Not lot of days goes like today. No wastage of time today. Every minute was productive and that gives a satisfaction at the end of the day. True, I am tired to some extent; however, the satisfaction compliments the tiredness.
And one more good news: I got a one-year multiple entry Visa for Canada today.
For the past few days (almost a week), I have been busy with writing a proposal for the new engagement. I’ve written so many tech docs. But this is the first time, I am into proposal. Man, it is tough. I have to be careful with each sentence (the pre-sales guy who reviewed the doc, spent 20 min on a para inspecting each word and grammar! ). After so many reviews, I sent it yesterday. Hopefully there is no rework. I am tired of it.
C for Canada! Yes, that is right. If everything goes well, I will be traveling to Canada for a month to gather requirements for a project. For the past week or so, I have been busy writing the proposal for the same. This is the first time, I am writing a proposal and hence I enjoyed it. I had to have a review with presales guy and he questioned each and every word, literally.
This project is about building a MIS dashboard for senior management of the largest bank in Canada. By virtue of this, it becomes high visibility (and risky) project for our firm. If I were to believe what I was told, our CEO will join the initial meeting!
Sometimes, I feel great about such a project, but on the other hand I am also bit concerned that things should go well.
Here are some photos of our trip: http://flickr.com/photos/jjude/tags/madikeri/
After days of being in scenic Madikeri and places around, we are back on Monday evening. It was a wonderful time. This was the first time I drove long distance in India and I absolutely loved it. Will post photos soon.
I have always been a workaholic. Over the years, I have built my confidence on many (little) achievements. However, I never got recognized by superiors in a notable way. That changed now. I woke up to the taste of Champagne today!
When I checked the mail today morning, I learnt that I was selected for a quarterly award for support departments of the organization. Here is the write-up of my supervisor:
Joseph X Jude (701329 | IS Team) for execution excellence
Joseph has managed the iQuest exceptionally well to bring it to a decent shape. After 3 PMs in last 6 months iQuest was struggling for a direction. There were no senior resources in the project. Joseph didn’t only provide the leadership to the project but also defined a roadmap for iQuest. This resulted in rollout of iQuest to all the DCs, usage of iQuest increased significantly in last quarter.
After a long time (probably a year), I am going on a long drive. We (sister, BIL & wife) are driving to Madekeri, which is around 6 hrs drive from Bangalore. We are starting tomorrow morning. We will be back on Monday evening.
Hopefully this is going to be a good time.
As of yesterday my flat is rented. I didn’t advertise or took any steps to get a tenent. The need is so much that someone approached me and it all went fast and quick. On Friday, he called and I went over to meet and discuss the terms. On Saturday, they moved in. Voila! quick and painless. Hopefully, I can forget about flat for sometime.
After about 3 months, we, as two families – sister’s and mine – went to see a movie. After series of comedy movies, Kamal has taken a serious role. He is such a versatile actor. It is always a joy to watch him. Though it could be termed as Kaka Kaka Part II, the camera is just awesome. I was thrilled to see Hollywood style in a Tamil movie. Other than camera, the music scores well. For such a hyped movie, the story falls flat though. Good watch for one time.
Some days are better than others and some are damn worse. Today falls in the latter category. I woke up with this feeling of being caught in a spiral of never-ending-never-happy roller-coaster. I’ve been feeling so for sometime now.
I went to office early to finish some pending job. I get annoyed when people can’t do their work. I was supposed to test few fixes. I had provided my comments earlier; but they were not taken care of. That set me in a foul mood in the early morning.
As an avalanche, one came after another and put me on a bad track. Yet, I managed to keep my cool towards people. I left earlier than usual (still worked longer than most of the others).
At home, I wanted to watch Friends and Mr. Bean to laugh a bit. But as (un)luck would have it, TV signal was so low that I couldn’t watch any channel at all.
So I getting to bed with a pissed off mind. Something tells me that, being pissed off is better than being pissed on. True right?