Saturday, 22 Aug 2010
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Woke up around 7 with anils two kids standing and talking in hushed voices. Tried to scare them by saying boooo... hit it off with them kids. very social and high energy. So this is what Anil ment by them coming and waking me up in the morning. hehehe.
Had chicken, egg and chapathi for breakfast. nicee..
then we went out to different shops for his weekly family shopping.
First stop at the post office to send the pair of shorts he got to sell on Ebay. Huge crowd. so we backed out. and went to the malu shop. Wow, all the brands that I use for cooking was there and it felt like partially been back at home.
He brought a huge fish.
I brought some masala powder for the fish and meat, have to get it past airport security. Mostly with the hope of giving it to Eva and her parents when I meet them in Czech republic. Got the Eastern Fish Masalsa for Salmon curry.
Then we went to Target, eyeing all the lovely ladies in barest min showing off their assesets. hehehe.. well it was really hot outside. 100 plus deg F.
And then again back to Post office to and been a saturday it was closed by 12.
so we used the automated vending machine to weigh and post the package.
Back to his house about 2:30 and I was getting a head ach. So went up to my bed and just fell asleep. mistake as Anil and his wife ended up waiting for me to come down and have lunch.
So we all had lunch around 4 to 4:30pm and after that Anil and me decided to try out the bowling alley.
IT was a nice game, we got to play about 3.5 games in 1 hr slot. had a dark beer on the pitcher, it was kind of just water, we did not get any kick.
Anils kids and wife went for a Birthday party in the neighbor hood. So we returned back and started having bloody mary. I was not in a great shape to have more than one.
Then his kids returned back with their gifts and it was nice to see them all as a family trying to live it as a team. Not sure how the situation would have been if he had a non-indian wife. Who was going way beyond and been the tradition indian wife and trying to be the great host. wow! really made me think and appreciate the sacrifices the indian ladies make compared to the western wifes. Who would have probably got angry at my coming and asked him to order a take out or made me stay in a hotel.
And his wife is working too.
Got to see how it was difficult to try a raise a kid who was kind of having his own issues of not been able to sleep cause of dry skin and is learning to communicate as he grows up. Little things like this that put a family to test their patience and their ability to work as a team. And like every family he said they do have huge arguments that blow out, but been more tuned to Indian mentality, they patch up and live it out for the kids and the team as a whole.
ITs a different thing when you have a very sweet and quite kid. but not sure if I would be able to handle the pressure of having wild kids who may be always fighting. reminded me of why Chad did not want to have kids at all.
wonder if eva would ever be able to handle this kind of pressure, she would probably be so angry, might dump alll and just run away to some hike.
and anil said that one of his North indian friends wife just did that same thing, dumped the guy and their two daughters and just went away.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Aug 20, trip to Dallas
Friday Aug 20 2010
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Woke up early with the pressue of reaching work before 6:30am Got to work by 6:50am.
got ready to have an early call with Sweta from offshore.
Started KT with sweta around 7:30 in the war room was not able to call her net number so she again ended up calling me.
in between talked about her trip to vayanad in kerala and told her to go visit virajpet and travel to kerala from there. ahh was feeling nostialigic. so changed the subject before I start feeling home sick. more
2pm made it out after submiting the code review to ashish.
out of home after last minute packing with just the back pack by 3.. 3:10pm.
Did not expect the traffic. Just barely reached the airport about 5pm no time for parking so just drove into the airport hoping for the closer parking. and missed the costly one and ended up in the economy parking for $11. Then it was so full only got parking place at the very end. Luckily the pick up bus came by .. ran to get on to it.
landed DWF 8:44pm CST. met Anil who got lost in the airport around 9:45
Reached his house around 11pm
His poor wife was also waiting up
We had a couple of drinks, catching up on the past.... loved his new Car, of $40,000 only , fully loaded. Its huge Honda Pilot. I could have lived in it as a mobile studio apartment.
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Woke up early with the pressue of reaching work before 6:30am Got to work by 6:50am.
got ready to have an early call with Sweta from offshore.
