Ashish Kumar from Tekriti Software

I have really been slow at blogging for the past few days. Sometimes I just feel like forcing myself to write an obligatory post so that my readers don’t go disappointed when they visit my blog. But then I have figured out that I do a real bad job when I dont put in my heart at blogging. Excuses apart - something that I have been doing for the past few days:

• Work: Oh, of course, work - not to say that the load has increased. It has always been like that but we are reaching stabilization phase in a few projects - so it requires a little more thought and involvement.
• Socializing: Because of the festival time a few weeks back - I just got in the mood of socializing with relatives and friends. It was more so after Vishal, a good friend from IIT, came to Delhi and announced that he is getting married in a couple of months. It was good to meet the soon-to-be-married Vishal and Rashi AND recently-married Rahul and Shilpi - and they tried to make sure that I don’t feel out of place.
• Watching TV: Well, I had to face disconnectivity in my internet connection because of delay in payment of my bill. It was a few days before they restored it back - but only after I had to call a few times after paying the bill. So, I had to resort to watching TV for those days - in the time reserved for reading various blogs and news articles.
• Planning for New Year: After a rather quiet New Years celebration last year, I thought that I will plan in advance for the new year this time. And I, for sure, don’t want to be in Delhi then (it being weekend also helps a lot). I have been looking at various options and zeroed down on Goa and Diu finally. I just need to decide between the two now - but it seems that getting tickets and accomodation is a big issue. I am, most likely, going to be taking a combination of flight and bus whereever I go. But I can’t understand why is there no decent service to let me do an online booking for a deluxe bus journey from one destination to the other. I hate to be on the phone with a travel agent to make such a booking.
• Health Club: Aha, we finally figured out a nice health club in Gurgaon. The name of the club is Ozone and this place looked awesome. Its quite expensive and need to pay a year’s rent in advance but I guess it’s worth it. Went to see it from inside today and have already made up my mind to join it tomorrow. I have already starting to feel good about it.
• Interviews: Because of a few new projects that we are starting, we are becoming even more aggressive in hiring. It appears that we got to look for alternate source of finding candidates. We have been really exhausting the traditional sources - but now I will worry less about that. Manish (and, now, Ashima is also here to help us) is excellent at doing that stuff.

Now, let me move from my random musings to something more focused.