Day 22 : The famous last words

Someone had told me that the key board has more germs than a toilette seat.

Falls with a bang on the keyboard.

Day 21 : Already in a Holiday mood

Such a holiday mood that I am in and also because I stayed quite late at office last night...I almost decided I would not come to office today. But one hit on my conscience by none other than Db and I am here tearing my hair...

Day 20 : Introspect

Its strange how we wait all our life to grow up and come into our own, and when we reach that stage all we want to do is to go back to childhood. We grow up only to realise how things were simpler back then....when life revolved around things like friends, chocolates, playing and sometimes studies. Back then, we would wonder how cool it would be to go to college, to work and to be on your own.

One of biggest thing I craved as a child was to get my independence when I grew up. But we forget that independence comes with a price. There a whole lot of expectations from you. Now little mistakes have huge impacts and never can you get away with mistakes as you made as a kid. We are no longer answerable to just parents and teachers, we are also answerable to our boss at work, and if we are in a relationship we are largely answerable to our partner too. Then you get married and now you are answerable to a whole new set of people, your in-laws.

Life has been a cycle ever since we got married 3 years back. There have been problems, issues ever since. In the last 3 years there has hardly ever been a time when we sat down to think about US, I mean the both of us, what we would like to do or what exactly were OUR problems.
It was always others, my family and his which constantly claimed our attention. I believe the fault lies with US, since the responsibility belongs to the one who takes it. We voluntarily and large heartedly took their problems as ours and eventually lost ourselves within.
Sure its true that you cannot keep everyone happy...

And now, that we somehow managed to put a few things into place, and believed eventually we would be able to sigh peace...another chapter awaits US.

Day 19 :

Its going as an unfruitful day...

The servers are down so the testers cant test...
The testers can't test, so no bugs are raised...
No bugs are raised, so I have no work.

**Yawn**

Day 18

3 more days to go before I go home...

Day 17 : On the hunt

Humko toh hamare package ne mara
Technical round mein kya dum tha
Humare kasti wahan doobi
Jahaan paisa kam tha

Written in homage to all those offer letters that I lost because they believed my package was already too high for them to afford me.

Doesn't make sense...

whatever!!

Day 16 : Misplaced Intelligence

Ah I am so heartbroken.

I had reasons to believe that I would put down my papers before I start home on the 21st of this month.
But thats not happening, because I screwed up.
I had this offer from a descent company, though the package was not great but I would sure have loved to be a part of the organization. Even after many negotiations I could not bring them to give me any better pakage. I thought I would probably accept the offer and during my two months of notice period I would try to find a better offer.
But Db encouraged me to take a chance.

I was aware that my rating from the interview panel was quite high. I wrote them a mail stating that I would not be able to accept the offer if they were not willing to increase the pakage. We hoped that would ring a bell for them and they would try to put there best foot forward. It had happened several times in the past and this could have happened again. But it seems it didn't go well with them and the consultant tells me that the offer is withdrawn.
Boo hoo hoo!!!
I guess sometimes we think we are too smart, but people are smarter. I probably shouldn't have tried to use too much of my brains.

But then...lemme look at the better side of it.

I would get to work in the new building of my current employer. We are going to shift there by July and the building seems to be exteremely beautiful.

My salary here is not too bad, and I have managed to build an reputation here...because of which I believe I was given a higher designation during this appraisal cycle.

I can get a car loan from my office, at a nominal interest.

I can finally redeem the money for my french lessons, which otherwise wouldn't have been reimbursed.

Day 15 : Imagination Running Wild

Kinda free today, so lets have a thoughful post for a change.

Life has changed a lot in the past 12 years. With just two TV channels, a bicycle to ride, no internet, no cell phones and no computers(a rarety then), its difficult to imagine if we even had a life back then. Probably the next generation would not see such life changing inventions.
But on second thoughts may be they will.
Probably our parents would have thought the same about our generation...since they witnessed the invention of more essential things ...motor vehicles, plane, telephone, cameras or as small but essential things like gas stoves and mixer gringers. Probaly things that we saw in our lifetime would go more towards luxury while what our parents saw were essentials. May be our kids would witness something beyond just luxury.

If you were a Super Commando Dhruv fan in your hay days, you would understand this.
I wish they come up with this 'aayami dwaar' (inter-dimesional door) that Dhananjay had to anywhere he wants. It would open in the air and you just need to enter it and opens at wherever you want to go. They could probably have access rights on the door so as to control the access to various destinations. That would save us all the tedious travel in the traffic.

Day 14: Dilemma!!!

How big a salary pakage would make you agree to join an office with an old building which makes you feel you have gone back by 30 years on a time machine, with age old systems and extensions, with a stinky bathroom with no tissues.

Day 13 : Busy Me

The 22 day marathon blogging is turning out not a very difficult task as such.
At least I am a little more regular and have been posting quite some actions for each day.

Well...life's got busy.
Lets take today as an instance.
I had a salary negotiation with Comapny1 today, have a telephonic technical round at 12 noon with company2 and an face to face round with one of the directors of Company3today at 6pm.
Amist all this I am still working on the project which is getting more and more tedious with each passing day..

Day 12

I am early to office today.
One of the things that hate about the team is nobody takes the team meetings serously.
We are supposed to have this stand up meetings everyday at 10, when I would personally make sure each one of them does attend the meetings. But that I don't give a damn (the reason for ot would be a part of the upcoming blogs), no body really cares.

