Year 2014 Log

Year 2014 Log

Jan:

Applied passport for mom.

overhaul dental treatment for Mom with Vasan Dental care, Hyderabad.

Also mom is treated for neural problem at Continental hospital ,Hyderabad.

Feb:

Preparing for Hadoop developer exam.

Also exploring various opportunities to find Job in Sydney from India.

Sunil's marriage.

Mar:

Bought new laptop Y510P  on flipkart.

Passed Hadoop developer exam.

Got dental fillings for four tooth from Partha dental care.

Visited Jalavihar and Snow world.

Apr:

LWD with Verizon and CSC.

Applied for Mama and Atha passport.

Bhayya's marriage got fixed.

Postponed Sydney travel from 1st May to 18th May.

Vacated the rented house in Hyderabad.

May:

Bhayya's  marriage got cancelled.

Elections in AP .I voted.

Arrived in Sydney .

Bought a new lycamobile simcard.

Lost all my cash in Taxi on my way room from Airport. Fortunately Cab company collected it and handed over to me.

Started with Job search in Sydney.

Jun:

Busy with job search.

Prepared menthi pappu on my own for the first time.

Attended Delacon company written test.

Opened Bank account with CBA ,Westfield.

Applied for Medicare card.

Booked DKT online exam slot with Parramatta Service center.

Dad's fifth death anniversary.

Bought Opal card online.

Jul:

Joined Delacon ( My first job in Australia)

Visited Opera house along with Sathish and Partha for the first time.

Received my medicare card.

Visited Sydney murugan temple.

Booked flight tickets for Suchi and Sammu.

Transferred 6.4 lakhs to Rainbow vistas.

 

Aug:

Received my first salary in Australia.

Busy with search of house for renting as the family will be arriving in September.

Finally found house on O'connell St  for renting.

Sep:

Moved to rented house .

Internet connection is setup

Busy with buying and setting up things for house

Suchi and Sammu arrived Sydney from Bangalore.

Watched Aagadu movie at Auburn cinema theatre.

Visited Opera house this time with family.

Visited Flemington vegetables market along with family.

My Birthday on 30th.

Oct:

Suchi's Birthday on 1st.

Celebrated Samanvi's Birthday.

Attended Parramasala event at Parramatta park.

Celebrated Deepavali.

Obtained CBA credit card.

Nov:

Visited Sydney darling harbour along with Suchi and Sammu.

Fought with bedbugs. They created some sleeping and itching disturbance.

Visited VFS center various times for obtaining IDLV certificate.

Dec:

Received IDLV  certificate.

Finalized the preschool for Samanvi.

Two immunisation  injections given to Sammu. 3 more are still due to be up todate  as per Australian Government.

Hostage crisis at MartinPlace, Sydney.

Visited Strathfield Saibaba temple for the first time.

Pregnancy confirmed for Suchi.

My contract with Delacon got renewed for another 6 months.

Baby girl for Sunil.

Transferred 1lakh to my Indian account.This is first saving transfer after coming to Australia.

Visited HelensBerg Venkateswara Temple.

Summary : This year will be remembered for my migration to Australia. The first part of the year I spent busily with preparation for migration to Australia. Next half  I was busy with job search in Sydney and settling down with  family. Finally year ended on sweet note as the pregnancy confirmed for Suchi.

Results Review of Year 2014

Results for the year 2014

I had 25  point plan for year 2014. Considering each point carries 4 weightage (100/25=4) this is what I scored with regard to my Plan.

1.Dynamic involvement with Business-Family-Career .(a)Passports (b) Health checkup (c) GoTo vibration 

Result: Passports are acquired. Involved in considerable health checkup for Mom

Score:2

2.Take care of Suchi and Sammu.(a) celebrations and surprises.(b) Insurance and Investment instruments

Score:1

3.Focus on career (with GGL mode )

Result: Acquired  hadoop certification.Mongodb certification.Chosen and invested time in learning bigdata and datascience.

