Amorphous Thoughts

If you haven't read the previous post, you have to stop here as this is a sequel to the previous one. This blogpost makes sense only if you have gone through the previous post. Afterall, you get a chance to revisit my goal.  🙂 It was in 2010, me and Savi went to an Ayurvedic store for some medicines and Kruthi is months old. I was standing at the gate while she was buying some medicines. Once the transaction was done, person in the counter called me and asked if he can see my palm. If you have read the previous two blogs of mine, you would agree to the fact that there was nothing glorious to hide and i wanted to have fun too. Looking at my palm, h said, "బాబు, నీ జాతకం లో విదేశీయానం లేదు". (Foreign travel isn't in your destiny). For a moment, i felt bad for letting someone read my palm. Savi was little upset too.  But destiny had already made me understand it in very clear terms. Destiny was my teacher. I have already surrendered to it.  Sometime in 2008, i was asked...

Anaganaga Oka Roju (అనగనగా ఒక రోజు), because all this has happened in one day.  Dramatic! When i joined my first job, i had  one  goal. I need to land in US as soon as possible and i have a three point agenda. Work. Deliver. Fly to US. Sounds like a plan, right?  If it reminds you of a scene in movie "Dil" where VenuMadhav says "Appatlo Bhutto, Ippudu Musharaff, Seat icchestara?" it is no fault of yours. It was pretty much the same scene. Reality hit me hard when i got to know that freshers would be treated as minnows and if you are from a  non-computer background, you are rather non-existent for those seniors. I had been living with this US goal for almost two years and prevailing conditions had filled me with no hope. With in a week, after humiliations from my so called "mentor", i started sketching for Plan B. I was talking to professors such that i can start research program in one of the US universities.  if you remember "Cup Importantu Bigilu...

Clearing GATE entrance, i was happy and  have applied for two colleges REC, Surathkal and IIT,Roorkee. Surathkal was my first choice, probably only one. Don't ask why! I was on cloud nine after getting that admission. My friend, Sreeni got the admission too and later became my roomie. It is a different thread for some other day . Few months after my admission, i wanted to drop out for some personal reason and there comes an in-time, much needed, heart warming message from one of our professors (godly, later became my thesis guide) who felt that i was about to do something 'hatke'. I'm still surprised at the kind of confidence he had in me. First semister results did reflect his confidence. Academics wise, god has been so kind and so are the professors. That pep talk did serve as north star and could guide me through out those two years. Couldn't thank him enough. Hostel.  Unlike others, i used to find the hostel food OK. Ofcourse can't be compared to home but i ...