About Me

I am a person who is normally content with the way life takes me. Being born a cusp I am always caught in between extreme characteristics, either I love too much or I hate too much. It has always been a problem for me to draw the line in the middle so that I balance out things in life. I was born and brought up in Chennai, the place where my heart truly belongs. I lived all my life in Chennai and never thought I would move out from that beautiful city. People might not agree to the beautiful city part. However, I truly believe that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholders and I think its one really beautiful city with the amazing coastal line, seashore and the various shopping malls and all the exciting places to visit. I cant think of one thing that my city lacks. It is just one amazing heaven on earth to live in. I know I am biased towards my city. But who cares? I love the place and have no qualms what so ever agreeing. I am pretty sure any native Chennaite would agree to what I have just said.

I had lived all my life in Chennai. I was a pampered kid in my family where I had the liberty to do what I wanted. However, I was a person who did not know what to do with the freedom I had at that point in time. I did my schooling from two different kinds of institutions one an Anglo -Indian, Christian missionary school (Presentation Convent) and the other a totally Hindu based school (Montford) both of which are located in Perambur, Chennai. I did not have a great school life that is worth recollecting here, other than a few people worth mentioning here. I used to stay pretty far away from school and therefore had to take a bus to school. But I somehow preferred to pedal 9 kms up and 9kms down each day rather than take the bus. It was loads of fun doing that with a group of friends. I was one of the kids who wanted to have as much as I can at a given point in time and got into a relationship of sorts at the age of 13 when I had no clue what it actually meant to be in a relationship. This meant that I got to grow up with this person and happened to actually fall in love with him. It was something we were open about to everyone around us including our families, who were ok with the situation. We were in this relationship for seven years before things started falling apart owing to the changes in our lives and my job at Google.

Before I talk about Google, I need to talk about my college life. I graduated from Ethiraj college for women. It happens to be the best three years of my life ever. That is when I actually got the right kind of exposure, the right kind of friends and loads of fun. I had always been this person who was not the adjustive types. I would say Ethiraj played the part of taming the shrew. :) And I owe the major part of whatever I am today to Ethiraj. I love my college and the amazing time I had there. I really wish I could go back to Ethiraj and continue as a student. :( Miss ma college.

Now to Google, I was one of the first batches to get into Google through Campus recruitment. I had never thought I would start working after my graduation. I always wanted to continue my studies and get into CIEFL. However, I thought I will just give Google a shot as they had come to my college and a classmate of mine got through. I just applied thinking I could just give it a shot. However, I was totally impressed when they told me they would be flying me down to Hyderabad and back to Chennai just for the sake of interviews. I came to the Hyderabad office (RMZ) and I found that the office was soooooooooo good. Thats when I thought maybe I should join Google and do my education from CIEFL via distance education. However, that never happened. Long stories, will keep for laterzz. So I joined Google on May 2, 2005 with 7 other people, most of whom were freshers. Everybody in my batch knew Tamil and we were called the 'Tamizh gumbal.' I still remember my first day in Google where I felt so comfortable and at home, thanks to ma buddy and to the amazing TAs like Bharath, who made work so much more easy and enjoyable. I still cant believe I have been with Google for more than two years now. Google has taught me a lot of things in life and has given me loads of friends especially to a recluse like me. :) There are people who have been such an inevitable part of life that I really cant or dont know how life will be without them. I just think its high time I tell them that they really matter to me and will always be an integral part of my life. Love you people a lot!!


So thats me bragging about me and ma school and college life and about the past two years at Google. Not bad I seemed to have written quite a lot in this one post. Hoping to write more soon.

Do I Blog?

This is something that I have been wanting to do for God knows how long. I've always wanted to create a blog and start writing random thoughts that come to my mind. But I never got to get myself to write no matter what. Finally, here I am writing the first post for this blog. I hope I keep this going. I always keep wondering how people could afford spending time and energy writing random stuff on the internet where God knows who sees your personal blog. But as time goes on, and maturity dawned, I realised so what?? So what if you have to write things and people had to read, not like there are numerous things in my life that needs to be kept confidential and deemed a secret. I have always been an open book. So why not write the weird and (or) the nice things that happen in my journey of life, the random thoughts and strange things that I end up doing. Whats wrong to get things started and expressing yourself. Finally, here I am trying to write after God knows how long. I hope I haven't lost the art of writing. I hope I keep up the momentum and continue to write the abstract things and thoughts that come to my mind. Lets see how this goes...