The life of a consultant in UK can be very interesting. The business model is such that you will never operate out of a fixed office location of the company that employs you but you will always be at client location for a particular project. Once the project gets over, you are shipped off to …
England Vs Australia , Lords, Second Ashes Test 2015 I had moved to Manchester in the summer of 2015 just at the time an Ashes series was about to commence. Incidentally on the weekend of the 2nd test match at Lords, I planned a trip to London to meet my friends. An Ashes test match …
The Background The Cricket World Cup 2019 was in full swing in England. It was a dream summer for a cricket fan and England was the place to be. After the weather played spoilsport in the early stages of the tournament with as many as four games abandoned, the sun made its …
As the greatest sporting event in the world kicks off tomorrow, cannot help but take a nostalgic trip back to all those moments over the years associated with the FIFA world cup. As we await for the kick-off tomorrow my memory takes me back to my first FIFA world cup in 1986. 1985-86 was the …
Arrival At Gatwick We kicked-off our much-awaited vacation even as the monsoon stayed away from Pune in the first week of June. I was yearning for an international vacation for a long time and it was time for one as we planned to visit the UK. It would be a sort of family vacation as …
September 15, 2008 I remember the last time I returned from onsite three years back I had to wait for three years to go anywhere onsite again. This time it was not to be that long and the wait was a little over 3 months after which I was back in the flight to Moscow …
April 13, 2008 As the date shows it’s been quite a while since my last diary – three weeks to be precise. So to compensate for that this has to be a big one. Lots of events have taken place in that period, the most notable change being in the temperatures. It was still snowing …
March 22, 2008 Work has started in full swing in the bank. And the biggest challenge is to make the bank users enter all the BPD data into the system. One can imagine the plight of the users when we ourselves have to encounter n no. errors and server restarts while entering data into Finacle. …
March 15, 2008 The weekdays more or less went like a template with not much difference between a Wednesday and a Thursday other than a different variety of chicken for lunch.We cook dinner at home and the standard menu is rice, dal and mixed vegetables (we buy frozen veggies from the super market). I generally …
March 01, 2008 Boarded the Emirates flight EK 525 from Rajiv Gandhi International airport Hyderabad, probably the last time from the Begumpet airport (The operations are all set to shift to the new airport at Shamshabad on the midnight of March 15). It was an airbus A330 with 2-4-2 seating arrangement. Thanks to the immense …
