Morning that is not coming... :( ...

Everyone sees dream, dream of perfect beginning... I am dreaming of perfect beginning of day since I started job.... I was lean boy during college days, well.. not lean but yes, average body.. neither lean nor fat n it's better then lean, right? :) .... anyways, ones my professional life started, I fell into same software professionals category who spent long hours at office, at chair n less outside, less gym... less physical activity... n then its bound to happen.... :( ..... 

Three years back, My doctor friend asked me to check my cholesterol level and as he guess, it was on higher side and he advised me to start jogging/walking 3 km per day.... since then I am dreaming of wake up early at 6 am and go for running.... I promised him for 3 months n its been 3 years now... :( .... 

Last year, Hetsi born and as a sports lover, I would like if she makes career in some sports... n then I promised myself that I play with her.... now she is 16 months old n very active.... too active for me... :( ......

Yesterday I was desperate for today's perfect morning... preparing myself... that I will wake up today at 6 am.. go for walk n then do yoga at home... I even bought honey (someone told me it burns more calories if you take it with warm water in morning), oat (fiber food) and new shoes. and then then....

I got one issue at 8 pm and stuck in office till 11:30 pm, reached home at midnight... Today I woke up at 8 am... :( ... some dreams are to good to be real..... 

and when you live at Andheri station... it's not about choice between skip dinner or not... it's about choice between McDonald and vada-pav :) .... n damn... McDonald opens from 6am morning to 1am night... n I took two mac-veggie after I reached home midnight....

Courage...... and IT.....

Courage, it is tricky word, especially in software industry. Usually In real word, it defines you, defines your life, defines you character. The more courageous you are the more fruitful life you have. However, in the software industry, the more courageous you are, more n more n more work you have and that work is fruitful or not, aah that depends on luck, no guarantee for that. Only guarantee is that tons of work is following courageous people here.

So why people show courage here, for money? I don’t think so.

It is easy to delegate work to other and leave early (well, leaving on time is count as leaving early here), it is easy to say that it is not my issue and don’t care about it. But it will heart you inside (if you know that you can solve it better way or faster). It would be hard for you to sleep well.

When issue arrives, you will say, I will do it and that's the courage. And then…  You will be in office before every one arrives, you will be last one in office to leave and you will be working during weekends too. Your manager will see you first whenever issue occurs; your team-mates will see you for resolutions. People will respect you more for what you are doing and and and… expect you to do more n more n more…. And your family, they will miss you surely.

Then why people show courage!!!! Courage comes from your inner-self. Here courage brings lots of work and responsibilities but it brings honor too. More than honor, self-respect is why people show courage.  A feeling when you solved difficult/complex issue is not less than winning a cricket match or wining a race. It excites you and give you thrill to solve more complex things. Obviously it is slow process compare to other thrilling experiences, it is more like Chess. Mental strength is what asks this industry.

For me being courageous is pride thing and I will honor person who show courage to resolve each n every issue occurs although he is poor social life. And I salute the person who do both very well. It is tough here to having good social life with being courageous.  It is tougher to be courageous….

Andheri Live.....

Too busy at office... working hours of last week, Mon:11AM to 11:10PM, Tue:9AM to 11:10PM, Wed: 9AM to 12PM, Thurs:9AM to 9:30PM, Fri: 9AM to 8:30PM.... so nothing comes to mind to write except project issues..... so here... pics taken during bus ride...

 Bridge at Andheri East-West flyover..... this bridge is in constructions since year and half... and still 20% completed... and our manager is shouting for missing one week deadline... :( .....

Traffic at Andheri East, Nr. Western Express highway... 15 minutes journey of nights turns into 45 minutes journey during day... :( ... n you can't do anything about it.....

And today's youngsters says many times that they are living on the age..... I don't believe them... below pics prove that.... 

This is what I called REALLY LIVING ON THE AGE.... :) ... taken on Andheri-Jogeshwari Western Express highway....

See ya.... Enjoy Life....

Office Office....

P: How are you buddy?

A: OK, going on as usual.

P: Just OK!!!! As far as I know, you are doing good, all settled for you.

A: Yup, You are right, but then This settled life has no adventures, it is so regular, routine, hmmm.. very boring in fact.

P: Oh, Just try to miss the train and you will feel adventure. You are very organized nowadays so it would be fun.

A: !!!!!!!!!!!! Hell true........

Speak Up buddy....

