Scenario: A friend has returned from a 2 week trip outside India. Its been almost a week and we haven't met yet
Participants:
M1 - one half of my mind/heart
M2 - other half of my mind/heart
Conversation:
M1 - She's back. I should go and meet her
M2 - She is back after 2 weeks. She would be busy
M1 - Then maybe I should call her and find out if she's busy
M2 - If she's anyways busy why bother her
M1 - How about dropping her a mail then. She can reply when she has time
M2 - She wouldn't check your mail right now
M1 - Why?
M2 - You had written to her sometime back giving your blog link. Have you heard from her on that?
M1 - No
M2 - Then?
M1 - She would have read the blog but might not have found time to reply. Or maybe she didn't want to reply on that as it wasn't something people should reply to. After all how many people have you heard from who were on that list.
M2 - Even if I take that why do you want to meet her?
M1 - Its been sometime since we had a good chat. And moreover I am looking forward to my gift
M2 - Are you sure you are going to get one?
M1 - I am hoping so... but not sure
M2 - Then why so much eagerness? You can wait for her to call.
M1 - But why shouldn't I call first?
M2 - Let look at it this way. If you go somewhere and get something for someone what do you do on returning? You call that person up and set up a meeting. You don't wait for the person to contact you. Right?
M1 - Hmm
M2 - And if there's no gift for you then you would be disappointed.
M1 - Actually not. That would set the expectations right for future
M2 - So you won't feel bad
M1 - Not at all. One shouldn't get upset over small things
M2 - Hmm
M1 - So what do you suggest? Shall I call her or wait?
M2 - Do whatever you feel like
Result: This post :)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jaagte
"O re manwa tu to baawra hai
Tu hi jane tu kya chahta hai baawre
Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jaagte"
This song from the movie 'Wake Up Sid' has been playing in my playlist for quite sometime. Today as I was humming this song (yes I do that often and people nearby often ask me to reduce the volume) I started to make sense out of the song, that is, my mind started analyzing the words in the song and comparing it with real life. And I found it quite similar.
To talk of few things why do people want the things they are told not to? Why do people try to do things that are prohibited? Why do people fall in love with people whom their parents won't accept? Why do people hope for things that are improbable?
One answer could be people believe in miracles; think their case is special and different. This can be considered a good thing as well as not a good thing. I mean there would be a time when you will have to draw the line, but that time is not defined. So one may go too far while others may leave too soon. Its a personal choice. I won't say anything more on this for now.
Of course I would love to dream and try to make them true. Whether the dreams are realistic are not only time will tell. Till then - "Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jagte"
Tu hi jane tu kya chahta hai baawre
Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jaagte"
This song from the movie 'Wake Up Sid' has been playing in my playlist for quite sometime. Today as I was humming this song (yes I do that often and people nearby often ask me to reduce the volume) I started to make sense out of the song, that is, my mind started analyzing the words in the song and comparing it with real life. And I found it quite similar.
To talk of few things why do people want the things they are told not to? Why do people try to do things that are prohibited? Why do people fall in love with people whom their parents won't accept? Why do people hope for things that are improbable?
One answer could be people believe in miracles; think their case is special and different. This can be considered a good thing as well as not a good thing. I mean there would be a time when you will have to draw the line, but that time is not defined. So one may go too far while others may leave too soon. Its a personal choice. I won't say anything more on this for now.
Of course I would love to dream and try to make them true. Whether the dreams are realistic are not only time will tell. Till then - "Kyun dikhaye sapne tu sote jagte"
Thursday, January 28, 2010
A strange few days
Its been a pretty strange week so far. And for various reasons; or maybe no reason at all - I mean I know somethings wrong somewhere but don't know what and where. Or maybe nothing is wrong and its just me imagining things. Whatever the case be its certainly not the thing to be in; at least for me.
Lets see what all happened this week:
- On Moday I was in office till 2AM working. Of course I could have avoided it but decided to do it.
- Tueday I spent the most of the time sleeping. In between I watched 3 Idiots.
