Pappu paas ho gaya

The interview was in Kolkata and from Ranchi it’s a night journey.  The reporting time for the interview was 10 AM and the train usually gets late, so I decided to go by bus from Ranchi to Kolkata. I left the Ranchi at 7 PM evening so that I could reach there as early as possible and get enough time be well prepared for the interview. Also the venue was Nirula Institute of Technology that was an hour away from main Kolkata.

It was 5 AM by my watch. I saw outside from the glass window and found that the bus has reached at its destination. I was appreciating my decision for taking the bus instead of train for the journey. I came out from the bus with my luggage and found myself on the highway.  Highway??? It shouldn’t be Highway. It should have to be the Bus stand of Kolkata. Then all my dizziness went away when I saw that it’s a road jam. I confirmed from truck drivers playing cards on the road that from Kolkata I was at least 5 hours away somewhere in Ghatshila and the jam will not be cleared before 7AM.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!

Why the Nexlites called ‘band’ on such an important day. I asked a truck driver that if there was any railway station nearby. He showed me on bypass road the Ghatshila station is about 7 km away from there. Without thinking much I took the road as I had no other option. Luckily an auto was coming from the other side to take me to the station. The station was just a 3km away. (The less knowledgeable truck wala)

Luck favoured me again as a passenger train was at 6 AM from Ghatshila to Kharagpur. From Kharagpur I could reach Kolkata in about 2 hours. The train arrived and with a little struggle I was able to make a comfortable place on the stairs. Lots of thoughts were floating in my mind about the interview and the self-generated tips from the past interviews. I knew that I would not be able to make at scheduled time.  After 2.30 Hrs I was at Kharagpur stations. A local train from other platform was just about to leave for the Howrah so couldn’t think much about other option and I was on the way to Howrah.

Somehow I spent another 2 Hrs. standing, tired and hungry. The local train was now showing her true colour stopped at somewhere one hour away from Howrah. I enquired from some local passengers that if there was any other option for reaching the venue without going Howrah. I trusted one and left the train as she reached her next stoppage. I hired a taxi for Rs-350/- from that place to my interview venue that was still at 45 minutes distance.

It was 11 AM of hot sunny day and I was sitting in the taxi, tired and hungry.  I instructed the taxi wale bhaiya to drive at his maximum speed as he could. When I was just about to reach my destination I changed my cloth in the taxi. Finally, at 11.45 AM I was there, thanked to the taxi wale bhaiya and headed towards the interview building. On the ground floor the guard told me that the room is on third floor. I asked the guard to use his wash room for 5 minutes and he offered no objections. Within 5 minutes I brushed my teeth, washed my face and took a deodorant bath. I was ready for the show.

I was not late for the interview rather I was late for the waiting room, where more than 100 students were already waiting since the morning.

So the story begins here. I was waiting till 1.30 PM when I got my call for the first round of interview. I enquired before that there were three rounds of face to face interview, two among them was technical and another one was HR. So the first round was technical one. This time I was not nerves not even a bit. My past interview results had made me very confident. Past interviews, did I tell you about my past interviews? Ok. I was already selected in Aricent, Infosys and Congnizent.  The interest in Huawei was because it was a telecom company and offering the post of Software Engineer in its R & D division. Now come back to the story, the placement coordinator (a girl) told me to go to the cabin where interviewer was waiting for me. The girl was damn beautiful. I could reject hundreds of job offers for her. Concentrate, Concentrate on interview, I controlled my emotions and entered in the cabin.

1st Round

A smart intelligent looking young man instructed me to set down. He already had my CV and my PEP score. I saw my score was 870 total of 420 in technical and 450 in aptitude. Then he fired his most common question.

Tell me about yourself.

Subjects you studied so far, interested field and programming skills. Then he asked me to write a program in C. The program was to find the occurrence of a sub string in a string and its exact position. I told him that I was good in programming but working with pointers is a bit difficult as I am not in practice, but he insisted to make the program using pointers. I did the program with some errors that he found. Somehow I manage to escape form that. After that, he gave me some written programmes of C and asked me to find the outputs with explanations. I asked I got the last one right or not.  He replied Right. And my mind said ‘Bingo’.

After another set of problems on finding the outputs of some C programs, finally he came to the subject of my interest that I told him embedded Systems. But he asked some questions of digital electronics that I answered correctly.  

Now it was time for testing aptitude. Some of very common which I answered and one I couldn’t was to divide a circle in 7 parts using 3 straight lines. I asked the answer but he said- Google it. Then he asked about the offers I already had. I convinced him that I will join this company only.

