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It’s been raining

July 31st, 2006

It’s been raining often now, it’s a different thing that sometimes it’s tears and sometimes it’s actually rain coming down from the sky……………
Last week was bad(may be that’s not the word I should use) but yes it was different.I just felt wanted and unwanted at the same time…………
It all started with the firang ops manager walking away with our chairs from the admin area where finance, HR and admin people sit.He even took away 2 mouse and a keyboard to be used on the floor for the new campaign.Imagine when u reach office with the agenda packed for the day and U find that ur chairs are missing and kept there are the chairs which are either broken or they have some or the other problem or lets say they are healthy but u can’t sit on them ‘cos u have sitting on one particular chair for more than 365 days……………ok fine i did not lose the temper(I am a good girl after all, i fail to understand as to will what time I can be a good girl), anyways i just kept the bag there and walked upto the balcony of the first floor and posted myself there and waited for Sir to arrive and our Program Support Manager(PSM) who happens to be a good friend of mine.When he came he was more or less shocked that I am standing out and whiling away my time and when he walked up to me, he seemed more or less to be prepared for an outburst………well I simply told me that I want a day off cos we do not have chairs to sit
He spoke to Sir and he called us and spoke to us and asked me to raise the internal PO immediately for the keyboards and mouses to be purchased on urgent basis.I did that when I went to him for the sign, he asked me to sit.I sat and then spoke - “I know divya what happened in the morning was not correct.But let me share with u, not that I have something against u but as a kid….whatever has happened today will going to increase in coming days.Also, they are speaking to others and in a months’ time they might even wind up”…………….I lost it.I knew it was coming but I thought I will control myself and then I broke down.I simply said -”Sir, I gave this organization my more than 365 days and at the end of the day I have to go thru this humiliation, why? I will resign, u tell me the TAT that u require for my replacement and I will walk away.”
Poor chap, he underwent a shock at the outburst and he had to get and pat my head and bring the tissue paper(of course I had to blow my nose after that cry!!!!!)……..anyways the news reached the external consultant all cos of my junior that I have resigned.From him the news reached to the GM world another firang and then the news reached to the Director in Australia and everyone seemed to be after my life.

All of sudden it seemed that I am loved by one and all and every nook and corner is in need of me…………hell broke loose and i got a call from external consultant, the PSM took his chance and he had a long chat with me and he convinced me that we are together in this.Then Director called me from Australia………….and then we went for breakfast all oof us……….and had a good laughing riot created in the canteen.Well I continued working.Then came in the turn of GM world who is in India(his wife is ready to divorce him cos he visits India often!!!!!!!)and it seemed that we indulge into conversations often cos he seemed to enjoy a lot and kept on laughing and agreeing to all what i had to say…………bl***y, i had to skip the lunch too………..oh yes I had some good time outside the office on that day.It rained outside and it rained inside  as well.

Me and PSM went hopping from bank to bank to do our work and office work and came back with garma garam pakodas…………that was the most wonderful thing happened that day………..Sitting there next to PSM it was like oh my God!!!!! Hey Ash or was it Vidhya (can’t recall) something about ogling at the nice looking chap.well he sits just next to me and i don’t even have to ogle at him, just turn around and he will start talking at once.And thankfully in his own words he had admitted one day that he is attached to me more than anyone in this office even more than sir.That was when one day I did not speak to him cos he was leg pulling again and again……….and he said I exploited him by not talking to him

Good for me………..heeeeeeeee heeeeeee……….ok back to the resignation.GM world is up in arms - he will fix up things for me for sure.He appointed me so he will not let me go(I never knew that I gave him copyrights of mine), Director says - accept her resignation and ask her to give 12 months’ notice………..what nonsense……….so far the work is going on with me almost converted to the personal assisstant to the GM world………..i even book his ticket and he says that now i am in loop so in any case we will not forget………thank God he has yet to lose that pen which i issued him two weeks back……….never mind he is good looking and when he smiles he is one sweet bloke and he is more than 40 and he is a CPA!!!!!!!

