dB (Decibels of Silence)

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Just when you thought your little secret or that password you shared, with your teammate sitting alongside, is only known to 2 individuals now, reality turns its embarassed face towards you. The whole floor had been listening. A silent note of welcome, a song played with the lowest volume possible, a hum of your mobile in vibrate mode and a melodious song on your IPod all seem to be like public announcements!! If you think I'm talking about the recording room, you are 100% wrong. Welcome to the Cognizant's Navalur Facility.

A Great man once mentioned that it seemed like the bays in Navalur facility were separated by invisible sound-proof walls. As my x-team gets accustomed to this relatively new abode, one question 'screams' for an answer - Will they be able to infuse the energy that once scorched TIDEL to beat the silent heat at Navalur? Or is "Silence has the loudest voice" here to stay?

A place for the Podigy on the "Pod"ium

If the title of this blog smarts you, you are not aware of what Cognizant did to its 18000+ Associates on reaching a Billion $ milestone. All the podigies received a Video IPod each - top quality music to everybody's ears. Facing the Music has never been so exciting. I wouldn't be surprised if an Associate pulls out an IPod out of his pocket, instead of his access card, at the entrance to the office!!!

My Experiments with "Truth" (That is what I'd have preferred to call my IPod)

The day this beauty ended up on my palms, she has been treated with such reverence reserved only for the most beautiful of brides married to the most undeserving of grooms. Though I'm currently hunting for a snug outfit, with some revealing thrown in (I paralled her with a beautiful bride, didn't I?), I've safely wrapped her in the same polythene casing she came in (Amma, unga ponna kattina pudavaiyoda anupchaale podhum!!!). She came loaded with 'features' but I've 'completed' her with the best of my Audio & Video collections. I'm sure you are saying, "Enough of this analogy & double entendres". And I'm reading your mind on that one. Let me drop them and proceed with the narration.

The iTunes software that comes with the iPod happens to be really strange, if you don't read the manual carefully. The song are ordered in the playlist not based on their filenames on the disk but based on the 'Title' set through the 'Properties' window. I learnt this the hard way, after modifying the file names of around 200 songs only to realize that they still loaded into iTunes with totally unrecognizable names like 'Track01', 'TrackNo1', blah..blah. I'll have to wait for the next weekend to put my learning into action.

Apart from this sober experience, my 'Pod'ium (that is what I call her now, not 'Truth') is doing just fine. My parents seem to be loving her, but I still wonder how my Sister will feel about her (Hell, am back to that analogy!!! Can't help it yaar, shez beautiful). All said and done, this iPod is a fad that is to last longer than other fads I'd once been infected with. Ain't I a Podigy? Chao :)

TIDEL loses its Sheen. Navalur the next hotspot.

This is no headline about the next destination for IT Companies to set shop in Chennai. This is one headline that throws up ample reasons why I cant make frequent visits to TIDEL to feed my apetite of getting on other people's nerves :) or was it to let other people getting on mine??!!!

The Team that I was a part of, is moving to Navalur. Navalur is characterized by these easily visible features - Calm facility, Quite far away, Excellent CD Coffee, Pani Poori & a host of other chaat varieties (the last one is a borrowed opinion). Considering that I knew my team well, Navalur is set to lose the first of its feature. What is to be seen is how long it would take :)

I'm being a 'Gentleman' & a very honest person here when I say that I'll find out reasons to take the drive along ECR to pay Babu & CO Numerous Visits. That'd be quite a 'Revolution'. With 'Testing' time ahead in my new project - FACETS - time constraints are going to keep the weather cloudy. Me and LATRON ke beech 'Fevicol' ka jod hai, tootegaa nahin!!! Lets keep the 'Spark' in us alive. Hoping to be a part of the 'Drama' & excitement @ Navalur soon. Chao.

[The last para has to be deciphered to find out hidden intentions]

Ruler... Of which Kingdom??

The following event took place during one of the sessions part of "Requirement Engineering" program. Prior to this session, I had missed a few and dropped in late for a few, which left me in the dark as far as the nuances of the topic were concerned. What I wasn't aware during that session, when the instructor requested for nominating 1 member from every team to draw the Sequence Diagram, was that my team had conspired to pull me in.

I dragged myself towards the board & started drawing a set of vertical and horizontal lines, one of which went slanting dowm towards the right-hand extreme of the board. Which was when this dame (damn!) seated in the front row asked me if I needed a ruler. A mind perplexed with how to draw the diagram refused to ackowledge what was being asked. But when I walked back to my chair after fairly completing the diagram, this was what 'Woww'ed my thoughts!!!

DaMe: Do U need a ruler?

Me: Of which Kingdom? And it better be Queen :)

Mine are no quips but sloomps!!!