Boredoom setting in

End of first week in London and the same old boredoom is setting in. Last year every friday me and the roomies used to get to Central London and drink our way through the night. However, I dont like it anymore. Same old guys (the roomies). One of the guys is cool and the other is currently pursuing MBA. He is in a different state of mind. We keep talking the same old things. I guess today I will stay at home. Won't accompany them anywhere.

Morever, there is no point ogling at the english chicks which we used to do, I hate it. I'm thinking of getting a chick of my own ;-). I'm on a major hunt this time. God knows what was I doing last year. Should have started doing it then.

Depression man .. manic depression. I can make a good song right now if I was a musician. Emotions are running high.

Reached London

Well, whenever I try to see my blog I dont see the last 2 updates of mine on it. I can see all the rest. Looks like this blogger.com software is dodgy. Will give it a week. If it dosen't get sorted out I think I will switch to rediff. That's pretty good I heard.

So, the saga has gone 7000 miles apart now. I've reached London. There are quite a few things to talk about now.

Firstly, I might be included into a new project called COMS for which I might have to get to Houston. There are hurdles to it but. As you know life aint that simple.
Some big time manager there is being asked to influence my onsite manager here to get me out of this project and include me into that. Its kinda long shot but lets see how it goes. Till now everything is being going smooth.

So now my quitting plan needs to be rethought. It might be like this. I go to US on an H1. I see that I am getting a better Salary outside so I switch.

In case going to US fails things are as they are, meaning, quit here in UK and get a newer job. Now again, that has strings attached. Work permit issues and all that Jazz!

Time to quit

The time has come to say bye-bye to CTS. I'm completely bored to death in this company. The project I'm in has no value addition to my career. Moreover, after going to London now I will have to work on ulrta crap technologies like Winrunner. I will be a part of regression testing. My great development skills wasted end to end :-).

The way I'm planning for it is like this. 8th Jan I am back to London. Before that I'm gonna prepare myself for a rock solid technical Java interview. As soon as I land in UK I'm gonna frantically search for a job.

In UK, when you are on a work permit, switching jobs is not as easy as its in the US. You need to find a company which is desperate enough to take you in and sponsor your work permit transfer. Finding such companies is difficult. However , I'm gonna try really hard this time. Hope it will work out.

Now, If this dosen't work out I'm NOT going to stick around. I'm coming back and switching the companies here in India itself. Fuck UK. I don't care a shit about the money there.

One thing which I have realised is, I can't see myself as a Senoir Associate or a APM or a Manager in this company. I constantly have this incling that I'm built for starting up on my own. Now, how I'm going to do that I know not, but till the time I can figure that out I can at least work in better company, meet different people, if not anything at least enjoy life.

So the winds of change have arrived and I'm flowing with them. This is the first time I've felt completely confident about quitting and I might as well do that.

The sad part.

I will have to format a parting mail when I resign and I'm really bad at writing senti stuff.

Meetro

Today I checked out this fantastic service called www.meetro.com.

The idea is to get people are in physical vicinity of each other to meet over IM. All major IM's are supported.

Imagine what this can do?

I wanna go home at 7 pm but the company bus is at 7-30pm. If entire IT park in Pune is on Meetro, I can search for all the Meetro'ers who are in 1/4 Km away from me. I can just post them that "I need a lift". This would save such a hell of my time.

There could be millions of other possibilities like my Mom instructing the Kiranawala to fetch milk over the internet !

Increased interest in politics!

Recently I've been increasinlgy following Indian Politics for some unknown freaking reason. 2 months before, I wouldn't even care a shit about what Laloo and Nitish are upto!

Back home in MH Shiv Sena's battle to integrate itself after Raj gave kalti is also getting interesting. The fall of Shiv Sena is good for MH coz' there are better leaders out there like Sharad Pawar et al.

Another startling fact I'm rising upto is, I'm having this faint inclination towards getting into politics myself ! Yup, totally absurd I know. Seedha Saadha guy like me will be eaten alive among those wolves. But then someone needs to come out to make the difference. What do you think? Will you vote for me? :-)

Cycle Keys - Found them!!

My frantic search yesterday night bought me success.
The keys were in one of my shorts! They fell down into the drum of our washing machine.
Our bai found it when she was picking out clothes from the washing machine !!!

Phew!! I didn't have to vreak the lock after all.

Lost my bi-cycle keys!

If you've been following my earlier posts you must be aware that I am now an avid cycler. I do most of the houseold chores on cycle.

Recently, I've lost my cycle keys and I've tried to hunt around the entire house with vain :-( . Its tyres have lost all the air and I'm suspecting a puncture. If I don't get the keys by this weekend I will need to break open the lock by banging it with a stone !! I hope I don't break any other parts of that thing.

Sad, but true.

SoonR - A neat startup

www.SoonR.com is a startup aimed at providing a service wherein you can browse your desktop computer from your very own mobile phone.

I got curious and wanted to know how it works. The plan is simple and neat. I like their technology.

You create an account with www.SoonR.com. On your desktop PC you need to install a SoonR agent software. The desktop needs to have internet connectivity.

On the end user side , all you do is point your mobile phone browser to www.soonr.com, enter your SoonR accounts user name and passwd and browse your desktop!!

If you want to share some files with your friends (mobile or PC) you can do so too!!

I like this man. I really like this! Innovation man Innovation !!

Tata infotech & TCS merging

Tata infotech and TCS are merging. The Board of Directors of both the companies have given the go ahead. The companies are now waiting to get the permission of the merger from their shareholders.

After the merger, 2 shares of Tata Infotech will be equal to 1 share of TCS.

If you have Tata Infotech stock, believe me you are in luck since TCS stock is a great performer.Retain it.

Continuing to save our environment

By this time I've become paranoid to make an effort to save the environment. I've also taken some steps for it. No. I am not going to give you theory. This is me, who leads with practise ;-)

1) I've started keeping a jute bag in the dicky of my car. Whenever we buy anything on the way, I always avoid taking plastic bags. I make use of my jute bag.

Well, let me admit I haven't been 100% successful in this endaveour of mine. But I've got 70% hit rate. Not too bad for a starter I think.

2) I end up doing a lot of houseold chores during Saturday and Sunday. Earlier I used to do it by travelling on my car or my sis's scooter. I now use my bi-cycle. And let me tell you I have a 100% hit rate on this one.

Another blessing in disguise of (2) is my petrol costs have gone down from Rupees 2000 a month to 1600 Rupees.

I will make it a point to update every effort I take to this blog. Maybe, I will end up inspiring someone. :-)