Another day of mindless surfing and feed reading!

Got up quite early to the knocking from the Guest house's attendant who had brought in the "Bed Tea"! This guest house sure is spoiling me (as if I don't like it)!

The breakfast was consisted of "Aloo Parantha and Aloo ki Sabji" and vegetable sandwich. I dug in and left for the office.

Today also like yesterday I didn’t have any work so spent the whole day surfing, restoring my bookmarks and feeds and most of the time reading them. One good thing in here is you are directly connected to the Internet so there is no need to supply User ID and password to each instance of every application who wishes to connect to the web. This allows the IE to refresh the web feeds and keep them ready as and when they get updated (well 10 minutes to be precise). I don’t have to open up IE and then explicitly go and refresh the contents of the feeds every time I want to read them.

After I reached office I connected to the net and alas, no new mails! This is the worst that could have happened. So I set out for the quest of getting myself some mails. My ex team mates did their job and by lunch time I had a good collection of about 50+ mails that had been exchanged triggered by a mail origination of the “Parser Team’s” newest member’s corrupt file.

Now its lunch time and none of my new team mates are looking like they want to eat! Everyone is busy so I quietly slip away and treat myself to a hearty lunch.

Afternoon is again the same old story of surfing the net, reading the feeds and mailing. Only this time it’s on a much less scale and less intense.

Today my PM told me that I would be getting my team allocated tomorrow. I just hope that I get some work or at least some documents to study along with the code so that I can busy myself. This sedentary lifestyle (brainwork wise) is killing me. Also when I get into some team it would allow me to mix in the team and get acquainted with more people.

As of now it’s almost 9 PM and I’m back in my room and my roommate is still absconding!

Well too much for a single day.

Hey hey hey! guess it wasn't enough... we have wireless network in the Guest house.... brilliant. right now I tried it out in the lobby and it works. I'm going to try it out in the room.. if it works it has made my day.

The Joining Saga (It wasn’t but still, for namesake!)

Late yesterday night I arrived at the guest house where I was booked by my new Company and was provided with a decent room. Although the room as it stands now is on a twin sharing basis, they have promised that I’ll get a single room in two to three days time. I think by that time I would have already found a room for myself. As of now I’m looking for an apartment and a shift from the life I have been living till now. I plan to go for a full fledged room instead of paying guest accommodations. Negotiations are on and hope to find a decent flat by next week.

I have some 12 more days during which I can enjoy the comfort of the guest house (it’s got AC, fridge and room service to boot). But as all good things come to an end I’ll have to move on… let’s hope the transition isn’t painful… ;)

Today was good! I got a full featured laptop and a cubicle which is at least twice my previous one. I’ll be getting the systems tomorrow so today was basically no work. One of the best aspects is nothing on the web is blocked and the speed is simply mind blowing. I downloaded the IE 7 from Microsoft site at over 1 MBPS. Now that’s something, right? Anyway My PM is the same guy who was my first interviewer and the mere sight of him sent me on a roller-coaster ride. He seems to be brilliant and a nice person so I don’t think there’s ever going to be problems.

One of the best things about the joining process was its simplicity. With my last employer we had to fill up a plethora of forms and it took almost whole day. Here it didn’t even take two hours and that too unguided. The only guidance we received was from the bank PR who came to us telling us details about the Account we had opened up and the “Escalation Matrix”. As if someone ever uses that. Anyway I must say that the overall simplicity and the efficiency are sweeping me off my feet and I’m ready to land face first ‘because I know I don't have a granite floor to face.

More so the team members seem quite friendly (though I haven’t had the time to meet all of them but in the introduction round the all seemed very friendly and the team member from the opposite cubicle also says the same thing). I still don’t know what I’m going to be working on but frankly who cares… I know that whatever work comes my way is going to be good and challenging. No second opinions about that!

The first day on the job and I get a laptop! And to top it all the laptop is amazing, with Core 2 Duo and 1 GB of ram and ATI Radeon mobility inside I think it is much more than I could have ever asked for.

To top all of the happenings of today, my room-mate is still missing… he should be here by now but I don’t know… maybe he went to his friend’s home.

Enough of the current place and job, going back to my old team I discovered that there is still no change in the way it works and all I can now hope is for the ways to change and that the “Creator” finally realizes the things that he has been doing wrongly and change himself. Although it sounds highly implausible but still one must never give up hope… wait, what am I saying? I gave up almost all hope that the “Mordor” and its occupant will ever change (for good that is). Let’s see what happens and cross the fingers.

Anyway I’m going to sleep now and hope that I can be more regular in blogs, now that I have a laptop so I’d not be restrained to write whatever I wanted to in office… now I can come home and write all I want to in peace and with lot of time at hand.

This goodbye is not forever…

As the song goes I have said goodbye to the IT capital for an IT job for another. Well the compensation aspect is a big factor but I know for sure that I’ll be put to better use here than I was in my previous job (well if you call that a job at all…)

The flight was good! It had to be, it was Kingfisher after all!

The day was long and no sooner than I landed in Delhi I got a taste of world’s favorite beverage (40% content).