Day One in Bangkok. As we draw towards the end of the working day the situation looks much brighter than it did in the morning.

The biggest problem of the day was for Swati – finding a source of Indian food – Vinay does not eat any non veg!! BUT Swati being the resourceful woman she is, went around and managed to find a dabba walla even in Bangkok! So for next 20 days food will be delivered for our programmers right at the office.

The second problem was setting up our working environment here – 3 computers a network with 2 classes of IP addresses, Firewalls, bad hardware were just some of the problems which we finally sorted out – as I write Vinay is giving final touches to the CVS setup

The working hours here are 8:30am to 6pm7pm – good we should implement this in India… …

Aasim is freaking out on the food – Is eating only meat – 10s of varites to choose from.

Hmm… may be from tomorrow I can even go back to my fancy “trivia headings” to my LJ entries 😉

“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”- English author William Law, a Senior Call to a Devout and Holy Life, 1728

Yawn!! Finally managed to get the things in place and packed way past midnight Leaving for Airport in 20 min, will try and keep updating as frequently as possible

Aasim means protector, man of rank, blessing, silver.

It was 5 years ago, this day, we were blessed with our son Aasim. Among several of the meanings of his name we consider “Blessing” as the most appropriate. He was born after we had almost given up hope of ever having a child. It was only after Aasim that SANIsoft was started and we

Laxmi the goddess of wealth has no temple solely dedicated to her

Ah! The first real non-working day in almost 3 months. Got up at 6:00 am and then slept again from 10:00 to 13:00 Ripped some CDs using grip. Those that I intend to carry. Evening will be spent, as usual on Laxmi pujan, at Swati’s parents. Guess I will sleep some more… … Damn, I

A group of apes is known as a shrewdness of apes

Dead tired – had organised a small gathering of relatives at my aunt’s place. I always come back feeling very tired from a gathering of relatives… …. Apart from, that we hogged on delicious Biryani I would rather avoid all such gatherings. Even though I had written last Sunday that it was the last working

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas. Alice Foote MacDougall

An Open Source business model for a development house would go against all known principles of formal business… … Here we are propagating sharing of ideas rather than hoarding them!! We have been following a hybrid of Open Source models, a fact which was unknown even to myself and Swati. Now I am supposed to

dot.com crash of 2001: As Internet business models soured, the World Wide Web still grew 33 percent

Divali bonus given today… … The year was good … … None of us are from a business family. We learnt to do business by the seat of our pants. We did make a few early mistakes but mostly succeeded. Over past 5 years we have been called, ranging from, affectionately a momma papa company*

The gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt is the biggest muscle in your body. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer)

Nagpur weather is generally weird in the last couple of weeks of October. The days are hot and you sweat a lot and nights are about 20C cooler. The result is you tend to drink less water… … This literally resulted in a bad pain in the a**. I jogged without proper warm-up and water

Tuesday is day of Tiw, the Norse god which equaled the Roman god Mars

When ever I work on a Sunday, Tuesday always makes me feel that it is Wednesday. Thankfully this time it has had a good side effect. I have managed to tick out about half of my tomorrow’s to-dos

Writer Barbara Costikyan notes, “In the childhood memories of every good cook, there’s a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot, and a mom.”

Home cooked food, hand made food, food by the lady of the house – all these are so firmly entrenched in an average middle class Indian psyche… … I myself would have never imagined that I would do it BUT for next ten days it has been decreed that the kitchen at our home be