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| This year seems good for most of my friends in love. I know atleast 4 pairs who had been waiting for a long time to get their marriage approved by families, are now either married or getting married soon. I am happy for them, to finally witness the fruit of their long painful wait !
On the personal front, I am much better off now, I am getting back to normal and focusing on things to make myself feel good. Like last weekend, I just went out and bought a Diamond ring and a pair of Diamond studs. They arent that bright or gaudy, I wanted some simple ones so that I can wear them daily without the fear of losing something very costly. Diamond being my lucky stone, is indeed bringing some positive energy or rather this thought keeps me thinking positive. Atleast I am not thinking about my credit card bills right now !
Mom is staying with bro and me for some days. Unfortunately she got sick and she is recovering now. With mom here, I am trying to learn and expand my cooking skills. I manage cooking without a mixer usually, i.e I do not take pains to actually do the real cooking. Now the mixer here is in full use :) And mom says, I should get a hand blender and do things the traditional way, it would taste better and current_independent !
Though I earlier mentioned in one of my posts, not to forgive people, I realize I fail to hate people. I end up praying for the person who caused me so much pain to realize the mistake and get back to me. This is not ego either, I actually tried to get back to the person, mush against the advice of my friends and family. But the person is unapologetic and least bothered. Finally it hurts to realize that you were nothing to the person in the first place. | |
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| 3 days have been long ones and I am upgrading myself each day in learning new ways to pass time. Thankfully, the IT guys here havent gone much into blogging, so livejournal access is not restricted. ( *touchwood* )
I have a landline with a voice mailbox service, which I havent used for the past 3.5 years I have been here. But today, when I saw the red light indicating new msgs, I was curious to hear the messages left, if any ! First I had to reset my password, as I havent done this in so many years.
fter getting the setup done, I begin with the first message, which is on March 5th from Rash ! I wonder why Rash has called me on 5th march, when she knows I am out of office. I go on with a couple of more, and I get confused, until I hear May 9th and I realize these msgs are of 2007!
If I setup this system, I would do it on a LIFO basis instead of FIFO, bcos I am more worried about the recent most msgs ! May be in this situation, I may not be worried about older msgs, bcos I know they are older than a year ! On second thoughts, perhaps FIFO would be the ideal one, the msg left earlier needs to be attended to first!
Most of the people here, dont have the habit of leaving a msg, bcos none of us here open voice mail boxes. So, when I browsed through msgs, they were mostly from colleagues and managers from my client plce, and it was a nice journey of recap of project status happening a year back ! I deleted many of the msgs, except few from my client, bcos it gives me a nice feeling to realize the extent of hectic work I had earlier ! Other msgs were from these advertizing companies and were mostly blank.
A couple of msgs were without a name left, so I had a guess_who game set all for myself, I couldnt recognize the voices, and the extension numbers were also hardly recollectable. I tried digging my brain as to what was said to me on Nov 11th,2007 and guessing who that could be ! Then I lookup at the ext number in the telephone directory and check if my guess right.
I finally found out that the total messages which can be stored is 35. So I didnt receive any messages after nov 16th, 2007.
Now I have cleared voice mailbox and looking for other time pass stuff
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| 9 am , am at home browsing and Ljing.. These people got me back to blore and put me on buffer without active projects and with a pc with limited net access and worst, I am seated in another floor and dont have access to my machine in my client area. Looks like a punishment and as if they have put me in an isolation camp.
The only time I get to meet known people is during lunch. Though an over friendly person, I am holding back making friends in this floor. I want to be away from the junta here and planning a quick and quiet exit.
Meanwhile, though content with a normal boring day, close buddies do not want to give up and made it to home with a Bday cake to have a belated celebration. Looks like the cake-cutting will never go out of my life, and yes this year this was finally a surprise unlike the last 2 years.
And though other things in life were getting miserable, I forgot to update that I did make a brownie successfully ! Sholi, a good friend helped me with the process, the key ingredient she taught me to add was patience which I didnt have earlier, so with the auto on and off of the oven, we baked the cake for nearly 1 hour !
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| For people who took pains in wishing me through LJ, I dedicate this post to update my present status. I have been truthful to my journal. But for the past couple of months, I have been going through unexpected incidents/trauma, which I intentionally failed to record.
