Dec 31, last day of 2010

Friday, Dec 31 2010

End of the week(working), end of the month, end of the year.... phew another hyper year of ups and downs.....

2010 in Retrospect

Participated in 2010 Olympics,, volunteered
Got to see lot of free stuff there, souvenirs
Visited two European countries and 2 American countries,
Two clients,
Worked in NY for a few weeks after 8 years..
Visited Dallas, texas to meet a friend after 10, exact years to the day,
hmmmm danced salsa in 3 countries.


Got to see and know with certainty the revelation of true character (crooked, lying, cheating, manipulative, un-grateful behavior .....) of a certain person and prevented me from making the biggest blunder of my life.
Thank god/universe for protecting me there.

Sometimes we have to thank god/universe for the un-answered prayers. : )

Lets see what 2011 unravels

Wish list,
Travel : Cuba, Mexico, South America, India.
Learn : more about myself and improve as much as possible as a person.
To Do every day : more meditation, yoga, Run, stretching.
Fun : be connected with sincere good friends, dancing, meeting new people, know more and appreciate other cultures, heritages, thinking, practices.

Dec 30, power outtage

Thrusday Dec 30 2010

Woke up a lil late after getting drunk on vino and scotch.

Around 9am there was a power outtage, then realised about the circular from peco that there is going to be an outtage from 9 to 2pm...

Was not able to cook, heat do anything. So just had a shower, cereals with cold mild and got to office. Was planning on going to Barns and nobles and doing some study from there.

Got to work, took copies of the 2011 calender on time and date.
packed up the few docs/printouts that maybe useful for future reference.

hmmmmm 7:30 hope to hit the casino for some free salsa.. lets see how that works.

power only came back around 2:45pm. heated up my fav Chicken curry and had it Roti.

Dec 29 , trying to focus

Wednesday Dec 29 2010

Woke up around 6 and connected with sweta in bangalore. chated for some time about the conf call with bah and mat. Got to know more about the crookedness of british thru mats behavior. ahh these guys are born and bread with the attitude that the Indians are their slaves.
US and its people are so much more better and with sense of accountability than these sick guys with legacy of treachery.

got surprise call from tra. wanted to go out drinking around tomorrow or new years eve. told her will be with friend in NJ and asked to go tonite. Funny why all these women want to go when its more convenient for them and not convenient for me. lets see if she will call me tonite. it felt like she did not have a party to go on new years and so wanted to hole up with... more like sex into the new year.

And god only know where I will be after 1st week on next year. cheers, lets see, richmond virgina, or California or some where else..... hope its close to a city and I can go out dancing.

Dec 28 , WFH

Tuesday Dec 28 2010

woke up around 6am and was chating with sweta in bangalore about the meeting and other issues at welpoin .

WFH as there is a shut down in the company. but billing client for it by login in from home.

sunny skies, unlike in vancouver. loving the sunlight streaming into the house and its warmth.

Dec 27, Blizard on the East Coast

Monday, Dec 27 2010

Woke up with the sound of gusty wind blowing. What started yesterday seems to be going on today, but the only difference is that we have sunny skies today. Will prefer the sun over clouds anytime.:)

Changed the location of the couch, lets see if it will bring about any change in the way of my life. trying to motivate myself to focus on doing some study and upgrading my skills

Saw the mail from the guys in welpoint. kind of felt like they are making a joke off it. sent me a sample .def file dated Oct 20 2009. and 3 Som files with just 2 to 6 lines in it.

So sent back a mail asking for more and logs when the issue occured or occurs.

Dec 26 Sunday

Sunday, Dec 26 2010

Woke up around 7am.
got busy with heating up the lamb biriyani and making Bru Coffee. :) yumm.

Started looking for the after christmas deals, does not seem to have much like in Canada.
There is a forecast of snow Blizzard today on the east coast. So after checking the weather and knowing that I have 2 hrs before the snow hits us. Went to staples, Target and then Costco and brought 1.5 TB 3.0USB for about $140+8taxes.

Started copying files from my other computers and drives.

Dec 25 Christmas of 2010

Saturday Dec 25 2010

woke up slowly around 7, called up home and talked briefly. Again bad vibes with dad. Thats never going to change. he has is own way of thinking and complicating little things that do not matter and not listen to what anyone else is saying.

