Two reason to smile

It’s been long that I have written anything but now that I have multiple reasons to share or feel good about so thought of sharing this with you all. But before I share my happiness with you all, I must say that it’s not a very good time for our country as we are again facing a really a bad situation with bomb blast happening in almost every part of the country and it’s a real challenge for not only the government but for all us as a responsible citizen to be more alert and do whatever we can to help each other. Also it’s a not so good time for my state Orissa and the people of Orissa. It’s sad to see the violence in Kandhmal where many were killed and there is huge loss to the property. Though the government has maintained that this is an ethnic class but I think a proper investigation needs to be done to reach any conclusion. Moreover since the Orissa government has failed to restore peace in more than 40 days is also a matter of concern. To add the misery the state was also hit by one of the biggest flood ever where again many people died and there is a heavy loss to the property. No wonder why my state is counted as one of the poorest where every year we have a calamity hitting us badly. I think it’s high time for the ruling government to raise above all this and have some mechanism so that people are better place to handle such disaster. There is no point blaming each other and waiting for the central government help. I hope and pray that everything fall in place and we move to been a state that attract the most investment to state that implement all those investment into reality. But as I write this there are couple of things that cross my mind one is certainly the global meltdown and the crisis we are all in and it has hit every individual directly or indirectly. In this scenario the development work is certainly going to take a back seat and we have to wait for this period to just pass through and hope to see good time greets us. The second off course the pull out of TATA from singur is not very good sign for us where we are already facing similar situation but since both the industry are different I think it will least effect us. The good news for all us is the nuclear deal finally been signed. We have all read/heard a lot about it and now we have to see how it benefits each individual. One final thing that I want to mention here is the announcement of retirement from international cricket by DADA. I am just one among millions of great fan of dada not just because of his cricketing skills but more because of this aggressiveness on the field. I doubt if anybody is going to match it or shall I say we have to just wait and see…………


Coming back to my personal life, the first thing that I want to share with you all is that I have achieved a little milestone as I completed 5 yrs in IT industry. If I close my eyes and think it seems like a sweet dream. I have lot of people to thank because of whom only I have achieved this milestone which I think a major landmark in my journey of life.
First the almighty GOD for all his blessings and kindness shown to me and my family in those difficult days. I just pray to god to continue keeping his kind blessings. My family off course the greatest source of motivation and the continued love and support, special thanks to my elder brother Asit Pasayat for believing in me and sending me those Rs.5000.00 without which I don’t know what might have happen to me and more than money it was those words of assurance that helped me keep going and achieve what I am now. It is very difficult when you are without a job after being a B.E pass out 3 yrs back and in addition to that you have failed once and if you fail this time there is nowhere to go. I don’t have many friends but few very good friends and it is worth mentioning there name (in chronological order…) Abinash Das, Ashutos Rath, Debadutta Bhadra, Gopal Prusty, M.Venugopal,P.Kiran Kumar, Rupash Rath and Satya Naryana Mohapatra. I had never stayed in hostel during my schooling/college time and now I was in between 8 individual who were much better than me in most of the area. We had more good times than bad times and probably that is the reason why we are so closely bonded. These are the people whom I can rely upon and come back to them whenever I need them. I have learnt a lot from all of these people and I am looking forward to their continuous help and support.

There are threeperson whom I owe a lot and will never forgot in my life - Satya Prakash Das (Bhaina..as i call him) is the first person by whom i am hugely inspired he is one of my role model and has a great impact on me and what i am today. I think it's his guidance that not only helped me but all of us who stayed in #496, BTM Layout and achieve what we all aspire for, starting from the summer training days he has been very supportive to all of us.
Sambit Tripathy, I knew this guy during my graduation but we came very close when I was struggling to get a job in Bangalore on my second outing. Saying just he helped me a lot will be a understatement, if my 7 friends give me all support, Sambit is the one who give me the direction and probably what I was looking for at that point of time. I can still remember my first day when I joined TCS, Delhi as a contractor and I was taken straight to the client (Agilent Technologies) location at Gurgoan. A very nervous and very low in confidence not knowing how he is going to handle the situation. I had more than couple of weeks of sleepless night until I met Biswajit Das whatever may be the reason for his presence I think God had sent him to help me out. I can safely say that if I had not met Biswajit at that point then I don’t how would have I handle my professional career. For the next 10 months I worked with him he helped me not only learning a new skill but also helped me in every aspect of life during those hard time.

I am happy to see all my friends are doing good in their respective fields and achieving what they had aspire for. My good wishes are always with them and pray to god that achieve new milestone in their life.

The second good news to share is that I am going back to India on Nov 7 and will be in Orissa for few days. My stay here was really good and achieved more than what I had expected out of me, it’s totally different than my first visit where I came for knowledge transfer but this time I had work with the clients, understanding their problem and helping them achieving what they want by writing some meaningful codes..:-)
My trip to Switzerland was great and hope you might have seen the photos and videos and if you not then you are missing something, though I missed the dusherra celebration here in London but already have plans to celebrate Diwali here and with lot of party and get together on the cards I hope the next couple of weeks will just flew by…….

