Tuesday, April 6, 2010
was supposed to be at the gate by 8:30 but only made it at 8:40 and had to wait for ajit to come and get me in.
Called up home and talked to parents.
Met up with Joe Farrara who gave me a brief about NBG and NFC call center. Then latter went to the NBG call center and joe said he was going to arrange a walk thru for me. Was surprised to see the lavish set up of seperate rooms for each call center agent.
Since I had a CTSH new comers orientation program returned back to the hotel and connected using skype and Centra @ 12. After 3 hrs of some great presentation and questions.
Was then trying to get my Emp id moving. Got call from Vinod about needing to complete background check profile on the net.
Called up Ajit to tell him that I would be stay put in the hotel. got busy sending out fax to Debra about new address. Then sent out fax of Canadian pp and drivers license to hireright. ahhhhhh around 6 got a mail to send across papers with hiring managers signature.
Went out in the evening checking out the apartment I would move into. Then went to costco and got the special granola. Went to check out the Indian grocerry, owned and operated by Gujju family :)... got some snacks and Drove out to Walmart to check out the place and a sleeping bag. got lost when getting back , but returned back to hotel in one piece...
Called up Ajit and left a message. hoping to send the Documents via fax immediately..
Exhausted by all the running around. Wish I could go out and dance with someone special...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
New Day, New week feeling new
woke up early, did a good trade on rimm.
Slowly but steadily getting back into market.
got to work around 9:30 had to page Ajit as my IS id is not ready, only he could escort me into the office. He said we have a meeting with Joe and George @ 10:30. So get back to the meeting room only to move it to the "war room".
Joe and Ajit left after 11:30 for another meeting. Gerorge remained there to log me on to the other systems.
After lunch, I got booted out of the war room as it was booked for some kind of training. only got it back after 4:15pm
Waiting on Emp Id from CTSH too. only then will I be able to continue with the rest of the relocation porcess and the pay role related stuff.
Feeling a bit relieved that I am not wasting my time and energy thinking about Apartment. Thats a lot of relief. Thank you very much god.
Slowly but steadily getting back into market.
got to work around 9:30 had to page Ajit as my IS id is not ready, only he could escort me into the office. He said we have a meeting with Joe and George @ 10:30. So get back to the meeting room only to move it to the "war room".
Joe and Ajit left after 11:30 for another meeting. Gerorge remained there to log me on to the other systems.
After lunch, I got booted out of the war room as it was booked for some kind of training. only got it back after 4:15pm
Waiting on Emp Id from CTSH too. only then will I be able to continue with the rest of the relocation porcess and the pay role related stuff.
Feeling a bit relieved that I am not wasting my time and energy thinking about Apartment. Thats a lot of relief. Thank you very much god.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Signing Lease
Signing Lease to Station Square :
get up around 6am and end up chatting with Narayan about our life and its latest happenings.
10:10 leave narayans house head to the Temple again. They have the Ganapathi bathing ritual. Stay there again and mediate for sometime and don't feel like leaving.
Start off from the temple after ordering a take out of Idlly, vada and onion Pakoda.
1:42 was reaching Station Sq to sign up when I get a call from the lady. Anyway end up there and sign give her the employment letter from Cognizant and give her application.
End up getting $100 lesser than thought as she wavied the Amenities fee and gives me the rent that we talked about on the first visit. 1150 and two month free for 14 month lease. So it turned out to be just about 1200 more per year or $100/month compared to the older apt. (the older apt is available only from may 1st and that means 3 weeks of Hotel stay and car rental amounting to about $1800).
woo hoooo. All set to move into new apartment on April 11 2010
get up around 6am and end up chatting with Narayan about our life and its latest happenings.
10:10 leave narayans house head to the Temple again. They have the Ganapathi bathing ritual. Stay there again and mediate for sometime and don't feel like leaving.
Start off from the temple after ordering a take out of Idlly, vada and onion Pakoda.
1:42 was reaching Station Sq to sign up when I get a call from the lady. Anyway end up there and sign give her the employment letter from Cognizant and give her application.
End up getting $100 lesser than thought as she wavied the Amenities fee and gives me the rent that we talked about on the first visit. 1150 and two month free for 14 month lease. So it turned out to be just about 1200 more per year or $100/month compared to the older apt. (the older apt is available only from may 1st and that means 3 weeks of Hotel stay and car rental amounting to about $1800).
woo hoooo. All set to move into new apartment on April 11 2010
Temple Darshan, Empowering feeling
SAT April 03 2010
11:00am set out for NJ
11:20 see a TD bank so stop by to check and end up opening an account. Applied for
Credit card too.
