Hello Readers,

Last week on Friday I went for outings with the team that I am working with. It was a huge fun. A photo is here..

I am there in the yellow T- shirt.. :)

Rest is going fine.

I have enrolled for the 3 day training for a tool which I wanted to learn from past 1 year.

Today is the first day and the trainer is late by 2 hours. I had arguements with my manager for the training. As company is providing the training to any employees who so ever is interested bu this manager was not willing to send me as it is not that useful for my work but I said though it is not useful but I want to learn it because technology is changing constantly so one has to have knowledge of everything of the domain in which a person is working.

I am going to my native place in first week of august. Marriage preparations are going on.

Yesterday my dad and mom has fixed the caterer and menu for the guests. We are expecting around 400 guests at my wedding. I really do not like so much crowd but what to do. My parents want it to be a big show as I am the only son.

Rest is going OK.

" Love is something that gathers strength with patience, grows despite obstacles, warms in winter, flourishes in sprting, casts a breeze in summer and bears fruit in autumn. I found love."

- kahlil Gibran

" there is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. "

Good Bye and Take Care!!!

With every fibre in your body, Never Give Up!!!

Hello Readers,

As I mentioned earlier this blog completes 1 year and 51 posts up means that I have posted at least once a week. Good enough!!!!

As I look back one year earlier, I was in a different city away from my home. I was working day in and day out for a company, for which I left my home and chose to work in a different city as company was setting up a new subsidiary there. I my self voluntarily chose to work there.

You must be wondering why? mainly 2 reasons,

I wanted to have an experience of a project which is going to go live from scratch and other reason was I wanted to lookout for a different job.
I agreed to work on same wage though expenses there were more.
I agreed to go there with in 12 hours.

I used to work for 14 hours there and was really working hard there.
I was living in a 15 feet room to cut down my expenses on living
I was eating at night 12 and was saving money by not eating expensive items.
Sometimes I was skipping my lunch also.

After so much hard work and pain my Boss decided to offer me a permanent job( I was working so hard though I was working as a contractor) with a not that good salary.
But the main clause with the offer was I have to stay in the different city at which I disagreed and put down my papers and give resignation.

Now it was time for my boss to retaliate on my decision to quit. He disagreed to give me experience letters and other proofs. By that time I was having 2 offers in my hand. I forced him to give me the papers which I required for joining the other companies (also in the future).

I gave up on him. He even did not release my payment for that month. I straight away told the other company that I do not have required Experience letters but it was just a matter of a piece of paper. They agreed and I joined that company.

At that time I was not sleeping well due to all these stress going in my life......
When I look back I can see my self fighting and growing strong in life....
I never give up at any point of time and with very fibre in my body I fought.

rest is going OK.

I never compromise on work. I want my work to be perfect and should add value to the organisation which I work for. After all

" Work is Worship "


I read one nice thing on some blog which I am giving below.

"Success is not permanent and failure is not final! So, never stop working after success and never stop trying after failure!!"

"If you have failed in Love or don't have that special someone. Don't worry its nothing but your future partner's prayer!!... "


Good Bye and Take care!!!!

Do Rating really Rate people...

Hello Readers,

I got my final rating which is 3 out of 5 and also it suggests that I am meeting all expectations.
After fighting so much and working hard so much, I got rating of 3.

One of my colleague who is not at all working properly and has no professional ethics got 3.
What is the difference between me and her

• She comes to office by 1 PM.
• No professional manner of handling critical issues.
• she messes with Team leader and managers.
• Half of the time she goes early and spends only 6-7 hours in the office
• She is always low on the productivity counts.

And Karen , you were asking that Am I not afraid of my manager.

Answer: I am little bit afraid of that but still I am having courage to speak what I like and what I do not like.

It comes by experience in professional life that how to talk to people.It is the most important thing.

So as per rating I am also in the same category or they want me to become like that by giving same ratings.

I am not going to change my professional attitude but I am going to work hard to show manager that am I really worth of rating "3".

I do not know if Hike is directly proportional to the rating. I will realize it only after September and I am badly waiting for that, Who does not like to earn money.. :-)

Rest is going fine..I registered for an advanced level software certification which has a good value in the market. I am planning to start reading and practicing for that soon cause the exam is in September.

My Viva exam is still pending and now it has been 3 years and I am running out of patience.

I want to get it done as soon as possible but due to my bad luck something or the other happens every time. Like the matter is wrongly printed or the manage meeting is not done or as last time happened my papers were misplaced by the university authority.

God help me please...

That is all for now...

"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."- Benjamin Mays

Good Bye and Take care!!!!

Appraisals.... Is it really worth it....

