Sadly she is out! This is the only grand-slam that JH has not obtained (same like Federer not getting French Open). Poor gal.
But Bartoli played an extra-ordinary game. Hope she wins the slam.
Boss says good-bye
It was surprising when my boss (remember that with recent dept changes I am reporting to the dept head) announced casually that he is quitting the company. He has been with this firm for about 7.5 years.
We, managers at the dept, expected this to happen a long back. He is a VP in the firm and has a fascinating career – he joined this firm when it was still a very young one; built the Chennai branch; then moved to Australia and built that branch. We all felt he was wasting his time being in IS; he should be heading the branch not a dept.
He is moving to build strategic accounts in a slightly bigger firm which is starting its operations in India. It is good for him. I wish him good luck.
How is this good for me? Well, I need to wait and see. But one of the option proposed was to merge both IS & IT depts and bring them under CTO. CTO discussed with me few options; if that happened, I would’ve gotten more visibility – He told the EXCOM that if Joseph (& another PM in the group) stays, he will be able to handle both depts. However, there were practical difficulties and this option is ruled out.
Even otherwise, I am expecting that this change will bring something positive to me! Hmm…wait and see.
Expecting a change
Though I’ve reached an age at which most of the folks would pitch a tent and settle down, my mind still cannot fathom the concept of ‘being-settled’. For long, I’ve lived out of suitcase and still keep my load to as minimum as possible – ready to move at a short notice. Always! That mindset is not easy to have and probably many loathe it. It is not that I enjoy it; but … yeah! Well, my life has been like that.
I studied 4 years in Coimbatore; worked 4 years in Chennai; had a fantastic time in Belgium for 4 years before being dumped into my current misery (I am not saying I didn’t have misery in my earlier days; just saying that current days are miserable).
Come August, I’ll be completing 4 years back in India. And my mind is already contemplating the change. May be a change will happen before that; or may be after that. As some of you already know, I am into a PeopleSoft Finance Upgrade project, which will go for a year. I’m already preparing for a change towards the end of the project.
Every time I think of it, butterflies are in my stomach – may be it will be good; may be not. May be it will be then; or may be it is sooner.
One thing for sure though: Change is on the horizon!
Update: Subsequent to this posting, I heard of one high-level change in the office. This will have direct impact on me. I hope it will be positive! It is not that I am happy about the change; I am happy about the change it will bring for me. I can’t control smiling. Right now, I am listening to all dance beats and rocking my body for the beats!
A coincidence
Yesterday we – two of my college mates and their family – met for lunch at Malgudi restaurant. We’d fun time. I especially enjoyed the time with the kids.
Guess whom I bumped into when we left – the whole zing-bang of my cousins. I used to meet them regularly when I moved to Bangalore. Now that I am consumed in my misery, I avoid meeting anyone from the family. And I feel bad – very bad. This is one family in our relations that I always kept in touch with.
I hope one time in the near future, I will be able to bridge the gap.
Back on the track
The climate has gone chill with the pouring rains. As much as it is a good news, with the change in weather, I got much wheezing. It was so much that I couldn’t be on the treadmill. For the whole week, I felt as a zombie. With my disturbed mental state, it wasn’t a good thing.
Saturday I took a strong dose and went on the TM. I could do only 7 km in an hour – but with a little inclination – and I felt so much better.
I hope I can continue to be on TM and feel better the whole day.
Week of posts lost
Mistakenly I deleted the db and I lost posts of the last week. I will try to repost some of them.
It also means that the configs that I did last week are also lost. Hmmm…not so good week.
Hopefully the weekend is better
Site might be down
Heard from Francis (one who has agreed to host this website for no price) that he is going to move his hosting firm and which means that this site will be brought down for a while. So suddenly you don’t see this site down, don’t panic.
Dilemma
To loose weight, it is not just workout but a good diet is also mandatory. This means reduction in carbs and increase in proteins. But this has given me an unexpected trouble – bloating and flatulence. Apparently food rich in protein (dates, almonds, skim milk!.) bloats you and produces flatulence!
Now what do I do? I’ve to get back to carbs and forget about loosing any more weight.
Few quotes
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. – Alfred E. Wiggam
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. – Nick Faldo
There are two kinds of light–the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. – Albert Einstein
In heaven all the interesting people are missing. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. – Bertrand Russell
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places. – E. Joseph Crossman
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. – John Barrymore
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. – Baltasar Gracian
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. – Peter Ustinov
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. – Shelley Winters
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. – Bertrand Russell
It’s a bloody dull week
Yesterday, I woke up mentally and physically tired. I tried to do some workout to bring back cheers, but the power went off. I managed to fake a smile throughout the day.
Today is no better, though I did do some workout. Again, I have been faking a smile.
How do I manage these days without a soul for me to put my head on their shoulder and talk without a sense?
I’ve kept few photos of my god-son in the office. I keep looking at them. I tell myself, at least for this guy, I need to keep myself from doing something insane. This has kept me on the better side of the road so far.
Oh! One good thing over these two weeks. I started to edit my trip to ‘Romantic Road’, Germany. (yes, yes, it was long time back). It is a pleasant thing to go over and watch all that video. Today I completed the video editing and transferred the edited video to the tape. I still have some issues in making a DVD. Hopefully in the evening that will be solved.