Back to office

After three days of break, I returned to work. As it turned out, the Blackberry outage for last 48 hours was just not for me as a special favor. We had almost 400+ users down with the same issue. It was all caused due to a faulty script which tried to ship us (first generation BB users) from a remote US server to a newer one in Shanghai. The script did remove us respectfully, but forgot to recreate the magic on the new box, resulting in deleted accounts and no emails access for almost 2 days. I suspected something went wrong on Sunday’s scheduled maintenance window – see I am growing as an IT professional. Soon I will be able to predict failures – sorry pushing it a little bit.

Since Diwali, I am on a strictly vegetarian food, to keep up with Mom’s wishes. These 6 days after Diwali, is when we have the famous Chath puja back home. It is one of the most difficult and holy Indian festival, celebrated in a very small community across couple of provinces. During this puja, Mom keeps complete fast (even without water) almost for 2.5 days and offers “aarg” to setting and rising sun. This is an extremely tough time for her and she has been doing for 35 years, just about a year before I was born. The “SUN” god is worshipped and due to its complex and difficult customs, it is not a very popular among masses kind of festival. Back home, everyone keeps away from any kind of non-vegetarian food including onion and garlic. So wherever I am in the whole world, I try not to eat any meat during this one week in the year. So far this routine has been going on smoothly and I hope to carry on with it. My ordeal is very much simplified in this city nation, where there is a significant number of Indians and that too veggie eating Indians.

I have been reading a lot of books these days and some day I will sit down and talk about them. I usually go to bed these days, with a book in hand – very different to when Aryan and Nikita are here. I usually go to bed, reading bed time stories to Aryan – miss all that!

Good night, sweet dreams.