Score:3

4.Digital Data Backup Plan .  ( a) Use cloud storage  (b) prepare a plan for regular backup

-->Photos from phone auto backedup. And all documents are put on cloud storage.Need to organize them.

score:3

5.Jogging and Yoga or any physical activity min of 30 mins a day. Make this habit.

Score:1

6.Pay installments  of house at  Hyderabad.

-->Paid the needed amount so far. Installement has not started

score:4

7.To Become Cooking Expert . (a)  Pappu and  Rasam  (b) 3 tiffins (c) 3 curries  (d) Chapathi

Score:1

8.Site seeing and going out regularly.

Score :1

9.To make brother leave smoking habit and get him marry.

Score:0

10.To make English Movie viewing habit for Suchi.

Score: 2

11.Become expert in handycam video editing.Prepare atleast one video and upload to youtube

Score: 0

12.Family tree prepare. More complete

Score: 1

13.Find the recreation and alternate activity for Suchi . May be a  Job

Score:0

14.Get to the weight of 78kg . Below 80 kg is also a success.

Score:0

15.Getting Job and settling with Family in Australia .(a)Selling Household Items (b) Getting Job  (c) Settling with Family

Score:4

16.Plan for making more money. (a)Should create a plan . (b)Tracking of investment,income, property

Score:0

17.Movie making. (a) Learn Script Writing skill (b) Movie Ideas store process

Score :0

18:10k run participation ( Should complete 10km in reasonably good timing regularly)

Score: 0

19.Certifications : Hadoop and any Java . (Total 2 certifications minimum)

Score :4

20.Photo Album for Dad . May be as per TimeLine. Should think of similar thing for Mom.

Score:0

21.Learning areas : English skills (a) Make KT sessions a habit  (b) Ability to understand english movies (c) Read news paper and comprehend quickly (d) Write blogs or  movie scripts regularly

score:1

22.Learning areas : Leadership  (a) Read any one book completely  (b) Open in expressing opinions (c) Prepare a  list of followers  and prove the skills against them (d) Become a leader at home and office  (e) Motivator and Energizer

23.Learning areas : Active Participation in building Network (a) LinkedIn (b) Facebook (c) GooglePlus  (d) phone (e) Regular meets ups personally

score:1

24.Learning areas : Discipline in daily routine (a) Must Include time for Learning, Gym and other Plan related activies daily  (b) Measure  progress on 

monthly basis and give rating (c) Now Habit (d) ToDos 

 (e) Quick and Prompt with work (f)  List any ToDo under plan item and record  it in Results Log 2014

Score:1

25.Plan for second Kid 

Score:4

Total:   10+8+5+8+7=38/100

November 2014 Log

November 2014 Log

<1st>
<2nd>
Visited Darling harbour
<3rd>
<4th>
Received call that parcel reached sydney.
<5th>
<6th>
Received the parcel today.
Though it was a long delay everything is intact with the parcel.
<7th>
-->Visited Surya's house
-->Bought a gift.
-->Watched 'Current Theega' movie online
<8th>
-->Attended the Birthday function of  Suchi's friend's son.
-->Got the chance to meet many telugu families
-->Also met Goutham's relative Sashi
<9th>
-->Did shopping at Udaya super market.
<10th>
-->Visited VFS center for submitting the application for 'affidavit attestation'.
-->Appliction got received.
<11th>
<12th>
-->TPG internet rollover
<13th>
<14th>
-->Affidavit attestation application seems to have processed. Received SMS on that.
Watched 'Anamika' online.
<15th>
-->Cleaned spare bed for bedbugs.
-->TPG mobile plan rollover
Watched 'Pathasala' online.
<16th>
-->Cleaned Sofa for bedbugs
-->watched 'lovers' movie online
-->Visited HarrisPark and Wentworthville for shopping
<17th>
Collected affidavit from VFS.
Submitted IDLV application for preapproval.
<18th>
<19th>
<20th>
<21st>
<22nd>
<23rd>

<24th>
<25th span="">
<26th>
<27th>
Vfs application for IDLV is preapproved. Hence visited agaian to submit original license
<28th>
Suchi and Sammu visited Argyle St  medical  center for immunisation information update.
<29th>
Research on centerlink benefits
<30th>
-->Chicken biryani at home.
--> used 549 bus for the first time to go to westfield from house.
-->woolworths shopping.

