102 keys and me

I know u must be curious about the name I have given to this post. So I gonna do that first. Before u ask me question to put such a absurd name, let me explain the meaning. 102 keys are the keys on which I spent my most of the time in last 180 uneven days. It means its all about my professional life as a software engineer.

I am a production and industrial engineer. Generally people ask me why I shifted from hard core manufacturing to white collar job. I just simply say that i shift my line for four years and now i am on the track, i wanted to be. Starting from very first addition program of two integer to a big mobile application in Wirkle (Company with which i started my professional career), journey was full of different experiences.

I think before describing 102_keys_and_me i need to explain about Wirkle. Wirkle is a startup company by some crazy people of IITS, DCE and desi punjab(Thapad). Word crazy really suits them because one needs to be crazy when he/she think to invest his/her lovely nights to build up a company.

When i got opportunity to work with these crazy people, then I thought a bit. I still remember the night when i met one of them at ansals plaza. That 2 to 3 hours of meeting was enough to change my mindset and after that meeting i was a wirkelite in papers and with my mind also.

From the very first day till the day of launch, ..................launch oooooo I forgot to mention that I am writing this blog because Wirkle have launched its alpha version in the market. One can check this at www.linknsurf.com. Now we have achieved our first milestone but still long way to go.
“when your aim is big enough then small success and small failures shouldn't count".

Starting with Wirkle wasn’t easy at all. Here we have started with a team of five. All are exceptionally good except me (i mean, i am not an exception). With time things become little easy. By the time coming late in the morning and working late nights has become habit.
As the time passes away these 102 keys got familiarized with the feel of my fingers and under some brilliant minds, some characters that we wrote has turned up into a mobile product. But there were lot other things involved between this. Discussions (so called Gappe) from morning till afternoon and then some takk-takk on keyboard from afternoon till night. Some parties are definitely unforgettable like the one we had at E-Zone. Fights among colleagues while selecting a gift,late night movies to get rid of the whole day frustration and then tripling on bike were some unforgettable moments here in Wirkle.
When you are working in a team, that team becomes like your family and with your family u share each and everything. There are some buzzwords that u come up with, in each society or in each family like,

“Uncle Chips from kitchen se" – less salad in big polythene at lunch time,

"ooooooooooooooooooooo" – easy to come out from an argument,

"I need one version in CVS today" – Daily evening punch line from immediate manager,

"kyon" –pet word by one of my team manager

...................bla bla bla.

Finally 6month has been passed out and we have achieved our first milestone. In the past six months I learned a lot, I enjoyed a lot, I got frustration a lot, I fought a lot, I talked a lot and I missed my college time a lot.

Life at Delhi college of engineering

"Those were the best days of my life"

These were just the words of a well known song for me in my college time. but now i really mean these words. Things change drastically when u shift from such a college pronounced as delhi college of enjoyment or delhi college of entertainment to a company. Replacing the word engineering with entertaiment or enjoyment matches perfectly for DCE. Life here is not only full of those bullshit study curriculam but with a lot of life experiences too.when a fresher come in the campus he is threatened by proffs on attendence strickness but as the time passes he come to know that its just a line that the proffs used in his first class to have good impression on freshers. I was among the most of junta who dint care bcoz all of them had come after a tough competition and now they want to see the different phase of life. Actually they have cleared the milestone upto which they used to hear from there parents that" just one year of study".Jjust one year of study in 10th board and then cool life. That one year dint end up there.It started again in 11th for two years till 12th board and then again after 12th for the admission in good engineering college. But now it was end of that one year and other phase which do not include those "moti -moti phy chem maths ki kitabeeee".

Life at college is exactly the same as in a normal graduation college but in a envelop on the outside its written "Technical". Means only that technical stamp was visible from the outside and that was sufficien enough to make fool of any big shot MNC's.

Coming back on he topic i will say that freshers are given very warm welcome(officially) as a fresher party. I have mentioned officially bcoz unofficially they have regular parties in the hostel name-"DP"(DCEites understand it better). Just after the fresher party one can see a lot ofposters and banners in the campus because that's the election time. Now suddenly things change, sr.s change there tone from harsh ragging tone to very polite and friendly tone to get the vote for his party side. Even the freshers are very anxious for the election because it does not matter which party has one there two parties are confirmed. one is the free canteen on the declaration of results of election and second is thanks giving party by the president. Free canteen means totally free for all and i really mean it.

Then season of Festivals starts starting from AIIMS ,IIT , LCR,and finally LHMC (DCE ka nara hai LHMC hamara hai).Now u can get an idea that in this busy schedule how would one get time to attend classes. In this fantastic curriculam suddenly they get shock when the date of End Semester announced. once again things change and now ghissuus come in limelight.Everybody get their registers photocopied believe me till the mid of engineering people start understand their handwriting better then their own. Now they know the subjects, they already know the teachers face but the problem which teacher face matches with which subject. U must have understood why i am using word "teacher face " because that was to early to learn the name of teacher to whom they have seen only a few times. but that is not an issue ,what does it make a difference whether u know the teacher or not because u have already got the weapons(photocopies) for the war. Finally some hit the target, some waste the bullet here and there, and some are really very smart that they hit direcly to teacher mindset and get the highest marks. Its miracle for the ghisssuuuus and finally they relax themself that might be he is in relation of prof or he had the paper before the exam.

Hey wait i forgot to mention one very famous and unique tradition of DCE named " supply".
here seniours and juniours