A typical day... !!

9.00 am - get up in the morning, realize its late .. blame it on alarm clock !!

10:15 am : reach office, check email in outlook. Hopefully no hot brewing issues which require immediate attention. Then log in to gmail /orkut, see if any interesting emails or scraps.

10:30am : read a bit of lightreading.com ( btw telecom industry news) , yahoo finance, business week, cricinfo and get warmed up, which sets the mood for the day :P

10: 45am - continue working on the code, you left yesterday night.

1:00pm - think of lunch, its canteen down stairs, or working lunch in cubicle or nearby restaurant. all depends on how much work I have. Start thinking why I am stuck in this all- male geeky team. Where are all pretty girls ?? If you are in a kernel developement / embedded systems team, except HR or receptionist you will hardly find any girl in the team :P :(

5:00 pm - realize its evening, make a mental note of how much work left. Soon you will realize there is a build-release 2 days later and you have to check in the code.

6:00pm - you will promise yourself that you are going to finish this in half an hour, then its time for some work out in gym or swimming. You tell yourself, you don't want to be those workoholics and keep working even after 7:00 pm and have no other life.

6:30pm - Oh man.. your build system is broken, and it will take atleast 2 hours more to fix it.

7:00pm - Hungry :O plan is changed now. Go home have dinner, relax for some time. Then work from home over VPN.

7:30pm - have dinner, watch some serial ( Scrubs, seinfiled). Bit of talking with flat mate, usually todays stock market, US elections, world politics !!!

9:00pm - Back to work. Plan to finish this in 2 hours and then watch some nice movie late night. Then suddenly some one pings you in gtalk. I am busy to strike a conversation, so run away. Yet another soul thinks, you are very rude, or not friendly [ what ever depends on who is that person]

12:00 mid night : Finally your code is in some shape and working ( hopefully !! ). Say yourself that its too late for a movie. So let me finish one chapter in the novel I am reading now.

1:00 am - Its time to go bed. You will say, from tomorrow definately I am saving some time for work out, also its been long time I watched an interesting movie. And what the hell, I am in SFO, should hit some nice club this weekend !!!