Drive to Costco and get a cooking set for Narayan and his wife.
1:00pm started off for the Venkateshwara Temple in Bridgewater. Was a turning out to be pleasant drive. Then suddenly I realised that the landscape and traffic was feeling more like the downtown of a city and a Rough Neighborhood . Saw SEPTA station (commuter train in Philadelphia). And I was supposed to reach the temple in one hour and it was 1:30 hrs of driving already.
Panic stuck I turned around called up Narayan and he confirmed that the road I ended up on 611 south was taking me to Philly downtown. Atlast get back to the route and reached the temple around 4:30.
Enter the temple and was suddenly stuck with some kind of empowering feeling as soon as I saw the vigraha of Venkateshwara. Ended up been there and mediating for about an hour. Then go down and have a Vada and veggie Birayani.
6pm head towards Narayans house and meet Satish, his wife and daughter there from Kasargod. Then latter Roshan (mumbai-malu) and his wife from calicut turn up at the door and we end up talking for a few hours.
Its surprising that I meet two Northern Malus in the same evening.
North Kerala is calling out to me in subtle ways. :)
Also not to forget the mail from Sara. It was very sweet of her to think about me on her trip to Italy and looking across the border from her dads house into Solvenia. Gave her my address as asked lets see if she will send the post card as promised. ;)
Right now, any bit of kindness and thoughtfulness towards me seems to make me think of the person as exceptional. After been the one who was going out of his way and not been appreciated for my efforts. It really feels very touching even when people consider me for little things and try to include me and try to make me part of their life.
Well one has to feel the bottom to be able to appreciate any upward drift.
11:00am set out for NJ
11:20 see a TD bank so stop by to check and end up opening an account. Applied for
Credit card too.
Drive to Costco and get a cooking set for Narayan and his wife.
1:00pm started off for the Venkateshwara Temple in Bridgewater. Was a turning out to be pleasant drive. Then suddenly I realised that the landscape and traffic was feeling more like the downtown of a city and a Rough Neighborhood . Saw SEPTA station (commuter train in Philadelphia). And I was supposed to reach the temple in one hour and it was 1:30 hrs of driving already.
Panic stuck I turned around called up Narayan and he confirmed that the road I ended up on 611 south was taking me to Philly downtown. Atlast get back to the route and reached the temple around 4:30.
Enter the temple and was suddenly stuck with some kind of empowering feeling as soon as I saw the vigraha of Venkateshwara. Ended up been there and mediating for about an hour. Then go down and have a Vada and veggie Birayani.
6pm head towards Narayans house and meet Satish, his wife and daughter there from Kasargod. Then latter Roshan (mumbai-malu) and his wife from calicut turn up at the door and we end up talking for a few hours.
Its surprising that I meet two Northern Malus in the same evening.
North Kerala is calling out to me in subtle ways. :)
Also not to forget the mail from Sara. It was very sweet of her to think about me on her trip to Italy and looking across the border from her dads house into Solvenia. Gave her my address as asked lets see if she will send the post card as promised. ;)
Right now, any bit of kindness and thoughtfulness towards me seems to make me think of the person as exceptional. After been the one who was going out of his way and not been appreciated for my efforts. It really feels very touching even when people consider me for little things and try to include me and try to make me part of their life.
Well one has to feel the bottom to be able to appreciate any upward drift.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Fixing in UAT again
9:00am reached reception. got txt frm ajit saying that mtg with George moved to 9:30am
Sit it out in the car. Enter around 9:20 and the security lady lets me in without escort. So get into the room and call up ajit and let him know.
9:45 he comes by and we go to meet George, nice guy who was one of the client team that interviewed me a few days ago. Then he takes me the high security War room ment for the CTI (computer Telephony Integration). The door has its own unique security code to enter and I am the only guy in Cognizant give that. hmmm niceeee.
Thou I have not got my Id card and Laptop, he gets me in so that I could help him fix some broken functions in the current Environment. They are going live with enhancements in May and hence are in UAT phase too. Ahhh again another project in the UAT phase. oh no ! it looks like UAT karma is catching up with me.
Well there starts my CTI at Merck.
George starts by telling me the details of the project and the history behind some of the happenings.
We get to the 2 issues that he has as priority.
the first one, related to spanish language, I felt we needed more info about data from the middle ware known only thru their logs, which we might only be able to get to on monday.
2nd related to internal calls ending up getting pop ups.
We go about trying to increase the log levels.
then around 12:45 head for lunch. George wanted to go to his desk and eat there while working, I decided to stay put in the cafetria. George comes back saying that he is sorry for been rude and joins me. wow! so its not a western or white folk thing when people decide to go away on their own. Its a individual personalty thing.
