The weekend cometh!

Friday

Today was another Friday and that means another weekend over the horizon! Things now are much better given the fact that I am going to vacate the guest house tomorrow, that means kissing goodbye to all the facilities like AC, Room Service and not having to make the bed or clean the room and tidy up the stuff and the likes. But I’ll be shifting to the house that I have rented and it’s not too far from where I stay currently and it is in a sector I am familiar with and it’s nearby to the office.

With the advent of the weekend lot of things change and thus in the process people hardly do any work. It’s a time for making plans and planning to execute them. I for one don’t have any plans worth mentioning for the weekend. All I have planned is the purchase of household items like mattress and stuff so that I am able to live in the newly rented flat. The best thing I have planned is to go to CP tomorrow evening and go to Caventer’s and have the usual. It’s been what, some 6+ years since I went there. From what I have heard the prices have double, but let’s just hope that the quality has not degraded and from what I hear it seems very improbable. Good for me!

Anyway today I saw that my company supports Vista and I have almost made up my mind that I’m going to get Vista installed on the laptop at least. The laptop has a graphic card and One GB of RAM, I am pretty confident that it can run vista smoothly enough. I’ve been waiting a long time to get my hands on Vista and thus try and get myself familiar with some of the new technologies introduced with it, WPF and XAML for example.

I have the VS 2008 Beta 1 (Orcas) downloaded and I don’t think I’ll have any restrictions as far as the learning is concerned. It’s going to be good times ahead. Lot of learning and catching up to do! My last job landed me in soup and I was practically cut off from the rest of the Windows based programming world for the whole time. I bet it’s all going to change. Just a matter of time and patience…

As for the plans of the next week I think that’s when I’ll be getting the assignments I am supposed to get sooner or later and that’s when things a going to get ugly (I mean in a better way). Me getting my hands dirty and diving into a developing product with tight time schedules, WOW this is going to be fun!

One more thing, all the downloading I have done in the past week alone has crossed 15 GB mark, quite an achievement. I have already reduced the amount of free space on my systems drive from 140 GB when I got it to 111 GB. Way to go!

Saturday

Well the day is coming to end and I’m sitting there in the guest contemplating my impending departure to the flat. I got the keys today and went to the flat to have a look around. There were no problems in the flat except for the fact that the top shelves are full with junk. Some are from the previous occupant and majority of the landlord. Well since we don’t really need any apace so it really isn’t a problem for me but I’ve no idea what papa is going to say about that. Well I guess I’ll just have to make do and make him understand.

By the way last night I had gone to the IIT and stayed there only. We didn’t sleep the whole night and stayed up talking and watching “Friends” and sipping coffee. Well the plan of getting to the market and getting all the things need for the house went kaput. But we managed to order ourselves a mattress and pillows. They will be delivered tomorrow and by that time bro will bring all the other necessities.

The only problem with the entire plan is me leaving the comfort of the guest house and going into the flat. I’ll have to setup everything and I never wanted to of have any experience in doing that. It’s a good thing that mummy is coming over next week and I’ll not have that big a problem and I’ll have someone to guide me and help me set up the household.

Next week is going to be a busy time and I’ll have to manage the time more than I have ever done in my entire life.

Anyway today is still Saturday and I have almost 20 hours till I vacate the guest house and I’m going to enjoy every bit of that. No slacking on the enjoyment!

Sunday

It’s almost 2030 hours and I am in my apartment. Well I just moved in and the apartment is a big mess. Theirs is no water as of now and to top it all there is no drinking water too. Got to go and find some vendor for the water bottles and get a connection. Next thing on the list would be to get myself a cooler. The Delhi heat is simply too much to take in and I could really use an AC right now, but for now I’ll make do with a cooler.

The day was not as hectic as we had thought it would be. The only hiccup was that the delivery man for the mattress could not find the house and went as looked at the wrong house and found that locked. So instead of 30 minutes he took almost an hour and fifteen minutes to deliver the mattress to our home. Anyway finally the mattress is here and looks like I can have a good night’s sleep now. The day involved me making a trip to Delhi and back and not having anything substantial to eat. I guess none of them are new to me and I think I can handle them both with ease.

Tomorrow being Monday I’ll have to go to office and I’m planning to claim all the reimbursements also. This would help me tide over this month of one way flow (financially speaking). With the claims processed I’ll have some money and hopefully will be able to enjoy.

Starting tomorrow I’m planning to download at least two to three episodes of “Friends” or some other series to keep me entertained at home. Now that I’m no longer staying at the guest house it’s a big problem (Ah!) as there is no TV in here.

Waiting for tomorrow and hope everything goes according to plan (for once in my life!).