October 2014 log

October 2014 log

<1st>
Suchi's Birthday.
Assembled computer desk.
<2nd>
Disabled addon bundle on TPG phone
<3rd>
<4th>
<5th>
<6th>
<7th>
<8th>
<9th>
<10th>
<11th>
<12th>
<13th>
<14th>
<15th>
<16th>
<17th>
<18th>
<19th>
-->Visited Parramatta park.
-->Also visited Parramasala event.Fireworks are good.
<20th>
<21st>
<22nd>
Received salary today
<24>
Celebrated Deepavali
<24th>
Visited VFS services.
Need to make new Affidavit for name diffrence
<25th>
<26th>
-->Visited Parramatta park in the evening
<27th>
-->Bought ovulation kit
<28th>
Went for jogging in the morning.
Received credit card today.
<29th>
<30th>
<31st>
Bhayya posted my affidavit through DTDC today.

September 2014 log

September 2014 log

<1st> 
-->Initiated the TPG  ADSL2+Homephone connection
-->Opal Recharge done.
<2nd>
-->
<3rd>
<4th>
<5th>
Bed is delivered today.
Met the softlabs HR once today.
<6th>
Moved to new house Unit 4 58 Oconnell St
Assembelled my bed with Partha's help.
Washing machine leakage at Partha's house.

<7th>
Bought some items from Kmart.
Ordered Kogan TV.
<8th>
Bought some items from Kmart.
<9th>
<10th>
Assembelled bed for Partha
<11th>
Bought some items for Sammu
<12th>
Suchi and Sammu catching the flight to Sydeney from Bangalore.
Suchi got into plane for the first time.
Used washing machine for the first time.
Looks like kogan TV delivary is attempted today.
<13th>
<14th>
<15th>
<16th>
<17th>
<18th>
<19th>
Watched Agadu movie.
<20th>
Did some shopping at westfield.
<21st>
Family visited opera house along with Partha family.
<22nd>
Suchi prepared lunch box.
Missed my opal card somewhere.
Applied for Suchi TFN.
<23rd>
Got Salary today
Suchi and Sammu applied for medicare card.
Myself applied for new opal card.
<24th>
<25th span="">
<26th>
Tpg internet started working at home
<27th>
Visited Flemington market with family.
<28th>
Fish curry at home.
Some shopping at westfield
<29th>
<30th>
My Birthday
Bought TV Stand , computer desk, chair from KMart

August 2014 Log

August 2014 log

<1st>
<2nd>
-->House search
<3rd>
<4th>
<5th>
-->Received the first salary(AUD 3920) today in account.
<6th>
<7th>
<8th>
-->Wished Seenu on his Birthday.
<9th>
-->House search
-->Visited Udaya super market at wentworthville along with Partha
<10th>
-->sathish, partha and myself visited Darling Harbour
<11th>
-->Filled tenancy applications for 2 houses. will apply tomorrow
<12th>
<13th>
<14th>
<15th>
<16th>
-->House Search in Parramatta
<17th>
-->Weekend Groceries shopping at Westfield and Redhe
<18th>
-->Forgot my mobile at home
-->Rainy day.
<19th>
--> Interview scheduled with Coles on coming Monday

<20th>
<21st>
<22nd>
<23rd>
House search: visited 7 houses
<24th>
Sunday applied for all visited houses
<25th>
--> 4/58 Oconnell St house application got accepted.
--> Initiated the transfer of $420
<26th>
--> as the transfer failed reinitiated the transfer.
<27th>
--> Got my second salary $2814
<28th>

<29th>

-->Vinayaka Chavithi
<30th>

-->Signed the rental lease agreement( Paid $2100 )

-->Went Prospect to buy Bed and Matress($1145)

-->On the way back visited Karthik( Partha 's friend ) house and had lunch there.