This bday has not been like earlier years,and worst being, its one of my lowest points in life, where I am depressed personally, professionally and almost dont have anything to look forward to. I was hoping for the whole day to just pass. The day did pass, but I want to record this period in my life, bcos I am sure, one day ahead when I read this entry, I would pat myself for having sailed through this period.
Gist of the bday day !
- Back in Blore, had to join back work, bcos they changed the leave policy.
- No bday cakes, all of the buddies out of town, they didnt expect me to be in town.
- No phone, as I dont have a local number yet.
- reach office and client access card does not work, so no cubicle, no landline, and no PC.. which means no Gmail access either
- severe headache, and manage to have dinner.
- people whom you trust for a lifetime, just turn their backs away and you get to learn a bitter lesson not to forgive them, even if it means, you are all alone rest of your life. When they dont care about you, flush them out of your life, it is painful, but then it shall also pass.
Good things
- Have wonderful parents and family, whom you can always turn to.
- Have wonderful friends, the sweet call of 20 month old Mihi, calling me Ninni... is priceless.
-even if frends reach the town at 11 pm, they make it a point to come home to personally wish you.
- life is still beautiful, there are lot of things, one has to learn to accept and cherish !
I am born again today, I am discovering my identity, I never knew what I wanted to be, I wanted to be what others wanted me to be. Today, I find myself all alone, and I have plenty of things to choose from what life has to offer. I just got richer,bcos I discovered what I didnt know I could have. | |
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| To know why the IT helpdek has not attended to your service call or to find out if they have too many calls, just log in another call after an hour and check how many calls are registered in an hour !
At 13:15 -> my call ticket number -> 33958
At 14:36 -> 33959
Both call numbers are hopefully in Decimal number system.
Its the last working day of the year and everybody is too busy to raise calls or to attend to calls ! Huh ! | |
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| I always wondered how long does it take to get accustomed to a newly changed password ! Its mandatory that we change passwords at work every 90 days and we dont have control over the new password and the tool generously gives a combo of all possible permutations which are difficult to register.
I usually choose passwords which have a sequence and not having too many mixes of Capital and lower letters with numbers, some of my earlier passwords are nhhto525, madd78YL, 3Vaeqcmx etc, unlike some like these, qHqgrYb8, LtoH8aJk, JEfECf62 which are hard to type out in the first place.
The first week after I change my password, I never get the password right in the first attempt, I usually type the older password and I keep instructing my mind to train, to the new password. And then the pattern gets registered after few days. I also observed that, in such cases when you dont choose the password yourself, and when somebody officially needs to use your machine, you cant spell your password to them, I can spell all my personal email id passwords, but I cant spell nor sms my work password, bcos I need the keyboard to rework on the sequence of letters ! Hmm.
Now, today I changed my work password and I am away on a long leave, this is the first time, I mailed my own password ( to a personal id ), bcos I am sure I am not going to register this that soon ! | |
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| The only thing I seem to be doing these days is searching for documents. Until 2 weeks back, I was searching for my IT returns acknowledgment for last year. No, I am very regular handling all my documents in a single file, but I was working from my client location whole of last year, and I misplaced this single sheet of paper somewhere. I am so used to my file which has all documents, I could not think of any other place where I might have tucked away the IT-ack sheet.
The grepping exercise helped me clean all the junk in my current place both at work and home. I finally got the IT-ack sheet which was inside an envelope which I didnt bother to open and check, though it came under my sight many times during the search.
