Posted on June 27th, 2008 by admin
I am proud of our GREAT INDIANS…I received this collection from forwarded emails.This is my way of forwarding to the world about our great great Indians.
ARYABHATT
(476 CE) MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN
Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur (Bihar), Aryabhatt’s intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. In 499 CE, at the age of 23, […]
The year is 1992-93, I am in the second year of junior college also known as
HSC in Maharashtra and Mumbai. Ramnarian Ruia college is about 15-20 minute walk from my home. I had scribbled the college timetable on a piece of paper and stuck it on a wall at my home. I would refer to this timetable for my daily
practicals and lecture schedules. Everyday the timings were different for
lectures and practicals. Some of the lectures I would just go in to fill up
the attendance sheet. I think the day was wednesday and it was one of those
lecturer for whom everyone thought the most important thing is to mark your physical attendance at the least. It could affect your grades!
So I look up my faithful timetable and head for the class. As soon as I enter the room, I felt something unusual about it. The class was already full. Knowing that it is still time for the lecture to begin and students don’t just
arrive on time. It takes a while to get the class humming but today it was
different. I see the lecturer too and someone just passed the attendance sheet
back to the lecturer so I thought maybe I should just mark my attendance and then take a seat. So I head over to grab the attendance sheet and this lecturer just swings and swirls the sheet as if dodging my hand and gives a smirky smile and heads
out of the class. I again try to get the sheet but the lecturer just turns his head and says “What for?” and disappears out of the room. The whole class bursts out into a giant laughter! wait a minute…did i miss something…what so funny about this….
I am still trying to figure out whats going on, suddenly I see classmates patting me on my back “Boss aadmi hey re tu!”…”Sahi hai re!”…and all type of similar pun-intended compliments. For those un-aware of Mumbai slang it meant “You got some guts do this kind of stuff”.
I am beginning to realise whats going on so I asked was the class pre-poned? Well see, I am still not getting it so there are still folks laughing and saying “Arey bhai class khatam ho gaya, sala khatam hone ke bad ata hai aur sidha attendance fill karne jata hai!” which meant ” coming late to the class and
still have the guts to walk up and mark the attendance, how dare you!”.
Suddenly I felt the jolt of realization and burst into laughter “How stupid IÂ was!”
Frankly, I had no clue what I was going to become. Infact, deep down I did
not want to become anything. I was (am) very much influenced by the teachings of
Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramhansa. I was influenced to the extent that
I had made decision to lead a similar life as the ascetics in India.
At that time I was doing by Computer Science and Engineering from VJTI so my father very well aware of my intentions asked me to at least finish my engineering and in the mean time I kept my options open.
During those years in engineering I became more open minded and started beginning to understand the fact that shunning myself from the world may not be the best option to pursue my spiritual journey.
 Fast-forward to this day, my world is totally different than I wanted it to be but there
is no regret, infact I thank the almighty that things did not work out the way I wished.
I have learnt the fact that “everything happens for the best” and constantly amazed by
its relevance by all the events that have occurred in my life.
One of the things was becoming an Oracle apps consultant. I did not wanted to go out of
Mumbai and just wished for a job within my city but during my campus interview I got selected to work at Wipro. Since Wipro was one of the first companies after TCS and since I was eligible to appear for the aptitude test (based on my grades) I thought of giving the test just to find out what an aptitude test really is.
God knows what happened but in spite of my effort I got selected and I was no longer eligible to apply for any other campus jobs! I just gave the test to gain some experience for the other Mumbai based companies those were scheduled for the campus on a later date. This was a major shock to my family and me.
I settled my mind with the truth that “everything happens for the best”; there must be a greater plan in action otherwise how else could I have passed the test and the interview where I didn’t put any effort?
Finally I arrive at the Wipro office in Bangalore and was put into the applications group. I did not have any clue what this group does. I was put in a group that was providing offshore support to Seagate (the hard disk manufacturer).
Slowly and steadily I was bombarded with the MRP and ERP stuff. There were some great seniors (Sunil, Vivek and Sai) who were always eager to mentor and help me out and that really made my life easy.
At that time around 1997-1998 Seagate was using ManMan (an MRP system), Oracle Applications 10.7 character and smartclient (GUI) for some other modules.
Since I was not billable I was not important and nobody really cared what I was doing. So I utilized this freedom to learn on my own and help my colleagues with whatever skills I had picked up during my college years.
Frankly speaking all this ERP stuff was too overwhelming for me. I had never come across
nor imagined how a company could ever need such a complex piece of software, so many customizations and so many sub-systems.
I came strictly from a strong technical background, dealing with assembly language, “C” and Pascal programming, learning about the microprocessors etc and never had any exposure to the business side of any business.
But eventually I started getting hold of the concepts and learnt some tricks on how to attack any ERP related stuff.
Since I have good learning abilities I gained enough expertise in a short period.
I worked at Wipro for almost a year and since the ERP job market was hot at that time I managed to get a job in the “wonderful USA”. In all the ERP projects, I have found that I have always been the youngest of all my colleagues.
The reason for this could be that I got an early break in this lucrative field whereas most of my colleagues had prior job experience in some other field and got themselves trained in Oracle Applications.
Thanks to the almighty force for taking me through the shortcut 
“Everything happens for the best”, don’t you agree?
I have been doing the same thing for past several years, i.e consulting for other companies, ofcourse the technology changes but overall its the same thing over and over. Sometimes I feel its enough doing the same thing but what else am I suppose to do? Whatever I would do for living my life, at a Macro level (i.e Higher level)Â it would always appear to be repetitive even though at the micro level (i.e looking at the details) things would be totally different.
For e.g At a Higher level, we all are born in this world, grow up, study, college, get a job, and then repeat { family – earn money – routine } until death. And the same thing would be different for each of us at the micro level, For e.g I go to a different school than you, different job than you, make different level of income than you and so on. So looking scantily everyone’s living the same life, almost mechanical!
Ofcourse there is more purpose to life than the predefined routine that I have been living all these years. I need to explore more and need to increase the pace of work in this area. In the mean time I work on the macro level coarse of my life, I have been thinking on making some changes at some of the micro level details in how I intend to make my living. I have strong intentions to follow through the micro changes.
Express Vacation : Just completed an express and short vacation trip to India. My Brother got engaged! My Son enjoyed his first taste of Alphonso Mango (namely known as King of Fruits). Its amazing how things went by so fast that everything seems to have happened in dream. Before leaving for India, I had to call up the US passport office to expedite the delivery of my son’s passport and they literally sent it the same day I called! Then I mailed the India visa application and had them process it the same day, got them mailed it the same day.
 Express Sickness: Everything was fine after returning from India, returned home on Sunday night and headed back to the client in west coast the following morning. The night of Monday had a high fever for no apparent reason. Took a day off and now getting normal. Maybe all the express things needed a break somewhere
 Help Needed!! Is there a way to set a preference somewhere or tell the hotel owner/managers not to tuck the bedsheets?? I share the feeling of George in Sienfield
Eve : Do you love me?
Adam : Who else?
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The way Oracle is on buying spree pretty soon we may end up in a situation where the customer has nobody else to love but Oracle.
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