24 Dec 2009 Thursday 09:57 PM

09:57 PM: Have been too busy and lazy both, for the last few days !! Busy ... shopping with sister, visiting friends at Saltlake ... even going to TCS Kolkata !!! In the meantime I have met two persons in RMG regarding transfer to Kolkata, it seems a lil difficult now. Then there was Sreelekha, Sangita, Goutam and Debashish below the Omega Towers in Kolkata IT Sector (Sector V), we had been chatting face to face after a long time! Anyways, the get together at Saltlake new flat of Soumya, Sandip, Samik, Anirban and Dhritiman. KFC andDomino's Pizzas again after a few months :-P. This Dhritiman has gone a long way in these two years, and has made the maximum growth in the Job areana, call it luck or fluke whatever you might call it. The fact remains this, that he is the Project Lead handling a small team, and the heat for the clients burns him more than it does us! Congrats ad Cheers my friend! All the others require special mention.And I wish to dedicate one entry for all my close friends (I am yet to meet some more of 'em :-P), those near and dear ones who has been there when I needed them the most :-D.

Went for the latest release AVATAR (wiki) at Forum Mall, Elgin Road, with sis, Rahul and Aditya (his younger brother). This is a must must must ... watch movie and strictly speaking in 3D! This movie will give you an out of the world feeling, though the story is somewhat straight forward, about human's natures good and evil.And in the end triumph of the good, but the treatment of the subject is different and very engrossing.

It has been a great experience this time, as very less people knew/noticed I was coming home this December end. That's the best strategy for people like us who get 15 days of leave to get back home almost 2000 kms from the relocated city (Bangalore, for me) due to job (which brings smile at the end of the month). Not many people know that you are here and hence doesn't come up with exorbitant requests of seeing/visiting every one of the relatives (who run away from responsibilities, as per my experience) !!! I feel that I have travelled so far ... can't they take little time outs from their precious ones, for a single day(out of their 365 days) out of these my own 15 days(which are more costlier as they rarely come twice a year), giving me a sense and sigh of relief!
It is special to be with family, I realized this time as I have been at home for more than 2 days already! Other times it had been running here and there ... visiting relatives, their relatives, buying sweets for each visit .... not that I hated it, but I was and am tired of it! Worst was I have relatives spread in Howrah twin city of Kolkata, which was my birth city (it is more a town, than a city though, and the Howrah town is the posh area in the district of Howrah :-P) which is now a 2 hour distance from our new residence at Kolkata. One day is for that visit this time too.

On the eve of Christmas, wish you all a Merry Christmas !

19 Dec 2009 Saturday 5:11 PM

5:11 PM: Just spent the laziest morning afternoon of my life. The evening hopefully will be blissful! Arrived @ Kolkata Airport (Netaji Shubhas Bimanbondor, alternately) at around 11 PM yesterday.Got the pre-paid cab booking done by 12:10 PM and guess what, even after roaming though almost quarter the city (they call it shortcuts!) I was home by 12:36 PM! Amazing .... under normal traffic conditions it would take 1-1:30 hrs.
After I reached home, mother served me hot just made rotis, with cauliflower curry and a few pumpkin flower fries! I love my mom, not just because I can have my delicious delicacies, but the fact is that she loves me more than anything else :-P !! She had been quite excited about my visit, and was all smiles to see me after around half an year. She has become slimmer, good for her ailment of the knees, and seemed to be more fit than last time(then she was undergoing an operation). Father and sweet sister were also exited, but they seem to have got habituated to my falling from the sky every half an year, or at least once a year ... lol!!
There has been some changes in the household, the regular nurse got married and there is a new person managing my grand mother.She had been permanently on bed for more than last 2 years. She had been both a pain and pleasure, for these days ... her whole life. She has picked up this amazing ability to narrate "never happened" stories about people and even herself recently (an year or so), after being struck by a Cerebral Stroke at around October 2007.These stories have a certain humor that no one can fail to notice.We laughed the afternoon, hearing her antics though much of it was recollected by my sister!
Planning to go to the South City mall with mom and sis, dad will stay back. Good thing is this mall is so close to our present house! :-D. Hope you guys are enjoying your way ... 
Have a nice weekend!

