Diary 95: Issue solving Day

Well, before I start, I would like to say that the major part of the day was actually night. After writing the post last night, I was trying to solve the issue at hand. Sarvesh was also there with me, and was looking at those issues. Meanwhile, I and Mahak had a small fight, and she supposedly blocked me on gmail. I didn't tested whether she blocked me or not, and I continued  my work. Lots of things were discussed and finally we arrived at an acceptable solution. It was already 5:30 am, and so I mailed the latest version to the team, and slept. Today, I woke up at around 12:30 pm. I brushed my teeth, and went online. I checked my work mails. There was not much development from Gil's end till then. Meanwhile, I had my breakfast. I started listening to songs on YouTube. I decided to play the electric guitar along with them, and then recorded a small piece of music too. It was not that good, but still I kept it. Then, my sister arrived from school. She got some of her papers evaluated. She got 38 in Maths, 32 in Hindi, 22 in English, 34 in SST. Everything was out of 40. She was disappointed about English, but happy about maths. She refused to show me the papers. Anyways, I had lunch, and then moved back to my room. Then, we got a mapping document from Gil, so I started looking into it. It was a huge document, and it seemed that we would need few more days to just understand it. At around 5 pm, I, Akshay and Dallas had a call regarding the feasthunt project. After that call, I reverted to work, and also to YouTube video watching. Then, later in the afternoon, I realized that India are on the brink of losing one more Test match in England. Tendulkar made an half century but all was in vain. Dhoni was out first ball. Most of the players were out for a single figure. Lets see if India can maintain the top spot in Test Rankings. Then, I moved back to my room, and browsing random things. I decided to watch the movie "Badmaash Company" tonight. So, I put it for streaming. Then, I got a bad news that my choto mami's mother has expired. Though, I was not that close to her, but I remember her when I had met her. I don't know yet how it happened, but we all will miss her. May her soul rest in peace. Next, I started to write this post while listening to songs. Next, I plan to have dinner and then watch the movie. I plan to sleep by 3:00 am.

Diary 94: Dhoni's Call Back Day

Yesterday I slept at around 4:15 am. Today, I woke up at around 2:00 pm. I was initially shocked to see the time as I couldn't believe that I slept till 2. Anyways, I brushed my teeth, had some Tea, and then went online. As expected Gil sent a mail saying that the issues need to be resolved today, and the issue that I was handling was the one with the highest priority. So, I started working on it. Meanwhile, I was still addicted to two "remix" songs named "I wanna go" and "Till the world ends", both by Britney spears. Then, I had lunch at around 3 pm. And then I again started looking at that issue. Today, I was looking at the issue with fresh eyes, and this helped me a lot. Suddenly, I was able to see patterns in the way the whole code was running. I was finally able to point out which part of the code was faulty, and this was the "Eureka" moment for me. For the next 2 hours, I fought with the code to make it work. But as usual, the fight had its casualties. Some part of the code had to be disabled since it was that section which was the main cause of trouble. So, I composed a mail to everyone, and explained everything to them. Then, my attention moved to the cricket match between India and England. Well, it was England's day through out, but then there was an event on the field. Ian Bell was given run out controversially. He went out of the crease thinking that it was Tea already, and India knocked the stumps. Initially, Dhoni didn't withdrew the appeal, and hence received a lot of criticism from everywhere. Obviously the run out was technically right, but it was deemed against the spirit of the game. After the tea, everyone at the stadium was "booing" when the Indian team was coming back to the ground. Then, suddenly, Ian bell was there in the ground with the bat. I would say "brave" and "manly". Dhoni proved to the rest of the world that we are champions not only at the game but also at heart. I loved the decision. He set an example for everyone. This will be remembered. A truly leader he is. Anyways, the match was not going India's way. The pitch was flat and England ruthlessly hit the Indian bowling attack at every corner of the ground. After all this, I had dinner and moved back to my room. I decided to write this post while listening to those remixes. Meanwhile, I got a mail from Gil asking me about the issues. So, I replied to it with my ideas and opinions. Next, I plan to work on one of the ideas and then sleep by 3:00 am.

Diary 93: Dominoes Day

Yesterday I slept at around 4:30 am. I was relieved that it was a weekend now. Today I woke up at around 11:15 am. But the waking up was filled with a bit of drama. Firstly I saw a message from Akshay saying that he is not coming, and "it seems like a waste of time" for him. I was a bit taken aback by that, but I controlled myself. After that I called up the developer guy, and told him that we are not coming but asked him to prepare the cost document, to which he replied that they don't do that unless it is a final deal. So, after this, I messaged Akshay that I can understand, and also that the developer guy is not ready to give the document. Then, suddenly Akshay called me up and said that he was just joking, and he is indeed coming. He was on the way. I was elated and called up the developer guy again, who gave us the time as 2:30 pm. So, I got up, got ready for the meeting, ate my breakfast, and waited for Akshay's call. Then, after the call came, I went to pick up Akshay from the station. Well, I was prepared to bring him home, but I didn't want to reveal the Feasthunt thing to my family members yet. So, he suggested some mall to sit. We went to McDonald's first where he ate his lunch, and discussed some really important stuff such as number of target clients, cost structure, next steps etc. Then, we moved to CCD, because Akshay wanted some coffee urgently. He is a coffee addict. Anyways, when went to the CCD in CBD belapur. After that, we moved to the developer's office but he wasn't there yet. We spoke to the people there, who showed us some sites that they were working on, and we really liked them. But the main guy didn't arrive, and hence we left as my sister had to go to tuition and also Akshay had to go somewhere. So, after dropping off Akshay to the station, I went back home, ate my lunch and went to Nerul to drop off my sister. After that I started browsing random stuff and watching YouTube videos. This went on till around 7 pm, when I had some Tea. I came to know that Dravid made another century. This tour is going awesome for him. But unfortunately India were all out for 288. It's a small lead but India would have to bowl very well to restrict England. After that, Dad and my sister arrived, and they brought dominoes pizza. Well, I am not a big fan but I somehow managed it with Garlic Bread and Coke. After that, I and my sister had some chat, and singing sessions. Also, we watched some YouTube videos together. Then, I had a chat session with my cousin from Bangalore. It was quite nice. I came to know about her ambitions, and I was quite impressed by the clarity of her way to that goal. After that, I again started browsing YouTube videos, and came across desihits.com, which I loved at lot. They made awesome remixes to shitty britney spears songs. It made me love britney spears. Then, I decided to write this post. Now, I will watch some more videos and then sleep by 3:00 am.

