Pleasures in life

• Getting up at 3pm in the afternoon
• The first thing you eat is Butterscotch Ice Cream
• The only thing you eat for next 4 hours is an entire tub of Butterscotch
• Fill up the leftover space in your tummy with Lindt Dark Chocolate
• Watch Star Trek till you fall asleep
• Repeat the above steps for 5 days
• Bunk the office for 5 days doing this

I do not remember the location or state of mind I was in, when I got this call… This call originated some 2400kms away from my present location and informed me that “My system is not working !!! Mails are not going out from my Outlook. Please check and solve it !!! ” Before I could react, the call came to its end, leaving me open-mouthed.

I am planning to take a short course on IT Telepathy.

So what do you do when somebody asks you to tell something in layman terms when that subject can be explained only with jargons ?  Our E-mail system was shifted from one server to another and things didn’t go as expected… We had some SMTP relay issues, SSL authentication problems for POP3 and IMAP, DNS resolving issues with the new server… How to contain all these terms in layman terms ?

All I could manage was “There are some issues with the system and we are trying to solve it… and we are doing our best”…. But people are not satisfied with these terms and they expect you to teach them TCP/IP in 15 mins and that too in layman terms…

I guess I should go the way of Scott Adams…

The last time I played Badminton was at Kamal’s place during college days. And after nearly 6 years I started to play again a couple of days back after one of my office colleagues invited me to play with his friends in the evening. The reason was to reduce my pot. I met some 6 people whose age varied from 50 plus to 30…. and from a state player to college champion. I was underage and nursery kid compared to them. But somehow they kind of encouraged me and pointed out the areas where I needed to improve. They really do have the patience. So for past one week I have been quite religious in turning up for the game and stay for a long time and come back with muscle pains

I can’t remember the last time I played something outdoors. But this certainly is a new experience and I hope to continue…. at least for my pot….

I came back from my vacation 2 weeks back and was surprised to find I have been relieved of my previous duties and now I find myself in the bench. We are looking at some new projects coming up and we are going to do it for the first time. I better relax myself to the max before I have to spend real sleepless nights….. Another news for me was that I have to travel to Germany in April for a week for Hannover Messe. So need to prepare all the docs for the visa and other formalities.

This relaxed work day isn’t all that good. The day moves very slow and you get tired of reading IEC’s and books. I have been reading Richard Dawkin’s “River Out of Eden” which enlightens you on evolution. Will try to post a full review after finishing it.

I just remember playing at my school grounds with nothing to care about and the voices of my friends at the college canteen table is still ringing in my ears with the sweet aroma of coffee still lingering around… But the reality and my office colleagues tell otherwise. Time does seem to have rushed past me. I should be thankful in saying that my life for past 26 years have been good but when I look at the past one year and the near future I do see a change coming in. The winds of change are blowing and I do not know whether it is for the good.

My waist size is not the only stuff I worry about these days. Temper and stress levels at work is going above the mercury level, my love for music, books, treks, photography has taken a bad hit. My social life is next to zero whereas my junk food intake is at all time high.

Maybe this is what is called “Growing up” and if you ask me, I certainly don’t like it. Embracing the change is going to be really tough than I had actually anticipated earlier.

I just hope that the other half is as fun as the half I enjoyed all these years…