The Kite Runner

For the first time I read a fictitious story which is altogether different than the novels I had read till now. It showed me the different world of stories. In my opinion, watching a movie is the same thing as reading a novel. The only (huge or small) difference is that novel gives more satisfaction than the movie (at least to me).

I have seen many Bollywood movies. And I like almost all the movies I watch at least for the first time. I call some movies crap when I watch them second or third time (with some exceptions). Fortunately or unfortunately the number of exceptions is very high. :D

I like all the emotional melodramas. Many times they make me cry too. :D

But when I read this novel – The Kite Runner, on completion of it, the first thought came in my mind was – “Why did I like those emotional movies which are totally unreal?” In Bollywood movies, the main character is always divine. This character has all good (say best) qualities in it from birth. This character is unselfish, trustworthy and ……and the list will not end. :d

This never happens in real life. We learn from experiences, from the people around us. We can’t always behave the same way as we had behaved some years ago for the same situation. Everything changes even we do. 

I observed this reality in this novel. We can see how the main character of this book – Amir goes on changing himself or we can say destiny makes him change himself. Though in the initial part of the book we don’t get impressed much by his temperament, at the end we do. I liked this thought lot. We are not God. We are humans. There are some people in the world who are divine. But the count is incredibly less. But it doesn’t mean the others can’t behave like those divine people at certain situations. It is we who have to make choice in our life. It is we who have to decide what to give priority to. If we could make better choice always, we are on the path of becoming divine. For me, there is nothing like divine. I am human. I can become better human than what I was. Becoming divine is not in the realm of my possibility. There is God. We can’t be like him. And we are not supposed to be. If we try to become better and better every day, every single moment of life, then this is the correct path we are moving on. So I would say, if we could make better choice always, we are on the path of becoming better human rather than divine. And this process of making better choice can be learnt only by experiences. We have to decide, only our experiences or others’ too. This is what I could observe in this book. We need to be sensitive enough to feel what the writer wants to tell us. In fact we should always be witty for the things happening around us. This is the only way to get involved in the outside world. And we should involve because every minute thing happening around us is to teach us something.

 If I keep reading such books, I will save my time on watching all crap melodramas. :D

 

One more Surprise!!

While writing the previous post i was wishing to receive a surprise. Now i am repenting for making such a wish. Invoicing is one of the best team in Amdocs. I worked in it for more than three months, had started to acquire quality knowledge. I was feeling my job immensely interesting. This was what i wanted at this phase of my career. And suddenly i got a call from other project. Today i shifted to that new project. Suddenly all enthusiasm died as somebody had shot my mind. Its not because I'm scared of adopting to the new environment and new tasks. But its because I dont have good impression for the new project. And as far as i have heard from the people working in that project, the work is not challenging there. And whatever work i did today, it doesnt seem to give me an expected growth and improvement. In Invoicing due to the high quality work and due to the great people around me, every time i would feel i have a large scope to learn here. My stack of to-do things was always full.

I can't predict the future now. But i'm sure it won't be as good as it was. Thle whole thing is changed. 

Anyway, I just need to get out of this depression as early as possible. So that i can start with new fighting attitude and add more and more items in my stack. The only thing i can do is hoping for the best, which i always do. But seemingly best things are not best always. Its just we set our mind to feel them good as we dont want to stay in depressing situation for long time. I would pray God to grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. 

Surprises!!

Amdocs gives lots of surprises!! Today we got one more surprise!! We four from freshers' batch were selected for Invoicing (Team in project APDO). Few days ago we came to know that 2 from us were shifted to A&F(Another team in the same project). Now we 2 – I and Prakash were remaining in invoicing. Today Prakash was told to shift to A&F. So now I am alone here in invoicing. Let’s see what is next.

Anyway, Everything happens for the good. So Lets hope for the best!! J

A Quote

I found a quote by Ray Bradbury in one of the posts of my friend's blog. 

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Very True!!

Book

 

 

Yesterday I read a book – Chuknyapurvi. It’s a non-fiction, written in Marathi. I had read it 1-2 years ago too. I had liked it. Today while arranging my books properly, it came into my sight. And I felt like reading it. It’s very nice. While reading, 60-70% times I felt it is written for me only. It’s a kind of psychological book, small and divided into 15 sections. Each section focuses on the particular nature of a human. I liked it because it answered my questions. And we like every that thing which reciprocates us as per our need.

            I got to know a new term in psychology – Type ‘A’ personality. For such personality, work is the worship. They never get bored. They keep doing something. So there must be Type B and Type C personalities too. I would love to know what kind they are of. This post will be edited when I will get to know about them. 

Strom

This was written on 4^th Oct.