Hello Readers,

This time I am going to tell you my "APPRAISAL STORY"

Last week my Project manager told me that we will be having discussion regarding my annual appraisals and sent me a meeting request which I missed as I did not got any mail regarding this.
Now as a senior project manager this guy did not even care to talk to me personally for the appraisals meetings and forgot for about 3-4 days.

Now he told me directly to come to his cabin without sending any meeting request and I have to go leaving my pending work behind. Personally I do not care much about appraisals as I know if I perform better then I am bound to get good ratings..


So I entered Manager's Room

MANAGER: SO Mr. How are you?
How are things going on?

Me: Yes sir. Going good.

MANAGER: So we are here for appraisals and as you are new to job we will discuss blah..blah..

Me: (Completely astonished) (Am I new to job. then what I did for past 11 months on this job.
Is it really worth staying in this organisation who considers a guy Fresher after spending 11 months in job). Excuse me sir I am not NEW to job and I spent 11 months in this project.

MANAGER: Oh..OK But you numbers are low.

Me: Because I was involved in many activities and new projects as our Team lead has told you I guess...

MANAGER: Oh...ok.(After going through all competencies and objectives described in the appraisals form.) I am rating you between 2 and 3.

Me: Why sir? I have worked hard to achieve ratings of 4 and I am certified also.
this should add in to my ratings.

MANAGER: yeah but I can not give 4 to all the people. This is not Mathematics paper where most people get scores.

Me: I am not concerned about other people. I have worked hard I should get 4 in ratings (or After u give me between 2 to 3 I will start working like a guy who is having 2-3 rating).

MANAGER: OK..Give me some time I will rethink and put ratings.

Me: OK take your own sweet (and sour) time.

MANAGER: Do you have any issues and concerns..?

Me: No.( I have a lot to say but it is useless to say in front of you cause you are a dumb ass)

MANAGER: Your areas of improvement is your communication as you do not talk to your fellows much.

Me: Sir I avoid useless talking and gossips. (Do you know what is the meaning of stupendous. you your self has a rating of "ZERO" in communication according to me and asking me to improvement.)

MANAGER: Laughing OK..Will cal you when I will be doing final appraisals

Me: OK (Oh.. This is Semi final...hehehehe)

Me: Bye for now and I will be sending you the project updates.)

MANAGER: Bye.



This was what is called my appraisal discussions.

Some facts:

• I am not new to job I have spent 11 months in the organisation.
• Managers want to retain people and want people o obey orders.
• All managers have 3 P's.People, Process and Problems.
• All managers will ask their to improve communication no matter how good he or she is.
• Rating is directly proportional to the hike that one will get.
• Hike is directly proportional to how good is your relationship to managers.

Rest is going OK.

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

- Graham Greene

Good Bye and Take care!!!

Its raining.....

Hello Readers,

This is the month of July and here it started raining.

I like the rainy season very much it is the season of harvesting and climate is very good.

This blog has completed a year in this month.

I would like to thank Karen and Ancodia for their comments and support.

I want to share a real life experience of myself during rainy season 2 years back

2 years back on 25Th July 2005, My First ever job and 4Th day of my job, I was under a training programme.
I did not knew when it started raining heavily as I was inside the training room and it was not accessible by outside world. At 4.30 PM when I went out for a cup of coffee I found everyone was running here and there to catch their buses, by then I realize that I have to move to the bus now itself otherwise I will get stuck here in the office. It was really raining very hard. I managed to get a seat in the bus. Bus started. The journey from work place to my home is 1.5 hours and due to heavy rain and traffic jam I was expecting to reach my place in 3 hours from now.

The traffic was bad and every one was panicked as it was a record breaking rain in the town.
I kept my cool. I called at my home and told that not to worry I am inside the bus, I gave my phone to other fellow passengers to make calls to their families and friends.

We were 50 passengers inside the bus. Our bus was stuck ed in the traffic jam and not moved for around 5 hours.
It was night 2 AM. I was still sitting and just watching crowd which was going by walking to their home but It was impossible for me (or anyone) to walk 30 kilometers in such a heavy rain.

I decided to stick around in the bus only. Many passengers from the bus also loosing patience and started for home by walking.

Now it was around 5 AM, I had not had even a cup of tea from past 12 hours. Traffic was moving little bit but rain was not stopped. I was expecting to reach home at 7 AM (12 hours).


I reached home at 7 AM. Some facts..

• It rained 944mm which is a record for past 25 years in the city.
• Billions of money has been lost
• Death toll was around 150.
• People was offering biscuits and tea for the commuters in the morning
• Many people saved lives without bothering about their own lives.
• My mobile phone got affected by rain ( It was my first ever mobile phone from my savings) and now it was unrepairable.

Rest is going OK.

In the next post I will rite about my appraisal discussion with my manager.

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Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.

- Vivekananda

Good Bye and Take care!!!