How's Life ??

"How's Life ?" , "watsup dude ?" , "kya haal hain bhai??" -- These are some of the typical chat/orkut scrap/facebook wall posts......And typical replies to them : "Life's gr88....me doing gud here...hows u doing ??" :D

Its been more than a month that i have made a blog post. And you could imagine how many of these kinda orkut scraps i would hav received and i wud hav written. This led me to dedicate a blog post "How's Life ??"
The sole intention of this blogpost is to keep my readers posted about my "How's Life ??". Well, life's been gud here in Hyderabad.Its been close to one month now at D. E. Shaw, which i would describe as a 'HoneyMoon Period' - the period of your job life when u have no work assigned to u and u'r paid to listen to presentations and technical training :) Now at the end of it, we hav been assigned our respective groups and given some mini projects to complete!!!

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!!!

what.a.day!

It's a friday! We get up in the morning at around 8 am and by 8:45, we were off. Not to our office But to Inox @ Garuda's for a movie show! [:D] Basically, we were done with our end sems report submission and seminar on the previous day. So, we hit upon this brilliant plan and we bunked office on [Thank God It's Friday]. We went for a muvi called 'CheeniKum' where we laughed away to glory especially in the first half. Inspired by the movie, we then tried to test our stamina [:P] by walking to Ebony @ M.G road from Garuda's. Doodie was treating today in his very own Georgia ishtyle for his full-aid scholarship for MS. The rooftop restaurant was on the 13th floor and you could enjoy the best city views in Bangalore. We hogged like crazy over there and then we hit Amoeba,Church Street for a game of Bowling. By the time, we got an alley to ourselves, we helped ourselves to some video gaming and few Air Hockey matches. The bowling game was a high scoring affair with hemanthe (on his debut) having scored a four-bagger(4 consecutive strikes) ended with a staggering score of 170. I took the honours of finishing 2nd with 130 [:)]. Score Card. After that myself,gobar and thakur set off for S.P Road to buy External Hard Disks for ourselves. We had to rush back home after that so that we don't miss our of-late craze, the Indian Idol show at 9pm !!!

PAINTBALL

Wanna play CS ?? But NOT on a wired network.....Then u can try PAINTBALL!!! I got a chance to play this exciting sport when we (Team Pacman!) had gone for a team outing on last friday. It's a chance to shake off your boring monotonous routine corporate life and satisfy the spirit of adventure and relive those beautiful college days of gaming (seeeyes) BUT this time in a real arena!
"Go Go Go" "Team fall back" "Storm the front" "Hold this position" "Aim Headshot"
Check out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintball for more details about the sport.
A company called 'Yuyutsa' offers a PaintBall arena here on the Bannerghatta Road. And they have a tie-up with the adjoining Confident Cascade Resort which takes care of the food and the other sports and swimming pool facilities.

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wen students bcom invigilators!!!

Last sunday, we had been to Wipro (Electronics City,Bangalore) to do an invigilation on behalf of DLPD, BITS-Pilani and it was a pleasant experience (thanks to ma n70 and fever 104.0 :D).It felt kinda strange and something really different to be on the other side of an examination hall , invigilating(ahem ahem inspecting :P) students ; rather than writing the test as we have done till date! It was nHice to see questions of known subjects like CP-II, DSA and the same answer sheet that we used in our 4 yrs at pilani. It was exciting to see and observe students' behaviour during an examination.....last minute discussions before the test begins; various cheating instances; some students taking lotsa additional sheets; junta writing after the final bell; invigilators running behind students to collect their answer sheets,post exam discussions,tallying the answers with friends....n so on. And the best part was trying to recollect what invigilators used 2 say during our exams and speaking out the same in an authoritarian accent....."Please do complete all the details - Write your Name,Id,Course No and Course Name on the front page of the answer script before attempting the questions" "You have to mention explicitly the Section No on top of ur answer sheet" "1 hour over" "1 more hr to go..." "Time's up...Hurry on...SUBMIT" "SUBMIT!!!" "Do you intend to submit ur paper ?" .....and things like that ...hehe :)
We were treated to a brilliant lunch there and on top of that, we were entertained by some god-level mime by KD!!!

PICTURE!!!

Meetings :: The practical alternative to work!

( Source : Y! BLR )

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