Sunday, August 05, 2007

My first business trip

When i was asked to go to Dublin I had no idea that it was such a small place which doesn't even have a airport. Some people said that it was named as such cause Irish people inhabit this place in great numbers and were so homesick that they decided to have their own Ireland right here and named it as Dublin after the Irish capital Dublin.the place is good, quiet and beautiful. It will surely help those who have a nervous breakdown to get back to their senses. But it sure is a lovely place for those who love nature.Haven't seen such narrow roads anywhere, just two lanes which just enables the cars to pass by without scratching each other. Of course its a different matter that the traffic is so less that the possibility of such occurrences is eventually very less.The main purpose of coming here was the work, we were pushed to Dublin myself in two days notice with the expectation that we will perform something close to miracles. The best solution for passing system test cases was to have all the developers, testers, analysts and everyone else in one big room .Such a big crazy room with wires all over(as most of didn't have wireless laptops), people shouting at each other, collecting status every half hour, escalating for every defect and staring at their monitor. Some people simply stared at their monitor as they had nothing better to do but they definitely had to perform some magic.Even the lunch was served here as we will loose some precious hours if we even step out of the room. But the whole team, representatives of the swat call actually went out for a team treat twice!!!! celebrating future success(borrowed this term from one of the leaders of the swat call).After about four days in this room, i am now trying hard to collect back my senses from whatever is left behind, preventing myself from breaking down and counting days for my flight back to Denver.Of course I do have a refuge even in Dublin, I actually started liking my hotel room as it was so peaceful except for the continuous hum of the AC. The sad part is in order to pursue my commitments I ended up going to the hotel room just to give some rest to my tired brain which was expected to do wonders but practically didn't have much to do.The best part of this trip is that I like Denver even more.

P.S. no offence meant for Dublin. wrote this to test the my abilities when the pen touches paper. (In today's world when the fingers touch the keyboard)