Renaissance!!!

September 17th is always a big day for me … its my mom’s birthday!!!… and to add on to it my training results are out on the same day… our reporting manager ravi parab came and met us directly and announced the results and also told us about our allocations… and also the same day is the birthday of ratna , one of my batchmate…first we were asked to introduce ourselves… everyone did n when my turn came , its as usual filled with full of fun n made everyone laugh even ravi n deepak,ex reporting manager…

so lunch got over and ravi again came to us with the results and allocation details… he told that everyone cleared the training and about allocation he told that…” out of 29, 10 ll be into testing and 3 ll be into telecom vertical and other 15 into development…” and i was into that 15 but again the prob is he told that…” out of 15 only 10 are required and u ppl have to attend the interview today itself in adyar branch…” so far we were attending our training in saidapet branch… other verticals doesn’t have interviews… so after all swappings between the members some 16 attended the interview…we left the place and we were told they ll tell our results the next day …we went the next day n spent the whole day with excitement n anxiety to know the results ,but no response n in the days closing moments myself n abhilash started some ghost stories n it was all fun n the time ran n we all left … Next day , tarun kumar one of the guy who interviewed us came out with the list, 11 got selected for that Lufthansa airlines project n im out of the project … so 5 of us were again asked to report to deepak so that he ll talk with ravi n tell about our status regarding the project allocation…

i used to be cool always but at that moment u know like i dono what, there was a emotional conflict inside ma heart n, i did performed well but still may be im not upto their expectations i guess… one of ma batchmate who also out of the proj, broke out and cried , it took some time for us to make her laugh n finally she did…i dono why everytime it happens to me, everything i desire everything that i have got now are only after a struggle …

we went n met deepak on the same day, everywhere u know i have people like deepak ,balaji etc.. when we 5 entered the cabin … he said to me that” i never expected u to be here back , i thought u ll be into the proj… why what happened …did u showed any attitude towards them…?” .. i said “no sir”… u know we hardly have spoken before and i dono whether he even knows ma name… i was totally surprised n shocked to hear those words from him… n he gave some advise n how to perform to 5 of us n asked us to be on bench till he gets the information from ravi parab…

this is the prob for me every time that the confidence n hope that i build about myself in others is high n im not realizing it n performing to that extent … N this time i have realized what does that mean to me n self motivated myself n believing it ll change the whole perspective of myself i have on me…
N after all i believe “if someone misses something there ll be really some other best n more apt thing waiting for him”…

So now I am into Renaissance and hoping for that best thing and waiting for a chance to prove myself!!!

My first ever salary!!!

In between all these things , i forgot to tell that i got my first month salary on 30th august 2008… u know its a great feeling getting the first salary… i don have words to express my feelings… i bought a pair of watches for my dad and mom… n it all went…

A short flash back!!!

” It has been almost 50 days i have been into training in Syntel from july 24th to september 11th …so finished ma training without any involvement in the subject and somehow cleared the tests alone that they conducted except developing an application which they gave it on the final day… was bit worried about that but i got it confirmed from ma trainer that there would not be any rejections but still waiting for the official announcement hoping for the best and now on the bench…!!!So im not good at programming at this point of time , working hard on it ,ll achieve the goal that i have it on ma mind in very short period i believe…”

so 30 days with the batchmates , now friends n thats the transformation .. everyone is good n well mingle with others … i feel that im very lucky to be in this batch , got some really really good hearted friends, thanks to Syntel…!!!

and on training , before even starting i told that i dont know java ,while everyone involved themselves i din, so trainer got bit irritated n she took that pain to advice me but still i couldn’t pretend myself …Ms.Ilamaruvi is the trainer and i should tell this that she is well equipped and also a person with good character…

and most of the times we returned home late at 10pm …and in between enjoyed the train travel and all those stuffs…at the end of the training we were given a case study and asked to develop a project… trainer formed teams and i was into the team with Varun, Spandana ,Prathyusha and Deepa… n yeah forgot to tell that i got some two sisters added into my life ,one is Prathyusha and the other is Meena… and in case study again i did the same ,listening to music and all the other stuffs except involving in project…its a good team i should say very very helping and etcetra etcetra…

n finally the day came for evaluation we did with all the presentations and each of us were given a simple application and were asked to develop ,where i flunked … but i kept myself cool and also was told there will be no rejections , so hoping that…now trying to learn it !!!

now we came to the time where everyone will be put onto different projects and everyone will be departing.. though it is just for some 50days it was just like the extension of the college life, enjoyed a lot ,made some good friends , had some clashing n all the essence of life.. one of my memorable n cherishable days i should admit…!!! n now very sad about the thing which is going to happen… departing !!! n yeah its life n it happens!!!

A long break!!!

Its been almost more than a month i have added any posts to my blog….
i was into ma training and could rarely get time to write in the blog.. also have shifted the house n it took some 12 days to get my broadband connection to the new place… so ll summarize n right what all happened in the past some 31 days in my next posts!!!

