FinALLy

a week and a half to go before i get out of here... next friday is when my first of its kinds trip begins.. and i am really really looking forward to it... i have always read about the valley of flowers.. and i know that there is a place called AULI where you can find snow 12 months in an year.. and i have heard that Badrinath and Rudraprayag are beautiful places to be in... and now is the time when i am going there to be a part of that magical atmosphere...

i am really excited about it...

going from Delhi to Rishikesh to Joshimath to Govindghat to Ghangeria to Valley of Flowers to Gangheria to Hemkund Sahib to Gangheria to Badrinath to Joshimath to Auli to Joshimath to Tapovan to Joshimath to Rishikesh to Delhi...

phew... 8th July to 17th... Nine Days of bLi SS !!!

p.s. any thoughts and suggestions.. more then welcome....

iS iT?

I remember reading somewhere...

"Men Give Love To Get Sex, Women Give Sex To Get Love."

Is it?

hEaVy hEaVy !!!

how does it feel to have a lot inside you... and a deep desire and need to take it out... and not being able to find anyone to speak about it... i dunno whats happening to me these days... i seem to angry with everything around me... my ma my pa my friends who are not there... my days.. my evenings... bless me God for i need these days to pass by me....

if anyone would ask me what happened.. there probably would not be any answer to tat question.. coz i myself do not know... just another one of those days i guess.. where you feel that the world is just not right.... am thinking too much... too much...

on a lighter note... saw two movies.. ok three in two days... Batman Begins on saturday night... Parineeta today... liked both the movies.... worth watching for everyone who has not done that yet...

loved one song of Parineeta.. just loved it... Pihu Bole... beautiful...

EgO SuRf :)

Well.... i remember this activity with the name ego surf...
what you do is that you type your name in the Google Search bar... and then click on search.. and see what comes up...

to my surprise and delight.. the first three results were from my blog when i searched for prashant bhardwaj.... Go ahead... try it out yourself... but do not blame me for the results *colonD* (stole this term from Tushar's Dictionary)

AMD FiNaLLy !!!

:) why this smile...welll this is my first post from my home machine.. yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i bought a new computer... something that i have been thinking of for over an year now... and my favorite brand (don't ask me why) AMD is in my house...

i have a AMD 2400 XP machine with a 80 GB HDD and 512 MB of ram with a 333 mhz FSB... this babe is working like a rocket right now... compare it to the last one that i had... hehehe... 530 mhz celeron processor with a 64mb ram chip... now thats what you call a jump... world record of sorts... is it?


I am happy :)

SuCCeSS sToRiEs !!!

Ma circle is getting better....
which circle... friends' circle... why is it getting betta'... well here is why...

2001 : I knew ppl who were struggling hard to get a job, who were still not sure of how life is going to treat them and they were annoyed, frustrated with the kinda market we had... a pack of strugglers.. ppl who did not want to give up and had the guts and sprit to move ahead and fight the present for a better future... even i was struggling to get a place somewhere in the industry... IT did not like me.. BPO did.. and i joined it..

2003 : had made a lot of new friends in the last two years... and had seen them grow along from agents to L2 techs and team leaders.. and the ones who were with me in my masters... got jobs.. some good.. some ok sorts.. but still carried on... i was also moving ahead.... though not vertically but was maturing as a professional...

2005: another two years of hard work and play together... moved from being an Technical support associate in Wipro spectramind to a Team leader in Hughes to a Process Architect with IBM. my friends... the new and the old... moved up and ahead too...

Waquar, Ashish Saxena, Rupak , Sunil, Ashutosh, everyone is doing well.. they are from my PG batch of 2001
Waquar with HFCL.. and married too :)
Ashish Saxena.. finally where he wanted to be... in the core Telco work with Wipro banglore...
Sunil and Rupak with Agilent technologies...
Ashu with Motorola... he recently bought a flat for himself in Pune... good news !!!

I still remember the days when Me, Waquar, Ashish and Ashu were trying to get some companies to do a campus interviews in 2001.. what a tough time that was..

am missing out on some names here coz i am not sure where they are doing what... i guess sheetal and priyanka are in b'lore as well...
Ashraf is in Europe, Gaurav is in UK too...
and Pradeep Duggal... he joined the Indian Army in the third sem of our PG... and we have not been in regular contact since...

