Just another day
First day of 2011 wohoo!!! Don’t ask me why I celebrated in the previous sentence. Neither do I know why people put so much effort into celebrating the end of a year. I woke up today morning and seems just like any other day with its own problems, elements of beauty and joy.
Hope and pray all of you would continue to have peace and joy each day of your life! It’s amazing to know that God’s mercy and faithfulness doesn’t change, he is going to be the same in 2011 as he as been over all the years. But the question is are we ready to tap into the resources that he has laid out for us and be faithful in our ways.
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Rockability
As as started this year i had decided ‘in my mind’ that i would write a blog a week, and i had set schedules some time every sunday on my google calendar( which is also a new resolution). Just into the second week i am late by a day, so i don’t know how long my resolutions will last, lets see. The idea i have in mind is to recap the past weeks events and maybe throw in some thoughts on and particular issue(s)/stuff that i am currently focused on.
Last week was the first week at work after the holidays. Started seeing some faces that i think i didn’t see, i guess for two months. I know that nobody at my company has a two month vacation package, so it must that when i was off they were in and when they were in i was out. Also being developers a lot of people reserve themselves to their cubes. Work started out fine, i have been working with a vendor in analyzing their workflow solutions. BPM or business process management implemented right can be very effective. I am just surprised that a lot of processes in our organizations were cooked up in a state of urgency and people have been blindly following them since. Most of the times no attempt is made to consider alternatives or to even consider to think that the practice being followed is very inefficient. At least i can relate to the fact that processes that are not well thought can be very demoralizing. Workflow tools and process engines atleast help in providing a platform for the stakeholders to see their process in the domain of their standing. It also can keeps things simple and abstract, while keeping details hidded away from people who do not need them. BPM has been around for so long, but organizations still don’t undersand the the full effect it can have on the workings of an organization.
Straying away from work and technology, i have been listening to Matt Mahers “Alive Again” ablum. Phenomenal album, musically and lyrically i am just loving this album. We might incoroporate some of his songs into our bands set- with our own flavor. Practice wise i didn’t pickup the guitar until Sunday. On Sunday i was going through the Rocability dvd i got from netflix. I have felt that learning those blues turnarounds in the rockability styles could improve my guitar playing in the area of fillins. I have struggled to adding nice fillins, this dvd although basic, it is very informative and apt for me. I hope to finish this dvd before the end of the week. I need to start writing some songs, it has been over 8 months since i last wrote something. I really feel terrible, especially with all the gear i have around. Time is an issue since i have to prepare for school, but i guess if i really wanted to i could make time 
We have this gig in two weeks at a local university, need to start practicing for that too. Anyway i am going to sign off for now.
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After a very long time
I can’t believe that it has been more than a year since i last wrote something up here. All i can say is that time flew and another year passed by with lot of resolutions unfulfilled. Nevertheless i did witness God move and work in ways to set up events in my life that were totally unexpected during the last year which has been a great blessing. I guess i will share that a little later in this blog or maybe some other blog…another year 
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In 2009 I in my great wisdom deemed that it wasn’t a good year for investing in stocks and mutual funds so i didn’t . I guess i was partly right and partly wrong. Partly right because if i had decided to put some money i would have lost anyway partly wrong because my brothers invested and made a slight killing….ok maybe what i just wrote doesn’t totally make sense, lets move on. 2009 has been a year where my GAS( gear acquisition syndrome) was at its highest, i kept continuing to buy music gear. Last year i added a prs mira guitar, some pedals, guitar rig 4, controllers -nanokontrol and padkontrol a rane line mixer, a couple of professional cables (boy with the money you pay for 6 of them you could buy a yamaha psr keyboard), rode nt2a and nt5 mics and lot more small accessories. In short it has been another years where my savings were close to zero. It is crazy to think the amount of money you spent on these and how inversely proportional is the time you spent on them after you receive them.
Back in India i remember how i got a $400 yamaha psr 640 keyboard after buggin my Dad for a long time. That was the only decent piece of music gear i owned and therefore there weren’t any distractions. I still believe those days were the most productive in terms of knowledge acquistion. Today when i pickup the guitar and practice i hear a key riff which leads me to put down the guitar and try something on the keys, inspired i try to set up a recording session in logic and put down some idea. However on opening i realize that i had to explore the new software synth i got and i spent the rest of the day noodling on that. This is typical, sometimes when i start this process i tell myself that i am not going to do this again however i still end up with unfinished business.
As far as music recording is concerned i did some writing initially during the year, midway through God opened a way for me to be part of a christian band from church. They asked me to be their lead guitarist, armed with the basic knowledge of a few chords i understood if i were ever to last or bring value or at least not embarrass them i had to improve on my skill so the later part of last year i did make some significant strides in the world of electric guitar. I hope to get back to writing music soon, the good thing is that it is necessary that i get back to writing as the band is looking to put out some singles this year.
School has been great and crazy at the same time, i have two more semesters before i complete my masters part then i move on to my MBA.
Work has been great, though i didnt’ have many exciting projects i still got opportunities to learn and contribute through research. Last year i moved to a more senior role at my firm which was great because now i get more vacation days ha!
One of the great plus from last year was i picked up boxing and volleyball at work and was able to drop 8-10 pounds. Also this thing called iron gym has been really helpful.
Wow i am already feeling distracted, i don’t think i can continue any more today. Plus there is a JETS vs Bengals game on tv. I guess i will stop for now. This year i intend to put out something al teast once every week, lets see that works out…
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An uneventful new years eve
Today has been pretty dull, didn’t do much. Since morning i have been working on adding some tracks for a jam that we did the night before. Once i was frustrated with that, i headed out to Panera bread for lunch with my brother. This is the first time i have had from that place. Altough i am convinced that it wasn’t worth the hype, the sandwiches tasted fresh.
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Thanksgiving dinner
Here some pictures from the thanksgiving dinner we had on Wednesday when Ben’s friends came over. The above picture show the perfect Glory state of the turkey.
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Staying focused has been a problem for me these days. For the past year or so i have been following a lot of technologies/languages. Just when i begin to dig into one of them, i read about something else that i get really exicted that i put away what i do to look into the other one.
This has been going on for the past year or so. The result, i haven’t substantially achieved anything. However for some strange reason, i don’t feel lost, you know the usual feeling when you are multitasking beyond your capabilities. Some times i do feel bad about this, but hey i realize that until you find your calling, it aint’ bad to swim around aimless.
Well the most important thing is that you enjoy.
During the past couple of days i have been working on something that manages to get all my focus, have i found my calling? i would like to think so!
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Hello world!
Class HelloWorld{
public static void main(String[] a){
System.out.println(“Hello World”);
}
}
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