My Programming Journey – The Hard Facts of the Software Industry

Posted: 17th July 2010 by Jaygovind Sahu in My Perception
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Disclaimer : The content below does not aim at making any statement about anything living or dead. Anything like that merely is a coincidence. This post is more like an entry in a personal diary. I am writing more for myself now.

It's me... or perhaps You too

It's me... or perhaps You too

My lecturer who was teaching me ‘Programming in C’ had made one thing very clear to me – that I will never be comfortable with programming and it would be very difficult for me to pass the final examination keeping in view the knowledge and attitude I have towards programming. Anyways, those words gave me a kick on my back and somehow I was able to get a ‘C’ in ‘Programming in C’. It needed the combined effort of me and my room-mate Mahesh.

I was very comfortable in C++. I got an ‘O’ in my lab. I liked studying RDBMS and somehow found it very interesting. Don’t take me otherwise, but it really is :) . Again I got an ‘O’. Then I took my first out-of-curriculum language course in summer, 2007. It was for Java. At that time, eight people (including me) were sharing a single PC to practice programming after the classes. I was catching up with things very easily. While studying the advanced Java part, I learned HTML and I liked working with it. My friends made me believe that I am really good with these things.

After six months I was the one who was supposed to design the website for the tech-fest of my college. I tried applying JSP for this but things did not come out to be so easy. Read the rest of this entry »

Waking Up…

Posted: 3rd July 2010 by Jaygovind Sahu in My Perception
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Do not believe in anything
simply because you have heard it.

Do not believe in anything
simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.

Do not believe in anything
simply because it is found written in your religious books.

Do not believe in anything
merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Do not believe in traditions
because they have been handed down for many generations.

But after observation and analysis;
when you find that anything agrees with reason
and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.

This is fearlessness, and it is love!

- Buddha

The Land of Hypocrisy

Posted: 5th April 2010 by Jaygovind Sahu in My Perception
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Time to question ourselves...

Time to question ourselves...

Few days back, while travelling in a local train I saw a little girl cleaning the floor of the compartment. She might be around 4-5 years. After completing what she was doing with utmost sincerity (what I could notice), she came to all the passengers one by one demanding what she thought she deserved. If you travel in local trains, this is a common scene for you.

People pay to visit idiots who can declare themselves as the avatar of God. Even in some places there is an hierarchy of the extent to which you can have the company of that idiot and likewise is the fee. People still pay. People pay the beggars who could easily work and get food for themselves with prestige, but the little girls like the one I mentioned are still left with nothing.

Former Iraq President Saddam Hussain had a plan for the biggest mosque in Iraq. His daughter, after watching the model of the mosque structure, asked him if there was nothing better for the citizens of the country spend the wealth to. He counter-questioned with a smile “Just imagine what the king of Jerusalem would have answered to a question like this!.” People are busy in building and demolishing religious structures. People pay to build theirs and to destroy others’ even in the countries where people die hungry. Read the rest of this entry »

Learning What Being Professional Is…

Posted: 29th March 2010 by Jaygovind Sahu in My Perception
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Professionalism

Professionalism

It has just been a month I joined this company and the first important thing I learned was that the associates can never mention the name of their company anywhere in their personal profiles. Don’t know up to what extent people follow such rules, but I am trying my bit to be a professional :) .

If you have ever heard that being professional can make you go through a lot of compromises with your life, you have got the fact. You just sell 50% of your personal life, your personal ambitions and your talent (if you believe you have any) every month and get your salary.

After 12 years with friends in hostel I got eight months to live without friends and without work. No one can understand what that feels like except my friends who were experiencing the same level of uncertainty. It surprises people when I say that I am weak in the specialised stream I completed my B. Tech. degree in. Logically, yes, it should surprise people who know how good a student I had been in my school. Practically, it is always what you can see in me, or at least ask my friends.  I would have loved to work in a organization where people believe in creating things, playing with colours and experimenting with new ideas. But, luck takes it all because luck gives it to people who are lucky enough. Read the rest of this entry »

How ‘Modern’ Are We???

Posted: 7th February 2010 by Jaygovind Sahu in My Perception
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The Modern World

The Modern World

“16-year-old Turkish girl buried alive for talking to boys.” And it was done by her family members after some “family council meeting”. : http://www.thehindu.com/2010/02/06/stories/2010020657381800.htm

I read this news yesterday and thought if this is one of those common news which comes to us by daily newspapers and tv channels. Is it just a news? Does not this news remind us of the fact that in this world in 21st century, when we boast of being ‘modern’, when we boast of marching forward leaving the darkness of yesterday, there are people for whom this is just a bloody ‘news’?

Few days back, while I saw a big crowd in front of the police station in my village. I, out of curiosity, asked one of the people what the crowd was all about and I came to know that it was a marriage. Didn’t get it? ok… if you didn’t get it, it is all about ‘casteism’.

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