Sathya's Views..

Life has grown too static these days - too predictable. Thats good in a way but who am I kidding ? It gets me down ! Most of the time at office is spent in devising ways to spend time usefully, create my own challenges.. ah bah ! I think I have a pretty good hang of Hibernate now - and I am bowled over by how well the OO concepts have been mapped to a data model. I wonder whether I have become too much of an OO guy. I am beginning to abhor seeing raw SQL queries in the code. Stored procedures and joins are stuffs which should be discouraged. But then comes the DBA who scoffs at my views and brings out a chart indicating how performance improves with these database components. How do we balance between say performance and the flexibility of a pure OO model ? Its C.Ramchandra's death anniversary tomorrow - I had hoped to create some sort of a tribute page today with songs. But the gym has me tired again and I think I am going to go to bed early. today Maybe tomorrow. But anyway...

Returning home from office is no longer an event I look forward with any great anticipation these days. Mom and Dad managed to locate a gym close to hom, turned a deaf ear to all my pleads, entreaties and cries of mercy and made me join the gym. "You will see a difference in three months" they said. Now the evenings are filled with painful walks on the treadmill, lots of jumping around and what not. I dont know whats the point in reducing weight. Ok - so I am overweight. By a few 30kgs. Ok ! Who was that great soul who said "If God had intended us to touch our toes, he would have placed them higher on our body" ! How true. God decreed me to be fat. Now I spend my evenings opposing His decree. I was well and truly into Rafael Sabatini's "The Romantic Prince" yesterday and couldnt wait to ge back to it. I decided to forego some sleep and read the book through. I rather congragulate myself on having managed to do so. It was a marvellous book - a li...

The second day of the new year has almost passed on. The Sunday passed as did any Sunday in 2004. Years change, people dont. I dont. Just shows that time is relentlessly dynamic while we, in comparison, are terribly static. Had a comparatively early rise at close to 9, as Appa and Amma went out to some temple. I spent the morning watching "Parivaar" - a charming simple 1956 family tale directed by Asit Sen. Why cant they make movies like this any more ? There is such a sense of harmony and pleasure in the film. Then, went with Nandhu Chittapa and Chitti to buy a geyser for the second bathroom. Dad's reservations over buying another geyser had Mom piqued a little - and of course, vice versa. Anyway, as ever, Mom prevailed. The evening passed in a flash - and here I am getting ready for bed. Tomorrow would be my first day at the office in the new year - and I dont expect Infy to be too dynamic !!