Weekend in India

I send many greetings from India again!
It is Monday and that is why I am going to write something about the weekend
- my weekend and typical Indian weekend.

In India, the length of a weekend varies week by week. Each second weekend
Saturday is work day, so the weekend is only one-day - Sunday. Most Indians
here lives apart from their families, but distances in India are much bigger
than those in Europe. So they are not used to go to visit their parents or
relatives every weekend; the common interval is once per one or two months.
Usually, they stay in their homes here in the place of their work and do
some sports - or - spend time with their families if it lives in the same
place too. It is also good time for weddings, but wedding of wealthier
citizens usually last from two to three days. Therefore it is better to do
it during the two-day weekend. Yesterday in our hotel there was a small
wedding which we saw (some of us joined, too - but not me).

Last weekend it was two-day weekend, but we worked on Saturday too.
Therefore our only free day was yesterday. We have been to the Pithalkora
caves about 70 km far away from Aurangabad. I have to say that in the Czech
Republic we have very very very good roads - especially after this trip.
Last 10 km we had to go very slow not to harm the car a lot so it took
around one hour. It was very hot weather and nobody was inside the caves
except for us. More, the caves were nothing special in comparison to Ajanta
and Ellora. On our way back, we stopped in Ellora once again and went to
some other caves we had not visited during the previous visit. Those caves
were amazing, it is really unbelievable how the people did such a big rooms
- everything from one piece of stone (rock) - just by cutting into the rock.

In the past, India had to be really wonderful country. Now, it is really
fast developing, but it needs to be developed still a lot :-)

Greeting from Aurangabad (again)

I send greetings from India again. We have a lot of work, that’s why I did not have a time to write here earlier. Tomorrow, here will be nonworking Saturday, but we will have to come to work too. It is getting a little bit tough…

I have to do something for the Controlling to be approved in the written form on Monday and I have to do some other tests and development in the system, too. The big problem we have again is the Indian taxes. The main problem is that it seems to me that nobody from India fully understand the issue. SAP says that they developed everything to cover legal requirements, but it is at variance with SAIPL’s requirements. The worst thing is that we had to perform integration tests, which have to be done just before the productive go live, in the moment when everything is clear, and it is no time to have such discussions. I am really curious about the results of our visit – I just hope it will not be extended :-)

Last evenings (or nights) we used to go to restaurants to have a dinner, but today I do not plan to do it so as I am really tired and want to have a rest. When having a dinner, we come to the hotel around the midnight, then at 8 AM we have a breakfast and immediately after it we go to work. So… a little bit busy :-)

I have to go on with the work now, have a good night (or afternoon in Europe), I will write on Sunday again I suppose.

Going to India again

Right now, I am sitting in the plane heading for Indian Mumbai, or, in English, Bombay. We have taken off from Zurich at about 11 AM and this flight will end in about 5 hours. That means that we have spent more than three our on board right now. It is very hard to get concentrate here, because every time you are on a pretty good way to have a sleep, the cabin crew comes and brings you something for eat or for drink. I am full of it right now as I had three breakfasts and one large lunch today. Right now, we are crossing Turkey-Iraqis border and someone may be a little bit afraid of that air space. But I do not suppose something to happen… We are flying Swiss and I have to say, it is the best of the flight companies I have tried. It is not so strong word, because I have tried only three flight companies only. :-)

This time, we are going to be in India for two weeks only and the main goal of our trip is to make integration tests and data migration tests. I am really curious about it because we did the setting for Indian taxes to the last moment on Friday. We implemented last SAP patches for the system to be in the best condition :-) I am sure we have done what we could and now I am really curious about the results of the upcoming testing. OK, enough of work, it is a little bit boring for all readers I am sure.

On Sunday, I have made some changes on my historical web pages – www.dejepis.com. I have added a map of Schlieffen’s plan, which consists of four stages in the WW I chapter. I strongly feel it has to be done something with the pages – wait a minute, I have to fasten my seatbelt as some turbulences occur… It has to be reviewed, revised, I should add more pictures, maps, tables, more visualization, more interactivity, but… I have so little time. One good thing about having a work is that you have a source of money. It is no problem, but… the other one is that you do not have any time. I cannot imagine to have a family – how does the people do it?
I am looking forward to the finish of this project, because I believe I will have more time. I have my own projects I have to work on – and I want to work on them. I am still webmaster of Christian pages at www.3pe.cz, and I want to improve them as well. The Indian project is supposed to be finished in July, which is only two months, and really, I am looking forward to it… :-)

OK, enough of complaints… I am going to think about something, start some development or do something; I have about three more hours of capacity of this laptop’s battery.

Have a nice day!