Auto-Ordeal !!!

It’s the same story for me everyday for last couple of weeks; I wake up late then rush to get ready and then dash down the stair case, reach the auto stand and then wait for that elusive auto to arrive and take me to the office. Then I have fight with dozen other morons waiting there for the auto, and if I am lucky enough I get the auto in my first go else God knows when would I be able to get one. Monotony epitomized: I can close my eyes and do the rounds.It reminds me of my placement days, when we used to wait for the companies. I really don’t know wat kinda recruitment criteria do these auto fellas have in their mind. One I know is: ladies first, I mean if you’re a female and beautiful, then no matter which ever discrete corner of the road you are auto will definitely find you.

Okay I am not talking about my daily ordeal, it is about this girl who stands at the auto stop. So this girl comes to the auto stand all very decked up, invariably you will find three four guys standing/waiting for auto. Then enter this beauty and everything stops, all forget that they are waiting for auto, she sways, smiles, brushes her hair, looks at an auto (and the auto of course stops) and everyone just wait there looking at every step she makes (now that ‘every’ also includes me JJJ). Then she sits in the auto and vrooommmmm she goes…. Then the normalcy returns, every back to Auto-Hunting.

Moral: Slow and steady wins the race, if you are a female you win it without even setting a foot forward.

*****Diwali*****

Diwali was good.

Had been home this diwali. It’s a nice time to be home. Actually its great to be home anytime of the year. Lots of sweet and relatives, though I am not too keen on the later but the former is something that I can never do without. Have refrained from bursting crackers for a long time and so this year when I thought of bursting a few maa was concerned whether I have retained my expertise, without practice.

Cleaning the house, lighting the lamp and of course buying crackers are a few things that excites me even today. It brings back those childhood days of innocence, I really love it. Almost a week at home doing nothing, just eating home cooked food and resting. Bikash was home, we met after two years. Interestingly we met exactly after 2 years. I mean last we met it was his birthday two years ago. Again we met on his birthday. Its sad how work becomes priority and you start losing touch with people who were best buddies.

Spoke to Manish, he might not be able to come to Praneesh’s marriage. Got some work, he is boss is screwing him like anything. So Praneesh’s wedding would be fun but of course Manish gonna miss it all.

I read this book, Joker in the Pack. It’s same old IIM IIT stuff, got really bored of reading these stuffs want to read something nice. Something worth it, I have started Kiterunner, just to change my literary taste.

Post Diwali the biggest problem is you start eating so much of sweet that you get addicted to sweets and every day you yearn for some good burfis and stuffs. One of the good things about staying home is morning tea. I love the tea at home, here they some how mess up the recipe…

Chow…..

The Coffee Song

Call it obsession

Call it fanatical

But I am not trying

To make this a skeptical

I have this craving

Justifies behaving

I really need some of that

Ooo, good coffee

Strong coffee

I need to have some

Ooo, good coffee

Strong coffee

Ooo cappuchino

Double espresso

I need something with

A really big kick

You ask me about creamer

You ask me about sugar

I tell you those things make me sick

With my... (jars of clay)

A long weekday it was...

What a long week we had this time. Yeah I know nobody complains when it’s a long weekend, but weekdays, nobody likes to work. The best feeling in the world is to see others work for you. Although I haven’t yet reached tht level but trying to reach their soon enough.

Ohh! going off track again… Yeah, so we are paying for enjoying a long weekend last week. Why can’t we reverse this weekend/weekday funda. I mean hw about a 2 days weekday and 5 days weekend. For a year, just to see hw the employee productivity is increasing in those two days. A trial run for a year. I don’t think its gonna hamper anyone. The economy is in the worst position it won’t go down any further. We have tried so hard, worked five days a week, could we save the economy NO, so now for a change lets try something different, what say a 2 days weekday with higher productivity and less time for thinking about anything else, GOD ARE YOU LISTENING.

One thing is for sure this gonna make me a bit more efficient. I mean if not efficient at least would make me look a bit bz, all I look is revolving on my chair, talking to someone, writing blog, going through cricket scores or reading some stuff on the net. Rarely do you find me on my seat and rarer is to find me working. This would atleast increase the ‘work pressure’.

Long weekends and long time to spend with your family, friends and girl/boy friend(s). And now you know whom to thank, who came up with this idea.

I was gang-fooled!!!

Have you ever been gang-fooled, I mean like a team of people fooling you. It happened to me. My team, whom I thought to be my friends fooled me. We had a working Saturday and Richa told me on Friday that we have a presentation on Saturday. So come Saturday morning I put on my formals and was in office half-an-hour early so that I could go thru the presentation, one final time. I booked conference room, arranged for projector.

Then came the Devil who does not wear Prada (but would definitely love to), in short Richa. From her smile I knew something was wrong, yep she lied to me, rather fooled me conned me… There is no meeting. Ohh no, she had her revenge(that’s another story). Now I was the only guy in the office in formals, even top bosses were in their golf tees and jeans. Then Reetu came and she laughed when she came to know the reason behind my sense of dressing, Monika knew it since yesterday and she carried her smile from yesterday itself. Ankur the monster was at it again, he too knew it and didn’t bother to warn me. Vivek took time but soon understood that I was fooled.

I know I am down, but thou shalt rise, and thou fury will be the fire in which the traitors shalt burn… But as of now I don’t have anything but to admit that I have been fooled… BIG TIME. I know some of you might be laughing at this and some definitely thinking that I got a dose of what I serve other. But don’t worry I will be back…

Richa, Ankur and Monika… u r now on the top of my hit list… And Thou shalt see that the sinner(s) is brought to justice (Shakespearen stuff's cool, huh???)…

Lazy meeeee.....

I have become too lazy. Have been thinking to start jogging and its been in the thought process for too long. I wake up early in the morning and then think watching breakfast news is a better idea. They show fitness stuffs on it and I change the channel lest it would inspire me to go jogging.

The only physical activity I am involved in is the badminton thingy that we do in the weekends else i have become a garfield of sort. Only food is getting all my attention. I am bored of being myself too.

I have been planning to watch a movie since last week but its not getting transmitted into action. My laziness is reaching new heights. Got to do something.

Anshul your pic is cool.

The only good thing happening now is Praneesh's is gonna get married, which means we(Bajaj, Yogesh, Deepika and Myself) all gonna have a great time in Jaipur, of course he gonna invite all of us. After long time friends would be meeting.

I want to write a book...

Powered by a few "thoughtfool" friends and a few utterrly butterly terribly disastrous moments in my life I planned to get my fingertips moving and do something more than just blogging, I mean start writing a book. I must say it wasn’t easy at all. You always want to write something that no one have thought of, which I think in this world of piracy and plagiarism a very wishful thinking, to say the least. I being human followed the same path too. After long sleepless nights that were spent in thinking about a topic that can touch a cord in everyone’s heart and make me the most popular person on Earth after The Pope, I gave up.

So then what did I do, I decided that if there's gonna be a story then it has to be about me, but then who would be interested in that, so I thought of writing about things that could have happened and had it happened then what. So the book would be a lot about would haves and could haves.

So I started with a big bang. I completed one chapter and then the irregularities set in and I left it there. Thinking that I would continue soon, but till then I just think I am gonna continue being in this lazy self of me, which is of course not very different from the active self of me either.