Jack of all trades, master of none

So, the packing of goods were in full swing. I must say, a cumbersome work! Still I somehow managed to finish that. I had a mid night flight on 23rd Aug. I left 545(the house number I used to dwell) for the airport very early to have reserve time to tackle unforeseen last moment issues. That was my first visit to the new Bangalore Airport. I boarded in a Vayu Vajra(Volvo AC dedicated airport shuttle). And believe me, the journey was so much comfortable. I don't know why people do not use this service often. It's quite economical too compared to other options available. Anyway, as I said earlier I left home quite early, I found none of my team members present at the airport by the time I reached there. Gradually, they started to show up their presence. One by one we had finished all our boarding formalities. Finally, we were on board the Thai flight. Though I had flied a lot of times earlier, this one was my first international flight. Thai Airways, being a luxurious one, lack...

The day I started working in SRA India(Indian arm of Japan's Software Research Associates, Inc ), I never thought that I world become an onsite team member in just one and half years. Because, the branch was very small & it was very illogical for a novice like me to think of an onsite tour that time. But the fact was that they would make you do your work in almost Japanese style. The very first day I started coding in SRA India, I was told that the Japanese were simply put - perfectionists. This simple word had a very large inner meaning. The code that you wrote should be totally bug free, robust, modifiable without introducing regression etc. The first project I was assigned to, it took a hell lot days to prepare only the detailed design(Java Doc) for a very tiny function, every molecular level detail was described on that. But somehow I made myself adjusted to such work environment. My performance was good in my batch. And in one day, one of my managers told me of an onsite a...