Hardly alive....

Oh god...What a week it has been. Last week, i was so wrong when i thought we had everything under control. Monday came and there we were, caught in this landslide of problems. We plugged one hole and another started leaking. In the end, there we were, no time for even the traditional morning adda sessions, trying to test and find hidden bugs. With friday evening being the deadline, last minute discussions with the clients, changes in requirements.....eeeya.. Why the hell cannot they make up their bloody minds? They want something one day, so i code. Next day, they decide they don't want it at all, so i change my code. And then, one fine day they come and say they do want it. So i have to modify my code yet again. It was all i could do to control my temper and not tear my hair out and stomp my feet. As they say, the client is God Almighty. But then, i am an atheist. Am i even making sense?

So today, after four days of slogging some n hours every day, the deadline was there standing behind us. My code was done and ready to launch. And then, my colleague/friend came to give me this good news - apparently one of the juniors working on another part of the project miraculously managed to misinterpret the requirements and he modified my existing code and it is all a mess! i see red - blood red. We have another 5-6 hours before QA would start breathing down our necks. So we marched off to confront the client. i was like, was this the requirement, this does not make sense to me (which is fast becoming my favourite phrase), did you tell him to make this change..blah blah....And more blah blah...In the end, since the guy was long gone home, we had to clean up his mess! At around 3, we managed to wrap up everything and make the deadline. Since this is some multi-million project, we were told not to screw up anything. It is not yet over. Like my PL said, this is the beginning of the end. Thank you.

Then we had a popcorn party just "in celebration of being alive". yeah right. Who says i am alive?

The party last saturday was a hit. Everyone went gaga over the food. And the mishti doi turned out so good, if i may say so myself. Immodesty, thy name is....

We are thinking of taking a break and going downtown to take a cruise and maybe go hiking. That is, if i can manage to wake up before the sun sets.

i need to finish " Bourne Supremacy"..i started that last week and never got time to flip beyond some hundred pages or so...

Didn't even go to play the game on thursday. But did go for the salsa class. Had a blast dancing away the fog in my mind. Sa re ga ma little champs is going to be on now so off i go to hear some cute (and some not so cute) kids sing their tiny hearts out...

saare suru ka yeh hi milan
geeton se meheka he sara chaman
apne hooton se nagme sajaye huwe
Aawo hum sab mil gaye
sa re ga ma....
la la la la la.....