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3 wonderful years with Tekriti!

2008-07-19T15:52:00.025+05:30

Today I have completed 3 wonderful years with Tekriti. After reading the first sentence, it sounds like Tekriti is my girl friend. :) Actually Tekriti is my company where I am enjoying my life!

It's been really wonderful experience so far. Since yesterday, I am just remembering my last 3 years and it feels like a great time with Tekriti. Celebrations are part of work here.

Remembering few of those moments.

Teknokrats

Potluck

Mafia and Villagers

Lunch with Marc Canter

Jaipur Trip

Holi Celebrations

Birthday Celebrations

Party at Charcol

Playing in the office

Working on my comp

My better half

Tekriti's Aniversary

Cafeteria

Whitepaper Contest

Yeh dil maange more..

2 years with Tekriti!!

Today I have completed my 2 years with Tekriti. When you are enjoying your life then it looks too short when you look back. The same is here with my 2 years in Tekriti. I look at my 2 years with Tekriti as having great fun and doing lots of challenging work.

At the last I would like to say only one thing that I will not consider myself doing good job unless I, with the help of my team, take the GoingOn to the list of well known social networking platforms.

One year with Tekriti...

After Nibha, Isha, Viplab, Sunil and Ratika one more TeknoKrat has completed one year with Tekriti. It's me.

It's really a great experience.

Some Positive Points: :-)
1) I am working with genius people.
2) I am working on one of biggest project (GoingOn) of the company.
3) I like the concept of 1:1 sessions, TekInnovate day, Tekfriday, Sharing forums, Moral events, Birthday celebrations.
4) I like the company culture as we have the option to grow as much as we can and there is no politics involved.
5) We have the option to do personal emails, chatting, listening to music etc as far we are doing our work on time. Not all the companies allow this.

Some Negative Points: :-(
1) Company shifted to far away from my home. Initially I reach within 5 minutes now it takes around 20-25 minutes.
2) I miss my 1:1 sessions.
3) I haven't done almost nothing except my work for the company.
4) There should be more stress killing activities in the company like games etc.

Think beyond you

2006-09-13T08:03:00.000+05:30

We can grow by doing good work but we also need to think beyond us. Our work is bare minimum, which is expected from us to make you stand. We are supposed to do much more than the work given to us. Everything else matters. For example how are we adding value to the company, our team and others in the company. We need to think beyond ourself to grow at the speed we want. Otherwise we will grow at the speed what others think.

We should keep trying to analyse and experiment various things for the growth of all around us. Even a smal contribution done by us makes a lot of difference in others life. This will also give us personal satisfaction. I think, we as an individual can never grow if we don't think about all around us.

100 reasons to worry, no reason for happiness?

2006-09-10T23:18:00.000+05:30

In our daily life, we have hundreds of reasons to worry. If we say it in another way, there are so many things which make us tensed, stressed. Most of time, we are in stressed mode. We just keep worrying about this or that thing.

We all have so many things to worry but don't we have even one reason to be happy which may keep us happy all the day, despite so many reasons of worry. We might need to learn how to live in this streessful world. Whatever you say, but at the of the day, if you compare, how much time you felt happy or worried then in most of will found that life is full of tensions. Even single issue can keep us worried for whole day.

I just want to say that despite all the worries of life, we should keep searching for reasons of happiness and try to be happy most of the time.

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People are making money or Loosing culture

2006-08-25T14:55:00.000+05:30

Today, we, Teknokrats, shared our thoughts about this topic in Sharing Forums. The conclusion was that we are adopting new culture as per the need rather loosing it. But later, this thought came in my mind, which I think can be related with this topic.

I think, most of us have fallen into the race of making money. Everybody wants to earn name and fame very quickly, so, everybody is doing more and more work. But as a result, we are not finding enough time for our relationships. Or you can say, money making has taken higher priority than relationships. So my feeling is that we are loosing our culture to make more money...

I think, we all need to think again that where we are going. Is this what we want?

Growing with Tekriti

2006-08-17T11:35:00.000+05:30

Here are some of the achievements / experiences while working with Tekriti since last one year.

1) LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) - I have almost never worked on Linux before. So it was little difficult changeover from windows to linux as I was working on windows from last 8 years. But now I get used to working with linux and feel comfortable developing web applications on it.

2) CMS Training (Drupal) - When I joined Tekriti, I don't know much about Content Management System. But now, I know sufficient to provide training sessions on CMS to new joinees in Tekriti.

3) Strict Coding Standards - I have initiated the process to follow strict coding standards (w3c, code formating) as some of the developers are not following it. Our GoingOn team was first to announce that GoingOn code follows 100% W3C standards.

4) Web 2.0 - In my last company, I was working with the traditional way of web development. But at Tekriti, I come to know about web 2.0 technologies (ajax, rss, social networks, cms etc.). Here we are using web 2.0 technologies in our web applications and also integrating with other third party web 2.0 technologies like Newsgator, Salesforce, Opinity, Eurekster etc. in our web applications.

5) Client Communication - Tekriti has given me an opportunity to interact with clients. I do written communicate with client using e-mails. I think, it's bit difficult to write an e-mail to client than code because you can't do hit and trials there.

