My old macbook was giving some trivial problems from past few weeks. The problems were like:

Some keys were pressed multiple times by one press. This caused major issue. Example: I was pressing single key to close browser tab. It closed multiple tabs.

Once in a month types, laptop shutdown without warning

Although, everything was working fine. Those were not the issues for which I personally buy a new laptop. But, the problems were really frustrating me sometimes.

Piyush(My manager) posted in our group, whether someone in need to replace their old out of warranty machines or problematic hardware.

I raised a service desk request for my laptop issues after that. The support guy straight away told me that your laptop was out of warranty, and I suggest you to raise request for new hardware. I conveyed same to Piyush. And, it got approved within few minutes. I was like, WOW.

And, would you believe, in evening, I got a call that they want to deliver the laptop to my home. I could not believe. I mean, such a ffast service.

Next day, 12:30 PM, I got the laptop in my hands. Thanks Adobe.

Got my new Macbook from Office

It was my quarterly feedback from Suman. We had a 1:1 meeting. I was not expecting good words from her, some intuitions.

You are doing good, infact very good. You have taken the ownership. You know whom to talk, how to talk, whom to involve. You are fetching people contact outside team as well. Thats good.

You are handling Shriya, Parag with nno conflicts. Thats good. 

You are asking people to take care of work, be it Parag or Mudit. 

You are looking after bigger picture of project. You are deciding which tech stack to choose, which LB, DB, infra, git etc.

You are doing good code reviews, there are always some comments. And, people are doing those changes.

You have prepared very nice document, that contained details. We normally doesn't do documents.

You have taken ownership of USB data validation, thats good. You are doing it with good responsibility.

1. Help us to kickstart the project. First cut of project. First cut is difficult, then team will handle. After that, you might be involved in other project.

2. Make an impact on external world, like write blog on security, ticketing, think of patents, think of new technologies, think of doing security belts etc.

3. Ensure team follows best practices, like PR review, branches standardization, PR templates, deployment workflow etc.

I was not expecting lot of good words. But, it was lot more than expectation.

I got quarterly Feedback - Checkin with Suman

Daksh had to speak on one of the Nobel Prize winners. We choose Albert Einstein.

Albert was a mathematician and physicist.

He won Nobel prize in 1921 and won the Copley Medal in 1925.

He won Nobel price for his explanation of Photo-electric effect.

I chose him because he was very smart in Maths and Physics.

Albert Einstein was born in March 14, 1879, Germany.

He faced lot of trouble in his childhood financially.

He also loved  to play classical music and violin.

After his death, doctors removed his brain for study.

They found that the area which is responsible for 3d visualization and mathematics was 15% wider than people who have normal intelligence.

Daksh's preparation for Nobel Prize Winner - Albert Einstein

Kanika's been requesting to take a leave from office so that we can goto market to explore few things for our flat. I agreed to take first half.

We went to Sec-18 market, and a showroom for Hop/Chimney. Those were good. I always wonder in using latest things vs old working things. Our 10-year-old Gas hop is still working super fine. But, we have to replace it according to new things :)

We were roaming in Sec-18 market, we went to a book shop. Who sells duplicate books. My interest in books is increasing these days. I bought 2 books:

I asked the book shop owner, don't you afraid of selling duplicate books in a well-established market. He said no.

Kanika had told mom to prepare rice if we came late. We went to our new flat while returning. We reached home in time. Kanika prepared food. She is a super expert in these things. I admire her for this. She never shy away from doing work, even after coming from outside.

In the evening, my parents had to return to their hometown.

Tour to market, Kanika request and bought 2 books

My parents were here for a quick visit. They stayed here for around 10 days. They went back today.

They booked a bla-bla car, which is really a fantastic service. He was so confused on picking up which timing. I had to leave my running meeting in the middle to drop them. But, its ok.

Papa badly wanted both the kids to drop them. The time for the car was: 5:20 PM. Bhavika was sleeping. Papa went in the room and said something to Bhavika to which she wake up. But she slept soon.

So, when we were standing in front of the lift, I was almost iside the lift. I heared Bhavika's cry. I went inside, and took her with us as well. Papa was happy. Kanika was not :)

So, we reached there, and dropped them. Bhavika started crying, seeing her grand parents were going. All right. Bhavika cried 3-4 times while returning as well. She said cutely: "My Amma, My Baba ji".

