లెగ్ అన్నా లెగ్ !

I was telling somebody how much luck I bring to everyone. And I consider everyone who studied alongwith me in the same batch as I did to be really blessed. And if you were in the same states at the same time as I was then oh my! you are as elite as I am! Our fundamentals are very strong. Why? Because we studied the same thing over and over again. Check it out:

1992:
When I was in my 7th standard in Nizamabad, it was the public exam and I was all serious about it. That's when it all started. My fundamentals really becoming strong you see! The exams got canceled because papers leaked. And I had to study all over again!Three years, weak in fundamentals phase went on. Then God became kind.


1995:
10th standard, AP, yet again paper leaked. Fundamentals that much more stronger now!

After I passed out of my school, the school itself closed down! Whew! That was close! And in the meanwhile, the school in which I studied till my 3rd standard also closed down. Well, if you thought that was some track record, then read ahead.

Two years later, another fundamentals revision class.

1997:

Intermediate II year (XII Std) AP, after we wrote our first two exams, we went to the examination center as usual on the "Mathematics/ Biology" day. Some newspaper, I don't remember which one, it doesn't exist today, had printed the entire paper on its first page. (I was about to type homepage! LOL!) There you go. I would have got 100% in all those subjects!

Same year:
IIT JEE papers leaked. For the first time in the history of IITs, the exam was canceled and rescheduled. I would have got through the first time you know! You are reading a blog of a could-ve-been IITian.

EAMCET, AP, paper format was changed that year. For the only time in its history as well as future. Never again have they introduced that stupid analytical type of paper!

CET, Karnataka, counselling sessions got scheduled and canceled and confusion prevailed before they allowed us to pick an engg seat.

Oh and yeah! My Intermediate college closed down after that!

Somehow scraped through all this. Made it to some college of engineering where thankfully the processes were more stable and even if the paper leaked (no proof of that) we never came to know(sad though!).

By the time we were about to have our campus placements, the IT boom was supposed to be at its peak. So, we had the best placements ever. With the highest salary ever and all that! But by the time we were about to finish our engg and join those companies, the bubble burst! And we also received the highest number of offer-revoking letters ever! A few companies ceased to exist! Anyway, that can be termed a coincidence if you want. My leg cannot have that reach!

By the time we finished our engg, it was September 11, 2001. And Osama thought it was the right time to strike US. Does he also belong to my batch? Well, terrorising thought! So, let me leave it at that.

I joined my first company CMC, which doesn't exist anymore. It's taken over by TCS.Think about the the customer for whom I write software. UWB. It's being taken over by IDBI now!

I joined Oracle Corporation after that. And for the first time in the history of the organization they laid off people on a global level ,twice in the two years. Incidentally Larry Ellision bought more companies than the no. of shirts I bought in that period.

When I decided not to screw up any more prodcuts , I moved to consulting (from Prodcut Development) and joined IG in Hyderabad and there were strong rumours that Wipro was going to take over the company.

Oh! I forgot this one. I decided to write Subject GRE in 2002. And had applied for it and booked a date. Again a never before never again thing happened. Afterall, my leg na. It was cancelled. No reasons given. Money was refunded.

Then, I started blogging enthusiastically and had posted three posts in a week when the Governement of India blocked blogs itself. The tool which I used to write my first telugu post (లేఖిని)was down for the entire day and It's the warmest year (in the last 150 years) in Czech Republic.


P.S: I thought of translating to Telugu first, but dropped that idea as I'm skeptic of justifying Adi's work. reposting it just to reach more telugu audience thourgh koodali and Thenegoodu , who can relate most of the story to themselves. It is slightly edited from it's original version and the related link is here.