The Key to Victory...

Till today, I have more than Seven years of experience as an IT professional and in these six years, I have changed almost six companies. Strange.. isn't it? Well... if it is right or wrong, I do not know. But Personally I believe is that, due to these career movements I could grow and know this industry better, made many corporate and personal contacts. And I have been doing well till now atleast. So all in all, I am happy with my state of work and position after six years.
So, "what is the right time for a change"? It completely depends on situation and need basis. Plus, on how you have planned your career, if you have actually planned it.
I guess.. you guys are not reading this blog to hear all this why and when.. What you are most interested in 'How'... "How to crack interviews", which is a good topic for a discussion.
Most of the people who hear about my experience and so many changes in such a short time, mostly ask me, "How you could make so many changes, don't they see so many changes in your resume?", "Isn't it unethical to make a change when company has invested so much in you and when its their time, you leave?", and many other related questions. My reply to all their such questions are mostly my smile :) , everyone loves to see it on my face, except you.. joking.. which part, you figure out! :D Anyways, surprizingly, my success rate of clearing interviews is more than 95%. Want to know, 'how'? Nothing comes for free.. You better give your opinion on this blog after reading it.
So now we'll be talking about 'The' thing. Always remember:You are an employee of an organization, not the owner, unless you have bought it's equities. They hire you because they need you, not because they love you.You are a 'Professional'.. at least feeel it. And If you have just been only feeling it and not actually are, try to be one.Any organization has its motives/business goals. Focus on that and try to self evaluate that how you are contributing. If you are not contributing then... I'll write another blog on this later someday, wait for that and read for sure.. better you subscribe my blog. :DAnd there are so many things you already know, I need not mention it here, so stop looking for those. You won't pay me anything for writing all of them here.The most important, "Never be in a Comfort Zone"!!!Everything mentioned/unmentioned/understood/assumptions till now is to make you feel better in life that it is not a harm to make a change when you 'actually' need it. Yeah.. when you actually need it.. The reason of such good success rate is that I take my sweet time to understand the following:Do I need a change?Do I really need a change?Third and most important. Am I serious, do I really need a change??!! Also think of, "why I need a change?". You would mostly know the answer of this at least.Finally, list down the companies, which can afford you and shortlist those companies from the list, which you wish to join. Look for consultants who work for them or any references in these companies. Applying through job sites never works. Remember, uploading your resume to a job portal and applying through a job portal are two different stories.. I said Applying through job portal never works. Btw, 'never' means 'mostly' here. :D Then wait for the call.. If you get it, you are halfway through.. and rest you can clear yourself, you are smart/intelligent people.. Thanks you so much for reading my blog!
Always remember, your resume shows what you are, so when you spend so much money on yourself, atleast spend some time on your resume.. it should look good, sober and informative.
Finally, following are the ingredients of the success:
Do your homework:1. Know what they are and what they want. (very important)2. Know what you are. (atleast, do it carefully)
In the Interview:Listen to Interviewer and his questions, if not clear then ask to repeat. Its no harm to ask him again. Its a trick as well, it buys you time to respond (My close friend does that with me, when we do argument). But the interviewer can be smart enough to understand this. So remember, its a trick, not a practice.Always talk about 'The big picture'.Make it a discussion rather than an interogation.Take the interviewer in your comfort zone.Fit yourself in their organisation.Keep rolling the ball, with a string attached to your hand. Dont take it literally.. Understand the meaning. If not clear, ask me.. remember!? no harm in asking!There are two types of interview: Intervewer Driven and Interviewee Driven. Choose your way. Obviously! Choose to drive the interview.And the most important... Look like a product, not a waste. I mean keep elite set of clothes.In half an hour to one hour or some more, no one can judge anyone's abilities or capabilities. So, choose what you wish to speak and show what you want to show. And even then if you can't clear it...then consider them smarter than you, rather, understand that they have their fundas clear in life.
Overall, always remember, it is a mental game, play it, don't be played.
All the best!
Now.. feedback time.. If you can't put your comments here then write to me at anjandeb@gmail.com Your comments, experience, views, suggestions can help me take this article to the next level to help more people in this time of recession, to help our friends who are waiting for a phone call from consultants.

