SHOOT TO KILL!!!

Shoot to Kill – Yeah the big line from Shootout at Lokhandwala.

What amazes me is passion amongst these men!!! What are they made of?!?!!! What is it that makes them go to an extent that they don’t mind killing people?!??!!!

Maya – the man who wants people to fear him, goes ahead to kill people to make his point and makes sure it happens. Well, is the desire to be feared of so strong so as to kill people for it. When you see Aai talking with that passion to Khan about Maya, you wonder. Is it the absence of fear or is it the confidence of victory?? And what happens when you suddenly see it all coming to an end. What happens to Aai who thought nothing could ever happen to her son and suddenly she finds him trapped about to be shot dead. Shoot to kill…

What I really want to know is, what are these guys made of. And when I talk about “these guys”, I don’t just mean men like Maya but also men like Khan. Maybe it’s easier to be Khan knowing that you mean good. But, what courage does it take to be Maya. To aspire to be where Dawood is, to be him, to be the Underworld. Beats me!!!

Or is it courage??? What runs in your mind when you want to be Maya? To choose to be him. Is it the anger about something?? But how angry can you be and for how long can you be angry?? It has to subside some day. And then what… what when your anger subside… where do you find yourself???

I dunno how these guys work, but yes, I definitely am amazed!!! After all what are these guys really made of??

The Orator’s Club – My first session @ MindTree Consulting’s Community

Ya, my first session at the Orator’s Club of Mindtree Consulting. Well, it was on presentation delivery, something I had wanted to do since a very long time. Never got a good opportunity. Generally considered to be a good speaker (sincere apologies to anyone who thinks I am boasting), this turned out to be an eye opener. What I saw about myself, actually made me realize, I got a long way to go as far as Public Speaking is concerned.

I mean how good you are as a speaker is not about how you can talk in front of an audience, but, how your audience sits when they you speak. Imagine someone sitting in rapt attention listening to you (or you think so), the person is actually not even listening to you.

Well, if you are thinking the audience here (see pointers) is listening – then you gotta think again. These guys though show that they are listening are actually thinking about something else and only LOOKING at the guy who would be doing the talking. Some of the really bad experiences could leave you with an audience like this, yeah quite disappointing.

Well, these were some of the audience feedback on how good or bad a speaker are you.

And if your audience can manage to do this while you are talking, well I guess you would know where you are headed (I would say you are quite doomed!!!!) so next time while you are presenting you know what to look for, for a feedback. (but, I wouldn’t say this for class presentations he he he)

Anyway moving on, the most difficult part of the workshop happened to be the one where we were supposed to shout out our names in 5 different volume levels. And to do that in front of 10 other people you have never seen, trust me its difficult. (unless you are an ex NSS student – a fellow summer intern happened to be one and found the task not difficult). For me, it was quite a scary experience. But, you don’t have a way put, cos the guy taking the workshop is a vertical head. Phew!!!

Then came the part of the workshop when I realized the amount of umms and uhhs I use while I talk or present. Quite an exercise that was for me. What made it worse was people shouting an objection (like you do in a debate) every time you ummed or uhhed while talking. But, yes now I know what to work on.

I am going to remember this workshop all my life. One of the most enjoyable and learning at the same time. Mindtree experience is quite an experience I must say!!!!

THE WORLD OF IT – From the eyes of a Non Engineer

The world of IT – fascinating, intriguing and mystic. My previous post on “Wondering at Technology” has left a lot of people wondering what exactly I was wanting to say. What was it that one was to derive out of it? A few of then might have been amused and passed it on as another abstract. Abstract it was in every sense of the term. That was a way a lot of non – techies might see the world of information technology.

That was I guess a very small past of the vast kingdom of technology. I recently entered the big big world of Information Technology (this again can be referred to as a small part considering all other IT companies, but for now lets call this the world and proceed). Im currently at this IT firm doing my summers and this is one IT place I must say. Never have been in a situation where I can’t understand what people around me are saying. Well, not to be taken very literally, but if you have a sentence that says, “We build expertise in Mainframes and Application Management and have off shoring base with a capacity of 4000 odd people in India”, for a first timer like me its sure hits hard.

But yes, coming back to the intriguing world of IT, you are left wondering on how people establish and maintain a Global Delivery Models. Well, I don’t really wanna get into explaining the model, but, to imagine and execute the whole idea of one work center starting and ending at a time and another one keeping up with it to hold the time lapse between the two. And the guy in the U.S actually never would realize that his work is being carried out in from Japan and India.

The ERP becomes another co worker the better to get to know of its working. Life revolves around SAP. Mainframes and Application Management is like your next door neighbor. I wonder, how all the techies here sit in front of their computer screen all day long, dug deep into weird coding languages and managing to bug or to debug. But, yes, I have to admit, I am not averse to technical terminologies and work they was I have always been.

It interests me to think how it changes the world and how hard people work on it to make it better. I can go on and on on how big the world is, but, that would get too boring. So I shall end it here. Last but not the least, thanks to Mindtree Consulting to introduce me to this magical world of IT and making me more aware technically.

This doesn’t necessarily mean I would go on to work for the IT industry still, some things still happen to be more interesting. ;-)