I will act now

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labour of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person - My swear is ready for this New Year. I WILL ACT ON IT.

“And, I was there!”

SAP-TechEd '07 - It was the all time ever best technical education exhibition – SAP Labs (3rd best in the world now) after completing it in lasvegas, Munich, Shanghai conducted the same in Indian IT hub Bengalore on last 3days of November-07.

Past: SAP-SDN (SAP Developers network) gave a chance to its all members to get bonus of 75 points by promoting SAP-Teched – all we need to do is to put the Tech-Ed poster ("I'll be there") in your blog .

Present: ‘Luck’ – had given a beautiful glimpse of smile to my fate, and so I was really there in Bengalore SAP-Tech Ed believe it or not the real cost to attend that full conference was around Rs.22,000/- that is almost my monthly salary and definitely I can't afford it.

Experience with fond memories:

So, I was in SAP-Labs for 2 days. To experience the products of best running business-SAP to help the ‘business’ on the planet. To name a few Intel, Nike, Reboke e.t.c, Latest news is that biggest railways on earth – Indian railways are SAP's clients.

Got a brief mail from my manager to attend teched skipping the first day because of project work pressure - sponsored by Wipro Technologies. Ha Ha Ha. Planned it well, execution was equally great. To brief a few lovely moments.
- We got a chance to listen about latest technologies from the founders, the exhibitors/mentors were from Germany-waldorf.
- I experienced the latest products produced by SAP and their case study. Like SRM, CRM and MDM.
- I had an interaction with many German’s who really working on the development of the product. Like Webdynpro and MDM.
- I had a hands-on session on few technologies. Like ‘RFC programming revisited’, ‘Advanced ABAP’ and ‘Advanced usage of internal tables using secondary key’.
- Attended Stalls which explains-latest-technologies. Which I really don’t understand, at least I can know such things are happening now.
- We had very good lunch/tea-breaks. Top of all Coffee-Café Day is free in Sap Labs - But my choice is always capuchino a hot coffee.

On that Friday evening at 5.00 I returned back from SAP Labs with my friend’s brother who is working in SAP-Labs in his newly brought car admiring the new car and admitting my all experiences in Tech-Ed.

Left directly from SAP-Labs to Madanapalle to have a lovely weekend which included a lovely movie Happy-Days.
Happy Reading. But don't forget to put your comment after reading the post. - Vamsi

Where the mind is with out fear.

Following poem, this was taught by my English teacher with a special interest to the class. This is a small thought in Tagore mind more than 100 years ago,but it reflect the present barriers and hurdles in our INDIAN society. Don't Just read this.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high,
Where knowledge is free,
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow
domestic walls,
Where words come out from the depth of truth,
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection,
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the
dreary desert sand of dead habit,
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and
Action into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
-- Rabindranath Tagore.

Just before we celebrate our INDE60 - We need to look back where we are? And, we are where we are 100 years ago and this thought provoking poem is a speech less evidence.

This post is not to point out where we are going wrong, but to recollect where we are. Happy reading. Salutes to all national leaders who fought for our national freedom. Happy reading.

One year with … world of Opportunities

..on the eve of completing 1 year 1 month 1 day with Wipro

One more year slowly walked into the colorful road of history, leaving wonderful memories, beautiful experiences, loving friends, Birthday Parties, team outings, challenging projects and a deep grief as well.

Happened to be a year, being with Premji working for Wipro Technologies. I know (better than the) best is yet to come, but, can say this as BEST way to start my career under a brand name of Wipro.

Our struggle to keep our nose just above 80 p.c in engineering exams, efforts to unlearn Tenglish-A hybrid of telugu and engilsh, grinding GRE Barrons and Aggarvals aptitude books, student seminars and group discussions were not in a vain – they made a start to this beautiful, bewitching journey on - last June 26.

In this small journey, this post I am writing for my
Co-passengers – my friends – who always say they are there with us to share the joy/risk of journey.
Road-Maps - My managers - never want to share the risk but who always show us way to work.
Sign-boards - Tech Leads – Of course not only to guide me, but also taken care when I am executing. Thanks a lot for my sign-boards.
Bumpy roads - Challenging Objects – take some time but give us back many things. Country sides – Outings and Parties with teams and friends. Flyovers - sdn.sap.com and help.sap.com helped me to flyover time consuming googling.
Motels - CCD, Pantry and Canteens in Wipro – Ecity Campus.
Finally, Advertisement Hoardings – Helped me to name this Post.

