Shifts....

Within a week of landing @ Trinfy, i knew that I made a mistake by getting a transfer from Mysore. Initially i thought tht it was because of the campus. Mysore had everything...Trinfy is just a typical office building, with almost zero campus!! But later I realized tht it was not just the campus. It was the team... Somehow, i couldnt feel good about the way in which the team worked!!!

And now, adding salt to my wound, there will be a 7 Day work plan!!! :( Mon-Thursday, it is normal working plan. Then, the team is split into 3, each one coming to work on either friday/sat/sunday. This has effectively spoiled my weekends... Weekend trip with Anand and divakar. It will mostly(read: almost every time) to shangumugham, have some chaaya/kadi followed by a dinner @ some hotel. Still, the weekends were good. But now, this plan might spoil everything!!!

Need to plan something devilish to convince the 'Big Shots' to remove this '7 day' stuff...

Windows 7 rocks...

To be frank, I was happy that Vista was a failure. I mean, I was stuck with XP for almost 6 years and when Vista came, it needed all these hardware upgrades. 2 GB RAM, 20 GB HDD blah..blah..blah.. And when it failed big time, I was actually smiling :)

But now, after I've upgraded my machine, I've found out that it is XP which actually sucks!! :) I mean, it dosent support 64 bit processors and 4 GB RAM. I mean, why can't a OS switch from 32 bit to 64 bit? The developers should have added an additional attribute in some config properties file and voila... upgrade over after a system restart :).

Anyways, the point is that when windows 7 was launched, I was waiting for it. The initial reviews were all gr8. and when I saw someone selling genuine windows 7 in ebay for a really...really low price, I couldnt resist.

So, I got the Windows 7 DVD on friday evening, and within 24 hrs. my machine was up and running with 7. The OS absolutely rocks... :) It is fast, it looks really nice and the new aero feature is just the icing on top of cake. The best thing which they have done is the way they have designed the new taskbar. It looks really simple and un-cluttered. And for someone who has been seeing XP for nearly 6-7 years both at office as well as at home, this switching is like watching a color movie after watching b/w movies for his entire life :)

I would really recommend this OS for everyone... This is gonna be the successor to PX :)

Ciao..

#205

Today i went thru some of past postings in our blog.. It was containing so many things.. marriages, company outings, get together, some travel experiences, some tag posts..etc etc. then surprisngly i realized i was not part of anything ..more precisely i dont have been part or i dont have any of these experiences .. i was not there in most of marraiges, get togethers.. i didnt have a company outing.. nor have some travel expereince( guys i didn forget abt kumarakom and palava treats).. Then i thought where am i spending my time other than in office.. am i having some good time?? or am i missing something? that thinking made me to post abt #205..

#205 is our house(rented ofcourse) .. indeed a very spl one.. and i know many of u have some thing to remember abt this house. The amazin fact abt #205 is that once ur inside and survive for a week, assume that u can live anywhere in the world. Many men tried to change its very behaviourial nature and tried make it smell better.. but none ever suceeded... infact #205 changed every one in its course of 2 years.. Dipu, nijel( both huaweians), then our master dinkumon.. everyone lost their battle to #205. #205 have now 6 +1 members. u may not be wondering abt that 1.. yes its one, one and half ONE( rajeev alias thottu). ..Here we discuss abt almost everything under the sun ( mostly every girl under the sun)...we often end up fighting over the figures.. and then usually end up in beating either master dinkumon or thottumon( u can say routine and they are our punching bags)..

When we moved into #205 we had an amazing view from our 1st floor balcony window, a 3 storeied, completely packed, ladies PG. Guess what , now we have the same building and a couple more in the block with 'To let' hoardings. Some times it pays for being gr8 moral watchdogs. Some pple say that we are jealous of couples talkin and smoochin infront of our gate. but we dont care.. we always stand for the the noble cause( means if i dont have it then u also shouldn )..

#205 have witnessed so many things.. Here each day is a celebration in its own way. may be a DCH way. We eat,party, sing,dance,drink,fight, throw up, mess up and sleep together. . We wakeup ...again off for new spl day.. There re lot more things i want to say abt #205, but let some things be un told..

My Kolkata trip !!!

