Living the dream. One day at a time.

Just came home after passing the most dreaded driving test :), the test went so smooth without a single mistake that my instructor couldn’t believe it was me !!! He also told other students that I got the worst scolding every lesson and we had a good laugh thinking about all the mistakes I did during the lessons. Now even I can flaunt my license card every time Shreyas boasts about his driving skills and how he follows the protocol .

At work, I think I am learning a lot of new things and my mentor Bob makes it a point to brush off the dust on my fundamentals. I hope someday even I could visualize all the threads in a running program, function calls and use patterns as comfortably as Bob. But it’s fun to work with someone who is a total perfectionist and can not even tolerate any imperfect comment in the code. Also I have been following => this blog for last two days and find it pretty informative and interesting so thought of sharing with everyone.

Now that Neha and me are proud license holders, no need to mention that our shopping tours would be doubled in next couple of weeks and so would my fights with friends to let me drive on freeways.

This is for everyone to follow road crossing instructions as I would be hitting the road soon(Though even today i dint cross 15 MPH and I am one of those over cautious drivers whom everyone loves to overtake )

“Give the gas please” my instructor shouted! This does give me an assurance that I would never get a speeding ticket. I end up parking the car way too far from the curb because of my over-cautiousness, and my parallel parking is a total shame to any driver on earth ! I am just two lessons away from the driving test and still I returned home disappointed after the weekend lesson, yesterday I had a total chance to drive till Six Flags, but my friends no longer trust me after they accompanied me to my first driving session .
Started reading the series of Laura Ingalls Little House, finished reading the first part but can continue only after Miss PHD comes back home. I loved the way she has narrated her childhood memories and enjoyed all the small details she has used to describe the woods, house and the food, I wonder why I had never heard of her books when I was a kid. There are so many little things in life which make life worth living we just have to realize that they are special!

Have you ever experienced this state of mind?? I have a total mental block for past 2 days, it’s a complete deadlock situation. I have debugged the code around fifty times but no luck till now. Now all I can think about is that one block of code taking away my peace of mind. It’s one of those days when my hair is uncombed, I eat till I get stomachache and I wear my picnic shirts at work, still I don’t ever remember taking out frustration on anyone. Generally my tolerance threshold is very high, the only thing I don’t enjoy much is loud and ear hurting music when I really need that quiet time to recharge myself. Even if I try hard to appreciate the excitement and the high energy level of the loud music I just can’t help but getting agitated. I have nothing against anyone enjoying music with high volume; as a matter of fact it’s great that people can enjoy life and youth to the fullest. May be I am just too old fashioned and prefer soothing and light melodies!