TroubleMaker Tales, an extension - What happens in five years!

So after a record hiatus, the Trouble maker is BACK!!!! been 5 years, Life has taken such big turns... Here's a small account of it just to keep you going

1. I graduated from college and went through the 2008-09 recession joblessness for a while!
2. Remember my post on life of and IT person? well I lived it for a year when I got into SAP and my experience was not much different.
3. Wondering if life was indeed taking me nowhere, I quit my job and took up MBA in Singapore
4. Lived!! Yes Singapore was amazing, not from the start tho... At first I hated living there, a hot and humid country full of rains,People who didn't smile, running around trying to find an affordable accommodation, then dealing with a un-adjustable roommate! It almost got to me, I ran home at the very first vacation I got. So if I hated that place, how come I say it was amazing? If you happen to meet me now, I have nothing but good words for Singapore. Well, for the start, It changed when I got back again. My roommate left, I was on my own till my next roomie came along. People were not so unfriendly as I thought, with a bit of familiar faces in my second term, I became very close friends with some Asian guys/gals in my class partly due to Mr Roger Low, my leadership lecturer who in my first term had made us work together(specifying that no team should have more than 2 people from the same country) So the exchange of cultures, ideas, trying out new food( read Frog :P ) cuisines such as chinese, vietnamese, Thai( the real thai , not our fake indian thai) Japanese,Indonesian, giggling gang of girls, shopping, studying long hrs( 11 hrs a day ) in the library, running to catch the best seat, short trips to Indonesia and Malaysia with my pals.The nervousness of results of assignments, the Halloween costumes, Late night discount Cinemas... As it all happened, Singapore and me not only warmed out to each other, i started loving the place and receiving love back! Singapore was where I experienced life on my own, away from family and I had already found a new one in my friends. All of us bonding in this tiny country which none of us was a native of! That's the power of Singapore, you can't but help having fond memories of the sunny island.

5.Backtrack India! - As my tryst with Singapore came to a pause( I wouldn't call it an end, as I left Singapore, I promised to come back some day) I came back to India. To my family, however it took me quite a while to feel truly home here. The mud, dust, the unclean roads yet the familiar language, the horrible traffic jams, No MRTs crowded buses, Rash drivers, un-hygienic street food, the allergies I gained from my now weakened immune system, friends who left because I had become too foreign for them. the job hunt, some other major life changing stuff, health issues.. All of it took time to get used to, while traces of hangover exist in the slightest, I am very sure, India is home for now. I am convinced because the last time I drenched in rain, my skin didn't get rashes as it used to when I had just arrived.

6. My new Job- Yes!! I am working at an amazing place with amazing people, I currently love what I do and am enjoying life to the max..

This is my story summarized in short!!! I hope to be more regular with my writing from now on!!

Over and out

P.S :Above are some pics for your from Singapore, I am too lazy to sort my own so I borrowed from my friend Hu Xiaodan! She is a sweetheart!!



--- TroubleMaker

lovely weather

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
i can go on and on about the weather right now fresh rains have hit bangalore
i can smell the earth the smell is intoxicating it just fills up my senses
the feeling of spring is such that it drives away all the boredom u have in u
after days of sweat and grime its such a nice weekend where the flowers have bloomed in joy the minute u shake a branch thousand droplets shower on u
birds humming along the breeze is tintillating as it circles in my hair i just stand outside on the porch to c those beautifully grey clouds zooming in the sky and yea the grey clouds have become beautiful bangalore was literally burning and now the city is in peace if u take a deep breath its not the dust that u smell but pure fresh air
ahhh i wish banglore remained like this forever and now let me get back to studying for a test tomo ;)

holi ke din

hmm wat do i say about holi
last year when i was in second sem (my first year in coll) i was not knowing the traditional way of celebrating holi
which is smash eggs(yuck i know)
some ppl came to me and asked to play holi to which i said no
and the guts of them to try and forcibly colour me!!!!
i am not the one to take nonsense and i simply removed my nice high heeled slipper and whacked two guys with it
they got scared and literally ran off yea-when it comes to guts most guys dont have them nyways
thats last year
this year was quite a contrast- i thought for a change lemme get into the festive spirit and play -no eggs though but this year there was noone visible in 10 meter circumference of mine when i came to pick my bike from the parking lot and they were literally in statue position
smiling to myself just came home

