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Its a little more then 3 years since I joined Infosys and yesterday was the inauguration function of the 10 year celebration of mInfosys. Like I had mentioned in my earlier post, 8th September 2005 would mark 10 years of Mangalore Infosys Development center.
Mr. Narayana Murthy, our Chief Mentor was present for the yesterday’s inauguration session at Mangalore. This was the first time that I could see him in person!
Our entire office was decorated for this occasion.
You can see the Rangolies below :
Due to the Mangalore rains, the entire open air amphitheater was covered. You can see the stage settings and the amphitheater below :
The stage decoration & Amphitheater
The inaugural session began at around 5 PM in the evening. I got some good close up snaps of both Mr. Murthy and Mr. Mohandas Pai, our CFO.
Mr. Narayana Murthy & Mr. Mohandas Pai
The inaugural function was followed by cultural show. Also, yesterday was the traditional day, and all Infoscions were in their traditional attire!
The star of the show was obviously Mr. Narayana Murthy. I had heard/read/seen a lot about him before, and knew that he was a very simple man, but after what i saw yesterday, it was a reaffirmation of what I had heard/read and seen. Really amazed at the simplicity of this man.
Some things that I noted about Mr. Murthy:
- We made a presentation to him, and he would listen fully to what you say. Always talks very kindly.
- When he arrived at our office, he was in a formal attire. After he came to know that Mangalore Infosys was celebration traditional day, he switch over to a traditional dress - Down to earth person.
- Absolutely did not show any signs of being such a big person. He was the Most energetic person in the entire crowd. Would clap for every performance on stage. He was with the crowd most of the time, talking to all the employees, taking snaps etc.
- Leadership by example - This one impressed me a lot! - For the buffet dinner, he stood in the queue along with the junta, served himself, and then settled down.
I can go on and on………….We have soo much to learn from a person like Mr. Murthy.
And here is the most treasured photo of all :
Me on the immediate right of NRN ! A memorable moment
Update : September 9th Function at Mangalore.
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August 19th, 2005 at 11:26pm
The Infosys Mangalore Building - A landmark in Mangalore
The Mangalore Development Center (DC) of Infosys was the first development center outside Bangalore. And this September 8th, mInfosys turns 10 !
Mangalore DC is known as “The Happening DC”, and true to its reputation, a series of events are planned starting Aug 18th to celebrate this occasion.
And, that has been keeping me busy for the past few days, and will continue to do so for the next couple of days. I am in the publicity team, and life has been kind of hectic. :)
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August 12th, 2005 at 02:58pm
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Chocolate milkshake ordered by one of my cousins at a party over the weekend. :) Isn’t it Yummy ?
Had been to a restaurant called Kadal @ Nalapad Residency over the weekend for a b’day party. The restaurant is located on the 7th floor on the lighthouse hill road, and gives a good view of the entire Mangalore City.
In the above pics, you can see a couple of trains at the Mangalore railway station, and the view of Mangalore city center - ie, the hampankatta area, Townhall, Nehru Maidan and at the far end, the sea!
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August 1st, 2005 at 09:54pm
My transfer is now complete in all aspects. As of now, I haven’t been allocated to any project. So, not much of work. But, the past couple of days, including the weekend I have been pretty busy.
At office, we had a group called Employee Social Service Group (ESSG). Recently, this group was converted into a trust under the name Prerana. Under Prerana, this week, we started a new initiative called ‘Sponsor a child’ which helps the children in the neighborhood school. It basically funds the mid-day meal program, and also funds some books etc. So, as a part of this initiative, I wrote a small web-based application, using which the employees could select the kids they would sponsor. Did the design, and wrote the code over the weekend, and yesterday (Monday), we launched the Initiative. So, far, we have got very good response, and more then 3/4th of the kids are already sponsored (out of around 215 kids)!, which is really good. Other than that, yes, finished my mid year appraisal yesterday. Went on well.
