Lunch

We have a new vendor who came in end of last week. He did come earlier but i was away most of the time so i did not have much time to get to know him.

He was alone after the other vendors left and my team mates were either fasting or out to lunch with others, so the task of taking him out for lunch fell virtually on my shoulders. Usually i don't have a problem taking vendors out for lunch but this guy seems rather quiet and shy so i was really predicting a tough lunch conversation but my prediction turned out to be really wrong.

He was so nice and friendly and funny too, we almost never stopped talking. Plus he's extremely knowledgeble, with seven years of experience in Java. I know SAP is all in and all, after all that's what i'm plunging myself into, but i hold special respect for those who work in Java platform. Java takes special mastery.Period.

Furthermore with Canadian-Indian-Jewish parentage, he's absolutely brilliant. I was just sending his laptop for manual network configuration when this girl who does the configuration just said he had done it himself by writing a program for it. Why can't I have brains like that? Huh?

Good thing i went out with him today. Otherwise i would have missed the chance of getting to know another great person. :-)