It was over and I was waiting for the 1^st round result outside where she (that hot girl) came and sent me in another cabin for next round. She was... beautiful…

2^nd Round

The next interviewer was in his cabin waiting for me with my last round results and sheets that I had used for rough work. Again he started with some basic question of C but absurd type. Then about the subject I was interested in. I don’t know what happened but my mind was just got blank and I couldn’t even explain embedded system’s definition. The next was about the final year project and in that the programming part. I explained that my project is based on PSoC and pulled him in my court. So for 10-15 min I was telling him about PSoC and the programming part in that.

He was now in the mood of teasing so started asking questions of elementary mathematics, Seventh or eighth class… area, perimeter, rectangle, triangle and rhombus. I was really getting irritated. He started with drawing a parallelogram on a paper, asked me to find the area. Now when I answered, he pulled the sides making some inclination and then asked again what would be the area this time. I replied it will be same. Then aging he pulled it little more. I aging replied same.  After 4 times, I now realised that I was wrong. Then he just said... MASTER aa….

The question I was waiting for finally came, ‘Why Huawei when you already have so many offers’. I just replied, better position, better company, and the most important part is the R&D factor, that’s it. He was not very impressed with the answer but I was not in the mood to explain so I didn’t add anything much. His part was now over and in the ending some questions regarding family background.

3^rd Round

This was the most interesting part of the whole process. I was waiting in the waiting room with a few students. I had to keep myself awake so I avoided sitting and just walking in the room thinking about ‘Social network’ the movie that I had seen recently. I remembered the scene in which the lawyer asks Zuckerberg ‘may I have your attention’ and Zuckerberg replies ‘NO’. At that moment I was watching outside the window I heard a sound ‘sharat’. I turned and saw a fat (a little) lady watching towards me (like asking me ‘Sharat... Can I have your attention?’ And I just ignored and showed her my back and saying in my mind NO… you can’t). After a few seconds a louder one, Sharat Chandra. This time she got my attention and was not looking happy. Anyways, she asked me to follow her as my turn had come. I stopped for a while to get my pen back from a student there. She returned in the room with a bad mood as she found that I was not following her. I didn’t say anything just took my pen and aging followed her to the HR interviewer cabin. What’s wrong with you? - She asked me in a bad mood. I couldn’t say anything, was shocked that the lady was the HR going to interrogate me, just thinking ‘First Impression is Last Impression’.  

Well, the interview did begin and after few predefined questions like about you, strengths, weakness, why this company … The HR aunty (not exactly) was very good and was smiling on my every answers so I was also giving her company by smiling back. I thought the interview was in its last phase as she asked me if I have any question. I was ready with questions as I had done a lot of homework for Huawei on Wikipedia. She cleared my doubt with smile and with a question ‘anything else’. I wanted to show her my knowledge and interest in the company so I asked about the growth in the company. Again she answered with smile and the same question ‘Anything else’. I said of course mam, a lot actually. So now the interview was like a discussion about Huawei where we both were sharing our knowledge about the company. Thanks to Wikipedia.

I almost exhausted. As I was giving her company in smiling after the answers, after her last answer for some second my mind was sleeping and she noticed that. Where are you? Something is bothering you as your mind is not here, what’s that? I woke up. I explained her about my situation that how adventurous my journey was. Then she said ok it was nice to talk to you and best of luck blaa blaa… I also did the formality but something more was in my mind that whether I will get the job or not but I must take something that was actually bothering me. So, I said- mam one thing that was actually bothering me and taking most of my attention was that dairy milk éclairs kept on your table. She was surprised and asked – you want that? I said- yes if you don’t mind. She was impressed. She gave me then 3 toffies included that éclairs. And PAPPU pass ho gaya…   

I enjoyed music night.......

Today after dinner I joined with Dev (a friend from muscat) 's music group. Though I have seen very few artist playing instruments but he is the best I have ever seen. He is just amazing. Became fan of him. I also tried to sing but people reaction was not supporting. )hahaha( So I just enjoyed the music night..

I wish if I could play any instrument or sing (well) ....  But not everyone can have everything.. ok clapping is also not bad... And I am good at that... 

I really miss my college. It feels really very bad if I am not involve in any fest and just be inactive member of crowd... Why I am studying here.. Why I am doing something that I am not enjoying.. Sometimes I wish to run away from here and go somewhere where nobody knows me or even nobody be there..

Though you need not go around the world to know that the sky is blue everywhere,... I switched myself somewhere else... may be someday I will be here again...

good bye the year..

It might be my last peace of writing this year. Finally I am going back in the real world from this matrix. These two weeks were really great. One good thing of living alone is you are not afraid of being alone.