Anyways thats one thing I have to live with. Unlike anu who has stopped calling them up at all. maybe I need to do the same thing.
Cause I am easily available people just seem to think that they can take me for granted. Have to stop caring about people and become selfish and self centered like them all. Just have to focus on my own wel being and happiness and not care about anyone else.

Sick bastards and bitches.

Thats a great start to Christmas...

expecting snow tomorrow and day after. major impact on the shores and NY.

Had a 2 hr tele conv with Chakri in van . catching up on all the happenings and exchange of opinion and info about people in our lives. :)

Dec 24 friday, sleep in

Friday Dec 24 2010

Woke up around noon, after returning back from a fun filled Salsa/merengue/bachata night out at the Prax Casino at the border of NJ and PA state lines.

had also ended up buying Biriyani and yummy it was, but not dum ka biriyani as I had hoped for. more a punjabi one. $ 44 for 6 plates. much cheaper and more quantity than the ones at the hotels.

Called up anil chow, who had left a message yesterday night. Looks like they have some great issues at their nation wide call center. wooo all the Health care insurance net work around US is having a major call center Outtage for Christmas.

Around 8pm went for ride around Lansdale, everything seems to be closed for christmas eve. Only shop that had a few cars parked in front was Toys r us.

ok so I am just going to have my biriyani (lamb) and watch the Football (american football)

Hawaii vs. Tulsa
The Warriors and Golden Hurricane head to Aloha Stadium to face off in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.

Dec 23, last day @ work this year

Thursday Dec 23 2010

Woke up early to the alarm thats on my wrist watch. don't know how to change it. :(
got online and chated briefly with sweta about the plan of Action POA. Hopefully things go fine there.

was not able to motivate myself to do anything productive yesterday evening. not a good thing. atleast have to try and go cycling in the gym. And then get cracking on the material I need to read up on.

Left home around 8:45 and was at my desk at work around 8:50am.. now that the direct road is open, with low traffic, travel to work from homs is just 5 mins drive. :)

Dec 22 Last full working day for 2010.

Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010

Woke up around 7am and decided to go be at work for the full days work of 8 hrs as its the last full working day of the year. Tomorrow is 23 and people start going home around afternoon, Dec 24th is the start of holiday. In addition to that the next working day at the office is Jan 4th.

Got into work around 9:25am.....

Dec 21, day to relax. shortest day.

Tuesday, Dec 21

Shortest day, woke up around 8 thinking that it was 9.
off to work around 11. hoped to do some reading on Cod and CCod or Crmod. but with all the talk and discussion going on it was not possible to do any reading.

returned to home around 3 and had lunch.

Then tried to read,,,, but ended up falling asleep after talking with Anil. Catching up on the excitment of last nights.
It was nice meeting someone from the West coast and knowing that we have common friends. A bit disappointed that i never to got to meet her before and like always only getting to meet nice and wonderful people when its time for me to leave this area.

Well thats like a the cycles of Karma repeating. Am I stuck in that pattern or will I be able to break out of that pattern.

Woke up around 10 and then watched online games and detective serials. was hoping to find sweta online and apprise her of the developments, which I have been kept out off by the crooked British arse, who seems to be carrying on the legacy of Crookedness, Politics, lies, decite and Manipulation that the British are known and have a rich history for.

Dec 20, eary start to last week at work this 2010

Monday, Dec 20 2010

back to ones, twos and zeros.
Got on early connecting from home to work and chating with sweta.

did not for the team lunch. was not upto it.

went to work around 12:30 noon. out around 6pm. saw sangi going out for the holidays I guess when I was entering...

Motivated myself to go to Vango... met a few wonderful people there and had a blast dancing with Amie, the bachata, salsa and in the end a high energy MERENGUE.
The the gal from Seattle, not sure her name is , vivian, julia.....

Was too excited to fall asleep after that. got dinged $11 for a glass of wine.

Dec 19. lazy day.

Sunday Dec 19 2010

Woke up around 11, got preparing the ginger tea with masalsa chai powder.

Called up Narayan and got to know that he brought a LED tv for $700.

got a planning board. got to see how effective it is in reminding me and keeping me focused.

