June 28 , 2004 :- One of those happiest days in my life, that i achieved my dream.. Yes im an employee of Infosys Technologies, India. The Dream Employer in India...

July 18, 2007 :- A day with mixed emotions.....  Me with confused mind.. Should i be sad for the reason that im leaving infosys, apprehensive for the reason how am i going to be treated in my next company or happy for the reason that im going to be a part of another successful organisation?

Its around 3 years and 21 days of my life at Infosys, My first job.  Always those first things are more of your love, passion and everything... a lot of things were learnt, a lot of things were experienced.... good / bad everything....

I was in love with my company Infosys technologies...  i thought that i  belong more to infosys... Infosys gave me a lot of things... money, promotions, position etc.. however why did i take this decision??? Is it because of the fact that I started thinking that i could do something better in this world????

So how were my last days??  - yep.. last days are one of those very delicate ones.. I decided to put my best efforts and show that im one of those star performers for them one last time..  clocked an average of 10-11 hours in office...  however i know that all these performances are going to be forgotten..it is not going to mean anything after july 18...  However that lingering desire of showing one last time how effective I was.. how precious I am... and that burning desire in me to leave that one last good impact...

Last day I could see my colleagues bidding me a farewell.. I was happy.. I had the same enthu that i had on june 28,2004.. Because this is the first time im experiencing on 'Leaving the job'.. found it interesting to fill up documents... had certain emotions when surrendering my ID card ... however it was a new expereience...

Drafting my Last day mail was one of those best performance that i had to give.. went through N number of odd Last day mails on how people write it down on their last day and trying to differentiate among them.. yeaah the same lingering desire to show that im different and definitely valuable....

could not digest the fact that i will not be with those people who were around  me then... i will not have people who will report to me... i will not have people who will call me for a coffee .... I will not have people who will request my time for some professional or personal suggestions...

However i loved that day... because its a new experience for me...   My colleagues presented me their parting gift  and one of the senior colleagues showered some words of praise on me..  good... Finally went on to say that much awaited Thanks and all the best to all of my colleagues and left the campus....  receiving SMS from colleagues of they missing me in the campus... :-)

So... where im headed to.. what is that , that persuaded me to take this heavy hearted decision...  Will write about it in my later [updated] post........

[UPDATED]: i have joined Microsoft R&D India Pvt Ltd., as a Developer. Joining Microsoft was my dream and thank God i achieved it :-)