Category: Daily Notes

its already 2003, Happy New Year !!! I came back from London this past sunday night and it was just a fantastic memorable trip. It was just a great feeling to roam around in london. Though I would have wanted to spend more time and see a lot more places, I managed to see most of the important stuff. The UnderGround system is really good and they have a neat public transport by train, bus and taxis that its just a breeze going across the city. It indeed, is raining all the time, as everyone says!!! And you have to walk, walk and walk…kalellam bend kayanduduchu…I had taken a good number of pictures, hope they turn out well…i will push them online soon.

I lost my baggage on my flight from detroit to newark and its almost two days now and the airline is still trying to “locate” the bag…It really sucks and they magnanimously offered to pay $25 for my expenses because of the loss!!!….does anyone care?

Yet another week has passed by…It has a great one too! I had a long weekend vacation back in detroit as I went back home on thursday and came back only yesterday ( wednesday ). We celeberated Narayanan Mama’s 60th birthday at babu’s place in detroit and It was really wonderful meeting friends and relatives after a long time. It was fun and I enjoyed it really well. PPP ( Pen Parkum Padalam!!! ) wasnt going anywhere until yesterday. I think we have a potential match in the pipeline, but its a long way before I can say anything. I guess, I have to anyway, plan to visit home ( india ) during end of dec-jan when i will get a weeks vacation from the project during christmas & new year. lets see. Work is keeping me busy most of the days ( and fews nights too! ) and its going interesting too. Have fun until i come back soon.

Damn, its again almost a week since I updated this one. Continuing from where I left it… Friday, 11/1/2002 I visited Devi and family in virginia and also met jaga there. I spent the rest of the night there. Next day, It was unusual, because they decided to have me cook their food! While I was not sure how it will end up, I knew I would do a decent job of cooking a few items. I managed to give them a small feast and It was a wonderful lunch. I left to NewJersy that afternoon and reached on time for the reception party of Ashish Johari at Ragini restaurant. Had some good time there for a few hours. Met some of his friends and it was already 1AM when I reached my hotel back in liberty corner. The rest of week has passed by without much of excitement. Work is keeping me busy most of the day as Iam exploring lot of new stuff here. Iam going back to detroit today after 2 weeks. Its going to be a great weekend. Besides, I will be staying back for narayanan mama’s 60th b’day celeberations on tuesday in detoirt and will be back in jersy on wednesday. C U

Yet another gap…While I hate to be a lazy one not updating this often…I couldnt help it! Iam now in DC, working out of my companys Global HQ, its fantastic! I visited Priya and Chellappa yesterday and stayed at their place last night. Its good to see them after my last visit here about 5 months back. I might be seeing Devi, Jaga & fmly today here before I leave back to NJ today or tomorrow. PPP ( Pen Parkum Padalam ) is keeping up on some days! Its a tough one to decide. Hoping for the best! It is embarassing to say that you dont like a girl, which some consider as an insult. After, its your instincts which has to tell me that this is it! The proejct work at pfizer is going great. Having started here earlier than everyone else ( Luckily ) is giving a slight advantage over others in understanding the system and playing a key role on the proejct. There is tons of documentation to be read and to be produced back to them. Being a project for the regulatory group, FDA compliance standards are to be met and its been interesting so far. As the team is slowly assembled, Iam having great time meeting new people and getting to know them. Its going to be fun time for next few months. Narayanan mama is having his 60th birthday celeberations in detroit the week after next. Iam not sure If i can make it, especially when my BEA trainings are scheduled for that week. I will try my best, as such family occasions are rare here in US. See you next time!

Here Iam…back after a long gap…already deep under into the pfizer project. The whole of last week for really relaxing after a long time. Its has been almost an year since I have started shuttling to denver week after week. So this week break for a blessing. I spent it the right way, I think…doing nothing great…besides following up on this project. I found some time to visit my dentist to get my regular clean up, I had my ignition re-call installed for my Honda Accord, my long time wish of installing the CD player in my car was accomplished(bit expensive that i thought, may be it was a mistake!) and I also burnt some audio CDs. This week its been a smooth sailing here in new jersy. Met sam ( samuel george, my coimbatore, PSG Tech class mate) and had a nice time with him last night. I meeting KCT suresh today. Its good. The project is also really interesting…I hoping to learn a lot of stuff and have fun here!

A project for pfizer seems to be working out…if everything goes well…i might be starting as early as next week…damn, i will my miss precious break!!!

If you really had nothing else in this world to do…try this Sand Art

It has been a relaxing week after a long time. My friend selva is here from dallas for job search! Santhosh has settled down on his new job at GM with dana helping him out to get to know the people and surroundings. Besides cooking & eating some good food and we didnt do anything except watching the movie ‘Youth’ painfully!. Tried talking to coimbatore through yahoo voice chat, but wasnt really good. Heard that amma has eventually gotten herself into the world of computers and internet for the first time, this past weekend. Welcome to the Internet, Amma. This week, Iam hoping to find a project for myself and If it can be in detroit, that will be the one of the best I could possibly ask for at this moment. Lets see. Iam planning to go to the new detroit BearingPoint consulting office (never been there before!) today, and hoping to meet some folks who are working locally. They should give me some leads for local prospects if iam lucky…lets see.

