Bitten by insect of Professionalism: Life @ Mumbai version 1.0

Hiiii everyone....

So long......I was just dying to write something on my blog........but the some circumstances were not allowing me to do so. Anyways....I am going to share about my experiences at mumbai.

I still remember the day when I with my friends landed at mumbai. The bus dropped us on unknown road at almost 3 O' clock in the morning. I was half asleep then. I had never imagined that this is how my day will be going to start at mumbai. After some inquiry, I came to know that the place was named Fountain hotel, Ghodbunder road, Thane. I tried to call some of my friends who were already got allocation in mumbai. But, it was three in the morning even ghosts were sleeping, what to say about normal human beings. I saw some auto rickshaws standing nearby, but when I went to hire one, I found that even taxi drivers were fast asleep. What a start of the innings at mumbai. I just told my friends to wait for some time as we don't have any other option.

After an hour of wait syndrome, one friend picked the phone and gave us the address where we had our temporary accommodation arrangements. I hired one auto and told autowala to take us to that address. Whenever you visit any place for the first time, you would be going to face the same villain first that is auto or taxi wala. As soon as they sense that you are new to this place, they 'll start telling you all the stories “This address is very far from here”, “I had not been to this place before”, “Our engine is very old and requires more fuel” , “I am charging you very less”, “Ohh!! so many luggage, you have to hire two autos”. I just wanted to freak out on all these dialogues, but had no other option.

Finally after so much of exasperation I finally reached my friend's flat. The very next I had to face the real challenge of getting accommodation near by my job location. Searching a rented accommodation in mumbai is a tedious job. You have to keep on calling many numbers and each number you called , 'll redirect you to four to five numbers again. Finally at the end of the day, you will find your mobile phone crying “No More Memory left For adding Contacts”.One thing that helped us a lot in mumbai that is “INTERNET”. One of my friend told us to just check out sulekha.com. I just submitted my request at the site and soon started getting calls from all around for accommodations. I finally got an accommodation near Thane Railway Station.

Life at mumbai is very fast. First there you will find huge traffic on roads of mumbai. I kept wandering that from where these many numbers of vehicles are coming. Initially I found very difficult to cross the road. Here you will find each and everyone running for their job. You will find only one expression on everyone's face “I am getting late and I am very busy right now!!!” . 

One of the best thing in mumbai is the “Local Train Service”. The whole mumbai subdivision is well connected. If you get once acquired by the local train links, then whole mumbai would be in your hand. Mumbai local is divided into three lines that is western,central and Harbor line. There is so much rush in the local trains that you have never imagined in your life. The whole train once get jam-packed you will find yourself as a solid substance molecule that struggles for intramolecular space. Even the local train station seems to be so crowded that you will struggle to stand at the platform. I have never seen the station over bridge so crowded before in my life. Many a times I have faced a deadlock situation at station over bridge. People get struck in the crowd and have no other option apart from waiting.

Initially I was not knowing that in which TCS office I will be joining. I had to report at TCS Resource management group, Yantra park, Thane. TCS yantra park office is very nice place. RMG Yantra park redirected us to report to TCS gateway park, Anderi. Process of project allocation at TCS sometimes takes a long time. People after getting release from ILP have to wait for a very long time to get into project. Again this depends on your luck that in which project you are getting absorbed. You can get a foreign client's project or ingenious project. I was the lucky that I got my project allocation on that very day. That was the main place where our fate was going to be decided. Every One from ILP batch got project allocation there. I got “SBI Core Banking Solution” project. I got allocation at Belapur, Navi Mumbai. My room mates got seibel, ion and database management project respectively.

There is still a lot of things that I have to tell you about my job in mumbai. I 'll talk to you later. Have to go. Bye Bye.

Thank you!!!!!!!

Chandan Singh

TCS-ILP: Integration Phase, Gandhinagar Gujarat.

Hiii Again,

I m really sorry that I am sharing my TCS-ILP experience very late. I am very busy with the work here in Mumbai. That's another story I will tell you some other day.

By the end of Induction Phase, I came to know that our batch will be going to reshuffled and again distributed in groups for Integration Phase. Again lots of excitement, lots of curiosity, lots of surprises were waiting for us. On the next day we got the batch streaming schedule from our ILP Co-ordinator.

