Om Namah Shivaya

Finally, Another long weekend is getting over. This three day weekend started with a lazy Saturday where I almost broke my record of sleeping. I woke up by 5 O'clock in the evening. Sunday and Monday was not much different either. Good thing was atleast evening was somewhat eventful. While on Saturday I watched couple of good movies on my lappy (The insider and The Darjeeling Limited), Sunday was adventurous as I explored different places like SwamiNarayan temple in Dadar and Alfa market in VileParle. Today I joined MahaShivratri celebration in Hanuman Temple. It was good few hours for change. Good thing about such gathering is you feel part of a family.

Another short but important week is getting started. Last week I heard the bad news that my team size would be reduced. This might be the week of lay off. I hope its not that bad.
I am excited of coming weekend as my mother would be coming. She would be here for couple of weeks and I hope to have nice time.

Forgot to mention that I am very happy to see some fellow Indians on the world stage for Oscar. Hollywood movie based on Mumbai won eight oscars. Jai Ho!

Year 2007

This was year of travel.
Here is the list-
January - Bangalore
February - Ahemdabad
March - Chandigarh
April - New York City, Washington
May - London
August - Muzaffarpur, Hajipur, Patna, Gaya, BodhGaya. Devghar.
September - Bangalore, Chennai
November - Muzaffarpur

Movie Track

I have decided to track each and every movie I see going forward.

Billu - 14th Feb 09- OK
The Indsider - 22 Feb 09 - Excellent.

Kala Ghoda

Today was Kala Ghoda day for me. I went to this festival as it was last day.
It was good start of the day unlike other sundays. Woke up pretty quickly, got ready, left the house and joined my friend in town. Had good lunch and proceeded to the venue. It was good for change. Some wierd stuff was exhibited there in form of art.
Highlight of the day was Amol palekar who was seen as in crowd with noone noticing him. Day ended on a Kala note with me not jelling quite well with my friend's friend.

Another week starts tomorrow.

Food for thought

Why educated Indian do not want to speak in Hindi even with fellow Hindi speaking Indian in completely Indian environment?

Do or Die

It seems like this is what I did. Do or Die step. or may be Fire or Keep.

Some background. Today I came to know that rumors which I heard yday was not a rumor. On Tuesday Morgan Stanley fired lot of people from Operations Department.
Now its the turn of IT.

In the env its advisable to play safe. I think my decision would be made on one of the project which developed and in UAT /Prod parallel stage ( sorry for IT jargons).
If I take take it to prod I think I will be saved for sure. If not, my job is at risk. so all depends on User of my new app. My other lead in NY has been trying to follow up with users but not getting response. Finally, I sent out an email to all users to please give their acceptance so that I can take it to prod and save my job :).


This mail ofcourse was cced to my manager. Now I am waiting for his reaction.
I hope he does not mind it.

I am worried for tomorrow if I would be having my job.