ThoughtfulChaos

This is my last week in Delhi. I am moving to Mumbai next week to puruse a new opportunity!

Same company and same group but different project altogether. Not only a different project but a different job profile and one that is full of challenges. Needless to say I am really excited and all geared up to go.

I will keep this post short because I am really really short of time. More details in the next post.

This weekend will be spent in good old Ahmedabad as planned. I have missed Navratri for 2 years in a row now so this time I made it a point to be in Ahmedabad for Navratri. Many of my friends are also there in Ahmedabad so I am going to have a ball of a time.

That's all for now. Over and out.

Yawn. Saturday morning. Woke up late. 11:45. Did everything at fastforward. Reached Cafe 100 a bit late at 1:20 for the Delhi Bloggers' Meet.

Had a great time. No fixed agenda. Freewheeling discussions. Tatoos to Technorati. Interesting people. Interesting topics. Decent food. Good coffee. No butter chicken as promised.

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Delhi Bloggers' Meet.
1:00 PM.
Saturday, 2nd September.
Cafe 100.
Connaught Place.

New bunch of bloggers. Should be an interesting experience.

I did not have any expectations when I went to the 11th Delhi Bloggers' Meet. I just wanted to get out of the home-office-home routine and go someplace else for a change. I not only got to go see nice places (IHC and TC) I also made a few new friends.

The late-latif-blogger award of course goes to me for blogging on Tuesday evening something that happened on Saturday evening. I can only parrot out the usual excuses of me being a bit lazy and being very busy.

As I said I did not have agenda when I went to the meet. I didn't know what to expect, what I would be doing, how long I would be there... nothing. I reached IHC a few minutes before time and went to the amphitheatre. The IHC is a very fundu place. It reminded me of IIM Ahmedabad. Simple architecture but at the same time very impressive. Large open spaces, hardly any direct sunlight and lots of plants made it a visual treat. There was a blogger there, an engineering student, who took many pics of IHC itself. I do not recall his name but I sure hope he puts some of those pics online. The amphitheatre was double-booked and for some time we were searching for alternate venues. Finally we just decided to assemble on some steps some distance away.

There were around 30 people for the meet. And boy what a diverse bunch it was... bloggers and non-bloggers, serious bloggers and totally casual ones, technology bloggers and bloggers blogging for social causes, young bloggers and middle-aged bloggers, dudes in jeans and dudes in kurtas... you get the picture. The special guests for the evening were Bill Thompson, Julian and Gareth from BBC were on an India tour to know more about technology and India. Nidhi from WebChutney had also come to spread the word about the to-be-launched online reality show called OK Tata Bye Bye.

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I am still looking for accommodation. Plan of action right now is to shift temporarily into a PG for a month or so and meanwhile continue scouting for other more suitable accommodation. PG is actually a misnomer because here slightly sophisticated hostels are called PGs.

Today was my first real day at work. I have been assigned lots of work to be completed within a short span of time and I sure am going to be busy for the next couple of weeks. There are lot of new things to be learnt and lots of new things to be implemented.

I will have to work on different OSes (Windows and UNIX mostly), deal with code in various languages and frameworks and from various domains. In simple English that means poor me will have to work abandon Linux and work with Windows and .NET. No problem. I am looking at all this as a challenge. It has been almost 2 years since I worked on Windows and I have never ever worked with .NET before… for that matter I have never worked with J2EE too and very soon I will have to in both.

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