Well, last week i mentioned that 2 of server side programmers were leaving us. Well, one of them left very amicably. The other one probably has made a dash for it but i guess he has just added to the mess of it all. if Ajay reports on time on Monday, all will be well (hopefully) but if he doesn't, it will just add to the pressures. Ajay didn't come on Thursday and there was an open bug for Sit N Go tournaments where in the losers who become observers were not being cleaned up by server. So poor chaps, they lose and on top of that they can't login forever :-) If Ajay would have been around, it should have been fixed by him. But as he wasn't, it came to me and Vijay Simha to turn it around, which we did at 10 PM. Took the whole day in fixing one bug :-) And that has been the story this whole week. Things have not progressed much even after so much slogging. It does bring down the morale and all that bullshit stuff I used to read in the OB course. 3 days of break was something that i really looked forwards to.
On Christmas, we left on a package tour. I was dead against it as I hate these package tours. They promise much but deliver so less that one starts protesting. But Meetu prevailed and so we were in that damned bus. It took 1 hour to reach a temple of Sri Vetaal and then another 30 minutes to reach Mayem Lake. We did boating there which was fun. Then we went to Vagator beach. We just had 1/2 an hour but we went on sea scooter and Kush had a terrific time. Another 20 minutes of bus drive took us to Anjuna beach where we had just 20 minutes. Another 40 mins drive took us to Fort Aguawada (or something like that) and then to Calugate beach where Kush vomited all that he had eaten. By this time I was tired and angry at this whole waste of day. I firmly believe that if you really want to enjoy you have to give time and so no more just covering the points for me. If you decide to go to the beach, at least spend some good time over there. If you want to go to a place, give it some time to explore it. Otherwise it is just plain waste of time. On the plus point, all the 3 beaches were great so may be one of these days we will head over to one of them and spend some time :-)
Today I received an email from Jagdeep that Lisa project is over and done with. It brought back some happy memories and some really bad ones. I do miss the comraderie that we all shared for that project. It was a happy team and we really enjoyed a lot. I left it on a very acrimonious note and I still hate my managers in that team. For me Lisa project was over the day I moved to Motorola.
So, what can i expect next week? more work, of course, but some of it will be managerial. I will be implementing the whole new tracking process for the product team and that will take some time. I will have to learn the poker server code which will be another very challenging activity. Should be fun. The team has accepted me as their own and they have started respecting me. From here, things can proceed in only 1 way - more fun and more comraderie. I hope I can recreate a team like Lisa here. Then it will be really an achievment. Imagine in a short span of 5 years, creating a great bonded team, enjoying their work as well as each other's company. So God help me :-)
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