Football is the best thing to have happened to mankind

There is simply nothing that can beat the beauty of this game... one can fall in love while playing or even watching the game!

The emotions while receiving an aerial pass and 2 opponents on you...

... First you want to take it on chest and then on your foot and a small tap to move away from the opponents..
... but soon you rather decide to take it directly on inner foot and try to loop it over one of the opponents.. to win it back or to pass to some team-mate..
... In case you are closer to the goal.. you might also feel like punching the damn ball hard to the goal..

But if you keep on feeling and thinking the ball will be gone.. so you got to act fast and you got to keep the ball rolling in the right direction!!.. it's amazing.

And.. I am back!

Yeah.. it has been a real long time but I have a lot to share.. enough to make you say 'better late than never!'

So, last blog was from Indy.. got back to delhi from the 3 week long trip and everything was looking gr8. New practice area (targeting), good manager...I welcomed 2010 with lot of enthu and josh.. and then the inevitable happened!

The cool project bacame a monthly operation.. team mgmt changed and in came the operations experts.. (the new vision of the firm wanted an increase in operations for higher revenues... alright!!).. So,I had to stay back - being the only analyst who knew the process.
Monthly operational projects suck... more so if you are understaffed... I tried my best to leave the project but just could not transition enuf knowledge to my replacement given all the adhocs and exponentially increasing demands of the client..

I was getting very frust with the situation.. escalated the emotions to senior people on project and in the firm.. had lot of confronting moments with the 'operations experts'.. but all in vain!... Time had come... it was end of Mar'10

I got back to my resume after 3 years... and was soon being interviewed.. Apr end I got the 'niceee' offer from a good retail analytics firm.. and June first week I left my first ever firm .. after 3 looong years.. it was a very sad feeling!!.. I had plans in the firm but He (abey God not the operations expert :p) had other plans!

Soon, I was in the new firm.. staring at the screen and my new email box!.. my identity changed over one weekend!.. though I am sure the core is intact.. Naresh Mehta,ME02B102, IIT Madras!.. this firm is kind of chill.. good work-life (= Nidhi) balance.. good work.. football team.. and steady growth!!.. life continues...

Tea ... And you thought it was just a cup of tea...

It's my 14th day in Indianapolis and I have to spend 5 more days before I could finally fly to Delhi...
No, this is not the usual post where I crib and crib and crib.. cursing my boredom and hoping to get back home, probably because the trip is just 3 weeks long, this is about something else..

This is about the cup of tea we all love and I love it to the extent of having 5-6 cups a day... the poor cup of tea is so common and easily available that it is almost taken for granted.. be it the home-made tea, the tea at stalls or the tea from the nescafe machine at office... We just take it for granted.

And, when I am here at Indy, I just realized that how tough life can get without a cup of 'Indian' tea... I am at client site and these buggers don't have coffee machines, one has to go all the way down to cafeteria to buy a tea/coffee.. and the tea is the 'Namo' assamese tea bags which is anything but assamese.. The distance from my desk and the 'not so great' taste of this tea keeps my tea count at 1-2 over the entire period in office... I have kind of adjusted now but the first 2-3 days my head was aching and I just could not work, probably I am addicted to tea!

Anyways, so after the entire day gone waste without enjoying the hot aroma of tea, I get back home with the full intention of making tea in my service aptment's kitchen.. I had arranged everything over the weekend - sugar , milk , tea etc... And the tea is 'Indian Taj tea'.. made an awesome tea, perfect color and aroma.. cup in place .. all set to pour the tea in the cup and already dreaming of a good 20 minutes enjoying the nature's best offering after water!.. oops, but where is the f#$%^ 'chalni'... Unlike using tea bags, here I had a full fledged Indian tea and how do I serve myself without a chalni.. nevermind, I make a chalni using those paper napkins and somehow manage to get this tea in the cup..

Oh man.. how can one even live without a tea.. this is amazing.. this tea did deserve a blog!

Ek shaam aapke naam...

So as I sit doing absolutely nothing on a lazy saturday evening ...

... though I do have quite a lot of work pending as per my check list...

