Been a while since my last blog. I miss living the old life & miss loosing Priya now. She was one reason, despite of being a designer I never used to call myself a geek but now when even she is out, I am calling myself one. The last fun person is out of my life now.
I took a job here in Lucknow, they are not paying much but the learning & practicing opportunity is a lot here and I can keep myself busy. I am more like what I used to be 2 years back , A geek, working & practicing 24/7, although that will help in career but there is no fun left. I am even having a hard time thinking what to do today as it is Sunday…& I have practiced while working in office this week a lot. Being a geek is bad cos then life becomes settled on the computer only. We eat, sleep & drink Computers….our favorite time pass is looking through tutorials or articles etc.
Hmm…I did excel 2 years back before I started flirting, in my job, career etc. It’s like a trade off, it’s hard to forget the past & move on, & moving on with geekiness isn’t that appealing.
I guess 10 am to 6 pm, I am a geek. Learning while working & after that, at home I can practice C#. Sunday is just another day… I don’t want to be termed as a geek & I will make sure, I am not.
Few days back when in Bangalore, I was looking for an E-Book for Illustrator CS3. I found a CHM file after searching a lot & then only I found that the default CHM Viewer in Windows Vista is still the same one as Windows 2000. On searching online, I found only one CHM Viewer application out there, good enough for what I as a UI Designer & Windows User would want. So I decided to make my own, following the latest trends in designing for Windows Platform.
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Presenting, what I call “Help Manual”. This application is made in simply Winforms but an also be made in WPF. It is simply a CHM & HLP Viewer, nothing else with basic functions that one would want from one such application like zooming the page & still fitting it in the application Window, printing everything using the IE 7’s print view etc. The following mock up was made in Microsoft Blend & edited by Photoshop.
It’s been 10 days I am back to Lucknow & I am already super bored just like 6 months back. It seems it’s quite hard to change one routine, I wake up late here, sleep late here & don’t do much cos right now I haven’t even settled here yet. I don’t have internet at home yet, got a new proper SIM 2 days back only…& got bike repaired.
I have decided to give a time of 4 months to my practice work. I am not even looking at the job openings I am getting now & the next one is going to be in Bangalore only, just that I will have to be good in my work to stick there in this recession period.
The routine is simple. Wake at 6 am, go to gym, come back…take shower, play with Munmun….then sit on Computer as now no one in home will tell me not to work on computer like they used to. Then , work & learn till 5 or 6 pm in the evening, leave home like go out somewhere to some friend’s home for time pass. I have already left junk food & need to get in shape & routine.