Dec 18 Sat. day of rest

Saturday Dec 18. 2010

Woke up early and then went to sleep some more, got busy with house keeping, great word for cleaning up the house, more basically put, cleaning up the bathroom, toilets and vacuuming the house.

Called up home and spoke briefly.

Then surprisingly got a call from Kabir.

now to cook up a storm with chicken curry in coconut milk.

got salmon from costco and veggies from patel shop.

towards evening decided to go out to downtown to dance salsa. not a great night.. it was like double the number to guys than girls.

Fri Dec 17 , registerd for oracle course

Friday, Dec 17 2010
in the morning loged on around 6:30 and chated with sweta and got to download more of the online documents for on demand courses.

Then saw the mail from hari and his asking us to sign up for the online classes. sweet $735 for that. hopefully paid for by the company.

Reached work around 1 with the hope of starting KT.

but by 2 no one seems to be there ready, around 3 Sri came by for the original KT secession we had planned.
and they others were just about finishing eating their lunch.

so just decided to go off to the war room, changing the location. And everyone followed.
Asked people to open up the PPT doc that I had prepared and sent to them. ash seemed to be offended, I did not care, others got behind him and got him back again. Anyways he remained in control and did not ask unrelated questions after that as he has and had done to others in previous presentations.

I liked the way he was shut up at the Ajil meeting as the presenter Tony was not able to understand his ascent. Ash gave up asking after a few tries. Well he has to go find people who may suck up to his attantion seeking , ego maniacal side of his. Surely not going to get it pampered by me.

Anyways got mail from mat again trying is bullying ways to try and get me to teach him the finer coding skills of CTI.

Dec 16 Thursday.

Thursday Dec 16 2010

woke up around 5 and was on im with sweta in bangalore around 6:30am. as she had some softskill training.

Sent out mail to hari asking about the client details.

surprised to see mail from tara after a long time, was thinking about her yesterday. good to know she is doing fine and wanted to meet up for a beer or salsa. :)

Got to work around 12:30 and then got mail from mat for more KT secessions. around 2:56 for KT secesion for 2 hrs on monday. refused the meeting request and asked him what does he need KT on.
looks like he called up Aji and aji pinged me and asked me to come over to his room to discus.
on reaching there saw the reply mail with Ajit cced on it. wanting to know the nitty gritty of def files and scomm files.

Told aji that I am done with KT. and to teach him the basics of cti coding is not my job and he could go thru the document I sent him and learn from that.

latter we all ended up spending about 2 hrs debating over this and matt tries his cheap tricks of intimidating me. and sending a request for 1 hr each day from dec 21 2010 to jan 21 2011. Which officially was him crossing the boundries of respectabilty and resorting to harrasing me.

AFter composing the mail decide to wait till tomorrow to send it.

got online from home and was chatting with bachu and latter aji. sweta came online latter and helped me find doc related to CRM on demand.

Also saw msg from lubo, sent him a mail back explaining why i did not come to czech and that I never got his ph and details in valencia.

Dec 15 Wednesday.

Wednesday Dec 15 2010

Woke up to the alarm. But decided to sleep in after taking a peek outside and seeing the sheet of white glory - snow. got to the Computer and remotely loged in to see that sweta had left for the day. Should have tried to log in at night after returning from salsa around 2.

may try to go to office in the afternoon. Should I take out my boots!!??

And it was great waking up to read something positive.

********************************************************************

Dear Vi,

As the Sun takes a stroll first with Jupiter on the 16th and then Uranus on the 18th, the good luck you'll experience will be nothing short of a universal gift, especially after some of the more challenging experiences of late.

Jupiter represents luck and growth, while Uranus has to do with individuality, inventiveness and the unexpected. When the Sun enters the mix, these qualities come out in full force. Between the 16th and the 18th, you can expect your luck to change, but because of Uranus' love of surprise, this will be an instance where you won't have much control over the lucky breaks that come your way. Instead, they'll just fall right in your lap!

*********************************************************************

Keeping fingers crossed, lets see my trip to India gets sponsored.

dropped of car for oil change and walked to work in the snow around 1:00pm.

