i BlOg BcOz.....

Let me confess that when I started blogging I had no idea as to why people blog.

One day in my office there was a flashy email saying that my colleague is the Top Blogger of the month (with his picture). Eagerly I checked onto his blog page to see why was his picture being flashed across 50k Screens in the organization. All I could find on his bloglink was an empty page. I immediately turned back to him and asked him as to what does this imply. Shaken by my observation, he immediately opened his blog and made a post.

What went behind the scene was, Blogging was a new concept introduced in our organization and to promote that , blogs were picked randomly and awarded the Best blog of the month Award. And my dearest neighbor, unknowingly started a blog (but didn’t attempt to make a post, as he wud not have figured wat this was meant to be) the previous evening but had no idea as to what to post.

So picking the queue from him (and to be a wanna be Best Blogger ), I also started a blog of mine and gradually picked up pace by contributing every now and then and extended my blog to blogger.com

Even till date my Blog Follower count is still a single digit count . So you could imagine the kind of circle I am into. None of friends blog. So they don’t read my blogs. I literally dragged many of my frenz to blogging world, while some never turned up (ending in wasting a url by creating their blog but never use it) and some stopped blogging after some time.

It is because of such callous attitude that I drift away from blogging as I find no one appreciating my writing style/ sense of humor or rather observations.

It is at times like these that I LOSE INTEREST TO BLOG.

However I am a regular follower of blogs written by my favourite bloggers, my adrenaline starts pumping up and the fever to start blogging arises.

One of them is Shrinidhi who is an avid blogger. On a regular basis I learn from him that even this can be blogged. My understanding of blogging (initially) was to vent out. He blogs with such passion that he blogs about everything- from vehicle reviews - Places to visit (I love his chandnichowk trip post) – NGO Activities to a part of – Technology Forums (recently he even LIVE blogged from a techie forum) – Social issues – Adventure stuff (currently he is blogging on behalf of a guy who is climbing Mount Everest and updates enidhi ).

The first time I met him was in a Brainstorming session held in our office in ways to improve blogging culture across the organization. Though I never maintained that rapport with him, I regularly followed his blogs, because his contents are unconventional. Normally when I blog for a season it is about politics, another season about movies ,another one abt Social issues (if u had read my previous posts u wud have observed this pattern). May be this is wat is called as PATTERN /AMETUERISH Blogs.

While Shri has always been unconventional, one day if it is about travel the next post would be something which I could not imagine (May be this is wat is called as PROFESSIONAL blogging Vamsi )

Joining Shri on my fav list is Sodium, (yes remember ur chemistry classes NAOH- Sodium hydroxide). I bumped onto his blog from nowhere and had been constantly hooked to his blog. He started to blog from his engg days at IIT. His posts peaked from regular classroom happenings - dreams sharing – professional excitements. His posts are quite witty and his take on learning’s from reality makes them interesting to read.

Offlate I have started to follow the blog of Smita. As usual I don’t know her (Thanks to internet for making this possible, now people can follow unknown’s). She is an Avid reader and the best part is she posts a review of all the books that she reads and also rates them . In short she saves my MONEY. Every time I go to Crosswords to buy a book I end up admiring every book with colorful front page. Now a days I have started to read the review by smita , only then I am daring to buy a book. Though I am not a voracious reader like her, her blog updates me about the recent books.

And it is because of people like these I BLOG.

Even though with not much fan following, I try to stay updated with my passion (if not anything else this keeps my Typing Speed constant.)

How come all these people's names start with 'S'....:-(

forever and ever....

“….May these colleagues be the last to die doing their job for our company”, was what our CEO (of my newly joined company) said, ending his mail on a sad note.

That line made me re-read the entire mail and a sense of pride beamed in me for being a part of this company.

Though in my induction to this new firm our HR mentioned many fancy words about the firm (everyone knows whats in once u enter the dragon), little did I care to concentrate . I assumed that to be a regular monotonous sermon.