6) Working with Genius People - Last but the most important, yes, it's true that I am working with genius people. I think, this is the most important thing in any body's career. If you are not working with right people then you can't grow with the speed you want. You get lots of energy, enthusiasm and passion when you are working with genius people.

I would like to specifically mention here some of the names who are directly responsible for my growth are Ashish, Gaurav and Manish. I also like to thank all the Teknokrats for my growth.

Technorati Tags: Tekriti, Career, Genius, Experiences, Achievements

My Biggest Achievement

2006-08-06T22:44:00.000+05:30

I think my biggest achievement in my life is my true friendship with my friends. I can say proudly that I have true friends in my life. I know friends are born not made. But we just can't say that achievements are only related to materialistic things. I think whatever we earn or get in this life is our achievement. Not everybody has true friend in his / her life. You may have good friends but it really matters if they are truly yours. There is nothing like having a true friend in your life.

May God give everybody a true friend for whole life...

Technorati Tags: Friend, Friendship, Achievement, Life

What do I like most about GoingOn

2006-08-02T13:10:00.000+05:30

The best thing I like about GoingOn system is that I can set up my own social networks on the fly. I have the option to configure them the way I want. I think it's one of the best feature of GoingOn. I have the option to invite editors so that they can write good content and administrators so that they can manage my network, if needed. I have created two social networks there Help (to help GoingOn members) and Pics (my hobby to collect nice pictures).

As a design prospective, I like member page of the members most. Because I can see all details of the person there like his profile, connections, networks, blog (GoingOn / External), interests, media gallery, testimonials, comments by him on various posts, tags, blog roll, flickr / del.icio.us feeds and so many other things. Look and feel of the member page is really cool. I just love it.

Technorati Tags: GoingOn, Social Networking Platform, Blog, Blogging, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Media, Testimonials, Comments, Blogroll, Interests, Connections, Profile, Networks, Drupal, CMS

Birthday Celeberation at Tekriti

2006-08-01T18:53:00.000+05:30

Technorati Tags: Tekriti, Teknokrats, Birthday, Celeberation

Trip to Jaipur

2006-07-27T19:33:00.000+05:30

Playing Mafias and Villagers

Amer Fort

Hotel Maurya Palace

Albert Hall

Amer Fort

Playing Antakshri

Fun

Returning back to Gurgaon

Technorati Tags: Tekriti, Trip, Jaipur, Amer Fort, Albert Hall, Fun

We All Are Born To Win

2006-07-07T18:33:00.000+05:30

"Every child is a new thought of God". We must recognise, that nobody esle is like us. No one else has exactly our family background and experiences. No one else has our fingerprints, our voice or our genetic code. No one else has our brain, talent, capability and skill. We are unique. Hence we must do something remarkable in our life. We must feel that we have come into this world for some specific purpose. We should know our value. Each one of us is a sort of a rough diamond. It just needs to be dusted off and polished. Hence every person is created by God to succeed in life.

Technorati Tags: God, Born, Win, Thought, Life

Sharing Forums - CEO

2006-04-19T22:33:00.000+05:30

In our company, we do sharing forums session on each thursday. Here all the teknokrats except managers talk about some pre-decided topic. It's quite interesting and we all enjoy it.

Last time, we discussed about CEO means if you are given a chance to become CEO of the company, what would you like to do? Here are some of points given by me.

Games - I think, most of the employees feel little tired, sleepy, boring after lunch hours or in the evenings. Atleast they are not so energetic as they are in the morning. Games are the best way to re-energise us. Otherwise the work output is not as high as in the morning hours. So to get maximum output, we need to provide some games like table tennis in the company.

Presentations on Latest Technologies - There must be 10 min. presentation session daily on latest technologies. Every employee in the company has to prepare for it and give presentation on it during his/her turn. So each day, we will come to know about latest technologies which will definetly give us lots of energy. This way, each employee will learn so many things like presentations skills, information search and analysis skills, confidence building etc. These daily 10 min. sessions can benifit to company a lot.

6 Hour Work - I don't think so that we can get more output by working long hours. Here 6 hours means the whole time devoted to work. That means all other personal things like lunch, net surfing, mail checking, phone calls etc. will not be part of 6 hours. Here the 6 hour work will be decided by employee and his/her senior as sufficent work for the day. Are we really living a good life by working long hours like machines?

As we have to speak for only 1-2 minutes per person so I have taken the points, which I thought might not be taken by others.

Technorati Tags: Sharing Forums, CEO, Tekriti, Teknokrats, Games, Presentations, Ideas, Knowledge

Holi Hai

2006-03-10T13:08:00.000+05:30

We, Teknokrats, had Holi party yesterday in our office. It was little early because some of the Teknokrats are going to their home for Holi celeberation. We really had great fun by playing Holi and then Antakshri in our office.

Technorati Tags: Holi, 2006, Tekriti, Teknokrats, Office, Antakshri

Best Thing of the Day

2006-02-06T16:40:00.000+05:30

Recently I have started a small project in our company where Teknokrats can post views about their best things of the day. So far it doesn't get much response but the best thing is that I have started thinking about what I have done best today. The feeling of achieving small good things in daily life gives lot of encouragement, energy and motivation.