Gave a kt (knowledge transfer) secession to Mohan. after 1 and hslf hr he seemed not interested anymore. decided to continue on with it tomorrow.

around 4:45 went to pick up my car and was told that they changed the wiper and air filter and the total cost of oil change worked out to 64.. hmmm was living with out using the back/rear wiper. and air filter was something I usually did on my own. after labor and stuff it costed 64... thats 3 times of what it would have usually costed me.

well lesson learnt... go to the chinese shop as the other guys do.

Dec 14 Tuesday

Tuesday Dec 14 2010

Woke up the usual alarm of 5am.
Then tried to log in and connect with bangalore for to apprise Shwetha about the KT to mat and her role and how to control expectations.
To tell that there are certain things u can teach. logical reasoning, problem solving are all conditioned to by the process of Education over the years in Engineering. Something that non-engineering people would find difficult to understand as their thinking would be conditioned in a different way by the training they had in schools and colleges.

Towards evening decided to go out dancing at the Reef.

got in time to take the class. Lots of hot chicks there. surprising on a very cold day.
Had one really great dance with Pam, such a sweet heart warming smile.

getting back home just at the start of the exit to lansdale from the highway there seems to a pile of snow. It was funny that it only seemed to have snowed in Lansdale and not anywhere east towards Philly Where I came back driving from.

Dec 13 Monday

Monday Dec 13

Got chating with sweta around 7am from home.
via the office network. got to work around 11:30am after having brunch.

did not feel that good going there in the afternoon.

was there for the kt for mat. went and had a talk with aji about matts expectations and that I am not here to teach him my skill and knowledge, thats something the management has to decide and help him acquire.
And especially given the way he was rude and the arrogant way he behaved towards me in the beginning. I don't feel any sense of sympathy towards him.

aprised aji about him wanting the granular level of coding information during the KT again.

Dec 12 Sun

Sunday, Dec 12 2010

Scrum.. 8:50am... out by 3:30... breakfast and lunch... got talking with nevi and mu and usha about life outside india.

Dec 11 Sat Scrum Training

Saturday Dec 11 2010

8:45am opp apt ,,, scrum/agile training. Breakfast, lunch.

Went to the patel shop and got some malu goodies and cookies.. Achapam. ymmm

Then went and saw the movie "The Tourist".

Dec 10 Fri surprise compliments

Friday, Dec 10 2010
was at work early around 7:30 to catch sweta before she left. briefed her about what happened the day before and how we resolved the issue for the mocpop.

The saw the mails from tony who seemed to be talking in flowery words about my handling the situation.

Had lunch at work. tried to go thru some of the e-learning docs but seemed to pop up with some kind of errors. got to try it at home.

Dec 09 Thursday

Thursday Dec 09

got to work early and was trying to localzie the issue and think that its because of the event that is been sent to siebel from avaya. new code by funy-denny.

around noon sent out a mail to the avay team and they wanted to see what was happening.

again took some time to convince them, who seemed to have an attitude of wanting to blame us for the mis-happening. after showing them the various other behavior, they decided to contact funnny-denny and on the 4pm conf call aprised him.
Around 5 we got to test it after his fix applied. Phew glad that this was over with the blame on them.

Dec 08 Wednesday KT and new isues

Wednesday Dec 08 2010

1 to 3 finished kt for mat, ash and bach left in between. their loss.

around evening got mail from joe about new issue with moc.

worked upto 1am at night coordinating with sweta in bangalore.

Dec 07, getting life in order

Tuesday Dec 07 2010

woke up early and did some stretching and stomach crunches..
need to loose the accumulating stomach fat. Its been building up for lack of exercise, which is cause of lack of motivation, which compounded by the cold weather, ,,,,,

Anyways got organizing the cloths from the dryer, had been there for about 2 weeks. Again laziness or the inclination to put it off. Glad that I don't have TV.

Got the heating and electricity bill, its taken a 100 percent jump,, from about $50 to $100 all because of the heating issues.

And the real cold has not started yet. ;(((

got to get cracking on the management certification and the new technology... great opportunity that I should not miss. Have to motivate myself and incorporate more self discipline.

got to work by 7:35am and saw that sweta @ bangalore ofshore was offline for about 30 mins. guess must have taken off from work early. Got in early to give her an update on the go live and the tele call button.

