Pace of Life

About a month back I had put this quote as my face book status: "Life keeps changing so fast that, by the time I start realizing what's happening around me, things change....." . And its continuing to happen, By the time I slowly start understanding and absorbing the changes happening around me, things change and again I take my own time to understand and absorb these changes and yet again, things change. I wonder whether it’s just me or everyone else as well. Can our minds and emotions be agile enough to instantaneously adapt to change? I guess it’s not humanely possible. I think I’ll continue my slow way of absorbing the changes as usual.

On resonance, frequencies and wavelength

According to wikipedia, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with larger amplitude at some frequencies than at others.

One familiar example is a playground swing, which acts as a pendulum. Pushing a person in a swing in time with the natural interval of the swing (its resonant frequency) will make the swing go higher and higher (maximum amplitude), while attempts to push the swing at a faster or slower tempo will result in smaller arcs.

Which means resonance happens when two waves of same or different wavelength act upon each other in such a way that one wave supports the other to reach the maximum amplitude.

This also applies to human thoughts and feelings. Two people are said to have good wavelength or lambda when their wavelength helps each other to achieve the resonance resulting in larger magnitude of happiness.

Time to set things right

I had thought of writing this post on 20th May, but I couldn't. As I had mentioned in my last blog, some things had gone wrong and had to be set right. So, after the morning meeting with my Chinese counterpart I had a chat with the leader in HQ and told him that my estimation for a certain component has gone wrong and developers are struggling to meet the deadline. He was a good friend my mine when I was in China and he was prompt in calling for a conference with the stakeholders to decide on what can be done. Thankfully in the conference all the concerned stakeholders agreed to drop the requirement which not only saved my ass but also saved the people working on implementing the concerned component. What I have learnt from my six+ years of working with the Chinese is that they appreciate honesty, which some of my Indian colleagues actually aren't are when it comes to reporting to the Chinese. Well, may be thats why they trust me more and like to give me more responsibility.

With power comes responsibility

I was looking back at my career at work where in I had joined as a developer fixing bugs in a reporting system. Just recently, I was assigned the lead architect role for a new product. It had been a long journey with lot of ups and downs. However, little did I realize that some things I do impacts lot many people, not only their careers but also their personal life. Yesterday, I saw a good friend of mine looking very depressed because her work was delayed by two weeks for which I had estimated the effort as one week and she had to miss her dance practice for the annual day. I felt sorry for her deep within my heart as I was very aggressive in my estimation and I talking to her manager also didn't help her situation as the dates have been committed to the dependent products in other departments and her manager told me that he was helpless. In another instance, a colleague of mine was telling me that a good member in his team was denied confirmation because of me. I was wondering that he was a talented person and I had never given any bad feedback about him. Later I remember the talk I had with my leader last day when I chose another member for a specific task for a new product instead of him (the reason was that the other member had already worked in a similar product before), little did I know that this would have created a negative impression about that person in the leader's mind. Guess I need to be more careful on what I do or say as I remember a dialog in one of the spider man movie "With great power comes great responsibility".

A Wood Stock Fan

I have been a fan of this restaurant in Indiranagar called Wood Stock. The food there is awesome and the ambiance is also great. It was first introduced to me by my friends when we had made our plans to have good food every friday. From then on we used to go to wood stock almost every friday and order the same favourite dish of ours, Algerian Fish and Chicken Pasta. I would recommend that to any foodie who reads my blog :).

I am also planning to give a try on cooking Algerian fish myself. I had figured almost all the ingredients and the way that’s prepared.
Ingredients
1) Salmon Fish
2) Onions
3) Olives
4) Basil leaves
5) Mustard seeds
6) Basmati rice (some thing similar)
7) Red chilly flakes
8) Olive oil
9) Buttton Mushroom
10) Lemon
Method which I am gonna try:-
Rice:
Cook the rice such that it’s still rubbery, fry it in olive oil with some red chilly flakes and some basil leaves.
The Fish:
Just steam the fish with lemon and salt marination.
Sauce:
Fry the onions in olive oil, along with some mustard seeds, mushroom and tomatoes.

7 million seconds of pure fun

When I had put this title as my g-talk status, many of my friends asked what it meant. However, no one was able to guess and I had also not revealed what it meant.

About a month back, I developed a game for Android based phones called "Hazard Gems". Although there have been only about 4,000 downloads of this game, I am able to get some statistics that those who have downloaded the game together spend around 7 million seconds playing my game every day. That gives me some motivation to develop some more games. But first I need to improve my artistic skills as developing games is not only about programming, it’s also an art. Hope, I manage to get my next game out soon...

Life is short

It’s been a long time since I wrote on this blog. Well it’s been almost three years and though many things have changed, I feel like these things have just happened. I still remember the events that have happened when I was in school, in college and when I joined my Job. Life has moved so fast L . When I look back at my life, I think how different my life would have been if I had made different choices and decisions. I look back at my past mistakes and would like to correct them given a second chance. It’s scary when I imagine myself going through the same thoughts when I am over 60 nearing the end of my life L. What I have learnt from these thoughts is that we need to stop worrying about future and enjoy the present to the fullest. These moments are never going to come back.