18 Dec 2009 Friday 08:15 PM

08:15 PM: First time I am writing from an airport! Feels great and odd :-P, tweeted too!! Flight is at 8:25 PM, hence gotta go ... the queue is getting longer ! This is perhaps my shortest post.

17 Dec 2009 Thursday 11:13 PM

11:13 PM: Today is the last night in Bangalore for 2009! I'll be back after a year (:-P) on 3rd Jan to this lovely city with whom I have started to feel the bondage of the umbilical chord. Howrah/Kolkata (in West Bengal) may be my birth mother, this city is my step mother (not that type shown in movies, villainous) who has made me more matured in many respects. I am happy to get back home after 6 or more months, but at the same time I am sad, very sad that I can't be present in Sangam 2009, my lone multi-faceted fest outside college. I wouln't be providing links for easy navigation and relevance of words I use in this blog.I just have so little time, and I don't feel like googling anymore! Also one of my best buddies in office is leaving for his home, forever with dreams of making it big as a business man. I salute your brave decision Krishna, I respect your diligence but I will surely miss you a lot! :-( You have all my best wishes to make it big in this cruel world, that has made us cry a lot, even for small dreams.

It was more fun than ever in today's final rehearsal. It was full of music and voice overs for funny laughing scenes. I will have the videos uploaded in you tube, but would be for private watching so only 25 people will be able to watch it.Sorry guys ... but can't share it with the world it's too precious :-P

Have to finish packing up. Gotta go... Ohh one thing I would like to share...

Have a nice time till next post ... which will be soon!:-)

16 Dec 2009 Wednesday 11:35 PM

11:35 PM: Yet another looooooonnnnggggggg Day!Thanks to me ... completed the much awaited and hyped ArcSight report. Feels like a standing below a waterfall bathing in the cold stream!One last head ache remains that of a documentation stuff, hopefully would be completing it tomorrow :-)
Have to do left over packing as I am saying Good Bye to Bangalore for 14 days! Going back home and it's such a pleasureable experience!

14 Dec 2009 Monday 11:39 PM

11:39 PM: Tiring day ! What I did? Nothing much, as usual KT and skit rehearsals.

 Rehearsals were funny ... to much funny as we were with real props! Me with glowing horns and Krishna with the crown.Funny were the dresses too. Imagine a person in a suit and a tie, wearing dark shades with a crown! Or think of this a person in a funky party t-shirt wearing a cap and having glowing horns! Everyone looked funny and cute. LOLZ!! We laughed more than we acted today.

Just for the fun of it check the collage :-)

These pics will surely get you laughing !

Sorry Krishna, didn't ask you before uploading this one, but I am sure looking back you'll smile and not be embarrassed as you were today when people were stopping by just to have a glimpse of out odd acts!
Lets not get into boring talks of office work, which I would be doing tomorrow as well, lets dig into some delicious dishes for the Dinner. It was a team dinner at Nandhini, yes a dinner as we have three shifts morning/afternoon/night ! And to get all people at one place dinner is the perfect time :-) It was a decent dinner to me, and talk about outside food it's almost same everywhere.It's good to see the team together for one last time.

13 Dec 2009 Sunday 11:53 PM

11:53 PM: Yet another weekend gone!SAD! Tomorrow starts another week which will be action filled as I can anticipate from this wee hours.Tomorrow is our skit third audition. I have hell lot of stuff to do with ArcSight reporting.And the big news is I'm going home on 18th Dec Friday !! YIPPEEE ...
First time in my life I went to shopping alone ... and it was hell! I tried out 10 jackets and could not decide for any!! Then one of my friends(Rahul) returning from shopping from elsewhere came to my rescue... guess what I got at the end of the day? My first PUMA!! lolz ... This is what happens to an impulsive shopper. I am now facsinated by the legendary PUMA cut and style of shoes... It's proud to be a PUMA owner.
Through out the day I was mesmerized by Fast & Furious sound tracks...
Here are some for you (You tube links follow, in case embedding gets disabled in future):




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEIkEqem6NQ



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBCenEvUxo



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJVdZQx4zjI

I was taken to the land where I have these fast cars, NOS ... and lil bit of bikes as well :-)

