The Indian Silicon Valley Experience!!!!

     29th Jan 2005 – This day is something special apart from the fact tht we had a grand paratha party!! Ohh what is it now, any wild guesses..hmmmmmmmmmmmmm… I don’t thnk ppl can guess it.. coz neither me a celebrity nor some famous person for ppl to keep track of my life calendar :DDDDD

     This very day a year back I landed on the very own soil of b’lore. My dad had accompanied me and had even stayed here for a week.. coz he knw I came down here against my wishes and wanted to be sure tht his very sweet and obedient (being sarcastic :DDD) daughter doesn’t vanish in btwn the trip from b’bay to b’lore. But one thing I m quiet sure in my life is I can go against anyone’s wishes but not against my dad’s :)))

     The first 5 months in b’lore were the horrible ones with all my frnds, funs and njoyments left miles away in b’bay and baroda. I always felt the zest to quit the job and get bak to that funfilled life in b’bay but thn again a simple re-thought used to prove all my decisions totally wrong. Ppl in my PG were really sweethearts in the sense that they made my life wonderful with each passing day and kept on advising me to live in present rather than brooding over what I left behind :)) Spl thanx to kosha, kavya and Kaajal who incidentally were my roomies then!!! :))

     The first few months at my work place was also not a gr8 relief. For the first time I faced hell lot of professionalism that scared me to death. Being an easy go kinda gal I never ever was introduced to such professionalism. Always any sort of interaction with any of my colleagues was limited only uptil the work. Even during coffee brks it used to be work that used to get all the attention. I couldn’t find even a single deviation to any other topic other than work. Yucckssssssssss I used to hate work then sooooooooo muchhhhhhhh :((((((

     But within 3 months time I found relief in some of my colleagues who shared the same interests as mine and it didn’t take long for me to get whole of my Team to be of the same type as mine. But ya one thing I always had fun here was whnever u have work work to the fullest and even if free for 30 secs utitlize it to the fullest for tps :DDDDD Thats how my professional life once again got filled up with the colors of my choice and it became all the more colorful!! :))

     One major thing that hapened in 1 yrs time is I got introduced to so many unknown ppl and faces through our very own ORKUT . Although I had got orkut invitations n number of times b4 I never ever felt the need to join it But consistent pestering frm kosha forced me to join the same and I thank her a lot for her efforts. Was particularly lucky to have got so many of them online but now some of them have become good frnds and one of them is a very good frnd of mine :)). Now if we organize a meet it would be a frndly weekend meet rather than being called an orkut or TLTE meet!! :)) But one thng common to all of these orkuttians whom I have met is that they are really very sweet natured ppl who can go to any levels in helping!! Expecting to meet the rest in the coming years!! :))

     Last Sunday I never ever mentioned, even once about this to any one present at the paratha party, but thnx to all my buddies present there for making my 1st anniversary in the silicon valley of India a memorable one :)) Now a very funny thng I keep brooding over is as to which would be my next destination once out of b’lore and most probably it has to be a place beginning with B. Coz firstly it was Baroda which ultimately got renamed to Vadodara, then B’bay which got renamed to Mumbai and now B’lore which got renamed to Bengaluru recently. Whew witnessed so many rename operations outside s/w life also :DDD So the only thng I keep on doing these days is list out all the places beginning with ‘B’, which has max possibility of getting renamed :DDDD

Conclusion : One thing I can say about the silicon valley of India is, it is a wonderful place, totally overcrowded with ppl and all the more with vehicles :DD Considered to be the heaven for s/w professionals, life spent here is truly a lifetime xperience in itself :))) I am thankful to b’lore for having given me a chance to taste the various spices of life!!!