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Faith in God is like drilling an oilwell. There's nothing to make you see and believe, you just hope you've got your calculations right.

More Oomph

P.S.: Hema, to refresh that memory! ;)

Oomph.

Everyday...

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Repeat this a coupla hundred times, and my day is made... :)
Interesting life, don't you think? :D

Fresher no more?

The best gift that you can be given is to get used to the changes that happen around you. From the studious and focused student up till 10th, the drastic school-hostel split personality in 11th and the 12th, the hater of tests in Pilani, to the city corporate here in Bangalore, that is where learning to live life shows itself to me as the most important thing around you.

But how easy is it to get used to changes? “Why is it even a problem?” would have been my quickfire question back three or four years ago. Now it’s not so easy to ask such a question or give a similar discarding answer. And it took me four years in a place with a temperature range of over 50 degrees to realize that. 333031 has changed me in more ways than I thought could be possible. It is now the life of yesteryear, but it stays with me today, and surely will for many a distant tomorrow.

And then the corporate started, and it was, to say the least, promising. Two months into work I lost the “fresher” feeling. Two more months later this was how life was to take its course. Come December 2005, and the change was starting to sink in again. Two weeks later everything had changed. A new job came up, and there was now a tough choice to make. Is it that life doesn’t let you settle for the easier choices? Or is it that after you’ve made them, the other seems to have been the easier choice? I try not to think too much about that. But as I see things now, change is around the corner again. One month later I will no longer be sitting in my comfortable blue-and-grey cube typing out code and verifying their outputs (didn’t I say that was extremely boring sometime earlier? I still choose not to change my mind, but heaven knows what awaits me next!), and what I will be doing is tomorrow I have no idea about.

And the people around you? How will you get used to never seeing them again, get used to the fact that you’ll be having an old beginning over and over again? But let me save that for later… :)

Getting used to change: life’s best gift.
Change: definitely not anywhere close.
Fresher: a word you'll use a million times in life.

"We the Corporate"

Welcome to the world of the corporate! How rosy a picture of this life can we paint... The company loves you, and of course, how happily we return the favor! And quite rightly too. Where else would you receive the abundant luxury of those hissing coffee machines that look all the more inviting with every drink it gives you; the huge 25" monitors that seem to say that a computer should be nothing less, of course with the broadband ligament that comes along with it; the buffets that are laid out every afternoon inviting you to have your stomach's fill; well well, so who wants home, sweet home anymore!

A week later, I'm rethinking all that I just wrote above. A rosy WHAT? The luxury of coffee machines? Surely I must have been out of my mind when I wrote that. And it seems to getting worse with every sentence. Broadband superspeed? Now who needs that anyway? Ah, those wonderful times at home when I could just click on a link and see how it got loaded frame by frame, with every image and every icon fitting so neatly into their space... but of course, now the page opens even before you click on the link! And why don't those buffets seem so tempting anymore? So they've got three varieties of rice and three kinds of your favourite vegetables and sweets you otherwise pay an easy ten bucks for per piece, SO???

Well, surely this is a case of the grass being greener on the other side yet again, but it upsets me when I wonder if I will ever see the other side again. Will I, or will I just sit in front of my (wonderful and massive) 25" monitor looking at codes and comparing their outputs all day? (Which I must say is an awfully drawn out and booooooring job!) Or will I, someday be able to sit at my desk, looking at my screen and finding it filled with words and terms that make some sense to me? When will my freedom from those hexadecimals come! Oh sweet Satan of Numbers, fly thee at once to my wicked aid!

So FF23 EA78 5B6C 9912 and D7EF 2CD6 AA31 665B, before I end this formally!