New CIty, New Job, New Life

Today is my first day of a company which I have admired from my childhood (B.E. time): Microsoft.
I have moved to a new city Hyderabad to join very old but brand new company for me. I have been a very great fan of Bill Gates, and today I find myself as a part of his venture. I hope I'll learn many new things in this company and will fulfill the requirements of the Company.

New job new city new life

At last I have left my first company where I have spent my last 4 years 4 months veveo. Veveo will allwsys be in my memories as I had a great time there. I have left bengalore as well. Yesterday was my last day at Bangalore. To day we (me and megha) came to hyderabad and I am joining Microsoft from 24 nov 2009. Right now we are ms guest house and looking for a 2 bhk flat.

Time to move on, last day at Veveo

It has been more than 4 years, I am in Veveo, but now the time has come, I have to move out and go somewhere else. It's my last day at Veveo.
I still remember how excited I was when I joined Veveo at 25th July 2005, the office used to be in 7th floor of Prestige Meridian, M.G. Road, Bangalore. Since then I have been a considerable part of Veveo and Veveo has been an important part of my life. I have seen this company going from the stranth of around 17 to 40 and coming back to 25. This company has seen many turned in this tenure, and I am proude of being a part of this journey. The company will allways have a special place in my heart. I have learn a lot from Veveo.
I had great time working in Veveo, I worked with different set of guys in different stages and learned many things from each of them. Let me list down the (not so exhastive) list:
Rahul Agrawal, Rakesh, Sashi, Abhijit, Pankaj, Prashanth, Lening, Nagesh, Venkat, Sharmila, Siva, Pranav, Vineet, Mayank, Keyur, Rashmin, Sanjay, Ganesh, Raman, Ajay, Terry, Tim, Shawn, Apurv, Manish, Murali and many more.
But for now I want to go somewhere else. I want to explore more, I want to learn more. It's time when I can safely leave my current job without much harming the environment. I want to explore new technologies, new strategy and new way of working. I hope I'll be able to use my learnings I got here.
I wish All The Best from my hearts.

bungee jump (not reverse)

2 weeks back, I went to Innovative filmcity. It's not a film city actually, it's more like a theme park or mela to say. We enjoyed alot there. There I did bungee jumping which was not the reverse bungee jumping from which I am scared after this exident. In this event they tied me with elastics from both of my sides to my stomach and the elastics goes to 2 towers of hight of around 18ft. THe operator pull the elastics using remote, and then you are in air tied with those elastics. Then he starts pulling the leaving back those elastics so you go up and down.
I really enjoyed it alot. Wanted to do one more round, but my left leg started givin me some pain. will post photo/video soon.

bungee jump tragedy

Last week I got a mail from BMC saying there's gonna be bungee jumping from 10th to 12th of april. I always wanted to do bungee jump. So I decided to give it a try. But I couldn't go there. And when I saw sunday (12th) news paper's main headline, I was totally shocked. It said a person died when trying bungee jumping. I read the details it was the same vanue, I was planning to go to.
I couldn't believe my eyes. The 25 yrs young who came from chennai, lost his life on the event.

When I got the mail of the event, I went to the website where they wrote it's safer then crossing a road. Here's the link. Later I got to know that the event was organized by headrush. I went to there site. Where they say about the safety measures they apply.
Here they go:

Safety - The Prime on our List

~ This activity is conducted by well trained & certified professionals.
~ The systems & procedures being used and followed are as per the best safety standards set by the international safety authorities which are also practiced all over the world.
~ Every equipment used in this has been tested and certified by International Bodies for Safety Standards.
~ To ensure the maintenence of safety standards each jump is recorded, hence allowing us to discard the equipments that exceed the prescribed usage, inturn ensuring very high safety norms.
~ All the Connections are Checked and noted for safety before Each Jump
~ Every participant, is checked for Medical Fitness for the eligibility to Jump.
~ On Site Medical Facility is available through out the Event.
~ The Ground Safety, managed by a Ground Crew too, follows the International Safety Norms of the Sport.

But the truth is that, safty was not at all there concern. The exident occured due to hoock got loosen, so the personnal were not well trained to know when to change it. They didn't check it after every jump. And though thay claim on site medical, there was no ambulance, not even first aid. unlucky guy's friends had to rush to hospital and he was declared dead there.

After this event, I and many like me will never try any risky sport atleast in India, and will think 10 times before going for little risky sports too. This event is a wakeup call for event organisers as well as authorities. I am feeling very sad after this exident.

hindu culture

Recent Mangalore event of attacking women in the pubs and beating them cruely has raised a question in my mind:

What is hindu culture?
Who will define it?

will think more and post soon.