Yesterday evening we had arranged for a small party for a small group of friends (Subset..to be precise). For almost the whole day, the weather was kind of pleasant, but right at 7.00 PM, it started to pour!……..So, we started out a bit late. We went to “Madhuvan Village”. This restaurant has a very good ambiance and the food is also pretty good. We had a nice time. After Village, we went to “Cherry Square” for deserts. Its a small joint on the St. Agnes-Balmatta road, which is becoming pretty popular now a days. The specialty there is deserts. Specially a desert called “Some like it hot” !. Its really mouth watering. :)
Here is a brief description of what it is………
They get a brownie with a big ice cream scoop in a sizzler plate, which is really HOT. Then keep it in front of you. Then they pour a glass of HOT chocolate sauce over the ice cream. When the sauce hits the sizzler plate, its start to virtually boil, and make the sizzling sound!. And then over it, they pour lot of cashew nuts! :)………. Now………isn’t that tasty ? :)
So, most of us ate the above specialty! At around 10.30 PM, we wound up!
Oh yes, over the weekend saw the movie “Bunty aur Bubbly”. Nice movie. But the print was really bad, which spoilt the viewing experience. The video shop guy told us that the CD was a original CD and the cover etc looked so. But, when we played it, it was really sick. These people now make pirated CDs which look quite original!.
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June 14th, 2005 at 02:11pm
Update (Nov 11, 2005): Check out the Real Design of the Proposed Infy Campus at Mangalore.
I work for Infosys, mangalore and this mail recently bumped into my mail box about the design of new Infosys campus in mangalore, with some really cool snapshots of the desgin.
All i can say is, the above pics are kind of fake and the mail is a pure HOAX. The snaps have nothing to do with Infosys or Infy Mangalore campus! :)
I am not sure who send out that mail, but that mail is making round all around the net !. Lot of people are googling for information on this, and they end up on my blog ! :).
Thats why this post!
Ok. So, for the real one : Check this link : http://www.voyager-ent.com/flash_index.asp. This something that is proposed in UAE!
Also, check this previous post of mine!
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June 9th, 2005 at 02:43pm
Is a real sad scene when it comes to the roads in Mangalore. The rains are on time this year, and its going to rain cats and dogs in the next few days for a couple of months. But the situation of roads has gone from bad to worse.
The roads were dug for (re)laying drainage lines, telecom cables etc starting Feb/March, I guess, and not properly covered up at many of the places, which can be quite dangerous. I was hoping that they would do at-least (re)tar the roads before it rained, but it turned out to be much more worse than I had hoped for. Forget the tar, they haven’t even covered the trenches properly. At some places, they have done some patch up work, but its clearly of sub-standard quality, and already the patch work has disappeared at many of the places. (in just 5 days!!!).
The city corporation has issued a notification banning digging of roads in the next three months starting June 1st to telecom companies etc.., but it has not bothered to close the trenches that have been dug right about in April / May. Even after the notification, today, since it was a bit sunny, I saw some MAJOR digging happening on at-least 4 roads. (i.e., almost all the roads i traveled today!!)
The next three/four months would be really bad, causing major problem to public. But who cares? The municipal folks are not bothered at all. They are just worried about their pockets! Hopeless people. All it needs is a little bit of planning. Don’t know when our country will improve.
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June 6th, 2005 at 03:20pm
Looks like monsoon is finally in. Its raining lightly outside as i write this. I guess, the rains this time are just on time. The temperature has come down, and its a much cooler now.
For the past couple of days, (almost a week), it has been very cloudy. No rain. Which is bad since it increases the humidity. The next few days, we will (hopefully) have full fledged monsoon and it will rain cats and dogs here in Mangalore!
And, that reminds me of rain dance party @ office!! :)
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May 31st, 2005 at 11:02pm
One more in the ‘Back to School’ series (Part one, two here). This was shot when we were in class 10 at Canara High School, Mangalore.
10th Stanard, Canara High School, 1995
Row 4 (Topmost, L to R):
Arun S, Sudhir Prabhu, Pramath Rao, Varadaraj Prabhu, Girish B, Narayan Kamath (no longer with us :(), Manohar, Suval Jacob, Vinayak Bhakta, Shareen Hegde, Dheeraj, Anil Pandit, Harsha Shet, Nitin, Mithun C P.
Row 3:
Dileep, Sooraj, Mahesh Pavalkodi, Mahesh, Sachin Shet, Anil Kamath, Manohar Rao, Nishanth B S, Jairam Kulkarni, Sudhakar Raikar, Narayan, Rohit Saralaya, Sandeep Chowta, Premanand Maller, Harish, Madhukar Shetty, Ashwin, {Me}, Raghavendra (Chama), Venugopal, Murali.
