Friday, January 30, 2009

A Journey of 1000 Kms

I have never thought in my wildest dream, that a simple boy who belongs to some rural area, will come to Delhi or Pune like Cities. Guys, i m talkin about myself. First let me introduce myself. I belong to a village named 'Mungila' which is at a distance of 65 km from Patna and 25 km from Jehanabad. My father or whom you can say my friend, my teacher, my mentor, no matter how much adjective i add for him, i will always be short of words. Papa is a middle school teacher and my mother is a house wife who only know how to love/take care of their children. My grandmother is my mentor to. Without her, i could have been here. This is what my small family is .

After completing my schooling, i came to patna for my Intermediate (+2). I prepared a lot for JEE (join entrance exam for IITs), but was unable to crack the mains. There is always destiny that guide you, so mine was something other than IITs.

In 2001, I took admission in BIT and came to Delhi in november 2001. On 1st of november, we three me, my younger brother and papa boarded train "Sharmjivi Express" from patna at 10:50 am. I still remember the journey, as if i have experienced it yesterday. There were two old age people, sitting next to me, who shared their experience, and taught us how to live, study and work harder. My brother is short tempered, and don't like to listen any lecture, but i am just opposite of him, who is patient and doesn't get violent on issue of lecturing and all. Journey ended and we all came to Delhi- Pitampure where my study center was located.

After spending first 2 days, papa went after teaching us how to study and work hard. And I felt it that I have to work hard becuase after spending around 3 yrs I was not even able to crack any IITs exam. Next day I went to class of Computing Fundamentals which is my first day in the world of computers. There I met a guy called 'Santosh Kumar Yadav'. We had brief introduction with each other then, and till now, we are good friend. My younger brother has left home town for the first time and he felt the homesickness and argued or better to say forced me to return to patna. I was in dilemma, whether to follow him or stay here. Lastly i cant see any of my family member crying and specially my brother and sister, so We returned to home on 12th November and fortunately Deepawali was on 14th November.


First thing i would like like to say that the culture of rural areas is very different from urban areas. In rural areas everyone teases other for not doing good things, and has the habit of poking their nose in others matter. A lot of neighbours said a lot of things and as my father is a respected person in village, i really felt so bad and was embarraced to hell. I remember, papa didn't talked a single word with us for 2 days. It is a single day in my whole life when he didn't spoke to me as far as i remember. Some body even said that we are not able to understand the course and made hell out of nothing. But lastly thanx to all of them who critisized me ,because whatever i have acheived till now is because of them.


After spending sometimes at home again we went back to delhi on 16th December 2001. But this time there is a friend of my brother came with us named 'Jitendra' . Now i have lost my first trimester in this way.


I am thankful to my friends 'Amit', 'Ravindra', 'Santosh', 'Prabhat' who motivated me and guided me when ever i needed. As i missed my first trimester, so i had to work hard and from that day onward, i studied harder and harder and completed my BIT successfully on time and that with good marks.

I thanx to all of my friend for critisizing me, which in turn motivated me to outdo those criticism.


Afer completing BIT, i needed to get good job because parents has some expectation from us. I tried a lot initially but didn't had good scope and job. Lastly i joined a small company on 10th of January 2005 and worked there till 31st July 2006.


Guys, I named this as a journey of 1000kms becuase distance between New-Delhi and Patna is 1000kms. There is still lots of things happened in between this which i can;t be mentioned.
To be continued............

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Passion Vs Profession

After reading so many blogs of my friend saurabh, I also feel as if i have a writer in myself somewhere, which needs to be convinced, that i have the caliber to write. As whole world is blogging, so am also motivated to add my name in the list of blogger. So, here i am with my first blog, and am sure.. the saga will continue.

After completing my intermediate, i tried a lot to get into engineering college but was not successful or better to say, was not lucky enogh. As i was destined to do something else, i did my graduation in Information Technology. Coming from the remote area, i was unaware of the world of computer, all i have seen them in banks and some institute. In first semster of my graduation, i got to study JAVA. For instant reaction, i was clueless as it sound awkward to me, but the love toward this language grow slowly and steadily, ("haule haule jii") and at the time of conclusion of my graduation, i beacame passionate, and in turn it became my passion.


As passion keep on growing, i did my final year project and DAC project in JAVA, and was looking for a job in this field.But unfortunaltely, till date, i didn't have the oppurtunity to code. As i joined Cybage software pvt ltd, one of the best company in town for software development, here i was asked to work on Dot Net, and as u guessed it right, i didnt had much choice, but had to bite the dust for DotNet.

Being a ACTS guy, i did and have excelled to much of credit. I am very sure of one thing, if i had given java, scenario would have been different. Now, am a programmer who programs in microsoft.net technology. But still after two years of exp in DOT NET, i don't find myself confident, and still my heart skip whenever i find some one talking about java, though am not in touch with language for more than 3 years.

Now, am in situation where i can say java is my passion and .net is my proffesion. And when the issue is of bread n butter or to challenge yourself or to your passion, you need to forget your passion and have to cheer for profession.

FYI, visit java and .net.