I got UNIX/C++ Stream. My room mates got EntSol and JAVA respectively , lucky fellows. I was very upset that I got UNIX/C++ stream. Thoughts keep wandering in my mind about what new I am going to learn??? This is the same thing which I know. I was not sure of getting good projects coming out of such stream. I started laughing on the pathetic plight of my expectations.

From Next day onwards our stream specific technical sessions started. There again new faces, new class, new faculty and again we all have to start from beginning. Everyone was having the same kind of frustration level for having UNIX / C++ stream. People learning java have luxury of working in graphics rich compilers and to see their output with colorful screens. But we have only one option with

Unix that is same traditional black screen no graphic interface nothing. Initially these things keep bugging our mind, but as more days went by we came out of frustration. After that we realized UNIX is not a jab of knife. It requires continuous practice and a lot of effort to cope up with UNIX. That made us proud. I was also not knowing that there are more proud moments which are waiting for me in near future.

The Integration Phase is much more interesting than induction phase. We have enjoyed a lot while having sessions with UNIX Instructor. We had so much of fun in integration that we went to our college memories. Our Unix faculty was very intelligent lady I tell you. In integration phase we came to learn Unix, shell scripting, oracle sql/plsql, Pro * C etc. Pro* C was the great thing. It gives us flexibility to connect oracle database with C / C++ programs.

The suggestion I would like to give you for ILP Integration phase is just sit back, relax and go with the rigor of the session, everything will be fine. In the end of integration I had two practical evaluations, one for Oracle and another for Unix. I also had one theory evaluation which is objective type. Don't worry you will be clearing all evaluations easily. Then at our final day I got my release letter and I was supposed to report to TCS Mumbai office after five days. PACK YOUR BAGS, ITS TIME TO GO TO MUMBAI. Now I am in Mumbai working on some banking project. There are so many things that I have to tell you about Mumbai. I will tell you about it on some other day.

Till then

Bi Bi, Namaskar, khuda hafis, sabba khair, tata, sayo nara..............

Chandan Singh

Sucess Story.........

From Chandan Kumar Singh, B.Tech Computer Sci.

TCS ILP Gandhinagar- The Journey Begins

Hello everyone,

I am so grateful that some body is willing to go through my experiences at ILP. I am Chandan Singh, from Gaya, Bihar. Please forgive me if I am having any sort of grammatical mistakes. I have got Gandhinagar, Gujarat as my ILP Center. I have to report at Gandhinagar on 16th December, 2010. We were the premapped batch at Gandhinagar. We were supposed to join the Gandhinagar development center after our training.

Our group consists of 25 people. We reached Ahemedabad on 10th December, 2010. Why so early?????As we were premapped batch we are supposed to make our own arrangement for accommodation. It is very easy to get accommodation at Gandhinagar, people used to come and take you to many apartments. Just you need to pick one out and negotiate the rent. Then the flat is yours.

The info-city at Gandhinagar is very good. It has all the residential apartments, bungalows and shopping complex at one side and all Offices, info-city club resort on the other. Info-city has four huge office buildings namely tower 1,tower 2,tower 3 and tower 4 respectively. ILP center is at tower 3 which is also known as “Nal Sarover”. Gandhinagar is heaven for those who like peace,natural beauty, greenery, cleanliness and less crowd. Believe me this place is just like heaven, it is the second greenest city after Chandigarh. Gujarati people are very polite and helpful. They will help you in every possible way. Enough for the place I think.

At 16th December,2010, we reached Tower 3 “Nal Sarover” sharp at 8:45 AM. First we had to make entry at reception and then we seated our self in auditorium. Then a group of HRs came and they had taken sessions on introduction,company's vision,mission, its policies, processes and many more things.They stressed on calling them with their first names, no sir no madam. I spent half of the session thinking, “what is going on exactly?”. Then that thinking process made me very tired and spent remaining half sleeping. Just you all need to keep your eyes open.

After the HR sessions, we proceeded to TCS Canteen area. There HDFC Bank employees were eagerly waiting for us to open our salary account. It was just a simple process, we need to fill up two forms. But let me tell you that the form was just unbearable for us, they have just taken our signatures at more than 60 to 70 places. Yes, you read it correctly it was 60-70 times. I just felt of applying ctrl+C and ctrl+V over there. But it was not possible. They will open your two accounts. First one is your salary account which will be saving account and second one is current account for your all reimbursements.

