Ankita's Blog

This funny incident(Thankfully funny..else it could have been a disaster as well...) happened during my early days in IBM ISL..I was working for a product and then I was asked to work on some incubation project with my colleague who is a very senior person and one of those techy geeks in ISL..whom I respect a lot and I always forward to do things as he has been doing..He is just a phenomenal person.(Let me not reveal his identity..let me name him 'ABC' :P )..Well he is my mentor now as well as recently he has joined my team as lead(Feeling fortunate to work again with him..) So the incident goes as follows...It was (as usual)a very sleepy afternoon after having lunch..but cannot help it..had to work because my manager use to sit just a seat after mine and if even used to get up from his seat he can easily see my TP( BTW, TP means IBM ThinkPad..i.e laptop..)So, cannot even open orkut and other TP stuff(TP now means Time Pass :P ) Now, working with 'ABC', was a very good

Well, I remember the college days when I used to spend hours in library and search for biographies and one fine afternoon after a very boring lecture(not to mention which.. :P), fortunaltely, I could grab one...Mr.Vithal Venkatesh Kamat's 'Idli , Orchid and Willpower'. ..The name itself made me restless to complete the book in one day..I was wondering how these three words in the title explain Mr.Vithal's roadmap to success ! and I wanted to know it before I go to the library the next day!..It was a really good book(although the language and size did not fascinate me...) While reading this book, I was wondering if I could visit his hotel(Asia's First Eco-tel) Hotel Orchid, Mumbai ever and the picture created for the hotel by this book.. I had almost reached his hotel (obviously in dreams :P )!! And I was telling myself.."Ankita..come back..not possible to go to Hotel orchid!!" Little did I beleive that 1 fine day I will get an invitation for a conference t