Foggy day outside.

Thursday Jun-10-2010
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Woke up @ 5am. but out of bed by only 5:30 was feeling tired physically and it felt a bit cold. So did not feel like gettig out of the blanket. Hmmm warmth is so comforting. Warmth of heart, feeling, love, cuddling, hugging a loved one, And very addictive too.

Get out of the house by 6:45am,, cross the 1st railway gate before the train came. I wanted to beat that from yesterdays time. But got stuck at the second one. There are 3 railway track I need to cross to reach work. And I cross one of them two times, got stuck when crossing 2nd time. So i need to start out 5 more mins in advance.

Again got the same parking spot today near to the office door. :)

There were fewer people today, looks like every one must be feeling like staying on in bed or is this the Thursday almost weekend affect.

WEll its foggy outside and feels like I am in Vancouver during december. And its supposed to be Summer here. hehehehe... life is so full of natural twists and turns. So its just natural that I and we all in the world have it our personal life too. Gloomy days will pass and bright sunny days will come too.

7:00am on to the conf call with Kolkota... hehehe as usual the Indian guys come in at 7:11am. The people in Kolkota seem to be filled up with Smokers. Every guy from Bengal here on the project seems to be smoker. Some of the don't drink at all, just smoke. Like its part of their culture. Residual effects of Communism.

Kriss is not on the call as he seemed to have worked late into the night yesterday.

The mood today was lighter with Kannan joining the call. I was able to make a few jokes and people seemed to relax and talk moved to people taking long leave for their sisters marriage. Naturally I said, that is the time Indians can go and scope out potential partner to marry. hehehe. All the guys and girls come there dressed to impress and if some one wants to know who is married and who is available for marriage, this the favourite location for them to check each other out.

Then the topic moved to about too many people resigning as the office was moved to the New Calcutta office. Which was like about 2 hr to get in and aobut 2 to 3 hrs to get out in the evening traffic. No restaurant for about 16 kms. And in addition to that they are close to a group of leather factories and the smell around the area is unbearable. so naturally when people get better opportunities in the city, they will easily resign and move away. The companies label helps to get easier jobs.

Discussion is back to Technical. And I am blogging

7:45am seems like the call is winding down.

Put in a couple of replies to Evas blog discussion. That is something I really miss having with her. The daily talks and disscussion on philosophy , pshycology. She does not seem to analyse much, but seems to be able to make me analyse and think deeper about subjects.

7:50am The kolkota people dropped of the call. The indian guys in US seem to be surprised that I came in at 7am. They are all just waking up like typical lazy indians. The told them about the CTI call flow doc that I was preparing to make it easier for the Girl Shewta, in Bangalore who will be supporting me. So they wanted to know how it works too. So I told them that I can give them a demo today after they come to office for work.

I am having most of my food at home now and seem to be spending less money outside. Yeaa thats a good sign.

I still have not got paid for the two weeks I worked in NY. I think I need to go to the labour dept and complain about them. After spending all the money on daily hotel stay and about $1000 on the flight. Will send them a mail today or tomorrow and then compile the documents and go to the labour dept and file the complaint. And just have to let it take its own turn from there.

Just saw Evas new post on her india blog. Reminded me about the mango I brought at the Indian store (indian mangoes) and at costco (manoges from South america). SWEET.

But my fav is still the Jack fruit. The ones freshly grown at home. Not the ones that we get at the shops, that are not ripened naturally. Every part of the Jack fruit is used for so many things. Even the seeds are used in curries and eaten fried. Then as Kerala tradition goes they make chips out of almost everything. The coconut oil I am told thou has lots of fat in it. Its Good fat, not the transfat in other oils.

Wish more Indian had the opportunities of AISEC, envey people like eva as they can easily afford the $400 fees and flight tickets. Something only the very rich and affulent in India can afford.

Even sadeep hesitated after he got to know that fee. Even thou he is among the people who can afford it.

Stark contridictions on opportunities. I would not have been able to even dream of going to other countries thru organizations like AISEC. Beena sent her son to Italy thru AFC or ACF, well she is among the Rich, Well to do families in Chennai.

Eva would have had more grounding moments in her Indian experience had she been in contact with the poorer people. But most of the people she is in contact with and seem to hang out with seems to be like the Elite Rich and well to do people. That is the upper 20 percent of the population of India, not the real India.

the other 80 percent would tell her a very different story and experience and then she would probably know more and feel more about life and its darker realities and relatively know, how fortunate she and many people like her are. And the she will know why people in India think that foreigners are all rich people.

11:40 time to head off for lunch and be back soon to give the guys a demo of the call center, in the WAR ROOM ;) hehehe sounds so high Military like.

12:25 finish off with heating and eating. next got to try cooking some Veggie curries.

POA (Plan Of Action) today evening, cleaning up the house. And then tomorrow prepare the Veggie curry. Maybe I will start by cutting the veggies and other things together tonite before going for a run.

Get to office by 1pm. And see that there is a meeting scheduled with the chines gal Li for 3pm. So get busy with the documentation and laying the foundation for my development work.
3pm was trying to find the meeting room and saw george and Li coming, so we all go to the War room. Find that she is an employee of the client and is a web developer. She is very sweet. Will be coordinating the moc pop work with her. Chinese girls in US are really sweet, not like the aggressive angry ones in Cananda

Show her the demo screen pop and what happens at my end.

4:30 rush off to the training. Get to do some hands on stuff on Analytics.

6:30 get back home, drop off Raj on the way.

now its about 8:30 will mediate for a few and head off for a run and some light work out at the gym.

How my life has changed. Got to call up Malini and ask her about Saturdays hike. As its closer to her house.

Go for a smaller run and then bike for about 45 mins. get back home and see a msg from Malini. Nice connection, she was thinking of going out dancing with me on saturday. Tell her that I am going out dancing on Friday and then maybe hiking on saturday.
She is having a wine (Vino) party ;) ahhh I hardly know anything about the specifics of wine, I just drink it. Not as sophisticate as she is. I am impressed that she went o Rishi Valley, one of the best Boarding schools in India. No wonder she is so well rounded and informed in so many subjects and able to hold herself, even with all the attention she is easily getting from all the guys around her.

time to go to bed... seems like one of the better days spent with lot of productive work done. just that I got a mail from the Department of motor Vehicles that they are giving me 4 points for the over speeding and if I get 6 points I am in deep trouble. So have to drive around carefully now. Extra carefully. :)(