Iam feeling a bit restless, especially as the clock nears 5 …Iam leaving denver for good and Iam not sure if I will be back here. Its a mixed feeling…I was here from the beginning of this current project work and I helped them deliver two phases successfully…so it gives a strange feeling that Iam leaving back something here…but at the same time…i love new things, new places and work so, iam all set for a new project somewhere else. I also need a break for a week or two. I have been shuttling back and forth every week for past one year…so…let me feel good about this. The team here has also been phenomenal…one of the best I have ever worked with. It had the best mix of some good tech and non-tech folks, who are great to work with. Iam sure I have learnt a lot from each of these guys. I would consider myself really lucky if I land in a project next, which has such a good team. All my wishes for the team. Good Bye, Denver.

I found this one interesting. http://www.sulekha.com/articledesc.asp?cid=167625 I love good screenplay and I have watched most of the movies that were nominated (and ofcourse those that won) for screenplay in acadamy awards!

Ever since I moved to United States, Iam glad that I have picked up the habit of Reading. This, I believe has given me a lot of awareness and knowledge. It is also making me a better person everyday. Though it drives me crazy at times that I couldnt read everything I would want to. A consequence of this has been an undying urge to Write. I consider this blog of mine as the first baby step towards my writing ambitions. I know I dont have any style or at time, my vocabulary itself sucks…but then that drive inside me will make sure my writing gets better day by day. I found this site http://www.scholastic.com really helpful in my writing pursuits. This is a site for kids. But I consider myself no better than a kid when it comes to putting down the words on paper!!!

Funny! makes me wonders if there will be an end to crazyness… http://www.xmission.com/~maddox/irule.html

Iam having a hard time reminding myself that I shouldnt be coming back to denver this monday. I have been boarding the damn monday morning United Airlines, 7.30 flight to denver, from detroit…for an year…week after week. Its all coming to an end at last. Though Iam glad I dont have to get up at 5 anymore, on a Monday. I will be missing denver and the set of new friends I got know here. I still remember, when I landed here for the first time, to join this project, last november. I knew nobody and Iam glad Iam returning back having done something for the project and at the same time, learning so much from every one I came across here. The best thing I hate to miss, is the winter season and mountains. I really had a great time, this past winter, snow boarding in the rockies. It would have been nice If I had a chance to stay back for another winter and improve my boarding skill. No other place beats the colorado rockies for winter sports. Well, I could only hope I get another project where it atleast snows…

Atlast our PC in coimbatore was up and running Sridhar connected to the internet and we were able to chat for a while. I thought I should try to login into that machine using remote login from NetMeeting and I tried…and it worked…I logged from my laptop from Denver, to my home PC in Coimbatore and I got a glimpse of our PC. It isnt that big a deal technically, but it was great to see it. I could now help them solve some of their problems for here. Makes me feel better.

Iam going to sriram’s house for dinner. He is my good old suburban school mate, Rajesh G’s brother, living here in denver. The last time I was there, we had some good time talking about the days we have spent together in coimbatore. Sriram and I used to go to Aptech in RS Puram, in my bicycle back in 1988 to do computer courses. We talked about the day, while returning home from class, when we both stopped by at the pazha mudhir nilayam, RS Puram to have a glass of fresh juice. Since I had Rs.20 with me and I offered to buy both of us a glass ( Rs.10 each ). The real scene unveiled when I was about to leave the glass on top of the table, after finishing it….$*(&%(*$&(*&$W….I slipped the glass and it was broken to pieces…while I we didnt think it was a big deal…the shop owner noticed it and he stepped down from his high raised seat…and said with a cool tone…”Just give Rs.5 for that leave…”. I was incidentally surprised by the fact that it cost Rs.5 for glass and Rs.10 for juice!!!…I thought Sriram could spare 5 bucks for me and I turned over and gave a cool look at sriram, which implied I was asking to pay it. It took a second or two for me to digest, when he replied, ‘Sudhar…na sutham’…which means he had literally nothing in his pocket. So we rendered a awful look at the shop owner, who inspite of our desperate looks, said, we had to pay that damn Rs.5. On top of that, he went on to suggest that one of could stay there, while the other one could go ‘somewhere’ to get 5 rupees. I dont exactly remember if it was embarassing for me…perhaps I wasnt grown enough to even be embarassed for that momemt….but Iam sure sriram was. So we finally decided we couldnt go back either of our home, since it will take a full 40 mts or so go and come back. I finally managed to go to a friends house nearby and shamefully borrowed Rs.5 ( I refused to accept Rs.10 from him!!! ) and payed for the expesive Glass ( not the juice )…we headed back home at around 7 PM…doubles in my Hero cycle. It doesnt seem that big a deal today, but it was a special moment that we will cherish for ever! Good night.

I will be rolling off from this project this week…unless something turns up for extension here or elsewhere, i might have to be on bench for a while…man thats not good. I am also going to miss Denver…heck, I am hoping I will have good two week vacation!!!…hope for the best

I updated the look & Feel and the content of www.sudhar.com and uplodaded it to be more in sync with this look & feel of this blogger page. I hope its good. I hope to keep it up to date atleast from now on. This whole weekend just went by sitting infront of the computer at work! I was told that I should be supporting the training folks here…but looks like no body came in today except me. Anyway, Iam happy atleast I got these things done. I am going to go and see a movie…Good night!

Wow! I cant believe I am having my own blog on the web. Its a great feeling as I always wanted to have one and here Iam today, publishing my first scribbles on the web. It wasn’t that hard at all, contrary to what I thought it would be. Iam glad I could find this weekend off from detroit, staying back here in denver to do this for myself. Its even more interesting that I could host it on my own server at www.sudhar.com. Now, that I have done this, my next goal is to move my domain out from my hosting provider to my home server. Let the real fun begins!