A Perfect Date

It started raining... rain drops poured so heavily. Loud roaring Clouds painted the sky in myriad shades of grey. duhh... this ain’t a thriller sequence!!! Man I really love rain… and guess what it was my first date. :) I never had this feeling ever in my life before. I was so excited ever since we both planned this… Officially! You know what I mean.. Had a sleepless night and damn I didn’t know what to wear … even out of my new wardrobe. I was my kiddish best with nothing to wear on a 'Date'!! Anyway, that didn't matter much when under the morning sun my sweetest clouds made the streets glisten with water. Hehe ...I hate what rain does to motor drivers, turning them into un proclaimed Da Vincis and Picassos splashing muddy water around..grrr.. But I had my romantic spirits high as a smooth, soothing rhyme was playing in my head. This was a never before feeling.

Finally I was ready to meet my princess. If I had ever been equally excited for school, I would have turned out a smarter student and would have a better girlphrend.. eeekk...I didn’t mean that! ;) Plan was to grab some tid-bits at the coffee shop, then a romanchik movie and then a good authentic Thai lunch would have ended the perfect day.

On the way, I stopped to buy her a bunch of white and pink Lilies. Such beautiful flowers that at one point, I thought of keeping them for myself :) With two movie tickets tucked safely in my pocket I reached the coffee shop …crap I reached there almost half n hour before ...before even the coffee shop had to open! :( ..and another hour before we had to meet! :D So in the mean time I thought of being little romantic about the situation… It was still raining... coffee shop guys had now come to open the shop and I had the flowers taken away only to be brought to the table once she arrived.

Then I waited for her as I saw the streets getting washed off in the rain from window. I love it, when rain drops fall on glass windows and drip till the window sill. It looks so peaceful ..isn't it? The melodies were still playing in my head making the moment very special. At the same time, the excitement of it all was giving me butterflies in my stomach as if I had to put up some stage performance.

I checked the time with the coffee guy. It was half an hour past the time we had actually decided to meet. It was getting bad… I, till now, had had around 3 coffee shots. That day, for the first time in my life, I waited for someone for around 3 hours, had no less than 6 cups of coffee ..and the BEST PART: She didn't even turn up… WOW!

I went back home, could not even ask back my flowers and kept those movie tickets as a souvenir of the most traumatic 3 hours movie of my life, WHICH WAS SHOT ON ME.

:) Well, now when I look back in time and think of that day …I smile and feel good about one thing, that it rained that day.

I being a Mother

...Coming Soon!!

From the Writer's pen: I hope, till now I have been able to touch you someway or the other through my blog.. I wish to write more such experiences and inspirations and explore this dimension of my abilities.. I would appreciate your valueable suggestions and comments. I welcome your compliments aswell ;)

Pursuit of Happiness

Do you ever ask it from yourself like I do quite often, that "Am I doing what I always wanted to do?", "Am I happy for whatever I am doing?" or "Is it the life I wanted?”

I bet most of you do and we think similar at least on these lines. But do we have similar thoughts for the solution?

I am a software techie by profession, working as a Project Lead with a huge MNC, which works in health care domain. Consequences of my life made me choose this profession and I think I am doing it quite well. I never thought in my life that I would be working in some company's infrastructure with so many cubicals around me, where I would be 'just another guy', doing all that my peers would be doing.. I never thought of it really.. Go to the office in the morning, check mails, do assigned tasks (which somebody else decides for me), do things which can save my ass the entire time, go home, eat, drink and sleep. Even I never liked going to school just because its so monotonous.. Same thing, same life, EVERYDAY!!?? But in weekends you get to do what you wish to do.. But even CHAOS has a theory of pattern. After sometime, even these weekends look so similar... Does that happen with you as well?...

