Sat, Jul10 2010
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2nd day of training. woke up after a not so great sleep. Kept waking up almost to the hour. Kind of not focused. Maybe meeting too many people, exposed to too much info, brain on hyper mode, too strong a coffee yesterday at the office HQ.
Call up Srikanth in the neighbouring room around 7:30 to be ready by 8am to reach the Marriot by 8:15am.
Have complimentray breakfast of fruits and starbucks coffee.
Day goes on, with more orientation and networking. Not really sure. But the majority of the guys been Indians, there seems to be a very distinct difference in behavior of the non-Indians and the Indians, who seem to be behaving like kids out of school. :)
And one guy constantly remarking about the american attitude towards work not been that good as Indian, Very touchy subject, and non of the Americans were rude to make any comment about it. One of the subjects was about motivating a 60 year old guy who was in that guys team.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
jul 9th off for Training in NJ
Friday, jul 9th 2010
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jul 9th off for Training in NJ. No salsa for tonite.
So what, need to start focusing on self development.
woke up 4am and need to get out of the house by 5:30 to 6am , There is a 2 hr drive, over 100 miles, have to drive past the locations of jersey city and NY down town parallel on I-95.
Started off @6am.
Sometimes reaching speads of over 80 miles per hr reached destination around 7:45am. That was good driving, traffic could have been worse.
The rent @ marriot was like $260 per night, with company discount it was like 169. Decided to check what the other guys in the camp will be doing.
Turns out that a few booked into the Marriot, others live around the area, few married with kids decided to commute 2hrs each way for the 3 days. I decided to join Srikanth at the Days Inn about 2 miles away.
Breakfast, lunch and snacks were served.
Training was a better understanding of myself as a Integrator manager. Need to get into more of Director/Administrator mode.
There were 3 guys who were with the company for more than 10 years.
The group of about 25 was 21 poople of Indian origin and 4 cacausions.
Evening booked the room from outside the hotel, hijacking the wi-fi, used Hotels.com and got the room for $81 per night. At the desk it was around $100. (Lessons learned from Hiking trip last year).
Then called up Eric the instructor as he proposed meeting up for dinner. They aready left for the river side mall for a restaurant called Monsanto steak house. So asked Srikanth if he was interested. He said yes and so drove over to that place.
Pricey, just having a piece of Steak was like $50 plus $10 tip.
But it was nice to network and getting to know the personal life styles of the two ladies from Mass. One has a dog and carries a gun. The other the unmarried and cuter one was into recruiting for the company, used to drive bikes (motor-750CC).
Back to the motel, my stomach was in revolution mode. should have had lime or wine with the steak.
Watched a bit of TV and and passed out.
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jul 9th off for Training in NJ. No salsa for tonite.
So what, need to start focusing on self development.
woke up 4am and need to get out of the house by 5:30 to 6am , There is a 2 hr drive, over 100 miles, have to drive past the locations of jersey city and NY down town parallel on I-95.
Started off @6am.
Sometimes reaching speads of over 80 miles per hr reached destination around 7:45am. That was good driving, traffic could have been worse.
The rent @ marriot was like $260 per night, with company discount it was like 169. Decided to check what the other guys in the camp will be doing.
Turns out that a few booked into the Marriot, others live around the area, few married with kids decided to commute 2hrs each way for the 3 days. I decided to join Srikanth at the Days Inn about 2 miles away.
Breakfast, lunch and snacks were served.
Training was a better understanding of myself as a Integrator manager. Need to get into more of Director/Administrator mode.
There were 3 guys who were with the company for more than 10 years.
The group of about 25 was 21 poople of Indian origin and 4 cacausions.
Evening booked the room from outside the hotel, hijacking the wi-fi, used Hotels.com and got the room for $81 per night. At the desk it was around $100. (Lessons learned from Hiking trip last year).
Then called up Eric the instructor as he proposed meeting up for dinner. They aready left for the river side mall for a restaurant called Monsanto steak house. So asked Srikanth if he was interested. He said yes and so drove over to that place.
Pricey, just having a piece of Steak was like $50 plus $10 tip.
But it was nice to network and getting to know the personal life styles of the two ladies from Mass. One has a dog and carries a gun. The other the unmarried and cuter one was into recruiting for the company, used to drive bikes (motor-750CC).
Back to the motel, my stomach was in revolution mode. should have had lime or wine with the steak.
