…and that means staying late to complete it. Tomorrow I have a status meeting at 8h30 and got to get ready for it. It is 18h30 and every one has left the office. But I’m still sitting here and working 🙁
I still got to wash clothes, buy groceries and so on and on. hmm…
I went to CN Tower today. This is recognized as one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
It was a cool experience – the elevator takes 58 seconds to reach 346m! But of course if you stand without a support, one might get dizzy. The view from the top is spectacular – though one happen to see only sea of snow.
There is a glass floor here. Completely safe. Apparently it can hold 14 large hippos. I was only one! See some of the photos from the Albums (navigation at the top corner of the page)
Created a skype account. Uid: cephire. If you have an account, ping me.
In the morning, I went walking near Bloor Street. Then in the noon, I went to the Ontario Lake through Yonge Street and Front Street (where the client office is). Yonge is a commercial street
Can you believe that it is -13 yesterday and it would go down to -20 today? Add to that fact that with chill winds it always feel lower than these temps, like yesterday it felt like -20 and today it will be much worse. The weather folks recommend a min of 6 layers of clothing. That is awful compared to almost nakedness in Chennai. Weather folks also announced that if a part of the skin is exposed for about half hour, it would be frozen. I thought to myself, we should transport all those Indian men who pee on the roads to here; they would and could never do that again!
With the cold it is becoming difficult to go out in the evening. I wanted to go for a walk or to buy some grocery. But for the past three days, after I come back to room, I feel extremely tired (is it that I
The first day wasn’t bad at all. In fact, I’m pretty impressed with the way I carried myself.
There is a lot of resistance for this whole project idea. I will have to spend considerable amount of time in selling this idea. I’m not new to this approach; I had to do this for the project that I handled back in offshore as well. I have kick-off meetings tomorrow with the sponsors and other stakeholders. Hope at least the sponsor is ok with this idea; otherwise the project will fall flat.
They have provided me with an IBM laptop. Cool one; much faster one as well.
I had (Greek) Gyros & salad for lunch. I had chicken donner (Turkish) for yesterday’s dinner. I am sure by the time I return to India, I would gain all the weight that I lost; may be gain even more. Speaking of which, I don’t have any wheezing here (confirming my belief that it was due to dust allergy) but I do feel bit uncomfortable with freezing cold. I will have to look at some place where I can start doing exercises.
I am bit concerned about the assignment that I have come for. I know I have done well until now. I do have confidence that I will do my best. But this is the second largest client for our firm; and this project is a high visibility project for the firm too. I was talking to my friend Xavier and as he rightly put it, If I do well, I will be rock star; If I f…k up, I will be fired. What am I going to be?
As I said, I did talk to Xavier, for whose son, I’m the godfather. We did chat for a while. With two kids and new job, Xavier has become busy. But we are planning to meet sometime in this two months. Since it will be difficult for me to travel to the US, he might travel to Canada. We might meet under the cold showers of Niagara! I am looking forward to see Xavier and Vikas, my godson.
When a firm sends someone to onsite, they will ensure that they are fully utilized; which means travel during weekends, land on just the previous day and so on. This is usual stuff. But this trip was different. I got a day and a half free to spend!
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After a warm shower, went out for a walk and grocery shopping. It is nice to walk without a fear of being hit by crazy drivers. But I need to walk carefully because of snow.
Why is every car so dirty? They don’t clean their cars in Canada? Or did it snow dirt? I don’t know but every car I see is so dirty.
And why didn’t anyone tell me Church Street is a Gay Street? I see men and men walking hand-in-hand; women kissing women….ooooo…disgusting. Lip of a women is sacred, don’t do that. Ok, now I can’t go out with other guys staying in this suite. I got to find a gal. See, it is not my mistake at all. Not at all. Either I need to find a gal or be haunted by single gay men. I prefer the earlier.
I shopped in a near-by big store by name ‘No Frills’. I got to hit myself to remember all that I used to shop in Belgium. What is that name of the spread again? Damn…is it …don’t remember at all. Without being able to remember, I bought some bread, spanish salad and few other items.
I had bread and spanish salad for dinner. You ask how was it? Disaster. Complete disaster. I better find something else to eat.
Tomorrow is a free day for me. So will go out again and get something good to eat or find some place good to eat.