A Blissful journey in train!!!

Abilash and i were experimenting with different modes of transportation to find out which is comfortable to go to office…after trying all the other modes possible its time for us to experiment with train … when we actually planned a day to travel by train , he suddenly changed the plan and went out for his personal issue… and i alone tried it while returning back to home from office…i guess its 4th day ie on july28…
It was one of the blissful journey i can say… it was around 6pm in the evening clouds covered up and it was about to pour out, cool breeze was blowing…train started and i stood near the entrance of the train to feel the beauty of the nature outside…at some point there were bushes outside which were dancing to the cool breeze… i could taste and smell the aroma of the nature …
even now when i explain the scenario to abilash i used to compare the scene with the climax of Gladiator where Russel crowe, after his death meets his family this might sound insane but still i do…!!!

On training !!!

Started my corporate career with all my expectations and excitement with training that started on 25th july… First we had our communication training , the most interesting and funniest part in our training schedule so far… Remya rajagopalan is the trainer… she is good , friendly and cool… first we have been asked to introduce ourselves, this is when i actually came to know about all my batch mates… this is one part of the training i enjoyed to the core and i couldn’t believe myself because i have been behaving totally in a different way from i usually used to be… i participated and initiated most of the time…2 days of communication training or to be more precise we can say personality development training got over on 26th july… i enjoyed it to such an extent that i wished it to long for some more days… these 2 days helped me a lot to socialize with my batch mates … we are 29 in number…

Abilash , Akshaya , Bharadwaj, Bhavani, Chandra mohan, Chaitanyaprasad, Deepa, Deepthi, Gayathri, Janardhan Reddy, Manasa, Mangai, Meena, Naveen Jain, Nithya, Pavithra, Pratyusha, Praveenkumar, Rafi, Ratna Manojna, Sowmyalakshmi, Spandana, Sudha, Uma Maheshwari, Umayal, Varunkumar, Venkat Praveen, Vivekenandh and Shankar(myself)…

I got close with most of them… we have been building our bond strongly… hope and believe we all become good friends in near future… !!!

On 28th july we started of with our technical training with Software Engineering and Ilamaruvi is the trainer for us …it went on till 30th july and had our first module test on 30th… was so nervous on taking the test but once done with that it was all easy i got 92 %…then 2 days of training on Quality assurance ie on 31st july and 1st august…we had a separate set of trainers exclusively from Quality assurance team for this session… Vivek kumar, Anitha, Harish Srinivasan, Mahalakshmi… finished with 2nd module test on 1st august… then on 2nd august had our 3rd module test on HTML/XML trained by Ilamaruvi… Now we are on the SQL server training … still Core Java, Servlets, JSP, EJB 2.0, EJB 3.0, Struts, Java framework left…we have our training scheduled till 2nd september and 7 days of case study has to be done so officially our training gets over by 10th september… !!!

My first Official day in corporate!!!

July 16 is the day… i got a call from Manju Reddy | Campus Team | SYNTEL… she called to confirm with me whether i am okay with joining on 24th july… once all the confirmation procedure was over , i stopped going to Sutherland… Though i have been going to Sutherland before i consider Syntel as my first corporate entry… Moreover Syntel is the company i got placed through my campus and Sutherland is just for the time being…
Spent a week’s time in house before joining Syntel and finally came the day 24th july 2008, first day into my corporate era… I was so excited and exaggerated about my first day.. with all the expectations i entered the office reception along with my dad.. we were asked to wait in the room…all my batch mates were also present there waiting for that particular moment when it ll start.. Vivek is the first person who came n sat beside me introduced himself and it all started that way then came into the picture Abilash who also happens to reside near my residence,then Bharadwaj…others yet to get socialise … and we were asked to gather in a hall , my dad left the place and we all were directed to the room… I sat next to rafi , one of my batch mate… it was 10 am ,it started with welcoming us by Prasad Balasubramanain on behalf of the HR team.. we were given with induction kit and there was a presentation by Sujay Suresh…in between we were asked to introduce ourselves… followed by presentations from Selvakumar palaniappan(DD – Insurance CNA), Babumohan/Lenin(Admin),Deepak(Training Manager),Sadasivam(Finance Manager),Vivek Silla(Team-IS),Pon Pandian(Team-GRC) and Prasad Balasubramanian. We ended the day with Icici bank formalities to open an account… It was a long tiring day with lot of paper works , we hardly get introduced to each other!!!
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Zodiac – the movie review!!!

