I was going to my sister last Saturday… On Narul Flyover in New Bombay.. I saw an accident.. accident of a biker… His body was covered with thick papers… One and half lane were closed and the policewala was asking ppl to move (Not to stop at the place of accident.).. I was cruising at 80 on the same lines which was blocked ahead… When I came close at around 50 mtrs I could understand what had happened.. It was all blood everywhere…. His shoes were peeping out of the cardboard covers… I almost bring my bike to stop.. tried to see what had happened and policewala was asking people to move fast… I crossed.. Soon after this I (actually) laughed a bit thinking which useless bike this F***er was driving.. I said to my self “zarron pulsar-wala hoga”.. I turned back.. His bike was a brand new Honda Unicorn… I was take na back for next 2 minutes… By the time I crossed the flyover I was feeling like vomiting… (I feel it even if I see non-veg or people talk about it)..Next km I drove at 40…. I drove the remaining journey at 80+ but whole way I was thinking about this accident… why.. how… all that happened?? He was driving Unicorn. Unicorn drivers are pretty sensible than other bikers.. what a bloody ~!@#$%^&* biker…. The road was smooth and there were no trye streaking.. there were two bikes standing but had no signs of any accident so I believe those were just passers by or may be police vehicle…. I can’t imagine.. My bike badly needs servicing but don’t know the service station numbers… Brakes and clutch are loose.. Springs very badly need oiling.. battery needs to be charged up… Gosh.. I gotta take leave and do all these and will do this by next weekend…. Please drive safely….
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Do bandar Covansys ke anadar
Well.. I and my lead (Srikanta) or rather Srikanta is very much troubled by two newbies in the projects. On 12th Shamir had not come to office , had some personal engagements so on leave. The onus of sending mail was on Srinivas. Two mails to be sent from shared inbox of Shamir. I left office at 6:20, time when higher management people were coming back to office after a meeting at near by big hotel. I happen to see my PM (he is one of the big guys at Covansys), but we didn’t cross each other’s way as I take the path gate nor car gate. Well, at 7:00 I realized that 15th is Pongal and its holiday. There were too many reports to be sent on Monday. I called up Srikanta who is on way home. He said that monday is not holiday. I was not able to open Covansys intra-net from home, so called up Sripati. But he asked me call up after 10 minutes as he was busy with some reports. Well, fine! at 7:15 I get a call from Sripati asking to come to office. well w/o asking why I told them I’d there by 7:30. When I was about to leave home, I get a call from Srikanta, asking to meet up at J.B.Nagar bus stop and take a package home as Courier company refused to send it in Orissa and going back home to keep that package would definitely make him miss his bus to Pune at 8:15. Well, I reached the meeting spot and within 2 minutes of that even he arrived. I just took th the package and ask him to go as he was becoming late for bus. Well here is the real fun. I was in casuals. The guard was taken a back for a moment when he saw me. I asked Srinovas and Sripati about the matter. It was ridiculous to hear that they were not able to send mail. The Reason.:They had not put recipients names. This was straight. Second doubt took me a moment to crack. They were not knowing that when mail format is HTML/Rich Text, attachments are sent in-line (you can drop files inside mail) where in Plain text mail, attachments become separate parts. They were struggling with same for hour or so. Came back home.
A heavy weekend ahead
Life is very uncertain. I had plans to go to Pune (preferably on bike), but I gotta my yearly society get together on the same day. I’m yet to throw the pending party for the job at IVY. I’ve gotta meet Arvind my CDAC mate and colleague at MSTR@cybage Prafful the coming weekend. Well there is another twist. My College mate Don. Unfortunately I copied wrong number from the mail he had sent and I could never connect him. But Alan contradicted and gave me the number. What a fool. He is leaving on 7th 30 minutes past midnight. Don’t know what to do and he seems to be damn busy too. Don is not planning to come back to India in future. J Let me see what happens this weekend. Don would be first priority on Friday and Society Party would be on Saturday. So I can go and meet Arvind or Prafful or Saturday noon or Sunday whole day. I can meet don at Airport which is just 5 minute drive from home, but will keep as last option to pay a visit to him.
I gotta meet Gautam too, who has joined Teradata. But not heard from him for pretty long time.
@ bittersweet Home
[Saturday 4th]Got up early. Don’t know why? Replied to mails and started reading books. But slept back after having lunch. Wanted to reply a mail that I was expecting but the heavy rains had broken the internet cable some where between home and the local server. when called to the Engineer he said that would be possible only following day. It is 12:26 right now. No sigh of that engineer anywhere. These guys have so cheap tactics for asking for payment. BTW, Sunil had asked him to come home and take payment cheque around 4 o’clock, 3 hours before the heavy rains started.
Day at HSBC
Friday the 3rd. Reached to HSBC on time for the interview as told by Krishna. He also confirmed from me earlier to that if I was going there not. Finding the place was not a problem as I had asked HR person from HSBC, Amit, the direction to each that place. Till 11 there was no news of any one and as soon as Amit entered the room by phone rang. It was the 1st round from SAIC. Got a quick 20 minute interview. And again the usual HR promotions. when I reentered the hall, I found a senior person how HSBC Software works and has evolved in last 4 years. Good story. He spoke truth. I know HSBC well as its office is next to Cybage, where I worked for 16 months on MicroStrategy project. The yasked us to fill a form, which clearly indicated that HSBC is not an EOE. I was was my religion, DoB, birth place, parent’s address etc. Gosh… who ask all these now days. After having filled this form it was time for analytical and verbal written test similar to GRE (Encircle the correct answer). By the time we all finished it was 1:30 and all were dead hungry. Then Amit called us on 2nd floor which had two interview panels sitting. :-|. Few guys took lot of time to completed. They joined us may be at 2:30 or even late. Then I came to know two people could not clear the written test. didn’t like it. One of the person not making cut was from BIS team. I was asked a soft copy my resume a there was no right person to interview me. Not a surprise to me at all. Luckily I had a copy in my mp3 player [Creative Nomad]. Amit copied it to him laptop and sent it across to HR at Pune. Well I came to know HSBC has BI Center of Excellency. Wow.. a great opportunity. All selected people were getting interview one by one. It was very hard to wait. At 4:30 I asked if that was possible to schedule an telephonic interview and I received a call from Pune in 2 minutes. Had a good talk about what I do in MSTR etc and asked me question based on my resume. Probably they scheduled the interview not to disappoint me. Even though the interviewer was not a MSTR person, he was very senior person in BI team. Nice to know that. after the interview I was told that 2nd round would be scheduled sometime in next week. During the day a friend asked to meet him if I coem ot office, but I was dead tired to go. Not to forget that I had nothing other than morning Masala Dosa since morning. I reached Domino’s at Krishna Nagar. At very same time I spoke to Victor and Yeshwant about the lay off. Yeshwant had called me up to tell that he got placed in Mastek for a good package, but he had to go onsite for three month. Not happy for onsite compulsion as he became father just two months back and was not willing to go out of India. While having pet pooja at Domino’s I told my friend that I wouldn’t be coming to office as I was tired. I got a bike wash too after having food. Cool wash for mere 35 bucks. Now comes the worst thing of the day. The Business Developer (read: Collection Agent) of Sify disconnect the connection willfully just to realize that connection had to be renewed. My roomie (who actually owns the connection) had a nice chat (!@#$%&*) with him to get the connection back. I kept a movies for download in night but it seems he disconnected once again after I went to sleep as just 300 MB was left and in one night I can dwonlaod 550 MB easily. Not to forget that connection was not present when I came home.