- Wednesday was pretty hectic trying to finish the work to meet the deadlines.
- Today I didn't feel like working but still had to.
And during this time I was waiting to meet a friend, had an arguement with another friend, was waiting to hear from another friend and now also waiting for a headband. None of this is reason enough for the mood swing which points towards still not having found the cause. Hopefully the thing would go away without actually finding the cause.
What a Team !!!
We have a pretty big team but I will confine this post to 6+1 person. The +1 will be clear as the post goes on. Since I do not know if they would want their names to be published I will use just the initials.
This team has not been together for more than a couple of months but this seems to be a team that knows each other for ages. Everyone is strong in their domains, has sound technical knowledge and with them carry vast experience. And they are all different in their own ways. Everyone, I should say almost everyone, wants to finish their work way before time, are willing to stretch beyond office hours; even work on weekends, but at the same time willing to help whoever needs help - and that too without any complaints. And the best part is that everyone will ask others not to stretch and assure others not to worry and that things will be done; but at the same time stretching themselves to the limit to make sure their work gets done.
Let me give an insight to them now.
MM started as a specialist who was supposed to provide technical help to the team. He was always there to help, and parallely he was going through the ramp up. After his ramp-up was done he got stories (the work items are broken into stories) to work upon. But even then – despite being loaded with work – whenever someone required any help all he had to do was turn around and ask MM, and he was there to help.
RT is the guy who has been in this project for the longest duration and has thorough knowledge of the application. He is someone who always tries to do the things in the best possible way. When someone is stuck somewhere and finds the task a little tricky and calls RT, RT will look at the problem and if he finds it difficult he would definitely spend some time on the problem (where others might just point to google) as he takes it up as a challenge and feels he has something to learn from it. One more thing about RT, rather an incident that happened just a few days back – RT had to go somewhere on Monday morning and felt he might be late for office; so he finished the work he was supposed to do on Monday on Sunday night only.
SS is another brilliant guy. Technically he is excellent and he is also an excellent human being. He stays near the office. So whenever the team has calls with the onsite manager and the manager speaks person to person SS’s turn usually comes last and he has to stay back the longest, but I have never seen him complain. Whenever you go to him for help he is more than willing to help you. And where he feels one has a scope to learn SS doesn’t help directly but points you towards the examples/links which would enable you to not only solve your problem but to learn as well.
KS is someone who keeps the environment enjoyable and makes sure everyone is comfortable. Again technically very strong and has experience working in different sorts of projects. In our team he is responsible for starting celebrating birthday parties in the team, taking the team out for lunch, making sure everyone participates and interacts with each other. With him you don’t have to ask but just the mention of things is enough. He takes up individual’s concern to the proper personnel, doesn’t mind staying back even when he has no work of his own. He even accompanies for tea/coffee breaks when he himself doesn’t drink either. And most importantly he is happy to do these things.
AB is someone who has spent the last 7 years in the US, but when you talk to him he seems one of us. He has his unique style of talking and is the person to listen to when on breaks, especially dinners. He again is technically pretty strong and is always willing to him. One of these days he was stuck somewhere and looking for the solution for quite some time as it was to be delivered that day. KS was struggling with an issue and AB had worked on something similar before. AB left his work and went to KS and helped him with it before returning to his work.
SM is a QA person. He was in our track initially but moved to some other track sometime back. He keeps the area happening with his dialogues; sometimes attempted poetry. And when it comes to work he is a thorough professional. Never afraid to stay late or shy away from working on weekends. I remember one weekend when I was enjoying in a mall with my friends I got a call from him saying that there’s some problem in the build and asking if there is a way to fix it so that he can do the testing. I couldn’t help him then but he spent the next night testing the entire thing once the application was up.
Now moving to the +1 – its none other than PS. PS is the person who was part of this team from the start before deciding to move on. He was the India team lead and a gem of a person. Despite the constant pressure, he always remained cool and made sure that the team remains calm. He also always made sure that there is complete harmony in the team and that no one is feeling the heat. He was brilliant technically and equally good in managing things. I must say he is the person who has laid the foundation for such a good team.