I asked Daksh, aren't you feeling sad. He said, OK-OK. He never expressed himself. He really loves their company. Last. time, he cried badly. I haven't seen him lately cried for someone.

Parents went back. Overall a nice memory

Although, its not a good title. But, i"m really pissed off with Ankit. I'm already not a big fan of his lateness.

So, it started with a website work that he wanted. I brought Abhinav in between and let them work. Its been more than 2 months now. Abhinav is also doing stupid work by not completing a small website. 

Its me, who is bringing both of them on meeting. Its me who is telling to give Abhinav a Demo to them. They never come on time in meetings, they are not giving their social pages. They are not giving him their actual images that they want to use. They gave few images, that after repeatitive messages from me.

Its me, who bought their domain name, I purchased their web-hosting.

I did setup our last meeting to bring everybody on same page. Nobody came in that meeting, I was so angry with both of them. Actually, three of them. Shivam was also invited. 

I dropped a message on whatsapp, anybody coming? Abhinav responded 20 mins later. I was already exited the meeting. I did not reply. I had made my plan not to involve in any of their work.

Shivam called me, and said he was in some office work. I just said, you guys see yourself now.

I tried calling him few days back. His phone was busy. I expected that he will call me. But he did not. Wow.

Yesterday, I called him again. He picked up the call and said, I will cal you back. And, he did not.

I was in so much anger and pissed off. I will not call him and straight away going to tell him that you manage your work.

Being a close relative, it was their duty to call me back when they promised. Its actually an insult.

He called next day, at around 10. I did not pick his call. I thought of calling him next day. He called on Kanika's phone. 

He started by saying he came late from shop and his health was not good. So he couldn't call. I just said ok. He talked about somethings, I was just not interested in his talking. I just said ok, formality kind of. I wanted to make him realize that people do feel bad.

Pissed-off with Ankit

Well over the years, I learnt some Rules. One of the rule is that you should never hire your relatives for any kind of work. Your relationship will never be the same after that work. There will always be some hiccups. Neither you or they will be able to communicate their unhappiness over work, if you do, it will be a disaster.

Jija ji did purchased a plot in YNR, and building a new house. They called Kanika and asked her to make a raw drawing for their plot. To give them a plan of rooms architecture, and given their requirements. 

Now, being in relationship, its difficult to refuse them. People should understand this.

I hope when someday Mannu read this, he will not take this in bad way.

I mean, Kanika was not doing any professional work because of her busy life, kids and all. And, she was also super busy these days in our flat and Ankit work. They know that we are also building a flat. And, Kanika is super busy there.

She prepared few designs and their response was also super quick.

The bad thing is, in those days, Bhavika and Kanika was having birthday. And, nobody called them in that day. It was a really-really bad way. I did not like it at all. Read this  for more details.

Later they told, that they are hiring a local architect as he can visit the plot as well. So its all good.

Now, few days back, they called again. And straight away said, Kanika you have to do our interior work. Kanika was again stressed. Again, our work is going in full swing and she is busy. And, she can not refuse them as they are our relative. We were out, so she told them that she will call them later.

She called them, and looks like everybody was busy. She talked to Didi and she told that Mannu will call you. And, the call did not even after 3 days. Kanika has a reason to be angry with me. 

The thing is, we try very hard that nobody would feel bad, by responding as quickly as possible, but nobody gives heed to us.

Mannu called Kanika about Interior Work

17th July 2021, was the birthday of Bhavika. We received calls from our houses, Bhai, Kaku. But not from our respected Didi and Mannu.

And, on 19th July, it wsa Kanika's birthday. And, now Kaku also not called.

I felt so bad about this. I'm the guy who is calling everybody, literally everybody be it a 1 year old kid or an adult. After my marriage, I also forced Kanika to call each one of them.

And now, nobody called. I really felt bad and was in anger. I felt bad as not even Mannu called.

And, on top of it, there was some work that Kanika was doing for our Didi (Mannu's house), and they were in constant touch. The really bad thing is, Didi called on 18th July, stating that they were very busy yesterday and couldn't call on Bhavika's b'day. And, straight away discussed about the work. And, they did not call on next day as well (Kanika's bday)

It was a super mean thing by them. How would they feel, if I will not call them. Obviously they will feel bad. I wanted to tell Mannu straight away, but did not. As, I turns rude sometimes and it might hamper our relationship. Mannu also visited our house after few days, but I did not mentioned anything.

That day, they lost a little respect from my side.