Now my wonderful sony mobile charger is giving me some problems, and I need my original bill copy. Fortunately/unfortunately, I happened to see some mobile bill while searching for my IT-ack sheet, but I don't remember now where ! And just bcos I remember seeing the bill recently, I am not able to convince myself that I lost the bill and to move ahead with other options. I am already half-way re-searching the whole place again. And I would be disappointed, if it turned out to be an older bill( bcos I lose and buy mobile phones every year). Whatever, I want to see that bill again, it is a very frustrating thought, like a lump of clay stuck behind my head ! | |
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| I usually dont like fighting losing battles and interacting with Customer Care is one such thing I always want to stay away from. But all the times I have tried voicing my opinion and request, I benefited from the process. The other two previous cases were with airtel and also Bharatmatrimony. :P I got back my money reversed in both cases. Last week, while walking down CMH road, I saw this ICICI ATM with a fast moving queue, thanks to the 4 ATM machines and a security guy navigating and controlling the queue and I was impressed and wanted to check how much time it would take to withdraw cash and I withdrew Rs 4000 through my credit card. This monday when I was looking at my current transaction statements, I saw a Rs 300 service tax + some crap 12.5% interest on the service tax. When I inquired, I realized they charge this for any transaction through a credit card even on an ICICI ATM. I wonder if they would charge Rs300+ even for a Rs 100 cash withdrawal. I felt I had done the stupidest thing of my life, firstly I didnt require that 4k cash that day, secondly I had some ICICI debit card and also HDFC salary card through which I could have free transactions on any ATM. Thirdly, I made my usual mistake of assuming. I made payment on all my outstanding balance and wrote an email asking why they dont advertise the service tax when they do so for all other benefits. I also mentioned I was an ICICI privilege customer for the past 5 years and have been paying my bills on time and as this was the first time I withdrew cash through my credit card, I was not aware of the service tax, and if there was any such thing, a good GUI on the ATM would have cautioned me about it. I also sent a request to cancel my card. Today I got the Rs 300+ reversed to my account and I canceled my card cancellation request. For the past 3 days, any ICICI ATM I came across on the way, haunted me about my stupidity. I am glad its over now. Btw, today I officially sent in my resignation. The tool says -> Tentative Exit Date : 2007-12-10. I will probably work till Dec end, 2007. I got a little over 2 months to start looking for jobs and also prepare myself to be jobless. No issuses with my present employer, just that life is taking drastic turns. If I am jobless, I am still confident, I can make a living by opening up my own website to hear and assist customer service grievances. | |
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| Back to normal routine after a really long time (~ 2 months). Along with not updating my LJ, I had also given up my morning walk, which I resumed today, and which also indirectly means I have few extra pounds to shed off, thanks to getting back to my old addiction of chocolates accompanied with a new attitude of lets_forget_the_calorie_thing_now!
The most important change being I shifted from my hostel-like PG and took up a home in Domlur. It took me a while to believe that I no longer live in Koramangala and I kept going back there for the initial two weekends. Now after a month of living on this side of the Inner Ring Road and with all of my dear buddies living in Indhira Nagar, Koramangala seems to be a distant place now.
Life is good in this new place, managing everything on my own, returning back to a place I call home, and you no longer call somebody living with you as a roommate bcos he is your brother. After 9 years of staying away and independently, it is different living with him now. The last time we lived together, was when we were in school, we were kids then and, now I see him more like somebody who is there to protect me, a good friend, somebody to laugh with, and somebody who would eat all the junk I cook !
Bro was with me only for 3-4 days and I got used to his presence so much that I really missed him terribly when he went out of town for a month. I hope he returns back home soon and hopefully I would be a better cook by then.
Life, job, dreams are about to change, and I am trying to believe that dreams dont just happen, and sometimes, we need to accept things as they come. Giving up on dreams which never happen, does not make one a loser, trying to use opportunities as they come, moulding and adapting yourself to the changes also is a challenge. Finally its all about feeling content and accomplished at the end of the day. More updates on this later... | |
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| So its again that day of the year, when its time to take my brother's name on this page ! Happy Bday Bro, for successfully completing quarter of a century being my bro ! Like last year, I again realize this day that though I always wished I had an elder brother, I feel this is the best I could get. Bcos bro has been an avatar of everything in different phases of my life. I couldnt have got a better one, even if I had opted for a customized version ! Thank you Dan ! ( Other Ramblings ) | |
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| Though I planned and as well, reached Lalbagh at 8 am to beat the weekend crowd, by the time I go into actual photography, it was late. I had some urgent phone calls I had to attend to. After rocks, monuments and beaches, this weekend was colorful and refreshing ! And I did realize, I am yet to know and learn more about photography and associated tips and techniques. Next time, prolly !  By the time, I beagn clicking, there were only heads I could focus on, like the one on the above picture. Sigh! Click the picture( the one which was on all newspapers last week for its 26000 roses ), to be directed to my Flickr set. Also note, the Gandhi exhibit made by Hopcoms ! | |
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| Before I forget the details of this terrific trip, I am reminding myself to log and post some pictures here. Well, this is now using the bandwidth of energy and time dedicated to post-trip affairs, which also means, my productivity at work is almost equal to zero ! Most of the sites at Mahabalipuram are free of cost for viewing except the Pancha Rathas and Shore Temple bcos they are part of the World Heritage Site. But frankly all the madapams and other sites which were left at nature's best were more relishing to the sight. Probably, they appealed more bcos they were not confined to fences and gates ! Another amusing thing was the rate at which the tickets were sold. For an Indian it was Rs 10 and for non-Indians it is priced at Rs 250. We wondered, what difference did it make to view from a pair of foreign eyes. Anyways, it was moment to be a proud Indian !  ( More pictures and details ) | |
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| More pictures and details on Mahabalipuram tour !