People have their own perception, about life and the ways they want to live it. When people look at me, they feel that they are not living their life. And when I look at myself, I feel like, even I am not living it.. If I and they are not thinking similar that what this living is all about? Why they think I am living it and they are not?? Why I think its not actually living the life?? 'AAKHIR' WHY??

May be I have the answer; at least I am satisfied with it...
In our life, in the childhood, when we start to understand that here exists a world around us, we also understand that there are few things, which we are suppose to do. Go to School, study, play, carry hobbies, etc, etc.. As we grow in life, we get to understand that we have been doing all these because consequences made us do these. Then we start to realise that our peers, relatives, family, parents, everyone around us grow their expectations from us. In our entire adolescence, we drag and carry these expectations with a little of our own dreams, which, most of the times are the inspiration from someone's life; may be real or reel; we work harder and harder to meet these expectations. Sometimes we are asked and sometimes we are told that what we should do in our 'life'. If we get success, credit goes to our work and someone's idea of us doing it. If you lose, then you are accountable for everything you did to get things wrong; their idea was always right because it worked for them. You rise and drop, and that is the beauty of life. Some people take that drop as a challenge and work to the best of their abilities to get the success... and with your success you bring smile on so many faces around you. And Yesss, you do that!! This is something you love to do.. But then, do you think the way I do?? ...that is it what I always wanted to do? Well, I think that! And if you think about it, what are you doing to change things around you to make it your way... the way you wanted it... What are you doing?? …or can you do anything about it?? If you say 'Yes' then you are lying to yourself. How many times you have carried an empty soft drink can or leftovers, which you enjoyed with your beloveds or friends or family, in your hand to throw it in a trash box which you could not locate around you? How many times you have bought ice-creams, when you are in your car and enjoyed it as a kid...?? Many times..!!?? But do you always care not to throw the wrappers and sticks on street. I don't know how many times you did this, but I bet you must have cribbed about the filthiness of streets several times in you life. This is just an example.. Life is too complicated than just throwing trash at its right place. Idea is, just to understand that what all we want, do we really do something about it or we are just happy the way we are living our life and crib for unfavourable things.

I know even now, that I never wanted to be an IT professional. Given an option, I would have been an artist. Be it about painting walls, canvases, making sculptures, interiors, dresses, I would have done anything which is creative and artistic because all these make me happy.. these make me feel good.. because thats my 'Pursuit of Happiness'; happiness, the way I want.. But even already knowing all this, I cannot do anything about it.. because consequences of my life wont let me do it. Even thinking of switching the career would make me blind to look at what all can happen, if its done. May be, I cannot afford to take any chance of leaving this lush green career and start off with something fresh even after knowing the fact that what I want to do gives me ecstasy, gives me pleasure. Yeah, may be i am afraid, may be 'Its not Me'.

Dear Diary

Dear diary,

It was the most beautiful day of my life, after my routine dance rehearsal, I left the auditorium. My chauffer was wiping off dust from my car.. He opened the door for me and saluted, “Salaam Memsaab.” He kept my kit and baggage in the car’s boot and dropped me home.

On the way, comes this small convent school, in which, I always see many kids playing in the lawn. But today, a girl out of the entire bunch caught hold of my attention. I could not resist asking the driver to pull over for a while. That girl was so pretty and beautiful. She was wearing white shirt and a grey skirt with mustard yellow and black checks. She had a sweet little pony tugged with a white ribbon. She was laughing and playing with her friends around the trees and fountain with so much innocence and pleasure on her face that anyone who would look at her, will be so jealous of her way of enjoying and living her life.

Seeing her, I felt so relaxed, which I never felt in past several years. I could feel a smile on my face and my cheeks turned hot. And then, my eyes misted with all the memories I had always kept locked deep within my soul, with pain, which I could never share with anyone. That girl with those sparkling eyes flashed my childhood in front of me, which I had kept in the dungeons of my swaggering, vainglorious and glamorous life. A life, where other than designer clothes, neon, spot lights, ramp, red carpet and high rise parties, I have no space for anything; even not me.

