Some of My Recent Pics

Hey Folks,

Thought i could post some pics that were taking recently. well... will keep posting better ones soon.

Thirty on Thirty on Thirty

THIRTY ON THIRTY OF THIRTY (30/30/30)
(My 30th post on 30th June which is my 30th Birthday)

Dear Folks,

It has been a long time since I have written or updated my blog with some thing that I think is of sense to me. Well... let me think... What all important do I have to say since the last time I updated my blog.

Finally I celebrated my thirtieth birthday on the thirtieth of June. 30/30 that is where the title of this blog comes from… Hmm.. New set of friends, the ones with whom I stay in the Thermax Guest House and share with them the present needs and circumstances… Nice and lovely bunch they are from different colleges and different cultures and I have got used to them.

My thirtieth birthday passed of with them and was not much of importance like the last year when I threw a party for the whole class but this time it was a conservative and meaningful approach with my age in the picture and my behavior matching the 30 I have become.

Hmm… Pictures, yes I will post them here only and some nice ones and not so nice ones too... I have shaved off my moustache now so dunno if it is good or worse to look at my picture but you ppl take a call on it. Work is great, I am loaded with work and I love the workaholic nature which is the predominant one in me takeover and guide my life and career. Thinking about marriage also… decided that it is high time that I settle off. Waiting to find the rite girl….

Talking about girls, that is one distraction I am not having here since my division hardly has any girls and not much time is left to meet any … but still I am not that close with my gender too… The rains have been lashing here and everywhere…No trouser of mine or shirt or infact anything went back home without getting wet any given day…

The best thing about Pune is there are hardly any cops… why are there no cops even though no signals are there because there are enough pot holes to restrict the speed limit to 5cm/hr. yes cm not meters or Kms….
That is the pathetic state I am in when it comes to driving which has been my passion.

After my Dad’s generous gift of the Honda City to me I thought I can whiz pass everyone and pick up the girls. Alas…. Dreams remain dreams and I still dream on… The nearest decent place to eat or look at some thing remotely feminine is 22 kms away… that is the distance of the main happening places to my place of living…

So life is currently spent in getting up, getting ready and then traveling to the office and then come back in the evening tired and exhausted and dreaming about the awesome females that I am missing back in all the other places of the world that I have been to and finally finishing my dinner and snoring off…..

My whole life revolves around thermax at present and I think it will happen to do so for some time. The work is awesome though and I love doing what I am good at … OPERATIONS and PROJECT MANAGEMENT… So anyone wants to disturb me or share some of what they do please do drop in a message or calls… you all know where my number is available rite….

So take care my friends, and all my well wishers, will be back with an interesting topic to discuss in the near future…

Till then,

Your Devils Advocate.

Final Blog as a Student ..... Reflections of Friends

It has been close to 3 weeks since I graduated and the college got over... the initial week was very difficult when i returned home with memories of all my friends and loved ones... i was missing them all.... We somehow kept in touch thanks to orkut and chat... The use of technology " THE CELL PHONE" has somehow made up for the loss a little bit...

The next two weeks was a complete shocker.... Many of the ppl whom i thought were my closest friends and my trust mates ripped me apart in many ways then one...It proved how they manipulated me and used me for a period of one year in many ways. they broke the trust, the bonds and all the loyalty i showed for them. For them i was an opportunity to be used and for me they were friends to the core. I was trying my level best to live up to their expectations and their needs, investing a hell lot of emotions and what happened? .... all down the drain not because they could not do anything for me, but for the reason that they used me like a tissue and continue using me more and more...

I have realized a lot of things. When i first joined the college one year back, I was very uptight and speaking very less. Did not want to get involved in the politics of life as a student and their personal issues. But then i realized that i need to share and care and show emotions. Finally when i started doing that ppl took advantage of me and i never even realized since i blindly trusted them. Never asked them questions, took everything they told me for granted and was trying my best but they kept manipulating me for their needs and wishes.