Row 2:
Rakshan (Jimmy), Gautham, Pradeep Pai, Vivek Prabhu, Sushanth Pai, Amith, Ashok Kamath, Shakeel, Sandeep Narayan, Rakesh, Swaroop M S, Melwin, Vivekananda, Sathish, Vijay, Vinay, Chetan, Giridhar, Gokul, Vishwanath.
Row 1 (Lower most; L to R) :
Ms Albert Pinto, Ms Leelavathi, Ashok Pandit Sir, G P Shetty Sir, Umesh Mallya Sir, Headmaster - Venkatesh Kamath, Vageshwari Shivaram, Narayan Naik, Shridhar Rao Sir, Madav Suvarna Sir, Ghanshyam Kamath (our SPL), Samarth Shetty.
Other Memories :
Back to School - II - Class 9 Snap
Back to School - I - Class 2 Snap
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May 26th, 2005 at 09:37pm
Well, this one was clicked when we were in the 9th grade or 9th standard at Canara High School, Main in front of our library.
9th Standard, class of 1994 - Canara High School (click to enlarge)
This was a “boys” school. So no ladies :(.
So, here we go with the names.
Row 1(Lower most row ; L to R) :
Venugopal (thanks Samarth), Sathish, Vivekananda, Vijay, Vinay (twins), {P G Bhat - Sir}, ME!!, Samarth Shetty, Melwin Abraham, Mahesh P, Ashwini (again thanks to Samarth)
Row 2 :
Arun S, Sandeep Narayan, Chetan, Shridhar, Sushanth Pai (cholle!!:)), Amith, Vishwanath, Madhukar Shetty, Sachin Shet, Vivek
Row 3:
Shakeel, Girish, Manohar Rao, Rohit Saralaya, Jagga, Sooraj Rai, Gautham Shetty, Anil Kamath, Swaroop M S
Row 4:
Sudhakar Raikar, Mahesh, Fardu (varadraj prabhu), Rakshan (j), Premanand Maller, Nithin, Gokul, Pramath Rao, Ashok, Murali.
Row 5:
Shareen Hegde, Manohar, Sandeep Chowta, Amit Gaithonde, Dileep, Rakesh, Narayan, Nishanth B S, Sudhir Prabhu
Row 6:
Suval Jacob, Dheeraj, Ghanshyam, Harsha Shet, Anil Pandit, Narayan (no longer with us :(), Amarnath, Jairam Kulkarni, Vinayak Bhakta
You can find my 2nd std snaps here!
Class 10 Snap Here.
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May 2nd, 2005 at 01:37pm
Was browsing my HDD yesterday, and came across a set of snaps that i had scanned a couple of years back! This particular short was taken when we were in 2nd Standard. I guess, in 1986. Canara English Higher Primary School, ‘B’ Section! (2B)
The class of 1987 :) - My 2nd grade (click on the image above to enlarge)
Let me try to identify people here ! Let me begin with the “ladies” :)
Row 1 (lower most row, Left to Right) :
Nandita, Vidhya, Radhika, Deepa, Chaitra Upadhyaya, Shabari Alva, {teacher}, Ashwini, RoopaRashmi, {dont remember}, Veena???, {dont remember}, Gayathri.
Row 2:
Mallika(i guess), Sunayna, Deepthi, Sandhya Murthy, Ashwini (???)
Row 3 (the ‘boys’):
Sandeep Baliga, Vijaykrishna, Naveen, Prashanth, Anil Kamath, Nishanth B S, Manoj (a guess), Rakshan (jimmy! :) ), Chethan Natraj, Arun Babu, Raghavendra, Ashik, {its ME :D}
Row 4 (top row):
Sachin, Amarnath(???), Sudhir Prabhu, Amar Siddartha Nayak, Sandeep Rao, Prashanth Kini, Guruprasad Pai, Santhosh, Manohar(doubt!???), Sudhakar Raikar, Pramath Pai, Shodhan(???)
Wow. I never thought I could identify soo many! Its hard to forget childhood friends!:)
Will put up the 9th Std snap next :) : Available Here
Class 10 Snap Here.
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April 29th, 2005 at 04:50pm
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