This Side of Paradise

For the second time, life has taught me that it is wrong to expect something that was never meant to happen to you. The company day was on the 2nd of July and from what I had heard and seen we were easily the team walking up to the dias and taking the best project award. The evening had other plans for us. Obviously, we didn’t have our date with destiny that day, but what was more appaling was the choice of the projects which got the awards.

This was so awesome that I had to break the chronology of my posts. A couple of posts down, you will find the Y2K. Check out these links below; they show the Y2k starting up. Make sure you have your speakers turned up. back to my regular posts in a short while…!!

Somehow caught a fever and a very sore throat last thursday. It was so bad that I couldn’t even sit in the office that day. So, took off on friday and slept for the whole day. Am on antibiotics, so I should be fine in a couple of days. Today also marks a red letter day in the Indian automobile industry…want to know more…click on this link Again, a very small post.

…so, the creative zen vision costed a bomb ;-( and they had the micro version of the player which was definitely not intent on getting. So, here I was, sitting with a dead iPod not able to get anywhere. And then, thanks to google, I found ilounge. Browsing thru the forums, I found a thread that exactly described the problem I was having..with a very interesting solution. It said -

That is what I’ve been seeing for the last 24 hours on my iPod screen…it’s a pathetic feeling staying here when you know that all it needs is another 1.8’ disk costing around $150 from any good store. Why is it pathetic being here?? well…none of them ship to India. I called up apple support today and they gave me the same crap…it’s even there on the support site

This evening, I had the pleasure of riding along side a cherry red porsche boxster S…all along necklace road…!! boy, that car is super amazing…!! That’s the second confirmed porsche sighting in the twin cities; saw the first one, a porsche cayenne, with D2 at Little Italy one night. Vista Beta is here… and it’s amazing, although I’ve been using it for about an hour’s time now…thing’s are a little confusing.

The automobile industry, especially the two wheeler segment will never change. Typical indian mentality - the first thing they ask on seeing a bike is “what’s the mileage?” it’s the standard question for every bike from the bajaj CT 100 (wow… that gives 110 km per litre) to the honda 954 CBR (wow…we don’t even have the proper roads for this baby to ride on). Mileage scores in our land and thus the big companies (with their wonderful bikes) - honda (Shine - Shines in what?

The month of June is very eagerly looked forward to by the management here. The reason - two scores arrive that define you as a leader. The first is the Gallup survey which shows how effective you are as a manager in terms of taking care of the team and the second is the client survey which is filled in by the end client. Bottom line, your performance as a leader is evaluated from all directions.

…at the office; so, what’s new about that?? Well…this time, I really wanted to go home and get some sleep cos tomorrow was going to be a very long and a hectic day. At 1 AM, when I was getting ready to leave, I find I’ve missed my bike keys somwhere; effectively I’m stranded at the office!! Pretty pathetic end to a relatively nice day I should say…!!…or so I thought!

…is generally considered to be the most demanding project across our company. The general word is that working for a year in the GS project is equivalent to working for two years on any other project. To average joe, it seems like a project best avoided…you get paid the same for two times the work, twice the pressure..phew…!! Why would someone want to stay on there…!! Henry Paulson is the chairman of Goldman Sachs and there was a mail from him yesterday which started like this…