Its past 10 already and there are not even 50% of the legs available for the meeting.

Day 11: Crossing the bridge to high maintainence

I feel I have suddenly transformed into a high maintainence wife.

I suddenly find myself interested in high heels and beauty parlors, these institutions have been deprived of my attention all these years.

I went for a pedicure today for the very first time in my life and the guilt was overbearing since the attendant had to really work hard for my feet. She could have attended two clients with that amount of time.
Also, I bought a pair of high heels this evening, the second since last month.

Db's been wondering whatever happened to his low maintainence wife.

Day 10 : Its raining birthdays

Its friday...
Somehow I feel my virtual battery gets almost discharged by friday everyweek. With very little energy left, friday is the day I am the least interested in my work.

But I have something to look forward to today.
We had five birthday's this week, in a team of 30 odd people. So these 5 people have joined hands to give us a nice lunch today.

Food...good food!!! Slurppp!!!

Day 9

I wrote a whole big blog but lost it somehow. Cannot gather the patience to remember all of it and jot it down all over again.

Lemme just fill up this place to keep the 8 days old tradition alive.

Day 8 : Making up for the lost time.

Ouch!!! I missed my 22 days resolution by not posting yesterday. Shorry!!!

I was at home, not keeping very well. And I find it weird to answer them when everyone at office starts quizzing me on why I took a day off. What can I tell them, sometimes I say stomach upset and sometimes an headache. However I have always stood by it that women need more sick leaves than men anyways.

Didn't do much at home yesterday, just watched a couple of Bymokesh Bakshi episodes on youtube.
You know what!!!
I always complained that all the TV serials and movied churned out in Hindi mostly cover Punjab, and sometimes Bengal, Gujrat, Rajasthan, The southern states, Maharastra, UP and even the northenmost states Kashmir, Himachal and Jammu. But I am yet to see Orissa featured anywhere. There are no movies, no serials made on us Oriyas. But there is one reference to Orissa, and its in Byomkesh Bakshi. Though the set up is in Kolkata and the characters are all Bengali, but in the episode Kamra No 102, he mentions the ancient city of Orissa, Cuttack.

Though not a pivotial reference, yet I am happy to hear the mention of Orissa on screen for the first time.

Day 7

I don't really have anything in mind now, writing just to keep my 22 days resolution.

Day started as usual, I realized that I had dozed off after switching on the geyser, yet again in the sitting position. Epitome of laziness I think, when one can doze off while sitting on the bed.

For some unknown reason the buses were unusually crowded today. Gave a skip to almost 7-8 buses because they seemed to have no place to breathe. Managed to convince two women at the stop to share an autorickshaw with me. Each of our share turned out to be excatly equal to the bus fare we shell out everyday. Dont think its a bad idea to start sharing rickshaws everyday.

Day 6 : If thats how you want it to be

Its a day off for me and SIL, but Db is working today.

Things are getting a little out of hands and beyond control in terms of our personal life...something I did not want and had not expected. I am scared because I think its well gone beyond repair. And I have too many people and too many things I can hold responsible for this mess, incuding my overeacting to certain situations which otherwise I would have ignored and laughed it off.

But its okay. If this is how certain people want to shape their relationships with me, I am fine with all of that.

Day 5

It was a long night the last night.

India winning the World cup is an experience one has to witness to believe, and It would not have been half the fun if Db's friends werent here and more so if we hadn't decided to go out on the streets last night.

It was overwhelming, people were out with the Indian flag running around, hi- fing with the bikers. People were shouting and wailing at each other, acknowledging eachother and congratulating each other on our success in their own way... Some subtley by displaying a thumbs up or hailing at each other, some more aggressively by pulling out their shirts and a few of them trousers too.

We came back around one but were too excited to sleep. So we played cards till six in the morning.

It's been a night out after a long time and I am sure most of all Indians hadn't slept all night like us. It's amazing that how much effect a game can have on us and on the country as a whole.

Day 4 : The big day...the 2011 World Cup Final

Team India has been doing well till now.

I think the fielding is pretty tight and the team is giving it all. Also,a learning I got today. If men have to choose between a cricket match and a gadget, the choice is obvious. It's a gadget.

The wife is not is not in the running anyway!!!

After the second innings:

We woooonnnnn!!! And such a well deserved victory it was. For a non cricket lover, it was such a esctasic moment... Can't believe what the cricket lovers must be going through. They won it once the year I was born, and this time I witnessed it...now with a sore throat after all the screaming.

Congratulations India and bravo the Indian cricket team. Here we make history again!!!

Day 3

Its Ugadi today, and we were requested to wear ethnic wear. I managed to grab a gaudy salwaar kammez instead of a saree. And the good news is the dress feela a bit loose to me...so am I finally losing some weight?
Well...the sad part is I seem to be the only one remotely in ethnic wear today in my team, being a friday all others are in casuals.

But there is a lady at office who generally turns up in short skirts, she is all ethnically dressed with dozen matching bangles, and so are a few jalparis at office. I like it when the office is all colourful and happy.

On the other hand, gearing up for the World Cup finals tomorrow. Its not very surprising that I don't have any interviews lined up tomorrow, of course no one wants to miss a World Cup final with the Indian team participating. We are expecting some of Db's friends tomorrow for the match. Might get induldegent with some rich food either cooked or ordered.

Hope the Indian team wins and gets the World cup home.