But just one week past and I end up opening this mail on one fine day, and I could not stop my excitement.

I am associated with a brand where people risk their lives to run the business and it is because of such people that we are ranked No. 1 in terms of Associate delight as per a recent survey.

Ok ok…I got ur point…may b I am a little more excited to share this news, but last but not the least how many of you feel that you work with someone where u see HERO’s in real time (not on celluliod), someone who risk’s their lives on a daily basis to report the news from the front lines of conflict.

May these Hero’s Live forever…..

Curtains down.....

And here is how it feels when u send out ur last mail (ofcourse from ur releiving company's mail box)



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Dear Team,

At last the day has arrived for me to bid adieu to ABC.

Though my tryst with ABC has been brief, the amount of learning that I had during this learning mode of my career has been enthralling.

I have enjoyed my tenure here and appreciate having had the opportunity to work with you. More so as the road traveled wasn't level and straight, but I surely enjoyed the roller coaster ride and it was fun-filled and enriching.

I thank each one of you who stood by me throughout my journey at XYZ .

You can follow me on http://realitymatters-vamsi.blogspot.com/

I wish you all the very best in all your Future endeavors.

Do svidaniya

Cheers…
 Vamsi 

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Picture abhi baaki hei mera dost.........Hasta la Vista Baby!!!!

day before D day

And so here is my day before D day.

Am I happy ?? Am I sad?? Not sure though.

Its that kind of emotion that when you are well dressed up and suddenly there is a heavy downpour outside. You want to move out and drench yourself completely but since you have to go and meet a very important person (may be a HR:-)) you do not dare to step out and curse yourself for being a silent spectator.

Wowwww..wat an anomaly krishi…u rock!!! (cant help out ..edisi moham kadukunattu undi ani naaku ardam aindi)

Anyways everyone of us have to make some tough decisions…to estrange ur old buddies in and go out to search new fellows.

If ever Karan thapar (I wud love to be interviewed by Sherin Bahn :-)) wants to interview me tonite on CNBC tv 18 as to wat do I feel at this point of time, I wud say “I guess that’s wat is life all about…when u think that u have made ur self comfortable at a place …it (lyf) throws a new challenge asking you to face this…”

I know I know my dear reader…Looks like iam quite overwhelmed abt all dis happening to me (infact this is not the first time )

All in all to cut the crap…today is my last working day at my office (officially my relieving date is tomorrow but since tomorrow I wud b busy with my relieving formalities). Got my things packed up….my notes…my personal mails backup…my stupendously envied Coffee Mug …getting ready to move out….

Zindagi ek safar hai suhaaanaaa…yeha kab kya hoga kisney jaaana…….

After all are v r still bonded....

Though I tght I shall post this blog after 3days…couldn’t resist myself from doing so.

Today we (Yes..it’s WE…my colleagues at Appy and me) had been to lunch. After repeatedly pestering them to come out for lunch since the time I planned to move out, I managed to move them from their seats.

Now let me introduce my colleagues (akka.. cubbies..cubicle frenz).

H…She was the first person who invited me to join for lunch at cafeteria (For almost 1 week I was having lunch all by myself..all alone in the cafeteria..It is such a weird feeling when u move from a team who gave company for lunch to one man show kind of lunch). She is ok kind of girl (Pretty ani raastey feel ekkuva avtundi ani raayatam ledu…anyways the gud news is she is pretty and the sad one is she is COMMITED) …And believe me I don’t feign to show off as a BA till date……I wud pray for god for ur happy days to kick start soon (and sad days for N :-))

M..He is the guy with whom I share a great rapport. We both join together when it comes to pull someone’s leg (at times satirically and at times sincerely). He has got great sense of humor and the timing with which he delivers Punches is hilarious. Quite a Witty person, Hardworking (Logs IN exactly at 9.30AM and out after 7PM..i nvr dared to beat him in his schedule). I adore him for the way he mingles with people….I still have no clue when Nokia is gonna launch ur much awaited Dual sim phone in india

R…Though I met him late, we always hang around for coffee and lunch breaks. A Body building champion with amazing cuts (I mean it guyz…) always curious to know everything. Though his role demands him to be a supervisor, he manages to balance the thin line to be friendly with his team and at the same time gets things done by them….Shall have a treat from you once ur Maruthi Suzuki Swift desire turns up….

