January, 2003:
It was my engineering final year, campus was abuzz and everybody was hopeful and anxious since its placement time. CSE people have more opportunities naturally and we kept hearing about the companies that might visit the campus this year.
Finally the first company was announced. India’s largest software services company it is. We were running idhar udhar figuring out about the aptitude test and psychometric test. Some enterprising souls got hold of yester year papers and circulated xerox copies among the batch mates. I dug out my ANSI-C and RDBMS books and started revising them. For a while all we could think of was “what is polymorphism?”, “differences between structures and classes” etc.
The agonizing wait was over and finally the D-day arrived. After initial screening and some confusion with “who-got-short-listed-and-who-didn’t” my sweetheart and I sat for the aptitude test. The test was over even before we could vomit all that we have learnt in the last 21 or so years. Hoping for the best we came out and waited in the classroom along with others.
The results came, and they were disastrous. I got short listed for the interview, she didn’t. But the part happiness was short lived as I couldn’t clear the next round. All the hopes of working together after college and dreams of MNC pampered treatment were shattered to say the least. Especially this company had been one of the most wanted for both of us. But…
It was a different story that we both ended up working together albeit for a startup in Vizag for a year before I left to do my MBA from IIM Indore later in 2004.
Now:
Life can be mysterious; sometimes understanding it can be so futile and meaningless thing to do. I ended up joining the same company I dreamt of joining as a young engineer after my MBA as an analyst. While on the other end, she has finished 3 years with that start up and waiting to relocate to Chennai at the earliest so that we can plan for the marriage.
And then, one fine Sunday she arrived in Chennai in the hopes of attending an interview with Accenture. But since the interview center is far from city, I asked her to attend a walk-in happening in my office instead, soon we were inside the campus and she started clearing a round after another.
Yesterday, she received the offer letter from the company. Even though we both knew that she already made it, the offer letter spelt huge joy for both of us. Realizing a three and half year old dream, Aaah… What a joy!
Here is to you, the love of my life:
Congratulations
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!