Watched a bit of TV and and passed out.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Jul 8th training approval
Thursday, Jul 8th 2010
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Got approved and a seat for the Training in Teneck New Jersey. for 3 days over the weekend Fri to sunday. Okay this is going to be either a weekend of slogging and no partying or great party.
Lets see. need to notify Ajit about it as its on Friday and into sunday, may try to check into the marriot itself.
And again there is training at Courtyard Wilmington Newark/Christiana Mall, 48 Geoffrey Drive, Newark, DE 19713 on 13 and 14. Wow the stars of training have all lined up. cheers to getting my mind off, worring about Eva and her safety for sometime.
How is it things seem to happen in a certain way. So much of coincedence and so many things seem to happen in such a way that I could not even dream off. Most of it seems to make me feel good about the future and then suddenly when I start making plans in one direction, things seem to go out of wack. Like life is telling me just go with the flow, your detailed plans and other attractions and expectations will only collapse.
How many times can my soul keep getting beaten and raise up. Sometimes I feel like giving up. Then like a child who forgets the bad experience soon, I just seem to bounce back. Is it because of my own foolishness or my child like sincerity?
Atleast this way I am not thinking negative thoughts much. :)
You can tell someone to go to hell, that’s your right. But wait till tomorrow and see how you feel : )
advice Mr Buffet got from someone. :)
Got call and then mail from aji to go ahead with the training of tomorrow.
Called up Evi around 7:30pm her time. In Dharmasala and enjoying the nature there. :)
maybe going to Manali tomorrow or day after. Good to know that she is safe.
Lunch at home. the other guys are already crying about me not having much work to do.
So return back. need to check on the credit card at TD. guess I am not destined for the TD credit card.
Went there around 5pm and the lady there was not really helpful.
Returned home, was feeling tired. So hit the bed and woke up around 8pm, went for a walk and then talked with AV who was waiting for his flight to San Jose.
Then got down to packing for the weekend training at NJ. Should be a great weekend. will miss out of the latin festival in Philly on sat. :( aww well need to improve self more. FOCUS.
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Got approved and a seat for the Training in Teneck New Jersey. for 3 days over the weekend Fri to sunday. Okay this is going to be either a weekend of slogging and no partying or great party.
Lets see. need to notify Ajit about it as its on Friday and into sunday, may try to check into the marriot itself.
And again there is training at Courtyard Wilmington Newark/Christiana Mall, 48 Geoffrey Drive, Newark, DE 19713 on 13 and 14. Wow the stars of training have all lined up. cheers to getting my mind off, worring about Eva and her safety for sometime.
How is it things seem to happen in a certain way. So much of coincedence and so many things seem to happen in such a way that I could not even dream off. Most of it seems to make me feel good about the future and then suddenly when I start making plans in one direction, things seem to go out of wack. Like life is telling me just go with the flow, your detailed plans and other attractions and expectations will only collapse.
How many times can my soul keep getting beaten and raise up. Sometimes I feel like giving up. Then like a child who forgets the bad experience soon, I just seem to bounce back. Is it because of my own foolishness or my child like sincerity?
Atleast this way I am not thinking negative thoughts much. :)
You can tell someone to go to hell, that’s your right. But wait till tomorrow and see how you feel : )
advice Mr Buffet got from someone. :)
Got call and then mail from aji to go ahead with the training of tomorrow.
Called up Evi around 7:30pm her time. In Dharmasala and enjoying the nature there. :)
maybe going to Manali tomorrow or day after. Good to know that she is safe.
Lunch at home. the other guys are already crying about me not having much work to do.
So return back. need to check on the credit card at TD. guess I am not destined for the TD credit card.
Went there around 5pm and the lady there was not really helpful.
Returned home, was feeling tired. So hit the bed and woke up around 8pm, went for a walk and then talked with AV who was waiting for his flight to San Jose.
Then got down to packing for the weekend training at NJ. Should be a great weekend. will miss out of the latin festival in Philly on sat. :( aww well need to improve self more. FOCUS.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Jul 7th warm sleep day
Wed, Jul-07-2010
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Woke up early, was trying to call E on cell to see if they reached safely at Amritsar, Phone seems to be switched off. Hopefully everything is fine and just that they must be in the golden temple. 6:40am time to head to work.
