Friday, January 30, 2009

Lips of an Angel

Awesome


Honey why are you calling me so late?
It's kinda hard to talk right now
Honey why are you crying, is everything okay?
I gotta whisper 'cause I can't be too loud


Well, my girl's in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on


It's really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak


And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel


It's funny that you're calling me tonight
And yes I've dreamt of you too
And does he know you're talking to me?
Will it start a fight?
No I don't think she has a clue


Well my girl's in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on


It's really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak


And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel


It's really good to hear your voice saying my name
It sounds so sweet
Coming from the lips of an angel
Hearing those words it makes me weak


And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel


And I never wanna say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel
Honey why are you calling me so late?

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Gran Torino

Gran Torino
A Way to Live,
A Way to Die,
O' My
It's A Way to Stand Tall!!!


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Just 4 weeks to go

The winter quarter will over within 4 weeks. So far things are going smoothly in college and overall i should be able to get A's in at least 3 subjects out of 4. The remaining weeks will be busy with projects completion and doing some documentation.

In the coming quarter I have registered for 4 courses which will me with only one course and experience report in summer. If everything goes fine, I will be enjoying my last 3 months @ Rochester (Yeah, I don't want to stay after August 2009). Job scene is still not clear and I am confuse with the track to choose for next 2 years. Going back to the QA profession is something I will always enjoy. But its time to try out something different in career, something which will give me a chance to listen to people, their problems and then trying to solve those problem and streamlining their processes. System or Business Analyst seems lucarative option, only thing is to gain entry in it. There are companies who are hiring students who don't have any prior work experience as analyst. In upcoming career fair will target such companies first.

Before that planning to complete the CSQA certification. Prof. Jack agreeded to provide material and guidance for the same. It's time to get more serious about this certification as it will add some more value to my resume. So now its time start studying :-)

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Can't resist from posting these links

Today there came following news related to big giant companies and I couldn't resist my self to post them here.

1) Microsoft posted 11% drop in profits. Planned to lay-off 5000 people (1400 already gone). They have decline to project the earnings estimate for rest of the fiscal year. (Those who know about finance, not sharing the earnings estimate is not a good sign for business)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/technology/companies/23soft.html?_r=1

2) Intel to cut at least 5000 jobs. Intel has decided to shut down several of its plants and cut down 5000 jobs. They have already laid off 20000 people in last three years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/companies/22chip.html?ref=business

3) Strong Profit, but Erricsson plans to cut down 5000 jobs
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/companies/22ericcson.html?ref=business

And then comes Steve Job's Apple Inc.

Apple reported strong first quarter profit amid a deepening recession and low demand for technology products. There quarterly profit jumped to $1.61 billion dollar (yeah, you read it correctly).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/companies/22apple.html?ref=business

Now it will be an interesting case study to see, what kind of product portfolio Software or for that matter Technological companies should maintain? Should they concentrate on Hardware (Intel, Erricsson) or Software (Microsoft) or combination of both (Apple)?

Most of us will now say, A combination of both. But then what went wrong with SUN Microsystems? They had the similar plan, it never worked out. The higher management plays the important role in how you shape your business, organization, product portfolio. If you decide to live in your own world, you can't succeed.

Apple is becoming stronger and profitable for its investor. This is all due to the foundation laid by the Steve job's vision and policy implementation. People made of fun of him when he said, lets own everything which we can design, build & sell. Rather than following the herds, he believed in himself and created a new path.

As my graduation day is coming closer, these things might affect my near term future from the employment perspective. But I am really not too worried cause now these news are not unexpected. When I enrolled to my undergraduate course in 2001, IT industry was experiencing the core technological issues and people thought IT industry was just a Spurt on overall economy and has got no future. The industry raised from that level.

And it will rise again. Sooner the time will come to ride on new Wave, I just have to make sure that my timing will be right.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Circuity City - Closed


The first bad news of the weekend. :-, Circuit City was the big name in electronic business. In fact i was planning to visit the store next week to purchase a camera. Now even if they will be selling it at lower prices (forcefully), i don't know whether i will buy one from there or not. It will feel like taking un-due advantage of their situation.

Today they are displaying notice on their WEB-SITE about the store closure and events which lead to that. 35,000 people have lost their jobs, its a big blow.

Hope the economy will recover much much sooner.... May God help all of them.

Friday, January 16, 2009

I used to Blog


There was a time when every weekend I used to scribe something here. Now, i don't know, but things have changed.

It's been months since I have written something good here. Its not the case that, nothing is happening in my life. In fact, it has a changed a lot. 

First time in my life, I experienced the snow-fall, which now a routine. But the first experience was really nice and I could have written something about it. The winter is really bad ( & i mean it) in Rochester. No wonder, why people prefer to live in California. Now waiting for winter too get over. I can't stand to such extreme cold weather and wind chills.

I haven't told you anything about the most important moment of my life. I got married on 29th December with Priya, spend some time with family back in India. And eagerly looking forward for Priya to join me, here in US. Hopefully we will start our married life sooner. Its really hard for her to stay back in India. I had to come back within 5 days of my marriage due to insufficient vacations. (Looser)

My decision to purse Masters studies have created more problems and troubles for my near ones, emotionally as well as financially. I want to get over it as soon as possible. I am now half-way through the Winter quarter and after that 2 more to go. I won't be going for Summer Internship as it will delay my graduation by almost a year. Can't afford to do that, especially when economy is not so good and you are married :-)

Job scene is really bad in US, so i don't know how much time it will take to repay the Loan amount. Things will be easier if I get job in US. Going back to India is always the most preferred option for me and hopefully will get the better pay package there. Next 3-4 months are really crucial to decide the things for next 1-2 years.

Time to log off and start studying :-|