Its been exactly six months since the last post was posted in this blog... Seems everybody is busy these days... still very happy that we all (most of us) are in contact with each other atleast thru mails... I hav been travelling a lot these days across various cities...
the first reply that anybody gives when they hear abt this project "wow! thats awesome". but lemme tell u.. its not that great... but still recession aayathu kondu vere onnum cheyyan vayya.. kittiyathu kondu sandoshamayittu irikkanam... :-)
During the last 3 months, I have been to kolkata, bangalore(twice) and jamshedpur...
Nibine ee adutha kaalathonnum kaanan pattum ennu vicharichathalla.. angane irikkubozhanu kolkata trip vannathu...
that was my first assignment in this new project... was there in kolkata for almost a week... to tell u the truth, the city did not look like a metro at all... looked like a city that was abandoned by the British.. u can hardly find a new building..
I reached there on 19th of march... it took me almost 2 hrs to reach from airport to office... ariyavunna muri hindi vechu taxikkaranu area okke paranju koduthu.... aadya divasam thanne officil kurachu prashnam undayirunnu... guess what? there was a mallu in that office... swantham naattukarane kandal paara pani vidathillallo... 2nd day thottu angeru company aayi...
Got my accomodation in our company guest house.. it was hardly 2 mins walk from the office.. that was one good part of the work there.. food was awesome... fish curry try cheytha divasam mathram cheetti poyi..
And then came the weekend... thanks to nibin for his company... he came to forum near my house in his Alto aka "Mercedes my class" :-) along with his mallu friend Sumesh... nibine, athu thanne alle avante peru?
kurachu neram vaynokki nadannu.. then we started feeling thirsty.... njangal ellarum oru chaya kadayil poyi oro chaya paranju... nibin ordered strong tea :-) pinne avide kure neram paradooshanam paranju irunnu... sumesh left after sometime as he was staying with his family...
nibinum njan koode kure neram kolkata nadannu kandu.... we discussed many things from college days to even a settled life in the future... ithanu chaya kudichalulla prashnam...
after an hour, we again started feeling thirsty... this time nibin said that there is a tea stall in which they play rock music... ennal sheri.. athum onnu try cheyyam ennu vechu..
went in and order another round of tea... the music and the girls(who came along with other boys) were good...
by the time we got out, it was around midnight... we planned to take a tour of kolkata in his merc. we set off to see Howrah bridge... kure dooram IIT Kharagpur routil poyi... then we concluded that we are in the wrong route.. then we planned to see victoria memorial... we came back to the city and then travelled the same roads again and again in search of her memorial... :-) avasanam avan oru kuttikaada choondi kanichittu paranju.. "Aliya.. avideyanu victoria memorial... light illathathu konda ninakku onnum kaanan pattathu ennu..." njanum athu vishavasichu... anyway we saw vidyasagar sethu during our hunt for howrah bridge..
that was one awesome day during my stay at kolkata.. left the city on 25th morning.. nibin dropped me at the airport... aliyaa nibine... ini athu vazhi vannal, howrah bridge kandittu thanne karyam... more travel posts coming soon... miss u all...
With luv,
Panackal

My Tag..

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Got Married :) [!!!]

2. Did you keep up your 2008 resolutions, and will you make more for 2009?
Waking up DAILY at 5:15 am is/was the resolution tht i've been taking for the past 5 to 6 'new' years in a row!! Wht a coincidence!! :P

3. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Discipline Discipline & Discipline

4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes..One of my cousins-Ashakutty-gave birth to a tiny tot Nandus on June 13th the FRiday!! :D

5. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why:
My first encounter with aniyettan => March 23rd, a Sunday
My first Pennukaanal in & around EKM => April 29th, a Tuesday
My last day @ RASET => 15th May, one Thursday :(
My First(!) Engagement => 22nd June, a Sunday :)
My Wedding Day => 19th October, another SunDAy !
Dec 15th => Aniyettan's Bday..surprised him on the eve with cakes, gifts & all.. :D

6. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finally got married!! & that too to the man of my dreams!!!

7. What was your biggest failure?
Cannot think of any such failure as such.. Honestly!

8. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes! Of course! Not without my yearly doses of Viral Fevers, Coughs & Colds.. And for the injury part, yes got a deep cut in my fore finger while i was packing things off fr my hostel room @ EKM..

9. What was the best thing you bought?
I didnt buy anything on my own..But after coming to Mumbai, we bought this PC from the money we got as a wedding gift..

10. Where did most of your money go?
Whatever money i've in my purse is going hayware @ the sight of foodies, Vegetables, & such Grocery items nowadays!! HouseWife aayennu ippazha oru thonnal okke undaye! :P

11.What song will always remind you of 2008?
"Tu Muskura Jahan Bhi Hain Tu Muskura.." - Yuvraaj/Alka Yagnik/AR Rahman

12.What do you wish you’d done more of?
I too agree with panackal...enikkum ippol oru maveli-look vannittundu..nannaayittu! Pandu college-il bhavathil mathreyundayirunnullu 'maveli' enna peru..Ippam roopathilum thani maveli thanne! :D

13. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Sleeping.. SNorr Snorrr..

14. How would you sum up your 2008 in one word?
"Fulfilling" :)

15. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
LAt year this time means around JAn?? ummmm.. i dont remember if i hate someone who i didnt hate then{!!}.. No one as such..definitely!!

