Come back of a fighter......

Hi Friends,

First of all want to thank all of u who has visited the blog and especially to those who gave their honest comments. I will require support from u all in future also.

Today want to talk a bit about a man who has back from exile with a bang. Every body had written him off, no body could have imagined that he will be back and that too like that. Literally whole world was against him and even the die heart supporter of him was having doubts whether he can make it again. But he has done it and done it in style. I guess now u must have recognized him yes I m talking about our very own Dada Saurav Ganguly. What a fighter he is. Everybody of us can learn how to have confidence in our abilities and don’t surrender against any difficult circumstances. His concentration, determination was treat to watch in South Africa he was the highest run scorer for team in test series and yesterday after more then one year returned in one day cricket as opener and played splendidly for attacking 98. u really must have wondering that if I am writing a cricket column but I say not exactly. But I feel we as a professional can learn a lot from dada. There r times when things r not going our way and it seems that everything is against us and no hope is visible but this come back of dada teaches us that if u have courage and confidence then u can afford not to think about what others think of u and just concentrate on your work and can show to world that what all u have. Hats off Dada…. And I hope he will continue to do so and hopefully team performs gr8 at world cup and we (u all and I) at our workplace.

Now going further we had an interesting lunch party last week. Actually this was a B’day party of my team mates Doodly Sharma and Tarun Jain. We were all 16 and went to a Chinese restaurant called ‘The Monk’. Although I had noticed that most of group members wasn’t that fond of Chinese but we still went for a Chinese lunch and I guess that was the choice of the host and we all were agree to that and was checking if we can get some thing good there. That was a restaurant which was in the middle of the floor of a mall and it was without walls and there were shops all around that.

The special thing about the restaurant was that all Chinese guys were cooking the food there with in that small place only and most of staff there was Chinese too.

When we reached there they really has to do special arrangement for us as they do not generally expect people to come in large groups as they also told us later that they r basically meant for shoppers which generally shops at surrounding shops and want to enjoy the food in between. But in some time they had made proper arrangement for sitting.

Then came the menu card, it was then the drama began, Menu items was confusing even for those who r used to Chinese food. Mean while it was 2:30 and most of us was really hungry till that time. Scene was really funny as we had menus in our hand and looking around on other’s faces so that can identify the gyanis who knows about those dishes and then he/she can order same or suggest some for us too. But unfortunately everybody was same and as confused as most of us. Actually dishes were same as usual Chinese but there were variants in terms of ingredients of each. But after bit of hard work and lots of guess work at last everybody decided and gave the order.

It was much of a black box scenario. We could just prey that our choice must be eatable. But there was more to follow as they took off the menus and now we all forgot the names of dishes we have ordered for. But thanks to the guys there who has remembered about who has ordered what and we all got the thing as ordered.

But for a surprise at least for me the food was delicious. It was one of the best Chinese food you can ever get. I don’t still remember what that was exactly but it was some variant of rice and some ingredient as peanuts, capsicum etc. and it was too good. And most of us liked the food and all thanks to the host for that. After that we had delicious cake and that concluded the lunch at ‘The Monk’. So if u like Chinese or even if u don’t I will suggest you to try ‘The Monk’. You won’t be disappointed.

Ab kuch baat dilli ki sardi ki. Its too cold this time around in delhi and rightly so. It was seen that from last few years winters were not as effective here as it should be in this whether but this year around its really can call as Dilli ki sardi. So just wanna close this entry with the suggestion to be protective in this cold so that u won’t get caught by cold and cough as I have been caught.

Bye take care friends…….

Joined NCR...and first few days...

Hi friends,
as i said m back with more. Its almost a week now since i hav joined my new company which is NCR Corporation. no no its not a govt. company as it seems with the name which has resemblence with National Capital region.its formally National Cash register. if u have used ICICI bank ATMs you must be aware of the organisation as you will see logo of NCR on almost all the ATM machines. ya ATM machines and self service equipments are the core business of this US based giant. they are listed in Fortune 500 list of most powerful companies in USA.and this development centre in Gurgaon is basically for providing IT and software services and support to all core business units of NCR spread over approx 100 countries around the world.So that was just intro to my new company. i had joined NCR on 10th of january as software engineer.

