Random musings

Dec 28, Jus read the lines that i jotted down last night and i now realise what you guys go through when you get my mails.

Hi Guys, 27 Dec, The response to my last mail was pretty cool. After a very long time my inbox was full and there was no forwards:-) The last some time has been pretty lifeless but the x'mas season got better of me and I made up for the dry period. First my brother was here in delhi for a break and for first time in my life I spent money on my family. I bought a cotton sari for my mother, a shirt for my father and a walkman for junior. Let me say that those who suggest that there is happiness in giving are at times not very far from truth. A few days from now probably all the gifts will be forgotten. But for me it was memorable as that was the day when I hugged my parents for the first time in my life. Then I saw two movie that I liked. On the X'mas day I saw Saathiya with 9 other guys from office and the next day saw the bond movie with my brother and two other friends. Both the instances i felt like being in the minority. For i was amongst the few who really like...

Dec 14, That was a senti plea requesting you all to pleeeeeeeeeeeease fill up my inbox. Having made the point loud and clear lets move ahead and concentrate on the other things in life. The last one month has been hectic. We had a lot of work to do but more than that there was a lot of confusion. As soon as you enter a place you feel that this is the toughest job in the world and things become more interesting if you have a completely undefined work process and comprehensive self study trainings. The worst part of the last one month was the confusion and fear of not doing well. Add to it the feeling that perhaps support is not the best thing to do. Anyway things have stabilised quite a lot in the last one week. Firstly it now seems possible. In support if you want to do a good job you need to be smart and know a lot of things. And the weblogic is something whose documentation spans over 5000 pages and J2EE specs involves a similar amount of data. So reading all this is just...

Hi Guys, In the last few months I had a chat with some of you guys. And all of a sudden I realised that I dont have anything to talk about. Rahul and Shilpi called up most in this period and often I just did not know what to say and the forced conversation lasted for not more than a few minutes. Then the mails from regulars like Rahul(Both), Anit and Rohit have actually dried up. It used to be such a pleasure getting a mail from these guys. But somehow today all I see in my inbox is a few fwds and mailers which I very happily block. Now let me admit that Bhanu, Anit and Shuchi have been nice enough to send some thought provoking fwds. But I would be more pleased to get hold of a mail addressed to me. So i thought of asking some of you about how it felt getting my mails. The first reaction was of course that it is painfully long and boring. The second category of people actually said that they did not mind getting these boring strings of ascii characters. I also got some intere...