16. What was the best book you read?
'The Prophet' by Khalil Gibran
There we so many wonderful quotes abt life, marriage, love & so on..

17. What was your favorite TV program?
KoffeeWithKaran, Kylie Kwong's Cookery Show (Travel&Living)

18. What was your greatest musical discovery?
MUsical discovery?? Wht does tht mean??? I didnt discover any music as such!! Pazhe malayalam, tamil & bollywood; pinne carnatic, hindusthani music thanne kettittullu..

19. What was your favorite film of this year?
Jab We Met(Hope this was released last year only!)

20. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you
In a way this was my last bday with achan, amma, kochitta, achu, muthassi & all..ammu was also with me..Cake cutting was there... Above all got a BiGGG Surprise courier frm aniyettan-a big teddy elephant!! We named it 'Banku'!!

21. What kept you sane?
Home, Books, Music, TV, Phone etc etc

22. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Farhan Akhtar - the Master Jack!!

23. Whom did you miss?
Personally, its always my muthassan.. Everyday i'll have something tht brings his memory back & i terribly am missing him.. especially during my wedding days..
Pinne mIssed the life @ MCET (i still do), life @ RASET & Aashiyana Hostel..
Now am missing achu the most!!!! Its really hard.

24. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Just as always => Everything happens for a reason & a good reason at that!! Whtever happened was the bestest to happen frm the other possible alternatives! :)
Happy NEwYear !!

Tagged !!!

Long time.. kure kaalam aayi enthengilum post cheythittu... njan mathram alla.. ellarum.. onnum post cheyyarillengilum ennum blog thurannu nokkarundu.. aarengilum enthengilum visheshams post cheytho ennu ariyan... ellarum sukhamayi irikkunnu ennu vishavasikkunnu... its a sleepy sunday afternoon and i am sitting in office just for the sake of being present... pani onnum illa. ennalum official working day aayathu kondu vanne pattu.. ravile motham paattu kettu kidannu urangi.. lunch company sponsor cheyyum.. nalla oru kerala meals kazhichu veendum urangan plan cheyyuvayirunnu.. pakshe urakkam varunilla.. appozhanu naru tag cheythirunna karyam orma vannathu.. kure kaalam aayittu athinu reply cheyyanam ennu vechathanu.. pakshe weekdaysil valiya paadanu.. pani ullathu kondalla.. ithuvazhi pokunna ella lavanmarkkum ente screen kaaanan pattum... :-)

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Went onsite :-) It was a total surprise... didnt even think of getting a chance so soon coz the waiting list here is too big...

2. Did you keep up your 2008 resolutions, and will you make more for 2009?
Did keep up a resolution... that was to stop hot drinks.. but fufu resolution was a failure...
I have already taken a resolution to stop fufu this year.. since that was a bit hard, i have changed it to "reduce" and thats going on fine till now..

3. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
More peace of mind and more time to relax..

4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Some of college mates... and also one of my collegue who is very dear to me..

5. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why:
My sister's wedding, the day i travelled to onsite and also the date i came back..

6. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Became closer to some new friends...

7. What was your biggest failure?
Couldnt keep in touch with many of my old pals...

8. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yup.. got a horrible food poisoning when i was in dubai.. it took away much of my hard-earned fat :-(

9. What was the best thing you bought?
My new laptop

10. Where did most of your money go?
Still trying to figure out.. i better start investing... allengil njan ellam puttadichu theerkum.

11.What song will always remind you of 2008?
Rock On - Tum ho tho...

12.What do you wish you’d done more of?
Exercise... kudavayar okke chaadi oru kochu maveli aayi...

13. What do you wish you’d done less of?
fufu

14. How would you sum up your 2008 in one word?
Exciting

15. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
The hit list is the same.. no names added, none removed :-)

16. What was the best book you read?
I dont read books... tried reading one.. 'My three mistakes' by Chetan Bhagat.. pakshe kurachu pages kazhinjappo athinte print prashnam aayi... so couldnt continue :-(

17. What was your favorite TV program?
TV adikam kaanan pattiyilla.. Used to watch idea star singer junior for a while..

18. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing much.. but started listening to English songs other than westlife.. Rockus need ur advice :-)

19. What was your favorite film of this year?
Didnt watch any malayalam movies...
English - Death Race bcoz the story was something different
Hindi - Golmaal returns... as usual, no logic.. but a fulltime entertainer...

20. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you
Celebrated with a cake cutting... I turned 24

21. What kept you sane?
Music :-)

22. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Deepika Padukone - She was looking gorgeous in Bachna Ae Haseeno

23. Whom did you miss?
I miss my family...

24. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Work hard only if u want to learn.. otherwise just pretend :-)