Tuscana - not upto expectations

The plan for this weekend was fixed- After three days of being confined to a room for training, I needed to break out of the routine- Dinner with a friend and her family, followed by a wedding to attend out of town. However, due to exigencies, the dinner never happened - it was my idea to post pone it as my friend was too nice a person to cancel a long awaited dinner - even if she had to struggle to attend it. I was too tired from sitting at home on Saturday and decided against going to the wedding - honestly - waking up at 5 was unthinkable!

 So, on Sunday, I wanted to go out and in the evening, I called up my buds and told them that we had to go out for dinner - the place could be decided later. After a depressing CSK loss, we decided to go to Tuscana - one of the many restaurants on Khader Nawaz Khar Road. 

Valet parking - good.  Immediate seat availability - good. Free wifi - awesome - atleast for Shanky who wanted to watch his football game. Menu - nice and varied.  RHS(the prices) exorbitant - but we ignore it on AJ's “order” . The quantity was abysmal, and the quality average-but then, its been a long time since I had Italian and I quickly scooped up the last piece of pasta from my plate. The environment was aesthetic - what with it being a new place

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Overall; not a place I would visit again. Tuscana (Italian) - expensive and not up to the mark. I would rate it 3/5 - First timers - a definite yes, others - not so much.

And wonder of wonders - Mumbai won the match and gave CSK two attempts at the final - not that they would need the second ;-)

Training (is for jobless people)

Well, I have been wanting to write for a long time. Believe me - there are at least 5 half written posts sitting in my pc waiting to be finished. I just haven’t had the patience to sit on my PC at a stretch and work on them. This time, it is different - I am sitting in a training session and am bored. However, I have my lappy with me and thought that I would make myself productive and here is the result - a post on what I learnt from the training.

This was my first full time training after leaving school and I made the mistake of assuming that I had not changed. Well, I have-big surprise- you would say. I had a hard time sitting through three whole days of it with nothing to do but to listen to one guy talk. Its been a year since I am out of school and already, I am the only person that I want to listen to. Added to this was the fact that the training was sloooooooooooow. I usually do not complain about slowness and consider it as free time given to me, but this time - when he started talking about how functions put data on the stack, about local and global scope and worst of all - when he declared flamboyantly that opening a file in write mode erases all the content - it was too much even for me to accept.

No offence or insult to the instructor though! he was this cool guy with a pony tail who did seem to know his stuff and looked like he had done a lot of these trainings, but was forced to slow his pace because of the audience. The only bright spot was the evening of the second day when he started talking about Objects and privacy. To be honest - the reason, I think , I was happy is because nobody else seemed to understand what I could! Does that make me an arrogant bastard? Well, if I am then, so must be a lost of other people!!

After two and a half days of Python training I learnt two lessons:

a. It is not only the topic or presenter that matter- It is the participants

b. I no longer have the patience to sit in a class and listen - I prefer to learn on my own be it even from a stupid web page

Bottomline: Python - 7, training - 3, trainer - 8, knowledge - 5