Manager's cabin:

Anish, You are doing good, in fact great. I want you to handle more responsibility. I want you to handle the team. but but but...... You speak very less in team meeting. I know you know most of stuff going around in project and you have good hand, good control on the framework but you need to show that to team. In short, You should speak more that you know all these things and you can handle any issues. So speak more, OK. Thank You.

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There is problem with me, I don't do non-sense talk in the meeting. I don't ask stupid questions in the meeting. I don't raise silly concerns/issues in the meeting. I feel it is waste to time of yours and others. And it irritates me lot when people raise issues which were non-avoidable and you had to live with that. and most of people do complains all the time and I don't like to do complains. Company is paying to you to get the job done and you should do it. 

It is not like that I am not talking at all in the meeting but I only talk when I feel it is the right place and right time. And I don't want to do non-productive discussions in the meeting just to show that I know blah blah things.

When I was fresher and attending interviews in campus, one incident nurture my belief that it doesn't matter how much you speak and it matters what you speak. Tata Infotech came for an interview and there were 1500 people. They took written test and eliminated 1300 people, now we had 200 people. Then they arranged group discussions, 10 people in each group. Me and Muntakim in the same group. I know him as he is friend's friend. He speaks very less. In the group discussion, apart from him, every other person is shouting instead of discussions to show off. I too tried to shout but.. :( . At the end of group discussion, interviewer asked Me and Muntakim to express our views. and you know the result, only Muntakim selected from our group. and that was the big lesson for me.

Thanks to God that I am in IT industry where only work matters or let me rephrase that, Most of the time only work matters. You can't survive here with out work and all talk. But still, in every appraisal, I got the comment like, you are good/fine in work but you should improve your communication (in short speaking) skills. oops..... 

Even in IT industry, you still need to market yourself, even after doing work. why? why? why only work is not enough as it gets job done anyway. 

Because there is lots of people like you around buddy... uff..... :( ....

Have U ever brushed ur Teeth with Shaving Cream????

Ya, ya, u read it right. brush teeth with shaving cream.... most of you will say big NO n some girls will even react like.. yukkkkk :( ... disgusting .... I bet anyone say YES but my answer is Yes.....  Now don't think that I m doing it regularly... I know you can think like that as I m a bit weirdo or syco guy... but I m still far away from extreme weird..... so I did it only ones.... n ya... I didn't like it at all... see... sometime I am normal too.... ok.. now enough time pass.... let me tell you how it happened....

Those were the starting days of my professional career and I was enthu as any other professional who wants to win the world when he/she starts his/her career..... (may be Alpesh will raise his eyebrows... anish n enthu!!! I never feel that...) .. but ya... sometimes I got kicked too... sometimes adrenalin rushed under my skins too.... so those were the days... n I was working on some issue and can't able to solve it in two days!!! so it was entered into my head n I was keep thinking about it all the time.. even after reaching flat.. m i missing some basic thing... m i doesn't configured that thing... may be should I try the other way and whole bunch of thoughts... I slept n in dreams too.. I was thinking.. I felt though.. not sure about it as I always have a good sleep without dreams n or midnight wake up calls.... 

I woke up in the morning and still I was thinking abt the solution only.... I came to washbasin n took the toothpaste... na na... it was not toothpaste.. it was shaving cream actually but I was so consumed about the problem that I couldn't realize and just started brushing it.. oohhhh... aahh... why it is taste like some thing bt not the toothpaste... I couldn't hangover then whats this!!! anyways, let me think about the solution  n I just puke it in basin n clear my throat with water only... I even didn't realize that time that what I did!!!! and then I went for tea at Atira... aah Atira.... wo raja ki chay n gujarat samachar n atria morning.. the best in the world... u should go there n feel that.... 

anyways.. then I came back and get ready for the office.. I wanted to do shaving n then I went to basin... what do u thinking? what I did... yes, u r thinking right, I picked up toothpaste this time n wanted to do shaving with that.... I opened up toothpaste n then suddenly my mind started working.... intelligently actually... eureka... now I realized what I did in the morning!!!!!! 

ohhh god... that was the hell of experience... I am writing this after almost 4 n half years and still I can feel the odd... weird taste of shaving cream in my throat.... aah... that was the experience not worth doing it..... 

n now... as soon as I click ctrl-alt-del and left the desk... my mind stop thinking abt the work... because work is never ending... life has.... so enjoy life n not work... hope that my current boss is not reading this.. :) ... voila.... 

I hope you enjoy this n this is the most interesting thing happened to me in my short 5 years of career....

Enjoying 5 years of Copy-Paste Career....

