THE AWESOME TWOSOME.

Beep beep …… beep beep…… beep beep……….. And then I lift up my head and see the alarm ringing on cell phone. I switch it off and lie on bed staring the ceiling preparing myself to get up and go to office. As usual I take my jolly good time to get up, get ready and Go….. and Lo…… I find myself rushing for Infosys Bus near Madhapur. Somehow I manage to get on the Bus and land at Infy. (A briefing on Infosys Hyderabad would be, It looks like a Oasis in Desert, I mean figuratively……. as the area around it is rocky and quite arid and this 100 acres is designed perfectly with some 20 odd 3 storied buildings and lots of trees and one or two springs.. not natural though).

I rush down from the Bus and make it almost first in the queue to get my bag checked as though I am the busiest person at Infy (as a matter of fact I never had project.. and that was just a put up.. to make my way through the crowd) and then walk down the path in a way which would make the utter lazy Cranes think twice about their attitude.

Slow and steady I reach my building. Ping! Goes my swipe and I land up at my floor and then into my cubicle.. to find the AWESOME TWOSOME Ayan and Mahesh already there and giving me a nice smile (which otherwise is sarcastic and means, u graced us with your early presence thank you.. Huh! ).The day always starts and ends with us doing some little research on various things and small POCs - What is gained out of that is -Immense learning.

Briefing of the Main Villains (ahem ahem! Cough cough!)

Ayan - a 6” Bengali guy who considers himself as boss of mainframes and bullies people who doesn’t know it properly and yet are in same stream and in same job band. Someone who loves, eates and worships mainframes as Primitive man did to rain and Sun. J….(Spare me Ayan .. I know after reading this you would send a missile from Edinburgh straight to just my home).

Jokes Apart, he is an Ultra nice and cool guy (leave the fact of Bong origin – no offence meant) .He is one guy whom I immensely respect for his knowledge in mainframes and the ease with which he distributes that .He is a kind who sincerely believes that knowledge grows when shared.
A simple Human being by heart, a nice mentor and friend to be with at Office.

I don’t remember how many times I have turned to him for help when I lost all hopes of debugging or coding. But he with his cool demeanor just turns and smiles.. and with his trademark dialogue Sushree! Tum na.. nahin sudhroge looks at the Green black screen and debugs the code with a ease which anyone would envy.
Boss hats off!.

Me and Ayan just had one or two things in common – one the Satyam Background and our attitude… take life as it comes……….and myriads of things uncommon.
Now the Second One –
Mahesh (Fondly called ‘Butter Milk’ by us) – This guy is some what same years of experience as me.. But always puts me in shame with respect to the level of technical knowledge he has. A very nice and cool person and an avid stock market buff and a big Fan of Butter Milk and had the capacity of drinking gallons of it in a day ( spare my exaggeration).

These two Villains were my constant Companion and cubicle mates in Infosys. We all shared only one thing in common, we all were laterals.
Most of the times we spent was discussing JCL’S,CICS,COBOL,DB2 and fondly called Mahesh Simhampuri simham!( he belonged to a place called Simhampuri in A.P.).

When I entered INFOSYS my team LGMD had only these senior guys in it, I was indeed a bit curious as to how they would be and how would we gel up, but frankly speaking I never had made friends faster then this before. These guys are actually the awesome twosome.
We talked about Books which Mahesh loathed, shares and stock market (which both Ayan and I loathed) …. Mainframes (which we all liked), life.
These two villains with me as an Angel, formed what is called a perfect fairy tale (okay okay… am not an angel as per you both).
The villains tortured me a lot till they got the perfect Techie out of me.

Jokes apart we always had a good time together and when my sweet and nice friends left for Bangalore I really wish we could always have been in same project and Share some more experince at work .Afterall these were my First colleagues and friends at Infosys.