"First job offer"

Thought of just putting down my memories of certain incidents and changes in my life.

Job searching/hunting or even jobs collecting was fun and in the same time very stressfull…..

Since there were no campus placements in my college I just waited for my final sem exams to get over. And then I started searching.

It wud have been just a week after my exams tat we had an opportunity to write for “US Technologies “ .

We had tied up with Offcampus pool program with Saptagiri college and HKBK college .
So whenever the criteria matches i.e 65% above candidates or some similar criteria we wud get a call from the placement officers of tat college.


US Technologies placement was held on 19 and 20 th of june…. We just finished our project exam on june 13 and were relaxing and stuff ….

When we heard abt this placement with great difficulties we tried to read RS Aggarwal and other aptitude books.

The day arrived… I made friends with students from different branches of engg to in my college. Got close to Sowmya & Nadeem of EC.
And since my last sem class was combined with CS . we IS students got to make friends with CS ppl too…

Some of my close friends in CS were Praveen Srivastava, Divya Lok Suman,Wishi Aggarwal. And in IS , prathibha.

We usually meet up in shivajinagar at 8 am and then go together for the respective college.

We reached saptagiri college around 9 am and then waited for so long until the US.T ppl arrived.
Their flight reached ontime, but the banglore traffic delayed them .
They came around 2 pm. And started with intro an stuff.

We had our written Aptitude test that day which consisted of RS Aggarwal kind of qs it was pretty interesting and tricky….

After much delay we got to know tat we were selected and were supposed to come the next day i.e 20 th for the Group discuusion.

We leftthe college around 8 tat day and were asked to report in the morning 9 am next day… we hardly had time to relax…

Our GD started and sowmya went first has she was in group 2 . she dint make it….

Then next I went and I got thru it was fun… we had two topics it was fun…
Praveen got thru too….

Tehn we were sent to HR + tech round my HR was a lady…. She asked few tech qs.
She gave me two puzzles to solve it was fun..

She was dazed abt my other activities of MS and she was asking abt it a lot….

And then at 6 pm we got to know tat I was thru….

This was my First placement or Job .

Was quite happy abt it,, apart from the fact tat I had to goto Trivandrum for the job.

From my college it was me, Praveen, amit, aatif, and few more totally 7 i guess.

UST was a good company CMM level 5 company but I had to leave Bangalore which was very tuff for me…….


This was my First job offer. :)

Magical Mystery Of Life

Life has its own unique blend of everything ...

You might be just thinking that
this is the way its gonna be ...
this is how iam gonna live...

but you know what ......Sometimes its just not so..............

Few days from now i might just laugh reading at my own blog...

but then... you know i guess i am growing up each

and every day and gaining loads of experience in life.

Some are sweet some are sour...
Some are shocking but still amazing....

The best part of life is we get Gifts everyday....

Rather than being nostalgic and cribbing over things

which i usually do iam learning to just keep moving on and on in life and

learning to take life as it comes without any regrets..

Our Life is just a mere reflection of what we believe,understand and accept .

Being a Gal

Ya being a gal is one of the nicest thing in life according to me atleast....

One of of my friend who happens to be well experienced in life wrote a poem

about gals....

usually we hear from boys that gals are so tough to be understood... but then

here is what my friend has to say ....

When a GIRL is quiet, Millions of things are running in her mind.
When a GIRL is not arguing, She is thinking deeply.
When a GIRL looks at u with eyes full of questions, She is wondering how long you will be around.
When a GIRL answers "i'm fine" after a few seconds, She is not at all fine.
When a GIRL stares at you, She is wondering why you are lying.
When a GIRL says I love you, She means it.
When a GIRL says "i miss you",
No one in this world can miss you more than her.

Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions


Case 1
When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.

And what did the Russians do...?? They used a pencil.



Case 2 One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly! line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.
Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line. Moral : Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems



Always Focus on solutions & not on problems
So at the end of the day the thing that really matters is HOW ONE LOOKS INTO THE PROBLEM, mere perceptions can solve the tough probs...

Style of Decision making.........

Each of us tends to have a certain style of decision-making.

Take a glance at the list below, and see where you fit in:

Impulsive – you go for the first choice presented to you.