I got a chance to watch this movie last week…This is the first time i have seen this movie though it had released in 2007 … It was simply superb … i had no expectations when the movie started…the film slowly started having the backdrop as in late 1960s with some series of murders … it was a suspense thriller… the movie is about a real story ,about a serial killer who called himself as zodiac and indulged in series of murders in late 1960s and early 1970s…it was well narrated by David Fincher … Robert Graysmith is the cartoonist in the chronicles who tries to trace out the killer… But inspite of all the evidences , the prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen escapes in every other situation… and till he died the case was kept open …!!!

if u want to know more on Zodaic killer here is the link

Zodiac…

My experience with Sutherland…

After i completed my final semester exams in may 2008, it was in the month of june i tried for sutherland for time being until Syntel calls me. I got through the interview and was selected for Dell’s process and i was put on to training called versant training which comprises communication cum culture training…

it was a 15 days training from 13th june – 28th june… on 13th june i forgot about the training and i slept and woke up late at 10.30… i got a call from Sutherland’s office , i was given a chance to join the training center at 2 pm…

i went there entered the room , everyone was like ” oh !..you are shankar!!! “… Trainer entered the room , i went to him , introduced myself , he asked me ” Ok Shankar, have you done with your paperworks..?” i was bit confused and i just starred at him with a confused state of mind .., he suddenly replied “i was told that you have some paperworks left and you will be joining with us this noon..”.. now having understood the situation i said ” oh , yes sir im done with that..” he asked me to introduce to the whole batch ,i did and took my seat..

the following were my batch mates in the training…

Gopinath Radhakrishnan , Bijju, Sathish Kumar, John Wesley, Arun, Prakash, Sourav Dutta, Rupesh, Jayvardhan, Mahendran, Praveen, Goutham, Juzer, Suresh , Omkar, Ramya, Jaisri, Shalini, Ruth Tabitha, Kavipriya, Yogachitra, and Sona

Balaji was the trainer and he has done his Bachelors degree in engineering, MS (US) and Phd in cambridge university… He is one of the best trainers i ever had in my life so far .. im saying this not because of his qualifications, its true he thought me many things and in these 15 days i experimented many things and tried to explore myself… its a lifetime learning i can say… he is such a perfectionist that though i cannot imitate him or project myself like him, i am trying to be perfect to some extent…i got a chance to get closer to him… i did performed well in the training sessions … i take self pride in saying that even i got compliments personally from the trainer …

15 days got over and we had our panel interview on 1st of july , Tony was the person who interviewed us and unfortunately i got rejected in the panel… everyone was shocked that i got rejected.. Even my trainer was not convinced that i got rejected and he got me second chance to meet up with tony but this time i panicked and walked out… the worst part was i din get any pay for those 15days but the best thing is that i have learnt a lot from the training, its worth more…

after a week on july 7th myself and one of my friend Naresh who also got rejected out of dell’s process again attended interview in sutherland for microsoft’s process this time … we got through again but this time as a paid employee and joined the company on 8th july and were just marking our attendance for 10 days as we were unscheduled ie till 17th july…Solomon ,Shabbir, Pankaj and illavarasi were the people who joined along with us…

On 16th july i got a call from Syntel that im supposed to join the company on 24 th july … i was very excited and happy that i got my date of joining in Syntel… now again i have to leave sutherland without any pay but difference being that im quitting and not leaving for i am rejected… i have to come to this conclusion as the salary period in sutherland is from 26th – 25th and also i have to attend till 30th to get my salary credited which i cannot as i need to join Syntel on 24th… so when i got a call from the HR on 18th july, i said im quitting , got some scolding and he hung up the call…

Mixed feelings of joy, sorrow and guilt!!!

When i was in my final year of graduation , i got selected in a software company called Syntel through an off campus event on july 2007…I completed my graduation on may 2008 and was waiting for my date of joining in the company…Due to IT recession in US and all the other reasons there was a wide talk that we would be getting our DOJ only post august 2008…So keeping that in mind i attended an interview for Sutherland , a BPO firm for the time being in june 2008…got selected for Dell’s process , attended versant training for 15 days from 13th-28th of june and was rejected in the panel on 1st july…again after a week myself and one of my friend Naresh got selected for Microsoft’s process this time, joined the company as a paid employee and we were on unscheduled and were just asked to mark attendance over there, the most easiest job…Vaidhi, the HR person who guided us through all our interview process was in charge of us for the next few days and coincidentally he was naresh’s school senior… everything was going fine and suddenly on 16th july morning i got a call from Ms.Manju | Campus recruitment team | Syntel and she confirmed my DOJ in Syntel as 24th july, i was on cloud nine u know…We have been told that our training would start from 18th july in sutherland…the sad part is i have to leave sutherland now and all my friends over there…18th morning i got a call from vaidy, he asked me “where are u now , why din you go to training ?” i replied him straight away that “I am quitting sutherland ” he was like “what !!! what happened…!!!” i said him some stupid reasons that i have medical problems like that ” he shouted at me with anger and hung up the call saying “you can never ever return to sutherland , you can never ever return to sutherland ” … then i was told by naresh that vaidy called him and said that he was so dissappointed because of me as he was so confident that we would make it on to the floor … i felt very guilty that i have done something wrong… It all happens but!!! … to add with these things i wont be paid in sutherland for that month even if i had continued to work till 23rd july as salary period is from 26th-25th and also i have to attend till 30th for i have to be paid…