MN…and here comes my neighbor (sits beside me). A Calm guy….A patient listener (since he bears my garrulous talk…Yes whenever I feel sleepy I turn to MN and start a chat..i talk all crap abt everything and anything tht strikes me). A silent supporter for me. I still remember he saying to H that whatever she says he would always support me anytime…(MN u made me feel proud for my crap talk :-))…Some day u shall take ur revenge at the very person who troubles u for count….

And there is B …who was always there in our talks ..but now moved to UK…Good and transparent guy who says what he feels upfront. Though v didn’t have much time to spend, he stays in touch vth any latest updates at Appy (He is our Breaking News host)

So this was my team at Appy. Though officially they were from Testing team and I was from Biz Analyst team, they nvr allowed me to feel that iam an outsider to their techie talks…

Guyz I miss the fun here…I miss the pantry coffees(yeah I agree the coffee is cold )…I miss our P3 Serpentine queue’s for lunch..and I Miss our post lunch inspection walks (M & R…though v nvr managed to view the fashion show at the entrance …I still feel sad for it…)..I miss the Red Bull (Gals)…I miss our outer periphery gupshups…I miss our Mr. Bucket stories…

…hey forgot abt Sandy…hey H say hi to sandy …M shud attack it daily with his witty one liners……and I still didn’t get that Siebel notes that u promised…:-(

I really thank u all for making me feel to come to office everyday (and H - I broke ur record for 2 continous weeks…wat say M??) and most importantly make me skeptical if iam gonna get such group again at my new place :-(

This reminds me of my childhood days lessons from Lego blocks game….I build a huge building painfully placing all the blocks and suddenly my sister would break it…and I had to start all over again to put the structure….Now that my team here is scattered I have to build another one…that’s what is life all about

All the Very Best for ur future and hope to bump in to you some day (I still hang around in hitech-city)….now it seems like I am gonna make u all cry with such long post…no Emotional Atyachaars plssssssss….

Finally one word to end dis…Hakunamatataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


P.S: though I know that u guyz don’t blog…do keep on visiting my blog to know wats happning vth me (at least sign in as my followers..my followers count wud increase:-)

4 days to go....

Well well well…looks like my team here is feeling sad to lose an esteemed team member (Ok I know I am not that esteem as I have bragged).

Today after putting down my papers (eagerly waiting for my relieving date which is 4 days from now), I was involved in my regular chore of activities (forwading mails, googling and reading blogs). Saurab my team mate pinged me on gtalk (recently our places have been changed and I & saurab sit opposite to each other with a partition )

“is it 4 more days left for freedom ?”

Guessing that he was feeling sad for my departure, tght of boosting up his morale and said few adrenaline pumping quotes to him (to bring back the cheer on his face)

It reminded me of a typical forwarded email that I stumbled upon sometime back , 2 fellows sit infront of each other ,I mean 2 opposite workstations and ask if the other person has received the mail that this fellow has sent.

As I and Saurab were sharing this lighter moment, my another team mate Ashu pounced onto my partition (actually he read my chat messages on saurab’s machine) asking me …

“What is the common thing that a Software Engineer and a Beggar have in common?”

As I kept on thinking to remember if that was a one liner from any forwarded mail he answered his questions saying …

“ Both of them ask which Platform are you working on ”

While the other 2 team members were busy with daily rituals we 3 shared a lighter note ….hmm gonna miss this in 4 days 

Trip to Srisailam

After a long tussle with my frenz, I managed to win over them and convinced them for a long drive to srisailam last weekend.

