Saturday, March 1, 2014

A Steady February

As I recollect, I realize that this February had been steady, positive and challenging having left with lot of positive vibe at personal and professional front.

Personal


Family

As my amma wanted (or by force :-)) to start to find for a match for me, it has formally started in the midst of all my relatives. This has left her busy in finding match and trying to get convinced first and convince me finally.

I am happy to keep myself committed to accomplish the challenging task of visiting my family once in every 2 weeks so that I will not leave her feel lonely.

Self-Learning

Couple of my courses in +Coursera on +Android made this February very challenging to meet the deadlines both at office as well as on assignments. The best feeling that I can cherish is when in one of the open-ended assignment (i.e., without any requirements other than the list of +Android controls to use), I developed an application using one form of Steganography (hiding plain text inside an image) for which I received good comments from peers in the evaluation. Also, I felt while evaluating that I had made a real attempt at learning something and didn't waste time.



Meeting with my Mentor

I had finally visited my all-time mentor (I claim always anywhere anytime) +Prashanth Babu. For the first time as far as I know, I saw him so calm and composed to correct me even when I was uttering/blabbering about some of my points related to work/technology.

It was a very good discussion and feeling in which I received a good amount of information how some great people (he is one according to me) carry out their plan of activities without compromising completely on their personal life as well.

Professionally

It so happened that I felt I was in a full swing to carry out tasks. I didn't feel I am putting extra hours to complete the tasks. It also happened that I could build rapport with my counterparts to get/share information that is needed.

This same month I had the my yearly (appraisal) discussion which was better than what I had expected. I felt I had more negatives than what I was told about which I mentioned back. How this gets translated is something to watch out for :-).

This month ended up with an eye-opener on the client-side technologies like HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Knockout.js and CORS in the form of an in-house training by a corporate trainer #VenuShastri. This added up an extra item to be put up in my calendar for this year to concentrate to the extent possible.

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