Financial Meltdown!!

Guys!!

Look at how finacial meltdown has helped us

Select a Name for our cricket team!!

The task of selecting the name of our location's cricket team was given to a few freshers in my team. Our office building's name is STC, so they wanted the name of the cricket team should also be something abreviating to STC.

Keeping in mind the past records of our location's team , bang came the first suggestion...
STC - SAVE The Champions!!!

The list of other suggestions were ::

STC ! Society of Trusted Champions
Spirit of the champions
Shine with the Champions
Stunt with the Champions
Sport with the Champions
Stock of the Champions
Save the Champions
Struggle for the Champions
Souls of the Champions
Stars among the Champions
Spark of the Champions
Sparkle with the Champions
Scintillate with the Champions
Sizzlers -The Champions
Salute the Champions
Scrambled Eggheads- The Champions!
Sa-ro-ja The Champions

My personal favourite was Scrambled Eggheads- The Champions!

Can you guys think of any better name for our team!!

Happy Birthday Aapiser!!

Birthday’s are always time for us to celebrate and eat cakes and enjoy….
It has become a culture now to get a cake for the bday boy/girl ( To be read as BAKRA) … Also, Lot of discussions about choosing the venue for the treat.

So here comes the birthday of one of the key members of our group..
He is called as "AMBANI" by some and as "Aapiser" by most of us.

It is a unique experience working with him. He is a Perennial source of ideas.
We always send our work for review to him atleast two or three days before the actual delivery. Because he would for sure come up with the best logic with far better performance than what we had initially designed.

I was working on converting a code to ETL package and was breaking my head when the ouput of the code was different from that of the package I developed. I was literally brooding over that logic for more than 8 hours. And it took him exactly 10 minutes to crack the issue and to point out that I had missed to comment out a part of the ETL logic. I am forever indebted to him cause he helped me in realizing that I can also be the dumbest of the dumb and hence shattered my forever towering ego :P

So Here I am wishing our MS - Guru a very happy and a wonderful Birthday!!

Have a Blast "Aapiser"

Adventure ( Horror!!!) at 00:15 Hrs

How would you feel when

You have to board a train at 00:15 Hrs.

You are travelling alone.

The train stops for just 5 minutes at this station.

You board the train to find your berth already occupied

The person sleeping in your berth also has a valid ticket

The ticket examinar tells you are carrying yesterday's ticket

You finally understand how you have messed by booking the ticket for 17th 00:15 hrs train while you are actually travelling on 18th 00:15 hrs. All this confusion because you were leaving home on 17th

You travel for 8 hours standing on one leg in an unreserved compartment, cursing yourself for all the mess.

Your train is running late by an hour.

You have to reach work soon as you are in a new project.

This is how you will look when you enter work

He -She

Scene 1:

SHE 1: Hey "HE" .. Visa interview date enna?
HE : 23rd Wednesday!
SHE 2: ahaa.. Pon kadaithaalum bhudhan kadikaadhu .. Adhanalaa ..
annaikku ellarukkum falooda vaangi thaanga
HE : Bhudhan kadaikudhunga .. aana Ponnu dhan kadaikaa maatengudhu
(sporting a sorry face)
SHE 1: ayyo addhu Pon , Gold.. Ponnu illa.
HE : rendum onnu dhan
SHE 3: Indirecta dowry kekkariya? Dowry case ulla thallidu vaanga.
SHE 2: Dowry case illa .. Child marriage case-la ..
HE : (totally depressed) Phone vayaru arundhu moonu naal aachchu
(In Koundamani style -Suriyan movie)


Scene 2:

HE : coffe jaane tu??? ( effect of watching the movie "Jaane tu ya jaane na")
SHE : ennnaa???
HE : Coffee polama?
SHE : idhu enna adha eleventh floor "sangi mangi" kaagava?
HE : Hey ellarukkum eppadi theriyum?
SHE : pottu vanguvomla!!
HE : ayyo naane vaaya kuduththu maatikittenna?
SHE : Anda mupadhu naatkalil Hindi bookku kooda vaangitella?
HE : Narayana .. indha kosu tholla thaanga mudiyalappa
(In Koundamani style Suriyan movie)

Do you have Friends at work?

Like any good friendship, friendships at work take time, nurturing and effort on our part. It is quite easy to ignore them as someone being less important. We hear people saying " Oh!! She / He is just my colleague" . But are they really "Just work Friends"

We spend 8+ hours a day at work, which is more than many of us spend with parents / spouse or other friends. And while most os us actually spend most of our time working , on the job friendships are valuable for our mental well-being. They are the best stree busters.

A friendly pat when you are breaking your head with some coding, would really cheer up the moment.

A quick chat / gossip during the tea breaks does help to keep youself updated on the office politics.

An offline friendly discussion with your team lead or project manager the best way to communicate your aspirations without waiting for your appraisal. Appraisals feedback will be a cake if such discussions happen more often, coz your PM would know more about you rather than what you would reveal in that one hour feedback discussion.

Birthday parties and Family get togethers would add to the fun.

I had been always lucky enough to be a part of a very lively team. My present team is too enthusiastic. And our ODC gets too animated everyday after 5 PM, Have you ever seen a team of tecies hitting each other in Pokiri Vadivelu style, with long pipes. If no .. do come to our ODC after 5 PM, you will get to see all these spectaculat events.

There are two team members who usually become the centre of all our jokes and fun. And these two people are just too sportive to take all these jokes as just jokes.

I love all these activties at work. Enjoy all the leg pulling and also being pulled. They are Real ( yeah! real with capital R) good stress busters.

Words of advice: When you look for a job, don’t just concentrate on the money or health benefits. Make sure the people you interview with and meet are people that you can see yourself friends with, because in the end, that’s what will keep you sane.

A grand Hurrahhh!!!!

Our Team attended a virtual training session conducted by Microsoft on SQL server 2008 and its new features. At the end of each session, an online quiz was conducted.
And our team won a LOTS of prizes !!!!!

Can you believe !!!
6 - 4GB pen drives and
3- MS- Press Books..

The sessions were very informative and pretty useful.
Hats off to Microsoft team for giving us this nice opportunity!!

check out www.VirtualTechDays.com for more details of the online sessions!

OUR TEAM ROCKS!!! As Always!!!!