It was quite enjoyable every morning when you have options of toilets and bathrooms and floor too. Which one today? (hahaha). Watching movies alone was also not bad. These days most of the movies I downloaded were vampire or wolf story. I do like these types but the last Korean vampire movie was really scary. The lady vampire in the movie, the way she was sucking the blood … even I would enjoy if I encounter with a lady vampire but I will allow sucking my blood only if she is beautiful and allow me to kiss her. But after the last movie I am thinking to change my mind.

At winter night between trees in the fogy night in the moon light walking alone and coin drop silence... strange gratification. I think I have given a lot of time to myself now its time to wake up.

If I look back since the starting of this year, lots of things, lots of experience, some are good some are bad. But truly, I don’t want to count what I got and loose this year that I usually do at the end of a year, all I want to just move on. Frankly I don’t understand the meaning of these words but use frequently in my suggestions for others. Actually the world confused me what is true? First desire then deserves or first deserves then desire.

Now the chapter of this year is going to be closed so I want to give a thought that why I started writing here. May be I am not even true to myself. The reasons could be – I want to keep the trace of the situation I faced, I want to improve my writing skill, I usually forget the reasons that why I choose the way so keep that in my memory, or may be wanted to show that how lonely, unhappy and hard life I am living here.

But I feel now that it’s not true. I can’t be sad for a long even I want to be. Life is smooth and all the essential things for living I have here so … “laugh and the whole world will laugh with you. Cry and you will cry alone”. What an inspiring quote.

I don’t need anyone. No one can help me if I can’t. I came alone in this world and will go alone.No more waiting, No more pain. Enjoying alone, both sunshine and rain.

wasting my time to solve some mystries....

How fast things change. its like ..i woke up n dream is over and  now m back from where i have started. only thing that i earned , some memories...

Rs 25/- i had to pay as an entry fee for 'FUGIA' ,the rock fest here, and gave an unsuccessful try to enjoy the moment but it was useless. what a crap fashion show, boring stalls and crap singers. except the girl who did sing 'jane kya chahe mann bawra'. i never payed so much attention that how nice the song was. beside that when almost every one there were dancing n enjoying all i was doing to watching them from a corner.some tried to pull me there, even i tried to get involve but it was useless. i was also listening to the chats between the BE students, how crap matters an things they talk about but suddenly i felt that its exactly what i used to do there. unwillingly i have crossed the stage but still not able  to accept this. whatever, i utilized my entry fee and decided that not anymore. i will not attained any fest here.

Bhagwaan ke ghar der hain andher nahi, its very true but your desire dies if you don't get that till a time. i can remember how egarly i wanted to be here but now after 4 years i don't feel any twinkle of joy inside me.i can remember i skiped morning walks there because i had no track suit there. i wanted a bicycle there so i could enjoy the days in the way i decided. always wished that if only there i could get a high euiped zym then.. now when i have a lot of things that i wanted that time, why i am not doing that as i used to plane about. these things are really very complicated to understand but very easy to make someone other understand. i have no idea what am i doing here when almost everyone has gone home in the vacation even now it is very easy for me to go home that i always wanted there.

2 Dec,09

Fabrication of modules in my mind wafer was in progress and I am not in saturation state yet, but time to take a unwanted break. At the same time mess wale bhaiya ji arrived with tea. 
In the hostel room, at 11pm at night, during exam + winter season and a cup of tea. Just great.
My vlsi tutor is still on the call with his girl and I have to wait for him finished. Though I finished the tea and still a lot of modules are left but the break is going long. Outside the room the fucking cold is freezing. With this, in the hostel  silent mode profile is activated. .. a deep silence outside and inside. Not a full moon night but the moon is appearing like ...batter to returned at the fabrication site I mean room and finish the syllabus.
But he is still on the call. Now it is irritating me.  Should I too call someone to kill the time? No sms is batter option but no new sms to forward and I don’t want to ask anyone how they are or what they are doing. Let them do what they want to do and let them be as they are. Why disturb anyone in their busy life…   

I like this season.not winter i mean this exam season.ya i do like the winter as others but here i am taking about this little unavoidable one or two week season.A season when my new interests grows in field of gathering knowledge except regarding the exam syllabus. like before this time it will also over too quickly but the same question arise in my mind like every time .HOW? How will i cover all these ununderstandable strange boring syllabus.

During this period my desire for watching movies reaches on peak but all i do just stacked them onto my 'unwatched pended movies' list. With these i don't know how i find new interests like learning new software, language and other irrelevant skills that just go off as the season over.

But one thing what i like most about this season is that you are so busy that you hardly get time to think what you usually used to think that you actually don't want to think but your thinking doesn't allow you to think other thing except that thing...... enjoying the exam + winter season.Cooool combination ...