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| The 5 fun-loving gals made it to TN for the Aug 3-4-5 trip. Though we came back monday morning, we are all just trying to switch back modes to normal after a heavy dose of high-energy, high craziness drive ! I wanted to log each and every day's details on a daily basis, but by the time we decided to log off activities, I just had enough energy to drag myself to the bed.
When we stepped out of Chennai Central, though it drizzled a little, we were determined to carry on with our plans. Thankfully the rain gods, were pleased with our enthu and they returned only at the end of our trip on Sunday evening!
Away from the city, I was glad seeing my pals thrilled being at my home. After a yummy breakfast, they helped themselves with more fun, by climbing on the trees in the garden. My parents were a little embarrassed with 25+ year old ladies climbing trees in their compound, but they soon got used to our moods and energy levels and Mom even went out and served them coffee when they were on the trees !
We then reached Mahabalipuram, a town known for its historic Dravidian Monolithic monuments. We had already gone through some online information on the history and significance, so we decided to explore the place and its richness on our own, instead of hiring a guide. When we had doubts on some monuments, we eavesdropped on some guide explaining to some foreign tourists ! Stolen guidance ! Heh !
( Some pics and description behind )
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| 8 months and 2007 continues to be a constant mixed bag so far. After much of talking, planning and reaching no where, buddies from office( Aks, Anj, Rash, Vee and I ), finally chose Aug 3-5 for a gals_only trip to Tamilnadu. It is a secret at work place, bcos 5 of us have given different reasons for the leave on friday. Anyways the code for the trip has been very convenient, instead of 1-2-3, we show our fingers 3-4-5 to call out for a high trip meeting ! Though I completed my stuff well in advance for the IC's delivery, seems somebody is keen on mentally harassing me and has denied my leave. There is no looking back in this case and no matter what, I am on board on today's chennai mail ! Now the lowlights, its been raining heavily in TN and my major plan of outdoor photography experiments with my canon guy would go for a toss. Seems I would never get to fully utlilize his goodness ! Now for 5 fun-loving gals, it really doesnt matter whether the rain gods are angry with us, we need to be away from office for a while with or without the rains! And with this trip turning into a reality, my excitement has been exponentially rising and I left my mobile before I left work yesterday. Thanks to my memory, I remember some phone numbers and also got the office security guys to go to my desk and fetch my mobile in time. A night without mobile, seemed like I had plenty of time for myself. Only problem being, I had to borrow my roomie's mobile for using the alarm. This is when I missed my wake up song of my mobile alarm -> Aashayein from Iqbal. It was only today I realized where I got the energy and will to wake up at 5 am everyday ! You know the importance of something, only when you miss it really ! Btw, what's your wakeup tone like ? | |
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| To my crush(this is office crush) "Aug 1, 2007, I walk into the office building, with a feeling of void, when I realize the shinning cool head wouldnt be around anymore. Life wouldnt be same here anymore, Time shall heal, so shall it fill the vacant spaces, though memories shall always remain along with unfulfilled dreams. A stranger, co-worker, a crush, a victim of my prank mails, and a great person I know you through mails, the journey has been good so far, thank you for being patient with low annoyance level. Cheers ! Be the best you are, wherever you go, my wishes would be there always for you ! "
Couple of weeks ago, started mailing my crush in office through an anon email id and we had nice fun ragging each other. The image of a stranger began fading and when I just realized we were making great buddies, it was too late. Yesterday was his last working day in the company and I once again realized the importance of never missing an opportunity to know someone better.
