Thursday, May 27, 2010

Cricket as a Religion

India – 2nd in population behind china. We have large amount of human resources which mostly utilized by MNC’s. Cricket- It’s not our National game but it has huge following than Hockey. Cricket gained the popularity when Kapil’s devils won the Prudential Cup, 1983. They beat run away leaders West Indies in finals and Kapil phaji held the cup in his hands. That moment marked the cricket autonomy in India.

Hockey lost its glory as it began to decline as the cricket rose up. India won the 1980 Olympic gold medal and it was last recognized win for our national game. Cricket on the other rose from strength to strength from 1983.

In 1985, India won the world championship of cricket and was crowned as undisputed champs. From Gavaskars to Tendukars, Tendukars to Dhonis cricket was over leaping all boundaries in the Indian sub continent. India Has been the traditional powerhouse of cricket and BCCI, Controller for cricket is the richest club of all the lot. Every new born in an Indian family dreams to become a cricketer. That is the real storm that has been done by cricket in our society.

Nowadays cricket is being followed as a religion. We find the boards like “Cricket is a religion, Sachin is God”. Indian Players are worshipped like god if they win, But in the other hand if they lose they are impatient and burning their effigies. Why this sentimental things happening? Are these players who played well deserved to gods and not played well are deserved to be devils? Why is this happening in our country?

India came out in the first round itself in World cup 2007 (50 over). Then people became unrest. Effigies were burnt, Houses were rattled by stones. Then in the same year we won the T20 world cup and cricketers were hailed as heroes. Why this discrimination? The bunch of players was the same. The difference is the form they shown. The exuberance of the youth was visible. Now 3 years down the line they are facing the same fiasco as they had in 2007.

The Indian people expect the best out of their players all the time which can’t happen at all times. But almost 100 crores people expectation will be acting upon the players mind too. All the effigy incident and stone throwing incident will be running at the minds. I accept they played badly and are circumspect against the short pitch bowling but it’s because of the pitches in India. Here they won’t get a ball cutting across the throat but in overseas you will get that reception which currently they are unable to cope with.

Let’s remember, Ponting one of the finest Batsmen averages only 12 in India. So give some time for this young parade to work on their defects. Then we can come to conclusion. They haven’t done anything substantial in the world tournaments for the past 3-5 years. But let us give some time to prove. I can remember Sachin Tendukar took 79 ODI’s to record his 1st Century. But now, Can anyone say it’s wrong to give time to the little master. Just show the patience to them. Even diamond takes time to transform from carbon. We can make wine in a single day. So wait and watch. One day we can see the transformation in these fringe players.

But I need to quote some ill happenings in Indian Cricket. The loss in T20 World cup was due to:

1. Why the hell they took Ravindra Jadeja to World cup? I am not saying he is a bad cricketer. But we have better cricketers than him in our ranks. He is very young and has to learn many things.

2. Why not Irfan Pathan and Robin Uthappa? Why Dhoni didn’t go for this two people. Only he can answer this. Both were in some good form and none were selected which came as rude shock to all. Both can win the matches on their own. They both were in good form and really I was astonished not to see their names in final squad. I know Irfan was bit down but Uthappa has been in sublime form in the IPL3.

3. Why they took bowling in 2 Matches in Barbados? India had only 2 seamers and after winning the toss, Dhoni opted to field which was the major blunder they did. Dhoni had some answers for it and none were really proven him right. He is a gifted captain but he needs to accept the truth that he had made a blunder.

4. When Hussey can bat at 33 like this, why can’t Dravid or any other good bet when sehwag was not there? India went for youngsters who were good but we need to blend youth with experience in order to get the results in our favour. This went against India as they were unable to play the short pitch stuff which bombarded against them.

5. Sehwag’s Absence made a huge difference as other teams will be happy that the Nawab of Najafgarh was not there to haunt them.

6. Indian Youngsters inability to Short Pitch stuff. Surely they are trying to overcome but so far it hasn’t come off yet

So my sincere thought to our countrymates are:
1. Please watch Cricket as a game, Not as a religion
2. Love the game, don’t be a predictor or some hardliner
3. Wait for the fruit to reap. Youngsters will take time and wait for them to grow up and deliver the goods.
4. Please don’t burn effigies. Don’t break the houses of cricketers.
5. Take the things easy as it comes. Be professional rather than sentimental.

So wait for the 2011 World cup in sub continent and hope for an Indian Upsurge and let us bring back the glory of 1983!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, May 10, 2010

Sweet Memories During Training in Cognizant

My Last day at my college was on May 17th, 2007. I wrote my last exam and came out with lot of expectations. I had a sense of proud that I was the first person in my family to complete B.E and got selected in CTS in campus interview. So I thought my life was a settled one as I see it now. I was waiting for CTS call for almost 6 months. First I was given DOJ (Date of joining) as December 24th and on November 14th got call to join on November 16th. Here the journey of stepping into the CTS begins:):)

First day of CTS, I was called for induction program to Tidel Park. I was accompanied by Nirmall, My college mate (Department mate too). We don’t know much about the route. He told me that it will take just 5 minutes of walk from Madhya Kailash to Tidel Park. Believing his words we walked. Much to our agony Sun was just belting down as early as 8 itself. We walked for almost 25 minutes and then only I came to know he said its 5 minutes when we come in bike L on first day, we were given some lectures from all the top level managers. We as usual back benchers were sitting in the last row and trying to avoid the sleep as hard as possible.