So far yahin tak………….will continue later, got to go…………

How to identify places in India………..

July 28th, 2006

I found this funny, i am not sure if others will appreciate this but my Asstt. HR Manager sent me this and we had some good laugh over this………..I assume that others will also find this funny………….hey but some part is true…………..



—–HOW TO IDENTIFY PLACES IN INDIA


Scenario 1
Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along, then a fourth and they start arguing a bout who’s right.

You are in Kolkata!!

Scenario 2
Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along, sees them and walks on.

That’s Mumbai.

Scenario 3
Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes along &tries to make peace. The first two get together &beat him up.

That’s Delhi.

Scenario 4
Two guys are fighting. A crowd gathers to watch. A guy comes along and quietly opens a chai-stall.

That’s Ahmedabad.

Scenario 5
Two guys are fighting and a third guy comes he writes a software program to stop the fight. But the fight doesn’t stop b’cos of a bug in the program.

Of course that’s Bangalore!

Scenario 6
Two guys are fighting. A crowd gathers to watch. A guy comes along and quietly says that “AMMA” doesn’t like all this nonsense. Peace comes in.

That’s Chennai.

Scenario 7
Two guys are fighting. Both of them take time out and call their friends on mobile. Now 50 guys are fighting.

You are DEFINITELY IN HARYANA

Scenario 8
Two guys are fighting and the third, fourth, fifth one joins in. Finally two political parties are fighting.

You are DEFINITELY IN BIHAR

What say????????????????

Gapshap

July 25th, 2006

So here I am back to blogging once more. I made sure today that in any case I will end up posting something, I still do not know as to what do I plan to post.May be another tit bits, or just catching up or simply put what’s been happening around in life.The last post was on 12.07.06, and I simply managed that post in 15 minutes.
I managed to catch on the latest posts of almost every one on iland but then no time management so did not comment on the same. Some were really good some were overhead transmission………….
Over this period, thoughts came and they went by and I kep on thinking that yes yes I will post them and ultimately it happened I didn’t post them. Buttoday when I entered, I just realised that there is not too much of workpressure so I can catch up on iland with myself.………what did i do in last few days. Yeah lot of work but apart from that I did was laze around, catching up with people, reading the novels etc.Now now how did i manage to do all this, even i am surprised but yes i did all this………..

This saturday sunday was sepent in Gurgaon itself beacuse the roads leading to ghaziabad were closed due to kanwars. So I did not take any risk of losing myself on the roads I just told my mum that i am not coming, she said fine she will come along with dad as he was coming to meet a friend of his in Gurgaon.I said cool, no probs.
So they came…………….The week was hectic as usual, pacing up and down, fighting with the firangs, asking for approvals from Australia.Sometimes I wonder if I will have to ask for approval even for putting down my resignation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why so? The reason is that they come looking for me even if they misplaced the charger of nokia, hell !!!!!!! The other day my firang GM walked up to me and asked if he has seen the charger which he had kept in the room…………..and i was looking at him with my eyes popping out- what????? I said no but now i will look out for u………..and there i was asking motu guard if he managed to lay his hands on his charger……………and then the again he came with a crooked look on his face and stood there hanging on the cabin……….I turned around and asked yes what it is he i looking at or looking for.Then he smiled - I have lost my pen. I felt like saying - U bas***d, go and lose urself in the streets of India, duffer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!……………and then there i was issuing him a pen from the stock.
He keeps losing and bloody he lost his cell phone too and on top of that he did not inform us. Finally when we got to know and the reason was asked as to why he did not tell us - “Its ok mate.Anyways its was an old cellphone.”