I belonged to a middle class family. Square mentality of my ‘Maa’ and ‘Baba’ always refrained me to do anything I wished to do. Everyone except for my ‘Thakuma’ (grandmother), had love for my brother, ‘Guru’. He was allowed to go out, play with ‘Baapi’, ‘Bubun’ and ‘Kanto’. They used to play marbles, hide & seek, swim in ‘pukur’(pond). I was not even allowed to catch fish. I remember my Maa saying ‘pukure maach dhodte giye, jodi jole pode jaash, tahole shara raat pukure daad kore raakhbo’ (if you fall into pond while catching fish, then I’ll make you stand in the pond, the entire night). I heard people saying that was a spooky pond. When Maa used to take me to the local weekly market in the evening to buy vegetables and fishes, I always hid myself under my mother’s arm and never used to look at that spooky pond while passing by it.

Thakuma loved me the most, rather she was the only one who cared for my existence in the house. She used to give me change to buy sweets, which she had tied at an end of her off-white ‘saree’s pallu’. “I want to study, Thamma” I asked my Thakuma one day. Looking into my eyes, she smiled and asked, “What do you want to study?” I looked at her wrinkled face, ”I would study everything what Guru studies. I know, he knows nothing but I would know all”, I replied with the best smile I could give. She held my cheeks in her hands and said, “yes, you’ll. And then what you want to become?”, she asked. I said that I would become a teacher and then will teach lessons to Guru.

Two days later, when I opened my eyes in the morning, it was raining. I loved rain.. Dancing and singing I reached the porch. There were so many people already. I never saw so many people together in my house before. Guru came to me and told me in shattered voice that Thakuma left us forever. I think, I was too young to react to that. I sobbed and then could not hold my tears anymore. When I rushed and reached her room, she was lying on bed with closed eyes. Baba and other people were spashing water on Maa’s face. She fainted while crying. I was so scared. I reached Thakuma and touched wrinkles of her face… She was cold…

After few months, Guru told us that we would be going to the city. I went to Maa. “Maa, are we going to the city?”, I asked. She nodded her head. I was so happy that we would be going to the city. I heard, in city people travel by motor vehicles. There would not be any bumpy bullock rides anymore and streets are so wide that playing marbles on them is so much fun. Few days later, we moved to the city. It was more beautiful than what my wildest imagination ever allowed me to dream.

The other day, I overheard mom asking dad to put me in a school because that was Thakuma’s last wish. I still remembered those beautiful eyes looking at me from those slits of her wrinkled face, telling me that I would go to the school. Baba got me admissioned in a convent school.

My dear diary, ‘hum apni iss bhagti zindagi main sab kuch peeche chorr aate hain.. yahan tak k bhool jaate hain woh sab pal bhi, jinko sirf yaad karne se hi hamare chehre ateet ki abhilashao main fir kho jaate hain aur laut aati hain bachpan ki woh masumiyat bhari hassi.. woh sapne.. Iss baat ko mujhe aaj bohot saalo baad mehsoos karaya uss pyari, masoom si bachi ne. Kyoki main bhi kahin iss tez tarrar zindagi main kahin kho gayi hu, kyoki main ab shayad main nahi hu...’

This is all I got :D

:) I know and even people say that I am self obsessed.. So be it...