U r wondering na, copy-paste career!!!!! I must be in some editors job at newspaper company or what? ohh, U thought I am in IT Development company!!!! gotta kidding.... To be precise, it is like editors job at IT Development company, make sense.... :) ..... ok ok.. To look good, let's make it Copy-Paste with Great Analysis stuff...... yaa... now It looks nice, Analyst.... :) ...

5 years ago, when the sun rise at 16th May, 2005... I was very excited. I was going to start new path of my life... new beginning....  with dreams of making it big. After 5 years, it still dreams only.. :( ... few great.. no no.. good recognitions thought earned from managers. Like everyone, I also think that I m not doing justice with my talent, although I don't know what is my talent but ya, like everyone thinks always, I also think that I can do better than what I m doing rite now.... huh..... then why I m not doing it... my manager would ask... n I would answer I am trying... from the 1st day to till date.. a bit of success.... 

Anyways, When I was started my job, I promised one of my friend that I will get 25k salary in 2 years and 50k in 5 years.. n by god's grace.. I had finished that promise well before 5 years... Thanks to IT industry, They will pay u for doing nothing or as Alpesh sir suggested, They will promote you for doing hard work of 100 hours a week to resolve a defect which at 1st place should never occur. I still wondering what I m doing such a imp task that they r paying us so high!!! but it is industry norms so I m asking for pay hikes every year... :) .. ya ya.. now I m 5+ years of exp so automatically I can ask for increment... :) ... without adding any news skills.. just on the basis of years of experience.. that's IT industry dear... n I m not like other IT labors who always cry for good work n pays... I m very happy abt paycheck n work.... aah.. I try to do best whatever manager ask to do.. that's it... anyways.. its different story n must be feeling bore.... so lets leave it..

I did celebrations of these 5 years with movie at cine-max then shopping at shoppers stop and McDowell's no. 1 soda with Divyesh..... 

and ya, now thank you speech.. although no one gives me award for these, I just decided my self to give award to me and celebrate. so here, Thank you speech..... 

First of all, Thank you to Alpesh sir. It is only because him I was able to start my career as He put faith in me and selected me. I don't know still He selected because I was his room-mate at hostel or I m worth enough to do job. Anyways, Thanks Alpesh sir, You r the best manager n knows well abt how to select team and how to deal with them. Then Amisha mem, Rasesh and Bishwajit for making my 1st job wonderful and learning experience. I always enjoyed to come to office because of them only. Now second job, Thanks to Seema mam, I have learnt what true professionalism means from Her. No non-sense talk, no timepass, come office at 9 and leave at 7 and in between do work all the time. It needs some thing extra to do that constantly. Hats off to u mam. Then Thanks to Rama, Siva, Prakash, Lee, Anupam, Anjana, Shama, Gauri, Prajakta and rest of team. It was very rewarding work experience at Pune. n Now Third job, Thanks to Ranjan n Manoj for providing me opportunity in finance company, even though I have no experience in finance domain. and Thanks to Sushil, First manager I can talk freely without being worried that he is my boss. and thanks to team mates, its big team so can't thank everyone but to name a few, Pradeep, Manoj, Prateek, Vijay, Arjun, Savita..... Thanks.

...........ok ok.... Its long enough to bore anyone.. even me.. just kidding (even me part only).... n Third team/job, don't enjoy, I m not leaving. I m still here only to harass you...

I will write some funny and interesting incidents occurs during these 5 years in next blog.
and ya, What I get after 5 years here, Waist size increased from 28 to 34.. and baldness... (may be due to so call pressure of deadlines in our industry, although I still believe its becoz of lack of application of Hair-Oil as I hate all these years... )

What the crap....Killing mosquitoes is news now....

Came from office at 10 pm... already tired enough. My roomies finished their dinner so I am eating alone and getting bored as we are poor people who don't have color TV and channel connection so just picked up paper near by, It was Mumbai Times of 21st march. 

You must know mumbai times is page 3 kinda thing that comes with regular news paper of Times of India (TOI). It's all about gossiping of movies, stars, sports person and things which related to rich people only. It's kinda waste for normal ordinary public still TOI wasting so much paper on it. Its nothing related to actual news paper. and some times this mumbai times having as much pages as main news paper.... n they (Times of India) started green India initiatives and save trees movement.... !!!!!!