Oh God! if it was so very dispensable then why not give it for charity……….then the people in Australia will again shout on us when we buy them new handsets………..Jesus what is that they want us to……….dance to their tunes, well well we are almost doing this.Never mind that, I have actually decided that before I leave this company, i make sure that I make some concrete changes so I am as such ok with all this shit coming to us……………Why can’t they make less noise while calling I fail to understand.Now there are so many people standing on my head - issue in consideration - why do we have so high attrition rate?????? We will never be able to guess that till the time we can do away with the old firang who is our ops manager.Seriously me and my friend think of giving the denting penting of this fellow……….by the time he is ok we will give him the next dose.
Infact the other day we were so pissed off that we decided ki uske coat mein khujli wala powder hi daal dete hain or else inject some julab in the water can which he takes to his home…………………bloody firangi. I just fail to understand as to what is special about him that the higher management cannot do away with him………………..never mind, we will have our own one day.
Hmmmmmmmmm, what else did I do? Yes read two sydney sheldons - Nothing lasts Forever and Bloodline.I bought them at the delhi railway station.Hey they were cheap - 300 bucks for two new novels…………amazing. I read them in 4 days flat.And yes they were good.Nothing lasts forever is a medical murder mystery kinds but gooooooooddddddddddd, u ppl can read the same and bloodline is also fine but i liked the other one much more.
I am not sure if I mentioned that my friend visited me from Banglore(there seems to be something wrong with the sentence, but thats fine till someone understands) and we had some good time catching up with each other.Infact my office friend drove us around and then finally we dropped her to her friend’s place.She is getting married in August and then she will be going to States………………well she is from Karnataka.I always had doubts if she will like my office friend arounf but she was more than happy to have him around - reasons - he is a virgo, handsome, state level cricket player of his times, charming and married………………ha ha ha ha…………….but yes it was a good time that we three had together……………….

Saturday night was spent at my friend’s place cooking for both of us.Though we planned for rice but had to manage with sandwiches ‘cos there were no rice in his kitchen and he seemed to be unaware of the same.I had to tell him to get out of the kitchen cos he kept dropping things…………….he had severe headache…………and yes he had a medicine for the same.He went out to smoke.Now when he came back, i knew this………………so he was just asking me if he was smelling of cigrette………….i felt like saying no dude - u r smelling of smoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I simply did not give him one tight slap.I don’t even remember telling him to quit smoking but then men will always be men - doing their own stuff in their manner……………..and lo and behold they manage to survive as well with this useless stuff, ha ! so much for survival………………..and then i had laugh of the day………….we were watching TV and he was complaining of headache so i told him to take disprin or sleep.He looked at me and commented with his hands on his head - abe yeh toh hota nahin ki sar daba de medicine khane ko kahti ja rahi hai……………….i simply rolled over with laughter- reason - it simply did not strike me that sar dabaya bhi ja sakta tha…………………when I told him this, he was like - sahi hai…..then poor chap himself poured oil on his head and sat massaging.Finally he said ab mottee maalish toh kar de. Then I said - oh yes that I can do. I took a fancy for his laptop and sat there playing cards(this is the only game which I can play without asking for help) and we listened to songs and sat there chatting thruout the night……………then finally we managed to catch on sleep for few hours. I came back in the morning so as to receive my parents in time and had to clean the house, wash clothes etc etc…………….
Mom pa came and we had some good time.When they left, boy i was so tired that I slept for God knows how many hours……………got up only in morning yaar to be ready for the office.Well I slept at 1:00 p.m
………………then my first finger was paining so much………….well it was injured in fighting with my friend(ok fine i avoid taking the names just for the sake of privacy of others…..how far its correct or incorrect, m not sure)………..i wanted to make a pic from my N70 and he won’t let me…………….ab kahin to use karoongi na…………..and today the pain has gone………………
And my weight…………….i have not gone to gym since last one month so it seems i gain and lose every moment……………..weight na ho gaya pooranmasi ka chand ho gaya…………..seriously aise hi ghata bhadta rahta hai……………..bakwaas…………….but i will begin the gym from 1st aug for sure…………….and then i will post the blog on weight loss…………(i hope so, i have been trying to do so since long time.)……tell then take care
May God Bless you all………………….