Started KT with sweta around 7:30 in the war room was not able to call her net number so she again ended up calling me.
in between talked about her trip to vayanad in kerala and told her to go visit virajpet and travel to kerala from there. ahh was feeling nostialigic. so changed the subject before I start feeling home sick. more
2pm made it out after submiting the code review to ashish.
out of home after last minute packing with just the back pack by 3.. 3:10pm.
Did not expect the traffic. Just barely reached the airport about 5pm no time for parking so just drove into the airport hoping for the closer parking. and missed the costly one and ended up in the economy parking for $11. Then it was so full only got parking place at the very end. Luckily the pick up bus came by .. ran to get on to it.
landed DWF 8:44pm CST. met Anil who got lost in the airport around 9:45
Reached his house around 11pm
His poor wife was also waiting up
We had a couple of drinks, catching up on the past.... loved his new Car, of $40,000 only , fully loaded. Its huge Honda Pilot. I could have lived in it as a mobile studio apartment.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Aug 19 Phew what a night it was yesterday
Thursday 19-Aug-2010
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got out of bed around 5:55am :) no breakfast as usual, was not able to finish the Tea. Rushed out and reached work around 7:05am. Then had issues of connectivity. Got chating with sweta on her new connection and remote machine.
around 8 after the call went to the war room to show her the test envi. again issues with making an out bound net meeting call. was calling her number when she called me up.
Showed her the Mvc email that comes as additional only seen in test and not dev.
I am still buzzed with yesterday nights salsa and my best merengue thus far in philly, asked one gal who I thought was nice and she said no, and suddenly a sweet looking chinese gal walks over across the room and asks me to dance,,,,, wooohooo. And she danced like a pro. Turns out that she is from Oreagon. She was so easy to lead. Attitude I guess is the key to a partnership. Something I had difficulty in leading Eva, even from the first dance. That was the first sign that I ignored and let things happen. But again attitude is something that can be changed and worked on if the person is willing to. And given Eavs attitude of I am mightier than anyone and no one can tell me anything, I am too perfect for any critizism... pffff
And like a fool I was trying and trying and trying hoping that she would also put in some effort. Well for someone who tries to preach and live a superficial life of only showing off to other people that is not the whole truth, it is not something that will suit in their way of life. Not even the attitude of acceptance of all the lies she said and rather tries to turn the table on me and said that I am going around telling stories about her,,, hahaha..... re-read that mail to Amit so many times to see where I must have presented something that was not true..... its a lost cause when someone already had made up her mind to go in a different direction with someone else..... they will try to tell as many stories about me as possible to make me into the Villian so that they are not accused by others of been EVIL. and in a big way to justify that their own evil actions are right.
And after repeatedly telling the lies about me, even they soon start believeing the lies they say about me. And soon the subconsicious mind takes over and they are not able to face the truth even if its right in front of their eyes.
Tried to teach malini the polka bachata, she seemed nervous but seems to improve much more.
the crowd on wednesday looks and feels much better than on weekends.
3pm to 4 test status meeting.
In between worked on cleaning up the code and documenting it in the r19 Configuration Items1.xls
5:30 take off and drop Anoy at his apt and go home. plan to pick him up latter to go to King of Purssia mall.
around 6:45 get back and pick Anoy and head to the mall. Huge mall, with all the branded names. Was not able to find anything to buy for Anil and famil. Anoy brought a pair of dress.
9:30 get back to Sultan for some punjabi chicken biriyani.. not anywhere as good as the real biriyani.
10:30 drop him off and head home. to pack. just planning on talking a back pack, practice for the Euro trip.
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got out of bed around 5:55am :) no breakfast as usual, was not able to finish the Tea. Rushed out and reached work around 7:05am. Then had issues of connectivity. Got chating with sweta on her new connection and remote machine.
around 8 after the call went to the war room to show her the test envi. again issues with making an out bound net meeting call. was calling her number when she called me up.
Showed her the Mvc email that comes as additional only seen in test and not dev.