What a beautiful idea to publish a blog where I would put all these beautiful and adorable compliments I recieve. Atleast these will give you some idea of what all you can write about me or tell me whenever or wherever you find me. :)

1. "the fact tht u think/know life's one big party"

2. "you dont run after people, u make them run after you"

3. "u cherish yr close frnds a lot"

4. "good listener and problem solver"

5. "u give me comfort level to talk to u at 2 am when we've not even met once"

6. "positive vibes"

7. "u r very creative"

8. "u have good voice when u sing i like it"

9. "when u play guiter i love it"

10. "hazir jawab hai tu"

11. "good painter & artist"

12. "I like Ur sense of humor"

13. "I like ur agility"

14. "You are ambitious"

15. "U are a good communicator"

16. "U don't take tentions"

17. "Tu sala gali badiya deta hai, sun ke aachi lagti hai"

18. "Good thing about you is you are Anjan"

19. "You are the artist"

20. "A good guy who still not changed in world of selfish people" -- very debatable statement.. ;)

21. "u have an incredible zest for life"

22. "I like teri hehehehehe" :D

23. "tere style (hero mafiq uchi naak)"

24. "yeh teri sabse achi n spl baat hai ki u r aapun ka dost"

25. "Duniya main do hi shaane hain, ek main aur ek tu"

26. "u r abenteuerlustig" //adventurous

27. " u r a little verrückt" //crazy

28. "u r faszinierend" //fascinating

29. "I really appreciate your loyalty and commitment towards ur frenz and loved ones"

30. ":D you always smell goooood..." :) this can be a Hillarious topic for my buddies.

31. "You are a complete package"

32. "You are very much similiar to Yash banner k movies mein Shahrukh Khan, sply DDLJ ka 'Rahul'."

33. "see u got almost all talents..haina..which makes u complete person...and KRISHNA ko main follow karti hoon coz wo bhi complete the....isiliye main tumhe KRISHNA se compare kar sakti hoon coz tumhare aas paas bhi bahaut gopiyaan bhatakti hain"

...

One of the true friends gave me these best advices aswell..

-Dont like your ficklemindedness

-Dont like your extravagant nature

-Dont like your impulsiveness

This is wht I recieved from a very sweet friend...

"hum sab ko andar se pata hota hai what we all r....but haan accha lagta hai to know if others also feel the same for u..thats means u r able to reflect ur actual personality to others

and others take you the way u r."

And nothing like it when I got to hear this poem on me from a big time charmer of my life. :D

"Anjan—The Maverick

A stoned marvel is what you’d call him,

Or perhaps a gifted jewel!!

Even if he doesn’t take to the tide

He still is the one who’ll rule!!

An uncanny mark of act he evokes

You may choose to take to him or disown,

For all the sea of talents that he houses,

He follows a heart; only of his own!!

A melt is what is akin to him

He knows how to win hearts,

But alas! Let him want to do that with you

for which you’ll have to win him in parts!

Alone he stands, but tall for sure

Golden is what he is,

For any other color that opposes him

It just fades, for a king of an artist that he is!!!!!!"

More to come here...

Bhayankar Writing

Today I was chatting with one of very close friend and this came out of our as usual unbeatable creative thought process.

