Little Things in Life

 Hey, This is Pavan. Once again, I don't know where I have been lost for so long without a post here. It's September already. Now, let's get to the updates. It's been just about 3 months that I have joined in Walmart at Bentonville, Arkansas. I don't know how the past few months went by and I am glad to have joined this team. Very friendly one and I can notice a significant difference than that of SAP. To be honest, I didn't feel like I was part of the team when I was at SAP. May be because, I was not seen at the same level compared to that of team and there's this feeling that you are being monitored. Quite a few differences and I am sure it would have brought best of me but may be not the sense of cohesiveness with team. However, I do miss some wonderful people apart from Project environment but isn't it commonality of life. Hmm, what else.  When it comes to stay, I am staying in a 2 bed 2 bath apartment alone and since I don't own a car it is quit...

There were times when I was worried of what lies ahead but from some time I am relaxing and relieved in a sense because there is a clarity of what lies ahead and I feel sense of accomplishment for the struggle. I am happy to announce that I have accepted SDE3 position in Walmart @ Bentonville, Arkansas. I got my OPT EAD Card and will start to work again from May 25, 2020 which is exactly a month after my internship ends here at SAP. Despite all the positives, world is not a happy place at the moment because of COVID-19 and the seriousness it poses to elderly. World economy is hit very hard and industries such as hospitality and travel are severely impacted. People are sticking to homes and companies asking employees to work from home and consumer's are not going to spend and it impacts most of the retail businesses. Shortly, What I am trying to say is that World is not happy in terms of health and economy (people lose jobs) but hopefully situations will turn out better in an y...

This is my first post in 2020. It's already end of February and what's up so far. This year began with a slight uneasiness because of the unexpected future that is ahead of me. Getting excited about an internal opportunity and consoling worried heart. Nimish left to Houston in January and things getting serious and here I stand without an offer yet in hand. One fine day I was worried and reached out to people I know and because of which I got one call for which I gave the interview, hoping for some positive news ahead. Sometimes, I feel bogged down with the kind of uncertainty that I have to deal with while saying to myself that I have nothing to be afraid of or lose. Yet, you know there is always this feeling. Anyway, I am not that down but kind of hoping never to be in this situation. One or the other way, I will find what I want. Apart from that everything else is fine, missed a trip to ski in Poconos because of an interview while at the same time, I am saving money. R...

Hey this is Pavan, Experiences either good or bad define and shape who you are. I had many in 2019. To begin with, leaving Nelson and Cincinnati for Philadelphia, First Job in US, Trips to Poconos, Shenandoah and random outings with friends to Philly downtown, Round One, Barnabys, New Jersey, New York. Not to forget the difficulties of leaving and independent life for an extended period and not to rely emotionally on anyone. This was my 2019. Many of my goals are still in the budding phase and hope to have an exceptional 2020. I don't foresee significant changes till May this year but I truly wish to realize my potential. 2019 was amazing, I must admit here that I haven't met my 2019 goals. 1) Learn to Swim (Had an Opportunity at Waterview but didn't utilize) 2) Learn Guitar (Have to buy Guitar but didn't commit because I have a history of buying things and not be able to find time to use the equipment) 3) Work Out (Once in a week is the average but I wish it ...

Hey Pavan here, What am I up to these days. After playing Tekken for a while at Nimish place, I decided to buy the game and started playing. Ordered XBOX controller for PC from Amazon and expecting in 2 days. There are many things that I have to look into but right now enjoying the holidays with good music and games. One of the songs in the loop is Dance Monkey by Tones and I Above one is a cover song by another singer but I don't remember how long this song is in loop. And other one is Bad Guy by Billie These are two latest additions to my library. Apart from PC life, went to barnaby's (Pub) for the first time along with Anoop and Nimish. Work is going well, this week we went to Paula's place (Italian Pizza) for team dinner. Matt said some nice things and asked for my advice to future interns and in a separate call Binu appreciated the work that I have done and said that I exceeded the expectations. Felt good. Forgot to mention, Went to New York. Met Bha...

Today is 26th November 2019 a Tuesday Afternoon at Office. Last Saturday, I played Dota till 2.30 AM and woke up at 9 because of Jay's alarm, I don't know why its on on a Sunday Morning. Sunday, I didn't do anything till noon and cooked egg fried rice did my laundry and cleaned the bathroom. I played Dota and watched little things on Netflix till 3 at night. I know there is work tomorrow but Nah, I don't know what I was thinking. Sowjanya tried to reach me in the evening and I didn't respond till 2 at night and she was mad for obvious reasons. I continued watching Little things on Monday with Marketing assignment due for Thursday but ya went to bed by 11.15 and wasted time on Tiktok till 12.30. Woke up at 7 because of a strange dream. One girl was trying to wake me up by saying Good Morning closer to my ears in a playful way continuously and Kaushal was mad seeing that and said this is not appropriate in a German company. Strange, I don't know what is going o...

Today is November 5th, 2019. It's been more than 2 months since my last post. Much happened in these past 2 months. Let me begin with an unpleasant experience, I found a girl on matrimony and felt that she is the one and spoke continuously for about a week and made several plans for the future. I am not going to talk about details here but in those discussions, I felt she is not the person that I am looking for. There are several reasons which in my opinion are well justified but saying that you don't want to continue without hurting is always a difficult task, at least to me. And the way I said No, may not be justifiable but in the end, I did it anyway. I felt sorry for being rude or insensitive and couldn't stop thinking for about a week but again life moved on. With that aside, things are fine as usual. One good thing that happened is that my roomie got a rented car. Aaargh, not to have a car in US is a pain. Distances are far and nothing is near. I remember how easy ...