A RAY OF LIGHT BETWEEN THE CLOUDS
Despite all my promises of a regular post, I am back after 5 months and 4 days. The previous post was hastily typed in the Cypress office, and life has been hectic since then, until recently.
Despite the hectic schedule at CYpress Semiconductor Chennai, the experience at the place is what the post title suggests. In the midst of all the gloom surrounding us, the last five months at Chennai have been an experience to cherish.
Practice School-2 at Cypress Semiconductor Corp. was a fantastic learning experience. Despite the office at Chennai being a centre for Corporate Marketing, I worked on some important technical projects with the Applications team, and also worked on some marketing projects. I worked on about 8 projects, each concerning a different domain. Hence, my knowledge, technical or otherwise, increased manifold. Also, Practice School instilled in me many other things, such as an unshakeable work ethic, working in a group, time management etc. Working with a team, where almost 90% of the employees have a degree from IIT/IIM/BITS has its own benefits.
This was also the first time that I was staying with my 87-year-old maternal grandmother for such a long time. She is my only grandparent whom I have interacted with. Hence, staying with her, listening to her stories and advice, enjoying her brilliant cooking and "teaching" her english are memories which I will cherish for ever. This space ain't enough to write about her. Some day I do hope to write a biography on my grandma. I enjoyed being with my maternal uncle and aunt and other cousins of mine as well.
Other notable things include the City of Chennai, which I shall talk about later, the 28/11 floods and another "noticeable" thing: I have become slim in this period, owing to the use of Public transport "only" for commutation in the city.I shall talk about that also in another post.
It is hard though, to keep ourselves from all the crap happening all around the world. Infact,
all that I have been reading in the newspapers are headlines like "Unemployment at an all-time high", ".... to lay-off", "worst recession since 1930" etc., and also stuff related to Mumbai 26/11, Chennai-TN 28/11 and dogfights in the Lok Sabha etc. In fact, despite BITS-Pilani's 100% placement record in the last decade, students are apprehensive regarding placements, this time around. Surely, this is a bad time to be passing out of college for a job. It makes sense to head for higher studies and go for a job when all this ends.
Ohh, The performance of team India under MSD HAS BEEN something to smile about, after all!!
Anything else about the five and a half stay at Chennai worth mentioning? Hmmm........
As of now, no.
Hoping to be more active on blogosphere in my final "vetti" semester at BITS.
Till then, this is Ashwin, signing off from Bhopal!!!!
Keep smiling, and commenting!
