Just lik dat!

I have a vague memory of me setting the ambition of becoming a doctor.. For all you readers, this doesnt mean that i became an engineer because i didnt get through the Medicine Admission Test.Jus because i didnt even attempt it, i landed up in Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur.. I proudly flaunt my college name anywhere and everywhere though i know there are other premium institutes, with all due respect to them,I say that GEC is nowhere behind!! Cheers to all GEC ians out there!


But the topic here was setting the ambition! ( i know i get carried away by the name of my college..)So I was talking about how a 7 year old wanted to become a doctor when she didnt even know what lungs,liver,nerves were! The only thing she knew was that if she is a doc herself then she need not take her aasthamatic kids out to clinics and wait in the silent long queues watching depressive patients, like her mom did! I swear this reason was more than enough to become a doctor.. The visit to the doc and temple was almost a weekly ritual for us,the only time i get to dress up n go somewhere other than school.



I still consider doctors as the most respected in the society ( after the ever admired Civil serice grads).. But somehow, the desire in me to be Dr.Ranjitha faded when i started realising Biology was 'yuck' and Maths was 'wow' for me! I soon set the target of becoming an Engineer, neglecting the family-ambition of me becoming Doctor.. Not that i knew what Maths has got to do with engineering! Even after 4 years ofengineering I couldn't figure out much about it than its an easy thing to pass and that engineer is the one who is designed to fit in any job, the jack of all trades, but master of none!



Sitting in front of my PC,facing all black telnet sessions of heavily utilised servers which earn in crores, on the desktop, a small gtalk window at the right most corner, and this notepad on which my fingers are hitting, I wonder what an Electrical engineer is doing here! I, with all my modesty admit here that neither I have any idea of how to do a simple wiring or even repair an electric switch, nor I have any interst in doing that, but if it was this which i had to do in my dream job, why did i chose elec engg.?? Since life is an uni-directional process moving fast, taking me through a variety of phases, I have no time to flashback, I know i have to look forward.. MBA might help, but there are the ties of family life, settling, making a home! Pucca Bharatheey naari, you know! :O


Oh please, am NOT frustarted,my job is cool (else i wont be blogging rt here na), just wanted something better.Am glad thou, that I am not in yet another ABC software firm,resting on the benches (you very well know the 'bench' iam reffering to),googling all the news sites which show exaggerating statistics of recession, and waiting for the turn to be laid off.. Am glad I have total freedom here, where I have all the right of 'expression and experimentation'.You have to experience it to know what it is worth..


Chalo,now back to my virtual server room on my desktop.. Real doc nahin to kya, I have to do health check of some servers atleast!! :P And by the way, meet you on the tiny windows of g-talk too!! Take care and have a nice day!!