After Joining NCR

below is what i wrote two weeks after joining NCR... im posting it here just for the record....
when i look back now, i see how everything was planned... now i know why i could not get a job here earlier due to most weirdest of the reasons... why i resigned from Al-Huda without any reason... and its interesting how i landed in Shifa after the earthquake... i was made to see the misery in Kashmir... and i had to put in my bit to help them... and just at the right time, they called me... Allah Surely knows the best!!!

why am i here??

this blogspot is a good place and a good idea. thanks to aisha, whose blog inspired me to create one of my own... u must see her blog at http://www.pkblogs.com/aishakhan. i have decided to post here regularly, although i know that i wont be doiong it, but still... and i have also decided that i will be writing the date of every event, so as to assist someone who will be writing my biography when i become famous :-)... i have been trying to write alot of things in parallel... and have come to a conclusion that my system is not designed for parallel processing... will post something BIG very soon...

GCC and GIC

I work in a Global Consulting Centre, what they call GCC. Its a division of NCR. Reading paper the other day, I thought that America must be having a GIC, a department of CIA. Want to know what this GIC stands for? Its Global Insulting Centre.!!

Expecting The Unexpected...

i dont remember when, but long long ago i learned the secret to a happy life: i must NOT expect anything from anyone. if someone gives me a favour, appreciate his help. if i ask someone for a favour and he does not try to help me, i must not be upset.... the rule worked excellent for years... this rule helped me live happily... years went by... sand clocks kept turning upside down... untill one day something happened... someone did something which i did not expect him to do... my rule failed... my principle gave me the shock of my life... i did not expect anything from him... but then what happened? i kept thinking... i kept wondering... i kept searching for an answer... and finally, i found the answer... my rule was not wrong... but it was incomplete... i never expected anything good from anyone, but forgot that i must expect something from everyone... i must expect anything bad from anyone... the rule changed... and i started living happily again...

Getting the hint of it...

now ive been working on these stupid things for past two months: jakarta struts, java, jsp, tomcat, jboss, TAP, DVRF, JBeans etc etc... always used to wonder whats going on behind the scenes... how do they transfer contro from one page to another without any direct link... tired of it, i called my F1 (an old, good friend of mine i always remember in such events) ... "yaaaaaaaaaaaar, its the stupidest thing ive ever seen in Computers..." was his response. and as i am a real fan of him, i instantly declared all this as stupid. a month passed this way... used to look at the code everyday, and then used to wonder whats all this stupidity... but yesterday when i opened the code YET AGAIN, everything suddenly started to make sense... and now i just cannot appreciate the design enough... i mean its good. and im still wondering what changed this opinion of mine... is it just that everything i dont understand is stupid? and everything i understand is great? is it just with me, or with everyone? is "something stupid" is something we dont understand? again, its kind of stupid thought (just because i dont understand it?)....

Life of an IT Professional...

Every IT professional lives in a world of his own. for some the world is flat, and for others its round. no matter how hard one tries, he just cannot get out of his world... its not long since ive started living in a 14" LCD world. before that, I used to live in a 17" CRT world!!!