Just barely make it past the first railway gate and get stopped at the 2nd. All because my Ginger Tea was too hot and had to cool it down. Matter of seconds and how things have a cascading effect. Like everything in life. We make choices and there is always a ripple effect. :)
Reach in time of the call @7am. 7:30 it was over, that is a record. led by RajD
Tried calling up to see if E was okay in Amritsar, still phone switched off. Not sure if the guy they met on the train led them to the right place. As she told me yesterday that their train got delayed to start in Delhi and will be reaching Amritsar at mid-night.
Got my Tracking doc in order for the bugs and fixes done.
10 to 11 status meeting with sang
Around 11amEST / 8:30pmIST was able to talk with Eva, she said she was booking hotel for or in Dharmasala and asked to call latter.
Well atleast glad to know that she is doing well. :)
Afternoon went to Rajs house to watch the ger-esp match. Lost $20 betting on Ger.
Got back home and saw the replay. Talked with Nar, told him that I did not like the fact that he tried to set me up with that friend of his. Thou I tried been the good host. She was good enough to call me and leave a message saying that she arrived safely in Huston.
Latter at night called up Anil in dallas and chatted for a bit.
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Woke up early, was trying to call E on cell to see if they reached safely at Amritsar, Phone seems to be switched off. Hopefully everything is fine and just that they must be in the golden temple. 6:40am time to head to work.
Just barely make it past the first railway gate and get stopped at the 2nd. All because my Ginger Tea was too hot and had to cool it down. Matter of seconds and how things have a cascading effect. Like everything in life. We make choices and there is always a ripple effect. :)
Reach in time of the call @7am. 7:30 it was over, that is a record. led by RajD
Tried calling up to see if E was okay in Amritsar, still phone switched off. Not sure if the guy they met on the train led them to the right place. As she told me yesterday that their train got delayed to start in Delhi and will be reaching Amritsar at mid-night.
Got my Tracking doc in order for the bugs and fixes done.
10 to 11 status meeting with sang
Around 11amEST / 8:30pmIST was able to talk with Eva, she said she was booking hotel for or in Dharmasala and asked to call latter.
Well atleast glad to know that she is doing well. :)
Afternoon went to Rajs house to watch the ger-esp match. Lost $20 betting on Ger.
Got back home and saw the replay. Talked with Nar, told him that I did not like the fact that he tried to set me up with that friend of his. Thou I tried been the good host. She was good enough to call me and leave a message saying that she arrived safely in Huston.
Latter at night called up Anil in dallas and chatted for a bit.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
July 6th tue
Tuesday, 6th July 2010
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Woke up @2:15am, we were all ready to go by 3:15am, dropped off Sreja at Philadelphia airport by 4:15am. Returned to lansdale by 5:AM and viki takes off to alentown. Try to get a few more winks of sleep in.
7am Not ready for conf call at work. so take it up thru skype.
8am, finish
by 845 completed showering and eating. time to head to work. :) for a 4 day week. :)
10am call up Eva using calling card. Seems to be on a train bound for Amritstar, scheduled to reach Golden temple by midnight. Talked for a few mins. She was not able to hear me. Seems to be planning on staying at the Golden temple, as one guy traveling with them in the train seems to be going close to it and maybe able to take them there.
Got back home around 1:15pm decided to stay back and work from home. Was having a kind of mild head aech and feeling drowsy.
Had some rice and curry and then ended up laying down and trying to connect to work a few times.
wanted to go out running or do something out doors. but ended up indoors..
woke up on the couch around 11pm and then decided to just go to sleep again in the bedroom. :(
Guess I was too tired and worn out after 3 days of hiking and hardly 2 hrs sleep on Moday night to drop of Sreeja and viki at the Phila airport.
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Woke up @2:15am, we were all ready to go by 3:15am, dropped off Sreja at Philadelphia airport by 4:15am. Returned to lansdale by 5:AM and viki takes off to alentown. Try to get a few more winks of sleep in.
7am Not ready for conf call at work. so take it up thru skype.
8am, finish
by 845 completed showering and eating. time to head to work. :) for a 4 day week. :)
10am call up Eva using calling card. Seems to be on a train bound for Amritstar, scheduled to reach Golden temple by midnight. Talked for a few mins. She was not able to hear me. Seems to be planning on staying at the Golden temple, as one guy traveling with them in the train seems to be going close to it and maybe able to take them there.