After going thru the months of torture of trying to figure out, what the issue was in my relationship. And why I am feeling so sensitive to certain behavior, i realize, its really not me. Different people Different attitude! Some are team oriented, some are very individualistic, which to sensitive team players like me would mean too selfish and self centered attitude. But then again its my own built up of expectations about someone special in my life.
Anyways after lunch we went back to trying to understand the problem, george heads off to a series of meetings he has after giving me access with his id.
After doing a few tests, I come up with a temp solution to remedy the symptom, THOU YET TO DEFINE THE PROBLEM and find the right solution
'PrimaryDNIS' = '99{AgentExtension}' OR 'PrimaryDNIS' = '{AgentExtension}'
Filter.SiebelViewBmk ?????*
FilterSpec.ANI
090_Inbnd_ANI_Int-->InboundCallNoInfoFilterSpec = 'PrimaryDNIS' IS NOT '99{AgentExtension}' OR 'PrimaryDNIS' IS NOT '{AgentExtension}'
5:00 head to Station Sq and check on the apartment again and to confirm about the heat and other charges....
The new lady there tells me that the apt is no longer available for 1150 and its now 1195 and the heat and electricity comes to about $150 / month. So now the price has gone up by $200.
Meaning that I end up paying about $4000 to $5000 more per year compared to the Older apartment -> Penbrook Apts.
The go to Prembrook and try asking if the apt could be ready sooner. Looks like the people who are staying are vacating in on May 8th and the management do not know the condition of the place. Hence the issue of promising the date.
6:00pm Reach Bank of america on VanForge street after the one on Forty feet rd seemed to be have closed down for good. not really impressed.
Phew what an end to an traumatic high pressure week.
lets see sat and sunday to NJ . to the temple and then some time with narayan and family
Sit it out in the car. Enter around 9:20 and the security lady lets me in without escort. So get into the room and call up ajit and let him know.
9:45 he comes by and we go to meet George, nice guy who was one of the client team that interviewed me a few days ago. Then he takes me the high security War room ment for the CTI (computer Telephony Integration). The door has its own unique security code to enter and I am the only guy in Cognizant give that. hmmm niceeee.
Thou I have not got my Id card and Laptop, he gets me in so that I could help him fix some broken functions in the current Environment. They are going live with enhancements in May and hence are in UAT phase too. Ahhh again another project in the UAT phase. oh no ! it looks like UAT karma is catching up with me.
Well there starts my CTI at Merck.
George starts by telling me the details of the project and the history behind some of the happenings.
We get to the 2 issues that he has as priority.
the first one, related to spanish language, I felt we needed more info about data from the middle ware known only thru their logs, which we might only be able to get to on monday.
2nd related to internal calls ending up getting pop ups.
We go about trying to increase the log levels.
then around 12:45 head for lunch. George wanted to go to his desk and eat there while working, I decided to stay put in the cafetria. George comes back saying that he is sorry for been rude and joins me. wow! so its not a western or white folk thing when people decide to go away on their own. Its a individual personalty thing.
After going thru the months of torture of trying to figure out, what the issue was in my relationship. And why I am feeling so sensitive to certain behavior, i realize, its really not me. Different people Different attitude! Some are team oriented, some are very individualistic, which to sensitive team players like me would mean too selfish and self centered attitude. But then again its my own built up of expectations about someone special in my life.
Anyways after lunch we went back to trying to understand the problem, george heads off to a series of meetings he has after giving me access with his id.
After doing a few tests, I come up with a temp solution to remedy the symptom, THOU YET TO DEFINE THE PROBLEM and find the right solution
'PrimaryDNIS' = '99{AgentExtension}' OR 'PrimaryDNIS' = '{AgentExtension}'
Filter.SiebelViewBmk ?????*
FilterSpec.ANI
090_Inbnd_ANI_Int-->InboundCallNoInfoFilterSpec = 'PrimaryDNIS' IS NOT '99{AgentExtension}' OR 'PrimaryDNIS' IS NOT '{AgentExtension}'
5:00 head to Station Sq and check on the apartment again and to confirm about the heat and other charges....
The new lady there tells me that the apt is no longer available for 1150 and its now 1195 and the heat and electricity comes to about $150 / month. So now the price has gone up by $200.
Meaning that I end up paying about $4000 to $5000 more per year compared to the Older apartment -> Penbrook Apts.
The go to Prembrook and try asking if the apt could be ready sooner. Looks like the people who are staying are vacating in on May 8th and the management do not know the condition of the place. Hence the issue of promising the date.
