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1 year with the new job

Sidhu — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:49:00 +0000

Today I completed 1 year with the new job and in Delhi also. I joined here on 16-Oct-2006. I remember, had attended a friend’s marriage in Chandigarh on 15th Oct, then left for Delhi at midnight and reached here by morning. Then quickly got ready for office and reached there, well within time to join At that time, I had not much idea about Delhi, one of the metro (& so complex) cities in India.

Time goes really fast. Cant even feel that 1 year is gone. I miss my old days. Chandigarh is one of the best place to live on this planet

Sidhu

It has been…

Sidhu — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:16:00 +0000

It has been long time since I posted something. So thought about writing something at least. Posting requires time & concentration. My office days are just too busy and tiring. Monday to Friday is like leaving at 8:30 and coming back at 8:30 & moreover travelling in Delhi is just too much. Both the times (while going & coming back) you are stuck in heavy traffic and can’t do anything other than sweating and waiting Its not very good to do all this stuff in office so only saturday sundays are the days to handle all this, taking rest, going for some outing and watching some movie (if there is some good release, like this time it was Shootout at Lokhandwala). It was so good in Chandigarh where my office was 10 mins (if the only light that came my way was Red, otherwise just 8 mins) away from my home and almost same while coming back in the evening. Here it takes more than an hour to reach office (that too sweating and tired) and even more while coming back. So you are hardly left with any energy to do something productive. Just trying to adjust to this atmosphere and start doing something useful daily

Sidhu

Rab khair kare…(God have mercy…)

Sidhu — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:30:00 +0000

Today when I reached office and opened my mail there was one forwarded mail having subject something like “scary don’t open it, if you have a weak heart”. Well, I opened it and had just scrolled down a little, and came to know that these were the photographs of some girl, who committed suicide in some mall in Bangalore, by jumping from 13th floor. I couldn’t scroll down, even after 2nd photo. It was so horrible, perhaps, her head bashed against the floor and you know, it ………Well, don’t know how much trouble she was in, who had to take such a drastic step. Too bad on his part who composed this mail. This is no fun.

After looking at 1 or 2 photos, I was like disturbed for whole of the day.

Sidhu

University Life…

Sidhu — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:28:00 +0000

I used to fancy becoming an Engineer, when I was in 8th standard. That `day dream` came true when in June 2000, I took admission in Computer Engineering in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. In our first year, we were not allotted hostels due to lesser number of rooms being available for first year students. So we had to look accommodation outside. In mid of first year, we got a room in the hostel and moved there. This was for the first time that I was having the experience of hostel life (one should at least once enjoy hostel life, as they say). Those were the best times. Our room was popularly known as dharamshala where in the evening there will be some things happening for sure: cards, music and tea & samosa. Everybody who wanted to enjoy all this would come to our room

(I am skipping the names here, due to the fear of missing someone

After completion of second year we decided to leave the hostel and go for rented accommodation. We were four people Bhagwant, Me, Pavneet & Vaibhav (in alphabetical order . We rented a 3 room accommodation and started living there. Finally we brought our PCs from home. And then started that little technology network. We went out to computer market to buy all the technical equipment required to setup a network of 4 PCs. We got a 8 port hub, LAN cards and cables. Then started the mission to setup everything & making all PCs ready for sharing music and playing games. It took a lot as everybody was almost doing it for the first time. Finally after 2 days of fight or so everything was `on the rocks`. We used to have those never ending muliplayer sessions of NeedForSpeed (one of my favorite games when it comes to racing). After sometime we got another game from somewhere called Project IGI. Then started the real hard work to complete it. It was a FPS & strategy game having 14 levels. Now we two (me & Vaibhav) were crazy about IGI and wanted to go upto last level. I remember, we spending hours (during exams ) and doing real hard work to complete it (the problem with this game was that there were no intermediate saves, it will save the whole level only, when you cleared it Finally we finished it up to 13th level but could never clear the 14th level or finish the game, in other words

More than half of the classmates used to come to our room and have all those multiplayer games sessions (only we know, sometimes how we had to listen to those lectures from Auntie

Another interesting, unforgettable thing was our breakfast. We used to take 1 hour to get ready for University and before University we used to go to have breakfast. I still remember, at least half of the days (if not more after having 2-3 gobhi paranthas and then Roohafza milk we used to start feeling sleepy. So come back in the room, play some ghazals and sleep

And I can never forget to talk about mine & Vaibhav’s technical discussions and habits of screwing up ours PCs every new day. At times we used to go so deep that people around were in trouble that what the heck they were talking about We still discuss every kinda technology, new happs on WWW and everything else. But on gtalk, not face to face.