P.S……………….after noticing the preview of the post i realised its tooooooooo long but then never mind………………so read it!!!!!
Spelling mistakes - do forgive

Catching up!

July 12th, 2006

Its been getting so very hectic now a days that I don’t even get time to psot something on my blog and it is killing me from inside………….
Infact I had so much fun during last few days and I want to jot down all……….somehow do not want that I lose out those memorable moments in the office and home…………
But then somehow, it seems that all of sudden all the work has come crashing down on me………pata nahin kahan se.Till the time I am leaving office I am doing work and it seems less………..bakwaas………its been so many days that I missed gym too ‘cos i stay back late and then on top of that not keeping fit and fine on health front too…………and on top of that these blokes in office believe that they are doing so much of good work by taking me out for dinners and lunches………….ganga naha li hai in logon ne mujhe bahar ka khana khila kar……………now i know no one will get to know as to what the hell is this……..long story cut short……i am not a foodie so half of the time i don’t even know the name of the dishes in food joints……..so these ppl (who all are these ppl……….next blog mein) pull my legs so much that I am in danger of increasing my height!!!!!!!!!

Imagine I am sitting on work station without slippers ‘cos my trainer is wearing mine and i can’t hers………..reason being she wore her sis’s slippers and she doesn’t know as to how to tie them up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the hell????????……….abhi mujhe nahin pata how will we manage the whole day……….may be meha will help.
Coming days starting today will be one of those hectic days and i am sure that i will lose out the info i wanna post.My friend’s coming from banglore and we gonna have a nite out at my place, i am looking forward to it…………
I myself had a nite out on sunday at my friend’s place……….woh alag baat hai that we stay at stone’s throw distance in ghaziabad and have known each other for last 4-5 years and we never were able to sit together and chat……….he puts up in gurgaon too even then we did not meet………so finally I took the plunge and told him to stop washing the clothes and pick me up midway………….and there we sat in his balcony with our feet firmly planted on the grill in the nite at 11 p.m. dicussing life……….……..and i had to stay there only ‘cos when we started back, it started raining……….so i came late to the office next morning ‘cos poor chap had to get up early in the morning(which he never does!!!!!!) to drop me home……….we plan more nite outs after his mom is here so that I get to eat home cooked food………..i know i am being selfish but then yaar ghar ka khana kise acchha nahin lagta hai!!!!!!!!!

And then on Monday we had dinner out………no not me and my friend, we 8 ppl from office. Our CEO owed us a party and he took us to kabab factory at park plaza………….that was my first visit to that place and i loved it……..the food was good and the company was good.We had gala time out there and some real laughs there………..me,meha,manvi,shikha,dhiraj,ashish,anil and CEO…………and meha and dhiraj are the ones jine ganga nahane ke zaroorat nahin………………..i have just managed to post this blog cos i felt that i am missing something important and socha ki isse pehle rajesh ki dhamki aaye, i shud post on something…………
I will update this catching up soon…………till then u guys take care……..oh yes, i managed to read Laks’s post and comment on the same………….really sorry if i skipped someone’s blog and did not comment………….sab bhag bhag kar padhna padta hai………..and yes i never believed that I will have friends on iland but then the number is increasing day by day………….hey I am one famous soul on iland…………..ha ha ha ha………….jokes apart but then it’s really been good to be a part of iland……………thanks all of u for being there……..
One important thing, friends in mumbai and neighbouring cities, please ensure ur safety………..and take good care of self and the families………will try to check out all the mumbai friends and their well being………better idea wud be that each mumbai resident post one liner blog tellling us all that they are ok, i hope that will serve the purpose and we all will know that you ppl are safe……………

P.S. Please over look the spelling mistakes………written in 10-15 mins flat!!!

Simple Tit bits………….

