10:29 am (in office)

I’ve been spending all my time at work since a week now, and am really missing this page! .. for those of you who don’t know (didn’t receive my overjoyed msg) I managed to seize a place in one of the best IT companies I know- CMS. I work at their Godrej site at vikhroli.

Its fun, an excellent learning experience and really amazing to start with a company like CMS right away!!

The Godrej compound here is very large; it consists of several companies including TCS and Accenture. However we (CMS) provide our IT services only to Godrej.

Now Godrej has many buildings here all across the compound, its like small departments spread all over the compound – we (CMS employees) refer to them as ‘plants’ … lol yeah they are our plants. :-) In the beginning of the day- at reporting time- each of us [engineers] are assigned a plant and that’s our plant for the day. (I’ve been amongst the lucky few to get the same plant right from when I joined.) We go to our respective plants mostly along with a senior engineer, and start solving the user’s hardware/networking quarries. Some times we just sit in the AC and wait for a problem to occur, may be wait for a user to complain that his/her system is angry and has started disobeying orders!

Life is not easy here … we come across weird PC problems… but the people here are very nice, mostly IT freaks! I used to think I was the ‘only lonely’ one… but after coming here my soul is at peace, I realize there are lots of mad people like me living around me!!

Slowly I am liking it here – this office atmosphere was alien to me, everyone here talks Ubuntu, internet, network, users and user profiles, backup-restore, emails, wi-fi, etc …

Putting myself in this mode was quite a task, for someone like me who is always awake till 2 in the morning- getting up at 6:45, getting ready within an hour and catching a 8:00 train from CST was as equal to impossible… the starting 2 nights I didn’t sleep only, afraid that I might not wake up on time… but now the story is different, my schedule has changed 360°, I sleep by 11:30 - 12:00, have started skipping TV and long hours on the net- yahoo chats and random nonsense posts I used to do in boredom –

Oh have I started cribbing already? Lol … we’ll am not, just showing off ::winks::

Today I was free most of the day so I decided to pen this post down … its not a very bright idea to write in office.. people keep pepping into your book trying to figure out what network configuration your writing … but I so wanted to blog … I wish I get more free time to complete my incomplete posts! .. Couple of them are incomplete since October.

Moral of the story: working is fun… but tiring!