Fatalistic – if something's meant to happen it will, it's fate.

Compliant – you go along with the crowd or someone else's opinion.

Delaying – you need more time, or you'll think about it later.

Agonizing – you feel overwhelmed, and can't make up your mind.

Balancing – you weigh all the factors, and then go ahead.

Of course, the ideal method is the last, "Balancing."

And a very simple tool to help you do just that is something

called "Benjamin Franklin's Balance Sheet."

And yes, it's something good old Ben came up with to

help himself make decisions. It's very simple.

Simply take a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle.

On one side, put the pros for the option you are considering and on the

other, put the cons.
You can then refine it and assign each entry a "weight"

according to importance of +0 to +10 points for the pro side

and -0 to -10 points for the cons, and add them up.

You'll quickly see the benefits of either side, and your decision will then

almost make itself.

So here's to better decision making to set you on the road to success!

Ajax

The word "Ajax" is the latest Buzzword everywhere.

Ajax is a technology that runs in your browser . It uses asynchronous data transfer

between the browser and the webserver , allowing webpages to request small bits of

information from the server instead of whole pages.

It is a Webbrowser tecnology independent of webserver software.


If we start wondering abt What makes Ajax differnt ?

Well , an Ajaz application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of

interacting on the web by introducing - an Ajax engine- between the

user and the server .

Instead of loading a webpage , at the start of the session ,the browser loads an

Ajax engine - wriiten in javascript and usually tucked away in a hidden frame.

This engine is responsible for both rendering the interface the user sees and

communicating with the server on the users behalf.











By the way AJAX stands for : "Asynchronous JavaScript and Xml"


All the new major products launched by GOOGLE use Ajax technology,

Gmail,Google groups, Google Suggests, Google Maps. etc.

Republic Day - 26th jan

****** HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY******



India is a place for everything.



Every happening from sun rise to sun set Every Morning ...


Every Work...

Every color ...

Every Fashion and Style ...

For Every foot Step...

Every Mood of Life...

At Every Door Step..


Every time its a place to take rest.



Thanks to India

MOBILE SPREE & HOUSE HUNTING

Iam currently changing n number of mobiles.........

ya i had a Tata Indicom mobile from 2 months and now an Airtel connection ....

Hope i dont change this now......

I kind of dislike all this Lifetime offer.... ppl are uneccessarily falling for it ,

without realising the increase of outgoing calls rate and the SMS hike.... well it depends....

We are desperately searching for a gud house to move in now...

well as of now we have liked a nearby apartment

i just hope we get in there , cos i love that place....


its beautifull and calm .....

i can atleast relax a bit over there...........

hmm now the sad part is iam gonna miss the home which iam staying

ryt now... though it is lil small it's something which i was in since my standard 8th...

all my important years of academic was spent here ..

This house has witnessed all my tuff times, fears, happiness evrything....

Well i had to leave it one day or the other..

I am taking away the beautifull memories of this neighbourhood.

Oh god iam gonna miss this home.......

New Year and a New beginning for me

This year really marks a beginning for many things inmy life.....

First of all It was "My Birthday"...

had a great & sweetmoment cutting cake at 12 AM , with my parents and

brother beside...

Got many phone calls from all my frenz, with wishes pouring in....



And this year i must say.......

Iam blessed with the most precious thing which i wud never like to

loose forever.

To sum it up in 3 words --> "Iam very happy ".



Have loads of challenge ahead this year, ryt form choosing a good project

and finishing up my MSAPP proj, and most of all getting in to a good company.

Things have been delaying reg my Proj in HP, am hoping for the best but....

have lots of things to catch up soon after my exams, which is going on ryt now...

I just wish our country wud have a Wonderfull and great year 2006.

MSAPP - RSS READER

I have decided to take up MSAPP project . i.e Microsoft student academic project .

iam planning to do RSS READER.

RSS is a family of XML file formats for Web syndication used by (amongst other things) news websites and weblogs.

REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION


The technology of RSS allows Internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds; these are typically sites that change or add content regularly. To use this technology, site owners create or obtain specialized software (such as a content management system) which, in the machine-readable XML format, presents new articles in a list, giving a line or two of each article and a link to the full article or post. Unlike subscriptions to many printed newspapers and magazines, most RSS subscriptions are free.
The RSS formats provide web content or summaries of web content together with links to the full versions of the content, and other meta-data. This information is delivered as an XML file called an RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. In addition to facilitating syndication, RSS allows a website's frequent readers to track updates on the site using an aggregator.

sandhya crowned as -MS AMBASSADOR

Hmmmmmmm

looks like my dreams are coming true....

ya iam talking abt NOV13 sunday 2005 i was awarded as MS Ambassador.
this was something which was after i was recognised for my duties as SChamp and the sessions in .NET and stuff.

so i was really happy... a year ago i watched
Raghavan,Sabarish,deepthi,ghanshyam,sunil and sharath getting this award and i wished that i shud be the winner next year and I DID IT.

I was so happy, me,garima,bhaskar and shreenath got the awards.
Deepak and Kevin gave it away.

COMMUNUTTY-NITE (My first Award from MS)

Date: sep 29

Venue: Hotel Grand Ashoka
Bangalore

Event: CommuNutty -Nite

Hmmm What a day it was????
Well there are various reasons for that......
but let me recollect the start of the event....

Oh ya the Event was conducted for an interaction between the studentchamps and JOE WILSON the man behind IMAGINE CUP contests of MS.

Sunil made a gr8 entrance by doing the "Steve Balmer- monket act", followed by Garima's M/C'ing.

We had to talk about our events and contests and works of our BDNS community,
which was called communutty that nyt.

I gave a speech on "DATE WITH DOTNET" event.
It turned out well ... the funniest part was garima introduced me to the crowd saying that i was gonna talk abt my first date..........

Oh gosh i was all blushing for a sec...
then was alryt......
Lollllllll

Hmm here comes the best part.
I was given an awrd ".NUT "award.
The goodies -> licensed SP2 and updates of XP and student kit, and INETA t-shirt, and.........
oh ya a MS time piece its so cute....
oh god... it was quite shocking....
the gr8 Joe wilson himself gave it to me...

Hmm well my friends shreenath,garima,abhinav,bhaskar were also given awards.

It was such a nice moment.

Our day ended with good chat with our alumni - champs -> sabarish and Ghanshyam...
They were pulling my leg asking abt my dates and bf's.
unfortunately we gals were caught redhanded discussing about Gf-Bf issues....

The look in Ghanshyams and Sab's face was so funny.
They have misunderstood us (gals) properly... ... well let them carry on....hahahahaha.............

We had a good dinner and took off..

This is one of the day which i cannot forget....

Busy Bee

I guess hav to call myself one Busy Bee buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Ya have loads of work pending , well just stopped by to do some blogging...........

Oh Gosh by the way iam expecting my 6th sem results today,

God save our souls ......

My Mschamp activities are also turning out to be interesting, last week had a student champ training for us in MSRIT , it was awesome.

.NET is absolutely amazing.......
Iam all in love ith it, i end up spending nyts together trying to explore the powers of .NET.
Wow and that too ASP.NET , dont ask me iam completely gaga over it, its so interesting..

Well JAVA is turning out to be one of my fav subjects in my college. College is all the same...
Same Chairman and his same old rules.....


hmmm well on the other side...
Things are going on as planned by me , hahaha......
lemme check how much can sandhya listen to herself ...hehehehe.........

"WOW" is the only suitable word for this poem

Run, boy, run!
Follow the voice that rings within, that’s it.
You haven’t got anything else to do in this world.

May they call you blind, May they call you mad,
May they throw you out of their little world,
Just listen to what it says, go on...

The Master is only One, and He is within you.
If you want Him to be there… He is there, above you...
Below you, Beside you, in each and every nook and corner you can look at.
No matter what...never ever...take your eye off the beacon.

Did they throw stones at you for no reason?
At you, who can’t even walk straight?
And you stand and blame destiny? No.
See clearly...just look in.
You would never have run on earth, hadn’t the stones flown at you.
You would never have run like the wind blew.

Now you look at your legs and then at the gash on your forehead,
And say to yourself, “Oh, My Jesus! I never knew You loved me this much”

Run, boy, run!

