Ten Incidents that changed my life
I read rediff very often and I like stories which they present in slides like 10 best cities, 10 best airports, 10 tips to save tax etc. I thought what would be the ten things that changed my life ,starting from my birth to my son's birth.
Here we go.
1.Dad's Decision: After two daughters and one son ,everyone in the family suggested my dad to go for family planning, but It was my dad's decision to have second son. So, here I'm ,in this world on Jun 1982 .
2.Bringing up with Bapamma : I spent most my childhood with my bapamma (father's mother) and she is one of the best persons I've seen in my life. She is very intelligent and hardworking . All my childhood I was assisting her in whatever the work she does . I was like her assistant ,starting from brining her purse (not exactly purse, it's small bag ,stichted with old clothes ,which she used to keep for her money, tamalapaku ,sunnam and jarda) to carry corn in gulla after they were kept in the hot sun for the entire day, to take washed clothes to outside etc etc. She loved me so much and she used to tell I'm a very good and listen to almost everything she told me and never troubled her. I think my understanding nature has seeds from her.
3. Joining in Kamareddy school : I went to informal school in Kankal, till fourth class and my dad thought of me to send to Kamareddy for better education. I was sent to Kamareddy in Nov 89 to study class five, at the age of seven years. This has seeds of better education and taught me to staying away from family. I still remember I used to cry every day and when I saw my dad one day in hostel ,unexpectedly , I was overjoyed. I still remember this incident and probably this is one of the happiest moment in life.
4. Dad's cry : me and my brother (four years elder) studied in same school, same class till 8th . The school got closed when we were in eighth class. we didn't go to school for the half time in eighth . In the summer (Jun 93) when we went to write entrance test for joining other school, my brother failed in the entrace and principal suggested my father not to continue studies of my brother. I passed the exam with good marks. Just coming out of pricipal's room, my father cried. I saw my father's crying for the first time. He cried because my brother can't continue his studies. He had lot of hopes on us. It was shocking to see my father's crying. I decided then , I will study hard to make my father happy. This was my inspiration to study hard. Whenever I scored good marks, my dad used to feel happy. He used to keep my mark's memo in his pocket and showed it everyone he know. I never let him down.
5.EAMCET1997 - Rank 3744: I joined in Maharajni college in inter first year and this college was shut down in half of inter second year . I joined in another college after one month gap. Physics lecturer suggested me to go to hyderabad for short term coaching for EAMCET . We went to Shalivahana college in Madhapur (It's same Madhapur where we have hitec city now) and I studied very hard for 1.5 months and wrote Eamcet. I didn't have much hopes on the exam and told my dad that I might need to go for long term coaching . My dad denied when I told him that it costs around Rs30,000. On the result day, I was disappointed. I went to college to meet the lecturers and there I had seen in the news paper that Narayana gives free long term coaching for candidates below 4000 Rank. This is the big turning point. I studied very hard in Narayana to get 159 rank and got Computer science seat in C.B.I.T and got placed in campus placements etc etc. Had I not got 3744 rank in the first attempt, I wouldn't have joined Engineering for sure.
6.GRE Preparation: Ravi started reading "Word power mady easy" in second year of Engineering and I got introduced to GRE at that time. I started preparing for the same in third year and wrote the exam on May 10 ,2001 when I was in third year second semester. I got decent score 1980 with 540 in verbal. Coming from a telugu medium background that was good score and I got admission good U.S. schools like ASU and KSU . The vocabulary I learned as part of GRE helped a lot in my career. It helped me to get selected in campus recruitment , in understanding clients business requirements , reading English novels etc. that was a good decision to write GRE ,though I didn't go for U.S for M.S.
7. Prabodhan's factor: I was introvert, shy and had inferior complex and not used to talk much as a child . Spending time with Prabodhan helped to talk more ,not to feel shy for simple things and now I can say I'm not an introvert, if not extrovert. It helped to form my own personality , own likes and own dislikes.
8.Oracle Job: I joined CMC in June 2002 and spent there for one year before I joined Oracle in Aug 2003. Oracle job changed a lot. First, I stopped the idea of further studies, then I worked with Order Management which has good demand outside, I bought my duplex house during that period and appreciation of house helped me to remain in India even though all my friends are in U.S., then helped me to join as functional consultant in consulting which is fulfilling my dream of staying in India close to family as well as roaming around the world at company's cost.
9. Vijendar's factor: Being with Vijendar for almost four years in college, two years in reddy hostel as roommate helped a lot on how to retain friendship. I've the seen the best of friendship in him and I learnt a lot on how to keep in contact with friends from him.
10.Being Dad: I'm the first one to see my son entering this world, what a wonderful feeling it was. The touch of kids is wonderful. when he was four months old, he used to play with legs and when I put my face around that place, it used to be a gentle massage. What'a feeling it was. It reminds of my childhood as well as it increased respect for my parents. All the first time activities of my son (first teeth, first smile, first walk, first tonsure, first words) are wonderful, once in life time experience.
There are so many incidents that changed my life but these are the best....
posted by Sudhakar @ 3:24 PM
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