Thursday, September 27, 2007

One night at my Office

The nocturnal time at our office is yet another interesting time at our heaven.. Once the 8'O clock voyage departs, the nocturnal life begins. Those, whose projects are in fire due to the mess up & projects nearing the dead line stays back to make it to set in path... At this hours too, the con-call for the update keeps proceeding....

DINNER FOOD

The moment we gets the smell of the food (same smell for past few years) at around 9.30 at night, we march towards our FC.. (It is food court.. FC is how we call it..) to find the same set of cuisines that was there on the previous day. With having a small confusion of whether it is the same food of yesterday, we start our dine.

NIGHT DROP CAB

The moment after completing the night food, the fight for the wonderful journey begins from 10.30. The cabs prepare for this trip at various schedules at 10.30, 12.30 and 2.30. I go to my home at Tambaram through the interiors of Madipakkam, Guindy..etc..(Route prepared with the help of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm).

The route through Guindy or even Mambalam would be more preferable than Madipakkam. Since the Madipakkam, having the best town plan the cab drivers struggle hard to find their way out of the place. Since my office ppl consider Tambaram as far off place than Madipakkam, I have no chance of getting down first...

"Take the first right then the 2nd left then again the 3rd left & 100mts straight the road leads to the subway. Then the straight of 2 KM leads to airport. From where Tambaram is 10 KM away..." The life saving clue given at 2.00 AM by the previous drop guy who lives inside the maze of Madipakkam... A minute error in following this clue will leads to a hazardous incident of a sleepless night.

After solving the amazing maze, we escapes out of the Takeshi's castle and reaches the next stage. The next stage is the terrain through the traffic of NH45. This take 2 quarters hours in an expert drive... Atlast we reach the den & mastermind go to rest in a pleasant way...

Good night...!

One day at my Office

My office is the most favourite place of mine in my so far life... Because of its immense beauty, its professional ambiance, its majestic infra, its aesthetic amenities and many other divine features which gives such an attractive appeal not only to me.. But also to every of its beloved associates.. We consider it as our heaven and also we find all the maximum possible chance to be there and dwell amidst the arena of cutting edge technologies serving around us...!! ( ~Suz:- given enough buildup for my office... :-) )

Still wondering in which heaven am I working in..??

A place where we make the idiot box go live to the world market. Yes..! A Software lab... A heaven in the IT corridor of the sacred city Chingaarach Chennai...! The Mecca of every chennai software professional...


THE MONDAY MORNING

The Monday morning is a crucial time for every of us. After the week end fever, we; the coder battalion march towards the office with our mind overflowing with the schedules for the week. We take our charge at our bay in a formal attire experimenting with an old tie to gain a perfect cute knot. But at most times, the experiment ends after a huge struggle resulting an unusual knot which no one has ever seen so far. :-)

The next is the mail checking session. After making the punch as a proof of reaching the office, the mail software is opened. The moment the software gets refreshed with the entire set of new mails marked in red colour. Many interesting forwards on friendship, clips, pics, PPTs & many other funny stuffs along with few corporate communication awaits for our action.

PMR

This is a formal review conducted for every project for the higher authorities to know about the direction in which the project is sailing at. A week before the day of the review, our team members start cooking the datum for this review. Then the datum gets garnished by putting it over a power point slide. Then the garnished item goes for a review, where a dash of coriander is added to give a final spicy touch up to make it delicious to serve. :-)

Team Meeting

Team meeting is an interesting occasion where we plan to pause on our tight schedules for a while and share our new learnings & issues. The most important meeting consists of a maximum of 3 to 5 peoples including me. :-) The meeting takes place in a separate conference hall where we take the most critical decisions which changes the future of the company.

THE CON-CALL

This is a call made to the people sitting at on site. This happens in a separate transparent sound proof hall, where the PMs sitting at on site allot the work for the off shore people. Most of the calls commences with the report on the previous day's status. We maintains a heroic smile on our face during the entire call in order to avoid the fact that we are getting blasted, knowing to others. The fact that the room is sound proof makes us escape being caught.

LEFT FOR THE DAY

This is "the most" awaited event of the day for every one of us. That is the time we leave our heaven to our home to meet our own people. The moment the minute hand points 45 at 7'O Clock, the server hosting the excellent software for marking the punch-out attains a crash due to the load... After a tiring successful attempt of punch-out, we board our Volvos to start the voyagin journey back to our home...

The day ends here... !!!

Monday, September 24, 2007

The Power Kick-off...

Well begun is half end...!!!

One of the favourite proverb of my dad...which he use it as the start, the moment he wish to bash at me... :-)

After a prolonged wish for creating a blog for myself to scribble my thoughts, was stumbling to get the best way to give a warm begining to it. Though i got a bunch of tips from a blog expert, keying down the thought of mine is as hard as understanding the people from Venus. :-)

I was just looking at couple other blogs to find a good start & a good topic for myself to blog on. But my twin brother, the invisible guy, Mr.~Suz (The voice inside my head) took his chance to tease me for the thought of copying at least the blog..

At last I am putting on my thinking cap(my own cap :-) ) to give the best out of me... And ended up in this wonderful blog; my fist written blog ever in this world about the way i started to blog.... !!

All the Best to myself..!