Diary 49: My domain Day

Yesterday I slept at around 3:00 am. I messaged Sushma that I will not attend Office as I was working late. Today I woke up at around 11:00 am. I went online as soon as possible. Well, I was not that happy with the progress of the feasthunt project, but I always wanted to own a domain, where I would express anything I want to the world. So, I pinged Alok, and asked him to suggest a name for my domain. We went from this and that, from weird to mainstream, when something suddenly came up. It was mydomainbitch.com. It was inspired from Facebook's movie, but who cared. It was the most appropriate name. It was indeed my domain. Within minutes, I was signing up to buy the domain. I chose bigrock.in instead of godaddy because godaddy didn't accept debit cards or netbanking. Also, it was cheaper. I was totally new to all this stuff. But, I managed to pull this off, and there it was, our domain. I bought it for a period of 2 years. I was the administrator of it, and it felt good to be one. I found out that we need a hosting site as the hosting is not free. So, I and Alok decided that we will do it on tumblr.com. We will create twitter accounts using our new e-mail ids from the domain, and use it to popularize our website. Alok suggested that we assume two identities and fight on the website on relevant topics. Although I was skeptical to it, I agreed to it for now. I learned how to redirect my blog to the domain I bought. I was never aware of terms such as A record, AAAA record or CNAME record. I am still a naive, but at least I can manage my website now. Anyways, the whole day was spent in setting up this website - the twitter accounts, the website admin console, the tumblr accounts and what not. At around 7:30 pm, our site was up finally. Alok could see it, but I couldn't due to some cache issues. Anyways, I used remote desktop connection to see it, and there it was. It felt good. Next, I looked up the JAVA book for a while, and watched TV episodes also. I informed Gil that I somehow managed to complete the exercises in the newer version, and also that the DX server is down. I also informed Dallas about the new domain and said that it is a step towards feasthunt. Then, I continued watching the TV episodes and slept at around 3:15 am.

Diary 48: Office Day Revisited

Yesterday I slept at around 1:30 am. Today I woke up at 7:45 am, and got ready for office. I was feeling good about waking up early. Anyways, today I ate the breakfast at home and left with Dad to catch the ONGC bus. It came in late, and so we reached the ONGC office at around 10:45 am. From there, Dad's car dropped me to Bandra station, and I finally reached office at around 11:45 am. At office, I focused on the DX training labs. We ordered lunch although I already brought lunch today. After the lunch, Mukund left as he had no work. Ankit was going to Jodhpur for two days, so he had to leave early. I also left office by 5:20 pm. I caught up with the driver near Bandra station at around 6:10 pm. Finally, I and Dad reached home at around 8:00 pm. I started working again on the DX training. Meanwhile, I surfed facebook and checked mails etc. Mom cooked Maggi after long time, so it tasted really nice. Later, we had dinner at around 10:30 pm. After dinner, I shifted my focus to FeastHunt. I got in touch with Dallas and Akshay to get status updates. As we spoke, we decided that we should have a conference call. In the conference call, we discussed a lot of things, mainly the business side of it. I discussed few ideas I had written down earlier. Few ideas were very appreciated. Let us see how things turn out. We are planning to meet up this saturday. I hope that the meeting turns out to be fruitful. After writing this post, I plan to watch the loaded TV episode, and then sleep by around 2:30 am. 

Diary 47: No Office Day Part 2 & Mom returning Day

Yesterday I slept at around 2:30 am. Today I woke up at around 10:15 am for the scheduled call. Actually, it was yesterday night that Ankit suddenly messaged that we all need to be in office as we have a call at 10:30 am. I messaged him back saying that my parents are coming in at 11:00 am, so it won't be possible. I even mailed Gil. Anyways, I brushed my teeth and called up Dad. I found out that they have already landed. Dad went to office and mom is on her way to home. The call started a bit late, which allowed me to help mom get all the things inside the house. The call went on for 35-40 minutes. After the call, I proceeded with the B2B DX exercises. Meanwhile, I also showed my new camera to my mom, and explained her the features of it. After that, I started multi tasking between training and TV episodes. Then, we ate our lunch. After lunch, I changed rooms as mom needed to sleep. Finally, after one month I returned to my old room. After that, I went on with the training. Later I was tired so I relaxed by taking a few snaps with my SLR. Then I started watching tv episodes. This went on till the later part of the day. Meanwhile, Dad came in and saw the camera. I told him about it, and he didn't respond that much. I was relieved. After that, I started with the JAVA book after a long time. I started with Day 8 today. Then, I had my dinner and watched the tv for a while. Then, I multi tasked between JAVA and tv episodes for a while before writing this post. Now, I plan to complete the tv episodes, and then sleep by 1:15 am.

Diary 46: No Office Day Part 1

Yesterday I slept at around 5:00 am. Today I woke up at around 10:45 am, with the bell ring of the maid servant. She came in quickly today because she knew that mom is about to come tomorrow. Anyways, I asked her for Tea only, and used the McDonald's left over for the breakfast. After that, I started watching TV episodes and general net surfing. This went on till around 4 pm. Then, I decided to go shopping for vegetables and other stuff. I came back at around 5 pm. Then I took a bath, and reverted back to watching the TV episodes. Meanwhile, I again started playing with my SLR and took a few more snaps. I posted them on facebook, and then someone suddenly posted a status message saying : why do people with SLR start taking pictures of random objects. Instead of attacking it, I liked the status to dilute things. I guess he was not able to understand the depth of those pictures, the focus, the zoom etc. Anyways, later in the evening, I started building a macro enabled excel sheet which would enable us to store the restaurant data in various tabs. I sent that across to Dallas and Akshay. After that I decided to have my dinner. I cooked the rice and used the rest from left overs. Meanwhile, I watched the India west indies match for a while. I returned back to the room after the match, and started watching TV episodes. Next, I wrote this diary. Now, I plan to watch the remaining part of the episode and sleep by 2:00 am.

Diary 45: Relaxing Day Part 2

Yesterday I slept at around 2:45 am. Today I woke up at around 10:15 am. I was supposed to go to Powai today, but I got a message from Dallas that his aunt expired and that he won't be coming. So, our meeting got postponed. I was sad, but nothing could be done. After that, I started watching TV episodes and movies simultaneously. Also, the maid came in today finally. So, I had Tea and some breakfast made by her. She also cleaned the house and made food for lunch. Today a lot of people came in to ask for money - Doodwala, Carwasher, AC repair, etc. Except for AC repair, I told them to come later. The mid day was spent on the movies and the TV episodes. In the later part, I took my cam and snapped a few more shots. I put them in the album and few people even liked it. I was glad that I was able to share the pics with everyone. Anyways, during evening, I was feeling very hungry but I controlled it till night. At around 8:30 pm, I decided to eat dinner from the food remaining after the lunch. I also decided that I would order McDonalds later on, and would keep something out of that for breakfast tomorrow. So, I did that. Then I continued multi-tasking between TV episodes, movies and SLR. Later tonight, I even had a chat with Dallas and Akshay regarding our future strategy. It seemed that Dallas was lazy and didn't do what he was asked to. I also had a long chat with Alok regarding various things such as website development, facebook hatred, creativity etc. After that, I watched another episode and wrote this post. Now, I plan to sleep by 5:00 am.