I must admit that I am lucky enough to be part of such a team. I don’t know what else anyone can ask from his/her team. Everyone knowing their work, finishing deliverables on time, always there to help each other and at the same time game for fun. Despite all the pressure the enthusiasm never dies. Probably one of the best teams to work with as everyone is so approachable and helpful and knowledgeable at the same time.
This team has not been together for more than a couple of months but this seems to be a team that knows each other for ages. Everyone is strong in their domains, has sound technical knowledge and with them carry vast experience. And they are all different in their own ways. Everyone, I should say almost everyone, wants to finish their work way before time, are willing to stretch beyond office hours; even work on weekends, but at the same time willing to help whoever needs help - and that too without any complaints. And the best part is that everyone will ask others not to stretch and assure others not to worry and that things will be done; but at the same time stretching themselves to the limit to make sure their work gets done.
Let me give an insight to them now.
MM started as a specialist who was supposed to provide technical help to the team. He was always there to help, and parallely he was going through the ramp up. After his ramp-up was done he got stories (the work items are broken into stories) to work upon. But even then – despite being loaded with work – whenever someone required any help all he had to do was turn around and ask MM, and he was there to help.
RT is the guy who has been in this project for the longest duration and has thorough knowledge of the application. He is someone who always tries to do the things in the best possible way. When someone is stuck somewhere and finds the task a little tricky and calls RT, RT will look at the problem and if he finds it difficult he would definitely spend some time on the problem (where others might just point to google) as he takes it up as a challenge and feels he has something to learn from it. One more thing about RT, rather an incident that happened just a few days back – RT had to go somewhere on Monday morning and felt he might be late for office; so he finished the work he was supposed to do on Monday on Sunday night only.
SS is another brilliant guy. Technically he is excellent and he is also an excellent human being. He stays near the office. So whenever the team has calls with the onsite manager and the manager speaks person to person SS’s turn usually comes last and he has to stay back the longest, but I have never seen him complain. Whenever you go to him for help he is more than willing to help you. And where he feels one has a scope to learn SS doesn’t help directly but points you towards the examples/links which would enable you to not only solve your problem but to learn as well.
KS is someone who keeps the environment enjoyable and makes sure everyone is comfortable. Again technically very strong and has experience working in different sorts of projects. In our team he is responsible for starting celebrating birthday parties in the team, taking the team out for lunch, making sure everyone participates and interacts with each other. With him you don’t have to ask but just the mention of things is enough. He takes up individual’s concern to the proper personnel, doesn’t mind staying back even when he has no work of his own. He even accompanies for tea/coffee breaks when he himself doesn’t drink either. And most importantly he is happy to do these things.
AB is someone who has spent the last 7 years in the US, but when you talk to him he seems one of us. He has his unique style of talking and is the person to listen to when on breaks, especially dinners. He again is technically pretty strong and is always willing to him. One of these days he was stuck somewhere and looking for the solution for quite some time as it was to be delivered that day. KS was struggling with an issue and AB had worked on something similar before. AB left his work and went to KS and helped him with it before returning to his work.
SM is a QA person. He was in our track initially but moved to some other track sometime back. He keeps the area happening with his dialogues; sometimes attempted poetry. And when it comes to work he is a thorough professional. Never afraid to stay late or shy away from working on weekends. I remember one weekend when I was enjoying in a mall with my friends I got a call from him saying that there’s some problem in the build and asking if there is a way to fix it so that he can do the testing. I couldn’t help him then but he spent the next night testing the entire thing once the application was up.
Now moving to the +1 – its none other than PS. PS is the person who was part of this team from the start before deciding to move on. He was the India team lead and a gem of a person. Despite the constant pressure, he always remained cool and made sure that the team remains calm. He also always made sure that there is complete harmony in the team and that no one is feeling the heat. He was brilliant technically and equally good in managing things. I must say he is the person who has laid the foundation for such a good team.