Jassi, Dipayan, Maya, Mansi, Aditya, Ashish, Batra.. all of them from my spectra group...
Jassi now a Group Lead in Spectra,
Dipayan a team lead in Daksh,
Maya and Mansi doing well their respective research firms,
Batra still with Wipro Banglore... he joined it after we worked together for about an year in spectra...
Adi with Microland as an assistant manager...
Ashish with his own business in digital printing.. and happily married to his long time gurlfriend Deepti, infact he still prefers calling her his girlfriend then wife...

some names that i still remember and have no clue about what they are doing..
Amit, Nash or Navneet ( i guess he is with Oracle these days), Gagan ( i used to call her Gabbar :), Dipankar, Bruce aka Vikram, Joshua, and lots of them more...

Coming to Hughes now.. a place where I think i learnt the most out of all the places i have been...
bad boss good boss bad management good management appraisal hikes work culture magicians escalations emulator green belt six sigma love hate growth

there is so much that happened there

mine was the first batch to take voice in Hughes.. and i was the ONE who took the first ever voice call which came to Hughes BPO.. actually technically it should have been Aditya Anand.. but that idiot dropped the first call.. hehehe.. so its me now :) and for some reason.. Jadoo ( our intranet site in Hughes had Manish Jain's name and foto for his historical moment) aaaaaaargh.. anyway... first batch for voice.. lotsa things to do.. all of us from the BPO background.. and also knew the opportunity that was there... me and narang were fortunate enough to realise it with Nishant who was a Team lead then... and started working on the idea... helped us a lot and it was not long before we guys were recognised and were handling teams on our own.. Team Leaders to say !!! hughes is another story to write actually.. some other time may be.. that is not the intent of this post actually...

so from ppl who were taking calls for 8 hours a day and more at times...we moved to being team leaders, assistant managers, and managers and program managers...

Me Aro Sanjit Arun Sudip Sunil Shaji Hati Jai moved from being agents to Team Leads
Narang moved from being an agent to a Team lead to an Asst. Manager to a Program Manager now...
Nishant amit now are managers from a move from Team Leaders to Asst. Team Leaders...
Vikas Naveen asst managers from being agents to Team Leads and to the current post...
Somu from a Team Lead to an Asst Manager to Business Development for HSS or FSS...

i think i have missed out on a few names here too.. but then what the heck.. remembering so many ppl and so many names 14 months after leaving the company is a good deal :) so ppl whoz names are not here.. do not mind... just lemme know you are missing...

and my friends from my locality.. from the net also deserve a mention here...
Pawan aka tiger... IIM Indore.. eh...
Neha the scientist Issar :) in Paris trying to figure out why don't mosquitos have malaria...
Gaurav Japan Srivastava.. the Japani fotographer.. who still remains the same fella for me even though we were not talking for over 4 years... my teacher in fotography too..
And the person who is the reason why I wrote this post.. Bharti... how did that happen.. well i do not know... she is now an Architect from the School of Planning and Architecture.. and was very very tensed before her jury.. and i was kinda concerned too.. but as expected she is thru... done with her jury.. and a happy architect now :) with a lot of time with herself.. we discussed something in detail about dreams which i might post sometime later....

was talking to her yesterday.. and thought of all the ppl i know who are success stories in themselves... ppl who have fought the present and crossed the hurdles that came in their way... and are where they are today...

I am proud of all of my friends whether you see their name here or not....

Good going everyone... Keep walking...

x-pReSSion, FiLmi iShTyLe !!!

my latest hobby... browsing thru Economic times website and look for something interesting to read online.... this interesting is something that might be talking about some companies... their plans to grow and diversify... whats new coming to india... what the latest happening in some industry...

and here is what i stumbled upon... not really applicable for me as of now... but whenever the need comes i just might go back to this link and take a few tips.... till then... if you were wondering on how to..... go ahead.... Express your love, filmi style!!!

WaLKiNg ArOuNd !!!

I have been googling around the last few days... not doing anything worthwhile.. just wasting away time... *i think i need to get more serious about a couple of things in life if i have to move ahead... and if i do not realise this.. i just might be too late !!!!* anyway... we will discuss that later... me and me and me... there is so much other then me happening here....

read thru Auburn's blog to help myself decide on having Water or Coke to take care of my thirst...

And Alka's blog to read about the pains a girl goes through... though i think there is much much more to that in a relationship.. this post of hers only talks about the sad part...

