Outdu-Launch

There are many milestones in one's life and this launch has been memorable to me in more than one way . It all started off when Raj told me that I had to be present at the launch in Mumbai, I was pretty excited about this because first time in my life , my work was gonna go live :-)

The days leading up to the launch were pretty hectic , as we had to spend 16-18 hours per day refining the portal and deploying it in test scenarios , checking out the performance and distribution . Finally the day on which we had to leave to Mumbai arrived. This was the first time that I was going to Mumabi and this was my first flight Journey :-) .

Yes, you read it right , In my 23 years I had never boarded a flight before that day and hence was pretty excited about my first flight journey . We reached the airport much before the departure time but the queue for security check was long , so had to spend around 45 min standing in the queue , finally the moment that I had been waiting for arrived , I boarded my first flight on 20 th Nov 2007 at 7:50 PM :-)

I took my seat , fastened my seat belt and was anxiously waiting for take off and yeah the moment it took off , I could hear my inner self shouting with excitement " I am flying, I am flying .. Yippeeee !! " .

The flight took about an hour and half to reach Mumbai from Bangalore and then we checked into Hotel Atlantica which was right on Juhu beach . We orderd aloo parathas and once we had our stomach full , we started setting up all the servers and testing it out whether everything was working or not .

We dindt sleep the entire night , working hard to help ajay with his content and I am still surprised that I was able to stand through the whole off next day without a wink off sleep. In the morning we took all the equipment and reached JW Marriott (the place where the event was scheduled to take place) but everything there was haphazard , our stall was not setup , no electricity supply was provided , so we had to wait until everything was setup and then powered on our screens and servers.

Had a hectic day giving demos to all the people who came to the stall . We had good food the 2 days we stayed there , but couldnt go out anywhere as we were totally exhausted on 21st and after dinner,went straight to bed . The next day was no different from the previous day but m ade some friends in Mumbai and before we could realise that we were in Mumbai we were all set for returning back to bangalore.

It would have been great if we were allowed to stay back for a few days more so that we could have roamed about Mumbai.. :-(

Overall it was an experience to remember and treasure for the rest of my life

Who said hard work pays off ??

I really want an answer to this question , who the hell said hard work pays offf??? This world is not fair at all , a person who works is pushed an extra mile to do extra work whereas those people who come to office at 11 AM , starts off by going to have a cup of coffee , returns to the seat at 11:30 AM, checks mail , keeps roaming about talking to colleagues , goes to lunch at 1:30 PM , comes back by say 2:30 or 3 PM and then goes to the cafeteria by 4 ,comes back by 4:30 and leaves by 6 PM sharp and doesnt even get called to work on saturdays...phew!! What a life man .... On the other hand we go to office at 8 AM ( we skip breakfast many a time ) and work till night 11:30 PM or 12 AM with the same 2 coffee breaks, lunch,dinner break in middle and to top it all , even though saturday is voluntary , we are REQUIRED to be there in office , how fair is this ???? What is our hard work fetching us ? Remuneration??? ... Appreciation ???? .... but sadly we get none :-(

I always believe that we have to be happy and contended with what we get but with such a sort of treatment I doubt how long I will be able to adhere to the above clause .

What is Right & What is Wrong ???

Well It has been a long time , since I have updated this blog.My last post was somewhere during the month of December and after that the spirit of blogging died down, may be thats because of the events that happened after Christmas. I have never been able to be the same again and till now I have never been able to speak out my heart to anyone .Even though I may lead a normal life and appear as the "Happy Go Lucky Guy" on the outside , I am not quite comfortable . The grief and sorrow has been ever increasing for the past few months & I am not able to comprehend as to whether what I had done was right or wrong .

Well I would just like to ask one simple question "What is Right & What is Wrong ? " What may seem right to you , may be wrong to someone else , so does that mean you are doing a wrong thing ? If that is the case then every person whose actions you loathe are wrong doers .. In most of the cases we have a clear distinction between what is right and what is not , but in some cases we will not be able to tell as to whether what the other person has done is right or wrong and many a time we find ourselves in such situations , so how do we find out whether we are right or wrong ?

Well I feel that I am RIGHT until and unless I hurt someone with my actions and I am sure that I have been WRONG more number of times than I have been RIGHT.