I am still buzzed with yesterday nights salsa and my best merengue thus far in philly, asked one gal who I thought was nice and she said no, and suddenly a sweet looking chinese gal walks over across the room and asks me to dance,,,,, wooohooo. And she danced like a pro. Turns out that she is from Oreagon. She was so easy to lead. Attitude I guess is the key to a partnership. Something I had difficulty in leading Eva, even from the first dance. That was the first sign that I ignored and let things happen. But again attitude is something that can be changed and worked on if the person is willing to. And given Eavs attitude of I am mightier than anyone and no one can tell me anything, I am too perfect for any critizism... pffff
And like a fool I was trying and trying and trying hoping that she would also put in some effort. Well for someone who tries to preach and live a superficial life of only showing off to other people that is not the whole truth, it is not something that will suit in their way of life. Not even the attitude of acceptance of all the lies she said and rather tries to turn the table on me and said that I am going around telling stories about her,,, hahaha..... re-read that mail to Amit so many times to see where I must have presented something that was not true..... its a lost cause when someone already had made up her mind to go in a different direction with someone else..... they will try to tell as many stories about me as possible to make me into the Villian so that they are not accused by others of been EVIL. and in a big way to justify that their own evil actions are right.
And after repeatedly telling the lies about me, even they soon start believeing the lies they say about me. And soon the subconsicious mind takes over and they are not able to face the truth even if its right in front of their eyes.
Tried to teach malini the polka bachata, she seemed nervous but seems to improve much more.
the crowd on wednesday looks and feels much better than on weekends.
3pm to 4 test status meeting.
In between worked on cleaning up the code and documenting it in the r19 Configuration Items1.xls
5:30 take off and drop Anoy at his apt and go home. plan to pick him up latter to go to King of Purssia mall.
around 6:45 get back and pick Anoy and head to the mall. Huge mall, with all the branded names. Was not able to find anything to buy for Anil and famil. Anoy brought a pair of dress.
9:30 get back to Sultan for some punjabi chicken biriyani.. not anywhere as good as the real biriyani.
10:30 drop him off and head home. to pack. just planning on talking a back pack, practice for the Euro trip.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Aug 18 Wed, got to get moving in life
Wednesday 18 Aug 2010
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After hitting the bed early with a lack luster sleep and looking for direction in life and the web of confusing clutter. woke up with the alarm at 5am and must have hit snooze atleast 6 times. Only got out of bed thinking about the conf call to bangalore. Had ginger tea and made it to work by 7:05am.
The climate outside is all dark and cloudy, but the forecast says sun. hehehe.. life and predictions. If what is in mordern day considered scientific weather forecast can go so wrong whats the guarantee and why is it so difficult to accept Astrological forecasts :) good Question.
Finished demo by 8:50 so that sweta can go catch her bus at 6:30 from office in bangalore. She reaches home around 8: to 8:30pm. two hrs of travel.
10to 11 weekly status meeting. and 3 to 4 QC meeting.
sangi asks me to work on the OMC code . to seperate the screen pop code from mvc. Atlast some work,, tried doing the Unit testing on dev, but seems not set up in avaya, so try and do that in the war room in test envi.
in between went to the bank and deposited the check I got from vancouver for the house deposite.
Around 5:45pm when stepping out of the office saw that malini had send a text msg for goin out salsa dancing. thats a good motivator. call her back and we planned on been there by 9.
told her that I am kind of feeling depressed and low thinking about my life and she was even more charged to motivate me to go out dancing.
Called up narayan and, Same thing I got from narayan in the evening after that to go out and socialize.
Got call from muhu and told him about the letter he accidently sent to me along with my mails.
8:18 too late to have anything for dinner, got call from malini that she is on her way from new jersey... so rushed thru some chips and washed it down with a bit of scotch.
Reached brasils around 9:40 great parking place... too many men than women. so sat out for the class. malini seems to enjoy it. and there were lot more hot and smoking hot looking girls.
