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worked full day on Saturdays and sometimes
half day on Sundays.
    Himesh liked
working with Vinay. He was amazed at the speed Vinay picked up things. He was
astonished at the frantic pace Vinay worked. He found himself unable to match
him in any area.
    Himesh
realized Vinay can just outmatch and outpace anyone if it’s anything related to
software work. Himesh was also concerned. He once asked Vinay, “What if we cannot
achieve two hundred TPS?”
    “Don’t worry I
will find some way to do it,” was all Vinay replied.
    “But will it
work?” asked Himesh.
    “It will work,”
said Vinay with full of confidence.
    Himesh
thought, “He is full of energy.”
    He just wished
everyone around him worked like Vinay.
    Each issue,
small or big, they discussed and researched together. They debated different
approaches and finalized ideas and everything was done in a matter of minutes.
They worked synergistically. Himesh pitched in where Vinay lagged behind. And
Vinay would directly work on Himesh’s PC to get him up to his speed.
    Himesh got
stuck a few times as he was also new to Xorbiz, clueless and unable to proceed.
    “I got stuck
here,” he would announce.
    Vinay would
then work on that in Himesh’s PC and helped him to move on while Himesh
continued with Vinay’s work in Vinay’s PC.
    The first
build of EMG gave only twenty five TPS. The other build for SMX yielded forty TPS.
    Murali told
everyone in the team to go to a nearby restaurant for lunch.
    “Let’s have a
team lunch today. We will all go to Three C restaurant,” said Murali.
    Three C was
just around the corner of the main road. It had a buffet lunch and cost two
hundred and fifty rupees a head. It was a five-minute walk from the office. Everyone
met at Three C.
    They went for
the first round with the items laid out in the buffet. They chitchatted for a
while talking about cricket, finance and politics. The talk was mostly between
Murali, Satish and Shanthi.
    Vinay and
Himesh spoke very little.
    “Why it’s
called Three C restaurant?” asked Himesh.
    “It’s for
Chilli Chicken Curry,” said Shanthi.
    Murali said,
“What Vinay, Anna is asking how come another project is getting two hundred TPS
but Vinay is getting only forty TPS?”
    Vinay had
heard that before from Himesh there was another project completed one year back
by another team. They got a TPS of two hundred. But Himesh had said the two projects
cannot be compared.
    “It’s like
comparing Apples with Oranges,” Himesh had said.
    Vinay
remembered Himesh telling him then, “The size of their transactions is very
small. And they have only two types of transactions, a query and an update.
That’s all. Their requirements are very different from what we have here. It’s
bullshit comparing these two projects. The people at the higher level, they
don’t try to understand anything. They just compare numbers. I can write
thousand records to a file and claim I have reached thousand TPS. We can’t
compare because those are very different types of transactions.”
    Vinay replied
to Murali optimistically, “We will try with few different techniques.”
    “You have to
be at the top of things man. This project is crucial for us. We don’t have much
time left. Put more efforts. If we don’t meet at least two hundred TPS we will
lose the project,” said Murali.
    After the
lunch was over, everyone immediately returned to their seats.
    After
sometime, Himesh saw Shanthi carrying a laptop bag.
    Himesh asked,
“Oh you got a laptop.”
    “Ya. Now I can
work from home. I can connect from home for three days a week. I can come to
office for two days a week. I already discussed this with Raghu,” said Shanthi.
    Himesh
thought, “So now you have good reasons to avoid work and run away from work.
How convenient for you”
    Every one
received an email from Satish with subject “Team lunch expenses”. He stated the
lunch expenses total and asked each team member to pay two hundred and fifty
rupees to