Project X.... A Diamond is a coal that did well under pressure

Caution: "Names & Situations in the following write up are fictitious and bear no resemblance to the real name or happening of any person, object that is living or dead" :)

This is about a project for which I have been working for quite some time now !! Although there is much to talk about in the project like fundoo technology used in this project, which encompases every imagineable element in the .net world, I have done enough goof ups to make them worth mentioning.

The morning sun always played hide and seek with me & is the prime accused of my not reaching office early :). It so happened that I worked for 1 & 1/2 year in Mysore, which is a hill station, the chilling wheather always forced me to get up only when the sun sparkled, giving warmth and vitamin d :) , Carrying on the same habbit now has become a pain, and adding to my bad luck the place where i sleep, never has the blessings of the sun. Result: LATE FOR OFFICE :(

As always, every morning I barely manage to reach office just when our first meeting kicks off. The moment I enter, thoughts of my lead firing me left and right !!! brings morning shivers. But thank god, his peaceful approach does slows down my breathing :)

After the Kick Off meeting, its a dive into the ocean of untamed code snippets, which almost always require head banging logistic support. Sometime even 24 hr is less for a simple issue and sometimes even 10 mins is enough for a complex one.

if I were to boast of this project, I wuld say :
1) Chalenging environment :) :) :) First because I have to get up early :) Second: sometimes the coding becomes ultra challenging :), such that even in dreams, instead Maria Sharapova, "Menu-1-0" comes :) As one of the guys mentioned 'Rocket science' is an apt word.
2) Collaborative Team: Whose cohesive force always help, Like staying late in office :) and having coffee on the other floor {For other Reasons ;)}
3) Highly technical manager, whom you can never fool :) He asks for every line you coded, so no chance for making a simple logic look complex :)
4) With its technological tentacles entering every possible place, the project made me learnt "patience" and thus "Every Issue has a solution".
5) Cool Manager :) His suave moves in a party did gave me a shock and after finding out that he was married, I was dumbfounded.
6) English Teacher: A voice recog system in the application never accepted my voice, so it made me pick up phoren accent. Like saying "ophen" instead of "open" etcs
7) Friendly Neighbours: Who have never got a chance to listen to music since the day we asked for their headphones with mic for coding purposes :)
8) Modest 'Sin Finders' rather the testers who always take a courteous approach to inform the developer of the a silly mistake and not yank him for the same.

I donno if all the above make a better project.... Now that Iam seeing "Maria Sharapova" back in my dreams and with appreciation for work in office... It does say we are doing better :)

I guess someday someone else writing the following phrace wuld say it all.
"A Diamond is a coal that did well under pressure"

"Kaboom"..... Back to the Dance Floor

After a week of head banging over various COMPLEX LOOPS within the code and weekly drops, It was time for HIP BANGING. i.e. Back to the dance floor.

Although I had been to official parties where unfortunately not many members in my team where of the same age group, which never excited me to take the dance floor, even if it was a "Hookah Bar".. one of the most happening place in town.

All i culd do was watch the flawless moves of some of the awesome dancers and sigh !! remembering my wonderful days, when we we freaked out at places like "Winning streak", "Dublin", "Some place else" and "Tantra" (thats where anjana anjani song from movie yuva was shot).

But this party was there with full of surprise !! Of the 2yrs(approx) spent in the IT industry this was the first time. I went All Out without being HIGH. It was here where I learnt that even people like your serious manager has different facets of life. They too enjoy as much as you wuld and dancing was one of the universal expressions to say it all.

So inspite of pending ISSUES IN MY TASK LIST which rackled my brain I tried my best to shake it !!! even when i had forgotten a lot of steps and the DJ wasnt playing my best songs.

I still remmeber an incident when I was shaking most at my club when I was in 12th grade. There was a party, followed by something called RAIN DANCE, and i just LET GO. just when I was at the top of my spirits I noticed my DAD stopping by, NEXT THING: his mouth oppened and froze. Donno what i was doing and how bad it was, but must have been bad, since
at home i got a matrix kind of beating which was a lil painful :)

But now with no DAD around and enough to spend.... Hope to dance till I drop one day.