And, to talk about my new life - Let us start with my name, every one 'used to' call me as VAMSI in school and college, not now - Changed to Mohan with a simple reason of being first name in my 24 character long name of Mohan Vamsi Krishna Avasarm.

Next to talk about is - 'LUNCH'. Recently when I looked my weight in weighing machine, it reminded me the new CBZ bike, 0 to ** K.G in few milli seconds seconds. Shocked, decided to reduce my weight, that is because of no balance between calories burning and earning-talking in. Hope, now I am "O.K" with my new after the noon food called Health Combo available in our canteen, bit costly but no other go and so the new (old) weight.

Similarly, Mohan has seen many -Hopefully, +Ve - changes in Vamsi, like, dressing, talking and making friends, new habits like reading books and writing blogs, posing and clicking for photos, nodding head for Outings. e.t.c (When there is nothing striking to mind I use e.t.c).

Still, there is no change in one thing – that is "my working style of JUST DO IT", I am just doing my every work, with out expecting any thing except learning satisfaction and of course expecting updated bank account at the end of month. I love that. Here, it seems learning became part of earning - but there are no exams where we will write until our right-elbow become immobile.

To sum-up, corporate world, like F1-race track if you stop - learning, you are out - not Job but race. And, we should learn two things when we are in work, first point - "We must be self-confident" and second thing is "To remember the first point always not only in work".

Blogosphere, It is right place to multiply my joy and divide my grief by sharing with my friends and awaiting for their replies. Now, I updated it with my new webalbum and online books. But, you need to Click at the hyperlinks on right-space.

Finally, a deep grief is that demise of my beloved Sandeep. Sandeep, GOD can't take our joyful memories from my heart.

Hum, Hopefuly you well reply (comment) back with your job or your joyful and memorable moments. Awaitng for your reply.

-MohanVamsi

Eternal Companions

"I got good news, Mohan", my manager with an artificial smile on his face. That instant I knew it was the very thing that I dreaded all along. I was being shifted to another Project.

“Please don’t send me out of this team”- though it was obvious, a final request from my side. “No, you got into a very good project where you have a good scope”- a convincing reply.

Managers, synonyms to “convince / convincers”. They can convince us to do anything. Includes, having a sendoff from team.

“You can catch the office shuttle at 3.00 P.M, need to report at 3.30 today itself” – manager back to his work.

It was my first team experience being with them for more than three months. Body and mind proved that there is some thing called inertia - the state in which a body remains in that state as long as no force is applied on it – Newton, although I doubt if Newton had intended my manager as a force.

So, with a heavy heart went to catch the intra-office-shuttle. More bothered about leaving the old office and friends. There lies the real problem, which I never expected to face in near future.

I started at 3.10 after a very hot noon. And reached new office at 4.00 pm. “Oh god! What is this?” A 10 K.M journey took almost around an hour, not even happened at peak hours of the day (8 am or 6pm). “Not noticed” as if it is the first time.

But later on wards I found the only reason why people scared of going to sophisticated E-City office it is “Hosur Road Traffic”. Hosur-Horrible-Hectic. Flyover’s flying one over the other, roads becoming wider and wider-demolishing the shops and houses, middle part of the roads serving as laboratories for new fly over construction, every stop on this road will create a smoke-cloud front to me. Every now and then I start thinking about “What to do?”

There I got the solution: “Why is that girl laughing, with out any reason?”-sitting alone-holding an IIT like book in her hand (That is a ‘big’ novel I guess), one day I noticed this unusual thing. Oh, reading books, though I don’t have that habit, let’s start it, at least to overcome that boring 3 hour journey every day.

So need to start with a good book, “Indomitable Sprit” by -APJ.Kalam, very nice 150 page book, describe how to do develop your personality so that you can enjoy every moment in your professional and personal life. Completed it, so need to buy an other book, brought “Five Point someone” by Chetan Bhagat, From E-city campus book store. “A perfect ten -this is 270 pages of pure fun” – written on the first page. A perfect ten is grading to a scale of ten. It’s really fantastic. I don’t want to tell more about it. Suggest you to read it. Every episode will take us back, deep into our college days. And my next book is Norman Vincet Peale’s – “Power of Positive Thinking” along with Chetan’s another master piece “one night @ call center”.

Now, I feel - when will I get into the bus, what will happen next in the story, what is the next book I need to read, what is the best way to remember this beautiful vocabulary-where to use them. Very wonderful experience, feel proud and happy to this great change from “What is this bus journey?” to “When is the bus journey”. Never the less it is fault less fact as Kalam said, books are our “Eternal Companions”. So all E-city guys, take a book, catch the 7.30 or 8.30 P.M shuttle and complete the Hosur road journey within 20 minutes. No traffic no bore.