We got a gang of friends who were from other colleges. Also we saw our sister concern college students sitting in the 2nd last row (SRM Eswari college, we are from SRM ValliammaiJJ). We had enjoyed for 2 days with some team building exercises and some various interpersonal skills programs.Then they parted us into groups and allotted training in some specialized courses. My team was a gr8 one. It was like Bharatha Vilas film in Tamil. I was put into AJ083 and we were combine with AJ084.The team size was 30. My batch break up was:

Andhra: 12
Tamilnadu: 11
Delhi: 1
Maharashtra: 5
Kerala: 1

This was an awesome collection as we had all the languages and people. I thought it would be difficult to group with this batch as it was a group and state based. But for my surprise all were brilliant and they gelled like anything. All were like pearls as I must say. Helping others out in all the things. All were so close that we enjoyed like a family friends in our training period. We used to roam a lot, Enjoy like anything in pantry.

We were put up in Siruseri SIPCOT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE for training. Although the roads were at bad shape the enjoyment we had inside the campus was awesome. It will be like an island and we enjoyed every moment in our training time. We roamed so many places when we were in training. Some of the moments I am going to Share with you through this blog:





Besant Nagar:

Besant Nagar is the first place where we had gone as a gang. Like always none was punctual except one or two poor fellows who reached on time and waited for others. In friendship and love, Waiting causes a lot of good things.. It helps us to think of others more time and bonds us better. So everyone came by 5.30(Our timing was 4-4.30 maxJJ). We had wonderful time in beach for almost 1 hour. We played with tennis ball and after tiring a lot. We sat and played Antakshari. We got mixed songs as we had Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi people surrounding us J Then we went to a dhaba and had our dinner. Then we had our way back to our own backyard JJthe size been 16 out of 30.

Mahabalipuram:

Mahabalipuram is a historic place in Tamilnadu. We planned our next visit to historic place. We started in morning from my place and reached there by afternoon. Our first visit was to a hotel and we had our lunch over there. It was a combination of north Indian and south Indian dishes. We enjoyed a lot and we were pulling each other’s leg down in whatever opportunity we got J then we went inside, we saw the monumental Temple which was beside sea shore. It was the only one temple remaining out of 7 in the Mamalla period. It was a awesome temple with both Shiva and Vishnu in the same temple. Then after taking some photo shoot we travelled towards the sea. The sea was a bit rough, which didn’t hinder our playing JJ Also we had traversed through the rocky area which was beside the seashore and had some photo shoot there. It was an awesome place. The size was 20 this time. The enjoyment too increased with the amount of people increased.

OSO in Sathyam and Spencers:

Our Third visit was to Om Shanti Om film in Sathyam. To say the fact it was one of the worst film and most hyped film I saw in my lifetime. But I got chance to bully some of the SRK fans in my batch. Then it was like a family function and we thoroughly enjoyed in Sathyam even it was not a good film. Also some of my friends don’t know Hindi too.

After finishing OSO, we went to spencers and had our lunch over there. We also did some window shopping. But Ravi, Adari bought a vanheusen shirt for him to save us from blushes J we were 14 and I think it was the only one thing bought on that day J he he. We did take 8-10 photos in the Spencers and back to our home.

Empowerment:

Empowerment is the program in which we need to show case our talent in all the parts like elocution, Drama, Leadership Skills and a topic has to be completed in 1.30 hours. We got two topics. They were: Value and Ethics and Time management. We enjoyed all the sessions in the Empowerment. 2 of our batch mates got into project because of their brilliant Performance (Swapna and Deepti). So it was one of the learning which yielded lots of good results for the people in batch. We had some nerve wracking comedies from Manoj, Sam and other people. I too made a mess of some things like making the conclusion part too long. But at the end of the day everything is a learning experience which we had undergone in 3 months of training.

Punna da Dhaba:

After finished all our tests, our last date of our training was on February 27th and so we got February 28th as leave. We were asked to come on March 1st for our project allocation. We came and played on February 28th and had lunch at Punna da Dhaba. Almost 20 people came and we had some nice time before we were allocated into the project.




This is the Sweet memories which we had in our Training life. Also We did MFRP(My first Real Project) which was one of the good things we did in training. I hope all will be still lingering upon the sweet memories of our training life

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Project Experience in Cognizant

At the end of Training, We didn’t have any idea where we are gonna be put. All were looking at our faces when we were called for the Austin room, TCO. Till that time we didn’t have any pressure and we were having heart in our mouth when they started to read the names to be allotted to a specific project.

