After watching my roommate and friend “Amar” in action at New Orleans on last weekend, I decided to write something about him.
He hails from a town called “Jangaon” in the Warangal District. After his birth, his family moved to the glorious city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. So, now he is a habitant of Hyderabad. He speaks fluent Telangana (a famous dialect of Andhra Pradesh).
Though we worked in the same building and for the same company we never met each other when we were in India. I met him for the first time when I came to know that he will be one of the guys whom I have to stay with in US for the next one year.
He addressed me with his trademark ‘shy smile’. My other roommate Srinivasulu was sitting next to Amar and I extended my regards to him too. After our rush for the documents at our travel agent’s desk, we took a break and celebrated our onsite opportunity at “Seventh Heaven” restaurant. Amar paid the money and we (Srinivasulu and I) still owe him that money.
After we landed in US, he paid the cab charges ($200) from Jackson to Hattiesburg and he is now happy as that amount was finally reimbursed by my company.
Amar basically is a complete family man. Both his strength and weakness is his family. Even on his busiest day, he allocates at least 2 hours to chat with his family in India. But at the same time he never stops enjoying by passing some ‘strong’ comments on girls we see on our way to office/home. He is a silent killer. He analyzes peoples ‘attitudes’ with great enthusiasm. Of course, sometimes his analysis about couple of persons failed.
One more interesting fact about him is his smoking habit. He needs a max of two cigarettes per day. And as any other smoker, even he thinks that cigarette relieves him from his stress.
He is habituated to count money in Indian Rupees only. He never thinks that he is earning a $1; instead he thinks and treats it as INR 43. He is very calculative and meticulous person.
He looks like a very common man from India, but his brain is very uncommon. It is full of wide variety of ideas ranging from hair pin to aero plane. He is the most popular guy in BearingPoint’s .NET team at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Lot of youngsters in his team respects his problem solving skills. They love his presence in the team and they never leave a chance to say good things about him in team meetings or conference calls. He is well appreciated.
As his roommate, I see a totally different Amar at home. The moment he steps out of the office he removes his disguise and turns into a very romantic guy. In fact, we realized this fact long back and affirmed this on our trip to New Orleans for the New Year and for the “Mardi Gras”.
Coming to his food habits, he adjusts his diet as per the menu. And he supports this by remembering all the hardships he had went through during his younger days.
He hails from a town called “Jangaon” in the Warangal District. After his birth, his family moved to the glorious city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. So, now he is a habitant of Hyderabad. He speaks fluent Telangana (a famous dialect of Andhra Pradesh).
Though we worked in the same building and for the same company we never met each other when we were in India. I met him for the first time when I came to know that he will be one of the guys whom I have to stay with in US for the next one year.
He addressed me with his trademark ‘shy smile’. My other roommate Srinivasulu was sitting next to Amar and I extended my regards to him too. After our rush for the documents at our travel agent’s desk, we took a break and celebrated our onsite opportunity at “Seventh Heaven” restaurant. Amar paid the money and we (Srinivasulu and I) still owe him that money.
After we landed in US, he paid the cab charges ($200) from Jackson to Hattiesburg and he is now happy as that amount was finally reimbursed by my company.
Amar basically is a complete family man. Both his strength and weakness is his family. Even on his busiest day, he allocates at least 2 hours to chat with his family in India. But at the same time he never stops enjoying by passing some ‘strong’ comments on girls we see on our way to office/home. He is a silent killer. He analyzes peoples ‘attitudes’ with great enthusiasm. Of course, sometimes his analysis about couple of persons failed.
One more interesting fact about him is his smoking habit. He needs a max of two cigarettes per day. And as any other smoker, even he thinks that cigarette relieves him from his stress.
He is habituated to count money in Indian Rupees only. He never thinks that he is earning a $1; instead he thinks and treats it as INR 43. He is very calculative and meticulous person.
He looks like a very common man from India, but his brain is very uncommon. It is full of wide variety of ideas ranging from hair pin to aero plane. He is the most popular guy in BearingPoint’s .NET team at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Lot of youngsters in his team respects his problem solving skills. They love his presence in the team and they never leave a chance to say good things about him in team meetings or conference calls. He is well appreciated.
As his roommate, I see a totally different Amar at home. The moment he steps out of the office he removes his disguise and turns into a very romantic guy. In fact, we realized this fact long back and affirmed this on our trip to New Orleans for the New Year and for the “Mardi Gras”.
Coming to his food habits, he adjusts his diet as per the menu. And he supports this by remembering all the hardships he had went through during his younger days.
These days, by God’s grace he is doing well in all aspects of life and he was blessed with a baby girl (see her in the above picture - Sankeerthana is her name) in last year. He is missing his daughter more than his wife and we can see that special ‘glow’ on his face whenever he speaks about her.
One interesting thing about his family is that there are two “IIM” graduates in his family. I will write more later after identifying more interesting things about this amazing guy.
One interesting thing about his family is that there are two “IIM” graduates in his family. I will write more later after identifying more interesting things about this amazing guy.
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