Too slow ... but still ... Welcome Philip !

Our reporter was completely taken by surprise ...

So were all the other whitefaces ...

And yet, all other Colruyt India staff (low to high) had been hinting at it all morning (Big Boss is coming, Big Boss is coming, ...).

So when Big Boss Philip (for once - I hope - he'll forgive me for saying that) finally entered, he walked through an honor-guard of CI'ers, covering both sides of the entrance. If anyone took pictures of it ... please forward them. After my tongue was back in my mouth (it dropped straight to the floor at the sight) I had missed the moment. All I got was this picture of yet another sign that a special "star" was expected :

After all that this must sound a little flat, but ... Welcome in Colruyt India Philip !

Milestone

This morning the Colruyt India SysAdmin team received a couple of start-notes with some PL/I batch catals (compilation for the production environment) to be done today, Wednesday and Friday. Nothing new, nothing major, we've been doing that for weeks.

However, some of the Colruyt India PL/I developers became very interested ... as it were "their" programs that will receive the SysAdmin attention. The circle is slowly closing.

Nice work, all of you !

Front Office ?

Our reporter is rather long-legged and clumsy and almost stumbled over the following ...

In a rare flash of understanding, he thought : "This is the front of our office, the two girls on the left - Mythri and Devika - are our front office girls ... so this is our front office at work with the help of Lakshmi (on the right)"

Wrong ... :-)

Actually this is called "Muggu" (or Rangoli or Kolam), the art of making images with sand (or in this case flowerpetals). The result was very nice

The meaning ? Enhancing the beauty of the surroundings and spreading joy and happiness all around. More information can be found here.

Swimming in the pool ...

Google Earth does not update that frequently and until recently the Pioneer Tower was not on it yet. But now it is and does that look like a swimming pool on top of it ? YES it does !



For those interested, the pin is at Latitude 17°26'11.33"N and Longitude 78°22'56.59"E. You do not need Google Earth to "see" this, the Cyberabad Times Map has the same information (see the links at the bottom of the page).

P.S. For those that want to know it all, Casa Colruyt is at Latitude 17°25'4.96"N and Longitude 78°25'58.17"E.