12 Dec 2009 Saturday 11:14 PM

11:14 PM : Just returned from Marathalli, done with shopping and boozing for today. As I am writing it, you must be aware that I am a controlled boozer... lol! Anyways the shopping was for props was left for two items, the Hat for Yamaraj and the cardboard that will make the gate of Indralok !
Nothing much happened in between as we were hopping roadside shops for a quick and dirty kill for all temporary items we needed for the skit!
Dinner was at Yo China! after a pitcher of beer with french fries, a Long Island Iced Tea with reshmi kabab at Purple Haze and a paan from the roadside made it a happy evening :-)
It was a good time to be spend in the afternoon.
Right now I am concentrating on my website, which will be ready in a few days time. Till then see ya ! Enjoy !! :-D

11 Dec 2009 Friday 11:28 PM

23:28 PM: Have been in stale mood for some days (strictly talking in terms of Internet connectivity).Too much of KT(Knowledge Transition) and new reports add a skit performance (rehearsals) to that ... crazy week it had been! Good news is that I am going home next weekend! YIPPEE !!
 This would be a looooong post. Could you bear with all that text? May be you can have a cup of coffe by your side :-)
The week started with KT's and they were long sessions.To transfer knowledge accumulated for so long takes a longer time to transfer, and the problem is these two freshers(just out of college/no prior project experience) are not from computer science. So I had to tell every bit of networking right from the IP addresses to the processes followed in our organization.We monitor a client network and when you talk about network implementations they can get real messy, and with aqcuisition and mergers, it gets even tough to explain various processes in detail.Anyways I felt like I was back to college days, just that this time I was on the other side, not yawning but taking on the pain of keeping my cool, amidst dumbest of queries.These sessions taught me a lot more than last time. The guy who came in last time was more keen to learn new things and was kind of, like me, always remembering self help is the best help! These new guy and the girl are not dumb but just that they don't believe in self help, or may be have a habit of being spoon fed all the time.I am to evaluate them by next week, and till now I feel they are almost the same.Another tough week remains ahead, I guess!
Coming to the skit, it was a pure chance factor, luck factor too! I was reluctant at doing all these, but one day in the reharsals really got me going! I was playing 4 characters in a skit! Two of them were more like extras, and two playing crucial roles. I became George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, a mischievous devil (doesn't have a name though!) and lord Vishnu all in 4 minutes. initially I was forgetting 3 dialogues that I had to say as three charcters, but improved a lot in around two hours flat.At the end of the day on Tuesday, I felt I do have  little bit of a talent in this field too.i was happy.To give some insight to our skit, it is on Information security and it is shown that Heaven is in trouble as their security measures are clumsy. With due respect to all gods and religions, this was a setup in which we tried to portray a modern organization with mythology adding some humour. One not so fine day, Yamaraj (played by Ravi) finds out that George Bush is being taken by yamduts as a mistake! Someone has hacked into yamloks databse it seems.Then there is this devil who tailgates and eavesdrop during a conversation between lord Indra (played by Krishna) and another devta, gets the password to the main system, and creates a havoc.As the devtas come worried asking for help to Indra and Narada, they decide it's only lord Vishnu can save them, and visit him. Vishnu gives them a great Idea to get a Information Security project leader from TCS to fix the clumsy security measures.They do as advised, and after three months all problems are solved.It is shown that Yamraj at last restores his database and get the correct person (Osama) instead of Bush, while tailgating problem is solved and the devil is caught, as he tries to tail gate again.
Wednesday was the D-Day when we had the auditions.To give a small background to why this skit, this is done as a part of Sangam, kind of a techno-cultural fest that goes on for the festive season in december in our ISU(Industrial Solutions Unit) in TCS. Sangam has got a whole lot of other activities going on, like quizzes, football, cricket, volleyball, throwball competitions to name a few. The auditions kicked of well for our skit, and I played the devil and Bush, with confidence, but then lord Vishnu may have disliked my performance in the reharsals and I almost made a blunder, when I forgot the last two lines of my dialouge! I managed it in the least impressive manner and stood as Osama, later on feeling pissed off. We were selected that day, by Indra's grace, as others pulled the acts well enough. But then they asked for another audition on Friday, that is today and viola even with changes in characters (Vishnu is now played by Saurabh, I am playing just the devil, and Bush-Obama dual is played by Namahshivay, and believe me that is his name) we passed! We got selected yet again. And yes, we have another audition on coming Monday with proper dresses and props. These many screenings will tell you how tough it is getting as more and more skits are being prepared!
Coming back of office work, something good is in place as new reports are being finalized and hopefully this time my hard work would get recognized and all the technological manipulations and twists I had faced should get at least an appreciation! A lot of challenges and many hours of patientce and mind boggling technical issues have kept me busy for last three months.And what I had been working upon, had changed wholly from the previous design! I have cursed this project for sometime, as it takes away a normal course of life, but now as days are nearing to leave it, I feel a little gloomy. Remembering good old days, I am getting a little nostalgic, as well as skeptical about my future team.Today there was another team meeting, and I joined after a long time.It was fun, as usual.Afer some administrative updates the freshers were introduced, and they performed with songs and jokes :-)
What if I stay in security? Is it all that bad, may be not.But then the long nurtured dreams of becoming a software architect, owning my company, again puts me in crossroads.Security is a field where you cannot start as a zero(in India), speaking practically in terms of getting projects as trust is the primary bond that comes with security projects.Again staying in this project is not helping me increase my domain knowledge, or enhance my skill sets.if I am to stay in Information Security, I must be an ethical hacker, for which I am still a novice! Also without any onsite opportunity this account is getting real boring, cuts out all motivation(onsite being the last thread that might keep you in a not so interesting job profile!). I have to leave this project sooner or later. May I take correct decisions, amen.

