If you can run, then you must run. If you can walk, then you should walk. If all you can crawl, then you must crawl. But if all you can do is stand and breathe, then that is what you should do. Just breathe and stay alive. ( My colleague Munesh in IIT Delhi suggested the same when the earlier company was going through a rough patch, thanks Munesh).
And that is exactly what we are doing as a company right now. We are there and we are breathing.
The presentation for the AAI authorities is ready (after a lot of calculations, research and homework). We need to show the same for approval to the client tommorrow. I am very proud of Narendra for having done a good job. We had zero idea of how the guidelines from AAI were to be interpreted and applied in the area of aviation (using GIS) where every decimal place counts. But we did it. It was a challenge for us and I am glad that we are moving towards developing applications of GIS in a new sector (for us) namely ‘aviation’. Just digitization of maps is like working for our daily bread and butter. The challenge for the mind and the value add is always in the applications and I am very happy that GC has entered the world of applications. This was always our topline.
The bank (not again) is breathing down our back (Guys, please let us work. kaam karenge to paisa ayega). The landlord (the lord) of the office wants us out (actually everyone wants us out of their lives, I guess we are too much of a pain). ASAP. As soon as possible. There are lovely office spaces with not so lovely rates. So, I guess we have to settle for what we can afford.
Shivaji took a new number for his mobile and did not share it with me. I guess I bothered him too much with my late night calls. I normally close office around 9:30pm ( I come in late so it is not as if I put in so many hours) and that is when I remember a few tasks (done or undone) and call Shivaji up. I think he got fed up and took a new sim. OK. I felt hurt but got the message. Of all people, Dimpi knew the number and had been given strict instructions to not share it with me ( I was angry with her too). But I guess everyone cannot/will not think of GC 24/7 and I need to remember that. Just that in the last fortnight, it has been an uphill task to have any conversation with Shivaji beyond office hours. So I have now started using the e-mail as a mode of communication. Hope this works.
My father suggested a survey company In Kolkata for the Infrastructure client. In fact, he himself had started one when he was posted there for a long time. It was also then that he developed a relationship with a colleague. The saving grace was that he was honest about it with my mother and us. It did not last and both me and my sister hated him at that time for hurting our mother but in retrospect today, I guess there is no guarantee tag, no permanent security in any relationship. People change, grow in different directions, find better ( from their perspective) partners. It is best to allow people to leave, if they so choose, however painful it might be. The only exception here would be the parent-child relationship.
Appu has also sent me a list of survey companies in Kolkata. But most of them have quoted beyond the clients’ budget. And we were anyway not interested in taking the project due to the payment terms. So we have left it at that.
Cannot see too far ahead as yet. The visibility is very low. Have no idea whether we are heading for a landing or a crash on the runway (or whether we would be able to touch the earth at all). Just thinking of the next 12 hours or maybe the next four hours. And If I can survive those, then maybe I will think of the next four.
Still breathing.