Got back home around 1:15pm decided to stay back and work from home. Was having a kind of mild head aech and feeling drowsy.
Had some rice and curry and then ended up laying down and trying to connect to work a few times.
wanted to go out running or do something out doors. but ended up indoors..
woke up on the couch around 11pm and then decided to just go to sleep again in the bedroom. :(
Guess I was too tired and worn out after 3 days of hiking and hardly 2 hrs sleep on Moday night to drop of Sreeja and viki at the Phila airport.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Monday holdiday jul5th, srej narayans friend comes
Monday, 5th of Jul
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Its about 8am and I am thinking about whats happening in India with the Strike.
Was E able to get on to her train which was at 5pm.
I woke up as usual around 5am but did not feel like getting out of bed. lay there till 7:30am on and off sleep.
9:45 there is a hike at chestnut hill, turned my maybe into a yes. followed by lunch at amans
got to get ready and drive over. maybe call E from there.
9:11am off for the hike.
Call up Eva on the way, she seems to have gotten on to the train to New Delhi and was not able to hear me properly.
9:45 reach Sidneys place, 10am start hike. 12 we are all back to the start.
Few people drop off and the rest car pool and head to Amans for Indian Buffet. The standard india fair. But the deserts were having a great variety.
Rice pudding, Carrot Halwa, mango pudding, Ras malai, Gulab jamun.
Drop off Marty at Northwales station where he stays and then reach home 2:30pm.
4:30wake up and call Narayan after seeing a few missed calls. Said his friend Sreja (who he was trying to get me interested in) was coming to my place along with Viki and needs to dropped off at the airport the next morning around 5am.
Was watching the match of netherlands - brazil when they turn up.
Chatted for a couple of hrs, had the last of the ice-cream cones, then decided to go for a walk and on the way viki mentioned about the farm. So went there had more icecream from fresh milk off the farm.
Wanted to play the miniature golf. But viki did not seem interested cause of a leg injury when they went rafting yesterday. :(
Ended up going to Sultan for dinner but they were about to be closed. So ordered a take out. Satwant who is the manager there was going to Vancouver next week and he was telling me his plans and suggested a few things to him.
We got the veggi dishes, after getting back to my house, I cooked up the Kerala Parota (from kerala) and ate it with the chicken curry and rice.
Went to sleep about 12 mid-night , to wake up at 2:15 am.
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Its about 8am and I am thinking about whats happening in India with the Strike.
Was E able to get on to her train which was at 5pm.
I woke up as usual around 5am but did not feel like getting out of bed. lay there till 7:30am on and off sleep.
9:45 there is a hike at chestnut hill, turned my maybe into a yes. followed by lunch at amans
got to get ready and drive over. maybe call E from there.
9:11am off for the hike.
Call up Eva on the way, she seems to have gotten on to the train to New Delhi and was not able to hear me properly.
9:45 reach Sidneys place, 10am start hike. 12 we are all back to the start.
Few people drop off and the rest car pool and head to Amans for Indian Buffet. The standard india fair. But the deserts were having a great variety.
Rice pudding, Carrot Halwa, mango pudding, Ras malai, Gulab jamun.
Drop off Marty at Northwales station where he stays and then reach home 2:30pm.
4:30wake up and call Narayan after seeing a few missed calls. Said his friend Sreja (who he was trying to get me interested in) was coming to my place along with Viki and needs to dropped off at the airport the next morning around 5am.
Was watching the match of netherlands - brazil when they turn up.
Chatted for a couple of hrs, had the last of the ice-cream cones, then decided to go for a walk and on the way viki mentioned about the farm. So went there had more icecream from fresh milk off the farm.
Wanted to play the miniature golf. But viki did not seem interested cause of a leg injury when they went rafting yesterday. :(
Ended up going to Sultan for dinner but they were about to be closed. So ordered a take out. Satwant who is the manager there was going to Vancouver next week and he was telling me his plans and suggested a few things to him.
We got the veggi dishes, after getting back to my house, I cooked up the Kerala Parota (from kerala) and ate it with the chicken curry and rice.
Went to sleep about 12 mid-night , to wake up at 2:15 am.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
July 4th
Sunday, 4th of July 2010
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got out of bed around 830am. need to rush to sidneys place for the july 4th hike in about 2 hrs.
