My way on the highway

So today I sat for yet another interview. The only difference being these people I could really communicate with. Hope things work out. I really like the work they are into. Their bread and butter is model driven architecture and lot of architecture work. I sure would like to work there. Yesterday I watched this lovely movie called Snowfall on cedar. It starred the oh so handsome Ethan Hawke. There is something about him. He has very powerful eyes and his dialogue delivery is excellent. I wonder why he isn't among the top ranking actors. So basically my friends and me were treated to a one and half hour drooling session. It was awesome and very moving. Can't actually believe an egalatarian society like America was so cruel to the Japanese during pearl harbour. I think there was a repertoire during the 9/11. That's what happened to the Indians and pakistanis. So despite all the talk about the world being a global village we still have boundaries.

Yesterday the weather was glorious. The sun was shining warmly and it just radiated so much warmth. I never knew the weather could do so much for one's mood. I was so happy and that it showed in the lilt in my walk. I went to carnegie library. I've been wanting to do it for long but something keeps preventing me from doing that. Well yesterday I got over all that and went there. I spent a good one hour looking at the books and then DVDs and music. I picked up this movie called "Green card" starring Andie Mcdowell and Gerard Depardieu. And another vague art movie. I'm trying to gain appreciation for things that I've done before:-) I also picked up some african music. Lets see how the listening experience goes. I went for a swim yesterday. It was great. I mean what amazes me is that the inflexible pudgy body becomes so acrobatic under water. I was so drained after that but felt really light after that. I swam for about an hour and boy was that tiring. Finally wo

So today the company from India organized the second round of interviews. It was typical murphy's law "what has to go wrong will go wrong"! The first conference room that I booked was really large and the irony was that only two people were there in it. The next conference room where lunch was going to be served could accomodate only 10. So I guess we all got very cosy:-) My interview went off well. There was no technical so you can never judge these things. Lets see how things go. I'm not too hot about working at tambaram though. I mean I don't feel like travelling to back of beyond to work. But if thats the way God has planned for it then that's how it will be. I know that getting office space in numgambakkam is quite tough and I would like to work there! Pittsburgh is nice and America is interesting but J1 waiver needs to happen too:-) One great learning experience of this whole setting up thing was that it's not easy to please everyone. I

I'm so tired and it's back breaking. Today I had to organize this company's meet here at CMU. It was really tiring. I mean i admire people who are into logistics and event management. All we techie folks think that what we do is the toughest. Ony today did I realize how tough event management is. I mean right from greeting the recruiters, to having a formal demo, to organizing food, organizing schedule. Gosh it is tough. Hats of to people who do it effeciently at companies. It is definitely time consuming and stressful. Well me gotta go now. Still no comments for my previous blog. Traitors. People please comment now.

Life is a joke sometime. I mean it plays out like that in front of you. You feel like laughing. I could not believe when my mum and dad gave me a serious lecture on getting married. I guess every indian girl goes through this phase when her parents say "Babe it's time you get married". And I say why?? WHy should I settle down? Who makes the rules? I found Mehul's blog on median males hilarious. It's not very different here. I mean we girls also search for that perfect guy who'll like us "as we are" a la Mark Darcy style in Bridget Jones. So we meet many guys who we would like to probably go out with but it's often the case that :- 1. Either we're tongue tied in asking...I mean how many women are actually that bold 21 st century types?? 2. If we finally do manage to tell the guy, he's either married, hooked (this happened to one friend of mine) or he's in another continent (and we're killing ourselves for being so dumb)! 3.He does

I love the feeling of just lying in bed doing nothing. Who says that one must be productive to be happy. I love it to just laze around. It's such an amazing feeling. I mean there are no worries. Look at me I had to get up at this unearthly hour to do some work and I hate it. I'm not happy. God give me deliverance. Find me a job where I don't have to work hard!!!!

I think music is such a beautiful thing. Today I had visited some family friends and we had an informal JAm session in their house. So there was the tabla, the guitar and then of course me singing. I really enjoyed myself. Something about music it enervates me. I've also realized that I'm very good with rhythm. I can change tempo and beat. I hope this remains with me.

Today was my birthday. It was nice. I made sure it was eventful. So there was cake cutting ceremony at 12 AM. It was really sweet of my room mates to have organized that. I got a couple of calls in the morning. Then we had this super duper meeting with Mel. Basically our team got split up. Wow it was amazing for the morale. Then my dad sent me a big choclate cake and flowers. All in all a nice day. Really good for the calories too. I'm sure I would have gained a couple of kilograms. I wish there was some inversely propotional law which equates food and weight. The more you eat the less you weigh. Then I'll be the next bulemic (did i spell it right), anorexic babe!

Feeling is a complicated thing, It comes at you like a swing, It hurts you more than any crazy thing, I wish it was something I could fling.

My last day included visiting salesforce, juniper networks and VM ware. Salesforce was beautiful. It is located in the heart of san francisco. That city is so beautiful. From the eight floor, the view of the company was breath taking. As usual we got a warm welcome. The chief architect gave us a detailed presentation. It was good. What worries me though is the security issues. Basically the service is open to whole wide world. Any prankster can play hanky panky with the service. Of course on the contrary I think the on demand model is superb. Who would have thought 5 years back that internet was going to change people's lives like this? The valley is such a trend setter. It's the best place to be if one wants to live and breathe technology and truly be high tech. The next company we visited was VM ware they are into virtualization software. It was again a great technical presentation by an MIT guy. It was too technical for me though. One would have to be interested in OS progra

The day started with breakfast with David Steiner. He works for pricewater house coopers. He spoke about career in professional services. It was a really good talk. It was just half an hour but more of an interactive session so it was good. Of course for a career there one would have to look at taking at least some minor courses in finance. The first company we visited was broadcom. The chief technology officer was CMU alum. He was really humorous but he was not very clear and I could not understand the technology. I think it’s amazing to see the kind of work these chip companies are doing. Of course it’s something that clearly does not align with my skill set. But I find what they do something like rocket sciences. The response at broadcom was good though. They seemed like they would like to hire us. The next company that we visited was tellme networks. It is a startup company. They deal with companies that provide voice services. They are planning to move into voice based search. It

So I am in SFO! WOw only as I would say. I'm in the heart of the computer heartland and it's good. So day one started with us having a scrumptious breakfast, followed by a talk by a CMU alum who is a venture capitalist. Not that I want to explore this option but it seems really fascinating. Maybe 20 years down the line I would like to look into this. Let us see. The fact that you get to invest in something that you believe in sure seems interesting. After that we left for google. And it was good. But i dont see much happening for our career there. IT was more like having lunch and then there was a Q&A session with CMU alum. The place was gorgeous though and the facilities were top class. It would be amazing to work there. But boy is it tough to get in. The principle there is to have food accessible within 100 feet of one's cubicle. There is so much variety and so much vegeterian too. So it was great. But I wonder how people remain thin there??? I met krishna bharat for