08 Dec 2009 Teusday 01:17 AM

01:17 AM: Feeling sleepy after days ! Yippe ... Before I drop dead asleep, wished to share some cool geek stuff : Google Real Time Search is the next big thing! You'll be getting live twitter or FB updates or just published news or some CMS publishing any new item related to your search just pops out from your browser !! Amazing video, take a look!
And worst part is twitter is down for maintenance!!

Boy sure does twitter know to do things the cute way!You just can not get mad at them :-)








Well, see you guys tomorrow... till then sleep well, have a nice Teusday !

08 Dec 2009 Teusday 00:17 AM

00:17 AM: Bogged down with a lot of backlogs... I feel vulnerable. Lots of pressure from various fields keep me too busy in the mind getting me almost crazy. Tomorrow is appraisal goal setting meeting! And I still don't know whether to stay back in this project or get out in Jan, which is suicidal in case I don't get any other project by Jan itself. I have long wished for a smooth transition, but my famous luck has come between my favorite dreams every time!! March is the end of appraisal cycle, and I can't just afford to get less than four, at least should be three.Right now I feel I had made hurry, and is going to loose the string of constant good ratings of four for the last two years.And this next moment I am too much frustrated as my career shapes up to be a 24X7 slave!
Don't know what I'll put up for me, but surely would have to get a respectable peace treaty. Seems I lost the war I waged against mismanagement! Again, once again I have to make a compromise, or shall my nightmare end tomorrow? Man proposes God disposes... that it has been almost all my life as I have lived it!
What I want from life or office or work is still a mystery to me, as the mind overpowers the heart, and vice versa occurs two days later ! I want to be rich, famous, which is only possible by being a business owner, while I don't see myself competent enough, not brimming with fantastic ideas, in all not ready to rock the world... (a smoke needed!!:-P)

06 Dec 2009 Sunday 00:20 AM

00:20 AM: It's twenty minutes to 12 and I'm to sleep in next 20 min or so. I have a morning shift tomorrow starting at 7:00 AM! I hate shifts, hate it hate it, just hate it!! X-( !!! And I hate Mondays too. Why is weekend of two days every month? And for me it's once in two months. I hate my Job now. Irony is I do love it at times! Times when it requires some cool tech stuff, and thats once in a blue moon. Well it's a mixed bag always, but why do I whine so much! I know the grass is (seems) greener on the other side. But the more it seems more hope I gather and wish from the core of my heart that all this ends like a bad, really bad nightmare and one day I get to do what I like, not what I am forced to do.
And yes ... I had again missed out on something. I thought of calling a sweet friend, who is getting busier by each day (may be turning sour? :-P) and in the turn of various events did not call her. And I wished to talk to her once from last few days! Couldn't I get a little more organised? As another whine of mine has always been why is it that a day has 24 hours, but the fact is a little planning can wrap up work/obligations of more than 24 hours in less than that! Before I get too preachy to myself I would love to end this question in a question now.
Just returned from a sumptuous dinner by a friend, who is to leave for a Foreign land, we Software Engineers call it OnSite! One coveted dream of every Indian SE out there.Best of luck my friend! :-) . I am still so full that I might skip lunch tomorrow. I have given some advice to another friend of mine, felt a little more matured. Hope all I said comes out well in the end and my friend finds some peace in his life. In the last two years life has become so complicated, and I keep on wondering on this matter. How things and situations have changed over time and I found I have changed so little!
Looking back, I have earned two awards at office, for two different things and I feel I can do much  more, but this more can only come out if I am doing something that I enjoy doing. Thanks to my manager who nominated me for these awards. I respect you. But then these awards are something different, and what I want to do is something different. There is a storm going on, a war that never ends. And I am getting tired of it. It was not the same before. I used to think, and now I believe that I am a defective piece. I had not liked this work I do in the beginning, I was forced to. Loved it in the middle, and did not take a wise decision, and here I am repenting once again.Damn me... Ho Darn, is all I say now!
Well I have to start another war called ... "trying to sleep"! Good Night, Have a nice week ahead...

