unlike the 24th of every month in Infy, it is not so punctual around here!
a happy salary day all the same! yay! :)
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
bhai is here
Akshia is here these days.
We went to do Water rafting...err...Kayaking. (why no rafting, is a question with an answers best kept secret :p).
Kayak a water sport where you get to sit in your own little Kayak (a boat) and then are attached to it using a skirt (much like a skater's feet are attached to his skates). Since it a boat and you also get you own paddle. A paddle is a like a rod with blades on either side so you can move the boat.
We went early morning to the kayaking spot which is off the Potomac River in DC area. Very close to my house, about 15miles :)
We had taken the full day course with a trainer with us during the 5 hour session. Yep it was 5 hours, for 5 hours we were in our Kayaks on the Potomac River. For 5 hours she was trying to teach how to CPR. Thats Catch, Power and R.... (i forgot what R was for) yep, not the CPR that you expected :p. These are basically the basic steps of Kayaking. We were a group of 3 students and the trainer.
Twas great fun. I've always loved playing sports and now i know a new one. Hope i'll get time to do more Kayaking or Rafting. lolz, and spend some intimate times with the trainer, now only me, candice (the trainer) and her college buddy know what that is :p!
laterz
We went to do Water rafting...err...Kayaking. (why no rafting, is a question with an answers best kept secret :p).
Kayak a water sport where you get to sit in your own little Kayak (a boat) and then are attached to it using a skirt (much like a skater's feet are attached to his skates). Since it a boat and you also get you own paddle. A paddle is a like a rod with blades on either side so you can move the boat.
We went early morning to the kayaking spot which is off the Potomac River in DC area. Very close to my house, about 15miles :)
We had taken the full day course with a trainer with us during the 5 hour session. Yep it was 5 hours, for 5 hours we were in our Kayaks on the Potomac River. For 5 hours she was trying to teach how to CPR. Thats Catch, Power and R.... (i forgot what R was for) yep, not the CPR that you expected :p. These are basically the basic steps of Kayaking. We were a group of 3 students and the trainer.
Twas great fun. I've always loved playing sports and now i know a new one. Hope i'll get time to do more Kayaking or Rafting. lolz, and spend some intimate times with the trainer, now only me, candice (the trainer) and her college buddy know what that is :p!
laterz
a new experience
well, was with a services company for three and a half years. And I was doing outsourced work (yes, taking away American jobs.).
On Friday i had a meeting, in a bar, with the CEO of a smalltime Indian outsourcing company. We might outsource some of our work, ofcourse time and money screws up all plans, sometime later this year.
The realization that i was sitting there as a client was somewhat wonderful :)
who knows we might do some work out of India or Ukraine, and i'd be the one to fly over and do a 'client visit' to the location :)
On Friday i had a meeting, in a bar, with the CEO of a smalltime Indian outsourcing company. We might outsource some of our work, ofcourse time and money screws up all plans, sometime later this year.
The realization that i was sitting there as a client was somewhat wonderful :)
who knows we might do some work out of India or Ukraine, and i'd be the one to fly over and do a 'client visit' to the location :)
Sunday, May 21, 2006
no sugar baby!
ha ha!
so i got these ready to eat parantha , and went to the market specifically to get some curd to go with the aloo paranthas (slurp).
Got home, it was already 5 so was very very hungry.
And i was thinking to myself 'so what if there is no sabzi, atleast there curd'...hmmm, i need sugar. sugar? i got no sugar!
shit! i can't have the curd now. just too tired to go and get sugar now.
no sugar baby!
he he! haven't cooked for one month, din't even realise i never bought any sugar!
so i got these ready to eat parantha , and went to the market specifically to get some curd to go with the aloo paranthas (slurp).
Got home, it was already 5 so was very very hungry.
And i was thinking to myself 'so what if there is no sabzi, atleast there curd'...hmmm, i need sugar. sugar? i got no sugar!
shit! i can't have the curd now. just too tired to go and get sugar now.
no sugar baby!
he he! haven't cooked for one month, din't even realise i never bought any sugar!