License to drive the change?

Woke up early, even on a week end, Saturday. Got ready with all the documents- learning license, Xerox of the passport and my SSC certificate. Went to RTO office at 11 am. The office there is punctually late. Requested the clerk to tell me the procedure to get my old LLR (learner’s license) renewed and also to get a driving license for a motor vehicle with gears?. “It charges Rs 500/-” - the only short answer I got – Pity no scope to learn new things, only bribe.

Okay, agreed. I submitted all the documents and he asked us to wait outside till he finds time. Only issue storming in my mind was “What if he asks for the original LLR?” which I have missed! I have an old photocopy of that LLR but not the original one,. So I had to submitted a new Xerox photocopy of the old Xeroxone.

“Vamsi” a thunder call from that unofficial officer (clerk's assistant), I understood the reason for that.

“Where is the original for this document?”,

“I lost it”. I replied humbly.

“Then go now and come after 30 days” he replied harshly.

Hmm need to wait another 30 days? Then there comes a real friend, when I am in need – Ravi, with that old Xerox photocopy of the LLR and I submitted it. I told (to Ravi), “Even that is not original”.

He replied, “You wait, I know it”.

The clerk checked, agreed and accepted that document. I wondered. We looked at each other and smiled.

Though the old document is not original, he agreed accepted it because “The Old photocopy looks old and new one looks new”. Again, he asked us to wait outside the clerk spoke– “Wait out side, you have to take a test ride, helmet is mandatory”. We were ready with every thing.

I was the last person,. Though I was riding it for the past 3 years now, my hands were still sweating. Every body done a small circle in front the RTO officer, with bikes as a test ride. No body has shown the hand signals or even lighted an indicator. And so was I am not an exception.

But the royal officer called “Mohan”my name, loudly, “yes” – I replied.

“Where was the hand signal?” a lump in the throat.

I said, “Ohh,! Sorry”,
“Go and sign in that book” (as every body did). “When will I get my license?”
“You will get it by post”, they he replied.

Now the question is, Will I get my license to drive my bike? Answer is definitely yes, because of the Rs 60/- which I paid extra (Rs 500/- instead of 440).

Bottom line(s):
I don’t want to approach a broker,
Don’t want to bribe any body,
Don’t want to encourage corruption,
Don’t want to sit lazily saying I don’t know how to apply, but I have license.
Ended up with paying Rs 60 /- extra.
Still happy. Because achieved 50% of my objective.

A humble request: Please, every body try to change this culture, we may not end corruption, and but we can atleast control it. Don’t say it’s impossible.

I appreciate your time spent to read my blog, thank you, feel free to comment.

My weak end ...

Its true that time will have expansion and contraction. May be this way: The 9 hours that I have spent in my college couple of days back passed away just like few minutes. And probably I will never forget those moments in my life.
Cheers to all the 22 people who made their presence; proud to say we crossed another mile stone called MITR-07 (MITS Reunion-07). We are the pioneers for all student centered associations like ILLUMINATUS, POSITRON, and 6th Element. Hope every thing started from our batch will continue. Those who missed this chance of attending Alumni meet - don’t worry; you just plan another interesting event in our department, we swear our participation and presence.
The best part of the whole event was juniors made some stalls with smileys ( :), :( …) and the gained profit goes to SR (Sarvepalli Radha Krishna) trust, started for welfare of poor children. They sold Indian flags in the eve of republic day, again profits go to SR trust. That’s really a great initiative and an equally good implementation. I felt so proud and guilty because they are doing a work which we never thought. That’s the spirit of education; we have to think beyond horizons. Apart from curriculum subjects there are many things (responsibilities). Congrats to my juniors, I always heartily welcome them for my help.
Thanks to Sunil for organizing such a great event. Really it’s my pleasure to work with you, hope I learnt a lot with your interactions.

Where is my dream.

Dream, one which wakes up from the sleep and makes us to work for it. I had a vision for career, now I found myself entirely in different place, but still I have a ray of hope to achieve it.
I am an electronics guy, but working for an IT giant, in a technology called ERP-SAP. Really very interesting but, some times I fell I am not practicing the things which I loved and leant in my 4 year studies of engineering. Planing to do my MBA after 2 years of working experience. Started with previous exam patterns of CAT exam. Confident to achieve it, giving my 100% each time, improving myself in all possible ways. Just doing every where, never thought of a result, thought of result will spoil the work that’s what I have planned and have been practicing.