39 Today

Reading what I wrote a year ago – I appears as if I was sounding almost pessimistic!

Well lot has happened in the past year – mostly on the work front – SANIsoft. Despite everything (read that as people being head hunted / quitting ) I have managed to train a line of second in commands, guys who can take a project to completion once the architecture is decided upon. This leaves me to overlook the macro aspect of the projects without getting tied down by minor details like parse errors.

I have also been spending a lot of time reading other peoples code and learning, in turn improving the code quality with the main aim being to perfect reproducibility of programming and easy transferring of domain knowledge….

Hmmm… the previous sentence sounds awfully like some marketing crap – in real world terms it basically means that any team can take up the work of another with minimal problems and we can train new people much faster than what it took before – end result is that we are much more productive.

We matured from a Partnership to a Pvt. Ltd. though most of it is just legal paperwork, it does poise us for a ramp-up if we need to.

On personal front there were several small but satisfying things.

For the first time in we got ourselves a *new* car – A brilliant Yellow WagonR Vxi – of course I got a bigger kick when Swati agreed for putting a DVD player in it!

For the first time I joined a gym and am sticking with it well

Photography continues – though I am now photographing different kind of birds

I got the best Birthday gift of all – a set of 31 Asterix and Obelix Comic books!

In retrospect – it still does not take much to keep me satisfied ;)

  • Happy birthday!

  • Have a great day and a super year ahead !! Happy Birthday !

  • Happy Birthday, old man. Not sure if my SMS reached you.

    • Thanks older man ;)

      I do not carry my phone with me these days

      • I was 43 yesterday, amd 43 today, will be 43 tomorrow.

        Pretty flat curve there πŸ™‚

        But you, sir, were 38 yesterday, 39 today and running 40 tomorrow.

        Pretty steep curve πŸ™‚

        Be sure to wave when you pass me πŸ˜‰

        • Heh! who has seen the future!

          But you were older than *me* yesterday , are older than *me* today and will be older than *me* tommorow – who cares about “The day after tomorrow” anyways – its a lousy movie :))

  • birthday wishes

  • Happy birthday!

  • Happy birthday ‘dude’! πŸ˜€

  • Happy Birthday doc!

  • happy b’day and congrats on your new car. One advice though, do not watch movies while driving πŸ˜‰

    • LOL, valid advice πŸ˜‰

    • Thanks and to clarify the things a bit – the screen is mounted such that only passengers can watch a movie and more over I dont drive – Swati drives me around :D

  • Happy B’day doc!

  • Congratulations!

  • Many happy returns of the day.

  • Many Many Happy return of the day….

    Wish u a happy life πŸ™‚

  • To aaj aapka Appy Budday to you tha. πŸ™‚ janamdin kee shubhkamnayein.

    Darn! Only if I had known of this a few days back.

    • Thanks – now I am curious as to what if you did know about this a few days back :)

      • Arey, nothing much. If I knew about this a few days back, I could have arranged for a band company to come and play / sing early in the morning in front of ur house, to wish you “tum jiyo hazaron saal, saal ke din hoon pachas hazar, ting! ting! ting! ting!. πŸ˜‰

  • Happy Birthday. Just a fan of your photography. πŸ™‚

    Added you to my friends list.