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After hitting the bed early with a lack luster sleep and looking for direction in life and the web of confusing clutter. woke up with the alarm at 5am and must have hit snooze atleast 6 times. Only got out of bed thinking about the conf call to bangalore. Had ginger tea and made it to work by 7:05am.
The climate outside is all dark and cloudy, but the forecast says sun. hehehe.. life and predictions. If what is in mordern day considered scientific weather forecast can go so wrong whats the guarantee and why is it so difficult to accept Astrological forecasts :) good Question.
Finished demo by 8:50 so that sweta can go catch her bus at 6:30 from office in bangalore. She reaches home around 8: to 8:30pm. two hrs of travel.
10to 11 weekly status meeting. and 3 to 4 QC meeting.
sangi asks me to work on the OMC code . to seperate the screen pop code from mvc. Atlast some work,, tried doing the Unit testing on dev, but seems not set up in avaya, so try and do that in the war room in test envi.
in between went to the bank and deposited the check I got from vancouver for the house deposite.
Around 5:45pm when stepping out of the office saw that malini had send a text msg for goin out salsa dancing. thats a good motivator. call her back and we planned on been there by 9.
told her that I am kind of feeling depressed and low thinking about my life and she was even more charged to motivate me to go out dancing.
Called up narayan and, Same thing I got from narayan in the evening after that to go out and socialize.
Got call from muhu and told him about the letter he accidently sent to me along with my mails.
8:18 too late to have anything for dinner, got call from malini that she is on her way from new jersey... so rushed thru some chips and washed it down with a bit of scotch.
Reached brasils around 9:40 great parking place... too many men than women. so sat out for the class. malini seems to enjoy it. and there were lot more hot and smoking hot looking girls.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Aug 17 Tuesday, got mail from Raj-finland
Tuesday Aug 17 2010
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Again the same lethargy to wake up to the 5am alarm. out of bed only by 6am made it to work around 7:05am and log on to the conf to be told by aji that our conf was else where. Sweta was on the call and heard something about Argentina in the call.
Had talk with her in bangalore upto 9am.
Got mail from RajUnn about his trip to Cali from fin.
getting ready for the trip to Dallas, still trying to figure out what gift I can buy for Anil and family. Malinis suggest of ice-cream maker sounded good, but I am traveling light with just the carry on. Its friday in and sunday evening out......
Afternoon ajay sends me a msg asking to go out to Dosa hut. So end up going there with ajay and anoy. Interesting inputs about experience from ajay. He is just got engaged last month after going to india and seems to have met a very good kashmiri gal. thou he grew up in mumbai. he went back last month after 4 years.
So agree with him about the wifey qualities that a guy looks for in a women he wants to marry and have a family with. ITs just not the question of Western women, even in India many women in the cities are so filled with Ego and wanting to be free they have little regard for the FAMILY and the need to be compromising and sacrificing our own individuality for the sake of the TEAM(FAMILY). Thats what team work is all about.
Just heard about a women who strapped her kids to the car seat and dorve it into a river. It seems she wanted to be free.
Sometimes when I think of the way Eva gets angry and reacts, I sometimes get the image of a angry women who may just kill all her kids and just go to be free from any responsibilities and accountability and go around the world. Hope things like that do not happen to her or anyone.
3 to 4 meeting test team.
Most to time was trying to log on to deve3 to complete the tests and understand the limits of what we have as compared to Test. mails going back and forth with Mat and then the bunch of noise makers tony and li wang. who seem to not have much to do other than going around trying to make a big deal about something that is not impacting them at all.
Got home early, was feeling lethargic and lazy. The intention and motivation to go out running lost the battle to hunger and after a heavy beef curry and rice dinner was in no mood to run..... just found that I almost put on about 8 pounds the past week. ahhhhh
Got to see bachelor pad..... wooo it was so revealing to see how low the loyalty factor in women are, how deviously calculating and manipulative they are. And how they paint a guy as bad viciously as possible with zero sense of accountibilty to their own actions..... its kind of like a universal disease that beautiful women seem to have. Like been blessed with the power of beauty that seems to drive most men crazy. Seems to paralyze their logical sense of thinking and bring about thier sexual greed out. After that he is no longer a human being, more living with the brain of a animal in heat. :)
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Again the same lethargy to wake up to the 5am alarm. out of bed only by 6am made it to work around 7:05am and log on to the conf to be told by aji that our conf was else where. Sweta was on the call and heard something about Argentina in the call.