Then again HR had taken hr session on leave policy and our salary structure. He showed us how to use “Ultimatix” tool. Its an ERP tool which is used by all TCS employees and TCS to keep track of all internal processes. Our first day at TCS ended right there.

On second day also they had given sessions on information security, dos and don'ts at TCS, Tata Code of Conduct, Confidentiality Terms and conditions. Just imagine first two days at TCS and nothing related with studies till now. Initially we were very tensed that TCS is going to take “pre-Test “ and divide us into batches on our performance. But TCS just divided us randomly on second day only. Every batches were given their schedule timings which they needed to follow it from next day onwards.

From next day onwards we sat in our respective learning rooms for training sessions. We used to have two sessions: technical session and life skill session. In technical sessions we used to get all technical stuffs. But life skill sessions were great. You all will going to enjoy in this session a lot. All type of stuffs goes on here dancing singing, skits, ads, comedy, professional grooming and a lot of things. I still miss my ILP life skill sessions. This time TCS has changed its training trends. Now , no more OOPS concepts using scheme. They taught us OOPS and Programming concepts using JAVA. They taught us many things like SQL,UNIX concepts, process models, Software development methodologies especially Object oriented Analysis and design etc during induction phase. Just be prepared to get your hands dirty. That is what trainers used to tell us during technical sessions. Mind you if you are not ready to devote yourself for the work then TCS may be the bad option for you. They used to give us many assignments which we were supposed to complete and upload on the system.

Now you will be thinking about evaluations. Yes they take two individual evaluations and four group evaluation called “mile stones”. Both the individual evaluations will be based on programming and mile stones will be based on dummy project which they will assign you in group. Let me tell you, it is very easy to score good marks in individual evaluations if you are good at logic building We were having three technical sessions and one life skill session daily. We were given two tea beaks of 20 minutes each and one lunch break of 35 to 40 minutes.

Party at TCS: yes TCS had given us a grand party near studio apartments. “Shine and Shimer”- This was the title of party. DJ was playing a great combination of songs by mixing them. We enjoyed a lot over there. Every one just given some steps at party and we just rocked on. Some of the ILP participants also performed on stage. They also performed “Fashion Show”. It was awesome I should say.

I have just completed my induction phase. All milestones and evaluations over. I have cleared my induction phase and my integration phase is going to start from day after tomorrow. Recently we got opportunity to change our posting to mumbai after training. I have applied for the same and I have to report at mumbai branch after completion of my training. I am very happy for that. See you at TCS, don't worry you are going to have great days ahead.

Thank you for your patience reading.

Chandan Singh.

TCS ILP Dates

hiii frnds,

Finally we have got joining date on 16th December 2010 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. We 'll be leaving for gandhinagar on 8th December 2010.

Y so early??????

u 'll ask the same ques nahh

its becoz we are not getting accommodation there so we have to search for it by own means. Hope we 'll be having gr8 days ahead. No planning nothing at all, my mind is totally blank and I m definitely not up to anything. Let's c what happens??????

I m going to do some programming exercises and work on some SQL queries nothing else.....

bi bi
for now

keep reading this blog thanX

Chennai Trip - Day 3

On day 3, my didi had great plans for me. We were going on the pleasure trip “Chennai Darshan”. We have already booked online tickets for Chennai trip on hand. The whole trip was called “HOP-ON HOP-OFF TOUR” which was organized by Tamilnadu Tourism. We caught the tourist bus from Tamilnadu Tourist Complex near triplicane. The whole schedule for the trip was like that, we were to visit Marundeeswarar Temple, VGP ( an amusement park), MGM (an amusement park), Dakshinchitra, Crocodile Bank, Sea Lion Show, Muttukadu Boat House and finally Beach Resort Complex mamallapuram.

We first visited Marundeeswarar Temple. The temple was very beautiful. South India is known for good sculptural temples. South Indian temples have different look, different design which touches the eternal soul of our mind. Then we have decided to go for mamallapuram. The beach at mamallapuram is breath taking. It was pure blue. I thought that I have come to Bahamas where the shooting of movie BLUE was done. We wanted to be there only for some time but the burning hot weather forced us to vacate the place as soon as possible.

Next we visited dolphin city to watch the sea lion show. The show was of 15 minutes. We have seen an American seal there whose performance amused us a lot. From there we moved our self to muttukadu boat house. Hmm but we did not have the patience to go for boating there because we feared to loose our body’s electrolytic balance. The obvious reason was burning hot weather. To recharge our body we rested there for a moment and moved our self to Lake Side restaurant. We collected our ordered Chicken Biryani and Coke bottles. We enjoyed our meals there.

