Sailesh's blog

I have finally decided to join the blogsphere and publish my thoughts to the world.. Lets see if anyone is listening..

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Nandini and Keshav at Singapore

On my way over to India, I had a stopover in Singapore. I went over to my friend (Asan classmate) Sanjay's place. Sanjay left the day before to India so I met Nandini and played with Keshav. I also promised Keshav that the next time I would fit in a nice chess board in my cabin bags but this time he would have to do with ghirardelli's chocolates.

This break in singapore is nice both because you meet friends and you get a chance to stretch out and take a shower become human after the 13 + 4 hour trip from SFO to SIN via Hongkong. When will they invent a better means of travel? I am quite sure we have the technology to reconfigure today's aircraft to carry the same number of passengers in greater comfort. However I guess such a redesign might be too costly? Dont know... but I dont think I can stand these long flights

Friday, February 24, 2006

3 weeks at Kosmix

The first three weeks at Kosmix have been wonderful. The people are great and environment is quite easy. I am so glad to be finally in an environment where things happen as fast as you want them to happen either because you can walk over to the person responsible or if no one is, then you can do it yourself!

It also so cool that just within these 3 weeks I was able to contribute something useful to the company! I am also learning a lot about web applications and the truism of using the internet as your lab. Put a feature out there and the world will till you whether it works and how you can modify it to make it useful.

Now I am off to India for 2.5 weeks for a quick vacation before I get back into the swing of things at work.