Some of them you met more often, they leave you...
They keep running on their own roads,
If you happen to meet them here or there,
Say a hi, say a word of love and mean it.
Say a bye and get back to your road.
But be there, always, for them.

Some of them slip off the stage, while you were still there.
Oh, what made a difference to you?
Your beacon is still there, since it’s within you.
They came so they have gone.
They wouldn’t have, hadn’t they come.

And some of them haven’t slipped off, they just slid down.
Oh, is it?
Just throw your hand into them.
They hold it? Just drag them up.
They didn’t see it? Shake it once or twice.
They saw, and yet they didn’t see?
Just draw your hand back and resume your run.

Run, boy, run!

And most of all, you might loose a part or two of what you called your body.
The question you ask yourself remains the same, ”So what?”
You are still what you are.



Don’t say this wasn’t your destiny.
For you wouldn’t call it destiny had it not happened.
Have Him in heart and if you did, let me tell you.
On the day you leave, you would look back only to see how glorious it was.

Run, boy, run!
Go on and on...on the wings of the Master!

My First Step In To The ****JAVA World****

"Java" has been one of the most-talked about languages from few years,

I cant blog about JAVA in my tech blog, cos it has a MS background .....LOL.......

Well first of all i wanted to know stuffs about JAVA , and here goes my first quest about JAVA.......

Java coffee is a coffee produced on the island of Java. (Hmm but iam not gonna talk about this.... )

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed primarily by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems.

The language, initially called Oak (named after the oak trees outside Gosling's office), was intended to replace C++, although the feature set better resembles that of Objective C. Java should not be confused with JavaScript, which shares only the name and a similar C-like syntax. Sun Microsystems currently maintains and updates Java regularly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

(Hmm Sun Microsystems is one of the big fishes which iam targetting on...)


A computer language that can be read by many different computer platforms without the need for programmers to laboriously port the program to each platform. Java programs are automatically downloaded and executed on the client side by the web browser.

Small Java applications are called Java applets and can be downloaded from a Web server and run on your computer by a Java-compatible Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.


Common Java applets used on Web pages include animation, calculators, and counters. JavaScript A scripting language developed by Netscape that interacts with HTML source code, allowing for interactive Web sites. JavaScript is used for things such as "rollover buttons" (graphics that change color when you run your mouse over them), rotating banners, MIDI jukeboxes, pop-up windows, etc. JPEG (or JPG) Joint Photographic Experts Group: a type of image

A programming language that is designed to be platform-independent. This is achieved by the use of "virtual machines" that allow Java programs to run on a particular operating system. One of the common uses of Java is to create Applets that run inside a web page.

( Googling abt JAVA.......)

A Short Story ->Secret Of Happiness

Hmm this is a quite interesting story cos i belong to this category of "Donno how to have fun"
kind of girl. .....LOL.........

I just get lost and get highly committed to my responsibilites that i seldom forget to be happy...
Well this story just changed my idea.....
lets see how i am gonna do in future.

Once upon a time .........

A Boy went out in search of happiness , he was said by people that their was a wise man who knew everything about life and death.
So he decided to go to his place.

Rather than finding a saintly man in the mansion , he found all the riches of the world in the mansion, beautifull garden, the world’s best delicacies all ready and served, and good music and other things.

He finally found the wise man , after listening carefully to the boy’s purpose of visit.
The wise man said that he didn’t have time to give him a lecture , and then to explain the secret of happiness.
He suggested the boy to look around the place and return in 2 hours without spilling the 2 drops of oil frm the spoon which the wise man gave .

The boy went back and came after 2 hours.
When the wise man asked that did he notice the beautifull carvings in the mansion, and the garden which took ten years for the gardener to create, and the beautifull parchments in my library ?

The boy was embarrassed and confessed that he had observed nothing. His only concern had been not to spill the oil which the old man had entrusted to him.

Then go back said the old man ,”you cannot trust a man if u don’t know his house”.

Relieved the boy went back and this time he carefully observed everything in and around the house. When he returned he related in detail everytng he had seen.

“but where are the drops of oil I entrusted to you ?” asked the wise man.

“looking down at he spoon he held, he boy saw that the oil was gone.”
The wise man said:
“well there is only one piece of advice I can give u “, said the wisest of all.