After that we visited VGP “Universal Kingdom Amusement park” which was our next destination. VGP is a popular retreat that offers exciting ranges of amusement rides for everyone in the family. It is a heaven like place for the young ones like us. We have gone for many rides there like London bull. One of my great experiences at VGP was a ride called “TWISTER”. I tell you that ride was awesome. Actually it was a 4D Theater which has all length, breath and depth as well as effect dimensions in it. In that ride we have shown a small movie related to spaceship. Finally we returned to home at 8:30 PM that day. Time for packing my bags because the very next day I had to catch my return train from Chennai to Gaya.

Next morning I caught my train for Gaya from Chennai Egmore which was at 7:30 AM. After boarding the train I felt somewhat relaxed because I heard some people talking in Hindi. On my whole trip to Chennai I was dying to hear Hindi and finally on my return journey I heard that. My return journey was fine but it took almost 41 hours for me to reach Gaya. The train was late by 3.5 hours that was really disgusting.

Okay friends that was the whole story of my Chennai trip.

Catch you later.

Bi Bi

TC

Chennai Trip - Day 2

Hii friends,

On Day 2 we had decided to visit the largest mall of Chennai that is “EXPRESS AVENUE”. Evening is the only time in which you can roam in chennai, because of its hot climate . At 4’O clock in the evening we reached the mall EXPRESS AVENUE. When I entered the mall I could think of only few words that was HUGE, ENORMOUS, MAGNIFICENT etc. It was Sunday and there was a lot of traffic on roads of Chennai. I was very much surprised to see that mall was crowded. I thought for some time that the whole Chennai people have accumulated to that place to celebrate some grand event. I thought as if every corner and every inch of the mall building was pleading me “trahiii maam , trahiii maam” ( in English:” please forgive me!!! Please forgive me”). We were surprised to see the pathetic plight of the mall building. The crowd can be compared with the crowd at “KUMBH MELA” of Allahabad.

Anyways, the mall was huge. You could have got every thing of your need over there. Just name it- pantaloons, Peter England, Black cherry, Levi’s, Allen solly, Allen cooper, Spykar, Lee solly, Louis London, Habib everything. We had a gr8 time over there. It would take almost a whole day to see every corner of the mall. Though Chennai is a metropolitan city but it comes to halt after 10’ O clock. After that we caught the returning bus at 9:30 PM. That’s the second day at Chennai.

Chennai Trip - Day 1

Mastii Time @ Marina Beach

Hii again

My first day at chennai has started quite late because I woke up at 9' O clock in the morning. My didi had plans to visit many places of chennai but our whole plans got shattered. The very obvious reason for this was the very very hot climate of chennai. It was so hot out there at chennai that we have canceled our morning plans. After that we have decided to visit marina beach and a beautiful mall "CITY CENTER" of chennai. At 3:40 PM we caught the bus No: 27L from mogapair to Marina Beach. The transport system of chennai is mind blowing especially the bus service. You can get all kinds of buses including semi deluxe, deluxe and A/C buses suiting your pocket, connecting many places of chennai. It took almost 1.5 hours to reach at marina beach. The beauty of the beach was gr8. I love sea beaches. They are really gr8 place for meditation for me. I have visited many beaches like Puri beach, Konark beach, RK beach and Rishikonda Beach of Vizag but the view of marina beach was very different. At marina beach , I found that beach was enormously crowded and it was some what dirty. We have enjoyed a lot at beach. We have taken a lot of snaps over there. The beach experience was really gr8 for us.

After completing the beach show, we visited "CITY CENTER" mall which is just at a walking distance from there. The exterior design of the mall was marvelous. We have done shopping over there. The main point of interest for me there was the “FOOD COURT”. It contain the outlets for all the major food brands like PIZZA HUT, KFC, Café Coffee Day, Mc Dy, Arabian Treats etc. We have enjoyed our ordered French Fries and Double Cheese Pizza. It was gr8. At 9:30 pm we caught the bus back to our home. That’s the end of my first day at Chennai.