OK enough outburst.... reason of outburst, already punctured mind from office and then this crap news item.... "Yes I killed about 15 of them in the first half hour. I’m usually a non-violent person but surely this will be considered self-defense,” she explains." What the f***. Some third grade actress (whose contributions to Indian film industry is 2-3 flop and boring movies) is killed 15 mosquitoes and that's the news on last page of paper. I have killed 1000s of mosquitoes but forget about news paper, I never mentioned it to my blogs till now.... and There are number of readers who will waste their time to read this crap!!!! Be Responsible journalist...

Now yar, we knew there is so much competition in media and they are making news from nowhere but this is the height... definitely height of boring and non-existence-news-journalism.... sorry but i couldn't find the better word....

anyways but I like the pic of Anjana Sukhani.... :) ....  and after writing this blog, anger on TOI vanished....so all cool now...

Chintu ki kahani......

Pareshaan thi Chintu ki wife
Non-happening thi jo uski life
Chintu ko na milta tha aaram
Office main karta kaam hi kaam

Chintu ke boss bhi the bade cool
Promotion ko har baar jate the bhul
Par bhulte nahi the wo deadline
Kaam to karwate the roz till nine

Chintu bhi banna chata tha best
Isliye to wo nahi karta tha rest
Din raat karta wo boss ki gulami
Onsite ke ummid main deta salami

Din guzre aur guzre fir saal
Bura hota gaya Chintu ka haal
Chintu ko ab kuch yaad na rehta tha
Galti se Biwi ko Behenji kehta tha

Aakhir ek din Chintu ko samjh aaya
Aur chod di usne Onsite ki moh maya
Boss se bola, "Tum kyon satate ho ?"
"Onsite ke laddu se buddu banate ho"

"Promotion do warna chala jaunga"
"Onsite dene par bhi wapis na aunga"
Boss haans ke bola "Nahi koi baat"
"Abhi aur bhi Chintus hai mere paas"

"Yeh duniya Chintuon se bhari hai"
"Sabko bas aage badhne ki padi hai"
"Tum na karoge to kisi aur se karunga"
"Tumhari tarah Ek aur Chintu banaunga"

(WAKE UP CHINTU)

IT Myths......

Myth #1: If you are not in the biggies... u are a loser
Auntyji : "Beta, kaunsa tent?"
Me: "Persistent! Aunty I work in Persistent. "
Aunty: "Tumko Info*** mein nahi mila kya?" (in short: "tum second grade gadha lagte ho")

Then I have to make efforts to tell them how I actually work for a much better company. In case the opposite person is technologically sane then I give him some product development 'funda' (arrogance).

Myth #2: If you haven’t been on site ...u are a loser
Uncle: "Tum do saal se IT company mein kaam kar rahe ho na?"
Me: (tightening my collar..head high) "Haan uncle......bas ....."
Uncle: "Tum videsh nahi gaye?"
Me: "Nahi uncle project mein requirement nahi hai onsite kaa"
Uncle: "Lekin woh bunty ko toh maanna padegaa.... engg mein 2nd class milaa...fir bhi usne jamke mehnat ki aur usse company ne USA bheja!"

Aaaha! thats the problem. People think that only the smarty pants are sent on site while the loser ones are the people left behind in India. So the assumption is that if you haven't been on site then you don't work hard nor you have any sincerity and ... ok that's enough for now.

Myth #3: You can fix any computer..and calculator and may be clocks too
Most of the computer engineers around must have at east once gone to a friend's place only to fix his /her comp. The task can be from installing a software (next..next.. finish) to fixing a computer which gives electric shocks when its metal areas are touched.

Myth #4: You have lots of money
Once I met up with my friends from school ...from various fields. I just mentioned that it is such a pain to go to office nowadays and said that I wanted to buy a car.
Friend1: "what problem do u have man .. u are an IT waala"
Friend2: "Tu toh Honda CRV le saktaa hai"
Me: "CRV!! aabey CRV kyaa mere pass VCR lene ka paisa nahi hai"
Even after 5 minutes of convincing them weren't getting convinced.

Myth #5: Coding means sitting in front of the computer
During my college days , my classmate had an encounter with a guy from mechanical dept:
Mech guy: "Your Computer engineering is a big nautanki.... four years You learn the same grey dabba... and all you ppl do is sit nicely in front Of that dabba and punch the keys"

Well I don’t completely disagree

Myth #6: One more thing which oldies say : “ Now you work in
such a big company , you are settled , you should marry now !! “

Myth #7: In Diwali…u get questions like……”Are you gonna get a
bonus this Diwali…..??” And when we reply in the negative…..they seem
so surprised…!!!!!!!

