One day I woke up amid the deafening sound
of thunder . I got off my bed to check my family members but I could not
see anything because of the darkness in the room. Suddenly a lightning came out
of the clouds and my room got filled with its light. Then I realized that I was
not in my home.
Where was I? Oh I forget! I just changed my city.
I was somewhere else. I was in Mumbai.
I was somewhere else. I was in Mumbai.
Today's topic is regarding the
phenomenon of city change. This phenomenon will definitely come into the life of
most of the IT engineers.
But its easier said than done. It
takes a lot of effort and time to settle into new environment.
So when you arrive in a new city, there were many things that need to be done.
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Biggest problem of them was to find a
place to live. I started with calling many agents and some new friends.
In this process of calling, you will
learn many new words of their dialect.
Like the Gujarati agents will say " kem cho ? tumhara naam su chee ?"
It means how are you and whats your name? and you can just reply " Can we talk in English " as we are not sure of their Hindi speaking abilities.
Then comes the exam time as agents
will ask you hundreds of questions as
Where you come from?
Where you work ?
What your parents do?
With whom you are going to live?
Do u drink ?
You are vegetarian or non veg?
Sometimes we feel like that they are
not renting their apartment to us but were going to live with us in the
same apartment.
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So after I got settled in my new
place, its time to get down to work and understand the complex office
human network. The office human network is like finding the ports of fiber optic cables as you can't easily tell which cable is
connected to which port and who is the real server (I mean the real boss).
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The last leg to settlement was to
find groceries shops to buy food and vegetables for your daily needs.
Every day you will add more words
into your vocabulary as in Mumbai
Potato is called as "BATATA",
onion is called as "KANDA", lady finger is "OKRA" etc etc.
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This kind of relocation gives us a
different kind of experience as we become more independent, manage your life
and learn from every day experiences.
We can enjoy the different cuisines
of India, travel to new places and know more about heritage of India.
Boys and girls enjoy their freedom in
different ways. Most of the boys find new places to hangout, to drink and
some of us will learn cooking also. Offcourse after cooking, we will never
forget to upload pictures of what we have cooked today and we feel very proud
on whatever we have cooked.
For girls, I think the best part of
this freedom is that they can do shopping in new places, without anyone
controlling them. As far as I know, they just love it.
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The other side of story is that
you miss your family and childhood friends.
We always keep checking possible
vacation days and travel tickets availability.
But I feel that every city and people living there have given something to me.
One city gave me the habit of eating different cuisines and other one has taught me to be more positive in life. Everybody has different experiences.
Many of you must have heard a quote -
“A ship is safe in harbor, but
that's not what ships are for.”
I think our lives are like ships. If
we stay at harbor or in our city, then we always be safe as we are cocooned
with our well-wishers.
I want you all think about those moments or experiences
as they rarely come back.
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