6:00pm Reach Bank of america on VanForge street after the one on Forty feet rd seemed to be have closed down for good. not really impressed.
Phew what an end to an traumatic high pressure week.
lets see sat and sunday to NJ . to the temple and then some time with narayan and family
April 1st , 1st day at work
With a sense of anticipation and not knowing how deep the well is I jump in...
10:15 reached Merck gate 39 - reception room 1076
got call from Ajit saying its spilling over to 10:45am. So go and sit it off in the Car and meditate... seems to calm me and help me focus more.
11am Ajit comes to the reception and takes me in, Shows me around the maze of buildings. There seems to be about 100 buildings all connected and about 10 Entry points into parking... wow.
12:10 meeting with Sangeeta the Merck Project MGR who gives me a brief about the project.
Got info about their various business groups
Our project is Model D project. => Corner stone ==> US Customer Connect (USCC).
May release - Rel 18 - Siebel 8.07 --Avvaya 7.x
Services the functional areas of :
MVCC (Vaccination)
NSC (National) - (inbound call)
NVG outbound
OMC Order management Center
DTC Distribution - Consumer.(inbound call)
Lots of acronyms been thrown around.
go the cafeteria 12:45 to 1:15 then I am shown to the room where there are about 10 Indian guys from Cognizant. Remember a few names.. let me see ..Rajshekar (Andhra Pradesh) and Rajan ( Tamil from Karnataka) helps me with info about accommodation, Bacho (Andhra Pradesh), Krish (chennai). Sudendo(bengal seems to be the newest here) staying @ penbrook Mohan (maharastra), Dharmesh (mumbai) another guy who is busy talking on the phone from Karnataka.
4:45 plan on going and visiting Narayan Reddy in NJ after visiting Temple in Bridge water, on Saturday. So talk to him the logistics of it.
5:pm Ajit helped fill out the I-9 form. very much needed for Homeland security with in 3 days of joining the company...
Drop ajit off at his house and he invites me for Tea. End up talking to him about
stocks and and playing the market. meet his family A boy and a cute 2 yr old babe girl.
Happy family, Came to US when I was in Indianapolis, he was project Manager there for the Congnizant team. I moved to Vancouver after that. Been with the same company he has his own house. .....
10:15 reached Merck gate 39 - reception room 1076
got call from Ajit saying its spilling over to 10:45am. So go and sit it off in the Car and meditate... seems to calm me and help me focus more.
11am Ajit comes to the reception and takes me in, Shows me around the maze of buildings. There seems to be about 100 buildings all connected and about 10 Entry points into parking... wow.
12:10 meeting with Sangeeta the Merck Project MGR who gives me a brief about the project.
Got info about their various business groups
Our project is Model D project. => Corner stone ==> US Customer Connect (USCC).
May release - Rel 18 - Siebel 8.07 --Avvaya 7.x
Services the functional areas of :
MVCC (Vaccination)
NSC (National) - (inbound call)
NVG outbound
OMC Order management Center
DTC Distribution - Consumer.(inbound call)
Lots of acronyms been thrown around.
go the cafeteria 12:45 to 1:15 then I am shown to the room where there are about 10 Indian guys from Cognizant. Remember a few names.. let me see ..Rajshekar (Andhra Pradesh) and Rajan ( Tamil from Karnataka) helps me with info about accommodation, Bacho (Andhra Pradesh), Krish (chennai). Sudendo(bengal seems to be the newest here) staying @ penbrook Mohan (maharastra), Dharmesh (mumbai) another guy who is busy talking on the phone from Karnataka.
4:45 plan on going and visiting Narayan Reddy in NJ after visiting Temple in Bridge water, on Saturday. So talk to him the logistics of it.
5:pm Ajit helped fill out the I-9 form. very much needed for Homeland security with in 3 days of joining the company...
Drop ajit off at his house and he invites me for Tea. End up talking to him about
stocks and and playing the market. meet his family A boy and a cute 2 yr old babe girl.
Happy family, Came to US when I was in Indianapolis, he was project Manager there for the Congnizant team. I moved to Vancouver after that. Been with the same company he has his own house. .....
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Loyalty
You will know your true friends and who will be in your life forever, when you go thru the tough and low times in your life. The fake people just abandon you and run away in search of Greener pastures, cause they are just about themselves. And its natures way of helping you shed the unwanted. Un-Divided LOYALTY in Character reveals during tough times. Foundations of most Indian Marriages.
I mentioned Un-divided, because if one of the partners tend to have some kind of feelings or loyalty towards someone else, then they would not be able to give their 100% to the person they are with. And in time the cracks appear cause of the stress it causes and break up is inevitable.....
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