In our Training Time, I, Parthiban and Nirmall will be roaming as a gang. We used to go everywhere as a gang. I and Parthi were put into AT&T. But Nirmall was separated and he was put into France telecom. Only 9 persons out of 30 were selected into AT&T. But to our surprise only we had the personal interview with the managers. Others didn’t have that kind of interviews. We almost had interviews till the end of the evening on March 1st. In AT&T selected persons were:

1.Ravishankar R
2.Parthiban P(Parthi)
3.Ramya (Rams, Mummy)
4.Bhanu Siva Prasad ( Intelligent of the lot )
5.Suresh (Kido)
6.Shivani ( Married now in Australia )

Also 3 got selected in C-beyond which was in our bay itself

1.Manoj (Chotu)
2.Prasad (Paddy)
3.Poornima (Poori)

I was put into Infra Team in my project which didn’t have so many coding to be done along with Bhanu. We had a very good team in which I and Junes were Tamilians. In the beginning I and Bhanu were assigned some coding to be developed as a value add. Because of bhanu’s hard work and dedication we were able to complete it. So he was changed to Dev team whereas I remained in Infra team as I liked admin kind of work a lot  Also I had some valuable members as my seniors who helped me a lot. They were helping me a lot and made me into a perfect team member at that juncture of my life. My team members were Rama, Vikas, Sumith, Vinod, Junes and the captain of all Suriya. The team was led well by Ram.

We had gone for Team lunch within and whole team as well. We went to bassera, Malgudi days and Asiana too. Also we will have fun at telecom once in a fortnight which will be rocked by our APM E.Saravanan, Jey and Subbu  We also went to MGM resort and went to Dasavatharam film in Mayajaal. The biggest of them was, we went to Cricket match in IPL 1. CSK vs. KKR and we thoroughly enjoyed every moment. We enjoyed as a family and had a great time in MAC stadium.

All the enjoyment was compounded with work too. I had to come in weekends and work too. But all was fun and the team was terrific. At the month September I was asked to code in a particular tool. I got ready for my assignment. I was helped immensely by K. Saravanan, one of the seniors in my project. But unfortunately I was not able to complete the tool although I tried my best for completing the tool. I was very disappointed but had a great learning experience and courage to do things in a correct manner.

After the first debacle I was mentally strong. I was assigned for creating Birthday mailer (Automated) to all telecom associates. I did that with the help of my seniors but it gave me a lot of satisfaction. But the biggest jolt came on December 12th when I was released from the project. I was very disappointed as I had done all things right in my project but as I was not billable I was to moved to bench

Before I got released Manoj, Parthi got released and went to a different project. When I thought I was a bit secure I got released. Hmmm that’s life  all things happen in life for good only  I was trying so hard for another project. It was recession time and we need to in project in order to be secure.

At that time Tharak (Testing Team AT&T) provided me an opportunity and referred to his friend’s project (BINGO T-Mobile). I went through one interview and I cleared that and got selected in that project. It was a proposal for a 3 year and we had a great team with many associates and I was youngest of the lot (not by appearance though) It was a nice experience for me as it was from scratch. We used to do all the documents and also Class diagrams and others will be done by us. I was given the burden of doing one module. I was so happy that they had belief in me and given me a huge job.

As the belief in you increases, you tend to reciprocate it with your best effort. I worked so hard and we had sent some prototype to client which was also accepted. We had a wonderful 3 months of time. It was tiresome effort that we put in but reap of the effort was so good. I had learnt a lot in that project. It had some outstanding people like Meera, Kavitha, Chithra, Sundar, Niranjan, CD Saravanan, etc. All these guys helped me in the life to get my confidence to a fullest level. I must thank them as I became a complete person in that project because of the faith they had in me. But to our bad time the project was put on hold and the account was closed

Then my Third Project, Health Net one of the best projects I have worked on. The team mates were awesome and very helpful. I learnt a lot in this project. From Java my life took a deep turn into Business objects and learnt some new stuff. First 3 month I had the torrid time as I worked for 15 hrs a day daily. We worked and prepared the prototype and also delivered it to customer. When I came first to MEPZ I felt very lonely and I will be eating alone and going alone for breaks. So was feeling that I can get a friend. Then Jayashree came to MEPZ and I started with her teammates. Then Nirmall and Parthi came. So we had wonderful time back again in MEPZ after Siruseri

Then I got closer with my teammates and all people went with their teammates to lunch. I too started to go with mine. It was a very good team. All were helpful and very nice. But we used to work long hours in office. But with a team like this you won’t feel staying late in company. I learnt many things from my teammates.

We also went to Kodaikanal for an outing. We had a nice time. Enjoyed the tour fully, Sang, danced all the way  also we went to our colleague’s marriage in Salem. We had very good time. I wish more good things should happen to me in future

Thanks for all the Persons who made my life beautiful in this Company So far.I might have missed some people. Don’t be disheartened, it’s my memory loss.. But will not forget you all in my life

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