Happy Birthday to 'my fair lady'

It all started when my Maths Lecturer (JJ) asked the girls to take the middle row of benches while the boys on either rows parallel to it, i didn't know i am gonna meet a girl who would fill my dreams, smiles & tears

It was the first year - second semester, Both the ends met.
She sat near me, a small gap filling the space between our benches (oh, Einstein's theory of relativity is just a gap away...). I felt an unwritten shyness whenever i turned left to see her. Slowly we started speaking, only a few words :)

We spoke a little on our family too. I exchanged my Electronics assignments for her Maths. Those were the days i would always love to remember

She spoke so naturally that when you hear her, u would never want to interrupt the silence of her speech. Unconsciously she began to fill my dreams.

She was interested in me, so as I. I like her appreciating my tamil poems on nature (she was a topper in +2 Tamil). I never used to write tamil poems on girls, even if i do, it would be only a teasing one.

I thought of writing a poem teasing her (with a concept of, her name hidden in it). I framed the entire poem in my heart and when wrote, as u can expect it didn't tease her instead turned into one of the masterpieces of my poems

On the day of showing this to her, I didn’t say its for her, instead I asked her to find a girl’s name in it. She searched the whole poem but didn’t get that.

You know what she said when I showed her name by placing my left hand vertically over the poem page leaving the first letters of each line grouped to reveal her name, “I had expected this” :)

That day afternoon, I asked her “Ennai pidichirukka?” a line that I borrowed from the famous song of Minnale at that time.

She replied immediately, “Yes, as a friend”… but the next day the gap between us increased, she sat in the last bench (mine is last but one @ the right) that too in the middle.

Slowly she started avoiding me and i thought "I should not have said that too early". She didn't speak much after that event and even if I speak she heared it with less interest

Then came the second sem exams and the holidays.

The last day of first year

And my entry into the corporate world marks his first anniversary at the dawn of the day.

Hip Hip Hoohrey! I have completed a successful year in TCS, a so called 'Government Company' in Indian S/W industry

Last year, i made my first train journey, from Pondicherry to Trivandrum to join TCS @ TechnoPark campus for Initial Learning Program (ILP)

A lovely training period in TVM (that's how we call Trivandrum) taught me a lot that i have forgotten eventually :)

Well thats OK, the point is 'learning @ tvm' is one of the best in my life.
Then i got transferred to Hyderabad and if u want to know 'Why i didn't get Chennai?',
better browse my archives, i don't want to say here :(

If i didn't say a word abt Kasa Kiran, my First PL, i think this is the worst post i am publishing (i knowda, don't ask me which is the best post u have written)

He is so amiable and stuffed with kin. He removed the fear of the so called 'Corporate World' in me and taught me how to live every moment with joy in this world of Stress

The 'one year life' away from home made me to get worried at times but still went like a flash (not the one of Macromedia), gave me the oppurtunity to prove myself with Flash (this one is the Macromedia's) fortunately at the time of my appraisal

Still a long way to go in learning & exploring the world of 'Idiot Box'
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs, Apple CEO

Change Request

I had expected some web development work when i did Sports web, but not so quick.

When my Program Manager asked to develop a small Change control tracker for MS CRM warehouse divison, Why to miss the oppurtunity? i simply decided to implement, now in ASP.net

There was a cool coincidence in both the flash & web design that i would like to share with u. At one point of time, I was about to drop the thing but then I came back and done it with gr8 success, as far as i consider so :)

If u take the flash site, the organiser needed the sports web immediately on the next day and when i stuggled in doing a movie clip, he insisted me to do in html as if questioning me 'Is that all u r Flash skill?'.
In web design, there were no proper information given and when i designed the web template, they asked me to entirely reshuffle it. I was also not satisfied with the design at the initial stage and this time, i thought of myself 'Is that all u r web design skill?'

I was at the extreme frustration at both times

But still i love those 'come back' moments which brought out the confidence in me and helped me in completing the task with full personal satisfaction

I have one more important task owe to my first PL. Let me do it, atleast this time, without any 'Come Back' moment :)

And the King goes alone

Today i played my Quarter Finals

You know what is the first piece to go. Its the "Queen" (Mouly paathukko)
The queen was quietly standing next to the king and i dont why he was furious in knocking out the queen with his one

Then my king gave a blow to the other's queen. It all started like this.
Then one by one we exchanged our pieces - bishops, horses and some pawns

Atlast i was left with an elephant(ROOK)and few pawns and the Opponent with two elephants and many pawns

That made the difference. He tricked me to lose my last rook and therefore i was helpless

Now again he reclaimed the queen by moving his pawn to the end and made a checkmate with his queen with Rooks supporting it

I simply blown the queen and the Rook jumped at my King to end the game

Sports

That was a beautiful day and a beautiful cricket match I played on Saturday in Microsoft campus. The climate was so cool.

When i touched the Cricket bat, i just recollected my school days where i am rushing towards the ground on almost all weekends for playing cricket. Crying for batting when OUT on the first ball, to hitting fours & sixes and winning the game ..... all flashed in my mind.

Those were such golden days that i would always love to remember - Cricket

Now here see me in my full force on the Saturday match where we won the FINALS

Carroms is another game i love to play.

See my eyes in the pic, it ignores the opponent and sees only the board & the coins to improve the concentration. This was my first round

But unfortunately a huge crowd gathered around me on the second round and i couldn't avoid the distraction. Ultimately i lost

Still in Chess i have moved to third round and i can see the King in me. Let me see what happens.