Today I wish him farewell to a distant land, higher ambitions and dreams to fulfil, no matter I let him go with a heavy heart, I hope we would keep visiting in memories atleast !!
Another page turned in my mega book of "Collection of Short Unfulfilled Crush Stories" and the book gets heavier just as the heart :P
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| When I first knew friend R was going to have a baby, I thought it was just one of those another addition to my list of nieces and nephews. When she was born this day last year, I knew she was special, bcos I couldnt take my eyes off her. A year later, I realize that she has definitely added more cheer, and fun by being a part of my life these 365 days.
It has been a wait always from the day I knew her existence, to the day she was born, waiting for the sudden cries, noises, smiles, screams, anger, searching to get her a suitable name which her parents like, her expressive blabber to make me understand how stupid I am, her adamant_no_compromise_phase when she has decided not to eat or obey any of us, watching her attempts to crawl, walk, run. and every time I talk to her mom on phone, I still wait anxiously to hear her words, but only to hear her loud blabber asking me to hang the phone soon.
It has been a total new experience watching her grow, learning that parenthood is a pure sacrificial service with a lot of patience. Today, she may not understand her importance in my life, for her I may be another human being just making sudden frequent appearances to her home and sharing her space and time with her parents, but some day when she grows up, I hope I have enough memories and stories to tell her about her infancy and childhood !
The only thing left on my mind now is to wrap up my work and leave office some time in the evening to capture some of the finest moments of cutting her first bday cake. I need to come back to office to attend to another baby's arrival, yes, my IC may get released today !
( Different faces/phases of my little star )
Happy Birthday to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) notanangel78 too ! | |
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| Recent observation -> Whereever I see a Hopcoms, I see Nandini Milk Parlour adjacent to it. Is there any connection between the 2 ? The first and second time, I saw them together, I just thought it was a coincidence. But after seeing the 3rd Hopcoms, I walked fast towards the left, to see if there was a Nandini close by ! And there was one..
1) Koramangala - 8th main
2) Thippasandra ( on the way to office )
3) Indira Nagar - Near CMH
Buddies in blore, have you noticed this combination elsewhere too ?
My last month's airtel bill, reached an unusual high, thanks to my 2 -week vacation at home(roaming charges extra). But when I scanned through the bill, I realized, I was on low roaming charges bcos of my plan, and that I was charged extra for ISD calls though I had activated an ISD package offer.( Heck, so now after reading this post, my international friends would know the reason behind my extra lovable personality and generous ISD calls in the month of June ). So the package didnt inform me about the call rates while in roaming and Ms generous who is best at assumptions made infinite ISD calls on roaming ! So I spoke to the customer care, and one Ms sweet Immaculate, answered my requests and offered a waiver for my bill.. Hurray ! Its never bad to ask !
And after years of turmeric,basin powder and johnson's baby cream, being the only items in my cosmetic kit, Avon products would soon join the kit. I should find some time to regularly use them, I guess you need atleast 20-30 minutes extra to use all of the creams, lotions, sunscreens, etc etc apart from the regular bath time. yes, i am growing older, skin needs extra care ! :P | |
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| Recent Observation - When walking a 2 km road to your office inside a tech park, if you dont want to be offered lift by friendly people, walk on the right side of the road.
The climate has been good these days and I have given up cursing those who have chosen an office place at the other end of the Bagmane Tech park. One has to walk down atleast 2 kms along with dust and honking vehicles and their impatient drivers. But these days, it has been a pleasant walk except for the ready_to_help colleagues offering to pick you up on their way.
So Monday, I did an experiment and walked on the right side of the road, which is well separated from the left side by shrubs ! So people driving in, would hardly notice the pedestrians on the other side of the road. The only problem here is, all offices are on the right side of the road, so every time, one approaches the gate of a building, one has to pause and look for vehicles turning and making an entry.
