Yes, I know - it’s been a long time. I’m sitting here, at home, on a Saturday evening after a long week of 12+ hour work days, and I’m sick with a cold/flu. It’s a warm (ok, hot!) 91°F/33°C outside in NYC, but I can’t go play volleyball (like I usually do on weekends) because my limbs literally refuse to move right now. So I figured there couldn’t possibly be a better time to login to WordPress and post a long-overdue update…

The most significant bit of news - my brother officially got engaged on May 25th in California! I took a week off from work to fly there and spend some time with the family. He will be moving there in August to start a post-doc at Stanford, and his fiancé works at IBM in San Jose, so it works out perfectly for them. The marriage is scheduled for December 25th in India, and I’ll be making a trip back there after nearly 5 years!

Work has been keeping me busy. In fact, I hear that June happens to be one of the craziest months every year for our team. We’ve been working on a major re-architecture of our application during the last couple of months, and we’re now just days away from wrapping it up and pushing it into production. I’ve also been spending quite a bit of time on the trading floor and learning more about the business side.

Apart from that, the fun goes on during weekends. It didn’t take 10 months of living in NYC for me to realize that it’s easily one of the best cities to be in, but now I simply can’t be convinced to believe anything else!

I’m playing around with a few ideas that might help me to keep more frequent updates coming in the future; let’s see how that works out. Hoping it doesn’t have to come down to another flu next time. :)

Tags: life, work