Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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.

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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!

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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.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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.

Monday, December 13, 2010

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.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

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".

Friday, December 10, 2010

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.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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.