time pass chalu hai boss...

Its one of those days when I have all the time to do what I want; of course the expectation is that the defect at hand be addressed, but its turning out to be a pain point to say the least.

I have become a great fan of ‘Fanaa’ songs and listening to them everyday has become a routine of sorts. Doing that at this very moment too :-)

Recently read ‘False impressions’ by Jeffrey Archer, I believe the first bestseller from him in his post-jail days. His literary style suits my interests and I remember I wasn’t too amused to hear him face a prison sentence. Also, this one was out of money from my own pocket after a long time, and I must thank the imitation folks who created a wonderful copy of the original with bar-code and stuff !!

Another good short-story collection I remember is ‘A quiver full of arrows’, it always had this element of surprise that left readers on tender-hooks towards the end.

My life has become a quiver of arrows in itself over the last six months or so.

Every other day I pull one out and aim it as if using the ‘Gandiv’ bow which was proudly possessed by Arjuna. More often than not, it fails to hit the target, or even if it does, it ends up meeting an aegis of defense.

I am still left wondering what foundry those shields are made of, that my arrows fail to pierce. The problem is not with the bow or arrow, it’s in Arjuna himself, who has lost focus or finds the bonding forces of Prakriti causing his plans to fall like nine-pins. The need of the hour is to blow the ‘Devdatta’ with full vigor and raise the war cry to enter the battle-field with a renewed sense of confidence.

Orkutting has become pretty pedestrian for me these days and I have come across many lost connections. I find it funny the rate at which some folks keep scrapping like regular IM chat, since I find it the least user friendly. In any case, it’s just for the one-off message was my belief. But with Yahoo messenger in office under the scanner from the IT dept, I must acknowledge the service it does to humanity.

Microsoft is coming to Pune shortly, is the news making rounds and spreading like wild forest fire, and adding fuel to this is the latest update that they are paying BE freshies a whopping 9.1 Lakh of rupees, that’s almost a million, by GOD !! Where is the IT industry headed towards ??

Planning to give today evening’s conf call a miss, since I see it more like a sheer waste of time and not paying the kind of dividends I expected it to. There was one good news btw, this week which lifted my spirits to more cheerful levels. When it was summer, I thought it was the heat and was longing for the monsoon. Now monsoons have gripped the peninsula, and that makes one feel lackadaisical at times. Human tendency I guess, to long for what is on the other bank of the river, and to long harder for things which seem out of control !!! I am trying to refrain from that though..Does that mean I am not human then ? :-)

Fresh like a flower

Life is a great teacher and a great leveller they say !
While I am still to see-n-believe the second part, atleast the 1st one sounds really true. Example is better than precept is such a true maxim, but why are these examples not always like the sweet nectar of flora ?
Anyways, chronicles of that chronic ache lie hidden in a mysterious Pandora's box waiting to be opened at the right time to uncan a lot of goodies for the benefit of posterity.
Watching TV has become a problem nowadays, with the FIFA out of fan focus, and its good old daily soaps that are giving company again. Of course, with stock markets swaying like the Columbus boat, there is no paucity of entertainment or news.
A couple of defects (or can they be coalesced) are keeping me relatively busy, and its been quite an experience trying to unravel the mystery of their origin; a fix sounds ages away at the moment. But I have accrued some benefits along the way like learning some Oracle backup commands along the way of the likes "alter database noarchivelog"....I also got to know what strace() does on Linux, with the caveat that it interferes with Oracle while trying to debug child process logs..Its been good in general though !!
The middle of the week was at its excellent best (i don't care if this is amounts to some kind of insult to M/s Oxford dictionary).
We had a ball with a game of football and it was a great game with fun and frolic all along and displaying a rare feeling of camaraderie which is limited to a limited circle in office at other times of the year.
Wednesday evening was action packed spending some quality time with friends munching over those subways and chips to give some crisp company.
At an emotional level, while last week was chequered this one has tried to be mildly volatile, but the calming influence of the Bhagawad Gita ensures that my nerves are in full control and I am brimming with confidence which was hiding in the closet for a long time.
The compliments keep coming from guys and I hope gals start noticing sooner than later that I am fresh like a flower, glowing with resplendent beauty like a lotus in a pool on a full moon day !

Physique and Chemistry

Blog titles come naturally to me at times and I need to craft them at times. Even the crafting is natural on occasions like this one today, whereas, its just a patchwork of a quilt on less rosy occasions.

Physique has been at the forefront of my fruitful existence in the past few weeks or months and I have every reason to cheer. Seeing words of praise and adulation being thrown upon me every day from unknown and known quarters makes my heart swell with pride and lungs swell with fresh air.

The last quarter has been good on the health front, and my body weight has corrected along with the stock markets in India and other BRICS economies !

Of course, I wud say its been a trend reversal for me, and I hope not to be bullish on my weight, since I think agility and nimbleness are much dearer to me than those lipid globules which should rightfully be a part of milk, ghee and cheese, rather than occupy pockets in my body..

Exercise is a stress buster and I am no health guru to re-state something new. Its just that ‘Experiential learning’ has its own joy, and when I tried it myself, the results are here to stay and devour upon.

Physics and chemistry go hand-in-hand and probably so do physique and chemistry. After all haven’t we gained adulthood riding our adolescent days on the sweet fairy tales of beauty and the beast. Well, maybe this is not the best possible parallel to draw, but think a little big and you know where I am getting.

In office, there are tasks which keep coming and going, and there used to be a time when a pile of defects was a shocker of sorts and the attempt was to call the routine FlushQueue( )

int FlushQueue()

{

if ( !emptyQ )

{

WorkHard( );

Panic( );

}

else

{

Party() ; // read AOE

}

}

While legacy code changes less, what has happened is the Panic() function is becoming less of a bugbear now, and is no longer an excuse to skip enjoying daily workouts or a happy weekend. Attitude changes a lot over time, and confidence is the key when things are looking nice..

Of course, the rain gods have probably been commanded by Lord Indra to wreak some havoc, and they have rightly obliged. Maybe the buttermilk which has long evaded the ruler of heavens was not offered in umpteen doses last year and so he’s unhappy with the state of affairs. The Sun was hiding in the closet of clouds, dark grey clouds probably called Nimbus and Pune city had become like sleepless in Seattle. But today is a different day and we are back to Sunny days, looking fwd to the last two football encounters of this mega world cup, which I have religiously followed.