Among all the things I want to set right with myself in this special year, one would be of making the right choices. Sometimes not making a choice is also a choice. For example, today I got up at 7:00 AM and I wanted to go for jogging and I had 2 choices:

1. Get my back up, head for brushing and the daily routine, with the water still being cold and head for jogging ( Explicit choice)
2. Stay at the comfort of the warm, soft bed and continue to sleep and have the excuse that I struggled for the entire week and I have got the 'right' to relax on a cool Sunday morning ( Implicit choice)

Now by not opting for choice #1, we wrongly assume that we have not taken any choice, which is not the case. We have implicitly chosen choice # 2 and all the results that come up with that, including:

• Guilty feeling that I did not achieve the goals I set to myself
• Tummy size, would remain the same and I have the genetics, food to blame to
• Miss the great fresh air of the park and chance to add a few more years to my life

Remember, every type of inacation is also a form of action. I learned it the hard way, in the last few weeks. Hope this helps you in taking a close look at all the 'Inaction' items in your list.

Me and facebook
If you are interested in finding me at facebook, and subscribe to my updates, please bookmark my www.facebook.com/fitnessjustin. I am sure you will find it interesting if you are into health and fitness.

Back at office
Our EMC traning would commence tomorrow and would last for two weeks. They intend to cover topics such as xDesign, xAdmin and xPresso. Although we are proficient in these tools and have more than 2 years experience in working with these, we are going to be introduced to the new feautes of this tool as part of the 4.1 release which came a few months back. Training would be between 4:00 PM and 1:00 AM.

Last week, had some really interesting conversation with Seena, Anuroop and Ameer( Hadn't talked to them in years, probably a year or more).

So that's all for today, have a great productive and interesting week ahead.

Labels: fitness, health, job

Its been a while, I have been to blogging, actually its going to be a year . . . Some amazing things have happened in this short amount of time. And I would be all glad to share it with you.

• May: First and foremost, my brother was blessed with a sweet little baby girl in the month of may

• June: I got the chance to work with some amazing people and be part of a major delivery of our project that had to be delivered in July. Completely changed the landscape of my career.

• July: The project we all had been working so hard, was completed on the planned day. Great celebration everywhere ! Chance to move on to the next project

• Aug: Completed another year @ ACS, A Xerox company, thereby totaling 2 successful years, by the grace of god. Got official laptop and wireless net connection !
  

• Sep: B'days of 2 most important people in my life :)

• Oct: Got some new responsibilities at work. Work/ personal life going great.

• Nov: More people joined our team, seeing lots and lots of growth opportunities here.
  

• Dec: Saw the new house dad bought in Trichur, its really HUGE, with 5 bedrooms and attached bathroom for all those bedrooms. Spacious hall, sitout and a garden. Met parents and had a great time for the 5 days, I stayed there.

• Jan 2011: New year comes up and I Got chicken pox ! But learnt the breadth and depth and the true meaning of relationship and love. Got some amazing books to read, esp on personality development and never had to look back ever since.

• Feb: Enriching my work/ personal lives. Learned a lot of new stuff at job. Daily expense + month estimation going great. Starting implementing lot of stuff, I have been reading, seeing some amazing postiive results. My favorite books now are : 'Cup of Comfort - BIG book of prayer', '7 habits of highly effective people', 'The monk who sold his ferrari', 'You can win' and many more

• March: Got back to blogging :)

A small note of thanks
I want to end this post, with a small note of thanks.
A BIG thanks to all those people who made me who I am. A BIG thanks to God, my personal savior. And all those amazing books which helps me see the world in a brand new perspective. And for my organization, which is helping me take my career to all new heights and the amazing people I got a chance to work with.

Hoping to see more challenging and enduring results in the coming year.

Labels: acs, blog, job, reflection, xerox

Tomorrow (Aug 11, 2008)is my joining date as an official employee of mulinational company ACS, and I am very much proud of it. The interview and selection process was really cool and I enjoyed every bit of it. Its a really good feeling to be part of $5bn company, and to know that whatever you learned could be put to use in the following days.



I just want to thank all my friends, teachers and especially my parents who stood by me, and helped me get this job. Thanks for your prayers and blessings. Love you guys

bye


Other news

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My brother and my sister in law, would be reaching trivandrum, within a few hours. They will be spending some days at trivandrum.

Swaroop's dell laptop is half-way through shipment, and when it arrives, it would be the 3rd Dell laptop in our place where we are staying. Mine was the first!!

Came to know about hudson from Java posse podcast(Java posse is a really cool awesome java podcast). Its a continues integrations system. Hudson helps you to build/test software projects continuously and automatically. You can find more about Hudson here and to see hudson used in a live project visit the status of Continuous Integration Builds for NetBeans Projects site.

Labels: acs, java, job