Myth #8: A common issue that I have seen:
When I tell anybody that I work with Infosys, many times I get a reply
“My son/daughter/relative Mr/Ms XXX also works with Infosys. You must
be knowing him/her” and if I answer in the negative, they feel
disappointed (sometimes even angry with me).

How to explain to them that there are around 1,00,000 employees in my
company forget about knowing everybody in the company. L
LoLzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..

Add ons:
#How many times do you face this question
“What does your company make…???”

Enjoy.............. Taken from Kavan's forwarded mail.....

Some Thoughts... at end... at start....

Not getting time for blog since month... since I resigned.... :( .. at the time of resignation, I thought my manager would not assign new task and I will get free time to enjoy last days at Pune. get time for gym, get time for movies... but nothing like that happened due to crunch situation in project.... now only 1 days left to Persistent, still I have list to complete few tasks and bugs... aah eArray (my project's name)...

I m moving to Mumbai now, will join JP Morgan on 10th... but don't know why. not feeling much excitement for new phase of my professional career.... comparing this when I had joined Persistent, almost 3 years back... at that time salary was the issue at my first company, so first excitement of getting salary on time.. :) .. then big company's excitement, Persistent has its own premises... coming to office, entering Persistent gave me proud feeling that time... that yes I had achieved something in life.. I have some worth.. definitely boost my confidence at that time.... since then.. lot has changed.... me n persistent both.... :) .... today, if I see and analyze my work at eArray... I m not feeling much proud of it.... did lots of mistakes.. blunders and I learn a lot here... I feel Persistent gives me more than I did for them.... its like I feel proud for being employee of Persistent bt Persistent would not feel proud of me... its like don't ask what your country do for u.. ask what u did for your country.. :) ......

When I resigned, manager ask me why.. I said salary.. she said, In terms salary, I can't do anything. if you have any other issue.. tell me.. I said no... she said ok.. n its all done... last week one of team mate resigned.. manager ask him why.. he said salary.. she said... wait for mid term appraisal... hmmmmmmmmmmm..... this is shows the worth of employee in company....... :( ...

Actually .. I had never given 100% to this project... may be because of domain.. I always thought I would not like to work here for longer in this project and may be that's the reason I was never fully... committed.... but yes.. with new company, I will try to give 100%.. not only 100%.. more than 100% and than lets see.. I am worth or not.......

and the reason I m not feeling much excitement is not because of all this... its because of city.. Mumbai... aah... when I was studying.. I had a dream to do job in Mumbai... and see.. God bless me... my dream is going to be true... but now.. I m in love with Pune's weather... and may be my rented flat.... :) .... I knew I will never get heaven like weather (I m comparing here Pune's weather to Mumbai/Surat/Ahemdabad)... and flat...(one of my friend said.. flat I have here will easily costs me 25k there...) and one more thing.. I can go surat on every weekend from there... I m worrying... what I will do there for 2 days.. every weekend.. here in Pune.. all my friends have leave on sat-sun so no issues but there at surat, all my friends r doing their business.... they don’t have leave even on Sunday.. forget about Saturday.. hmmm.... problem hai....

but ya one thing is sure... after 1-2 years of Mumbai experience, if I move to any other city of India.. I will feel ultimate calmness and peace..... :) .... ones you experienced the worst... U will feel better for even ok things letter... so that’s the major inspiration for me...

so get ready for hard life there.. (kutte jaisi.. . :) ).........

and yes, friends.. get ready for blogs of my Mumbai experience...

First Trek of this monsoon....

Nothing beats the nature.. truly.... no matter how much money we spent on AC to create cool weather.... still we can't beat the nature.....
This Sunday, We went to trek at sinhgadh to enjoy rainy season and lush green environment and it's more than worth..... as sir said in his blog, that monsoon is the season to be enjoyed... and it was the first trek with my team..office team.. it finally happened after 2 and half years.. yet there was 12 confirmation on Monday, but at Sunday evening, there was 7 people standing at sinhgadh but ya.. it was thoroughly enjoyable trip with lots of fun with each other, although it was the slowest in terms of time compare to my other 3 trek here.... but that was understandable as it was a bit tough for 2 team member as they are totally out of touch for any kind of exercise..... click here for pics
lets see when I go for next trek... eagerly waiting for the next weekend...