me: launde..
prashant: haan mere laal
me: ghar kitne baje jaega
prashant: 5:30 ke around
me: jaldi nahi jata ab tu
prashant: chalega ?
me: saale jyada kaam karega to nikal denge tujhe
prashant: 5:25 par chalenge
me: kyoki jyada karega to jaldi khatam hoga, fir tu khali hoga, jaise hi tu khali hua, tujhe nikal denge..
chalunga saath
no probs
prashant: k
me: but tere saath tere khasamkhaas dost honge new new wale?
prashant: :) ha yaar. to kya hua tera entertainment ho jayega
me: saale tu 5.30 niklega ya 5.30 mujhe pick karega?
prashant: tujhe pick karunga
me: meri 6.30 call hai, woh to main fone se bhi le sakta hu koi fight nahi hai usme agar signals apni maa na *****, tere naye dost kahan rehte hain?
prashant: sabko rastey mein fenkna hain
kya saley blog likh raha hain
me: haan tujhe kaise pata blog likhta hu main aaj kal
prashant: chat karne ke style se, har baat ka rape kar deta hein
me: padega?? IT pe likha hai ek mast hai.. http://itsnotanjan.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-give-i-get-i-feel.html
padd k dekh... jagah jagah se ansu nikal aaenge
prashant: pad leya fenku "I was an outstanding student throughout my studies ? "
me: saale yeh meri story nahi hai "its not Anjan"
prashant: sholey ki story likh raha hain phir?
me: next blog me main ek ladki ki story likhunga , kamsin haseena... jo kisi k pyar k jaal main phass k khud ko barbad kar baithi..
prashant: tu meri story likh, fir hollywood ke direct contract karege
me: teri hi story hogi woh
prashant: tu ameer ho jayega, tera naam delhi main world famous ho jayega
me: haan
prashant: tu mujhe yaad karega
me: movie banaenge technicolor cinemascope, HD movie
prashant: bollywood walon ko mat diyo, nahin to maa bhen ek kardenge gande dalkar
prashant: sorry, I mean gaane daalkar
me: Lolzz...
me: focus leke tera ek rape scene rakhunga... char char launde teri izzat loot rahe honge
prashant: :)
me: lolzz, launde sunte hi khush ho gaya...
peeche background main Ganje se sound effect dalwaunga
prashant: tu sheesha todakar mujhe bachane aayega, phir hum baag mein gaana gayenge
me: Lolzz.. ekdum original script
prashant: phir gaane gaate gaate tera accident ho jayega, tu loola ho jayega, mein tujhe dump karke chala jaunga
kise dusre lule ke paas
me: movie ka title purana types aur story new types..
"fir se phass gayi Razia gundo main"
prashant: :)
me: saale khali hai kya aaj?
prashant: ab humari is chat ko blog mein dalde.. super hit ho jayege
me: hehehe not a bad idea... abhi le..
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Thats how another day is passed in the office...

I give I get but do I feel anymore??

If people are coming to work excited . . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . if they're having fun . . . if they're concentrating doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders -Robert Townsend

Every leader has his own story of success, failure, belief, struggle, motivation and inspiration, so do I have it all.. I had it even when I was working in this big IT giant, where my work was appreciated by all. I was working in a banking domain project, joined as an associate engineer, with all thoughts of proving myself, my capabilities, my calibre. Was filled with enthusiam and pumped with gushing blood in my veins to set standards for myself and for others. I was an outstanding student throughout my studies. I completed my graduation and masters with all thoughts to live and enjoy my life great time in this silicon world. Where profession becomes part of you and you become part of it. Where there is no end of success stories, no end of mamoth remuneration, tremendous onsite opportnities; where you keep on flying, work and enjoy, all on company's expenses. Where you see these huge corporate buildings, towers, with shinny glasses and large cubicals. Its the place in which i always dreamt to be.

With all my great efforts and ability to understand the domain, I kept going on in my career without looking back. I got promoted as a Sr. Associate Engineer in no longer time. My management always trusted me being responsible and the initiaves I took for the completion of various projects I worked in.

Then there was a new client, who gave our company a huge contract. Management trusted upon me once again and handed over this new assignment. Oh wow... I was a lead now! I built my own team, got knowledge transfer done. Sat with the business development team, gathered the requirements, did analysis, created proof of concepts and created several presentations. I was called for onsite training for business understanding where I got the exposure of working closely with the business users. Oh gosh... it feels so amazing when you work with the people, who will be using the application made by you. I would be saving their so much money by handing them over such an efficient application, which will save them so much time and will develop and increase their business many folds. Then I came back to train my team and our days started to become shorter and nights also started to become the part of it... then the workload started consuming our weeknds and we were left with no space to even breathe in a lill' air. Be it toughest of the times, my team always supported me with their best. We always thought we have been doing so well... but management had their own views about it.. Things started to turn the other way. Our efforts were ignored by calling it lack of effeciency, they said,"you lack time management", they wanted it to be developed overnight... "how is it possible, if someone can tell me that!!", i spoke to my team. We all started to give out all what we were left with, but still, escalations from client ripped it all... client started to blame the management. My manager's poor estimates and commitments paid the price by taking my and few other team member's jobs. They recruited a new guy who could handle and clean all this shit, which my manager did, so that my manager could play safe and save his ass. Few others who had some good PR, got shifted in some other project. I was asked to hand over all documents, knowledge and understanding, I gained and developed in past one year in this project to the new guy and was asked to leave...