06 Dec 2009 Sunday 05:30 PM

04:53 PM: Rediscovered Owl City and fell in love with the songs. Posted them in facebook too. Incase you would like to listen to one of my favs, here it is: Vanilla Twilight .Listening to Vanilla Twilight I got drenched in romance once again. It's such a touchy song! Played a little bit on facebook, and just whiled away the lazy sunday :-) with an adda that seems to be running in my veins, the place and people still matters for an "adda". But then Kadugodi is a place where you can find more bengalis than kannadigas !!
Post lunch session, and I'm a li'l bored, can't sleep as it is something I need to do while it comes naturally to other people! Seems like I waste a lot of adrenaline in fighting to sleep.Should be going out in some time. This was a big lazy weekend. I had done no travelling ... not even to the nearest mall, or hangout! And now I feel a little sorry for not doing that :-P . My legs are starting to hurt, I must get out now or may be in next half an hour.

06 Dec 2009 Sunday 11:59 AM

11:59 AM: Well escaped getting up at PM by barely 10 minutes or so. Wished to get up earlier but then something happened last night at around 1:30 pm. I was elated, as one of my friends here at Kadugodi asked me for a short one day trip to Hogenakkal Falls. There were 4 persons including me and vehicale would be a Swift. Problem was we had to start by 5/5:30 AM in the morning. Very short notice and yet shorter time to sleep. But then the spirit of adventure put me in track. And I was awake by 15 mins to 5 in the morning, little dull due to only 2 hours of sleep. I received a call from my friend Neel that he would be giving me a call when he reaches near my house and I was set to go. 5:37 AM Neel calls and breaks in the sad news! The plan may be cancelled as Neel's friend was to come with a colleague, who is dead drunk! But only hope is if he gets up by the next hour!! I knew it was a lost case, but still called up Neel, and at around 6:15 AM got confirmed we are NOT going to Hogenakkal :-( and I slept, my head had started paining by then. And hence my body punished me with another around 6 hours of sleep. Now the question is what to do next?

05 Dec 2009 Saturday 09:20 PM

09:20 PM: Spent the whole day at home! Really an achievement for a person who gets weekends off on alternate months. This was the day to freak out. Got to some mall, or Cafe Coffee Day, may be booze and spend the night(till 11 PM is nightlife @Bangalore :-( ) at FUGA !! But I chose to stay home have a lazy afternoon and lazier evening catching up on old friends. First one was one of my school buddies, Koustav, went to his PG, had a good adda. We were three people me, koustav and his roomie Souvik. It was a good time together. This was a different kind of an experience as I have of late become kind of a loner, who gets alone often within a crowd. I was to go to Garuda Mall (1 hr ride from my place, save a traffic jam, the worst by product of modernization of Bangalore) to meet up with my school buddies (Supra, Rahul and Joy), and the occasion was compelling as Joy is the person i had talked to after I came down to the city, but never made it to meet him! Now call that my laziness or our mis timings, plain fact is that we did not meet. I wished to meet him, but just left it out 'cause of my laziness. I have grown too lazy.
Next in scene is my friend Anupam who has been the person to show me light at the end of a tunnel, not by preaching but by example. I save his story for another blog or may be let it remain a mystery as somethings are better left that way :-). Suddenly at around 6:45 p.m. this guy calls me and asks me to meet him, he was waiting on a coffee just outside my house. This was bit strange, as this guy is in night shifts and this was time for him to wake up, or sometimes getting busy with little household chores that you can't escape from, may be getting ready for the pick up cab. I went out and had coffee but his boots told me his shift timings have changed and he was early for the cab which was till then supposed to arrive at 8:30 p.m. We chatted over a lot of things, showed him the pictures of the latest trip I had been to.After two three smokes his cab arrived at 09:10 p.m. and we parted. In the mean time koustav called me for having snacks and I didn't go. Somehow I did not wan't to mix up my time with Anupam and Rahul(this is not my school friend who was at Garuda at this time) with Koustav.
Going through the various impulsive decisions, did not go to meet Joy, did not go for a snack with Koustav, decided to stay at home at around 4:00 pm while I made it a point to get out every weekend that I get, I realized it is happiness that controls your decision and this happiness quotient changes frequently!
Right now this is what I think, may be it will change over time, and right now I need to run for dinner, Koustav is waiting. Don't want to turn face off him again :-)

