Power of Communities

I always wondered why companies world over are providing their valuable space for people to communicate with unknown people for free on their portals. Basically, why there was a craze for online Communities world over.

As usual, doing othla at office, I felt a sigh of glee when I saw a mail with a familiar sender Name. With a sense of joy and an eagerness to read more in the mail, I opened the mail. My first glimpse was the number of lines in the mail, just 2 lines. Since that being the norm these days considering that people are very busy, I started reading the mail. Much to my astonisment, it was a Hi-intro mail from a person whom I did not know, but for the name. Basically, the mail was sent from a member of Mangalorean online community.

I being so penchant about "tuluver"(Mangaloreans), replied duly. Within hours of the first mail, enough number of mails was exchanged on both the ends. Finally, since the mobile number of the other end was already communicated, it was just a matter of using my doorsampark. With all those initial pleasantries, I was up for a big surprise.....

Me : From which college you had the campus placement(expecting one of those hi-fi Bangalore college names) ?
S A: I did it in Tiptur

Me: (pleasant shock) What, dont tell me this...
S A: Yeah, I studied in KIT, Tiptur. Y you know any1 there...

Me :(Mouth wide open as if Bush had arrested Bin laden) which batch and branch ?
S A : 2005.. CSE

Me :(Che) is it..... blah blah blah (my side of engineering days)
S A : You know Sowk ?

Me : Yes I do, She is my good friends sister. You know Pram ?
S A: Haan, I know him

Me : (Duffer, I was always beside him, you did not notice me) nice coincidence :(

S A : Yeah nice coincidence

Well, never ever thought I would meet my junior this way. How I wish I was part of the EAGLES gang in my Engineering days, which had every bit of info about Mandakini Hostel :-(

quiicckk update

Me : So XXXX, whats new in Life ? Any Good News to hear ?

HIM : hmm dude, Yeah I have One.

Me : Woooww.. Career yaa Life ?

HIM : arre ab tho humhe Life hi sab kucch hai, Career ke baat chhod do.

Me : Voila, buddy I better be there LIVE, when you mention that, not on phone please.

What more can I say? I am waiting to hear from HIM. Most eager to know about the lady who stuck him.

I too can sing Mere yaar Ki Shaadi Hai on his very special day. Hopefully, some sonii kudii(s) would entice us on the occasion to be held months later ;-)

Long Term Planning :))

After a week long enticing vacation, I was greeted with glee at my office, well ofcourse for the Chocs which was there in my Bagpack. To the delight, I lived upto the expectations of my colleagues to a certain extent.

The last few days have been a bit hectic albeit for the project delivery. But still, meetings, design review talks and Interviews have almost eaten up the official quota of working hours punctuated with informal cubical talks with mates around. This fondly reminsces of my colleague who had once quipped "I pain my desk mates a lot" sharing the cubicle. Well, fond memories always bring in a smile on your face.

The most interesting topic of todays informal CUBICLE session was Interviews. Yours Truly, being a part of the Interview Panel had really quite a nice laughter time. All the mates who work in my cubicle being senior INT panelists had some real crazy stuff to share. Let me share one such interesting stuff - I am a part of the INT panel and its a TCON with a Mumbai candiadate on a friday evening, happened in around Sept 1st week

INT Panel : Hello blah blah.....
Ms. Alpha: blah blah..

INT Panel: Can we have a brief technical talk with you ?
Ms. Alpha : I have now entered the PUB today being Friday

INT Panel : (Pakku sketches the clothing attire of the gal) Shall we postpone it to some other time?
Ms. Alpha : Let me come out and we can then talk.

Mutual Tech talk for around 4-5 minutes..

INT Panel : Are you open to work from our Bangalore ODC ?
Ms. Alpha : Well, I dont have any issues working out of Bangalore, if your company XYZ feels worth of me, above all Bangalore has lot of Pubs for me to freak out. So no issues from my end.

Pakku thinks he HAS a partner for his weekend extravganaza to SPINN

Unfortunately, she could not make it. The Cream of it all, which happened to one of my senior colleague looking for .NET professionals :

INT Panel: There is a gap of around 7 years between your Class 12 and Bachelors graduation. Why is it so ?

Candiadate : It was basically intended as long-term planning (Candiadate explains how he sat one extra year to write his CET papers and extended his Engg Project Schedules to achieve Perfection in results and finally ended up getting mediocre results)

How I wish I could see the reaction of the Interviewer, when the term "Long-term" was used :-)). Real refreshing entertainer in my cubicale after a hectic presentation. No wonder our cubicle has become the most BUZZING.

With no sorts of derision to all those candiadates, I wish they come good on their day and display their worth to the World.