Had talk with her in bangalore upto 9am.
Got mail from RajUnn about his trip to Cali from fin.
getting ready for the trip to Dallas, still trying to figure out what gift I can buy for Anil and family. Malinis suggest of ice-cream maker sounded good, but I am traveling light with just the carry on. Its friday in and sunday evening out......
Afternoon ajay sends me a msg asking to go out to Dosa hut. So end up going there with ajay and anoy. Interesting inputs about experience from ajay. He is just got engaged last month after going to india and seems to have met a very good kashmiri gal. thou he grew up in mumbai. he went back last month after 4 years.
So agree with him about the wifey qualities that a guy looks for in a women he wants to marry and have a family with. ITs just not the question of Western women, even in India many women in the cities are so filled with Ego and wanting to be free they have little regard for the FAMILY and the need to be compromising and sacrificing our own individuality for the sake of the TEAM(FAMILY). Thats what team work is all about.
Just heard about a women who strapped her kids to the car seat and dorve it into a river. It seems she wanted to be free.
Sometimes when I think of the way Eva gets angry and reacts, I sometimes get the image of a angry women who may just kill all her kids and just go to be free from any responsibilities and accountability and go around the world. Hope things like that do not happen to her or anyone.
3 to 4 meeting test team.
Most to time was trying to log on to deve3 to complete the tests and understand the limits of what we have as compared to Test. mails going back and forth with Mat and then the bunch of noise makers tony and li wang. who seem to not have much to do other than going around trying to make a big deal about something that is not impacting them at all.
Got home early, was feeling lethargic and lazy. The intention and motivation to go out running lost the battle to hunger and after a heavy beef curry and rice dinner was in no mood to run..... just found that I almost put on about 8 pounds the past week. ahhhhh
Got to see bachelor pad..... wooo it was so revealing to see how low the loyalty factor in women are, how deviously calculating and manipulative they are. And how they paint a guy as bad viciously as possible with zero sense of accountibilty to their own actions..... its kind of like a universal disease that beautiful women seem to have. Like been blessed with the power of beauty that seems to drive most men crazy. Seems to paralyze their logical sense of thinking and bring about thier sexual greed out. After that he is no longer a human being, more living with the brain of a animal in heat. :)
Monday, August 16, 2010
Aug 16 Mon,,, lazzzines KT motivation
Monday 16th Aug 2010
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Woke up with weird dreams, was hard to get out of bed, @ 5:55am pushed myself out and about thinking about the Knowledge transfer I need to do to Swetha.
Got to work by 7 and after the conf, started the KT. upto 9am EST, which was like 6:30pm IST.
then got busy with vaughan home
looks like a great way to get to spain and spend time with the local population. applied for Sep 5th but its full. next one after
August 29 - September 3
and September 26 - October 1
dammm I wish I could just go there in Aug 29.
Maybe will try latter for Sep 26 to Oct 1. Get to know the culture a bit more.
Evening called up Malini to ask her if she was interested in going for salsa at the Vango.
got her voice mesg, left a msg telling her about my plan.
Later got a call back from her. she sounded low. Turns out her best friends mom passed away in Boston and she just got out of the Durga temple near her house.
She wanted to go Wednesday, so not sure how I will feel on Wednesday as I am leaving on Friday to Dallas to meet Anil.
Had a heartly dinner around 8:30pm with rice, beef curry and ginger pickle from Andhra pradesh.
After that even I started feeling lazy and rather decided to stay home and read the book. The skies seem dark and as the evening progressed, the skies lit up with continous lightening followed by roaring thunder. So it turned out to be a good decision to stay put at home.
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Woke up with weird dreams, was hard to get out of bed, @ 5:55am pushed myself out and about thinking about the Knowledge transfer I need to do to Swetha.