100 Days in London

First of all I would like to thanks to all of you for all the feedbacks on my last article that has motivated me to write this one. I would have loved to have my next article much earlier but days are getting more hectic than ever. To be very honest I am writing this because I have just crossed a landmark and wanted to share few moments with you guys. I have just completed 100 days in London surpassing my previous record of 92 days which also means I have spend more time in London and I have fewer days to spend here before I am back to my country.

London is a nice place to be especially in the summers and I have always loved to be here and this time also I had pretty good trip so far. This could have been a great trip if I had a better company but still I would say it is not so bad after all it's a great learning curve. If I break this trip into two equal halves then I can say the first half was ok and second half was pretty good, if this upward trend continues then by the time I return back to India then I can say the trip was successful.

If I have to pick the most important thing I have done (apart from my work) in this trip till now then it is easily the 'RATH YATRA' of lord Jagannath. I had privilege and blessing of the lord to witness it outside the country of its origin and believe me it was a mind blowing experience. Though I missed the initial part of pulling the cart from Hyde Park to Trafalgar square but still it was a dream come true watching the 3 chariots in front of national museum at Trafalgar sqaure.Traflagar square is my favorite hang out place in London so watching the large Indian crowd there who were all there to witness the great event.

There are few other memorable things that are worth mentioning, like watching live T20 match at LORDS the home of cricket. Though it was a county match between Essex v Middlesex and it was no contest with Middlesex winning the match comfortably but still the fact that I was watching a match live and that too at lords is just fantastic. I also covered all the left out places from my last trip during these last 100 days, had the privilege of playing cricket in
London with few localites and so on.....

Also there are few things that I have been following lately and the recent one is the debate on the nuclear deal, though I don't understand it completely but still I feel it is good for India so I am expecting the government will survive the trust vote. The bull is still ruling the stock market and I think it will be volatile at least till this year end there is also not many good news from my state where policeman were again attacked by the Maoist and as many as 17 feared killed. Indian cricket captain M.S.Dhoni opting out of srilankan test series is a brave decision and it make sense rather than complain about tight schedule.Didn'nt got chance to watch the mens single Wimbledon finale but the scorecard says it all and I am very happy that finally Nadal beat Roger on a grass court.

Finally the annual appraisals are out and it was no different from the current industry standard. Though I am not very happy with the end result but considering the current market situation it was pretty good and I think I am in a pretty good organization at this point of time. I have always competed with myself and tried to improve on myself rather than competing with others and I think now I am better resource than what I was 3 months back. For the time being I just want to enjoy what I am doing and stop bothering about things that are not under my control.

Namaste London

Exactly after 3 yrs i have to travel to London from my current organization on a short term assisgnment. The enthu this time around is not that much to see a new place/country but i have to travel for multiple personal and professional reason but the biggest motivation is offcourse earn few extra money.

It's first week of April so the summer has just began in India and my flight was at 4:00 AM in the early morning.I decided to start at midnight as it will take almost 1 hr to reach the new international airport in hyderabad.There were few ppl on the road as i started my journey to airport, few still waiting to reach there home and few not knowing where they are going. I think i belong to the second one, i thought abt it sitting in the new Mahindra Renult LOGAN taxi i had lot of time to do that.I thought abt many things in that 45 min drive to RGIA and each of my monologue ends in one thing i.e, MONEY.

I reached the airport as the cab driver handed me Rs.700 bill, i headed staright to the checkin counter and it didn't took much in the entire process to complete.I had to spend 2 hrs in the shinning lounge waiting for my flight, to spend time i went around the duty free shop just to check if anything is intresting.I checked the liquor shop there was hard rock cafe and few other shop but i spend most of my time in one of the book store.Infact i bought my first non academic book, it was Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone.Well the choice of the book was very obivious a) i like reading b) since it's going to be a major movie and i am a movie buff (IDIOT is the name i guess starring Aamir Khan and directed by Raj Kumar Hirani) and
c) it's abt friends&friendship.........!

FRIENDS, so important in everybody's life i said to myself as i browse through the pages of my new book.I completed few chapters as ppl started to fill the lounge, ppl in all shape and sizes from different part of the world making the 34A checkin counter a global village.The flight got filled up and i prefer to catch some sleep as there were nothing interesting around me to keep me awake.I was still optimistic abt my chances as it was a break journey and i have to take my london flight from dubai.

Dubai International Airport truly a global village, heard of it here is my chance to see it and feel it.It was 7:00 AM in the morning and the airport was filled with thousands of intransit passengers.The most attarcting part is the duty free shops, i checked few of them but decided to postpone my spending till my return journey.It wasn't a long wait before i borded my next emirates flight to heathrow, again unlucky to have asomebody interesting next to me on the flight.

London, last time when i left heathrow i had said to myself one more time i will have to come here on work permit so that i can enjoy more and here i am minutes away from landing and i am not kicked off not sure of the answer i jsut decided to enjoy my stay as much as possible as i said NAMASTE LONDON.........................!

NOTE:This is first blog in the series of namaste london to follow, so expecting feedback for improvement.