peeeyess 2 @ Bangalore comes to an end....

Summary : PS2 a.k.a Internships are an amazing experience!

Mentioning the summary in the beginning is spoiling the whole post. But there are reasons why I told it before I begin:

1. Because the summary is more important than the whole post (which is crap!)
   
2. Because if you don't like the summary, then you needn't read the whole post (and save your precious time!)
   
3. Because I am a thriller!!! :D

Today is my last day at Yahoo!. I had a great time in Bangalore doing my Internship. It was the perfect bridge between college life and professional life. I must say that a 6 month practice school (read internship) program, thanks to BITS-Pilani curriculum, shall hold you in good shape when you begin your professional life. The internship program at Y! started off at a slow pace, wherein they gave interns a lot of time to explore and read up stuff. Then I was assigned a research project to work on ; where there were no predefined deadlines to meet. After midsems, I was put into a live project (which is gonna be released next month) wherein i became familiar with the Scrum methodology of software development cycle. This involved daily sprint meetings and daily deadlines. In the end, it was a great learning experience.

I shall be moving to Hyderabad to join D. E. Shaw on 2nd July. This means parting away from Da Bombs (very close set of friends , I made at BITS-Pilani ; who stayed 2gether for 3 continuous years). This feels SAD....BUT It's not the end.. It's a new beginning...A new life....Cheers!!!

PACMAN

ohh man!...i still remember those school days.
once a week,computer lab period (i m talking of 1994-1995).....we used to fight for a computer in the lab to play PACMAN!!!
those prizes such as cherries,strawberries,apples etc that used to pop up, which accounted for some value points....those four large round power-up objects ,tat used to provide Pac-Man with the temporary ability to eat the ghosts...:)
man...those days were simply beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

btw,i was reminded of 'pacman' coz the new project which was assigned to me 2day is code-named 'PACMAN'

first post!!

Ok…here it is…..my first BLOG!!!

why did i choose "Afterglow!" as the title of my blog ?

after spending some half an hour(yes!! 30 long minutes that too during office hours :)) thinking of a title (confused as usual...), i finally decided to name it "Afterglow!" dedicated to the song called "afterglow" by INXS.
guys, i hav fallen in love withis song...esp the INXS and the sona feat one!
Here's the song : Sona with INXS 'Afterglow'
and regarding the "!" after the word 'AfterGlow' in my title, thats like the yahoo! style of 'trademark'ing things :D

btw, in the process of selecting a title for my blog, i came across this interesting site : What Do You Call Your Blog ?