 

Today we met with a small storm. It was around 5 in the evening. I had come to Mumbai on weekend. I was taking a nap. And suddenly I got up hearing the noise of stormy wind. I shut all windows and was observing the things happening. All trees were struggling to hold their existence in ground. Lightening had made a spark with the electric tower in front of my home. I was watching all these things from glasses of my window. Suddenly thought of clothes which were kept to get dried out in the balcony, struck to me and I opened the door of balcony. As soon as opened it, all the drops of water started breaking into the bedroom. Anyhow I managed to collect all the clothes and books which I had kept in a cupboard in the balcony. After all this happened, a thought came in mind. How strongly we are protected in home!! A minute before opening the door of balcony, I was safe behind the walls of home. Just a step out of it made me realize the existence of safety under the roof. I Hat off to all civil engineers for this reason. (Though we always fight that software engineers are better than civil ones :D)

            Same way, we are safe under mother’s roof. But when we enter just a step out of it, we realize the absence of it. This phase in my life has showed me lots of things that I didn’t have imagined also. 

Start in amdocs

I had written this post on 4^th Oct. But due to server problem I couldn’t publish it.

 

 

Two months over in amdocs. I joined on 4^th august. That day was the start for two things- days in amdocs and days away from home. I got very less experience of training as compared to others as we 4 got the project very early. That was decided according to our project requirement. Other 3 were from different colleges than mine. The day when we got into project was the first surprise in amdocs (As far as I know, I have had very few surprises in amdocs). I call it surprise because I had never thought of getting the project so early. Then on the same day I got the first assignment in amdocs. Handling some difficulties I could finish the assignment but with some delay. So the start was not so good. Still I was little bit happy that I could finish the assignment. Who knew that the way I had made it was not the required professional way, which I came to know just yesterday when I saw the actual required format? After around 1 or 2 week we got one more assignment. I finished that also with some delay. I was not satisfied at all with that one. My colleagues had helped me in that. In fact, when I finished that I didn’t feel that I had applied my brain in an effective way. Before I had finished that assignment I had already got the other new assignment. That day I realized the tension which approaches when we have more than 1 thing to accomplish and all are not so easy. Then again as I have said earlier that my colleague helped me, I could complete it. Anyway, to let somebody see that I have done my work (though with some delay) was important at that moment instead of how I had done it. I was not satisfied at all. But there was another assignment in my sight. The assignment was divided among our group. So now this time I was to achieve it on my own. But I had to take help from somebody for some or other reason. This is also true that without taking help we can’t achieve things when they are new for us. I still haven’t finished that assignment. Now the chain of assignments is going to continue. The important thing is how much I learn from them. Till now I could have only realized that if I am able to make myself aware of the things in my project as early as possible that would be better for me. When I can’t achieve things on time, I get frustrated. At such times we need some inspiration (At least I need). Some people can inspire themselves, others like I need somebody to inspire. I need to change this attitude.

            There are lots of things which I need to learn. It’s essential for me to learn them as early as possible, if I want to survive in this world of competition.

 

            I have written this post, when I’m frustrated. So it may appear that I’m under great strain that I don’t get to live happy moments in amdocs. But this is not true at all. I have got good friends. I am really enjoying this new era in my life.

visual studio 2005

While searching for avoiding warnings in visual studio i came to know that when we double click on the warning or any error, it navigates us to the actual code due to which the warning or error has occured. Good info!!

To avoid warnings we can write a macro

#pragma warning (disable: 6011)

in the source file.

The code to treat warning as error is,
#pragma warning (error: 6260)

This is for a particular source file. Now i have to find it for the a project containing many source files.

Project, submission, exam.. everything over!!! result out!! got distinction (according to our unpredictable grading system). Then i continued teaching which i had started in January. I got a student to teach c++. I joined classes to improve communication skills, GDs, debates etc. Huh!! So many things happend in these 2-3 months. So i dint get bored in these days as everybody gets in vacations. I had so many experience to share. But dint get time to write them here! In the last week i left teaching or i can say i finished it. But this is just a break. Whenever i will get time for this, i will try to do it.
I had very good experience in this profession. I learned lots of things while teaching- knowledge as well as confidence of expressing it. The most important thing i got here is Respect. It matters a lot for me! i was happy that my students used to give me respect and they trusted me. and hence i always tried to fulfill their needs. So i did it till i get satisfied. That was completely new era of life!!
And now... huh!! i m little bit excited and scared also for next days in my life!! They are going to be completely different. I am gonna stay away from my home, from my parents. This is going to happen for the first time. I am going to enter the professional life!! Now student life is over. I am going to join amdocs. Its in Pune- Hadapsar (Magarpatta). Now i am looking for flat on rent. Little bit tensed. I will take atleast 2-3 months to adjust with new people, new place, new work. Lets see what happens and how it happens!! Just 12 days to go!! huh!!! :-ss

Project!!!