05 Dec 2009 Saturday 12:02 PM

12:02 PM : Found out a lot of interesting things in last few days.
Mention number one, another good blog of cartoons. Visit this: http://daolagupu.blogspot.com/2009/10/illustration-friday-fly-2.html.Good one :-).
Mention number two, Google wave is generating lot of "waves". A whole new mode of communication that looks at the next step of chat, email and search.Filled out the form to get my hands on to the sandbox. Hoping to get it soon!
Mention number three, I have almost stopped playing Mafia Wars (the link will only work if you are logged into facebook :-P) in Facebook.I found this one out before my friends who have now reached levels of 400 and I am still at 150! How different the priorities get over time! There was one time I would be playing it every night after office till wee hours in the morning(was having a second shift from around 1:30 pm-10pm :-P) and now I am writing a blog entry rather playing MW.
Mention number four, Nothing can be more refreshing than a trip to a tourist spot (with adventure) with your oldest and best buddies. We were at Shimoga, going down 1400 steps to reach the bottom of the Jog falls, clicking tigers roaming inside a sanctuary, trekking to reach Jogigundi falls, which was never reached as a landslide obstructed our way and the "world famous sunset @ Agumbe" . Lots of fun and pictures and a few videos made me feel refreshed after a long time.HAPPY!
Mention number five, Feeling hungry and you eat junk food just to convert those half an hours into work hours finishing things off, getting one step closer to a better appraisal doesn't ever help you! Only thing it does is making you fat and your stomach a burping engine from the twenties or thirties, lol! I have decided to follow  simple routine of having my meals correctly as much as possible in time :-). Said that I need to pack up, head for the delicious dishes of Annapurna Hotel(nearby, 2 min walk form my rented house@Bangalore).
Bye for now, enjoy every day of your life in one way or the other, as if there was no tomorrow! :-)

05 Dec 2009 Saturday 11:41 AM

10:15: Just woke up after a lazy sleep. SATURDAY. I can't express in words how these weekends mean to me. They are the best things that can happen to a Software Engineer. And I could well state that I am in that unlucky slot of people who are in a 24X7 schedule. We don't work round the clock, officially 9:30 hours in office, but you have to get to office on weekends every alternate months! Asked for a work from home... which got trashed as we are the security people and are tied down by other protocols and sophisticated unrealistic fears! The tools that we work upon or the network ranges we deal with are trade secrets but not like any fine advertisement idea or the new product launch kept in warps. It is even hard for an engineer / hacker to find out holes in the wall. But then there is a irrational fear imprinted upon peoples minds that there may be a hacker lurking out in the wild!
All said I don't tell you guys that the world is a perfect Utopia and there is no rational reason to believe there are hackers or malware vendors lurking out. Infact the internet is not at all a safe place, but then is the real world safe?Don't you go out in your car/motorcycle/bi-cycle though there are accidents happening world wide and people dying or getting severely injured in that?
But when it comes to the internet, people get really crazy. It's still like the medieval ages out there.Standardization of services going on security being infused in every layer as people lose faith in people at an alarming rate.
Anyways i have to live with it for some more time. And as i gaze towards the future which can be rewarding or punishing based on a 100 external factors direct and indirect, I still have hopes and dreams of that fine day I wake up and find out, I don't need to goto office on a weekend as a routine activity delving down into the peace of weekends.