Alas!!! what are friends for? I ask this question to myself and then i ponder: are they really my friends and is the time that i am spending thinking about them and missing them worth it?? That is why i have decided to be my normal self... The old Gopal... Who cared a damn about any one and had a free will...

TODAY I FREE MYSELF FROM ALL THE BONDS AND EMBARK ON A NEW JOURNEY....A journey where i trust myself and i try to be the best for myself... Realized that it is always ONESELF whom you have to put in perspective and live for that... So that is what i am going to do from now on..

I will be joining work in a week's time and hope all this pain and hurt would go off and I would be normal again working as i used to earlier. It will take time but TIME IS THE BEST HEALER AND I HAVE TO GIVE ENOUGH TIME AND SPACE FOR MYSELF TO OUTGROW FROM THESE AND BE A HONEST AND TRUSTWORTHY PERSON... atleast to myself..

Finally i would like to end this post on a cheerful and high note with a couple of pictures from "MY BEST FRIENDS WEDDING"... NO not the movie but the real wedding of my best friend Anand Jayachandran... I Would like to wish the couple a happy and properous married life... It was an awesome wedding with great traditions and excellent food... The best way to end my student life...





Love all the folks who support me in this time of need and hurt... Will miss you more than ever.. The final thing i would like to say is there is nothing more than TRUST, LOYALTY, DEDICATION, SINCERITY and HONESTY that make a person SUPREME... Would die even if i have to let go of any one of those qualities that i have...

Farewell friends, fiends and all those who hurt me

GOPAL (still the perfectionist)

The Final Moments of College

Dear Folks,

This is an emotional post for me, not for the reason that i am showing too much of sentiment and posting too many pictures, it is just that these are the final days of my college., Probably the end of my education ( this is my fourth graduation.. one Bachelor and Three Master Degrees). I had a great time this one year. It was a great learning experience for me...

The diversified class gave me so much and it made me to give up so muchhhh.... (ego and many other things)..... My love for some of them will never cease to exist. So these few final days i am gonna post in lots of pics....

















Many facets of life, brings me in touch with many ppl, I will miss all these ppl. They have been my good moments, my sad ones, my happy ones and erratic ones... But still i will miss them.. they are my friends for life....

The Gravity team makes the final contributions in the form of the second edition. My best team and best team work ever was reflected when working with these ppl. From left to right: Sathish, Sai Sudha, Myself, Nikunj and Neha.

All these ppl have left such an impact on my life in a positive way that i can never express my feelings enough... [:)]

Keep waiting for more ..... Will be posting tons of pictures.... [:)]

GVK
(Emotional Bundle)

Malaysian trip pictures

Friends,

Finally i am back from a vacation that was due since 11 months since I joined Great Lakes and this trip covers Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. I would love to write a nice blog on it and i will be doing it soon. Till then these are the pictures that i am putting up. Since this was a family vacation, the only pictures i got are of my parents and my brother. Would put other pics at a later time..... till then..... Welcome to my FAMILY.

Heights of Joblessness

Folks,

Finally the 6th term exams have ended and a little relief. Maybe a big relief since i am not going to be having classes till the 31st of this month. I am finally taking a vacation and going on a trip to Malaysia and Singapore with my family members. Sunno what came into me, I finally decided to take a break. Maybe the hectic schedule is breaking me down. Hope i can still hold on when Graduation comes around. Got still 51 days for it. So eagerly waiting on for it.

What else? Learnt new concepts in supply chain modeling and analysis. Never really did not understand how to develpo a network for a supply chain but the book on "Designing of Supply Chain" by --------------- is supposed to be good. I forgot the author's name. Will put it up ASAP.

The new buzz is about the coming batch students. They are so eager to start the classes that few of them are already sitting in our classes and having fun. Told them not to get so worried about the classes as there will be plenty by the time their sessions start. They are a real eager bunch, already waiting for the placements without even having started their classes. Some of them were eager to know why my salary is what it is right now.