I think anybody feel better at the end of the day when the person will count what he achieved today or what was the best thing of the day.

Technorati Tags: Best Thing, Tekriti, Teknokrats, Idea, Energy, Motivation, Achieve

Layman

2006-01-27T11:49:00.000+05:30

Recently, somebody asked me, what a layman or beginner can do on computers? I thought a little bit and then said, you can listen to music, play games, chatting with friends, e-mails, search and read about topics you like. I also told that person you may also like to do blog post (online diary) and you would definetly like to use google earth. I think these are things, most people like to do using computers.

I think there are very limited no. of interesting applications for beginners or may be I don't about others. A middle-aged person may not like to use computers for music (can use his music player), games (mostly meant for yonugsters), chatting/e-mailing (might have no online friends).

So I think, if somebody start thinking in this direction, may come up with some cool interesting stuff for beginners and can get huge success...

New Year Resolution - 2006

2006-01-02T11:57:00.000+05:30

Yesterday, I read in a newspaper that we should not keep our new year resolutions secret because if we tell it to others, then others will keep asking about our resolutions and our ego will help us to keep these up. I have planned to join gym in the morning session within a week. I have never gone to gym in my life so far and never liked to get up early in the morning. So I am trying to do two good things together, habbit of getting up early in the morning and exercise. Hope I will try to keep this resolution up for my whole life...

Life goes on

2005-12-27T10:46:00.000+05:30

I am not shocked, even I could not believe so far that my naanu (grandfather) is no more. Either I am living in my own virtual world or it's common thing that you do not believe on when someone, who is very close to your heart, dies. I have seen his dead body and cremation but still could not believe that he is no more between us. He was full of knowledge. I have never seen such a intelligent person in my life. He was the person who did a lot for me after my parents.

But the truth of life is that it goes on even after the closed one's goes out of your life. Sometimes we feel satisfied with all the relations we have but then also God keeps adding or removing relations from our life, I don't know why...

Drupal E-R Diagram

2005-12-09T15:54:00.000+05:30

Feedbacks

2005-11-07T14:55:00.000+05:30

I think Feedbacks are one of the most important thing of our life, yet we don't take it from others. Feedback is neccessary everywhere like in relationship, company, product etc. We can't improve the things in best way if we don't take feedbacks from others. For anything to be successful, feedback is neccassary. Feedback is the best tool to improve the things.

I think either their should be some system for feedbacks or we should take it from others regularly. If we are not taking feedback from others regularly then we are missing something in our life.

Prayer

2005-10-27T00:28:00.000+05:30

Here is a beautiful prayer to help us be strong and meet the challenges we might face:

'Grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage
To change the things I can,
And the wisdom
To know the difference.'

How do I describe myself

2005-10-24T00:08:00.000+05:30

'Mintu' my nick name describes me as

M (Manic) - Person's mood changing quickly and often between extremes of depression & cheerfulness.
I (Introvert) - Person who is more interested in his own thoughts & feelings than in things outside himself.
N (Nostalgia) - Person who is sentimental longing (intense desire) for the things that are past.
T (Transported) - Person who is often overcome by emotion.
U (Unpredictable) - Person whose behavior can not be predicted.

What do I value most in life

2005-10-23T23:55:00.000+05:30

Relationships. Because I feel the way a person moulds himself largely depends on his experience of relationships. Because all thoughts depend on what one has gone through in relationships.

Luck

2005-10-17T10:01:00.000+05:30

I don't believe in luck! If somebody asks me what amount of wightage I give to luck then I simply say 0%. I don't know why people blame luck or God if they don't get something. I don't think God has made any such thing called luck. I feel as people are giving excuses for their failure by naming luck.

I always pray to God that please do not favour me even when I don't prepare for something. I want success in only those things for what I have prepared for. I have never blamed luck or God even I did not get success. Hope I will always keep this attitude!

Limits

2005-10-10T00:02:00.000+05:30

The only limits are those of vision. It's really true, only we decide how far we want to go in our life. And most of the time we don't think beyond ourself or our one's. Sometimes I think If I get chirag-a-jin who can fullfill all my dreams then my life will become dull and boring after sometime. I am just trying to figure it out what do I really want from life...

Ego

2005-10-09T23:13:00.000+05:30

I still have little bit ego in me. I don't know whether the percentage can be given to the amount of ego a person contains or not but if yes then I will say I have reduced this percentage from 90% to 10%. A person changes a lot with the time. And for a any successfull relationship, we should not have any ego. It kills the relationship. Sometimes I think, either the ego is there or not, we can not measure it in percentage in the human being.

I want myself to be egoless person. May be this post or somebody's comments click in my mind sometime and I may become egoless person...

techrodent

2005-10-06T19:07:00.000+05:30

One of my best friend, Amit George, has started blogging recently. The best thing, I like in him, is that he is clean-hearted person. Ofcourse he is intelligent and has the right attitude towards life.

Good Luck!