“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

The Boy was amazed to listen to the wise guy words and went home happily to share his happiness....

Visit To Vemana

My college just started yesterday and i already bunked the 2nd day actually it was a mass bunk, and i nodded my head cos i wanted to go to Vemana today.
I met my friend lakshmi there we both are planning to to take CPT organised by National Technology Foundation (NTF).
Hmm well its sounds very interesting cos they say its real tough .
We had a nice time later in a Complex nearby did some lil girl talking in their Parking lounge too.Have been to there college a year back to meet my friend cheeru there. Nice college .

Oh ya and the climate was too gud to make my day even more cheerfull.
It was drizzling and i just enjoy driving in that Intermediate Ring Road , how i wished that road wud never end cos it was too gud but later was cursing the Government and their road repair works who had stopped my drive by making me to take diversion cos som road work was going on hmmmmm.

Wow i just love rain, the climate and evrything of this season.
K i hav to do some googling and start preparing for CPT.

hmmm i wonder what i wud be doing the same day next year........
Me and My La-La land.....
Oh God....

My First Day Of Last Year In College

Cant believe but it's true am a final year student now.
Hmmm It was a very gud today altogether .
Had both happy and shocking moments today.
Not bad for a first day.
Happiest moment was to flaunt away my "Nova" mobike (which was lost and found)
to my friends cos they r seeing it after a very long time.
I cant say howmuch i admire my bike. Well it got so used to me that it cudnt be without me, i guess "it made its way back to me".
Shocking there are many nav lost his eligibility and decided to quit B.E but he wont .
This VTU really changes ppl and their lives a lot.
Oh gosh If we are not lil aware abt the happenings even for a sec , we are finished.

Now comes the Best part
I had been to the St.josephs with my friends (RNPS) there was an event called "EQUIXON".
It was a very funfilled event with lots of songs,dances and Mad-ads.
They were simply superb.
We managed to get inside cos of my friend's bro who studies there.
We introduced ourselves as first year B.E students LOL......
Gr8 youngsters around 17 -18 yrs of age may be , they were so talented and full of energy.Was cheering them like anything.
Was just seeing them and admiring their talents.
I donno why but am really a gr8 admirer of evrything.

It was gr8 cos for few hours i really forgot evrything sat back and enjoyed my day!!!


"Final Year->>apart from enjoying my final year of students life , I hav to give the best for my future Career today".

A Cracked Pot

You've just got to take each person for what they are,and look for the good in them.

This is one beautifull story which i always wanna be remembered of.

A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hungon the ends of a pole which he carried across hisneck..
One of the pots had a crack in it, while theother pot was perfect and always delivered a fullportion of water.
At the end of the long walk from thestream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only halffull.

For a full two years this went on daily, withthe bearer delivering only one and a half pots full ofwater to his house.

Of course, the perfect pot wasproud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it wasmade.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its ownimperfection, and miserable that it was able toaccomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitterfailure, it spoke tothe water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamedof myself, and because this crack in my side causeswater to leak out all the way back to your house.

"The bearer said to the pot,"Did you notice that there were flowers only on yourside of the path, but not on the other pot's side?That's because I have always known about your flaw,and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path,and every day while we walk back,you've watered them.For two years I have been able to pick these beautifulflowers todecorate the table.

Without you being just the way youare, there would not be this beauty to grace thehouse"

Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're allcracked pots.But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that makeour lives together so very interesting and rewarding.You've just got to take each person for what they are,and look for the good in them.

My silent prayer

I believe that for every heart that whispers at dark there is a ray of hope shining through.
Iam seeking the closest thing to heaven by seeking God.

Hav u Ever trusted someone so deeply? Knowing well that u wont be trusted instead.
How easy life wud be if there were only two answers for everything in this world "yes" or "no".
Hav u ever shed ur tears to someone whom u care the most without even expecting to be embraced by that person.
Well here iam a gal in her dream world, wandering around desperartely searching for various answers .
How easy life wud be if we can know everything what we want to know ..........


I hav gotta reason to startover new ,i found out a reason to change the way i used to be and the Reason is ............

Its amazing how God can still be with me and light up my darkness. And i hear what he dont say at all. I cant beleive but its true that we say things to each other without saying a thing.