VSTS Movie Outing
June 16th, 2008Ever since I reached Hyderabad I had hundreds of plans in my mind like having fun. playing tennis and all sorts of new things and adventures. Hardly half of those plans materialized, and rest half things were totally unexpected. I didnt imagine having some moments spending with my team sharing experiences.
It so happened that last week our Visual Studio Team went for a movie outing at IMAX Hyderabad. I was a bit reluctant at the beginning as most of the people were still aliens to me. Though the movie was Indiana Jones which I didnt want to see, still I took the ticket from my admin. I was even relucant to go since I had loads of work unfinished and was a bit scared that my mentor was find me leaving work for movie. When I returned back after collecting the tickets, he met he with tickets in my mind. I was a bit speechless thinking of the worse. To my surprise he said ” So you going for the movie na?“. I yelled “Yes, surely“. This was one face of the so called geeks at Microsoft.
The whole trip was amazing, it takes 45 mins from the campus to Prasad’s IMAX. My mentor is a real funloving guy (I noticed later), though his command with technical things is also amazing. I met many of my team members with whom I shared my experiences and all of them were praising my mentor ( named Gautam Geonka) of his skills. We were a total of 30 people and we did play and had fun even in the bus. The only thing missing was courtesy dinner too ( Cool Down! Just Joking). Taking us to movie on a Gold Ticket costing 200 bucks in itself a big deal at lest for we freshies.
VSTS Stands for Visual Studio Team System which is the team responsible for making Testing tools in Visual Studio