weekend..

This weekend is coming to an end finally;one where I had to stay indoors all through the Saturday and Sunday because it has been raining cats and dogs and no respite still!!

I was so frustrated when i received this call from my team member on Friday at 2100 hours asking me how to implement something in ASP/Javascript and asked if she could work on Saturday and complete that. It was her wish;why would i need to be informed about that??!!. i told her i couldn't be of any help unless i had access to the code and asked her to send it across. Told her that we could work on Monday.. and the thing that i most feared came true..she sent the ASP file as a .Txt attachment..ammaaaaaaaaaaa...(i just hate when people do this..there is an extension for each file and an application to open each file type..then why do these freshers find it interesting to send across code files as .txt files..)

i know we are running on a tight deadline but still i had my limits. i was already feeling bad that i couldn't go home even though i started from Office at1700 hours because of what else but rains.
then this useless exception comes up for a build that is to be installed only the week after this and i've got to fix that ASAP (all these acronyms people invent to save time are useless when they have to explain what it means to someone who isn't acquainted with this stuff. Work twice over...Why don't they just say 'at the earliest' or 'as soon as possible'?? !!!)..this 'investigation' went on until 0100AM and was fixed and i started watching 'Pudupettai (Survival of the fittest)'..

I couldn't keep awake beyond 0300 and dozed off midway through the movie..completed it on Sunday and what do i tell about that??? it is one of those movies that creates great hypes and manages to fail perfectly on all fronts..hmm..can't call that though. the music and BGM were fantastic..found BGM in a lot of scenes to be inspired by the 'Godfather theme'.. it was like one of those computer games where your objective is to bash whoever comes in the way just for the heck of it..blood and gore in abundance throughout the movie...probably the director this would more than make up for the lost storyline..the picturization was excellent..(though the quality of playback from the DVD that i had was not too good)...to top it all the hero doesn't fit the movie's tagline even infinitesimally!!!

Then came the weekend's most comical part. I had copied this movie 'V for Vendetta' couple of months back and clicked on the the file that said 'AVSEQ1.dat' and watched it to the full 50 minutes. i was surprised to see that the title slide came in the end...i had a preconceived notion that the Wachowski's brothers (of the 'Matrix' trilogy fame) movies are complex but this came a cropper..i had no idea as to the head and tail of the movie...something struck me..were the files named incorrectly???..i clicked on the file 'AVSEQ4.dat' and voila!!!here comes the Warner Bros music...hmm...completed watching the first 75 minutes of the movie!!!i could see a lot of semblances between 'V' and our own Samurai, Indian , Citizen...I've got no idea as to which of these movies sparked off the idea..but the dialogues were a class apart...real good ones...the movie also gave me something to search on wiki - 'The Gunpowder treason' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot)

not to mention great home made meals on both the days.!! a weekend to remember..??!!