Been a while...

It's been a long time since I made, what has become, an annual post on this blog.Why do so many a blogger start at least one post with a similar implication. BrainSqueeze for another moment.

The change in work environment has made learning new tricks for this old dog inevitable. New people, new processes, new thinking. My inherent need to classify and categorize events, people, things has put me again in a situation where sizing up the environment with questions has got me very busy.

The number of interactions may not have changed, however physically proximity to the people involved in the interaction has changed drastically. Loads of people in different locations spread across the geography on the right side of conventional map - ASIA and PACIFIC.A picture would be in order at this point.

Making sure you're not stepping on any one's toes is a big part of this new environment. Hopefully, being at the receiving end of this situation will not happen. As the days progress and months pass by every interaction is reduced to mere emails that must be worded in such as way that the message is not only put across but is read with equal diligence. Short and to the point are at this time 'relative' terms. Some mails need to be 3 paragraph long with 5 sentences in each paragraph. While others are the regular 'FYI' types.

Hang on! is this heading anywhere?

I guess not... THE END 

Geek of the Year - Adam Loving

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/geekwire-awards-vote-here-for-geek-of-the-year/

I FIXED IT !

We got an analogue BEN10 watch for EJ couple of months ago. Needless to say it stopped working a little after it lost it's novelty for him [which was about a week ;)] On recent inquiry, he was forced to look for it and reported it bust. So I declared it be FIXED instead of a purchasing a new one. After the local clocksmith diagnosed it as a case of dead power cell [even before opening it K] the argument against me was the cost of repairing versus purchasing a new one. Cost of power cell $1 [Rs.40] Much opposed by all family members, I GOT IT FIXED. 

The fixed Ben10 wristwatch

After a couple of hours we realized only the seconds hand was moving and the watch may end up showing the correct time only twice a day. On the  way back home, I stopped at the same clocksmith and demonstrated the problem. “Uska ‘movement’ change karna padega, saab”, once again without even removing the panel at the back of the watch L. The “movement”  cost $2 [Rs.80] and entailed replacing the whole small machine inside !!!! Yet, again after a token debate with family, I FIXED IT. Total cost of FIXING $3 ;  original cost of watch $2.5, which when added up is not far from the cost of the current demand of a Chelsea/Drogba watch - $7. [Football being the “flavor of the month”]

Through this experience JC observed silently and my “zidd” [Indian equivalent of something in between perseverance and stubbornness] bore fruition now that he’s started interjecting in between most conversations - “we kin oviously get a new one, but lets try en fix it, toh!?!”

PS – note its ‘oviously’ not ‘obviously’ ;)    

Making of the First Christmas Album

Jason-Caleb Peters [6yr.] & Elroy-Jordan Peters [9yr.]

Level 98

Ribbon Status -Suggestions welcome on getting the remaining :)

Mastery Plan - III

Now that I have completed mastery of all the old seeds that were in the original Farmville, there seems to be some new ones that have been added. So here's the Master Plan for Mastery - Mastery Plan - III.

Assuming I started on the 1st working day of Aug [2nd Aug, 2010] I should finish by the end of October.