-->Fritz and washing machine delivered today in the evening

<31st>

--->Partha shifted to his new house. Helped him with the shift

July 2014 Log

July 2014 log

 <1st> 

-->Enquired with NSW RMS service center on driving license application process

-->I need to obtain letter from Karnataka RTO and then certificate from Indian embassy in Sydney before taking up the test here

<2nd>
<3rd>

-->Signed the contract with Delacon and sent them the signed copy.

-->Bought TripView App for $4

-->Bought Pulihora paste today
<4th>
<5th>

Satish and myself ate Prawn Biryani at Anjappar
<6th>

-->Visited Opera House along with Satish, Partha

-->Paid rent to joseph=$380
<7th>

-->First day at office at Delacon
<8th>

-->Received my medicare card

-->Second day at office at Delacon

<9th>

-->Third day at office at Delacon

<10th>

-->Fourth day at office at Delacon

<11th>

-->Last day of  the First Week at Work.

-->Called today=Goutham
<12th>

-->Bought Multivitamin tablets today

-->Signed up for TPG prepaid sim ,so that I can use 3G broadband connection

-->Called today=MK Reddy, Mahendra, Vijay, Rajiv, Desai,
<13th>

-->Visited Sydney Murugan temple

-->Booked flight tickets for Suchi and Sammu.
<14th>
<15th>
<16th>

-->Received TPG sim
<17th>
<18th>
<19th>

-->myself and Partha visited DFO at Homebush Bay
<20th>

-->Shifted the house another joseph apt
<21st>

-->Monday
<22nd>

-->Rent paid to Joseph($380)
<23rd>
<24th>
<25th>

-->Talked to Vikram today.
<26th>

-->Visited Flemington Market
<27th>

-->Sunday

-->Lunch at Anjappar

-->Groceries at woolsworth and Radhe

-->Ordered external harddisk at ebay
<28th>

-->day at office

-->Transferred 5 Lakhs to Rainbow Vistas
<29th>

-->Day at office

-->Ramzan day. Could not transfer balance 1.40 lakhs to Rainbow vistas
<30th>

-->Could not transfer 1.4 lakhs as RTGS minimum limit is 2 lakhs. So added CYBERHOMES as NEFT beneficiary

-->ebay courier will be delivered to new address.
<31st>

June 2014 Log

 June 2014 log

<1st> 

->Today is Sunday.

-->Rainy day.

-->Had Non Veg Thali at  Billu Restaurant
<2nd>

-->Day at home.

-->Completed coding exercise for one of the companies.

-->Did video chat with Suchi and Sammu. It is first video chat after coming to Australia
<3rd>

-->Prepared 'Menthi Pappu' for the first today.

-->Visited Surya in the evening and colled money from him.

-->Vaibhav gave hint about acquiring SailPoint skills to resume.

     Received material from him.
<4th>

-->Visited Delacon company for written test in the morning.

      Test went for 1 hour.Came back from Bondi Junction by 11AM.

-->Opened Commonwealth Bank account at Westfield,Parramatta branch.
<5th>

-->Sreekanth bhayya recharged by ThomasCook prepaid card for AUD2000 ( 1,13,600 INR)
<6th>

-->Went to visit paxus consultant at NorthSydney. He gave some tips for interview with CBA
<7th>

-->Today is Saturday

-->Went out to property inspection (for Vaibhav)

-->Did some shopping at westfield mall
<8th>

-->Today is Sunday.
<9th>

-->Public holiday on account of queen's birthday.
<10th>

-->Attended CBA interview at 11AM.

-->Met Sreedhar at Medicare service center in Parramatta westfield mall.

-->Visited his house in North Parramatta and came back home by 330PM.
<11th>

-->Bought umbrella in Kmart of westfield mall.

