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What do you do when you have to deal with co-workers (I dont like to use the term subordinate) who come and tell you that it is not actually a bug ,but an unexpected misbehaviour .

So, I haven't posted in nearly forever. I have been busier than a son of a gun. Most of my days were spent writing code that no one will understand, roaming around NY city, making sure Raina is happy , and eating and sleeping.Eating and Sleeping is refering to me and not her . I wanted to blog, but when I sat down to do it, I had neither energy, nor motivation nor the laptop. However now I have some time because Raina is cooking , I have nothing to do today . So what is going on.

My work is taking its toll on my heart beat rate . It is a pretty good project, except that it is very hard for me to stay awake these days as I do not like to disturb Raina's sleep .Beside the point ,the major reason it is hard is because it is difficult if you have to sculpt Lady Liberty with people who get into fake convulsions every time you ask them to do something .

A word to the wise. If you do not have the ability to hold off your sleep till 4 am and then get to work at 8 am, do not work building any software that is going to be business critical . It became apparent, while I have decent coding skills, that I did not have the ability to tolerate people filled with nonsense ,expecting them to work like me. I was scaling my expectation levels down, but still it was very difficult. I had a very difficult time trying to convince everyone to believe that Ill get this project done at the shortest possible time . For some reason it did not work well for almost 4 months . However after a few long months of frustration and hard work and some improved performances from my teamates ,Ive managed to pull it off. Now they are talking about phase 2 ,3,4 and 5 ...

NewYork has been an adventure. It really is an amazing city .It has got everything . I do not think there is a better place on the planet with so much diversity . It is really beautiful . Manhattan is surreal . I hate all this trash talk about Afro Americans being bad ,back in India. They really do make a big deal out of it . Everyone is wonderful .

I am doing well at work. I got a couple of tee shirts last week and a hat this week for how well I have been working. I think I am the greatest ever. And as always ,I have been cooking up some great dishes . The Chicken Sheek Kebab is my latest subject of research . Let me know if you want the recipe .It is really simple and Im sure anyone can do it .

I am thinking about taking a golf class and some cooking and acting classes . I have realised that Sleeping is good. I try to get to bed most nights by 9 pm. I am slowly turning into either a really old person or a really young person .

We are going here on vacation on May 21st. I am just waiting for it .I will also get to spend time at the other place I am in love with in US , Farmington ,Wayne county in Detroit where Raina's brother and wife live. I just love that place for its ridiculously low population density and his car :p .

I met my other old buddy forever Vinya . It was sweet of her to have made it a point to see me when she was on transit on NY on her way to India. She came down to manhattan and It was a nice pleasant surprise.


I said Vinya as the 'other' old buddy because there is Jude . He is here this month end . It is amazing to realise that I will be meeting him in NY city .From those days in Coimbatore when we used to bicycle together early morning for math tutions in the early nineties. Life is certainly fascinating

I have to to see my other buddies here and Marudhu . I wish it happens .

I have been so incredibly negative and bored until my wife came here recently .Now I am positive and bored :p. I can't believe that I was not blogging for so long . I hate myself for that . I am much more positive again.Infact ,for some reason I had it in my brain that being cut off from everyone was a good thing. Instead of trying to find what was wrong and what will make things better ,I became so focused on what is wrong and decided that I was going to dig and burrow my niche into what was wrong in my life instead of holding on to and enjoying all the goodness that I have in my life . I am glad Raina is here with me now .

So I am sorry that I haven't been here much. I feel as though I need to be here more and write more and be myself more and well just about be anything that will keep me happy eventually . I guess what I am saying is more more more.

Karen had her 2nd anniversay recently . She missed my gift wantedly .

And of course , I have got what I wanted the most this year . The Dream is on . Barca vs Man U in the champions league final . All Chelsea fans can now shut your trap and take a bow

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