Got to work by 7 and after the conf, started the KT. upto 9am EST, which was like 6:30pm IST.
then got busy with vaughan home
looks like a great way to get to spain and spend time with the local population. applied for Sep 5th but its full. next one after
August 29 - September 3
and September 26 - October 1
dammm I wish I could just go there in Aug 29.
Maybe will try latter for Sep 26 to Oct 1. Get to know the culture a bit more.
Evening called up Malini to ask her if she was interested in going for salsa at the Vango.
got her voice mesg, left a msg telling her about my plan.
Later got a call back from her. she sounded low. Turns out her best friends mom passed away in Boston and she just got out of the Durga temple near her house.
She wanted to go Wednesday, so not sure how I will feel on Wednesday as I am leaving on Friday to Dallas to meet Anil.
Had a heartly dinner around 8:30pm with rice, beef curry and ginger pickle from Andhra pradesh.
After that even I started feeling lazy and rather decided to stay home and read the book. The skies seem dark and as the evening progressed, the skies lit up with continous lightening followed by roaring thunder. So it turned out to be a good decision to stay put at home.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Aug 15 Sunday ,, Indian Independence day
Sunday Aug 15 2010
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wake up around 9:30 trying to prioritize the day,,,,, checked the sand dunes hike,,, too late they were meeting up around 7:45am and at ocean city around 9:45am.
Called up home, there still seems to be issues with phone and the disturbance.
Made ginger tea. hmmm and called up Anoy to see if he would be interested in going to down town philly for the Festival of India. He got invited for lunch by his bong friend.
That is one thing I am getting to notice, non of the guys at work invited me or were out going in terms of wanting to invite me to their house, except for Aji and Ajay, but seemed to be interested in trying to have party at MY place. yea right, like I am going to allow that.
Well I can understand most or all of them wanting to spend more time with their families and we are all so ethnically different indians. Guess if it was a malu, it would have been a different thing.
Well Atleast I got Raj D to my house and entertained him with boody marys before he left to India. And neither did he invite me to his house. Even thou I used to drop him off at his house a few time (did not want to say many times). But never invited me into his house ;)
So I guess I was not very way off in making it a priority to go for his farewell party. And I was not going to give up the commitment I made before they decided on the time and date of the party. I am glad I did not go, more so confirmed by the way they were talking about it after the party..... sickeningly cheap.
okay,,, back to prioritizing ,, maybe a good time to go down town. cheers and maybe visit the independence hall of Philly. ;)
At the train station, it was raining, got call from AV, decided not to go in the rain as it was already too late to go. With one hour of train ride into the city.
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wake up around 9:30 trying to prioritize the day,,,,, checked the sand dunes hike,,, too late they were meeting up around 7:45am and at ocean city around 9:45am.
Called up home, there still seems to be issues with phone and the disturbance.
Made ginger tea. hmmm and called up Anoy to see if he would be interested in going to down town philly for the Festival of India. He got invited for lunch by his bong friend.
That is one thing I am getting to notice, non of the guys at work invited me or were out going in terms of wanting to invite me to their house, except for Aji and Ajay, but seemed to be interested in trying to have party at MY place. yea right, like I am going to allow that.
Well I can understand most or all of them wanting to spend more time with their families and we are all so ethnically different indians. Guess if it was a malu, it would have been a different thing.
Well Atleast I got Raj D to my house and entertained him with boody marys before he left to India. And neither did he invite me to his house. Even thou I used to drop him off at his house a few time (did not want to say many times). But never invited me into his house ;)
So I guess I was not very way off in making it a priority to go for his farewell party. And I was not going to give up the commitment I made before they decided on the time and date of the party. I am glad I did not go, more so confirmed by the way they were talking about it after the party..... sickeningly cheap.
okay,,, back to prioritizing ,, maybe a good time to go down town. cheers and maybe visit the independence hall of Philly. ;)
At the train station, it was raining, got call from AV, decided not to go in the rain as it was already too late to go. With one hour of train ride into the city.
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