I must admit that I am lucky enough to be part of such a team. I don’t know what else anyone can ask from his/her team. Everyone knowing their work, finishing deliverables on time, always there to help each other and at the same time game for fun. Despite all the pressure the enthusiasm never dies. Probably one of the best teams to work with as everyone is so approachable and helpful and knowledgeable at the same time.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Thanks friends for the wonderful 2009
I have always thought that there are times when one needs to thank people who have helped you in any way. But many a times I miss saying thanks to them and then it becomes too late. So I thought I should take some time out to thank all those people who did things last year (2009) that I remember and appreciate. Of course I won't remember every moment and some people might get missed but I guess its better to at least thank those whom I can recall as I write this post.
The first name that comes to my mind is Manas. We have watched many movies last year together, went on a number of outings and spent many enjoyable moments. He was always there when I needed a friend. A phone call was enough to set up a meeting.
Supreet and Seema who have again always been there to help me figure out things, advised me whenever I needed some and also with whom I could talk freely on anything and evrything.
Minakshi for the wonderful discussions, the coffees and the Goshtba Rice & Mutton Roganjosh treat.
Abhijit Rai for a wonderful message on friendship day.
Sunil Duggal, Ashish Mundra and Pradeep Sharma for helping me learn new technologies and guide me whenever I needed some assistance.
Dumpy for believing in my abilities when I was feeling low and encouraging me always.
Kunal for thinking highly of me (where I wasn't) and always encouraging and supporting.
Hina for keeping the year eventful, her blog posts, the books and the wonderful times we spent.
Shibendu for the pick-up calls.
Rakhi for the numerous Gulab-Jamuns.
Suryakant for the visit after 9 years.
Sahil and Shubhi for keeping the office area happening with their arguements/fights/discussions.
Also Ashish, Deepak, Sudhanshu, Saurabh Sardana, Gaurav Pareek, Saurabh Sharma, Sachin, Pallavi, Saurav Gupta, et al for the wonderful moments.
I would definitely be missing many moments but these came to my mind as I was writing this post. I am hoping for similar and many more moments in the year to come. Thanks...
The first name that comes to my mind is Manas. We have watched many movies last year together, went on a number of outings and spent many enjoyable moments. He was always there when I needed a friend. A phone call was enough to set up a meeting.
Supreet and Seema who have again always been there to help me figure out things, advised me whenever I needed some and also with whom I could talk freely on anything and evrything.
Minakshi for the wonderful discussions, the coffees and the Goshtba Rice & Mutton Roganjosh treat.
Abhijit Rai for a wonderful message on friendship day.
Sunil Duggal, Ashish Mundra and Pradeep Sharma for helping me learn new technologies and guide me whenever I needed some assistance.
Dumpy for believing in my abilities when I was feeling low and encouraging me always.
Kunal for thinking highly of me (where I wasn't) and always encouraging and supporting.
Hina for keeping the year eventful, her blog posts, the books and the wonderful times we spent.
Shibendu for the pick-up calls.
Rakhi for the numerous Gulab-Jamuns.
Suryakant for the visit after 9 years.
Sahil and Shubhi for keeping the office area happening with their arguements/fights/discussions.
Also Ashish, Deepak, Sudhanshu, Saurabh Sardana, Gaurav Pareek, Saurabh Sharma, Sachin, Pallavi, Saurav Gupta, et al for the wonderful moments.
I would definitely be missing many moments but these came to my mind as I was writing this post. I am hoping for similar and many more moments in the year to come. Thanks...
Goodbye 2009 - A year that was ...
Now that 2010 has arrived I was looking back at the year 2009. It was indeed an eventful year in many ways. It had its ups and downs but overall it was a good year. Let me go through some of the things that happened in the past year (and that I remember as I write this post :))
On the work front it was a year of great learning. Learnt .net 3.0 & 3.5 and got the chance to work in 2 technically challenging projects. Got selected for TRM domain and went through the basics of TRM. Got the chance to work with some highly skilled people and it was a great learning experience. The not so good thing was that I had to shift to Gurgaon office and that increased the travelling time a great deal.