Dec 06 strange mail

Monday, Dec 06 2010

reach work by 7:45am then suddenly keep getting msgs from other asking me where I am. And the last one from bachu.....
As there appeared to be some kind of glitch in the moc tele call back web link.

well it was out of the scope of cti.

was there in the war room till afternoon. then decided to get home for lunch. Got to the car, pulled out and seeing the start of snowing.. went right back to the parking spot. Walked to the canteen and had a chicken wrap with fries.

Then back to trying to set up Cti in T5 and showing srikanth the current behavior of cti screens.

Before that came the strange mail from hari about wanting to train me in on demand contactcenter. and the subsequent mail to ajit about sending me for the contact center traing, which it turns out is something online for free for cog employess at the oracle portal.

Dec 5. New moon, go live of Project ,,,end of another phase in life

Sunday, Dec 05 2010

went to work around 8am.. things went by smoothly on the cit front. nothing much to fret about.
just went and had lunch ,, pizza and chicken wings at the end around 2pm... cheers a huge phase coming to an end.

Time to go out salsa dancing tonite before it starts snowing on Tuesday.

went out dancing @ Cuba.. the cute bar tender was very sweet and friendly. kind of did not charge me the cover... said for you its on the house... woooo.. that was heart warming.

got to see that its going to snow on monday and not on tuesday as originally forecasted... glad I went out dancing today.

Dec 04 SATurday of uncertainities

Saturday, Dec 04 2010
woke up with a sense of uncertainty, not knowing if it was a working day or was it a day to take it easy.
got to see a funny Mr bean dance on FB. thats nice to start the day with a laugh.

Got to start organizing and doing partial packing. Feels great to think of all the amount I saved not having a TV and the cable. approx $1000 at the min.

Uncertain about the plan to go to India as a Canadian citizen.

Around 10 went for a run about 2kms.in the -1 deg C temp. ended up with a frozen face.

started cooking Dosa and the chicken curry. hahaha, cooking dosa after a long time was a funny experience. only got it right on the 3rd dosa.

Around 2:30 got a call from joe asking me to come in for the smoke testing at 4 or 4:30 got ready after finishing the cooking and headed to work.
was nice to see that everything went thru smoothly for the Cti part. cheers

got back around 8:30pm. tempted to go out dancing salsa. but maybe I will go to the Cuban thing on sunday. lets see if Tara is interested in going, was not able to contact her after my return from Spain.

Dec 03 fri, last day of R19 project.

Friday, Dec 03 2010
This is the last official day of the R19 release of the project. from evening onwards starts the work on moving all the work done by people into production.

woke up early to go and talk with swetha. actually connect from home and gave her a brief on what to expect and to do. reached office by 7:20 and talked to her on the phone.

short cts

market seems to be wishy washy, expecting it to go down.

In the evening set up the 4 nbg machines to point to prod for testing on the weekend.

Then since people were staying back to work during the night, me and basu went and got Thai food. yummmm yellow curry in coconut milk.

got back home around 8:45pm. 13 hrs at work

Dec 2nd Thu,, yahoo blocke at office

Thursday Dec 02 2010... (12-02-2010)

Woke up around 5am to the sound of the cell phone alarm. And guess where I woke up, on the couch. Don't know when i passed out there.
The made my way to the bed room to shut off the alarm and jumped on to the bed to wake up around 6:45. wow. I must be really tired or getting too lazy.

Had even dressed up yesterday evening to go run and ended up watching funny clips on Facbook.
Well maybe tonite I run.

talked with bosco about the next possible assignment. so might end up in VA. lets see how that goes.

Dec 1st... last month of exciting 2010

Wednesday Dec 01 - 2010 (12-01-2010)

Last month of an exciting year.
Winter olympics
Spain
Portugal
Working in NY
Working in Lansdale
Hiking around Philly

The multitude of people I got to meet.

Got to know the depth and extend I could go for compromising in the name of love, just that it was for someone who did not deserve it and was not worth it. hehehe,, good lesson learnt to trust my instincts even more.

Some people are not good with it and hence "do not draw to conclusions too soon" applies to them.
And I have to learn to trust my instincts more now as they seem to be on target and on the money.
I am truly blessed with something unique. :)

It was nice to know that this is the last month of my project here and will have to move on to other location. Fingers crossed.