For a software engineer.....Part I

Here are a few things that you need to know to become a software engineer or things that you would learn if you choose to become a software engineer.

• Issues - anything and everything

• No issues - Everytime a software engineer wants to say "No problem" he says this.

• Calls - for onsite, waste of time since offshore doesn't understand anything scribbled in email
  - for offshore, waste of time since onsite is lazy to keyin what is discussed on call
  - the truth, to discuss things off the record
• Clarifications - nobody knows the answer
• Design - doc never opened once it is completed
• Coding - life mantra for developers
• bugs - for QA, life mantra, the more filed - the more lifed
  - for developers, "That can't be","My code can't be wrong","Don't know how the code is behaving so weird","works fine in my machine"
• emails - SE's favorite timepass "forward"
  - sent, to not get screwed up
  - not sent , screw up someone behind the back
• escalation - happiness received in screwing up someone else
• Client - God(they say so)
• night out - regular office timing, wasted time compensated
• leaving home early - taking half a day leave
• Coffee break - Gossip time
• Lunch break - More gossips
• boyfriend in same team - victim to write ur code
• girlfriend in same team - team member when u r the team lead
• love - technically..... no time
• mobile phone - always rings during an important meeting

To be continued.....

Worst Traffic Jam!!!

This time when I came home I travelled for 22 hours in the same bus. Gosh... I didn't travel continously on a single plane when I returned from US to India. We were caught up in a horrible traffic Jam somewhere between Dindivanam and Vilupuram. It was a two lane road, one for each direction and somewhere in the middle of it a carrier lorry had stopped and didnot start again. Until I was awake, it was a three hour Jam and I counted more than 525 vehicles jammed in the opposite direction which included an ambulance with the emergency lights on.

Worst what I saw was how when the vehicles started moving each lorry/tempo travel/car was trying to move ahead one over the other and furthur making a new Jam. Drivers should learn some patience is all that I could think of then. By the time I reached home, my body started aching part by part and I even spoilt my mom's Monty Thursday :-(

So,
What did I liked about the TJ? I enjoyed watching the stillness and darkness of the night, the vast sky covered here and there by clouds, scattered stars, the dark lining of the trees. All in all a picturesque view. I wished I had a cam to capture the view.

What did I hate about the TJ? I hated the TJ on the whole. Apart from that, I hated to watch the arrogance of drivers trying overtake each other whilst in a TJ.

What is it that I learnt? Book train tickets on time :-) I think I would soon get a gold medal in "learing things the hard way".

Relativity

Its intereseting to see how relativity plays an important part in our lives. Wondering what that evasive sentence means? Well, it all starts with today being the last day of my vacation. Oh sorry! Its the penultimate day. And what part is relativity playing for today being the-almost-last-day of my vacation? Well, it goes like this.

Sometimes when you very much want something to last for a longer time, it would just seem to end at the blink of an eye and when you are most expecting something to happen, time seems to be endless and what you want to happen to be at infinity. Like this vacation, it just seemed to start and tomorrow I have to go back to Chennai to join office on Monday and when I went to London, the wait for the Sept 13th was killing. Each day seemed to have 36hrs.

Funny this relativitiy is, isn't it?

"Randomly Me"

I was quite bored seeing the same caption "Beni's Blog" through these days. It didnt really sound like me. It sounded like telling someone "This is Beni's Blog, get out of here". So I decided to change the name. After giving it quite a thought, well, not really, just as a quick thought, I decided to name my blog that would explain me.

Btw.. what I am generally blogging about? Well, nothing specific, just things in random. But its all about me. Its all my thought and my opinion. So, "Randomly Me". Its me, but just random thoughts.

Chennai 2008

Now this might sound like a blog written by someone who had been out of Chennai for years. I had been out just for 11 months. But "just 11 months" had made lots of differences. I had earlier posted a blog regarding my first arrival at Chennai. Was I equally happy this time? The very honest answer would be a big "NO". What a traffic!!! Too crowded!!! Too polluted!!! Too many concerns. Right at the time I reached Chennai, it seemed like I was in a mess, and it would take lot of time for me to get back to reality. The clean and almost unpolluted environment of CA has made me think it would take me more time than I thought it would.

But it didn't really take that much. Two days in Chennai, and now life is back to normal. Same fighting with auto drivers for rate, same Tidel park, pretty much everything is same and back to normal. So what has really changed. Chennai has become more and more and more costly. For someone who has just returned from the US, it should not seem so. But it does. Auto rates have increased, vegetable rates have increased. Has it really increased or is it just my perception? I dont really have an answer for this.

Second, I miss all my friends. I have countable number of friends at Chennai now. :-(

Anyway, now I am back, after a wonderful 2007 at California. Is 2008 going to be equally wonderful? I hope it would be more wonderful. Oh btw... if you were waiting for an entry regarding my time at US.. therez too much to write. I shall try and recollect some of them and put as an entry in the future.