Long working hours

I really don't know how people works for 16 hours!!! I had failed to do so for two days only... and my friends, Rajesh, Mukesh has been doing these things since months.. oops.. since years...
Actually, we have work all the time, there is not a single day.. not a single hour in our project that we don't have any work... this release, I have assigned one feature which I need to implement alone & I don't know why but I am feeling a bit lazy this time.. may be I due a big vacation... which I don't take after DB split release... well but point is, due to laziness, I had worked lazily on it n then as it is delayed.... so I wanted to work for 16 hours on thursday-friday and want to complete it.
I had reached office at 7 in the morning and planned to work till 11-12 pm, but after 8 in the night... mind ..brain... stopped working... there is something like biological clock about human body....same thing... project clock may be... we have workload all the times but there is nice practice in team.. come at 9-9:30.... and leave at 8-8:30..at most 9-10.... during DB split, I wanted to work late but that time, I have to read for certification also so couldn't do it (but now I doubt that I would able to do that!!!) ...
Really surprised how Mukesh, Rajesh are working till 1-2-3 in the night....their mind must be restless like Jay (my cousin), Seema (my project manager) or may be its project practice... whatever it is... I want to do it.. for a month.. or for a week at least.... :) ...
one positive thing.... I can reach office at 7 in the morning... which I doubt Mukesh or Rajesh can do.... :) ...

Busiest Month of Life.......Professional Life....

March over......Long month... really long month for me....... busiest month of life... oops.. busiest month of professional life.... 1st time felt work pressure.... really IT work pressure... which I heard so much from friends... anyways... its part of IT industry so.... abhi to puri zindgi baki hai mere dost... :) ......
and two good things happened in this busy month... remember about Assessment test at office last month.... result come and my score is in top 3 percentile at company .... in top 50 from 1500 so get Medal from our MD and Founder, Anand Deshpande.... first medal after so many years .. :(....but better late than never... :) ..... and other is SCWCD certification exam.. scored 95%.... worked very hard for that... actually read very hard... 13 hours work at office ...even on weekends and then read for 3-4 hours daily is tough task.... for me at least... but I did it... and it's finally over... even work and exam finished.... and month to finished.... ek dialog like Hindi movie...... month complete... task complete.... :) .... but two bad thing also happened... not able to continue Gym.... hopefully starts again from 2moro... n that client extended deadline for 15 days.. although its not new thing for me n my project... its critical release (as manager says...) ... we failed again... or as one of my friend said to me..... we did it again.... :( ....
n yes... not a single movie in whole month... very new thing for me...it happens after so many years ..not a single movie!!!!! personal record for me :) ..... i don't think there will be another month with out movie in my life.......

February sucks......

February is about to finished.. n Thank God is about to finish.... because its very bad month for me.... first there was assessment test took 10 days n then don't know why but SCWCD reading doesn't happened as I wished...... and most frustrating thing is office work.... working on DB split n it's going on very very bad..... database size touched 800 GB so client n badde log of project had decided to split DB in two parts... one is Admin DB that will store master data & sample/client data and other one will store user data.... at start we think there will be small changes in code.. only when fetching data, only query changes but oh boy..... main object of project fetches data from both DB n there it is stucked.... not a single % my work completed in last 10 days n still I don't know how to solve this problem...... hmmmm :( ......its not a new thing in my project that plan is delay... most of the time, it was delayed in previous releases.... but this time, its serious.. client had already declared on site that site will be closed for so n so date n it means they r expecting us to complete work on time this time... I don't mind to stay late nights if it works for projects.... but then there is visit at surat next week n..... don't know... may be i need to cancel my visit.... Let see...
only one graceful thing continues in this month n that's gym.... thankfully I am able to continue gym n lost 1 and half kg.. hopefully by end of next month, weight will be under 70....

Yesterday was Uttarayan, aka Kite Flying day…

And first time in my life, I am not at Terrace, not in Gujarat in 26 years and yet I have no regrets for that… actually got two friends phone in the morning,, at that time felt sad for few minutes only.. nothing more...

When I was kid, I never ever thought I will not celebrate Uttarayan some day… I remembered there was always 2^nd semester exams falls during these times of year and there was always dilemma weather to study or to fly kite… choice between boredom n fun and as always fun wins….. n it was great fun.. whole day with friends at Terrace, kites, songs loudly coming from speakers, Chikki n off course Cool chicks…

And I remembered, dad was not much interested in Uttarayan… he went to office to do work alone n only came at terrace for hour or two in the evening and I always wonder why… why dad was not interested in kite flying and more interested in work but today I can understand why…. Goals of life changed now… earlier flying kite high n cut other kites are far more important than getting good marks in exam… now finish work before deadline is more important than spending whole day at terrace with friends… so that’s how it is.. That’s how life works…..