i say fashion designer??? well a little too big a word, but well she does have a good sense of fashion) ...

Not usually someone I would hang out with in first appearance - since she is extremely interested in dressing up, jewelery and well in short a typical dainty and beauty conscious girl one would think, with a craze for shopping( naturally) ... but well all this being true I still find her a real great friend to hang out with - and we get along great ... and I am surprised but I really am greatly fond of this girl.

There are more to her than all this - she is quite understanding, doesn't interfere in anyone's personal life unnecessarily which is something I prize highly because I like people who respect others right to privacy ... a good listener, one can trust her with things ... and one I could confide in if needed ... she is very caring and loving, loves her family a lot ... she loves to enjoy life, go out and have fun ... very friendly and makes a lot of friends ...

Loves chocolates - and well you should see her face when she sees chocolates to understand exactly what I mean ... has a very good humor sense and really fun to hang out with ... She even tried her hand at drawing and drew a pencil sketch of me with a little help from me - which was not that bad, kinda came out good, and well again she also seems to try reading books (am not sure if I was the inspiration, but if I am, i think that's a good thing ... he he) ... so definitely she is open to changes ... if she feels its a good change ...

Only draw back I can tell you is her sense of time ... (again typical of many females who loves to dress up!!!) - if she says we'll go out at 8, expect her only by 9 ... ;) ... but that is something I am used to in many people, so if i want her out by 8 i would say 7 ... :D ...

I think there are lot more to write - u stay with a person you get to know them real well ... but since I think this is enough description of her to put here in a blog ... I think you should meet her and get to know her better if u need to know more ... Anyway I am real glad I met her and she is my friend ...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Marrige Hungama

Well I thought I'd put in the new latest development in moi life ... The Marriage Hungama ...

Yeah, like most girls around me who is my age, I am now up for sale in the marriage market, my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and god knows who else all trying to get me sold - for what I do not know. I am kind of resigned to the fact that for their happiness I will have to endure the prospect of seeing guys, and well I do not exactly look forward to this prospect.

I have convinced myself that it is inevitable. But unfortunately I am not liking most of the options am getting. Its not about money, not about family, I wish I could say its not about looks, but unfortunately I cant help that one, the guy should appeal to me - but still I do want to see the guys character and try and put that ahead of looks - lets just say by principle. Then again I don't think I look anything great - so by saying looks do matter I don't mean I need some prince - just someone I feel looks appealing to me - and by how my taste goes I would fall for mostly the hippy kind or the neanderthal kind - guess am still immature or I got unique taste - I don't know.

Character wise again I am not sure what I am looking for - I just usually go by instinct on most things. So if I talk to a person, I let my instinct take over and it decides whether I like a person or not. Then again what will u know in just a few conversations - not enough to spend a life time with. So that just again helps little. But at least something is better than nothing. This is actually making me think a lot about life, and the more I think the lesser my interest in getting married. I just hate the idea of giving up my freedom for some stranger whom I barely know. And the only reason I have agreed to do this is I feel I owe my parents. Why did I have to have a conscience???

Hmmm I guess now I will end up writing more of these self musings in here as I am completely feeling like I am back again in a storm and I don't know if I am going to drown or somehow survive.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Kyokushin Karateka - my experiances ...

After joining for the karate class in October - I put in my 100 percent ... in observing and learning as much as possible. I always had wanted to learn karate and so this is the start of realizing a dream. It takes a lot of dedication, and perseverance, as at times you feel you cannot do anymore but you still go on ... its not that you have to, lets just say I just didn't want to give up ... so after a lot of body pain and muscle catches, I ended up getting used to the routine ... and its such a passion for me that I wake up at 5.50 in the morning on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, which may not be much for many, but if you consider that I did this only if I was going for a tour before, and never for my exams, it really proves how much I am in love with karate.

And as I started learning, I have to say it is the one place I find peace of mind and its great for me to get stress free, not to mention healthy and fresh ... and also my appetite has shot up and I did gain weight and crossed 50kg - an achievement, and that too healthy weight ... :D ...

In a way its like a dance form, with rythm and steps you repeat again and again till you perfect them, but also it is a lot more physically challenging.

On the grading day, the routine was really something :
  • Starting with about 4km jogging.
  • Then a set of warm up exercises with make the arch where u throw ur leg up in an arch, then in an arc from left to right, then reverse and so on - each 10 to 20 times in number
  • Push ups, then arm rotation, wrist rotation and the usual routines.
  • Then stretching exercises.
  • Different punches, kicks, blocks, movements, stances each about 10 or 20 times.
  • Katas (routines for each belt involving stances, kicks, punches, blocks etc).
  • Sequences (which are again routines for each belt to perfect kicks and punches)
  • Then there were ape walk, frog jump, duck walk, so on for about 150 meter each
  • Then there was fighting - and well each fight lasts for barely a minute, but well I too had my first fighting experience with a brown belt girl, was really a great experience and I loved it (though I got a lot of kicks and punches and so did she :D )
... and surprisingly I didn't have much body pain after all that ... phew - awesome! That resulted in getting a double promotion to Orange senior.
And I still continue with the same passion I started out with!

Looking back at the year 2009 ...


I just thought that since new year has arrived - year 2010 ... I should look back and atleast briefly enter the changes that went in on my life - and yes I have been ignoring this blog for a good five months now - and well a lot has been going on in my life too which kind of kept me busy ...

So let me start with what kept me away - I landed with a job in Bangalore, in the IT industry as a software developer ( OK trainee now ... but am hired for a developer post). It all happened fast - and so have been in Bangalore for the past 5 months since July 21st.

Life here has been going good - in my first month of training 17 of us new recruits planned and went for a trip to Wonder La - a water theme amusement park in Bangalore. It was an awesome experience - got into most land rides save 4, and well these rides we missed were just because too many land rides kind of get you feeling uneasy - and we were also hungry by then ... then went for almost all water rides, the rain dance was superb - for which we went 3 times and had a lot of fun. I couldn't move for two days after all that exertions.

The training got over well and then of the 25 freshers, 10 went to Mumbai as they were recruited for jobs there - and the rest of us were put into different projects and I had another 4 with me in mine. Now we started of with the next training on the job here - had food outside - got first salary, bought dress for mom, brother and grandparents, life went on ...

Now by October I joined a karate class, Kyokushin - under Sensei Ravi Carvalho, and though it was a bit hard at first - primarily body pain due to sudden exercise - I continued and after a grading on December 13th I received a double promotion to Orange Senior. Thus I am now fulfilling a dream to learn Karate which I had from when I was a kid.

Then I also celebrated our company's annual celebration and danced at the disco party which started as part of the celebration ... had lots of fun. And finally on new years day I went on a trip to mysore, saw many wonderful places about which my friend - Pragyan has written so well ...
here is the link : Mysore Trip ... :D

So thats all that had been going on in my life so far ...

Anand Satish

My tuition mate in 11th and 12th

This guy again is someone I am writing about here because even though we studied together for tuitions and only for two years, his parents were my teachers then for entrance coaching, and then they taught my brother too - so our families are always in contact ... and again we are still in touch though its random and usually after months of no news about each other ... He was always good at studies, and now is doing his masters at IIT - so you can guess ... He always has a hundred watt smile on his face and a very pleasant nature ... and though we usually only about each others welfare I always did like the guy - in personality. So its good to have him as a friend and keep in touch ... cant say much else about him first hand, but through observation he is turned into a fitness freak, now changed his look and has a "yo" look :D in my college terminology - and is also travelling around and enjoying his life a lot ... he also likes to read and listen to music ... I know, this is not all that much but well ... knowing something is better than nothing - isnt it? ;)