On the travel front I had a few trips with family and friends. The year started with a trip to Jaipur with friends (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/01/trip-to-jaipur.html). Then in summer went to Palampur/Dharamshala with friends again (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/04/trip-to-palampur-summary.html). During Durga Pooja went to Kolkatta with mom (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/10/kolkatta-trip-and-few-realizations.html). And the year was rounded off with a trip to Rajasthan - Jodhpur and Jaisalmer (a blog to come on this soon). In between there was a weekend trip to Chandigarh as well (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/08/chandigarh-and-sleepless-night.html).
There were some strange but enjoyable get-togethers; strange because of different/unexpected reasons. A meeting in Gurgaon that didn't go well. Meeting Saurabh after quite some time had its share of bad news followed with some confessions. A get-together of office cab mates which turned from dinner to drinks. Meeting Suryakant after 9 years was great; but it also led to meeting aunty (Deepak's mom) after many years.
On personal front I bought a house which is indeed an achievement for me but the entire credit goes to my mom for all the effort. Moving to the new house was also great which included buying all the furniture. Watched a lot of movies this year - thanks mainly to Manas. Made some great new friends in Kunal, Minakshi, Shibendu, Sahil, Saurabh, Gaurav, et al. Did a lot of blogging and computer gaming. Read many books. By the end of the year got addicted to Facebook.
There were some downs as well the past year. My Mausi ji is no more. And a dear friend's sister also passed away. Couldn't attend a lot of marriages for weird reasons. Many friends went through heart breaks. I had a few clashes with friends.
But then every coin has two sides; and so does life - it has its share of ups and downs. And like I said at the start there were more ups than downs. And as I wish 2009 a goodbye I do welcome 2010 with lots of hopes and expectations and wish it turns out to be a great year in every way.
On the work front it was a year of great learning. Learnt .net 3.0 & 3.5 and got the chance to work in 2 technically challenging projects. Got selected for TRM domain and went through the basics of TRM. Got the chance to work with some highly skilled people and it was a great learning experience. The not so good thing was that I had to shift to Gurgaon office and that increased the travelling time a great deal.
On the travel front I had a few trips with family and friends. The year started with a trip to Jaipur with friends (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/01/trip-to-jaipur.html). Then in summer went to Palampur/Dharamshala with friends again (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/04/trip-to-palampur-summary.html). During Durga Pooja went to Kolkatta with mom (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/10/kolkatta-trip-and-few-realizations.html). And the year was rounded off with a trip to Rajasthan - Jodhpur and Jaisalmer (a blog to come on this soon). In between there was a weekend trip to Chandigarh as well (http://strictly-my-views.blogspot.com/2009/08/chandigarh-and-sleepless-night.html).
There were some strange but enjoyable get-togethers; strange because of different/unexpected reasons. A meeting in Gurgaon that didn't go well. Meeting Saurabh after quite some time had its share of bad news followed with some confessions. A get-together of office cab mates which turned from dinner to drinks. Meeting Suryakant after 9 years was great; but it also led to meeting aunty (Deepak's mom) after many years.
On personal front I bought a house which is indeed an achievement for me but the entire credit goes to my mom for all the effort. Moving to the new house was also great which included buying all the furniture. Watched a lot of movies this year - thanks mainly to Manas. Made some great new friends in Kunal, Minakshi, Shibendu, Sahil, Saurabh, Gaurav, et al. Did a lot of blogging and computer gaming. Read many books. By the end of the year got addicted to Facebook.
There were some downs as well the past year. My Mausi ji is no more. And a dear friend's sister also passed away. Couldn't attend a lot of marriages for weird reasons. Many friends went through heart breaks. I had a few clashes with friends.
But then every coin has two sides; and so does life - it has its share of ups and downs. And like I said at the start there were more ups than downs. And as I wish 2009 a goodbye I do welcome 2010 with lots of hopes and expectations and wish it turns out to be a great year in every way.
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