We are supposed to submit aur last year project in coming week. The main part is implementation. We had started it 4 months back only. But still its not completed. There are lots of things remaining to do. Our topic is Webtop. We had divided all its components among aur project members- Pranit, Sachin, Sarika, Omkar and me. Pranit and i are doing File System, bookmarks and image viewer together. We wanted to do Email system also. But now it seems impossible to do it as we have not started also. We started with file system. We tried to built each and every function which we see in our normal window's My Computer. Building each function not so easy. Something i get irritated with errors. Initially i used to be dependent on Pranit for error solving as he is a technically very much sound. But now i try to debug on my own. It takes so much of time. But when i solve some error or when some function works, I become so happy that i feel like jumping on my chair!! I remember i had done image viewer completely on my own or very little help from Pranit, I was too happy when it worked. Its really true that when we do something it makes the difference. I am really enjoying this work.

Our Trip

I had gone to picnic with 35 of my friends from my class. We left early in the morning. 4-5 from our class had organised the picnic and it was oraganised fantastically. The hiring of a proper bus, arrangement of food, the resort for refreshment, leaving all of us, specially all girls back to home and doing all these in a minimum required cost, the whole plan was fantastic. There is no doubt about it.
My day was awesome in all respects. Though the journey started from Dadar, some of us boarded the bus from Vashi. Sarika and trupti had boarded thana-vashi train in thana and i from airoli. We met in the train and had some gossips. I came to know few things i was not aware of which. thanks to Trupti for it. Hehehe!!! Then we boarded the bus at vashi. Real picnic started from there. Before we board the bus, others were already playing antakshari. I love to sing songs in a crowd. And i had got the chance after long time. So i enjoyed it a lot. My voice is very bad. Though i know it, i dint stop anywhere. Even, after sometimes my voice was breaking very badly. That was just for sometime. In between we had Idli-chatni and sambar. I appreciate arrangemnt of fresh snack so early in the morning. Around 11, we reached the the Vikram Vatika Resort. There we got refreshed and then we moved to our next journey toward korlai fort. Our bus stopped 1 km away from the fort. So we had to cross this distance on feet. We came across the residential area of some fishermen. We could see the different house-style. The people were typical fishermen. Their dressing style and all was telling that. All of them were observing us as we are some foriegners. Then we came across the sea shore. That was very clean and so beutiful that anyone can get fascinated towards it. I could not believe on my eyes that i saw such a clean sea shore at a place near to Mumbai. My eyes became content to see that sea shore. We watched the fort and then we returned to the resort to have lunch. In the resort, we took some fotographs. That was all just show off, wearing goggles and different different hats. But still that was also a part of fun and a tool to store proofs of our fun. Then we moved to Kashid beach which was the main attraction of our trip. initially, i and sarika had decided to not to go deep inside water. we were gonna wet only legs. But then after sometime Pranit and Dhiraj came to wet us more. We did lot of fun there.At some moment,we- me and sarika were literally floating on the water. There we found a bliss of heaven. A bliss of forgetting ourselves. This was the day without everyday's trouble, without duties, responsiblities. The day was fantastic. Then me and sarika lay down on a swing of net. That was also the moment of piece, a moment of relief. Then at around 6:30 we left the beautiful beach and moved towards birla mandir. I had already seen that temple, but was visiting it after a long time. The temple is very beautiful. We could experience a moment of piece after spending the whole day with all naughtiness. Then we moved our bus back to home. We played truth and dare. Vipul told his amazing story. He brought tears from my eyes.
At 1130 i returned to home with all memories of a bright, beautiful, fun-giving day.

Chak de India!

Today I read in newspaper that in Japan, some schools based on the Indian Education system are opened. Japanese parents are keen to send their children in these schools. Because Indian Education System makes students to learn more at an earlier age. It gives emphasis on memorization and cramming, focuses on basics, especially in math and science. Actually the similar system of education was present once in Japan also and now they are again accepting it after watching the success of India in software development, internet businesses and knowledge industries.

Most of the times, we hear that Intelligence present in India. When Indians go abroad for learning or for earning, we say that the use of intelligence of India is being made in other countries. It is actually true that we Indian are definitely more intelligent than the people in other countries. The reason behind this is the Indian Education System and the weather also, which is so fresh and enthusiastic that inspires us to learn more and more. And for this reason only, we Indian have a demand in other countries. Otherwise, nobody would have entertained us. So I give lots of thanks to our education system and also to the nature who gave this nice weather to India.