Five Points to mention

Five consequential events happened in one day, jotting down randomly

1) No more Spring this year. Its summer here. The temperature is suddenly cross 30C. It was snowing last week, and we were expecting few more colds days. It may be because of Global Worming, may be because of extreme weather of Colorado, but I was literally sweating today. It will help me to cope up with Indian heat next to next week.

2) Kolkata Knight Rider lost in Super Over after tying the match with Rajasthan Royals in IPL. We were watching the match in a close door meeting room in internet. We all are hurt as it was an obvious win of KKR, specially the heroic effort of Dada is in vain. I will write separate post on this as there are many things to cover, like the FAKE IPL Blogger Story, dada factor etc. I was reading the Fake Blog yesterday night. It is impressive and I got addicted now, So added in my blog.

3) Second round of Indian National election took place in India yesterday and the leaders started making their unscrupulous political groups with their vested interest keeping the veil of secularism (to stop the communal forces). Again separate post will come soon once the result will be declared.

4) Started packing yesterday, I am going to India for 2 weeks in first part of May. I have to finish many personal commitments. Need to shift in my new Rajarhat flat, close to DLF, some work on Kharagpur Online, some more personal stuff.. lol.. nothing serious, but as I told in the blog header I can only unfold half of my life, the other half will come in new form in coming future.

5) The funny stuff now. I put up couple of pics in orkut on my new look yesterday. I was enjoying the comments of friends. The blackly look with US Cap and Sunglass was compared with James Bond, Sherlock Homes , Mr. Anthony Gonzales, Killer, DON and many more personalities. I was flabbergasted and of course it was a new experience to be in new looks.

Forgot to mention, last weekend the whole team went to Pinewood Lake in Longmont. It was mesmerizing; something likes Manos Sarobor, covered by ice everywhere. We had good fun. My new cap was so cool that everyone took a pic with that. Longmont is really enriched with natural beauty. I feel lucky to be here.

Pabitra - Gone back

It is snowing again. Its mid April and sometime the temperature is more than 25C, but the nest day it can be snow storm. Tomorrow the prediction is heavy snow storm here in Colorado. The weather is quite extreme here, summer is quite hot and winter is cold enough. The lands are mostly barren, but there are also few types of greeneries.

In US if you are not in East or West Cost, you may have to face extreme weather. The weather in Longmont is very dry and the sunshine is quite intense in summer. But now-a-days weather is playing topsy-turvy with its random combinations.

Last week it was Easter. First time in my corporate life I worked in Easter (Good Friday). It was a surprise to me when I came to know we don’t have any vacation in Easter. Thanks God, I haven’t planned in advance assuming this one a default vacation. We used to have long vacation during these days, in other countries like Greece. But yes we had at least one official party last week. IBM senior executive team like Global SAP head, USA sector lead and Partners came to sign billion dollar contract with the customer.

One significant event this week, my bro has gone back to India. That’s why we are little busy in shopping last weekend. We have gone to almost every chain possible, K-mart, King Scooper, Jecy penny, Ross, Marshall, Office depot, Michaels, Barnes n nobles and many more.

Sunday we had lunch in an Indian restaurant “Maharaja” in Boulder. Boulder is one a university town (University of Colorado) in the lap of the mountains very close to Longmont city. We have been there many times and with no exception this one has became our main haunting spot for last few days.

We haven’t seen a big book store like “Barnes and nobles” in West minister city. It was huge, so big that it may consume the whole day. We didn’t have much time, so had to come back after having a cup of coffee in Star bucks.

We did extensive shopping these days. We bought a Laptop with 17inch Monitor, many electronics equipments like SD card, HDD, many cloths, bags, and shoes, jewelries for family members, chocolates, photo frames, and small decorative stuff for everyone.

Finally I dropped Pabitra in Denver Airport on Tuesday. I am missing him. We stayed 3 months together and had a fun. We have been to many places and undoubtedly had a wonderful time which we had dreamt for. He was struggling for projects these days in recession market and now looking for options in India, which is good for him. I am planning to take a fly back of 2 weeks in India, beginning of May, so I am exited too.

Snow Everywhere

Snow infront of my apartment

It was snowing heavily for last two days, but today it was a bright sunny day. I haven’t seen so much of snowfall (Thursday 14 inch snowfall) in one day in US in last 2 years, caused by an uninterrupted snow storm over the night.

I was driving a blind car, as hardly something were visible from the mirrors, I tried to clean but once I removed the deposited snow from one side, other side was fully covered again. The roads were full of snow as the corporation was not able to clean it that quick. As usual the presence in office was minimal with the exception of IBM India guys and despite of heavy work pressure most of the AMGEN employees ended up either unofficial holiday or working from home.

IBM US sack 5000 employees a day before and it caused tension in the air. Wall Street is blaming big blue for switching job to India while employees asking for justification why job cut happened in spite of excellent fourth quarter and last year. But recession is now in its pick and things are getting worse day by day.

We ended development work of April release with a high note and phenomenal client appreciation. One things is very clear that the commitment of Indian guys (specially offshore team) is always more than the local guys here, they never complain for late hours and additional work in general. In lieu of economic recession people are not putting additional effort as they are habituated of enjoying the luxury. But there are always some exceptions.

In India we are brought up in a way that whatever assigned to us, we try to solve. That’s why we are so flexible, but our missing part are the discipline, consistency and the planning/ strategic/ management skills as we often try to evaluate things beyond our boundaries. We should improve in these areas. The old childhood traits are bound to reflect in corporate life. If you were not organized and consistent in your day to day work be it study or anything else, will retardate your corporate life. But there are again some exceptions; but exceptions prove the rule.

Timely communication can always make things much better, but small strategic moves and planning can make a sea change in the nature of projects or career and sometime in Organizations too. General Indian people (including me) has this problem, which we can work on, specially try to prepare our next generation with that mentality. There are many entrepreneurs who started changing India, but miles to go yet.

Whereas in USA, the mathematical base of general student is not like us, but they are far more ahead in discipline. Regular class project works make them far more consistent than us. Innovative assignments from school set their trends for out of the box ideas, which is why average American managers are better planner and strategy implementer.

Let me come back to my dairy again. As mentioned we gained client confidence by our quality deliverable, we all are happy. Some of the people who are burned out by working day in and day out in this strenuous environment are overwhelmed by the appreciation. We went to office though it is Saturday and then went to Dollar Tree and Big Lot for shopping with Pabitra. In the driveway Pabitra was hypnotize by the icy beauty of Longmont. Every place is covered by thick later of ice and probably we hardly get chance to experience this kind of nature. We captured few pictures of snow; one of them is here attached. It is indeed our unique experience and that delighted us.

We watched Dance India Dance in our apartment. This reality show made our day, Mithunda, who is the grand master of the show, danced with Prabhudeva, which delighted us, as we are big fan of both of them. After that we have seen some of the youtube videos of Prabhudeva like “Urvashi”. I am a big fan of reality show, like SaReGaMaPa, and now Dance India Dance.

Among all happenings the only problem is my dental pain, which is somehow relieved by pain killers, but I think, I have to see set up a doctor appointment next week.