Was happy and suprised to see my name on the Indibloggers list.. i have no clue how my URL reached there... and it was good to find out some ppl actually came to my blog from there too... am I on the world map here ;)

Tushar managed to eat a packet of Taka-Tak and liked it too.. and has given some valuable inputs to help Haldiram's do a better job with this snack....

Though an old post.. and very interesting... Tipsy Topsy's rowing exp in Nainital.... though me and ma friends did not really like that place on our two day trip to bhimtal and around.. and are not going back there at any cost.. but i kinda know a lot of ppl who like going to Nainital.... well their call.. who am i to decide for them....

RaVi hAnDa has some good tips for guys here.... Worth reading !!!! and specially for those who are the target in Alka's blog....

Kayla mixed emotions reminded me of the times when I was about to complete my schooling, my grad and my post grad... what great times were those...

and why was I googling.. well i want to go the valley of flowers this july.. and i have no clue on how to make the itenary... need to figure out a lot of things.. and guess would need to buy some camping gear and a bagpack too... lets see how it works for me....

wish me luck everyone...

oh.. and ... yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
the weekend is coming :)

oUt WiTh iT !!!

have been thinking about this for a few days now... communications, conversations, relations, expectations everything mixed up... was wondering why and how people who were friends once tend to move away from each other...

is it that our lives take different turns with time... or our priorities differ... or as Raina says "out of sight.. out of mind"... not really sure...

i am wondering why ppl who once used to be an integral part of my social circle are now nowhere to be seen.. except in some old photographs or some occasional phone calls which are good enough to remind me of the great times we had...

where did the distances creep in from... how come "moving on" became leaving the great present behind...i must say in a lot of cases.. i stopped making any efforts to be in touch... there used be so li'il to talk about.. and at times i feel.. just a casual hello call would have done wonders to keep things alive...and in some of the cases.. where i did some sincere efforts to keep in touch the magic "two way communication" did not happen and eventually those relationships came to a halt...

during all these letting go times.. i managed to earn a lot of new friends... and continued with letting the olders ones go !!! and somewhere down the line i feel that life has become more like a automobile assembly line... where things come to get together... they grow together for a while.. and then comes a time.. when the near perfect piece of machine moves on.... leaving the assembly line there... to think of the good and the bad which got into the machines when they were there...

is this note getting too pessimistic.. well that was not the idea.. the idea was really to find out

why ppl go away... why do we let the best of our friends move away knowing that they are invaluable for us...

why do we part saying that i will be a phone call away.. and not that i will call you sometime...

why do we part saying that i am gonna crib if you do not write an email... and not that i will try and write to you...

why do we part saying "bye bye"... and not "see you"... ( this reminds me of Aarti... who never used to say Bai... she always said C U... good goings Aarts... God bless...)

phew... too heavy a note.. but i am feeling kinda light after getting all this junk outta my head...
time to read the lyrics of a song and try to humm whatever i remember of the music....

Somebody once told me

The world is gonna roll me

I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed

She was looking kind of dumb

With her finger and her thumb

In the shape of an "L" on her forehead

Well the years start coming

And they don't stop coming

Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running

Didn't make sense not to live for fun

Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

So much to do so much to see

So what's wrong with taking the back streets?

You'll never know if you don't go

You'll never shine if you don't glow

Hey now you're an All Star

Get your game on, go play

Hey now you're a Rock Star

Get the show on get paid

And all that glitters is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

It's a cool place and they say it gets colder

You're bundled up now

But wait 'til you get older

But the meteor men beg to differ

Judging by the hole in the satellite picture

The ice we skate is getting pretty thin

The waters getting warm

So you might as well swim

My world's on fire how about yours?

That's the way I like it and I never get bored

Hey now you're an All Star

Get your game on, go play

Hey now you're a Rock Star

Get the show on get paid

And all that glitters is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

Hey now you're an All Star

Get your game on, go play

Hey now you're a Rock Star

Get the show on get paid

And all that glitters is gold

Only shooting stars...

Somebody once asked

Could you spare some change for gas

I need to get myself away from this place

I said yep

What a concept

I could use a little fuel myself

And we could all use a little change

Well the years start coming

And they don't coming

Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running

Didn't make sense not to live for fun

Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

So much to do so much to see

So what's wrong with taking the back streets

You'll never know if you don't go (GO)

You'll never shine if you don't glow

Hey now you're an All Star

Get your game on, go play

Hey now you're a Rock Star

Get the show on get paid

And all that glitters is gold

Only shooting stars break the mold

Thanks Smashmouth....NOW ME IS FEELING BETTER :)