Unforgettable day of my work

3/12/09

I came here for a project which is on going for years and now at last its in a final position. PILOT of the project is tomorrow and 60 peoples involving from 5 sites.Canada,ottawa,chennai,antwerp and raleigh. Each having its own time difference. PILOT will go for 4 weeks and we already gave training to all. But upto the last day,even we dont know wheather we going to start tomo or not. Because of lot delays and issues,its always postponed everytime. But about tomo we already informed all peoples and management. So at 6PM my boss went by saying that i will work from home and if any mail came from IBM about the start of PILOT i will inform all and also i will inform a guy in chennai also so that even if am not possible to connect n/w from home, he would send. We already together composed mail & all, for the start of tomorrow. At 8PM i checked with IBM before leave and they told that all ready,one final testing is going and will finish in 15 min and they told that they will give us a mail once completed. So hopefully i went to room and relaxed and connected the office n/w from room and waited for the mail. upto 9 no mail, i just prepared chappathi and had dinner and waited. 10... 11.... no more mail.. My boss from home told that we will wait for bit more and if no response we will send mail to all to start from tomo... ok i waited... exactly at 11 30, my connection gone... VPN not working, its says down... sometime even net didnt connect... for every floor there is a wifi here, its not connected in my floor.... i dont know what to do.. time 12...
4/12/09
12:30... 1... not able to connect... i dont know he sent mail or not... i thought to have some sleep bcos tomo for sure lot work... set alarm at 3 and slept. Get up at 3 here that means 7 30 for chennai... still i cant able to connect... slept again n set alarm for 4... get up at 4 n cant connect net... get up 5, time 9 30 for chennai.. people start coming for office at chennai... still i didnt send a mail, even dont know ibm sent mail or not,dont know my boss sent mail to me or not.... at 5 i went to ground floor and connected from there, ahhh now net connected but cant able to conncet office via VPN... worried and just i called a chennai guy(team mate) and asked to check my mail... bad luck my mail login not working there... then i called one more guy where my boss already told that he would send mail to him also... he told a mail is there to start the PILOT.. ahhh i just told him to fwd that mail to all pilot testers... he sent, finally at right time i sent mail to chennai... then i slept for 1 hr and had noodles for morning... went to office early and opened my mail box and saw my boss sent mail to me at 4:30AM... no more mail from IBM... then i talked with IBM guys and they told that test went for long time bla bla... After that, even my boss not there for the first day.. i have to manage all sites.. when i open mail,a critical bug which blocks pilot to do... just rushed to IBM and they already aware and we were looking on that... they solved in 15min n reported...then lot of mails,calls,ping in chat all asking how is this, how is that... i just drained at the end of the day.. we need to report bugs at the end of the day to IBM, i analysed n sent a bunch to IBM...ahh enough just closed lap n came to room... i didnt expect the day would be like this...but i didnt work like this before, different experience

One day @ Rome

This time 3 members.we get up at 3 itself since flight at 6 30AM and took taxi from room to charleroi airport and we reached there at 5 30 and checkin and got boarding pass and after security check we bought breakfast in airport itself and had some cakes.Flight reached at 8 30 in ciampino airport in rome and after that through a shuttle we reached rome at 9 30 and enquired about hop on bus and this place has lot agent for hop on and we just startup with one and first place we went to collosium, a must see in rome. From long shot it seems somewhat small but on getting closer its rather very very big than we imagine. There some guys put roman dresses and asked us to take photographs and we know already that they would ask for money.
We went for guide there and got ticket,without guide it will take long time to see since a very long queue s there to get into it. Guide explained all history and we went inside and saw all places. The places where gladiator was shot and the inside area which s already half went to mud and the inside area is very big and cant take a full photograph... we took lot shots and came out at 12 30 and caught the hop on bus and directly we went to vatican city which s second must see there. View was very beautiful with long landscape area, they called that place as vatican square. We saw st peters church and the pope place where he came out for speech and the big domb. we went into the church and i cant believe my eyes, that much big size church i ever saw in my life and very beautiful art work in all walls. When u look up u cant imagine the height. we took shot and came out.Then by a side way we saw a very long queue waiting to go up to the domb.
There are about 551 steps totally and only for first 331 steps lift available, after 220 steps u need to go up using steps.Imagine the height... we took lift upto middle and climbed steps and got very tired to climb up.. also as it is a domb it went curvely upside and very difficult to go up... finally we reached top and saw a very beautiful view from top.... then we got down and had coffee there and bought collsium doll.. Then by walk itself we went to some other site seeing areas,visited the place where angels n demons climax place was shot and took some snaps there and at last we went to a fountain area where we met some other lucent company guys who came for a trip and we got introduced and we started to room which s near to airport. Room s too good with full wooden work... Slept and get up at 6 15AM next day and started to ciampino airport..
Flight at 8 55 and we never know that time that we going to get blocked there.... Till 8 45 there is no guys to check visa and at 8 55 they informed flight will be delayed because of fog in airport... just waited there till 12 noon and they announced that they going to shift passengers to another airport there and we came out and wait for the bus for 1 hour and at last we started in bus to airport and reached after 1 hour and the bus left after we got down... no one to inform where to go, what time the flight was... even everyone with us just roamed here n there but from this incident we got to know all passengers for my flight... we just asked the help desk and went to another terminal and got the gate to go in and finally had security check again and almost we reached the correct gate at 1 30 and flight started at 3 only.... It reached the charleroi airport at 5PM and from then we hired bus to brussles airport and from there got local train to antwerp and reached room at 8 30... very tired... My bad luck that day i need to shift hotel to another one and already packed all things and got that and walked to that new hotel and unpacked all items and arranged all since next day need to cook n go to office.. at last came to bed at 11 and just slept... Any way this rome trip s something i can feel different from the previous one. last trip we didnt take room and just roamed in road for full night but this time took room but the next day fully blocked... After seeing all these romans culture, really got interest to know more about that...

Governance System

As a daily habit, the 10-year Old Pintu was reading newspaper.

Suddenly he asked his father, “Dad! What does it mean by 'Governance System'? "

"It’s like..." father said while thinking, "See! I earn and bring money to home, mean's I am a 'Money Holder'. Your mother decides where and how to spend that money and that means she is 'Government'. That maid in our home is doing all the household works, so she will be 'Labour Class'. You are a 'Common man' or 'Public'. Your kid brother is 'Future' or the 'Next Generation', understand?”

That day Pintu slept with all those thoughts. In the middle of the night he woke-up because his kid brother was crying. He wetted the mattress so he was crying. Pintu went to wake-up his mother. She was in deep sleep so Pintu went to the Maid's room to wake her up. But there his father was sleeping with the maid. So he came back with frustration.

Next morning father asked Pintu, “Hey Pintu Darling! You understood the 'Governance System'? ".

Pintu replied, “Yeah Dad, I understood! When money Holder is exploiting Labour Class, our Government is sleeping. Future of our nation is crying for not getting their basic needs fulfilled and in all this Common Man is suffering!"