Another Thursday

I'm an extensive user of the winamp keyboard shortcut "J", which is used for "Jumping to file". Whenever you press J in Winamp 2.x and 5.x, you'll find a "search for text"prompt, where you can type in the first few letters of the song you want to hear. As you keep on typing, the song choices get limited, and you're usually left with the song you wanted to hear. This may take a little bit more effort if you have different versions of the same song saved in your hard drive. Instead of creating a short playlist, I keep all of my songs in the playlist, "cause you never know which song you may wish to hear" at a particular point of time. Hence my home and office playlist both contains 3000 or something song. However, the songs are not 100% identical. I have more new songs in my home PC, and sometimes during office I feel like hearing that song from Simply Red, which I don't have on my office PC. One tough day...filled with craving for that song....and then I use my USB flash drive for the transfer! Alas....despite of feeling the urge to listen that song, I forgot to load it in my flash drive yesterday. Now, at 8:15 AM, I am once again feeling the urge to hear that song.

Office has not yet woke up from the Eid frenzy. Our bosses are in Coxsbazar, attending a strategic workshop. So there's no rush from their side as well. I missed 2 days office due to the journey, and I missed a critical lunch. Everyone, except me was there...the lunch party that my big boss had thrown for bidding farewell to a departing, veteran colleague of ours. She's leaving for Australia, to live with her husband and to complete masters. The somewhat harmless party at Pizza Hut was actually a feedback collection session. We had a companywide survey a few days ago, where we were asked to rate our bosses, and to comment on our working conditions and stuff. Not too surprisingly, the results were drastic, and alarming for ze bosses. There's no prob with my reporting boss, but the people above him got some problems. Anyways, the people out there were asked to "state the problems in the face instead of backstabbing." I wish I was there. A friend of mine taught me to be straight forward, and I'll always be grateful to her for this. I am not saying that I'm always straight forward, but I try to honest in my approach.

Going Home is the theme song for the movie Local Hero. I haven't seen the movie, but as I am a die hard Knopfler fan, I collected the soundtrack. Mark Knopfler is a really talented guitarist and a gifted singer. Dire Straits is one of the very few bands (Beatles, Doors, Dire Straits, Deep Purple, Rainbow), whose every song is liked by me. I'm listening to the theme right now. The usage of saxophone is absolutely amazing in this theme. There's another instrumental by Knopfler, which almost always brings tears in my eyes. I don't know why, but Irish Boy has something different in it. Everytime I listen to the theme, something happens to my soul.

Today I have to attend a day long "Gap Analysis" with a vendor for a proposed new service. Before going there, I am supposed to make a test format, but I am not feeling like doing it now. But the peril will be suffered by thine; I shouldn't be leaving office before preparing that document.

Creativity is a sought after terminology for me. I always wanted to be termed as a creative person. Be it a simple double border in a MS Word table, be it a new style of documentation, or anything else--I want to leave my mark. I want to see the new kids telling "Wow....this Ishtiaque dude was damn creative....he created this test format 5 years ago, and we're still using it". Hehe...silly thoughts.

I wanted to start writing the second part of my journey today, but I won't. Maybe next week I'll write it. Our weekend has been cut short this time, and I'll have to come at office on Saturday. This sucks big time, as I'll be forced to go to office for 6 straight days. Damned life!