Diary 92: The "One" issue day

Yesterday I slept at around 5 am. But before that, I was able to fix one important issue with the code. I felt very happy when I did that because no one was able to figure it out that time. Anyways, today I woke up at around 12:00 pm. I went online, and realized that the there is no issue in the code, except for one. So, I took that up and tried to debug it. Slowly I realized that the error is not that simple as it seemed. Meanwhile, my sister came back home after her last unit test today. She was extremely happy because her exams went well, and were finished for the time being. Anyways, after having some lunch, I went back to the problem, and tried to solve it. We had a deadline of 5:30 pm, but clearly we were going to cross that. I and Sarvesh were basically puzzled by the behavior of the code. In between, some of the older issues also crept up but I managed to handle them finally. At around 6:30 pm, we gave up and decided to wait for Gil. I started doing time pass, and browsing randomly. Then Alok pinged me and said that he was composing the drums track for the song we recently composed. Till now, it is just an instrumental. After this, I decided to record the song myself. I took out my electric guitar and started recording it. It sounded quite nice. I added few more tracks such as bass, solo and filler. It sounded good. So, I sent it over to Alok, who was now using it to make the drums on his drum machine. He liked my recording except the filler arrpegios. Anyways, we also jammed for sometime. Then, I got a mail from Gil asking that who all are free for weekend. I mailed him saying that I was partially free. Then, Mahak pinged me and told me that she didn't get the job that she applied for. This made her angry and sad too. I tried to console her, but a part of me said that why it should be me only who consoles her, why not her boyfriend ? Then, she went away and I continued with the music sessions. After lots of discussion here and there, we finally fixed dropbox as the means for sharing the files between us. I uploaded my recording but Alok asked me to remove it, so I had to. Later, I was watching YouTube videos and all. I was revising Coke Studio songs, and shared few of them with Alok. Also, today the second test match between India and England started. England were all out for 221, and India were 24/1 at stumps. After all the chatting, I wrote this post, and now I plan to sleep by 4:15 am.

Diary 91: Too much work Day

Yesterday I slept at around 5:00 am. After completing my work, I was watching "Wall street 2", but didn't complete that because I felt sleepy. Today, I woke up at around 11:00 am. As usual, my day started with a call from Ankit. He asked me about the mails that I sent last night. I told him the exact issue that was faced by us, and then went online to check the latest issues etc. And then the hectic day started. We had a webex meeting regarding the issue. My internet was sometimes working and sometimes not. After that, I started multi tasking between movie, chatting and work. I continued with the "Wall Street 2" movie. It was just fine, and was kind of expected. I relaxed a bit during this period as I was already tired by the work last night. Then, the work load increased. There were lots of issues and we had to figure out what caused them etc. So, I and Sarvesh started exploring independently. Meanwhile, I had my lunch. After lunch, I continued to look into the problem, and it was partially solved by around 6:00 pm. Then, I asked Sarvesh to fix some other issue and pass on the file to Gil. After this, I relaxed a bit, and fortunately my net was also not working properly, so I got some free time. After he re-sent the file, I started having doubts on the approach that Sarvesh has used. I didn't get the logic of that, so I dig deeper and found few discrepancies in that. I used my whiteboard to the full use to find out the error. But, I didn't try to fix it because Gil was supposed to send us one more version which had some changes from the client side. So, I waited. Then, I started giving tips to my sister on Mathematics as tomorrow was her unit test. Meanwhile, Alok had fancied a chord sequence. So, then I decided to learn it, and then may be improvise on it. He asked me to add some classical vocals to it. Though it seemed odd at first, but then it turned out to be very nice. After a lot of experiments here and there, we decided to call it a day. I recorded the music on my iPod, so that we don't forget it. I mailed it to Alok then. After that, I reverted back to the problem solving. I realized that it is too late to sleep if I want to go to office tomorrow, so I decided to work instead. Well, the decision proved costly. I found out that there are lots of issues to be solved. I tried out few things but they didn't seem to work. Then, Gil told me the next steps and action items. I told him that we can continue in the morning, and he agreed. Then, I went offline. Now, after writing this post, I will try few more things, and sleep by 5:00 am.