LAST stAGE

That is the last age, age where you left with lots and lots of memories, many friends, moments and events that make your tips of lips to extend a bit with name – glimpse.

Age where you can have a control on every kind of emotion, less expectation and so disappointments. Ultimately, being with every one, who born and brought up in your hands.

3rd weekend’s Friday night of April, Granny (Grand Mother) got into unconscious, she was speech less and so was I. Every Friday night when ever I reach home, a tooth-less smile with a warm welcome, this time disappeared.

Next day – admitted in intensive care unit - ICU , SVIMS Tirupathi.
On that bed, she was very much looking like a baby, can’t drink, eat, breath and sit, and hardly speaking, opening eyes very often. Two days I spent most of my time in that ICU.

If you want to commit suicide, be there in ICU for a week, and you love your life, just a week. There you can see all kinds of emotions – deaths, pains, recoveries, happiness, yelling, shouting, screaming, curiosity n many. I saw 6 deaths in 2 days.

Next week when I reach Tirupathi, she started talking, I slept just beside her bed that night.

“Do you know how many people visited me? All most all of our relative, I brought up every one, I feed them with these hands” – again that old tooth less smile continued.

Even, after reaching Madanapalle this week end many of her old aged- temple-friends came frequently to see her - which made her feel very happy.

Last 3 weekends, I was wandering between Bangalore-Madanapalle-Tirupathi, and took a leaves, Mom and Aunt were there to take care of granny on week days.

A kind of relief, and my mind is free - found it difficult to work when any one struggling at home.

Feathers in My Cap

The joy of unexpected appreciations will be memorable, especially when you were seriously involved in work, it acts like catalyst – ‘which won’t directly involve in work but improves the performance’ by chemistry.

Exactly ten months ago vice - president Ramki, and 2 months later Delivery manager Rajesh Narayanan, now my X-project manager and present delivery manager Jojee Joseph, made those memorable moments in my carrier. I was awarded with three “Feather(s) in my Cap” in these short ten months in my new assignment.

The last one (on 11th April) was very very special – because it was being awarded for working in almost all technologies in ABAP available in my project.

That time, I was near to complete my one year in my office, some one from inside asked me ‘Did you learn any thing in this one year’ – soon the very next day I got award from vice president Ramki – which said ‘Yes, You are on learning path’. I never expected that I will get that award.

This time, I was just discussing with my colleague, regarding ‘Project name in which there will be a chance of getting exposure learning all technologies’ – couple of days later I got my 3rd Catalyst to my hand which said – ‘Don’t stop if you stop you are Out of Game’.

The current project/assignment taught me many things – and never felt that I was working alone. Huge team, experienced technical and functional consultants. Good managers. But, still need a chance of change – because always ‘Comfort zones are dangerous and I don't like them’.

‘I Do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out working'

- Sir. M. Vishweswaraya

Fun n Green

Life is getting ceased in my work station. 18, 15, 17, 20 and 13 – not Indian cricket team score card, it was my score of average working hours per week for the past five weeks. So all I needed was a break. Effective - short break. Need to refresh mind rather than body.

Last week end - Saturday I was in office ‘again’ looking hours together into life less monitor. But on Sunday we made a difference with TRIP TO THALAKONA.

Reached Madanapalle at 11:30 PM Saturday night. But this time not alone but with Ayush, my friend cum colleague. Ayush is innocent/intelligent guy from Varanasi (UP) - so no needless to say - “He needs to be away from home for long time”.

My planned promise of taking him to Horsley Hills got postponed. With an untimely decision of Nish's plan of going to Talakona – one more time Nish is ‘my friend cum colleague’ with an addition of ‘from Madanapalle and my collage mate’.

Nish was there in Horsley Hills and Rishi valley with Ravi and Bhaskar – once again ‘my friend(s) cum colleague(s)’.

So we had a crew and a car with strong desire in every mind - ‘Let Us have FUN today’. Pilot – Nish (Fernando Alonso Reddy for that-day), co-pilot Bhaskar. A passenger cum rescue team - Ayush, Ravi and myself sitting back. It was congested. But my mind continuously pointing to – Take care and Take care – because desire to have more fun some time ends up with disasters.

Pilot started the journey exactly in opposite direction rescue team member(s) corrected him – so journey started with a mistake not a very bad sign.

Going going and going. For Ravi and Ayush every thing looks new. Ayush was silent and Ravi was never. He was applauding the AP roads, admiring the hills and I spent time cracking few PJ’s and enjoying in explaining the road details.

So after some time, Nish used break peddle for the first time in journey. It was a place where ground looked like green-carpet. Did God place a green carpet in a plan to come and take rest.

Just beside the paddy field there was a small canal and after that there is one railway track. Every thing is natural having a life in it.

Water, air, green paddy, surrounding hills looks vibrant.

But daily I was looking at life less monitors and cubical. All the time pressing keyboard and mouse buttons. Reaching people in mails. Breathe artificial air coming from even more artificial air conditioners. Funny – talking with life less thing hours and hours together that is my “mobile”.

Am I becoming a machine between all machines? No and No.

Sticking back - Ravi can’t resist him-self to have a show-off for his creativity in clicking the nature’s beauty and some times for us.

We went ahead to reach a beautiful place. THALAKONA.

We walked around 1.5 K.M to reach water fall. This was our first look of water fall and made us fell happy that we are very near to reach.

Here onwards there are no words to describe my trip only pictures will talk. With a bit of comments.

Ha, here it is. Tip of THLAKONA Trip.

After some time.

I tried to resist ‘not to get into water’ – but failed. (Ayush, Me and Bhasker – Ravi behind the camera lens).

Let me show you - Ayush, Bhasker, Ravi and Alonso Reddy. One-by-one. This pic was while we were on the way.

All together I really enjoyed the trip and Ravi’s 'six mega pixel photos' made my eventful and joyful day a memorable.

"Nature have certain elements in it, which we can't get in this materialistic world" - Mohan After this trip.

Happy Reading - Don't forget to post your comments.

Phew, I am waiting !

The New Year.

New Challenges to face.
New resolutions to full fill.

New decisions to take up.
New commitments to turn up.

New changes to accept.
New disappointments, disapprovals to agree.

New joys, emotions, feeling and fun, to enjoy.
New outings, parties, movies to engage.

New things to learn.
Few things to unlearn.

New books to read.
New bike may be to ride.

New journeys to start.
New silks to get smart ;-).

New Bengalore dishes to taste.
And New places to visit.

New salaries to get.
Few more taxes to get sweat.

New government budgets to cry.
New gadgets to buy.

New revisit of old festivals, birthdays and anniversaries.
New blogs to write.

I am waiting to Accept – Agree – enjoy every moment of New Year. I wish you all success in this new era of time. My dear friend named - TIME is getting older and older. Live in present, forget about past, don’t think about future – But don’t forget to plan future. Failure to plan will be a plan to failure.

I am enjoying my new year’s first Sunday with my work in my office. Ha Ha. Happy New Year once again. Feel free to comment ;-).

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.