Good time flies…
..And standing on the verge of my 432 weeks long association
with Amdocs I shall be the apt most person to say so.
I can still remember my first day at Amdocs when a young boy
just out of his college, walked in, only to find everything larger than life,
yet real, yet poised. I would be untrue to myself if I don’t confess it that
initially I found all you alienated,
but sooner than later, I turned one.
I had my share of sweet and sour here, but what kept me
going was the fact that the second derivation of my knowledge graph almost
always remained negative (attaining local maxima). Say it professional, say it
technical, say it business or say it just be mere art of surviving, I was
ending each day being better than yesterday. In the course, I was fortunate
enough to have met some really inspiring and motivating personas, some of them
will keep me inspired for a lifetime, undoubtedly.
I also take it as my sheer luck to have intermingled and be
mentored by some of the sharpest minds working for the industry. I have witness
such beautifully done code (and contributed my bit to it), almost poetic, of
SOM, MEC, BSC, SmallCell, GAMMA, DOP and SFO. If coding is making music, (to
me) DOP deserves a Grammy. And the best of all, amongst all this, is that I
managed to make many good friends around and many more professional
acquaintance here. Hope to keep hearing about your well-being, goodness and
progress in future too.
Amdocs also took me to different lands, each weaving stories
and experiences I would surely treasure for long. Be it that 2 AM frisking in
Tel Aviv or that being lost in a shanty Mexican town, each trip had, in some or
the other way, turned adventurous. I have returned home being more awesome a
person, from each of those.
It’s already good past mid-day here and someone is already
standing behind me take away my armor (my workstation). Soon I will be history,
but before that is done and I’m found listed in “there was one” list, I want to
end my swan song with something that will probably be a summing up of all
running in me, right now.
सोचां था तेरे नारंगी रंग में अपना क्षितिज ढूँढ लूँगा,
पर शायद मेरे आस्मां को अभी रंगों की जरूरत और भी है |
PS: A big thanks also goes out to the chefs in Amdocs
kitchens for keeping me healthily fed, the housekeeping staff for keeping my
place clean and sparkling always and the drivers of my morning 0812 Hrs. bus to
Amdocs for making “the bus” as the thing of my mornings that runs with a time
precision of minutes.