So today I tried walking on the left side and as always before, I was offered a lift by a colleague, and this time, it was my ex-business manager. I know , one always has an option to politely refuse a lift. I have frankly told good friends that I prefer to burn down some calories on the way to work, but then I really dont know how to deal with friendly yet not-so-close colleagues. I have seen people getting angry when somebody refused to accept their drive offer, Especially when one stops their vehicle admist other pedestrians only to be told to go ahead ! So every time, I accept an offer, when I sit in, I just remark, that I love to walk when the climate is pleasant, so atleast next time, they would keep in mind before asking me ! Hopefully ! Otherwise its going to be the right side of the road !
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| I have always missed the opportunity of donating my blood whenever a camp was organized and every time I missed one such opportunity, the desire to share my blood with someone has been increasing. So when today they organized this Blood Donation camp at our office, I was sure this day was the debut of my long awaited desire. So inspite of returning back to work after a brief sick leave, and also aware of a medical report showing me marginally anemic, I hoped against all odds, that today when they check my haemoglobin content, it sure would have magically increased for a noble cause, especially after spending 2 weeks at home with Mumma's food. And when I saw how they checked the haemoglobin content, I was sure it was just easy to pass the test. All that was needed was, just a drop of blood drown in a jar of Copper Sulphate solution. Vee made the first move and her drop of blood just sank immediately to the bottom, she went ahead for the remaining formalities. Anju made the next move, and she was the most anamic of the lot, so her blood sank slowly to the bottom, and she was denied the opportunity to donate. Seems, the blood has to sink quickly. So I was sure, my blood would sink faster than Anju's bcos I had a higher haemoglobin content. But unfortunately, my drop of precious blood didnt sink at all, it stayed there at the top deciding to sink or not !! They say Blood is thicker than waterCuS04, Huh, and mine is NOT !!! So Anju and me were given pamphlets of how to improve haemoglobin content and we watched Vee donate her blood, while I took some pictures of the process, which I hope I would be part of in future, someday, definitely someday ! What is the use of being 5'9", chubby looking, when you cant share a drop of your blood to save a life precious to somebody ! ( pics behind ) | |
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| Though I have began using my Canon S3 IS a couple of times, I am not able to appreciate the pictures taken by me. I have been seeing lots of beautiful pictures recently from friends, and this has made me set very high expectations about the quality of pictures I take.. I am taking a week off next week and I hope, I get to learn more by playing around with my camera.
Last weekend, I went to this place called Litttle Sisters of the Poor at Kalyan Nagar. The first time I went there for a quick visit, I was attracted immediately by the peace and warmth there and decided to go there more often. This time I took some clothes which I no longer use, bcos they were too big for me. I hope they can alter the size and use it. I took my cano too, but I failed to follow the advice of my expert friends to carry additional batteries and unfortunately I ran out of power. I managed to click the pic of a little friend I met there. Next time, I hope to get better pictures.
( Meet my little friend )
My camera is making me, move places. There is an office trip 2 weeks later, and looking at the company of this group traveling, I would definitely have not gone. But since the place is kerala, I decided to take my cano and try some photography skills. This next 2 weekends I would be at home(Kalpakkam, chennai) and 23rd June would be booked for the kerala trip. So when friend P asked me for a weekend appointment last week, I was shocked myself when I told her, I am booked for all weekends of June and would be out of Bangalore ! | |
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| Got stuck in a horrible slow moving traffic today morning. When I reached Indira Nagar, I could no longer tolerate the heat and decided to drop in at Rash' s place, and travel to work with her at a later time. When I crossed 12th main, a speeding 2 wheeler, drove past on the footpath just front of me. I paused, cursed him and walked forward when I noticed that few envelopes had fallen off his bag.
My first instinct was like -> "serves him right, he will have a bad day ahead". But then when I looked down at the 3 envelopes on the footpath, I realized someday one of these could have been mine too, or to someone I sent with care, love or during an emergency. I looked around, even people who witnessed this, were not too much bothered about this, their anxious eyes waited only for the signal to turn green.