Thursday, May 18, 2006
killer javascript
of all the good time i spent coding dash2, javascript took 30% of the time. that minuscle piece of client side shit code.
went to visit deepa mausi last Sunday, and then again today for Radhika's bday. Boy i had to ask 3 people what i should buy for a 14yr old girl. then took the easy way out - yep, gift cards, Barnes & Nobles. They're the best!
It was fun watching those 14something girls American, oh the purse is so nice...oh reaaallyyy? nooo waayy...you know whattt!...ooohhh...aaahh.
you've got to be kidding me!
I need to stop complaining about things. I mean, I don't put much to mouth, but i think too hard! and that's not good.
have been working pretty hard over the last couple of weeks. so come home surf the net, basically do nothing, and go off to sleep around 10:30 so am not too tired to work the next day...
now that routine is very, verrry difficult to keep. Maybe because i'm alone these days, so i can sleep, had i been with a flatmate, it would've been completely different.
Hey all girls out there. I am alone, and i am single as well.
:D
dig this -
i lost my bankone debit card. they won't let me take a new one unless i go to a branch and identify myself. oh n they don't operate in the DC vicitnity.
i dunno the pin number for my credit card.
i got a citibank debit card, but the pin they sent doesn't work with it.
i got cash from a nice sardarji of an Indian store, and that how i have enuf to pay for my lunch. i usually have lunch at the Deli downstairs of where i work. Now the office is something to look at. it's like i degraded ~300% of what i was used to in Infosys! :p
life!
the thought of what we want to achieve at nuride is scary and at the same time motivatinng enough to work towards it. you'd assume the rewards would be worth it. i'd like to think that way.
saw 16blocks. like Sandy and chote said, eoowww. screwed up silly movie. 4/10. now no movie deserves to go below 4points in my scale system! every darn movie has something special to take it above 4points. the special thing about 16blocks - ....ahhh...? okay, i givee it 3/10.
went to visit deepa mausi last Sunday, and then again today for Radhika's bday. Boy i had to ask 3 people what i should buy for a 14yr old girl. then took the easy way out - yep, gift cards, Barnes & Nobles. They're the best!
It was fun watching those 14something girls American, oh the purse is so nice...oh reaaallyyy? nooo waayy...you know whattt!...ooohhh...aaahh.
you've got to be kidding me!
I need to stop complaining about things. I mean, I don't put much to mouth, but i think too hard! and that's not good.
have been working pretty hard over the last couple of weeks. so come home surf the net, basically do nothing, and go off to sleep around 10:30 so am not too tired to work the next day...
now that routine is very, verrry difficult to keep. Maybe because i'm alone these days, so i can sleep, had i been with a flatmate, it would've been completely different.
Hey all girls out there. I am alone, and i am single as well.
:D
dig this -
i lost my bankone debit card. they won't let me take a new one unless i go to a branch and identify myself. oh n they don't operate in the DC vicitnity.
i dunno the pin number for my credit card.
i got a citibank debit card, but the pin they sent doesn't work with it.
i got cash from a nice sardarji of an Indian store, and that how i have enuf to pay for my lunch. i usually have lunch at the Deli downstairs of where i work. Now the office is something to look at. it's like i degraded ~300% of what i was used to in Infosys! :p
life!
the thought of what we want to achieve at nuride is scary and at the same time motivatinng enough to work towards it. you'd assume the rewards would be worth it. i'd like to think that way.
saw 16blocks. like Sandy and chote said, eoowww. screwed up silly movie. 4/10. now no movie deserves to go below 4points in my scale system! every darn movie has something special to take it above 4points. the special thing about 16blocks - ....ahhh...? okay, i givee it 3/10.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006
dashboard 2.0
have started work on dashboard 2.0.
have estimted 2weeks for end-to-end work. lets see.
well, will meet Agra nanaji over the weekend. hope to find something good at the sales. will try to finish logger part of Dashboard.
The best part about Dashboar2.0 is this -
It's a separate application that will run on nuride.com. It will not be used by the regular site visitors; but the business users. My job is to understand what they want, possibly give them more and then develop the entire application from scratch. i use the tools i like, i design my own application and implement it. nobody is expecting me to document anything. all they want is a clean fast application. I do design, coding, testing, deployment :)
now that is way way off how we 'used to' work at Infy.