start-summer midday blues

hi mes back
as usual we engineering students have no specific holiday time of the year and now being march the weather is absolutely gruelling
anyways leme share my mid day blues with you

we had graph theory class and our lecturer is quite good @the subject but today even he cud not bring ny enthu in us so he stuck to dronin about it
my half-asleep eyes (due to the heat) would only see weird patterns on the board , the whole class being set to sleep-wit-the-open-eye mode no one bothered (except the class nerds).i was pestering my friend to start a game of tic tac toe to which she dutifully responded "what?????" well our lec is one of her fav's so....but she was yawnin too as i furiously wished i had mints to chew nuts to munch books to read or nythin that wud keep me awake
finally after an hour and 5 mins of droning he went only to be replaced by our math lecturer here atleast we cud do something as she does not mind a bit of chatter unlike the sir
so the whole class went on a talking spree as our mam tried her level(4ft 5inches)best to control the class her attempts in vain
i went on to play pin ball in my frens mob while analysing how to spend the next two hours in the extra myu p class like dumb dolls coz our sir is very strict unless u have doubts no talkin allowed
but lady luck showered on us her blessings as the class was cancelled and we cud go home

moral:believe in miracles they do happen and carry mints along wherever you go coz boredom can be fatal

never mess wit u kno who

Mr Baker,
As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have a few verybasic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have anintellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After yourconsistent and annoying harassment of myself and my co-workers during thecommission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the fewtrue genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, toexplain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen tostroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste ofprecious oxygen. I was hired because I know about Unix, and you wereapparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, whowatch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" forthe hundredth time.
You will never understand computers. Something asincredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You willalso never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try andexplain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective astelling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality thanyou ever will. You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly lookingfor fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you thatmay have worked for your interview, but now that you actually haveresponsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talentwill cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerialevolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughsat. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle.Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a fullfrontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however Ihave a few parting thoughts. 1. When someone calls you in reference toemployment, it is illegal to give me a bad recommendation. The most youcan say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friendsrandomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest,because I know you would be unable to do it on your own. 2. I have all thepasswords to every account on the system, and I know every password youhave used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am goingto publish your "favourites list", which I conveniently saved when youmade me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like"Lolita" are not usually viewed favourably by the administration. 3. Whenyou borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your mothers b-day",you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourselfin the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moronyou really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with aketchup bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept insafe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation.(Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your mistakes.)Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on mydesk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of yourlittle twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f***with your systems administrators, because they know what you do with allyour free time.Sincerely,
T. Brewer

here is an account of a day in the life of an IT person

wakey!! wakey!! mornings here oops!!! its only 4:30 am but its morn and u rush to the bathroom for a quick brush and wash and ur off to the favourite automatic coffee maker(imported-u say with pride)
for a cup of hot black coffee(cant risk growing fat)
then rush rush grab a bite of yesterdays leftover food and run to the basement parking lot to remove ur car (a brand new one :) ) trying to find out what todays traffic update says about traffic jam ( its become like daily weather reports) got stuck finally no matter how rash u drive scarin the neighbourhood elderly who r off for a walk in the park and kids off to school the way u juggle ur car across schumacher wud be surprised at ur driving skills with all ur cursing,screaming,honking and jumping in ur seats (thank god for seat belts)
FINALLY!! u reach just on time and there is the brunch with the boss, loadsa files tch tch!!! your fingers hammer the keyboard recklessly if it were human it wud be screaming aiyo ayyayyo!!! then u have a break and u gobble up sum food not even looking what it is all in one go gulp water to ease it and back to usual hammering, then when its late in the evening say 6:30 to 7:00 boss comes right up to u and says beta u gotta work over night .you in wardly curse him not a sound escapes ur lips .
homey home by 11:30-12:00 midnight exhausted coz of another traffic situation u r too tired to bother to eat and slump on the bed and again curse the alarm as it dutifully goes and rings the next morning
the days go on and on and u slog for a fat pay packet saying i can live luxuriously but seroiously honey do u have a life???