23:28 PM: Have been in stale mood for some days (strictly talking in terms of Internet connectivity).Too much of KT(Knowledge Transition) and new reports add a skit performance (rehearsals) to that ... crazy week it had been! Good news is that I am going home next weekend! YIPPEE !!
This would be a looooong post. Could you bear with all that text? May be you can have a cup of coffe by your side :-)
The week started with KT's and they were long sessions.To transfer knowledge accumulated for so long takes a longer time to transfer, and the problem is these two freshers(just out of college/no prior project experience) are not from computer science. So I had to tell every bit of networking right from the IP addresses to the processes followed in our organization.We monitor a client network and when you talk about network implementations they can get real messy, and with aqcuisition and mergers, it gets even tough to explain various processes in detail.Anyways I felt like I was back to college days, just that this time I was on the other side, not yawning but taking on the pain of keeping my cool, amidst dumbest of queries.These sessions taught me a lot more than last time. The guy who came in last time was more keen to learn new things and was kind of, like me, always remembering self help is the best help! These new guy and the girl are not dumb but just that they don't believe in self help, or may be have a habit of being spoon fed all the time.I am to evaluate them by next week, and till now I feel they are almost the same.Another tough week remains ahead, I guess!
Coming to the skit, it was a pure chance factor, luck factor too! I was reluctant at doing all these, but one day in the reharsals really got me going! I was playing 4 characters in a skit! Two of them were more like extras, and two playing crucial roles. I became George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, a mischievous devil (doesn't have a name though!) and lord Vishnu all in 4 minutes. initially I was forgetting 3 dialogues that I had to say as three charcters, but improved a lot in around two hours flat.At the end of the day on Tuesday, I felt I do have little bit of a talent in this field too.i was happy.To give some insight to our skit, it is on Information security and it is shown that Heaven is in trouble as their security measures are clumsy. With due respect to all gods and religions, this was a setup in which we tried to portray a modern organization with mythology adding some humour. One not so fine day, Yamaraj (played by Ravi) finds out that George Bush is being taken by yamduts as a mistake! Someone has hacked into yamloks databse it seems.Then there is this devil who tailgates and eavesdrop during a conversation between lord Indra (played by Krishna) and another devta, gets the password to the main system, and creates a havoc.As the devtas come worried asking for help to Indra and Narada, they decide it's only lord Vishnu can save them, and visit him. Vishnu gives them a great Idea to get a Information Security project leader from TCS to fix the clumsy security measures.They do as advised, and after three months all problems are solved.It is shown that Yamraj at last restores his database and get the correct person (Osama) instead of Bush, while tailgating problem is solved and the devil is caught, as he tries to tail gate again.
Wednesday was the D-Day when we had the auditions.To give a small background to why this skit, this is done as a part of Sangam, kind of a techno-cultural fest that goes on for the festive season in december in our ISU(Industrial Solutions Unit) in TCS. Sangam has got a whole lot of other activities going on, like quizzes, football, cricket, volleyball, throwball competitions to name a few. The auditions kicked of well for our skit, and I played the devil and Bush, with confidence, but then lord Vishnu may have disliked my performance in the reharsals and I almost made a blunder, when I forgot the last two lines of my dialouge! I managed it in the least impressive manner and stood as Osama, later on feeling pissed off. We were selected that day, by Indra's grace, as others pulled the acts well enough. But then they asked for another audition on Friday, that is today and viola even with changes in characters (Vishnu is now played by Saurabh, I am playing just the devil, and Bush-Obama dual is played by Namahshivay, and believe me that is his name) we passed! We got selected yet again. And yes, we have another audition on coming Monday with proper dresses and props. These many screenings will tell you how tough it is getting as more and more skits are being prepared!
Coming back of office work, something good is in place as new reports are being finalized and hopefully this time my hard work would get recognized and all the technological manipulations and twists I had faced should get at least an appreciation! A lot of challenges and many hours of patientce and mind boggling technical issues have kept me busy for last three months.And what I had been working upon, had changed wholly from the previous design! I have cursed this project for sometime, as it takes away a normal course of life, but now as days are nearing to leave it, I feel a little gloomy. Remembering good old days, I am getting a little nostalgic, as well as skeptical about my future team.Today there was another team meeting, and I joined after a long time.It was fun, as usual.Afer some administrative updates the freshers were introduced, and they performed with songs and jokes :-)
What if I stay in security? Is it all that bad, may be not.But then the long nurtured dreams of becoming a software architect, owning my company, again puts me in crossroads.Security is a field where you cannot start as a zero(in India), speaking practically in terms of getting projects as trust is the primary bond that comes with security projects.Again staying in this project is not helping me increase my domain knowledge, or enhance my skill sets.if I am to stay in Information Security, I must be an ethical hacker, for which I am still a novice! Also without any onsite opportunity this account is getting real boring, cuts out all motivation(onsite being the last thread that might keep you in a not so interesting job profile!). I have to leave this project sooner or later. May I take correct decisions, amen.
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