Rangashanakar...atlast...

This was my first Kannada play and the second play I am attending in my life, the first one being an English play by pritam - a wonderful play about an actor - anyways this was also my first time at rangashankara. (I know I am terrible, only 1 play in my 23 years of existence is not a pardonable sin! Hopefully I can make up for all the losses). The theater doors were shut at sharp 7.30 and everyone had switched off their mobiles. That’s one thing I like about the theater, they enforce you to be punctual and non-distubant (mobiles force you to, I can understand). The play was a comedy, about a pauper fooling his landlord into giving him money. It was a nice hour long play but the best part was the clever usage of English in Kannada sounding tones. Its amazing how late T.P.Kilasam was able to conceive such marvelous plays. Well...as they say all good things come to an end (I thought all things come to an end…) and the play ended too. And I came back home at 9, no hassles with auto drivers or such things. What can I say, working inside the city and having your own vehicle has its advantages... :). Ok folks, play has ended now time for me to say good bye...till my next blog, c u...

my comp is here! finally!

Got my comp finally today. After a wait of almost 2 days, my comp was delivered at 5 in the evening, Next step setup and all that. Well I have to go at 6, have a play to attend! I don’t want to be late!! Thankfully, my system admin came soon and really really quickly configured my comp! So I managed to get out at 6.05, rushed through traffic on the way picking up my sister and reached rangashankara (the name of the theater) at 5 minutes to 7. Only to realise that the play was at 7.30! Well... got a cuppa of coffee met a lot of my sister's gang of girls... (Well I don't want to call them "Married and almost aunts" ;)). And we enter the staging area and I am conveniently put in the middle of the women folk! Thankfully the theater is really strict about maintaining silence and all that. Thank god for small mercies I was spared the torture of gossip! Ok enough cribbing lets move on to the play...

At the end of all this... I have a great comp, brand new Dell with 17" TFT monitor, 3.8Giz P4, 80GB Harddisk, 2GB RAM ( I know its almost better than a server ) DVD drive and a 1Gbps LAN :) ofcorse the ultra fast 24 hour net access is a boon but then no messenger or blog sites... :(

First team meeting with the new team

Well the focus of the meeting was to discuss productivity. It was a really nice meeting involving a lot of discussion on what each term is, (well, not to be rude of anything but as an impartial statement, now I have a boss who makes us talk instead of just talking himself and asking us to talk too…) analysis involving the entire software development cycle. Not just for the project but also in terms of features, bugs and its rectification, effects of reviews and a lot of factors other factors was well explained. So instead of pure numbers, we got to see what could be done to improvise on the software quality, a good learning experience...

A new day has come...

New day of the year, a new office, well what can I say, I am feeling lucky! :) A great way to start the New Year. As I take my bike out there is this overwhelming sense of finally getting to take my bike to office. Once I get to office it’s a slow work filling out forms and all that. Nothing eventful. Lunch was good though and since I am no longer under mom's pressure to eat crazy amounts of rice, I can feed on veggies and chapattis :). Post lunch I met my manager, a very sweet Kannada Brahmin guy, total banglorean. Simply adore him. Here is some one who does not each cake as it may have egg and who gets up at 5.30 everyday! ( In the morning! ) Simply simply good. Not to overlook the fact that he is really well dressed and very much in shape! That apart, met my team, mostly banglorean; a very small team too all huddled up in 3 cubicles next to each other. Felt instantly at home! The day was a quite one with not much to do. Left at 5 and home in fifteen minutes! Simply too good! Well... that was day one