From past few months, I have been trying to put something together at work and am using SqlAlchemy extensively. I am just impressed by the dedication and sincerity exuded by this open source project. Its very hard to be not inspired by Mr. Michael Bayer, who is one of the authors.
I have this amazing friend who has more data than a corporate data center can manage. If you give him a $ for every byte of data he owns, then he will figure in the 10 most richest Indians. Anyway, I got the privilege of copying a subset of his data onto my 500GB harddrive (Obviously, it ran out of space). But I now have over 100GB worth movies and I have a difficult time figuring out what to watch.
Its business for the hospital, its personal for you. No matter how healthy you were the day before, you shall be deemed a patient by various means. Ex. Hospital Uniform, medicines. You shall witness a sudden spurt of love and emotions among your not-so-distant relatives. Every tom, dick and harry shall visit you and make sure that you have noted their presence. The motivation could be concern, love or…. ah lets not name it. If you haven’t ever believed in God, you shall. If you believe in God, you shall feel him. You will be proved highly ignorant of your body and its functioning and you shall wish you had paid a little more attention in the boring biology class so that you could have taken up medicine instead. You will feel the taste of humanity when ward boys, nurses do their service with sincerity and honesty. The ward boys and nurses shall grow more closer to you than your blood relatives. You shall realize - afterall, there is still good in this world. And it is true. You will pledge to live a more satisfactory life, to do more service, to be a little more nicer to people, to smile a little more. And lets hope we cherish that spirit. All of a sudden you will realize how PRECIOUS your health is. I mean we all know and talk about it, but you shall REALIZE. All of a sudden you will realize how delicate and yet how marvelous your body is. All of a (not-so) sudden you will start to see how in body, mind and soul the other person is so similar to you. You will learn to be thankful for everything. To the workers who constructed the hospital in the first place, to BSNL for their mobile network, to the ground floor cafeteria for supplying with much needed food and beverages, to the surgeon’s teachers for teaching him so that he could save your life today… I mean you will be thankful for everything. And if you are lucky enough to realize exactly how valuable is your presence on this earth - you shall remain THANKFUL for the rest of your life.
I had never woken up on time before. But this day I was up well before the alarm time @ 3:20 a.m and surprisingly my wife was too. We all got ready in silence; the ride to the place was painfully long though my father-in-law drove as fast as he could, in fact the fastest as far as I can remember. He usually never misses noticing a hump on the road, but that day the car galloped over it and he blamed it on dim light. Nobody replied though.
You are The Sun # Happiness, Content, Joy.
The meanings for the Sun are fairly simple and consistent.
For all the fun I had and for all the misery I endured , my organization awarded me Employee of the Year out of 7500+ employees.
As many of my managers have observed, this is the first time so many things have happened different from the tradition; they have welcomed technical contributions as apposed to normal $ increase contributions, any employee is eligible to EOY programme only if he was a EOQ (Employee of the quarter - no where written, but thats what happened), and people get nominated usually after 4-5 years of service. I was neither a EOQ and I joined as a fresher in 2005 and I did crap for first 10 months. Considering all this , I consider myself lucky to be recongized. Though for the most part it is my effort, I also realize that it is the broad mindedness of my supervisors/managers. It takes a lot to whole heartedly appreciate people!
The best problem solving algorithm I have ever seen. ROTFLOL!!
-– Arthur : “You know at times like this I wish I had listened to my mother” Ford : “Oh, what did your mother say?” Arthur : “I don’t know, I didn’t listen”
Its been raining here since I woke up in the morning. Its so beautiful, even the concrete giant apartments have managed to look little sexier. I spontaneously had an idea, and without much thinking I did it :
God has fixed the bug! I waited for two days to see if the bug reoccurs, but I cant wait to sign off on that :)
-- Nice Clients will always sign off on the fixes much earlier than others.
Flashback:
Something must be wrong!
I woke up in the morning (?) to find myself sweating, my bed was wet, the pillow was wet. Damn, was it my roommates playing pranks on me? Did they spill water all over my cot and forgot about it? Neither did I remember having a fever the previous day, in which case this sweat could be taken as a good omen of fever having a nice little send off in the night. Something must be wrong!
This will be a a long one…
After an year of hard work, our whole team were anxious and waiting when the customer finally decided to buy the new product. It wasn’t easy for anybody, neither for us nor for the client - New product means a lot of change, and a lot of questions about performance and reliability and business usually doesn’t like ’new’ changes.
The more I think, the more I get confused. What is that thing which is great/big/noble in this world? Everybody dreams to do something big., but what is big?
Todays materialistic world has made us associate greatness with materialistic acquisitions. I was recently reading an article on ‘Guru’, he is a Hero because he rose from rags to riches, he pursued and chased the ends no matter the means. People who watch that movie go back with a renewed spirit, wanting to achieve something more.