Trip To Chennai.

hiii friends recently I have visited Chennai, capital city of Tamil Nadu. Its a gr8 place but I have a lot of problems over there specially the language problem. The tamil language is far more difficult to get through specially for we north indian people. Though people speak hindi there but its very rare. when I got down from my train some porters sarted to pull my luggage forcefully and when I told them that I don't want one to carry my things. they started makeing disgusting faces and speaking some fluent things which was I thought tamil language. I thing they were definitely cursing me for my negative reply. Neways as I got out of the station, apparently whole auto rickshaw drivers rushed towards me and asked me where????? annaa????

As my elder sister used to live there, in the mean time she appeared like an angel and brought me to her place. yahhh chennai is a nice city and I have to stay here for some days from now. I 'll be telling about my days next time.....till den

tc
bi bi

TTYL

What a Love Story!!!!!!!!! just go through it once.

A boy and a girl were in love.

When the girl's father came to know

about their love, he did not like it at

all, and so began to protest about it.

Now it happened that the two lovers

decided to leave their homes for a happy

future.

The girl's father started searching for

the two lovers but could not find

them .

At last, he accepted their love and

asked them to come back home thru a

local newspaper. Her father said "If

you both come back I will allow you to marry the

guy you love, I accept that you loved

each other truly."

So in this way, their love won and they

returned home.

The couple next day went to town to shop

for the wedding dress. He was dressed

in a white shirt that day. While he was

crossing the road to the other side to

get some drinks for his wife, a car

came and hit him and he died on the spot.

The girl was devastated and lost her

senses. It was only after sometime that

she recovered from her shock.

The funeral and cremation was the very

next day because he had died horribly.

Two nights later, the girl's mother had

a dream in which she saw an old lady.

The old lady asked her mother to wash the blood

stains of the guy from her daughter's

dress as soon as possible. But her

mother ignored the dream.

The next night her father had the same

dream , he also ignored it. Then the

girl had the same dream the next night, she

woke up in fear and told her mother

about the dream. Her mother asked her

to wash the clothes with the blood

stains

immediately.

She washed the stains but some remained.

Next night she again had the same

dream. She again washed the stains but some

still remained. But again the next

night she had the same dream and this

time the old lady gave her a last

warning to wash the blood stain, or

else something terrible would happen.

This time the girl tried her best to

wash the stains, and the clothes

nearly tore, but some stains still remained.

She was very tired.

In the late evening the same day while

she was alone at home, someone knocked

on the door. When she opened the door

she saw the same old lady of her dream

standing at her door. She got very

scared and fainted.

The old lady woke her up... and gave her

a blue object, which shocked the girl.

She asked "What is this...?" The old

lady replied...

..

.. .

..

..

..

..

..

"This is Nirma Washing Powder"

"Washing powder nirma,Washing powder

nirma

Doodh si safedi nirma se aaye,

Rangeen kapde bhi khil khil jaye,

sabki pasand nirma

Washing powder nirma,Washing powder

nirma.Nirma"

10 ka 1, do pe ek free

I know how you all are feeling now...

I have been through this too.

I'm also hunting for the idiot who mailed this to me

keep smiling !!!!!!

Chettan Bhagat's 2 States

hello everyone

recently I have read chetan bhagat's 2 States novel. This novel is really gr8 friends. Full of campus blues, love story, life struggle, office working culture. this story depicts that "what are the circumstances that a guy from north india have to face in south india. I really love this novel. Check the novel's synopsis at this link http://www.chetanbhagat.com/books/2_states/ . Check this link for novel's teasers http://www.chetanbhagat.com/books/2_states/teaser.php

TCS Starts giving joining to grade C* and C Colleges

hurahhhh!!!!!!!!

This is really gr8 news that TCS has started giving joining to the freshers recruited from grade C* and C engg. colleges. the first C* and C college to get joining is "M.M.M.E.C. Gorakhpur" and "NSS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PALAKKAD". I mean this is really cool man that after a long while we the students of grade C and C* colleges are getting joining. I belong to B.Tech Comp Science branch from Gandhi Institute of Engg. and Technology, Gunupur (ORISSA). I have got placed at TCS oncampus and my college grade is grade C. Hey guys if you want to know more about TCS joining dates for 2010 batch then do visit Rahul's chill out zone blog (http://rahul-bhattacharya.blogspot.com/). To check the joining dates visit link (https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoF7SzVHoWX1dG5tb0c1NnFfX2RuUEZ0MnU3cTNUcXc&authkey=CNT7pZ8P&hl=en#gid=0)

This is my first blog

hiiii this is my first blog to this new blog.