A journey between Mum’bye’ – ‘Hi’derabad

It’s been a long time since I published my last blog post back in March 2010. Now I am trying my best to pen down my thoughts on my stay in Mumbai.

Oct 2010 – I have completed my fresher learning program in mainframes in Capgemini and was on bench for three long months (But sometimes I felt it as a short period of golden time). Few of my batch mates got interview calls from a project in Mumbai and they rejected to come down to Mumbai for working in that project. After 6 to 7 rejections from our batch mates, I have got my chance on one day. I felt that as an opportunity in my career, answered the questions and accepted the offer. I was a bit happy and scary about leaving Hyderabad and moving to Mumbai. My batch mates saw me as if I did a mistake by accepting the project offer in Mumbai.

Nov 2010 – I came to Mumbai for the first time with lots of aspirations, dreams and one goal in my mind (to survive in this project). The project team was comprised of members from different parts of India. I was the only Telugu speaking person in the team and moreover I do not have any contacts here. Initially I felt alone for few days, faced lot of troubles with my stay in Mumbai. I also missed the days when I used to play Table Tennis in the office and share laughs with my friends. So, I had decided not to stay here for more than a year.

Dec 2010 – I have got many friends after shifted to a new room and enjoyed my stay there. I have got news that my team is going to start with few members in Hyderabad as well. And one more Telugu speaking guy has joined our team in Mumbai. I was so happy and saw a ray of hope in moving back to Hyderabad in near future.

Year 2011 - Firstly, the year 2011 was a year of goals for me and turned out to be a remarkable year in my career. I have had many memorable moments in this period of time in my professional career. Since it is my first project in IT, I have set many goals for myself and I am happy that I have reached most of them today.

I have got support from each of my team member and learned a lot in this project both technically and functionally. I had lot of fun in the team and I never forget the team outings, early morning & night shifts, and parties (especially Juice parties in cafeteria) that we celebrated.

In my 14 months of stay in Mumbai, I mainly focused on my career and stayed away from many things that I used to do. Now I am going back to reach my destiny – Hyderabad. So, it’s the time for me to move on. It’s the time to learn new things. It’s the time to set new goals and achieve them. And finally it’s the time to start playing my favourite sports again like Cricket, Badminton etc.

Looking forward to have a fun filled time in Hyderabad.

CCL

IPL3 - A great start for MI and RCB teams. The IPL tournament reminds me the CCL tournament which we played a year ago in our college hostel. CCL means Corridor Cricket League. The rules were different and played with a smiley ball. We had some legendary performances in that tourney from Chaitanya A.K.A Pista, Murali, Sridhar etc. Daily evening 7 to 12, we used to play these matches for almost 3 months. Few of us skipped their dinner and participated in it as well. We enjoyed a lot while playing against Chaitu and Sridhar. Because it’s worth watching Chaitu’s bowling action and Sridhar’s batting performance. Whether you believe it or not, the people who never showed up in the cricket ground were part of this event. (e.g: Gyan kiran, Aditya, Naveen, Suresh, Shirish, Aswin, Kiran pothina, Rahul, Praveen, Mahesh and few others). It was a time pass for all those who don’t sleep at nights. I don’t know whose idea was this, but it was fun for all the hostel mates of MSIT. I miss a lot those days, and I miss you all guys.

Silver Jubilee Birthday

29/01/2010. Yeah! My 25^th birthday.. A good friend from my intermediate class shares the same day. Happy silver jubilee birthday to Chaitanya.

I’ve gotten so many birthday wishes, cakes, gifts from all of you. That’s really sweet :) Thank you so much.

It was really awesome to complete 25 years of life and celebrating with my friends. I had a great time with all my friends, colleagues and students. I still couldn’t believe that I cut a total of 5 cakes on this day. After a long time, I met some of my MSIT classmates and we all had a great time having dinner together. I am very thankful to my colleagues and Sub-juniors batch at MSIT and my classmates for making this day memorable for me. Here are some pics and videos taken on my birthday…

It's my 25th Birthday

Today I turn 25. If the letters L I F E constitute 100 years, I finished one quarter of that race. Some say life as “Living In Faith Everyday”, some others say “Living In Forever Experiences”. Whatever it may be, I am Living It to the Fullest Every day. These Birthdays remind me that I am getting older but when I look back to the past I have many more beautiful days in my life. This time, things changed a lot compared to my previous birthday. Finished my college life, started career, Staying outside with friends, but only one thing didn’t change... Playing games and sports like Cricket, Volleyball, Shuttle badminton etc. Hope it will continue all the way my life..:-)

Some of my memorable things in my life till now starting from the latest...

· Working as a TA for 2009 batch students at IIIT & JNTU (Especially in the time of Algorithms course)

· Talk with Prof. Carter when he visited India

· Won the cricket tournament against JNTU in Spree celebrations

· My Upanayanam Ceremony on March 5^th 2009

· My last year’s birthday cake

· Hogenakkal trip (Never forget the tour plan by Lokesh)

· Tours & trips in and around Hyderabad with Vizagites

· Araku trip in Nov’09, Jan’09 and Oct’08

· Team Mighty Developers in Software Engineering Specialization (Rahman, Jayvardhan, Mahathi, Unnati and myself)

· The feeling when I cleared Group discussion of Capgemini (Thanks to Daniel and Mahathi who helped me that day)

· MSIT classmates

· Hostel life in MSIT

· First 3 months of MSIT

· The time when I stayed in 7/G Priya Enclave (Miss u all guys)

· My first job in Apex

· Never forget the day when we (me and Vithal) got first prize for paper presentation in CBIT, Hyderabad

· B-tech Final year Project work in CITD, Hyderabad (along with my classmates Surya, Ravi and Padmanabham)

· Kho-Kho match against our Juniors in B-tech

· Cricket match with IT team as part of Principals cup in my B-tech (We won it with our secondary team)

· Industrial training in Jindal steels (In the 15 day training period we bunked 3 days and went to movies. The movie Sivaputrudu was unforgettable!!)

· B-tech friends

· Metallurgy lecturer’s class in 2^nd year b-tech

· Bunking classes and having breakfast and snacks in Dakamarri hotel

· Played cricket daily for 5 months after my intermediate

· My birthday in 2000(10^th class)

· The day when I got first prize in high jump in District level

· The day when my hand got fractured while practicing High jump in school

· Sports day and annual day celebrations in schooling

· Friends at home(Purushothapuram)

And the list goes on......

I have so many friends and well wishers who make my days memorable and I’m very much thankful to all of them and finally hoping for a great year ahead in all aspects of my life.