blogging after a long time...

hi,

its been such a long time since i last blogged, so let me brief you up on whats happening in my life, im working now for IBM since the last two months, training going on and all, i've been put into the AT&T project already and i'm staying for nearly 12 hours a day every day. i'm done with MCA(well almost, the final sem results are not out yet) and somehow the milestone of shifting from being a student to being a working professional has been a happy and a rather smooth transition, in simple words i just dont feel any different. i miss the college days. i'm not the types who looks back as much as most people do and ive always wondered how people say they miss college days but here i am contradicing myself ... for different reasons though, for one being a working professional costs more as in attending tech conferences/seminars and also there's less free time to devote to my pet hobbies (entrepreneurship related meetings and camps is something i'm missing the most).

so what got me blogging now? i just read blogs by a fellow IBMer who's joined just a month ahead and she has very nicely put the training period into words in her blog and if you've not guessed by now, i get quite high reading nice blogs and that inspires me to blog too.

i guess i must write about this interesting character in my life now called Swetha. a colleague of mine staying close by. she's a mix of being rather very friendly and caring and rather bad at messaging and replying to my messages. her concern for me and hanging out with me despite being able to have more fun in her own class with her classmates (a pretty cool bunch of people) is of interest.

i have to clear SCJP in 3 days and i have so much to study, there's a constant nagging in my head to study and the question whether i can complete studying for it or not is always present, i will update you on what happens...now thats a phrase i've been using a lot lately.

there's lots more to write about including ...oh well let me list them atleast:

-where i was home alone for two months while my parents stayed with my brother in the US.

-my first days at IBM

-my large collection of new friends

-my struggle through the very hectic schedule of getting adjusted to the working lifestyle and doing all the work at home. multitasking - thats a keyword for that period of two months.

-and most importantly my paradim shift or shall i describe it as a change in perception towards a better one...hard to describe it. i can see...i've certainly hardened up (for the better) and i'm more assertive and ... just better in every way. 'refined' is the word i think.

i like the way work has pushed me far beyond my limits towards things i never really would have even considered as possible to achieve.

thats all,

cya soon,

Sundeep