Anyway there is nothing much to write now. Boring Boring Life...... Waiting for some thing nice to happen. Hope that i will have some fun before i leave this place. Till now nothing has happened except hoping for some thing to happen.

Bless me Oh! Lord so that some thing can happen, Miracles Miracles.... Dont happen when you actually need them to happen. And what else, will be on vacation starting next monday, so will keep you updated on the trip once i come back. I hope to take lots of pics, This is my first trip to the eastern side, hope it is as interesting as the west was...... :)

Till then...... Dreammmmm ooooonnnnn,

GVK

Hits and Hits all the way!!!!

Surprised at what i am talking about??? the hits part. ok it is this.

The number of web searches that google gives : Results 1 - 10 of about 18 for kavalireddi. (0.14 seconds).

The number of hits on my current blog : 1317.

The number of profile views on my current blog: 259

I came to know also that i will be on wikipedia soon. (hope it is for a good reason).

So just doing some time pass and getting your attention, Nothing more happening. Lots and lots of exams this week, i hope that some one will help me out in some manner. I have been praying to god fervorously not to have cricket matches during the exam times.

The ICC had given the cricket schedule long back and it was submitted to the college, but the college timetable is so dynamic, by the time one version of the timetable is clicked to sent, there will be another one ready.
Well the nuances of studying a one year MBA probably :)

Oh!! another time table has come, let me check and be back ok.

cheers
GVK

What's New????

Sorry folks,

Its been long time , since i posted some thing. It is not because i was extremely busy or some thing, it is just that there was nothing much happening unless you discount the fact that there were some issues that kept on dragging.

So what's new??? Job is fixed, graduation nearing, hmmm..... bird flu in India spoiling my chances of eating the chicken. Not that I eat a lot, maybe once a week thing is also eliminated. Waiting for the budget, want to see if atleast now i can make use of my MBA. Never really understood the budget, except that prices go up and I am supposed to make some purchases ASAP.

Will be moving to Pune around the month of June and new life starts from there. Hope things work out smoothly from now till then on. After that work will take over, fatigue will creep it and i will finally stop posting anything at all.

Working on the next edition of Gravity II along with the team, Have to come up with some good themes for this edition.

Class in progress, so will post some thing later,

Bye
GVK

Finally a Job ........... THERMAX

Dear Friends,

It is been long time since i bored you with some nonsense or my own troubles. Its been more than a month if i can say, that means i definitely must be either really busy or really lazy. Well... it is neither and it was placement season.

After the day one hiccups of Infosys, Wipro, TCS and CTS, i could get through THERMAX, proving that my heart rests in operations and i cannot be an IT guy any point of time. If Infy interview was excellent, TCS procedure of using the governmental procedure to hire was pathetics, Wipro did not know what to offer whom. They were offering me a job in Marketing when i was a hardcore Operations guy. Strange, either they are not focused or some thing is really wrong with me for going to that interivew after being selected in the GD round.

So i can say successfully that the placement of more than 72 students in the fifrst three days was not a phenomenal but an appreciable target. For a 18 month history, the students really did good and the Institute came out great with excellent logistics, suport systems, timely advices for the 3 days.

I got my placement on 17th January,2006 at 6:20 PM. That is going to be there, etched forever because i fought in the interview with everything i knew and i came out great. It was worth the effort fighting with a panel comprised of IIT K and IIMA with great years of experience. That is when i realized where my heart rests. Though manufacturing companies may not be high paying, but i got the profile that said that McKinsey guys will be baby-sitting me and i have to learning from them for the next few months to come.

So i will make a transcript of the inteview sometime later and post it here so that ppl can know that i had to deal with 10 subjects for technical and my whole life for the HR interview. The GD was a separate altogether.

Ciao for now.

Gopal (Deputy Manager - SCM)