First thing first. Book the ticket, but Prasad (Narmeta) said he has US credit card but suggested to ask Prasad (Nayadu) for the same. and to ship the financial documents to Saama for Form-16. Prasad came and said no problem for making a ticket purchase of ticket using his credit card. He bought the ticket for me and didn’t even ask for payment even though I was willing to pay him for that immediately.

Now comes the surprise package from Pune with my relocation bills which Victor was sending for more than week and more shocking was the cost of shipping. 185 bucks.. really a high amount, but blue dart charges high. I promptly paid that immediately after the call. Yeshwant told me that Sunil is throwing his party. He was unhappy that some stuff which he could buy in US, he refused owing to NOT HAVING MONEY.

Now Raj told me some changes about the cashier dashboard reports. One formula was incorrect rather not sure. There were lots of mistakes. Not logical but yes… like names of metrics were non-descriptive, objects not reused. and Non-volatile tables. In Teradata. Something that’s rarely seen is non-volatile tables. Oh my god.. I was grilled like hell.. That each second of explaining thins was like an hour to me.. Well, I made changes as per asked, but got stuck at Credit Card Approval report. It reports has only one date column (good) but that’s how we were NOT designing the prompts. (This dashboard is going to have 4 reports and it there are unique prompts per reports, user would be promoted 4 times to input same.. very user unfriendly. There is a workaround of this BTW) Here comes totally different Raj. He explains to me the whole logic about about two dates, how they have been connected etc very well. I reallied understood few thing which I had not understood before. And explained things to me very well. I’m really surprised. and finally, I found the reason behind non-volatile table too. Blame it to Moving Difference. and Raj is getting married on 5th Feb 2007. I have lost my leaves for the same week, I know.

I called up the Engineer to get the PCU fan problem fixed and repeatedly found his cell switched off. These guys are like that. Sent him a message asking for a call back.

Well.. The first things I had to check was if my leaves on 3rd to 6th Nov was approved. I was not even knowing how would I know that, so I went on intranet to see if it is approved. Well, realized that even if it is approved it would be costly to go. No check air fair So I deleted leave requests and I put new requests for next weekend. Time during Shubhangi’s wedding (24th Jan), Jaidev’s Wedding (4th Feb), Didi’s birthday (4th Feb again), my own (9th Feb). So many thing in line. I have planned the travel too. One more thing. I’d also applied for leave for whole week starting from 3rd Sept 2007. (Govinda aala re!!!!!) Coming back to leave. I requested him that I have applied for next weekend’s leave and I have canceled coming weekend’s leave plan. Well, after 5 minutes I got mail sayingg leave status changed. So now I know that I get a mail when my leave is sanctioned.Now people in team got to know that I applied for leave to be taken almost after a year. They were amused and laughing….. “You have planned for one year….” I believe you can apply for “week with family” leaves twice a year easily. Probably these guys don’t know how I used to apply leaves when in Cybage. One day leave 2 day leave with 3 to 6 months notice… BTW. I don’t have a credit card :(( Never liked the idea of “credit” and all these sites takes only credit card. Couldn’t book the tickets. I gotta catch someone to book it.

Lastly, I gotta find a Hardware Engineer. PC got some problem with fan. It stops after 2 minutes so CPU temperature goes high and as soon as it reaches 75 PC reboots. Sounds funny, but I verified it. Vooo…… This is my roomies laptop. Good that he is on phone with some gal…. Ab bhagwan ne chaha to kal blog hoga.. I have seen some ads. Hope to get this problem fixed…

Headline (rumour) of the day
1. 60% employees of BPO have been laid off. Told straight to find a job in 30 days with 90 days salary as lumpsum payment.
2. Finanacial companies have stopped giving leans, credits to employees of IVYComptech.
3. 888 holdings (Company who owns 888.com) to merge with PartyGamin PLC (Parent company of IVYComptech) —–> This one affects me directly.. More chnages to the reports due to merger. More reports. Abe 888 ka ID 888 rakhna.
4. 32 nations of EU to back a law that would make gambling business more answerable to govts.
Quite good. They should be controlled to some slight extent. Player in USA, Server in Gibraltar, one of Top 100 company listed in London stock exchnage and 95% staff in India. Who the hell is contrlling the money transactions.

About to finished the report that Peter explained to me. And now Peter pings me about some correction in some report. God knows what does he want!! He changes his requirement every now and then. Chatted with me to do something that he could have had done by just dragging some object (intentionally) hidden from reports. These OLTP guys are really big problem. How much time it takes to write a report on OLTP system. May be 10 minutes. The same would take 1-2 days or may be even more. If not possible then go for Freeform SQLs. Man. how he is chatting with me. I do not know the answers, so ask Ritesh. He was busy with Adi due to last day of week. He asks to ignore him. Well I just did that. 5 minutes later phone rang. That was Mayank asking about the same. Peter wanted a confirmation about the possibility of the same. I was witless, due to not having any information about the table used in the report. He was asking to make that report as he has seen in OLTP system, which we don’t see. So can’t comment on it. So finally the report guru Sachit comes. HE was the one who made the report about which Peter was fretting. I gave up. Sachit asked me ask Peter to chat with Sachit. Well Peter was still insisting that I should let Sachit know all that. I told his he was the person who created the report so it is better to ask him. Well 1 minute after that Peter said, “When you were not the person having created the report, why were you answering the question?” Bouncer… no beamer….

Just in one day the misunderstanding was cleared…