Since there were many trips that we planned exhaustively but none of them fruitified in the past, so we kept the planning away from hype.

I and Lucky finalized the itinerary and confirmed with Shali and prashant on the day before of the journey.

SO on Saturday morning at 5 AM we started from Kukatpally, picked Prashant at Santosh nagar and headed towards srisailam highway via chandrayan gutta.

By 6 AM we moved out of the city, had a chance to view Sunrise amidst no concrete interventions. We had a Garam Chai at a village on the way and headed out on our way.

From a longtime we wanted to go on for a trek , incidentally last week we planned to join GHAC group for their Moulali Trek but due to our laziness didn’t wake on time and so missed the Rappelling fun. As we crossed a village called Amangal, a thought struck to us that we shall try trekking, So loaded with vengeance, we stopped our vehicle near a Hillock and climbed the hill.

As this was our first trek (that too with no safety mechanisms), we managed to climb uphill in 30 mins and descended in 35 minutes. Though the initial terrain was normal, as we steeped ahead the ascending angled increased which made our descend thrilling. At one point of time we were on our hands grappling to descend without skidding.

At 8.30AM Successfully after 75 minutes we completed the trek and scored a 1 in our trekking account.

From there we headed to a Small Dhaba for Breakfast. As I read in some blogs about the kind of food that we can expect on the way to srisailam I suggested everyone to have an extra plate of dosa to be on safe side.

After Breakfast we took the straight road to Srisailam. Our first stop was at UmaMaheswaram, a temple on hillock. Before driving on the real Ghat road of srisailam , this road provided a sample track of how to drive on the ghat road.

From here we headed to MallelaTheertham, a picturesque location with Waterfalls. It comes 56 Km's before srisailam. From where we need to take a left and drive 8 Km's on a kacha road.(the max speed that u can drive on this road is30Kms..so imagine the kind of road)

The waterfalls were great. We had a shower. There was a corporate gang who were cooking food (with drinks) and were having a blast.

After the shower we headed directly to Srisailam as all of us were exhausted. On the way we stopped at couple of view points and clicked some snaps. The real surprise was yet to come.

Once we reached srisailam we were shocked to see the crowd. Little did we realize/ knew that Karnataka and Maharashtra ppl come to Srisailam for Ugadi.

By seeing the crowd we were awestruck. It took 2 hrs for us to manage Hotel Room due to heavy rush.

After refreshing ourselves we tght we shall complete the darshan on Saturday itself. We stood in the special darshan Queue at 8PM and reached the ticket counter at 11.30PM. The temple was so crowded that it took 5 hours for us for the darshan.

We came out of temple at 1.30AM on Sunday and all 4 of us were completely out. we had chapattis which were so hard to eat that we could chew only 1 and had to leave the other one.

In the queue for 5 hours many pictures flashed through my mind. 2 Years back, on shali's bday (which incidentally was on mahasivaratri) we went to a restaurant and had chicken biryani knowing the fact that it was Sivaraatri. So I tght Lord siva wanted us to pay for our arrogance by making us stand in the Queue for 5 hrs.

The next day we woke up at 9AM, refreshed and moved out of srisailam (My car gave a little trouble but thankfully that was resolved in 2 hrs.)

On the way back again we halted at many places , we drove my car into srisailam dam water and had some fun time.

On the way back at Amangal, Prashant suggested to get some pure Palm Wine as he knew someone in that village. After some search we located the person who extracted Kallu in front of us form the tree and I tasted a glass. It was good but I didn’t dare to have one more.

By the time we reached home it was 10PM. The distance totaled to 520 Kms. This was my First long drive wherein I drove almost 400+Kms.

To view the pics click below...

http://picasaweb.google.com/krishireddy/Srisailam201002?authkey=Gv1sRgCJj6mYmq3qyViAE#