Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Long Weekend with our new TV!

A long week-end over! Had a lot to do over this weekend - lots of clothes to wash, update my resume, read some java chapters. But what did I do? Effectively nothing except watching Television :) On Saturday one of my room-mates brought TV from her cousin’s place and believe me since then all four us (me and my room-mates) were watching TV as if we had we had seen it for the first time! We saw all those movies – “Qayamat se qayamat tak”, “Jo jita wahi sikandar” etc., though we had had seen these movies many times before. Yesterday it was Karnataka bandh. Don’t know what effects this bandh will bring to the division of Cauvery water, but for us it was one more holiday. From somewhere we got to know that cable won’t work on the this day due to bandh! We were so sad, “our only source of entertainment won’t work” We got a DVD having 3 movies, to pass out time. Anyway cable worked, we could see KBC. SRK is doing a good job! We also saw “Traffic signal”. It’s a good movie. Everybody must watch it once. Ya once..can’t say if u would like to watch it for the second time. It’s too realistic and no one likes that these days. On the whole the long weekend was good. Enjoyed it, though I wished I was at my home (jalandhar) because my mom was alone this weekend. Hope I’ll be there with them soon.

Friday, February 9, 2007

My First steps to this corporate world!

19 Sep ’05 - My first day in corporate world! Welcome Khushboo :) I never entered this industry to work on a java project, to go to onsite, to get a CRR 1 rating. Who cares! It’s a job, everyone gets the same pay. I was here to enjoy the feeling of getting paid at age of just 21. I just can’t describe that feeling in words when those first 16,000 and some amount of rupees were transferred to my account….I had earned these myself by just attending some classes and training, which won’t have any meaning my career life. Thousands of miles away from our family we are here just to earn! Why? Ah! Its brand name you see…You won’t get it there. I wish these people had opened one office at my hometown itself. I should not crib, I’m lucky have got so many friends here. But only He knows for how long! Today I have so many expectations from my life, specifically from my career. All of a sudden so many thoughts are haunting me? Someone from inside me asks “What have you learnt in these 1 and a half years?” I have to think deeply to answer this question. Of course I did! How people become PM’s pet, how they get rewards and recognitions by not working at all, how they go to onsite by just not touching the keyboard! It happens! You don’t believe me? More to tell, most of the guys get a chance to go onsite because as they say “girls will leave the company when they get married”? As if the guys won’t do that! People like my mother say you’ll go one day- "Go with your husband! Why to go alone!" Who cares! Who wants to go then? Why don’t they understand we want to go on our own! I know I’ll fly one day or the other! But someone recognizes your talent and sends you at this age– it’s a different feeling. Its not that it doesn’t happen here, but only for those who are lucky. I feel there’s a random number generator which decides your fate here! Don’t start comprehending my writing and going to conclusions. It’s not out of jealousy! It’s my inner wish that these companies, so called –‘Driven by values’ should reform for some reasons and for some people…..