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Finally I got the reference letter from NIIT yesterday and immediately despatched all the relevent documents to BBC for the processing of my Work Permit. A big sigh of relief. Things are changing very fast here at BA. Lots of politics involved with my position. Since the day I have told them that I will be leaving once my work permit is sorted out, I can see some kind of unrest everywhere. Or is it because I know I am leaving? Don’t know really. Will find that out anyway, but it looks from discussions with my team leader that NIIT may or may not be asked to replace me. Surprising, but don’t know what the contract they have with BA. Let’s wait and see.

Annanya' Birthday

Ok the birthday party is all over. Yesterday, we had a nice birthday celebration for my daughter, Annanya. She was very happy and exited since the morning, asking time and again, “when is my birthday party….?”. All credit for this nice arrangement (all done at home) goes to my wife Payal. She started working tirelessly from Friday itself and allowed me time with my computer. It was her whole-sole effort and I fully appreciate it. I have uploaded the photographs from the B’day party and you can now see them. A very low number of photographs this time may be attributed to my Cannon camcorder as it controled the show most of the time. Although personally I like pictures more rather than videos.

Today all of us just relaxed a lot and just went out for a short walk in the evening. There was no cooking as well because lots of food was leftover after the party (even after some of the close friends took some of the food). Ofcourse the food was very nice, it was a lot extra and also some of the guests had last minute appologies.

Regarding my employment opprtunity with BBC, I requested a reference letter from my company and they promised to give one. I would have got it then and there by the local Delivery Manager but it was required on a headed paper which are only kept at the company office and not at the client site. HR promised me to send one. I have been waiting…. and it hasn’t arrived yet. I requested a follow up on this with the Delivery Manager and let’s see what happens.

Finally I called up the Group Manager (HR) at my company and directly asked him about my reference letter. He said he istoo busy today to sent it, but promised to despatch it by 1st class mail on Monday (8th).

I applied for a Linux Support position at BDS (Broadcasting Dataservices Ltd), a subsidory of BBC Broadcasting Ltd around a month or so ago. After couple of rounds of interviews/meetings I finally got through. I received my offer letter yesterday and am just waiting to receive my new work permit from UK home office so that I can put my papers.

This is a very happy moment as I haven’t changed the company in last 7 or so years. I joined NIIT Ltd.  on 4th Jan 1999 in the then known as Carrer Education Group, which later became Education & Training Business.  After various roles and groups and divisions I finally landed up in what is now known as NIIT Technologies Ltd., UK.

Today is my daughter’s 4th birthday. I am unhappy that I had to come to office this day, but my wife has taken her to a small gathering in the nearby park and I have promised her a Pizza in her dinner. She likes Pizza a lot.  As it is a working day here in the UK, and I beleive elsewhere in the world as well , we have decided her birthday party to be on Saturday.