July 4th, 2006

It’s actually been long that i wrote down something and somehow Rajesh’s dhamki always works(I fail to understand how and why)…….but yes they do and this time it was an open dhamki…….for those who do not know, they can visit the guest book and read that mumbaiya style dhamki…………I don’t know whether it actually worked.But the truth remains that I wanted to write since long but somehow it seems either I am working less(which I doubt) or the workload has increased overnite…………i just can’t find peaceful time to complete the blog…………today also I am writing because I am going thru one of the bad series of cold (well just started) and my nose is already choked and i don’t feel like doing any work…………….so i thought lets write………what a thought?

Hey my junior A had gone to meet the prospective bride to his home place(I am doing away with the names, just for the heck of it but most of u know what A stands for?)……….now we all had seen the snap of this female but i had doubts though I never aired them openly…………and see what happened - that female was fat as compared to her snap!!!!!! and A was almost ready to say yes.When i sent him the sms asking about it, then he replied back telling me this.
This weekend i went back to home.I could not escape because my bua was coming to get her ITR done and believe me it was one painful thing, the compilation from 8-9 bank accounts and then telling her as to why the hell was it necessary? Oh yes, my ex-boss had called me, why? He wanted me to check his new office and advise him on the call centre set up or in case he wishes to be a training institute for the call centre then what all is required.So much for the old office sake…………..I did go to meet him and also to check the new office but then reached late and the uncle who sits there had already left.Now he is calling me since yesterday but I did not attend his call.This is the first time that I did not attend his call.I simply did not feel like attending his call.He is one confused person when it comes to the relation with his employees or ex-employees…………………and there were certain incidents due to which I was left thinking if I should actually respect him…………….

My nani has come back from Banglore.They had shifted to Banglore after mama joined oracle but then he changed the job and now they are all back to ghaziabad.So this homecoming was also a part of the visit to ghaziabad. I was dreading this moment as I knew that she is very sentimental when it comes to my marriage.Being the eldest in the famliy has its own disadvantages…………..read Vicky’s blog and reflected on the comment when his mom told him to fall in love with someone………….hey it doesn’t happen on daily basis.Even my mom says dhoondh lo, ab yaar kya pamphlet lekar ghoomna shuru kar den!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Roz ka fight hai shaadi ko lekar………..I wish it there was someway out of this…………..I wish I could actually afford to fall in love with someone………….actually………….ha ha ha ha…………..what a funny thought………..damn it i should save it before i lose this post……….rediff acts funny at times……………
This time I felt a kind of sadness and helplessness when I saw my father.Just don’t know why but yes I did.Infact even now when I m writing this, I can feel my eyes all watery due to tears swelling up…………when it comes to  my father, i simply go weak in my knees.For the first time I felt that papa is getting old day by day………..and with this thought in my mind all other things came to my mind………….like what will the kind of life when he is no more with us etc etc.It sounds silly but then yes for the first time I felt this pain in my heart even before experiencing the same.Over a period of time he has aged too much.My dadi and papa do not seem to be mom and son but brother and sister it appears.After a series of accidents he has grown weak and daily up and down to delhi is tiring too.Then on top of this he has been transferred to a different branch all out of the rule book.So as of now he is neither going to the current branch nor to the previous one.He simply goes to the Union Office and comes back……………i just fail to understand…………..why now??????? Why can’t thsese blokes stop acting funny????
And yes I am one troublesome daughter for him who has grown up all of sudden and flew away………….he wants me to get married but will not pester me but yes his eyes say all(why on earth did i manage to learn this art of reading eyes?)…………..it must be really troubling for him…………yes over a period of time we share a good rapport after I became a CA and yes we can sit opposite to each other and talk.There was a time when we never spoke to each other…………..but now the things have changed…………….I am just not sure if I will be able to give him the much needed happiness…………………….

I shall continue this later after I am able to gather my thoughts once more.The post will be devoted to again I don’t know what but yes something to write and reflect upon……….