This was really a perfect beginning of new year with new place, new peoples and new work. and i am quite excited and enthusiastic abt the things i will be doing here. lets talk abt the experience i hav so far here in my first one week. this whole week mostly i was attending inductions which includes informative sessions abt company and its various departments. these sessions was really very important in the process of being used to and settle in the new
setup.these inductions was formal mostly so not much to talk abt them but i really wanna talk abt the induction session i had with Mr. Naresh Shetty the GM of this development centre in Gurgaon and he also happens to be the head of Enterprise Applications group in which i m going to work so he will be my highest boss here in office.

Although he talked abt various things like business ethics and the things which are must to succeed but one thing was core of the whole discussion was the dreaming is must to attain some thing. he told abt the importance of dreaming and then working to attain that dream.he also asked us abt the craziest dream we ever have in life, that was a intresting thing to answer becos everybody has some or other crazy dream and all are funny and intresting ones.

During the discussion he raised a question that was "are indians hardworking?"(or hardly working ha ha..) at first instance we found question funny because this is a well known fact around the world that ya we indians are very hardworking and thats y almost
everybody answered in affirmative.
but he was bit critical about this he gave an example and asked us that if we are given each of our necessity which every one wants to acquire in life(may be its levish life style, car, home and all) will then we be as hardworking as we are when we are trying to acquire those all things in life. he told us that here the difference lies in us and the americans. in his words "In america its really easy to acquire the basic things ,a person wants to live a comfortable life but even then they are hardworking" but he could not say that about indians in general. he also told us about the fact that he sees americans are the most hardworking society in the world as he did got chance to work with the people of various nationalities.

Although i was not as convinced with these point as he said abt indians but ya the whole of discussion was really fruitful and we didn't notice when those 2-2.5 hours was past. and when he finished we ya we all wanted more of it. Naresh shetty is an impressive personality with american accent in his english and ya had lot to offer to us from his experience. I am really looking forward to interact with him in future and i think i will soon having chance of that when i will be having one to one meeting with him as part of my induction which each new joinee has to go through.

apart from that session we too had some trainings abt the specefic tools which NCR uses for its processes and these trainings are still going on.

n ya on my third day only i got the chance to attend my first party at NCR. that was a new year bash and i was excited abt it. although i didn't no much of people apart from my team and the guys who were with me in the induction process. but still i wanted to attend it for more than one reasons. firstly i like to party.. yes wht to be surprised ya some of u will not believe me but don't know how i developed the intrest in partying and dancing for last few years now. and whenever i got chance to dance and enjoy i grab it with two hands and this was not exception i danced a lot for approximately 2-2.5 hours continuously. it was fun altogether. DJ was not so gud but still it was really enjoyable.we all enjoyed a lot some with drinks and some with out it. i was without it although the friend who was with me was having serious doubts about my claim as he saw me the way i was dancing.and secondly it was a chance to meet new people with whom me going to work in future so both my objectives were fullfilled by attending that party.

now lastly something about my experience with people i have interacted with. i found all very supportive and good be it my seniors in team or people in HR or my Cab mats all seemed to be nice and supportive. as i am new,passing most of my time with another new guy in my team named Asif Iqbal.i found him nice and helping.
will talk much about other guys and gals in my future posts and some more intresting incidents and discussions as they come along.
bye for now...but improved posts will follow soon...

and ya m waiting for comments too.. at least this time please each of u write your craziest dream in life this will be an intresting discussion. ok ok me also telling my craziest dream. infact i have various dreams which can be considered to be crazy like i wanted to be the member of indian cricket dream, i also wanna be Prime minister of India. but sadly i happen to be a software engineer. anyways m fullfulling one of the dreams (the dream to be a writer) atleast by writing this Blog..
also expect u to write ur craziest dream in comments...hope u will contribute..
Bye Take care...

Welcome All......

Hi friends,
hope u all are doing great.m happy to welcome u all to my first blog this is the place where from now onwards i would share my experiences at my work and with the life. although m pathetic when it comes to writing but still i have passion for it(Hum nahin sudhrenge). sorry from now onwards i will expect from u people to bear with my pathetic writing skills. but u can do that much for a friend..can't u? ya i hope nahhh m confident that u all will have some of your very precious time in which u used to do very imp tasks as chatting,checking or forwarding mails etc. for reading my efforts with writing and ya also leaving comments on my experiences(that is must). i hope we together will learn new things. so thats my introductory blog. i haven't included my intro as i assume that u all know me..if u r reading this fir bhi if u want to know more then keep reading....n God bless u in that horrible experience. but after all friends hote kisliye hain...enjoy more will follow soon..

Tarun Dixit