-->Attended Delacon interview at 5PM
<12th>

-->Applied for Medicare card at Parramatta medicare service center
<13th>
<14th>

-->Today is Saturday

-->Watched Chile vs Austalia Football(Soccerose )match in the morning

-->Bought a shampoo bottle in evening.
<15th>

-->Today is Sunday
<16th>

-->Locksmith fixed the bathroom lock today.

-->Bough milk and bread from Radhe

-->Sammu went to school today. Today is firstday of school after summer holidays.

-->Booked my slot for DKT test. It costs me $48.
<17th>

<18th>
<19th>

-->Delacon HR got back to me asking for the references.

-->Attended the meeting with softlabs on their services being offered.
<20th>

-->Got interview scheduled with Symbio networks on the coming Thursday.

-->Took a Demo session on Adobe CQ5 today. It was good.
<21st>

-->Saturday

-->Purchased Jerkin (AUD 105)
<22nd>

-->Sunday 

-->Gave rent to Joseph( 2weeks advance of AUD380)

-->Included Magnolia skill in my resume and applied for 3 jobs.

<23rd>

<24th>
<25th>

-->Got my hair cut

-->Bought some grossories
<26th>

-->Dad's 5th death anniversary.

-->Got the confirmation for job with Delacon for $315 per day. Yet to get the offer letter

-->Attended Interview with Symbio Networks today
<27th>

-->Prepared Pappu today.It is sucess

-->Bought Grossories from Radhe

<28th>

-->Saturday

-->Bought Opal Card online today
<29th>

-->Sunday
<30th>
-->Attended interview with Sydney Trains.Useless one I believe.

-->Met Pavan(Sreek bhayya's friend) at Sydney Trains office.

May 2014 log

 May 2014 log

<1st>
<2nd>
<3rd>

-->Sreekanth Bhayya arrived at Tadipatri this morning.

-->Bhayya and myself went to Bukkaraya Samudram today.

     Bhayya expressed his disinterest in this marriage today in the return journey.
<4th>
<5th>

-->Bhayya took the final decision for the cancellation of the marriage.

<6th>
<7th>

Polling Day at Andhrapradesh today.
<8th>

-->Discussion on marriage cancellation agreement happened today
<9th>

-->Dicussion culminated by reaching the agreement today.

Though it was not justified, we had to pay 8.5 lakhs for the settlement.
<10th>
<11th>
<12th>

-->Marriage cancellation agreement is signed and got complete today.

-->AP Municipal results are out. YSRCP lost the fray to TDP
<13th>

-->AP Parishat (MPTC,ZPTC) results are out. YSRCP came close behind TDP

<14th>
<15th>

<16th>

-->General Elections results are out today

-->TDP won the elections.YSRCP gave tough fight
<17th>

-->Left for Bangalore to catch flight
<18th>

->Flight start time 12:45 IST

-->Flight reached Kaulalampur at 8AM (Malasia time)

-->Flight reached Sydney by 7 PM  (Sydney time)

-->Reached accommodation in Sydney through Taxi by 830PM

-->Bought Lyca Mobile sim today it self at Harris Park
<19th>

-->Went out in the evening to eat Hyderabadi Lamb Biryani at Harris Park

-->Bought Toilet rolls
<20th>

-->Got to know that  thomas cook cash is found in Taxi.

-->I need to collect the cash from Lost and Found dept of the Taxi Company.

-->recharged Lyca mobile for AUD 20 and changed the plan to AsiaPlus

-->Also created voipraider account and recharged it for AUD 10

-->Met Surya in the evening at Harris Park

-->Bought Rice and Tur Dal
<21st>

-->Left in the morning around 9:30 to collect the cash from Taxi Company by train

     It is my first Sydney train experience.It is very simple and easy travel

-->Taxi company returned the thomas cook cover.But the cash they will only deliver by cheque.

     They will be sending that to me for the address provided by me.

-->Also contacted Pratap today.

-->Taked to Sridhar at lenght. He gave me the tips and the first things that I need to do .

