Friday, December 22, 2006

further update on life.................

well its been a while since i've written written anything here, there had been some really big changes that have come around in life during the last few weeks , i have changed my designation of work- from a self employed to an employee . well it sounds strange but everything just took its course and i found this new profile to work on, right now my designation is research analyst, which do sound serious but its a lot interesting as of now.
well do i miss architecture- not really,
do i miss the every day a new surprise syndrome- not really,
do i miss the 'trying to avoid phone calls '- not really; this one has really given me the peace of mind i was looking; for quite some time.
so it actually means that i'm quite happy with my new work profile, which maynot be core architecture stuff but atleast related and would involve architecture too; eventually though maybe at a mere selection or monitoing level but nevertheless .
I anyways feel changes are always good as long as they don't screw you up, also its a step upwards in all respects, opening up to newer, different aspects, learning new stuff, new people to interact, responcibilites ( not much as of now :) .

I don't want to talk about my work in detail, or my reasons for this move but more or less it all just happened, got an opportunity and i took it, pretty much.
+ves so far:
1. Sleeping more peacefully.
2. Don't get irritated everytime the stupid phone rings.
3. gets time to lot more things that i always wanted to do, still trying to be more efficient with time though.
4. reading a lot more , variety of stuff even some wierd but interesting blogs, books on political idiologies etc etc.
5. not driving or running around too much - no more noida- gurgaon- faridabad-delhi trips in a single day!
6. saving money on fuel, phone bill, time, energy, patience to name a few.
7. learning new stuff like finances; cash flow irr, mirr and all the other rate, %,^,@,+ etc
8. much more relaxed.

thats it for now i guess

Thursday, December 14, 2006

My Precious Junk




Treo 180 NL (No lid)...

The Original Factory shipped look........

















The new modified face Plate with built in speaker, to get rid of the flip cover






























The new Blackberry look- New Avtaar Treo 180 NL (NO LID)



















The back side need a bit more work to make it bit more secure for the inevitable falls.


















It took me 3-4 hours to finish this job with lot of back and forth repairing and redoing the joining of the 2 plastic peices (the new extension + the face plate) i used a jagged aluminium strip reinforcement embedded into the joint for further strength. The upper portion is from the redundent flip cover itself to retain the logo . The silver paint job was a compromise as i had some left over paint lying with me , further more didn't had time to go and buy the matching shade. A lot of plastic from the flip cover was melted and fused to weld the 2 peices together useing the soldering irom , finally grindied and smoothened before painting so it loks almost seamless.
BTW i forgot to mention, this is done for my friend's phone who happen to break the flip cover of his new treo using Parry's old treo as the donor. though the entire thing needed couple ofhours but it took me couple of months to to find those precious hours- my sincere apologies to Sant ( My friend- the old style broken treo owner) for the delay!