From Shazzie, with love :-)

Dear guys,

I had a lovely life until the end of my college days. I must say I’m very happy to be me! …living such a colorful, happy life! My life has always been full of surprises. The best parents on earth, legendary friends, lovely girl friend, cigarettes, vodka, beer, bikes, speed, music…obsessions, satisfactions and happiness! Can I ask for a better life than this? I guess not.

I remember the night Anoop, Kartik and I, got high at a local bar in Hassan just before I came here. They are my all-time greatest pals. I remember telling them that my happy days get over once I go for a job! They didn’t seem to disagree too! How many of us have not felt bad while coming to Bangalore? How many of us still wanted to be in that college days hangover? Let me be frank. I wept like a baby on the day of our farewell party. But ‘Que Sera Sera’, whatever should happen will happen. We all got here finally! Most of you at least had a few of your classmates joining NSN with you. I was friggin’ alone when I got here. But it was not so different for me, for I had spent most of my life alone! In fact, I enjoyed loneliness.

But the scene was totally different once our training was over. We all gelled so easily with each other, as if we knew each other since birth! I tell ya.. Since then, I’ve never felt alone. I’m the luckiest bastard alive on earth! …finding lovely friends among colleagues! Since then, I’ve been very happy with you guys.

I felt it for the first time when I went home last weekend. I truly missed you guysJ I just wanna say, I love you all so much! I’m lucky to have such sweet friends(I don’t wanna use the term colleagues!) May this journey with you people go on forever!

Love,

Shazzie!

weird ways of destiny

A very weird thing has happenned at work that I don't seem to understand, let alone interpret. After over a month of waiting for work... well not exactly, it was just the last week that I have been waiting (before it was just the joy of waiting doing nothing) I finally get into a meeting where I am actually mentioned! Ahhh... the joys of being noticed. So I get what sounds like loads of work, and I am all excited... ab dikhata hoon sab ko ki Arjun Kamath kya cheez hai. This was 4 days ago, and I am still waiting.. why? because the test bed is down... why?? because God doesn't want me to work.. See there's no other plausible explanation(other than the boring, 'technical glitches'), I mean why would I not get work when I want to work??

Maybe I am not cut out for menial running of test cases, maybe I am made for something more, some higher power signaling to me that, you've get to do more! Or maybe I am just thinking too much of myself?? :)

Lolzz

Junna..

The discussion!

As every other day at the office, in fact the office canteen, everyone seemed busy with their plates and the person to their left(Or to the right, whatever!) It would've been another stupid lunch if it was not for Junna to bring up this topic to start a discussion! Why is the waterfall model still taught, when we are not using it? Actually, it made me feel like my brains had not thought of something that can be used in a discussion in the past few years! Everyone talked! Much of it non-sense though! Everybody thought! We discussed for atleast 45 mins with no conclusion for it!(I told you, we can be in the top management of NSN!) Not a single brick moved! Most of them found their ways to escape the discussion. Finally, Junna and I walked in the street besides SNT and came to a conclusion that there's no conclusion for what we were speaking! Well Junna... Now I've an answer for you! All we sleepyheads who attended the agile training session never remembered one thing! We're 90% waterfall and only 10% agile! None of us knew that the answer would be so simple, did we?

Apart from that one discussion, rest of the day went in Skype and Gtalk for the not-so-busy lot! The we're-very-busy-we've-got-work lot dived in their goddamn test cases trying to find a way to come out of it! Well.. You know me :) I've got lotsa work you see! Got some sensible work finally!

I must say, Doodh Pedhas that Asha gave were very bad! I ate only 3 of them! Cijo ate the rest and has hid the rest of the rest in my cubicle!

And yeah.. For the first time since I joined NSN, I climbed up the stairs till the 10th floor to search for a stupid knife for a birthday celebration!(With the birthday boy waiting in front of the cake) ...and finally managed to find a rusted hack saw blade by when everyone else had finished their eating!

Thats the end of the day!

Love,

Shastry!

What this blog is NOT about!

Most blogs begin with stuff about what it's about, but a few awesome original brilliant follow-worthy ones begin with what it's not about, and the truly classy ones begin with this post. Yeah, I am awesome and I know it, rather we are and we know it.

Yeah, so this blog has nothing to do with the company, what it does, or how it does. If anyone comments asking for help over interview questions or Apti question, I will personally come over and push you down the nearest nalli/open drainage outlet. We do have rowdi contacts OK, we have one among us too.

Yeah, so without digressing, this is about the silly stupid but fun things we do in office, along with the serious technical office job-related stuff. Our discussions, debates, arguments and the like... How we and our friendships change as we get more and more into our jobs...

The idea is to keep it updated about once a week, but like all promises made publicly, its meant to be broken. But that's not going to stop me from still making it.

Godspeed...

PS: In case you haven't noticed, I still spoke mostly about what this blog IS actually going to be about. HAHA LOLZ!!

If you're seeing this, no one has blogged yet! Why not, u start one? :P