'Bugnormal' activity

I always like putting some  status on MS lync, the IM tool at my work place.As a tester with a build ready and  loads of test cases to execute against it  ,i wanted to reflect the lync status to my activity so i had a thought for a while came up with 'bugnormal' activity inspired by paranormal activity where one involves in finding existence of ghost, experiencing some horryfying moments in the process.

In contrary to paranormal activity my bugnormal activity is not horryfying to me but to the feature developer where i was uncovering some uncommon observations which are potential defects.

In the end there were indeed some good defects logged in the tracker.I would say every tester involved in bug hunting should go involve  bugnormal activitivy with deep intent to uncover the existance of major flaws and defects in the Application under Test giving chills in spine to the feature developer :-) but in the end its a win-win with developer fixing your defect you uncovered.

My status 'bugnormal' activitity however  went unnoticed  from any of  my co-workers which i anticipated will strike up a good conversation at water cooler but it never happened and it didn't cleared the status till the other day and I totally forgot about that then I got a 'bug normal activity' with a smiley response from my the develpment team lead and that gave me a chance of feeling proud as it was noticed.

News paper ,Peas pulav,Rum and Coke

Sunday morning, woke up late attended morning call, brushed teeth, thinking of having coffee realized no milk :-).Opened the main door a cool Bangalore weather welcomed me .I bent down to pick up the daily news paper and closed the door behind and immediately hid the news paper to avoid my wife reading it which will further delay doing the usual house chores :-) and also there was only less than hour left to attend the Regular Sunday mass.I learnt from my wife that she is not feeling well to come to church then I got ready myself and I realize I have only  fifteen minutes for the Sunday service to start, I picked up the My motor cycle keys, helmet and I started feeling hungry as breakfast wasn't prepared yet at home I headed towards canteen near by had pooris which I see  well be served faster .

By the time I reached church, service was started and after the service I headed to pick up some chicken to be cooked for lunch and on the way stopped at liquor shop to pick up some wine and a McDowell rum with Caribbean twist print ad with Gale holding the rum bottle attracted me.I enquired but couldn't find the 1/4 bottle but took MC regular rum and Sulas rose wine ,some snacks, coke went to chicken shop stood in the line to pickup chicken came home home gave to my wife to cook.



She cooked peas Pulav and chicken for lunch and while lunch is getting prepared I mixed some Rum and coke and had few drink while doing some facebook and thought of keeping some Rum to dinner but I finished for lunch,had Pulav and chicken until its full and with out I realize I was lying on the sofa sleeping and I woke up by my wife's calling me loud that my snoring is interfering her TV watching and demanded me to go to bedroom and sleep :-).I went to bedroom slept for few hours and woke up completely freshed.


Feeling Afternoon lunch still full in my stomach and thinking of having ENO to get the gas out but abandoned the idea :-).I don't want to eat anything tonight but opening that rose wine bottle for a peg is something that is ringing in my mind right now :-)





 

Daily musings 26/01/2013

Quiet Recently  getting more interested in searching(Googling),learning, knowing more and more new things from the web .I get to  know or hear  a new thing from someone or while  reading a book or while watching any movie) and as few sites are blocked by employer   I come home sit on the web and Google for new found things and forget  the gyan I got and this really something I need to tap-in to become a Geek:-).I believe Geeks gather info, think on them, implement in some form or the other.

These Friday evening at work  had few minutes of free time  and I started surfing web  for something that struck my mind and I happen to navigate to this company website which makes and sells products and services around webhosting, innovative chat apps proclaiming they are doing best in the realm they are working. whenever I surf such websites what intrigues me more is their career link section, If  a company claims to produce such a innovating stuff then I would be really interested in what they look in their potential candidates

They have openings for Lead architects,UI designers with added trivia for the candidature qualification, I started googling with this trivia and found a blog by bradcockford who was currently javascript architect with Yahoo! where he mentions about weight loss and an idea to blog the food you eat daily in a blog



Woke up Saturday  morning with Zeal and passion  attended the morning call ,brushed my teeth ,feeling hungry ate five coconut biscuits I picked up the other day and went out to have breakfast. Ate three pooris and four idlis and bought some breakfast for my wife.

I don't have any appointments or any work,visited a barber shop in my locality and had a hair-cut,head massage and neat shave to trim my goatee.







My wife wasn't in a mood to cook lunch so went out got some puffs,cakes,bread toast and had them for lunch and after lunch went to sleep for three hours 

I woke up ,freshened up logged in to Facebook ,had four dosas and ground nut chutney for Dinner .And later got a call from my neighbor Suresh, went to meet him  and we were discussing about his up coming house and as we were having this conversation in front of my house ,we get to see  people ,kids going  with their mom,a teenager with back pack returning home, couple on the motor cyle,couple in a small car,apartment watchman smoking beedi,a self-proclaimed real estate guy said hello and spoke to us on the past deals he made and enquired us on some deals he knows if we are interested, and after he left we a had a short walk in our street  and found few  empty plots, houses, their construction styles and saw a women in her fifties walking  a back and forth in front  of the house as if it looks like either  she I doesn't have time to go on a morning walk or she is realized the importance of exercise and finding time after dinner  and we walked back to the Suresh's apartment and I said goodnight to him and came back to my home a  block away.

Just came home started browsing for a while on python languages and slowly as always, my mind drifted to watch some non sensual  stuff which I try to avoid but this time also am defeated and spent sometime on it and I went to bed switching on the FM radio playing old Hindi songs.