Hi friends,
My this post is coming after a long time and you know why.. Because I am undergoing my ILP at Trivandrum, and life is really busy here.
Today I would like to share my experiences in Kerala and ILP.
I arrived here at 26 December 2011 and my accomodation was arranged at Kapil Tourist Home, a small guest house in the Kumarapuram area of Trivandrum. Technopark is about 25 kms away from here and the conveyance provided to us is a city carrier (we are given a an Tata Skyline bus.). The bus comes to your hotel depending on your shift timings and picks you back.
I arrived at Kerala with no knowledge of the place and would like to share with you.
If you come by train, you land up at the TVC Central railway station. To reach your accomodation you will have to hire and auto , and later on you will find that autos are the main source of travel in the city.
If you are coming with family members, you would get guest houses near the TVC central railway station.
Once you are settled in your accomodation, there is nothing to worry anything.You just need to arrange for you food, and you will get some restaurant nearby possibly. If you get the executive hostel,, you cant expect anything better because every facility is there.. Girls are mostly accomodated within the TCS campus or near to it.
Once you get on training, days will be mostly hectic and busy.
When you come to kerala for ILP I would advise you to carry some books which may be useful. Some of them are Unix by Sumitabha Das , a J2EE black book (if possible , because it is quite heavy :) ),, Pl/SQL by Ivan Bayross,, and Java by Herbert Schildt. These will be beneficial to you in case you get the Java domain.
For people coming form north my advice is to remain calm with the people of Kerala because their sentiments are different form what ours are. You will find that food is again a lot different because people here eat a lot of beef. At almost every non-veg restaurant you will find beef available.
Don't worry about your groceries beacuse here you will find a popular 'Kerala Margin Free Market' almost everywhere where you will get everything from shampoos, soap, choclates,biscuits,. etc.. and the cost is lower than the MRP in rest of India.
Anyways, nothing to worry.. See you soon at TCS.
My this post is coming after a long time and you know why.. Because I am undergoing my ILP at Trivandrum, and life is really busy here.
Today I would like to share my experiences in Kerala and ILP.
I arrived here at 26 December 2011 and my accomodation was arranged at Kapil Tourist Home, a small guest house in the Kumarapuram area of Trivandrum. Technopark is about 25 kms away from here and the conveyance provided to us is a city carrier (we are given a an Tata Skyline bus.). The bus comes to your hotel depending on your shift timings and picks you back.
I arrived at Kerala with no knowledge of the place and would like to share with you.
If you come by train, you land up at the TVC Central railway station. To reach your accomodation you will have to hire and auto , and later on you will find that autos are the main source of travel in the city.
If you are coming with family members, you would get guest houses near the TVC central railway station.
Once you are settled in your accomodation, there is nothing to worry anything.You just need to arrange for you food, and you will get some restaurant nearby possibly. If you get the executive hostel,, you cant expect anything better because every facility is there.. Girls are mostly accomodated within the TCS campus or near to it.
Once you get on training, days will be mostly hectic and busy.
When you come to kerala for ILP I would advise you to carry some books which may be useful. Some of them are Unix by Sumitabha Das , a J2EE black book (if possible , because it is quite heavy :) ),, Pl/SQL by Ivan Bayross,, and Java by Herbert Schildt. These will be beneficial to you in case you get the Java domain.
For people coming form north my advice is to remain calm with the people of Kerala because their sentiments are different form what ours are. You will find that food is again a lot different because people here eat a lot of beef. At almost every non-veg restaurant you will find beef available.
Don't worry about your groceries beacuse here you will find a popular 'Kerala Margin Free Market' almost everywhere where you will get everything from shampoos, soap, choclates,biscuits,. etc.. and the cost is lower than the MRP in rest of India.
Anyways, nothing to worry.. See you soon at TCS.
