One shocking news I heard today was that one of my BA lead was leaving our account. In middle of work, I just felt like asking him , what happened ? why he took this decision ? etc. as I was running for a meeting, I couldn't immediately mail or ping him. We arranged for a quick happy hour in one of the restaurants close to our office. We bought him a card and gift. I haven't interacted much with him, as only for the past three months I have been added to the BA group.
I have seen one of his presentations in our team meetings, they were very impressive. Though he was old (close to fifties), he had never-die attitude. Whenever I met I only felt like listening to him, as his talks were very staggering and motivating.
Today only three of us from the entire group of 25 members went for his final send off. