Well, I worked till the team was with Satyam and had quite a hectic schedule on their last day with Satyam on the 11th February...what with handing over of documents to me...one of the few remaining from the team...
We had a farewell lunch sponsored by the team who got good deals through this re batching happening with Wipro.
Did go to office on the following week too as we were supposed to hand over the office and the documents and officially close down the ODC.
Had a hectic week at home too..what with visiting my parents for two days the last week..came home, tidied things and had parents, bro & family at home for lunch on yesterday.
Today is Monday and FINALLY am free from work..both personal and official...
Slept well last night after many many days but woke up to hear that son isn't ok...he seemed down. I am Worried sick...
I AM looking forward to relaxing in the mind... don't know when it will happen?!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The team ends its tenure
What Satyam has done is leave me with lots of leisure...
The latest development is that most of the team has got offer letters from xxxxx. Not only that, they say that they have got hikes from 15 to 30 % !
I had initially turned down that offer but now I see myself getting jealous of people who got such offers. Even under normal circumstances Satyam would not have given those kind of offers...
And now I don't even know whether there will be appraisals or even if Satyam is going to be around next month or whether I will still have a job once it is going to be taken over. Every day we get to hear new names being floated around...Spice, L& T, Fidelity, iGate...ever heard of Fidelity? God knows what the company is going to be converted into and who will stay and who not...
The thoughts are mostly turning depressing tho I do try and put up a brave front.
Probably I will be going to office for this week only as the team will be reporting from the next week to Wipro.
My only option now is to wait till the next project comes or an offer from a new company. Hope the later happens as soon as possible.
The latest development is that most of the team has got offer letters from xxxxx. Not only that, they say that they have got hikes from 15 to 30 % !
I had initially turned down that offer but now I see myself getting jealous of people who got such offers. Even under normal circumstances Satyam would not have given those kind of offers...
And now I don't even know whether there will be appraisals or even if Satyam is going to be around next month or whether I will still have a job once it is going to be taken over. Every day we get to hear new names being floated around...Spice, L& T, Fidelity, iGate...ever heard of Fidelity? God knows what the company is going to be converted into and who will stay and who not...
The thoughts are mostly turning depressing tho I do try and put up a brave front.
Probably I will be going to office for this week only as the team will be reporting from the next week to Wipro.
My only option now is to wait till the next project comes or an offer from a new company. Hope the later happens as soon as possible.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A sucker for relationships!
All I want to say about relationships is said in this very beautiful song:
http://thebollywoodfan.blogspot.com/2008/08/pyaasa-lyrics-and-translation-tang-aa.html
Don't know why I attach so much importance to relationships! Anyways, they all suck after a while.
http://thebollywoodfan.blogspot.com/2008/08/pyaasa-lyrics-and-translation-tang-aa.html
Don't know why I attach so much importance to relationships! Anyways, they all suck after a while.
Satyam Projects-the inside story
Life drags its feet heavily.
What turmoil with the Satyam ship sinking heavily!
Change throws me off guard and such quick changes in the last few days!
7th January was when the disastrous news broke and it was like all hell had broken loose.
I was aghast...but hadn't realized then that that was only the beginning of a roller coaster ride of emotions.
What followed was utter chaos...what happened then is largely splashed in papers for all to see but what’s happening inside is another story...
The competing corporates claim not to be poaching but that's on...albeit surreptiously.
Our project was unique as the client himself proposed that the project along with the entire team be moved to a competitor! This was supposed to be their BCP!
We were given very few days to choose and making the choice was so difficult.
I opted to stay back and then the psychological games begun!
People asking why I had chosen to sail with a company that will drown any moment!
I was yo-yoing wildly unable to know whether I had made the right choice...
But what I am unprepared for is the depression that’s followed this whole chaos...
When my mind was so made up that I am gong to lose the entire team and had developed a sense of detachment, what I get to hear is that Satyam is now again trying to woo the client back!
For the last month or so I wasn’t feeling too comfortable about my role in my current project and wanted to ask for an enhancement of role when all this happened.
I was relieved thinking that I can take a break and then look for working in a new project when it comes... hoping that a new project would bring a change in responsibilities.
Something has changed and I am sure that if and when we continue working on the project, nothing is going to remain the same ever...those who opted to leave may be looked upon as pariahs...something has definitely broken and will not join again!
What turmoil with the Satyam ship sinking heavily!
Change throws me off guard and such quick changes in the last few days!
7th January was when the disastrous news broke and it was like all hell had broken loose.
I was aghast...but hadn't realized then that that was only the beginning of a roller coaster ride of emotions.
What followed was utter chaos...what happened then is largely splashed in papers for all to see but what’s happening inside is another story...
The competing corporates claim not to be poaching but that's on...albeit surreptiously.
Our project was unique as the client himself proposed that the project along with the entire team be moved to a competitor! This was supposed to be their BCP!
We were given very few days to choose and making the choice was so difficult.
I opted to stay back and then the psychological games begun!
People asking why I had chosen to sail with a company that will drown any moment!
I was yo-yoing wildly unable to know whether I had made the right choice...
But what I am unprepared for is the depression that’s followed this whole chaos...
When my mind was so made up that I am gong to lose the entire team and had developed a sense of detachment, what I get to hear is that Satyam is now again trying to woo the client back!
For the last month or so I wasn’t feeling too comfortable about my role in my current project and wanted to ask for an enhancement of role when all this happened.
I was relieved thinking that I can take a break and then look for working in a new project when it comes... hoping that a new project would bring a change in responsibilities.
Something has changed and I am sure that if and when we continue working on the project, nothing is going to remain the same ever...those who opted to leave may be looked upon as pariahs...something has definitely broken and will not join again!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Slum Dog Millionaire
Saw this movie yesterday.
I went with a lot of expectation as people the world over are going gaga over the movie.
The premier at India had our Bollywood people also gushing about it. I usually get to see a movie at least 7-10 days after release. But this time goaded by all the hype, I went to see it the very next day.
After seeing it, I feel I should not have gone to see the movie.
One, I do not like such bleak, dark movies. When one comes out of a movie hall, one should come out smiling and not morose. What’s the use of seeing reality in movies too? Don’t we have enough of misery, cruelty, suffering, insensitivity, brazenness all round us?
And to what extent does one portray realism? I get a deeply yucky feeling seeing all that shit in the movie. Beauty of expression is when things are left unsaid (or here unseen). That limit crossed, it becomes gross!
Even leaving aside all the debate about why the darker side of India is shown etc., I felt that winning of the 2 crore was too contrived ...too coincidental that all the questions asked related to his life and therefore he was able to answer them.
Next, why does the supposedly English movie have so many Hindi dialogs? Looks funny when Anil Kapoor speaks Hindi and the slum dog, Jamal, speaks English.
On the positive side, the individual performances were brilliant...the usual flamboyant Anil Kapoor giving such brilliantly restrained action...Irfan, as usual great; the kids putting in a seamless performance...and even Dev Patel was good as a gawky teen, his chaiwala scenes were brilliantly written and enacted.
If the movie is nominated for so many Oscars, it’s perhaps due to the Western obsession with movies depicting poverty/ calamity.
I went with a lot of expectation as people the world over are going gaga over the movie.
The premier at India had our Bollywood people also gushing about it. I usually get to see a movie at least 7-10 days after release. But this time goaded by all the hype, I went to see it the very next day.
After seeing it, I feel I should not have gone to see the movie.
One, I do not like such bleak, dark movies. When one comes out of a movie hall, one should come out smiling and not morose. What’s the use of seeing reality in movies too? Don’t we have enough of misery, cruelty, suffering, insensitivity, brazenness all round us?
And to what extent does one portray realism? I get a deeply yucky feeling seeing all that shit in the movie. Beauty of expression is when things are left unsaid (or here unseen). That limit crossed, it becomes gross!
Even leaving aside all the debate about why the darker side of India is shown etc., I felt that winning of the 2 crore was too contrived ...too coincidental that all the questions asked related to his life and therefore he was able to answer them.
Next, why does the supposedly English movie have so many Hindi dialogs? Looks funny when Anil Kapoor speaks Hindi and the slum dog, Jamal, speaks English.
On the positive side, the individual performances were brilliant...the usual flamboyant Anil Kapoor giving such brilliantly restrained action...Irfan, as usual great; the kids putting in a seamless performance...and even Dev Patel was good as a gawky teen, his chaiwala scenes were brilliantly written and enacted.
If the movie is nominated for so many Oscars, it’s perhaps due to the Western obsession with movies depicting poverty/ calamity.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The beggar
My sojourns in the local train everyday bring me close to different cross sections of the society which otherwise I would be deprived of.
One of the happenings yesterday…
We were three of us traveling together…my colleague, Sheetal and a friend of my colleague, Harini, (another Satyamite) & I. We were talking about, what else, but happenings in Satyam, when there was the usual sight of a ten year old boy come sweeping the train floor with a cloth. Harini gave him a rupee. This started the discussion about why we mustn’t give alms…her justification was that this was in exchange of labor and not free…but Sheetal and I still opposed her …
A little while later there was another beggar with (again, as usual, a child in her arms) begging. We shooed her away.
Later Harini was eating an apple and the boy to whom she had given a rupee, sprang towards her almost grabbing the apple from her hands… she was taken aback at his audacity!
After 5 minutes, we see that this boy had gone back to his mother…the beggar with a baby in her hands, clinging to her and about to get down at the next station.
Then the beggar’s mobile rang…
We stared at her, mouths agape. Harini had learnt her lesson.
One of the happenings yesterday…
We were three of us traveling together…my colleague, Sheetal and a friend of my colleague, Harini, (another Satyamite) & I. We were talking about, what else, but happenings in Satyam, when there was the usual sight of a ten year old boy come sweeping the train floor with a cloth. Harini gave him a rupee. This started the discussion about why we mustn’t give alms…her justification was that this was in exchange of labor and not free…but Sheetal and I still opposed her …
A little while later there was another beggar with (again, as usual, a child in her arms) begging. We shooed her away.
Later Harini was eating an apple and the boy to whom she had given a rupee, sprang towards her almost grabbing the apple from her hands… she was taken aback at his audacity!
After 5 minutes, we see that this boy had gone back to his mother…the beggar with a baby in her hands, clinging to her and about to get down at the next station.
Then the beggar’s mobile rang…
We stared at her, mouths agape. Harini had learnt her lesson.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
2009
It seems only yesterday when I was looking forward with awe at the prospect of turn of the century. 2000 seemed something, when from childhood we used to sign the date as 19xx.
My memories of signing the date go back to my Class 1 when in the left margin of the page above the first line, I used to diagonally write the date and underline it. So used to do it from Class 1(earliest memories of school). It used to be 1-2-1969 for example. I used to think that I would be in my thirties in the 2000. This itself used to awe me…imagine being in your 30s…
But it’s already 9 years since 2000!
What did 2009 bring me?
Stepped into 2009…or rather limped into 2009 with a torn ligament on the left upper part of the left foot. It was on the 20th of December…well that’s another story to tell…on the 13th of January I still am limping all over.
My memories of signing the date go back to my Class 1 when in the left margin of the page above the first line, I used to diagonally write the date and underline it. So used to do it from Class 1(earliest memories of school). It used to be 1-2-1969 for example. I used to think that I would be in my thirties in the 2000. This itself used to awe me…imagine being in your 30s…
But it’s already 9 years since 2000!
What did 2009 bring me?
Stepped into 2009…or rather limped into 2009 with a torn ligament on the left upper part of the left foot. It was on the 20th of December…well that’s another story to tell…on the 13th of January I still am limping all over.
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