Friday, March 27, 2009

Weekend starts on friday...

Hey its correct weekend starts on Friday evening........................... I won't forget this friday ever...
Today was Friday the 27th and was done with my quality improvement training session and also had sent the last email out.... Now was the time to enjoy the weekend and what better way to start a weekend than enjoying quality time with great frnds..... We went to this place near to our office... Nice place to chill out.... Entered the place and went to the lounge ordered some bear and stuff to get started.... The evening became more interesting when there was this AUS Vs SAF T20 match been shown live on TV. We had couple of beers and some starters... and we were on the way.... My head was spinning like hell and then there was this 70km ride to be done to reach home.... i was on the whole way just trying to concentrate on the road ahead and telling myself that home is just few minutes away.... there were moments when i thght i was not gonna make it but then somehow i made it.... its fun riding a bike when u don't know where u r going n everything seems to be spinning really badly :) try this one atleast once.... but safely at speed of 30kms

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Next day has arrived. The day is 25th and its already been a nice start for the day for me. 70kms of biking beckons me as i start my bike at around 6:45 in morning to reach office. Target set is 7:40 to reach office but i miss the target by another 20mins and reach office by 8:00. No traffic nothing but still i miss that elusive 45mins time trail and this makes me unhappy. I decide to leave late in evening so that i can achieve that 45mins barrier to complete 70kms. After the day's work is completed i.e. i spend 13hrs in office getting everything wrapped up so that i can start my voyage into the night. I start my bike at around 9:00 at night from office and reach my place by sharp 9:44. Yeah and i was so happy that i reached on time and broke that barrier.
I must say that riding bike constantly on 100k/hr(not advised though) is awesome and that too when its 19bhp powered by 220cc engine. There were moments when even i who rides 140kms daily was bit tensed, but made it safely at average speed of 100kms.
While breaking the barrier which becomes my PB from home to office also had moment when i touched 138km and that was when i felt really high......
It was awesome experience...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

birthday wishes

It was 24th March 2009, my birthday. It all started at click of 00:00 when i got a call from my brother. I was deeply in sleep and suddenly something started to vibrate and in mid sleep i picked up my cell phone... And to my luck it was my brother ( real one hella character ) called me up to wish Happy Birthday and whats more then he started to discuss about quantum of clothes he has with him currently. if this was not it he had even conferenced Dad and mom tooo.... what a waste of time and energy...

After this session of 20 mins passed it was time to have water and go back to sleep (there is nothing better than having a good sound sleep). There i was 30 mins past midnight another call comes in... and i was left guessing who this was. The call was an international number and it was my sister who recently got married and shifted base to UK. I was so very happy to recieve her call as it was after a very long time, i had heard her voice. Without fail she called and even mailed me. The call went on for about 20mins and then it was well past the hour after midnight. Once the call was done i went back to sleep but to my good luck, the usual head pain started and it disrupted my peaceful sleep. Watched TV for 2hrs and then went to sleep at around 3 in morning.
In morning(when sun rays come in) i was all ready to go to work. but the first thing i did was go to Ganesh temple as luckily today (my bday) also falls on the day when Ganeshji's day is celebrated. Went to siddhivinayak Mandir (85-90Km) on bike and after that reached office at around 8.30am.
From here on my day began.... As usaual for past two weeks i have been maintaining this tool kinda thing which helps me know the "Productive" time i have spent in office. Very interesting tool to use. I started my work at around 8:45 and the thing i was working on will help us automate the QA 99% plus additional 1% will come from another file. The work on this file took my 6hrs apart from another 4hrs which i spent on other things. As the day progressed work started to get clogged up and since i didn't want any backlogs worked with great pace to get everything wrapped up in day's work. everything was going as per the plans.
Lucnh was skipped due to some samosa reaction in morning.... so my time was saved and i worked during my lunch time also. At around 3.30pm had a client call which was going on nicely and since the client were now in comfort zone with me and since the process is currently running at 5.1 sigma level and constant automation and ongoing six sigma projects will definately help us reach our goal of achieving greatest customer satisfaction. Everything in the call was going fine, suddenly this "sweet" moment at around 3.44pm to be precise showered the greatest "moment for the day" for me. Apart from this the moment also kickstarted everything after that.
My team came to know about my bday and this spread like a wildfire and my old process members with my new team mates made the moment never forgettable. At this time i missed my friends shirshendu , Mangu , varsha , amit , rakesh , nimish and others. everyone made the moment special even though most of them are away but thier scraps and mails were encouraging enough. Thanks to everyone.
At end of day additional news that dropped in was that i shared my birthday with a girl in office. Nothing special but it was good to hear that i share my bday with some one else at same place. I hope i could have wished her any way "happy Birthday" to all who are born on 24th March.

lastly i would like to add it all started with my bro's funny call followed by my sis's call. After watching tv , teple visit , office work the moment came which changed the course of day and made it one of best moments here at work. One thing i will miss is surely my old friends. Plus i should have invited some one i missed.

thanks to everyone who contributed to making this day special for me.

P.S:- Missed out on one special friend. TT she is the coolest, cutest, simple,sweet,little shrt tempered hmmmm and best of all she is a true friend and a critic... Can share anything with her she has paitience to listen to my bakwass so thats really really nice...