Sugar Candy trekker

I went to sinhagad this sunday , along with me were 3 youngsters who had sugar candies with them.

They also booked a ticket for sinhagad base.
Unfortunately the road from donje phata to atkarwadi is being repaired so the bus dropped everyone at donje phata.

I took a rickshaw via an alternate route to the base.
I started my trek from base , as i approached the top i was surprised to see the sugar candy sellers climbing. They were fast and soon over took me. I enquired with them and it seems they walked all the way from donje phata to atkarwadi.
I was shocked to know that , these three guys did a bus journey , walked a 3 km  road and then trekked up the fort only to sell some 100 candies.

Do people need to really work so hard to make a living ??

Afraid to checkin the code

Since last week I have been working on improvements in a login feature.
I have crashed this feature so many times in the past one month , now I am scared to make any further changes.

I realise that management has a very high level of intolerance for crash in software. They are ok if you deliver one line of code with 20 bugs. But 200 lines of quality code with 2 crashes will make them shiver.

I think learning functional testing is more important and more difficult than learning to code.
If I can write very good functional tests I would never be scared that my code is not working.
This is the next level of programming that I want to achieve now.
I have seen this level in senior programmers of Avaya, for every feature they write they create automation tests which ensure that their feature works as expected.

Life is monotonous

Been to rupin pass in Himalayas recently ..
In Himalayas life was different everyday .. We had different weather different terrain and new challenges

Back in the plains life is similar almost everyday , I meet the same people do almost same work ,

Need some change ... Life is so boring !!

Mandar, Modak and the fast changing world

Yesterday I had a chance to have dinner with one of my friends Mandar.

He seems to be a guy who loves to eat.

He mentioned about the modak feast in ganesh festival.

Maharashtrian brahmins have a ritual to cook modak's in ganesh festival.

I have grown up to associate food with indian festivals.

Food is a way for our parents to convey their love and caring for us.

However I feel that in our generation and in future generations this wont be the case.

We are so busy running behind money that we don't have time for cooking ..

Food is something to be get done with and fast ...
So kellogs wheat flakes replaces the wheat roti and oats replaces the delicious upma...

We earn to make money so that we can eat good food.. but somehow our greed for earning becomes so large that we don't have time for cooking good food.

I feel lucky to be part of generation where I received lots of nutrition from my mom

Will our kids get to enjoy home made modak's like mandar did ?

May be they will eat McDonalds burgers on Ganesh ...

Connection through food

Its strange how we connect to people even without meeting them.

I share the lunch time with Preeti Mahadik. Her mom is a great cook, specially her Shankar pali and sabu Dana khicdi are awesome.

I have never met her but still there is a connection to her through the food which she makes.

New Family in Pune

New family in Pune.

Recently I was diagnosed with dengue, I needed to be hospitalized.
At the same time my mother-in-law had a pain in her knees. She was advised to take rest.

Even though she herself was in pain, she took great care of me.
Together my father in law and mother in law , arranged my breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner.
They took care that I was not left alone even for a minute.
Mama would come to hospital at seven thirty in morning with tea and juice.
Many days he skipped his work to take care of me.

Not only mama and mami but Akka and Maai helped a lot.
I am lucky to have a family in Pune which cares so much for me.

Hindu religion does not stop evil

Religion is supposed to be a way of life.
It is supposed to take human beings to a higher good.

However religion I feel has not been successful in creating a fear in the minds of evil.
Hindu religion says that if you do good deeds you will be born as a human in next life.
However there is no proof for this theory.
Whatever your bad deeds are, you are going to pay for them in the next life. 
This doesn't in anyway create a fear of consequences in the minds of evil.

Also religion says there will be one god who will fight against evil.
Therefore people themselves don't take any action.
They wait for the supreme to solve their problems.
I feel that only way for us to stop the evil is that all good needs to come together.
Unless the good come together evil will always succeed.