I searched for the 2 wheeler with the courier bag-> BLUE DART . I saw him now, waiting among the first few rows of vehicles at the signal. I walked fast before the signal could turn green. I asked myself why I am doing this. My eyes were on the signal and the one sitting on a bike below the signal. I reached him, handed over the envelopes and turned around and walked back. I didnt want to explain to him that it fell off his bag, I hated him for his carelessness.
When I walked away from the signal to quieter roads, I realized that through a horrible traffic, God chose me to make a difference to atleast 3 people's lives who otherwise would have lost their envelopes on a busy dusty road, only to be swept away early next morning ! It brought back my mood to a state of being content.
I wonder how they track lost couriers ? who is held responsible ? The guy who is on his way to deliver mails, has a list which has to be signed by the recipient. When the mail is not delivered, how does he know or where does he go and track for missing mails ? what happens to the missing mails ? How many of them are lost everyday ?
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| This is nice to do, on a boring tuesday post-lunch work session.. No doubts about those ranked above me, but then I am wondering about some people, who I think should have got a better rank on popularity basis than me. I am still trying to understand how this is worked out -> "since people keep wondering, your 'popularity rating' is the probability of a user clicking on random Friends links to be at your profile page at any point in time. That's the essence of the PageRank algorithm—it's a traffic estimate based on the Web's link structure. It's presented on a logarithmic scale to make it easier to understand."
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| Nothing much to be logged about these days. Either I feel like updating when I am not near an internet network, or when I begin to update I feel there wasnt much to write/crib about. Into a new project with higher responsibilities and role, so I dont get enough time to think and reflect about things happening around.
When nothing new happens, its nice when past sneaks in. Yesterday, got a call from behappynlife . Its been sometime I heard from her. Tch Tch, people get ultra busy these days post marriage ! Now that she is here in India for a vacation, this is one more reason for me to take a break in June and be in chennai. Somehow, its a mixed feeling, thinking about meeting her after nearly 2 years, bcos I it makes me sad to think that I would again be missing her after she is gone back. I have got used to a life without her physical presence, but then again to meet her, laugh with her, hang out with her, eat with her, share moments like old times, and then let her go leaving me behind is pain. I would have to go through the phase of missing her once again ! Life is such a mixed bag !
We had a quick recap of our college days together and also the post college days at chennai. There is sudden release of energy when you think about younger days and again sadness creeps in, when you realize its part of a past which you can never go back to, than in memories :(
Today morning, one of my friends showed me a pic of a prospective groom and I felt I have seen him somewhere. When we googled up for his name, we found he had an LJ id and I realized he is a friend of my LJ friends. Small World !
I am stressed at work, and many other things. I am planning to go out with buddies tonight for a mid-week party. I hope they all make it irrespective of my short notice. Yeah, they all are sweet and I am blessed to have them around.
Today is the first time, I carried my Canon S3 IS to take some pictures. The camera is getting a little difficult to carry around though. But I am sure, once I take some real pictures, I would love my camera more, irrespective of hanging out with a bulky thing :P
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| Two people entirely from different family backgrounds, without much expectations about their future life-mate chose this day to get married 27 years back ! I have always admired the efforts they have put to live together, raise up their children, admist compromises and sacrifices. I have learnt from them that though life is complicated, it can be made easy if you put your heart and mind to work together :)
I will be grateful to them my entire lifetime, for having created a sweet home and providing me a loving atmosphere which I fondly call and own as "MY FAMILY" !
No marriage is perfect, and I guess its common for all of us that the true life demo version of a Wedded-life we get to to experience and learn from is from our parents. The best we could do in return is to learn the good and try to avoid the bad and carry forward the tradition of human bonding down the generations.
I would love to travel back through time and recall nostalgic experiences of my understanding of what marriage is, (but unfortunately, I have less time and this post would run intothe R-bin as my previous n number of incomplete posts) ! . The hundreds of questions which popped up and I asked mum about why, how and when do people get together ? The simple, believable answers which she gave, along with stories from Bible - why God created man and woman, stories about Abraham and Sarah, Issac and Rebacca etc.
Marriage is not always full of smiles and rosy things as we hope and dream it to. And today was another example, when I had to call back a second time to hear mom's cribs and complaints about Dad! Heh ! There will be another cribbing session when the man of the family reads this post!
Happy Wedding Anniversary Dadda and Mumma ! | |
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