Happy Valentine’s day.

A very happy Valentine’s Day for all those folks who are celebrating today.

It’s a yet another day for me. Actually these are the few days in a year I regret being single. And it is made worse thanks to radio city and television which floods you with ads on V day and makes you feel terrible. Buy this for ur valentine, buy that for ur heart, this offer, mega offer.. total crap#$#. The best of this is the ad for Mantri Home, Give ur valentine that will never go out of fashion - A Mantri Home. What the hell. Here I am struggling almost two months to get a flat in my range, people are thinking of gifting a Mantri home for Vday!!!. Grrr.

Whatever it is I am happy as of now, except for days like this where I feel little odd! mm that’s ok.Ok Guys. Happy Vday for my married friends, Engaged chaps, Guys who are in love, and those who send their photos yesterday for Pellichupulu!!!

And for Guys, who are single like me, Get back to work and apply for mindtree IPO!!!
 

Dinner @ Bob's

Last Saturday we met bond. No no . Not J.Bond, this was my friend - bond. He came down from Mumbai to spend his spare time which he is getting between job shifts. (How lucky?) It was nice meeting him. Actually it was nice meeting lot of guys, some of them whom I met after a year or so even though we are living in the same city.

We went for dinner at 10.30 to a place called Bob's near indira nagar. It is a small one but quite well lit. More an eat-out than a restaurant. But the greatest part was quality. The roti and parattas were really good and so were the curry. It was almost as good as Lalita's parota in Dickenson rd, but the prices were decent enough. It is not just your main course that satisfies you but the side items too should be good. In that way Bobs was really satisfactory because of buttermilk. I never had one like that before. Even the guys who usually never have buttermilk had two glasses of them.

Not sure what is the specialty there as we went at 10.30 and not much option we had, but with that limited exp, I am very satisfied with Bobs'. Do drop there to check out yourself. It is off Indranagar 80 feet road, you need to take left from the road which leads to jeevan bhima nagar.
 

Wondering what’s happening to me ??

Last few days/weeks /months have been really hectic. Loads of work with concrete deliverables is anyone’s nightmare and that’s what exactly I was going thru. Linux release is solely on me and considerable work on windows domain too along with a junk COO work, I clearly lost my work –life balance. Though I was realizing something was missing, only a few hrs back I realized what I was missing. I just stopped having a personal life. ? Believe me. I really stopped having that!

So what happened in my life since my last post?

1. Wanted to write a post on my diwali trip. My experiences in Shadapti first class and how I got the ticket.


2. Wanted to write a post on the first anniversary/birthday (?) of my dear bike. It really deserves a special post for that. I almost opened my blogger on that day, except that my boss sent a mail which required immediate attention. Sorry sweetie, I will surely write about you and put more photos. Wondering how my life would have been without you? Ps: My bike is also a male bike (Unicorn ;) ) and it is still virgin :( whereas some of my friends who bought some not-so-male-looking bikes(Yamaha’s) got Lucky. (He is enjoying in US now) .


3. Missed some of my good friends’ birthday. This is so unlikely of me. What the hell? I used to remind others reg my friend’s birthday and now I forgot some of my close friends birthday. What a shame, I really feel bad. Not just that, I didn’t eve n call some of them still ;( . I missed jrk’s , sivankar’s birthdays. I managed to wish them properly for last 5 years. I missed my elder sister’s birthday. OMG she will never forgive me. Somehow managed to give a belated wishes to my sister-in law. She was considerate enough in not killing me on that. I also missed my friend’s wedding day. Sorry lingu.

4. My brother got a daughter a month back and I am yet to see her. Hopefully I will see her in January. Wondering whether I can call her - my niece or is it only for sister’s daughter?


5. My granny fell sick. She was hospitalized and recovered, yet not in a healthy state. I want to meet her asap, but I can’t go alone to that place as I am not very close to my relatives. Wanted my mom to come there and the sync between our leave is failing.


6. I am hardly mailing in platform9 and never opened Orkut. If anyone has pronounced my death there, it would have been confirmed by now and they will be having my anniversary. Need to start again on that and more importantly, I need to start sending normal mails to p9 other than financial mails!!!


7. Eye on I: This one needs to be told in a separate post and I will definitely put one(how many promises I made till now in this post? Please don’t count). I joined the sai alumini- sevice activities and participating in them. Apart from organizing EyeonI, I even managed to organize the fund collection from our groups and doing them regularly. If it continues, planning to help other batches to do the same. Hopefully it works. At least I can get rid of some guilt that I am not doing anything for the society.

8. I am becoming fatter and getting balder. And the rate in which its happening is really high. Esp the hairfall. Actually till now I was having broad forehead, but now I am officially bald L. God save the world and my hair.


9. I bought a new mobile .Nokia N72. Not so great, yet manageable. Actually I was eyeing motorolla v3i , but I was told it needs to be handled delicately. Not my area.

That’s it I guess. Not able to think further. I need to post one today as I got a mail from a friend to update my blog. So did it.

Getting COO -ed

Not sure what coo-ed means (is there a word like that?) Too drained to google for that.
Past one week, I am doing a junk, boring and important work. On the day, when I joined back my office after a week's fever, my manager greets me with the info that there is a boring job waiting for me :). I knew it was coming, but didn't really want it.
Basically the work is this. The release for which I was working (Linux release) needs the Certificate Of Originality (COO). Guess every s/w produced will have this. So what is this COO ? COO tells that that particular software is our own original product and we list all the borrowed and bought codes and their licenses. That means, I need to sit and find out what are the third party softwares we are using, names of the individuals whose copyrighted files we are using, open source files, blah blah blah ....
Believe me, it is painful, pitiful, unrewarding, dangerous and an important work. Dangerous and imp because incase I make a mistake in finding out the complete info , say I miss out the info that we are using another company’s library or code and if found later, it will cost my job. Also the probability of that company suing mine is also there. So I need to find these info and we need to put these copyright info in the license doc or copyright info. That’s legal dept's headache. My job is reporting those company info and where we are using in our code and why???