... yeah I ve been managing one to keep my mind stable as i 've these trivial things going in my mind and i just get all stressed up coz of them..

i knw check lists suck..but i guess i ve changed a lot since those good old carefree second yr days :-(

hey btw did u guys notice the 'spacing' method i m using in the blog... ya they call it communication skills in my firm.. jokers.. they r changing the fuking way i think n express myself...

yaa... so getting back to where i started from... this lazy sat eve when i m doing nothing and not even thinking about all those pending works - as they r safely stored in the 'check list'... i ve decided to dedicate this shaam to my blog and all the avid followers and fans of my blog.. :p.. ok make it the one n only follower of the blog!!

but the biggest problem is tht i cant really share anything 'new' to the 'only' follower coz we stay in the same flat... so cant put the 'what i did frm morning till now' stuff... though it was fun.. hard strong football in bright sun... followed by the orange juice ... and heavy lunch ... and some sleep.. and a movie on tv.. and the same old realty shows...okkk sry i guess i did end up telling u wat u did today!

soo.. since i cant really talk abt wat i did today.. or wat i do at office.. or anything else!! .. i m not really sure how to dedicate the 'shaam' to blogging..

sooo.. i m stopping right away... i ll rather publish this only!.. and do some of those things in my chk list!..

damn... the 'spacing' method i was talking about.. it seems the space are getting compressed in the blog... as per the preview.. wtf man... nevermind!.. but u .. the only follower anyways knw the spacing method.. hehe... so doesnt really matter..

btw how abt beer tonight??.. dude now u ll ve to comment on this post.. reply hi kar diyo ;-)..

Radi krah di krawa ...

These arabic words from the song 'Mar Jawaan' from Fashion are so beautiful and the music of the song so enchanting... I have listened it over 100 times this weekend.. Bobo, this is more than 'Kahin tho hogi ho' man..

Radi krah di krawa , wal hawah wasamah;
— Teri yaad mein main tarsa iss hawa ,mein aur is samah mein —
Wadi krah hitawahat, allah dukha wasamah;
— Wade karke tune tarsaya mujhe ,to allah ne dekha iss samah mein —

Latehwal flahwahat, Allah dukha wasamah;
— Gunha Kabool Kiya phir bhi na kuch paya, aur Allah ne dekha iss samah mein —
Wadi krah hitawahat, allah dukhawasamah;
— Wade Karke Main Tarsa,Allah ne dekha iss samah mein —

B'ful song!!...

I miss my home.. life is so disoriented here.. I am not liking it!

...!!!!...

its 1 20 AM of a friday night in princeton.. boring city.. but today was fun.. jitesh is in the town and he is fun to be with.. he managed to convince anshul and his wife (being gud frnds) to take both of us for a dinner and movie.. real fun.. i mean its gud to be with smart guys who are more exp and senior.. u get to learn a lot.. and movie.. luck by chance.. by farhan again.. this bugger is just avg as an actor but is real smart, talented and creative.. amazing stroyline.. gud .. he is gud.. and the movie is 3.5/5

i miss india.. as i got bak to the hotel... i had this heavy feeling of writing down.. i mean typing down sth.. but then got lazy.. nidhi called up.. and then was too tired..
i also kind of knw tht i suck at blogging.. !.. but then since none reads it i shud not bother abt how gud or bad i am .. (bobo reads it at times.. poor guy is following the blog i guess!)..

ya so since none really reads it .. i can actually just come in and type watever i feel anytime.. and i do not have to give a title every time.. "...!!!..." is not bad either!

chalo now.. i m bored of typing..
is this like a diary writing thing.. all big famous guys had diaries.. !! i too shud have one.. blogs.. can they count as a diary.. or the physical existence is imp as well!!???

never mind..
gnite.. quite late it is!

Weekend MAPped...

Friday morning I got this gr8 news from my manager..

"Hey, I have a small project for you.. it's very new and different and none from Pune office has done it before"... "what is it Chad?"..

"It is the rollouts.. alignment rollouts.. each one of us picks a distt manager of the client and shows him the alignment.. U will have to basically show him his region in MAP s/w.. and keep him from requesting any changes in the alignment.."... "OK Chad.. and wat if he forces me to change the alignment?" ...

"Call one of us.. and we will sort it out!".. "So, I have to basically just show him the screen and ..." ..

"Yes, pretty much it.. u may ve to change some color here and there.. zoom in and out for display perfection..!.. and yes the roll outs are on Monday!"... "well.. interesting!!.. some challange finally!!"...

So in short, I had to learn these basic functionalities of MAP.. got the s/w installed by evening.. and decided to dedicate the weekend to MAP... The fear of screwing up this really dumb work was immense..

Friday eve I got back and ... had an awesome dinner.. talked with my gal back home.. sent a good mail to transfer watever knwledge i had of my prior project.. and crashed off..

Saturday was spent on movies, an unexpectedly long trip to the shopping mall.. had dinner at some restaraunt over there.. and nothing really happened for MAP!

Finally came the Sunday and .. some frnds were going to NY!! I decided to stay back.. had to learn the MAP!!.. and well I crashed off the entire day.. long talk with the dudette.. chat wid friends.. and guess what an hour long gymming !!..

and here I am bragging about the weekend wasted .. God save me tomorrow.. or may be I can still promise myself that I would indeed study MAP tonight.. [:p]..

The fear of screwing up this really dumb work is still immense..