Those days will never come back. Now we 4 are far away from each other. I am in Delhi, Bhagwant is in Bangalore, Pavneet in Hyderabad and Vaibhav in Dehradun. One good thing is that Bhagwant is coming to Noida. So once again after 3 years, we will be staying together

Sidhu

Delhi Unki Jaan…

Sidhu — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:25:00 +0000

Had heard a lot about Delhi. Things like Delhi meri jaan & Delhi dil walon ki. I was well settled in the city beautiful, Chandigarh (Mohali to be exact). But as Mr Fate had drawn the map I changed my job and landed up in Delhi. Along with above things had also heard about the life style of Delhi. It is very fast, hell lot of traffic, you have to be very attentive and all. But as they say you can’t enjoy heaven until unless you die yourself and have a trip

So my experience was going to start. Sorry to say it was bad indeed. If you ask me to summarzie – people are too selfish, mannerless and self oriented. And the biggest pity is that this is the case with each and everybody not any single individual. I saw in Metro. People don’t care about anything. Nobody reads the information boards, nobody listens to the announcements & to the worst this is the case with well educated people. Same is the case with buses. Daily I see people arguing about each and everything.Till today I have been looking for those people seeing whom you could say Delhi dil walon ki.

Sidhu

Weekend…

Sidhu — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 07:15:00 +0000

Weekend is a highly respected term in my industry. After screwing his head for 5 days (I didn’t mention in what ) everybody waits for a weekend as it is the time to relax, to enjoy, to sleep, to meet friends and to do a hell lot of things out of which more than 1/2 get postponed to next week with a hope “will see next week”. Last week was real good as Monday was a holiday due to X Mas. I had to leave for home by Firday Night train. One of my friend[A] had got a flight from Pune to Delhi which was expected to be here by 4:30 or so. So by thursday evening everything was planned that we will be meeting at Bus Stand. As generally when you plan in advance things never comes on the track, something similar happened here also. Flight was late by 2 hours and it reached by 7 or so. Now coming from Airport to Bus Stand itself takes 1 1/2 hours or so. Even my train was late by an hour from its right time (that is 2030 hrs).

But to summarize due to everything going away from the origin we couldnt meet and postponed the program to meet to some other day. [one important thing to mention for this much time...till he has left the airport, i was waiting in office alone ] So I reached Railway station well advance in time and to add more to it train was actually late by almost 2 hours. Again I was waiting for one friend[B] who has the tickets and had to go with me. So finally when he came we went for dinner and after that it was little bit easier to kill time. I skip everything here & I reached home at 6 AM.

Now didnt have the time to sleep. Have to meet 2 friends over here one who came with me[B] in the train and another one[C]. So planned to meet at around 11 AM. Then there was a program to go for a movie “Bhagam Bhaag”. To mention it was a torture and we were planning to leave in between, I got a call from home that the postman came to deliver my passport, as I was not at home so have to collect it from the post office. So 2 of us left the movie hall and reached postoffice to collect my passport. Then reached home by evening.

Now next day was sunday and I had to wake up by 5 in the morning to go to one of friend’s[D] place for a program. Came back from there by 9. After that again needed to go out of city to some place 40 kms away (between these 2 things a round of B’z house

Finally out of my city and expected to be back by next day. Have to meet 2 more friends on the way. School time buddies, talked to them after real long…say 2 years or more. Went through the same streets where we used to go when we were in 9th, 10th standered. In front of houses of all the beautiful girls of our school, some of them must be taking care of their kids these days

After doing all this have to come back on Monday to get a photograph clicked for an idendity card. Did that also. Now again back to B’z house and me, B & C together, had one samosa & tea session [my cup with little more sugar added to it ].Then came back home and went for a small nap before leaving for Railway Station. [Have to reach station by 2315 hrs so there was time left for a nap] grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr………….

Cheers !
Sidhu

For the first time…

Sidhu — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:14:43 +0000

Writing blog for the first time…everybody writing blog..so I also thought about sharing something from my small life…It is about watching live show of my favourite Gurdas Maan…I was in Chandigarh for almost a year…Gurdas Maan was coming to Chandigarh to perform live…we collected the passes for the show but these were for the last seats from where you could not enjoy much…anyways we reached there in time…total of 5….2 in one group and we 3 in another group…the duo who reached first managed to get something better in adjusted themselves in VIP section…so it was pretty cool to watch your favourite star from there…so we were left…but didnt loose heart and kept on trying…in the end…by hook or crook..got something…VVIP passes…the other duo called us to come….but then we said that “we are sitting in VVIP section….n you can enjoy”….that was watching my most favourite star from so close….

Cheerz…