I like when things are busy, at least it is better than staying idle. Weekends are really not very fun unless you have a car here in UK and I miss my dear Swift which is probably missing me as well. I am looking to purchase a good car here but could not find a good one yet. I am kind of worried today as there is lot of work and travel coming up in the next few days, it is my nature to get worried when something needs to be done. I do make it a point to enjoy afterwords but I think it is not good way to live your life. After completing one task other tasks will come and it is same story again. Some people can really enjoy their life no matter what. People who know my really well know that I am really a lazy person. I don't like to work a lot as well. I don't like to work late. I prefer finishing my work on or before time and then enjoy rest of the time. Of course I like doing work with utmost quality but I could never spend long hours working. Not everything we do as part of your work is fun. You can not always love your work. Sometimes you just need to do work without thinking about enjoying it. I admit that out of 10 things I do. I probably enjoy doing 2 or 3. Rest is either mundane activities which are not fun but still when talking about work we have to measure it based on the value they bring not fun. There are certain tasks which are very boring and you hardly enjoy them but those tasks could be very important for your clients.
Next week I am travelling to Lancaster University in north for work, it will be good to travel to different place. It is good to get out of London sometimes. Looking forward to visit a campus after a long time. It is different feeling when you enter a university. Feeling of freshness. As part of my life plan, at one time I thought I will do PhD and become professor in university doing research and changing the world in real way.
The week following next week I will appear for JIRA Admin certification test. I hate such tests. They are useless and never judge person's intelligence and honestly I am scared that I might fail. If I pass it will be good to add in the profile :) but I am quite honest about it. You don't really need a piece of paper to prove that you are an expert. Lot of people ask me if I am Scrum certified, I am not and don't plan to do it as well.
In the last week of March I will be going to Birmingham to participate in SDI Conference: http://servicedeskinstitute.com/events/sdi17/ It will be good for me to attend such event and hopefully it will bring in more business. We would mainly talking about our company's competencies on JIRA Service Desk and how it can be used to implement ITSM and ITIL processes in JIRA. There will be JIRA Training sessions as well and it is great place to get more leads.
Holi will be played tomorrow in India. As a kid I always wanted to play it with friends. People used to play lot of Holi where we used to live but unfortunately during this time of the year in March it was always our final term exams and as a kid in school I hardly played Holi. I used to promise myself that after my school get over I will start playing it, but when you grow up, you tend to forget about your dreams and get busy in other stuff and start chasing things like others. After school I did not play Holi till I get married. After marriage as per Indian customs I went to my in laws first year to play it and after that I have been going there almost every year. It is fun. I am missing it really today because I am not in Delhi. I actually wanted to visit during this time but due to projects I could not but I am going next month.
This is me in 2015 playing Holi.
I really like the month of March and April. Not because of the spring. Weather wise it is worst time of the year when it starts getting hotter and it is sad to let go your winter wear and you know there is another 9 months of cruel heat in front of you. As a kid post final term exams March is the only time of the year when you have nothing to do in those 10-15 days. At the start of every new session in April we used to get new books, new clothes and I used to promise myself that that year I will study properly, that never happened of course but I realised much later in life that making solid plans is enough to make you feel good. The month of April used to bring lot of hope and it was more than enough. That feeling of hope, optimism is something embedded in my mind and I always relate the month of March and April with similar feeling. In fact I picture the whole year as a calendar in my mind with a grid like the one below.
Jan, Feb, March: Tough days, study, exams, pressure
April, May June: Good days, new session, fun days
July, Aug, Sep: Okish days, exam starts but no pressure
Oct, Nov, Dec: Good days, festivals, better weather
I don't know why I picture the whole year as a group of three months. This is since my childhood and hard coded in my mind. Now I am not in school, it has been almost 20 years now but the feeling associated with each month is still the same in my brain.
I wish all my friends to have fun this Holi. Drink a lot and enjoy. See you soon.
