Days of my life!!

Every once in a while, life gives you an opportunity to work on a project that benefits you in more than one way. Sometime last year, I was hit with a similar opportunity. At that point of time it appeared more like a challenge to me which I accepted with a lot of confidence. I worked hard, got a team together and a few months we had a very happy customer who blessed us with a load of praises. However, that wasn't the end of it.  Little did I know then that the person I interfaced with, was also a celebrated author of half a dozen books on Engineering and one fine day he sent me an email saying that he plans to write his last book on Low Power in ASIC design and wants me to review the same for him. I readily jumped to that opportunity and provided my feedback. Things quietened down as the book went into publication and it was only this morning that I received my complimentary copy. It gives you a very different kind of happiness to see your name printed on a boo...

Just yesterday dearest wifey asked me why I hadn't written a blog in a long time and that's when I realized that, forget writing one, I hadn't even logged on to my own blog for almost 6 months!! Well you could say that I wasn't too happy with my own writing. After all I have a phrase stuck in my head, which I have seen scribbled on all my report cards throughout my schooling days which loudly read out - "Can do better!" and I couldn't help applying the same to my writing. But No, that wasn't the case why I hadn't blogged (I am no quitter). In fact, something unprecedented happened to me in the last 6 months that kept me really busy - a phenomenon called voracious reading..... Now, a voracious reader in the real sense reads 3 books a day, but that's not me. For my own liking I read about 6 odd books in 5 months and that itself was like a new record I set.  It started with a sudden urge to read something on airplanes and science and...