-->Applied TFN (Tax File Number ) online

-->Went out to westfield to open account in Common Wealth Brnank.By the time I reached timeout for the day for the bank.
<22nd>

-->Went out in the evening to buy sugar,milk and eggs
<23rd>

-->Received a  few calls today

-->Visited Surya's house in the evening.

-->Handed over his luggage and recived cash of AUD500 from him.

-->Had dinner at Surya's house itself and slept in the night there itself.
<24th>

-->came back to room in the morning by 8:30 AM

-->Studying day
<25th div="">

-->Today is Sunday

-->Went out for lunch to eat Chicken Biryani along with another guy Satish

-->Bought some items at Radhe supermarket

-->Watched TV for an hour in the night.
<26th>

-->Second week starts for me in Sydney

-->Got 2 calls for consultants for Hadoop developer positions
<27th>

-->Breakfast is Bread+Omlette(plain)

-->Prepared Omlette with onions today for lunch.Lunch is Rice+Ground Nut Powder+Omlette+Curd

-->Went out in the evening to buy some items for preparing Dal
<28th>

-->Bread-Jam for breakfast

-->Lunch at Pratap's house in the afternoon

-->Reached Pratap's house by bus.

-->Recieved my Australian TFN today.

<29th>

-->Surya got hospitalised today for viral fever.

-->Visited WestMead hospital in the afternoon. Surya is recovering

-->Reached home in the evening from hospital by bus
<30th>
<31st>

-->Saturday

April 2014 log

 April 2014 log

<1st>
<2nd>
<3rd>
<4th>
<5th>
<6th>
<7th>
<8th>
<9th>
<10th>
<11th>

-->My LWD at Verizon and CSC

-->Met Vijay in the evening

-->Bhayya Tx 3lakhs to HDFC  a/c and 2 lakhs to Citi A?C
<12th>

-->Booked Passport Slot for Mama and Atha
<13th>
<14th>
<15th>

-->Postponed my Sydney travel from 1st May to 18th May
<16th>
<17th>

-->I did my shopping at  Shopper's Stop
<18th>
<19th>

-->visited designer shop for Samanvi's dress
<20th>
<21st>

-->Mama and Atha applied for passport today

--> Luggage packed and  loaded by Packers today bounded to Tadipatri and Bangalore
<22nd>

--> Mama and Atha left for Tadipatri

-->Watched Rio2 movie
<23rd>

-->Last day at rented  house at Hyd. Stayed at Hyd for 2 years

-->Suchi , Sammu and myself left for Tadipatri from Hyderabad today
<24th>

-->Engagement Day for Sreekanth Bhayya at BukkarayaSamudram.
<25th>

-->Car Battery for Indica is replaced.

<26th>

-->Gave order for marriage cards print

<27th>
<28th>
<29th>

-->Painting Day 1
<30th>
-->Deposited 70k in my  hdfc account at Tadipatri

-->Bought Inverter trolley

-->Painting Day 2

-->Polling Day in Telangana

March 2014 log

March 2014 log

-->D-Mart shopping 
<2nd>
-->Bought  HadoopExam simulator for Rs2500/-
-->Visited Uma/Raju's house in the evening.
<3rd>
<4th>
-->Mom arrived Hyd today
<5th>
<6th>
-->Mom's dental doctor appointment today.
<7th>
-->Mama and Atha arrived Hyd today
<8th>
<9th>
<10th>
<11th>
<12th>
<13th>
-->Received new laptop from flipkart: Lenovo Ideapad Y510p
<14th>
<15th>
<16th>
<17th>
-->Appeared for the hadoop developer certification exam.
-->Passed the exam with 78% of marks
<18th>
<19th>
<20th>
<21st>
-->Got my 4 tooth fillings replaced at Partha Dental Hospital.
<22nd>
<23rd>
-->Gave both car and bike for servicing.
<24th>
-->Watched 'Raja rani' movie at CiniPolis KPHB
<25th span="">
<26th>
<27th>
<28th>
<29th>
Visited Jalavihar and Snowworld
Watched Legend movie.

<30th>
Left for Tadipatri
<31st>
Ugadi day.