9:30 got call from rajan regarding going out for the fire works, so told him that I was going on a hike and maybe in downtown in the evening, they are having a latin day celebrations at penns landing today. :)
8:10pm Just got back from the hike. 5 hrs of hiking in the heat, one person iin the group got heat stroke. It was an exhausting 5 hrs especially for me as I got to sleep for just 3 hrs before I woke up called up home.
Talked with Aunt who is having B-cancer. She is slowly starting to eat more soup and sounded exhausted. She is staying with the other aunt.
Adhira got a admission into one of the Engineering colleges. So she is focusing on becoming an engineer than becoming a doctor.
Wish she would have tried to become a doc instead. :(
Thru out the hike I was kind of sleepy and brain dead. So was not really social with the new members of the hike.
Feel bad, but the conditions were like that.
Raj was trying get me to stay in downtown so that he could get a ride back with me after the fire works. I was in no mood to stay till 11pm as the fire works starts @ 10:30pm after sunset which is around 9:30-10pm
on the way back stopped for a few mins at a stage in downtown where they were playing latin music and danced one salsa with a gal who was wearing sandles. poor gal.
but that kind of made me feel energetic.
then most of us took the train back to chestnut hill. I got into my car, feeling the cramps starting in my leg.
Last time I felt cramped was at Yosomethi hike with Eva and was sore for the rest of the week. That did not allow me to be confident to go down the Grand Canyon. I am suddenly reminded how eva was again upset only thinking about her own needs and not even caring to understand how much of physical pain I was in and had driven from Yosomethie to Las Vegas non stop, while she slept.
That night at Las vegas I said no matter what I am going to enjoy this night. And if you are coming with me come but don't expect me to drive you back if you are feeling bored. I motivated myself to enjoy your hobbies and your fancies. And this is something I like, the least she could do was be nice. But all she did was sulk and it and had a stand-offish face and did not want to enjoy the nighly beauty of Las Vegas. All she thought was this so not European about Ceasers palace. Hey this the least they could do and I think they did it in grand style.
Then I liked the next day at Hoover dam. as she seem to mellow down in the heat and I was feeling better about her attitude.
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got out of bed around 830am. need to rush to sidneys place for the july 4th hike in about 2 hrs.
9:30 got call from rajan regarding going out for the fire works, so told him that I was going on a hike and maybe in downtown in the evening, they are having a latin day celebrations at penns landing today. :)
8:10pm Just got back from the hike. 5 hrs of hiking in the heat, one person iin the group got heat stroke. It was an exhausting 5 hrs especially for me as I got to sleep for just 3 hrs before I woke up called up home.
Talked with Aunt who is having B-cancer. She is slowly starting to eat more soup and sounded exhausted. She is staying with the other aunt.
Adhira got a admission into one of the Engineering colleges. So she is focusing on becoming an engineer than becoming a doctor.
Wish she would have tried to become a doc instead. :(
Thru out the hike I was kind of sleepy and brain dead. So was not really social with the new members of the hike.
Feel bad, but the conditions were like that.
Raj was trying get me to stay in downtown so that he could get a ride back with me after the fire works. I was in no mood to stay till 11pm as the fire works starts @ 10:30pm after sunset which is around 9:30-10pm
on the way back stopped for a few mins at a stage in downtown where they were playing latin music and danced one salsa with a gal who was wearing sandles. poor gal.
but that kind of made me feel energetic.
then most of us took the train back to chestnut hill. I got into my car, feeling the cramps starting in my leg.
Last time I felt cramped was at Yosomethi hike with Eva and was sore for the rest of the week. That did not allow me to be confident to go down the Grand Canyon. I am suddenly reminded how eva was again upset only thinking about her own needs and not even caring to understand how much of physical pain I was in and had driven from Yosomethie to Las Vegas non stop, while she slept.
That night at Las vegas I said no matter what I am going to enjoy this night. And if you are coming with me come but don't expect me to drive you back if you are feeling bored. I motivated myself to enjoy your hobbies and your fancies. And this is something I like, the least she could do was be nice. But all she did was sulk and it and had a stand-offish face and did not want to enjoy the nighly beauty of Las Vegas. All she thought was this so not European about Ceasers palace. Hey this the least they could do and I think they did it in grand style.
Then I liked the next day at Hoover dam. as she seem to mellow down in the heat and I was feeling better about her attitude.
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