...so much for thinking about the past.
lemme just enjoy the present and make a future.
have estimted 2weeks for end-to-end work. lets see.
well, will meet Agra nanaji over the weekend. hope to find something good at the sales. will try to finish logger part of Dashboard.
The best part about Dashboar2.0 is this -
It's a separate application that will run on nuride.com. It will not be used by the regular site visitors; but the business users. My job is to understand what they want, possibly give them more and then develop the entire application from scratch. i use the tools i like, i design my own application and implement it. nobody is expecting me to document anything. all they want is a clean fast application. I do design, coding, testing, deployment :)
now that is way way off how we 'used to' work at Infy.
...so much for thinking about the past.
lemme just enjoy the present and make a future.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
12?! for God's sake!
The Reston TownCenter is a nice place to hang about...a few cozy little restaurants and the multiplex. and peaceful at that, unlike most downtowns.
experience at nuride has been exciting since the last few days. i have finnally started working on real issues rather than just looking at code. there is still a whole lot code to look at though...thanks to wonderboy Daugherty :)
So I am responsible for ESRI (the Geoghraphical Information System), EPA data (car data), Dashboard 2.0 (the reporting console) and performance tuning.
Lets see how it all turns out.
Hey the cost of laundry at my apartment is $3.00!! which means I will have to find 12 quarters each time i need to wash clothes, instead of the 8 that i was used to...
experience at nuride has been exciting since the last few days. i have finnally started working on real issues rather than just looking at code. there is still a whole lot code to look at though...thanks to wonderboy Daugherty :)
So I am responsible for ESRI (the Geoghraphical Information System), EPA data (car data), Dashboard 2.0 (the reporting console) and performance tuning.
Lets see how it all turns out.
Hey the cost of laundry at my apartment is $3.00!! which means I will have to find 12 quarters each time i need to wash clothes, instead of the 8 that i was used to...
Impossible Missions' Force
how come he gets to work with all the chicks and all i get is an all nerd team of males! maybe...its the profession!Well, this one gets a 7.5 outa 10.
The graphics are well done, the story was well sorted out. Yet another plot with the American war tactics background.
The mouth reading skills were especially interesting to me! wud love to have that skill...
twas the first time ever...and i mean evvvvver! that i went to watch a movie alone. And i found the whole experience 'not too bad'. ya, i can spend time that way...if i have to!
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
oh shit!
duuuude...i found 3 white strands on my heavy head today! damn...it is the beginning...!
well work is keeping me busy all through the day, and when i feel like taking a chill i dunno what to do except for - open gmail, close gmail, open yahoo, close yahoo. end of break. pathetic :p
Well, my car is running smoothe (fingers crossed), office folks are planning to play soccer over lunch this friday or possibly early next week.
have a nice crowd in office, not that any of them are my age nor are there any Indians (that i could've talked about cricket and politics and bollywood to pass time over a cup of coffee...) but they are nice to talk to. I don't know if that's the typical American crowd.
Andy, my boss, has been into small business and VCism for quit some time, and is kinda feeding off his contacts to do the best at his work. He's a nice guy, would love to sit in his corvette some day :)
ghar main kaafi chezain khareed li hain...other i should be able to get this weekend (ideal circumstances :p) will post pics soon...
well work is keeping me busy all through the day, and when i feel like taking a chill i dunno what to do except for - open gmail, close gmail, open yahoo, close yahoo. end of break. pathetic :p
Well, my car is running smoothe (fingers crossed), office folks are planning to play soccer over lunch this friday or possibly early next week.
have a nice crowd in office, not that any of them are my age nor are there any Indians (that i could've talked about cricket and politics and bollywood to pass time over a cup of coffee...) but they are nice to talk to. I don't know if that's the typical American crowd.
Andy, my boss, has been into small business and VCism for quit some time, and is kinda feeding off his contacts to do the best at his work. He's a nice guy, would love to sit in his corvette some day :)
ghar main kaafi chezain khareed li hain...other i should be able to get this weekend (ideal circumstances :p) will post pics soon...
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