I worked even on weekend and from Sunday, I am working late till 12.00 in the night.
Finally it is over and has to answer few more questions to the manager in US.
Phew......
For few days I forgot that I am a s/w engg :)

Wondering I can ever do a manager’s job. I mean non - technical work and which involves a lot of paper work!!!.

--saka

My Life :: Post 9/3

Sunday 03/09 : 13:15 ::::: 98.6
Sunday 03/09 : 17:15 ::::: 99.6
Sunday 03/09 : 19:15 ::::: 103
Monday 04/09 : 09:30 ::::: 104
Monday 04/09 : 12:30 ::::: 104
Monday 04/09 : 17:30 ::::: 102
Monday 04/09 : 20:30 ::::: 103
Tuesday 05/09 : 09:30 ::::: 102
Tuesday 05/09 : 12:30 ::::: 100
Tuesday 05/09 : 15:30 ::::: 100
Tuesday 05/09 : 19:30 ::::: 100

These are not bus numbers or chart of a market value of a share.
These are my temperatures when I feel sick.
Yep, this week, my body temp touched 52 week high, (all time high, I guess, at least as far as I remember). Sunday afternoon, after having lunch in sagar's new home, I started experiencing wrist pain. I had plans of roaming in Indranagar that evening to buy a gift for my sis birthday, but all I managed to do was sleep on my bed and the fever caught me. Treated for chikun gunya in the local hospital and I was hardly recovering. Even on Wednesday, my stomach refused to accept anything solid, and promptly throws up even horlicks. That’s it. I decided to go to Chennai at any cost. And I did pay a heavy price, for the taxi to majestic ;) and a tatkal c/c ticket (which is usual).

The rest of the week, all I did was resting, resting and resting. And this resting process was broken occasionally to have juices, soups and idles... Wow. I really enjoyed. If not for my manager, I would have extended my 8 days leave, but, u know... I am always duty conscious!!!

Now I am back to take up my responsibilities in Bangalore, yet feeling home sick ;)

Got to gear up....

Ganesh Chathurthi

It is a big festival for all of us. But this year vinayaka chathurthi (as called in TN) is more special for me, for I am attending one after 10 years. Last time I was in home for this festival when I was in my 11th std ;) . So this time I was all geared up. With some escalations which popped up at last minute showed signs of my trip getting cancelled, I still managed to go, in spite of reaching the bus stand 15 late !!!. The festival was more filling than in one way. Three or four types of chundals, a lot of fruits, pori, kollukattai's... O my god... I never ate like that in the recent past. Suddenly I started longing to be in Chennai. Truely. All of a sudden I feel that being with family is also good, I mean.. Feels good. Took Monday off, spent some time with my sis, saw some movies , gave some serious gyan to parents to take care of their health. And had some real good quality sleep ;)

Basically, had a good time at home :)

--saka

Sudden Dullness.

Suddenly the world looked dull today.
All the people around me looked dull, hazy, as if they are unsure about something.
The vehicles in the road were going in a chaotic manner and the drivers are surprised with the sudden appearance of the vehicle. In office, the manager looked strangely as if someone didn’t reciprocate a smile when he expected. The monitor looks dull, the program crashes dumbly. The same chapathai kurma looks different, even though it tastes the same junk. I can keep going on like that …


How many times have you experienced this?
I do every two months.
Whenever I break my specs.

Tax Return

I successfully filled my tax returns today. :) I know, it will be kind of shocking to u folks that the saka, who does things wrt his to-do list, slipped away from his tax returns date. Sorry folks, No I was on my schedule. Actually my previous employers failed to send my Form16 on time. I got my form 16 only on Monday!!! And managed to file it by today!!!!

Since I have nothing to pay or nothing to get back, I can file anytime before March 31^st and so I am quite on time :) !!!

Broke my Specs :(

Is there anything called good day or bad day ..

Not sure. But definitely better day exists :)

For instance, yesterday was a better day than today 4 me, not figuratively but literally.

Yesterday was cool. Got up 7.15 , cook came on time, had bath by 8.00 had hot dosa and coffee and out of house by 8.40 and in office by 9.00

Record time driving in peak hrs and didn't get caught much in signal.

Found the Linux problem which was eating my head for last two weeks..

Left 4 home early and calculated the pending room expenses..

Watched friends from 8.30 till 12.25 , then football match ...

O my god... what a great day...

today.

My only remaining team out of my four favorites, Germany lost (at 2, midnight)

Morning got up at 8.00 cook came around that and made upma :(

when i was abt to go 4 bath, found that water got over and the motor is not pumping the water up!!!

Struggled with it for 30 mins. All my roomies were sleeping happily and i was struggling (bad day only 4 me).

Later solved the problem and had a quick bath and the time was 9.30.

Had dry upma and no coffee.. While wearing helmet, I kept my specs in my bike. It fell down and I stamped it by mistake!!!!! . What the Hell!! Burnt 2500rs, sorry stamped on it..

In office by 10.15

Then found things r not working..

Had bad lunch.

Having a bad headache...

Now at 7.00pm, i desperately want to run home ....

My only dilemma is whom to support ? France or portu?

I want France to win so at least for first half i will support portu...

Goin Nuts...

saka