Every once in a while I get a doubt ... did I answer this person correctly ? And this especially happens when I am asked questions regarding the software field.
The latest in the line was a question posed to me by a teen. God knows why he asked me ... he is such a go getter already - a paying blogger website , knows Joomla , his twitter updates ( and no of followers ) leave me astonished ... . This along with him being a student ..... Hmm may be he asked me just to make me feel distinctly uncomfortable and outdated .... now there is a thought !! :)
He asked - What technical skills do you think collegians should invest in ? Uh oh ..... what could I say ?
Seemed to me he was better updated than I am ... nevertheless I considered the question carefully and answered that learning any of the following would be good .... Now I am wondering .. did I get it right ? Is there something I have missed ? And what about suggestion for soft skills ? Shouldn't I have suggested that anyway ? But ... how do I suggest he learn that ?
My answers -
- Java , JSP , Java based frameworks
- .Net technologies - VB .Net, ASP .Net, C#, LINQ
- HTML, CSS , Flash, jQuery
- PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails
- Google Web Toolkit, Android apps
- Learning to make apps for 'i' Apple products,
- Animation [ Have no clue of software's in this area )
- Testing area - QTP ?
- SAP
- Linux
- Apache , Weblogic ?
- Photoshop
The reason this list makes me uncomfortable is that - it feels like deja vu. So what have I missed ??
Last day of your life ?
This particular instruction is given in so many articles , books , blogs etc and I think .. what is the fuss all about ? I guess I have not reached the "Aha" moment for this yet ...... :) No .. change that to .. I know I have not reached the spiritual awakening required to appreciate that line ! :)
This recommendation is supposed to make you contact people from whom you are estranged , people you want to forgive ( or want to gain forgiveness ) , make your loved one feel extra special etc .... But I think .. would I call any one with whom I have had a falling out with ? No ... they are ex-friends for a reason ! :) Of course not always acrimonious reasons ..
One cannot live in a state raised awareness forever .. so like it or not .. we slide into the regular rhythm of ignoring many important things and getting back to the grind ..... so may be this suggestion is better suited to considering it as as advisement to take a breather ... to stop and smell the roses ... :)
So what runs through my mind if it were my last day is .....
- I would do no laundry !!! LOL :)
- I would eat only junk food ... probably killing myself in that hour itself .. :)
- See if all my loved ones could take a holiday and spend the day with me ... :)
Although I think ..... I would not call any of my friends either ... it being the last day .. I think I would expect them to understand that I would want to spend every minute with my family ! :) I wonder now .. Am I going to lose any friends for saying this ? :)
Is it really so weird ?
Many times I am asked how I chose my baby's name. I am told it is a beautiful name ( although many say it is too long too ! :) ). They are weirded out when I mention that I chose this name when I was in my 8th std. It was serendipity. I was just having a fine summer day looking at the blue blue sky and this name popped into my head along with the name Prakurti as good names.
I thought ; if I ever married and had a child and a girl at that, I would name her one of these two names. Along the way I lost interest in the name Prakurti. :) [ No such thing luck with a boy's name !! :) ]
My signature : In high school as an exercise from our school - we were to open a bank account in our names ( a practical lesson ) - so we had to go to the local bank , ask for account opening forms etc ... and for this - my group - a bunch of 4 girls seriously spent one lunch period deciding and then perfecting our signatures for the said bank account.
Our requirements were simple - we would not neatly write our names , it would be individualized and we would not include our surnames since we did not want to change our signature when we got married ! :)
Now this was at an age where most of us thought of marriage as nothing but the most stupid thing to do !! And yet we were practical enough to realize that ... life is life ... we never knew what would happen !! :)
While in my 2nd year Pre-Uty - I had joined NIIT and regardless of my specialization in Engineering I knew I would enter the software field. It seemed so obvious to me ! :)
And yet when I mention incidents like this ... it is considered strange ! What I don't understand is why ? :)