Oh did I ever thought that company was also facing recession?? Was I so much into my work that I completely ignored the fact that be it any place politics has its presence everywhere?? Later I came to know that the middle management had always benefitted from my work. My manager also recieved the recognition for saving the project. Serveral stories were made behind me that I was never a performer, management gave me a chance to prove my existence and thats why they gave me that project... it ripped me into pieces. Recession started to bliss me with its love... There were no jobs in the market. Every company showed me no vacancies or kept my resume on hold, consultants never turned back.. All my dreams shattered in pain. Several years of my dedication gave me nothing in return at the end.. But may be it was not the end of it...

"Every leader has his own story of success, failure, belief, struggle, motivation and inspiration, so do I have it all.."

I have it all even now, I, without wasting a single moment, enrolled in a professional course. Cracked lot of certifications and got this new job in this huge IT giant, where my work will be appreciated by all.

Today was my first day, I filled new recuit forms for almost half of the day... Now I remember my name, address and date of birth so well that i can write it without even thinking of it; the most boring day of anyone's life. But for me, it was not a boring day, I had a job with me today. I still remember all what I went through and with all those memories I met my hiring manager.. He introduced this new lead to his team. I was so excited to see my new team. After that he called me to his cabin and told me that mangement recruited me to replace the existing lead, him being under-performer, and I should take handover of knowledge base from him ASAP. I went to the lead and asked him as what was instructed to me. I was not able to see into his eyes. But then I didn't bother myself much because now I was here for some business, as i had already learnt alot from my experiences. Now things are different, may be because 'its not me' anymore.

Introducing Myself...

I dont have much to start with for my first ever blog. Generally, there is suppose to be a huge opening for the first blog, that, what inspired me to write this blog, why I actually thought of becoming a blogger, why it has xyzz title and blah blah etc etc.. For me, it is just an opportunity or another way of speaking out my heart and my mind.

To give a little introduction about myself, I am 'Anjan' aka Jonny Debb (my didi gave me this name), I really love my these two names as much as I love myself. I love a little humor in life. I try to keep chill as much as possible. I consider myself a little creative too... which actually adds guitar, piano, flute, colors, crayons, soft pastels, charcoal and graphite pencils, canvas, walls, sculptures, a camera (my fav) and food to my life.. I love good food, and if food is not good, I dunn swallow it. I love my family, which includes mom, dad, two bros, both married, two cute nieces, a sweet girlphrend and lots of memories. So all these little pieces make up life complete but doesn't it sound a lill' simple...??? To add a spice in my life, I have lots of frnds. When I said 'lots', its actually not the number but alot is what they mean to me :) . I love living my life KINGSIZE, so, I do all what makes me happy and feel better. To tell about my profession, I am an IT professional, who has several years of experience in various business domains and technologies. And on top of everything I am a simple human being, who never stops dreaming, loves healthy humor and not at al political with views.

Here I would be writing most about my past experiences, memories, latest in life, adventures which made my life adventurous :P and something which has nothing to do with me at all :) . The idea of putting this blog's name as 'its not me..' and site's URL 'itsnotanjan' have its own feel.. Here it will not be me as a person, i.e. Anjan, but here I will be a mangoman (ek aam aadmi) who will narrate his experiences in his own way. Hope, those who know me already, will also know dis dimension of me as well.. where, i might be an entirely different person by views, attitude and ways. Where as, those who really don't kno me, would never be able to know, what a person I actually am :) . Even by now, I have confused myself too much..

I hope you people will really enjoy reading me further.

I appreciate your time, which you have wasted reading my first blog.

Please do not waste it further by putting invaluable comments on my first post.

Take care, keep well and go out, get yourself some life!! ;)

Love me loads even if, its not me ;)