Mad Monday!!

Start of the week couldn't have been worse!! Me needed to drop Puttu at the bus-stop today as Guru wanted to leave early. The bus turned up only at 9. Left for the bank at 9:15 to post the cheque I got from the bank only to realize that the bank is closed on Mondays!! Had to postpone my SA plan for morrow. The drive to office was horrible. Traffic jams all over. On top of that, some idiots are in charge of traffic today. Me waited nearly 30 mins if front of office to take the U-turn. Finally made it to office only to be told by security that all the slots for longer cars have been taken. Me lost it and started shouting at them. Got back a "We can't think" smile in return. Idiots...

Someone banged my City in front of Leela Palace. Luckily, the dent "came back" so to say. Not much damage....

The car guy at office now wants me to drop the cheque in a drop box instead of handing it over to him. Keeps changing the procedure. So, me will visit the bank early morning morrow and then drop the cheque later noon.....Checked with Chins on the CD-RW drive. Am getting it during the weekend to backup my archives, docs and photos..Yahoo!!!

Weekend was pretty relaxing. Attended NVGK's birthday party yesterday. Entire family turned up and was good fun.

Only 9 more days in IBM :-(

When I finally started cleaning my drawer

Yesterday, me did a lot of cleaning of my drawer. Found tons of documents to shred. And a couple of spectacles which I promptly carried home. Found one of my old remix-collection CDs as well. More cleaning to be done today.

Wrote to Leena and Neetu about my move. Both were surprised (and happy).

Became member of a yahoogroup called Hasire Usiru. The group works on environment related issues in Bangalore city and around. I can contribute some time and effort during my weekends.

I am planning a nelli family outing one of these weekends. Need to check with all on their availability. When it happens, it will be the first time ever. BTW, Nirmala (or nirmala-ben, as dad calls her) got added to the nelli group today.

Got a marriage lunch to attend today and another reception dinner in the evening. Guess every other person in Bangalore is getting married these days. Attended a reception yesterday as well. Phew....

Some time second week of June, me planning a two day trip to Nellitheertha. Just to survey whats happening in the temple and of course to pray as well. Maybe I will visit a couple of other places as well. BTW, naxal activity has increased in Udupi-Kundapur. Read about it in the papers today. Not sure where this is all heading. But it can't be good at all. Such beautiful places...turning out to be hotspots now.

More winding up stuff

The company says they wont give any doc till the dues are settled. The bank wants the docs to make the payment. Had to shout at the bank folks to get them to agree to pay. Seems like my loan amount will arrive day after.

Saw more photos from the trip today. They've come out good. We are planning to create a common album and burn them on CDs for all. That should be quite a collection!!

I'll probably visit my village during the 13 day break thats coming up once my last day here is over. Time for another photo-shoot then :-) I haven't been regular with "Jugari Cross" - the Kannada novel that Sripathi gave me a while back. Its been interesting so far. Need to complete it fast now what with my last day in this co approaching fast. PP and Sripathi, it looks like, are planning a grand send-off for me :-) Looking forward to it.

My Car woes

Me needs to buy out the car from the company before leaving. Else won't get the clearances. What a big pain this is turning out to be. The bank giving me the loan wants a NOC and the original RC book to sanction the loan and the company won't give them to me before I settle the amount. Chicken and egg issues....

The muthodi-belur-hebbe falls trip was awesome. Thanks to Chinmay for letting me into their team. Three days in the wild was just too good. Just the refesher I needed. Have put up some photos at http://harinell.fotopic.net/

It seems OSDL has laid off some good kernel programmers. This is surprising after all the bull-shitting they do about being the torch bearers of kernel development.

Muthodi Trip

After a long long time, me went on a trip. Visited Muthodi, Belur and Kemmangundi over the (long) weekend. Awesome awesome places. I have some nice pics captured. Will put them up pretty soon at my fotopic site. The team was real good and we had lots of fun. Sitting right under the falls at Hebbe was just an unbelievable experience.

Reached well past midnight yesterday. Me in office today but feeling really really sleepy. May leave early today.

Meanwhile my refinance for the car loan got approved. Me taking an external loan and buying out the car (My Honda City) from the company. Need to finish the paper work today.

Lots of clean-up work also left, both at home and office.

- H

Leaving IBM

I am leaving IBM. June 10 is my last day. Feels odd that I will no longer be a part of this organization. Six years is a long association. Hopefully I will come back some day and head this division :-)

Me just winding up here. Obtaining clearances...packing things up.....updating contacts and stuff like that. Need to back-up some of my imp data. Gmail is very handy these days :-) Me storing all my stuff there.

Me heading out to a trek tomorrow. Muthodi - Kemmangundi. Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary should be an interesting place. I will have some photos to show once I am back. Hopefully we'll spot a tiger.