LOL at me

I read the previous post here and laughed at myself. I promised to write here, but never bothered to. I want to change the way things are but I dont know whats wrong with me, I don't always do what I am supposed to, I am totally laid back.

Or may be its due to summer. Summer in Seattle is unbelievable. You dont get much time to stay home and read and blog. Though a lot of things happened this summer. I visited a lot of places, Life is pretty much same. Same old life, home-work-home kind of routine. Project deadlines, not enough unit tests, not a quality code, not enough documentation are always the complains. Its been couple of years that I am working professionally here but still I find difficult to wake up early morning and be mentally ready for work. Am I slacker?? Or may be I am lazy or Should I change my career??

Back to old blog

Ok, enough of anonymous blogging.

I will resume writing here. I just realize how inconstent I am. Anyway, I will try to continue here.

Flashback.

My last entry here was posted before I went to Nepal. I left my job at Microsoft and went to Nepal. I spent a bit more than a month and came back. I had a great time there. I came back and started preparing for job interviews. It took me like couple of months to get another job. Then, I got a very good job again and its been six months I am working again.

Current.

I promise myself that I will continue writing here.

From my diary-2

I went to work today. I had to work on transition documents and code check-ins today. But I was not feeling like working at all. My head was growing heavy and I was not able to concentrate on my work. Seems like .net framework has been completely uninstalled from my brain, these days my brain runs only one application, and that is NEPAL.

Tomorrow is the big shopping day. I have to finish most of my shopping on this weekend, though I am not feeling well. I have only bought gifts for dad and mom. Yesterday I was looking to buy some sweatshirts for my nephew, I called my sister to ask for his size, then he grabbed the phone and asked me to forget about shirts and bring laptop, guitar, and video game collections. I was surprised with the demand of a 10 year old kid. Now, I am really not sure of what to shop for these 6 nephews and niece I have there.

From my diary.

I was going well here. Everything is just fine, my study, job and everything. I didn't have any plan to go to Nepal this summer. But, from last few weeks I am feeling a different feeling. Something is killing me from couple of weeks, and now I want to go home desperately. Being away from my family for about one and half year was obviously painful but the pain was tolerable when I was not thinking about them, but now this feeling is getting stronger and I feel like I am going home at any cost. If I can make it according to plan I will be going to home in early June and will stay there for a month.

I remember when I first stayed out of home at Pokhara for my Engineering; I used to visit home in every month in the first semester, I used to get homesickness very early. But later, I got used to it and I even didn’t visit home for a whole semester once. But the story is totally different here. I left my country, joined master’s degree here, finished on-campus study and doing my CPT at Microsoft. Things have changed a lot, both, in my life and my country also. My country was a democratic country when I left and it will be declared as a democratic republic (or simply Republic) when I will be there.

I haven’t planned anything till now regarding my Nepal visit. I haven’t thought of how I am going to spend about a month there. I haven’t started shopping here and yet to make a shopping list. I am still not sure of how much gifts I need to take there, and how much budget I need to put aside for this visit. But, I have made my such that I am surely going to go visit my mom and family this summer, either at the end of May or at the first week of June.

Unemployed Stuff - To Do list

एसो गफ् गाफ

It has been a long time again since I posted in my blog. I wanted to write but I couldn't due to my busy schedule:). I am not yet able to figure out how my evening goes by and midnight comes. I mostly waste my time in the evening, I don’t craft any productive work but still I pretend that I am busy.

Though I have a so called busy schedule and I am bit lazy too, something forced me to write today. Previously, when I was just in at USA, I had written a blog post praising the SYSTEM here in USA and people following that. And today, I want to write about the working environment at Microsoft.

Here, I will not compare Microsoft with my previous employer, Reform of Judiciary (ROJ), UNDP back in my country. It is because whoever goes to Nepal, tends (or forced??) to work in Nepali style. But I would just like to say my little experience of working for a software giant; just because most of my friends ask me about the experience.

I found Microsoft as a really cool place to work for. For the guys like me, young and not much experienced in the professional world, there is one straightaway advantage of working with big company, which is, even if you can’t be productive in initial few weeks then it is okay for them. They have money and patience, and they can wait sometime for you to come to the rhythm and be prolific. But the story can be different for small companies where they want upshot straightaway.
The other thing is getting chance to work with real tech people. Every day in your work you will come across some remarkably talented people and if you have a discussion with them for a while then they will change the way you think for some extent. I am a Software Design Engineer in Test, and my responsibility here is to write small applications which test the other main applications. For this I work closely with the developers and I have learned a lot about coding technique from these genius guys.
While talking about the cool things I must include the time flexibility at Microsoft. I am not sure if the story is similar in other software companies also but I really like the time flexibility here. It may depend on the working style of your team but in most team you don’t need to be in your desk from 10 to 6 or something like that. In my case, if I don’t have meeting then I can come to work at anytime and leave anytime. What they want from me is email responses and finishes the assigned job in time
There are few funny facts at Microsoft that I have discovered and would like to say here. If you see anyone in suit and tie, then you will surely see a visitor card in his shirt. And another thing is if you see anyone who is wearing a half-pant and flip-flops then he is must be a program manager or senior(note: this may not be true for Directors or above level) .
And, if I have to say one disadvantage then the first one is you can’t be equally involved in all phases of the Software development life cycle because we have a very specific job type. What I mean to say is, if I am working for some small xyz company then along with few other people I can fully involved in design, develop, test and deploy the application, but you usually don’t get such opportunity in big companies.
All in all, it is an amazing experience for me to work here and I feel proud to be here.
I think I am going too much. I don’t think anyone has time to read all my ‘bakwas guff’ but still I will post this:).

Kebal Timro Yaad Liyera..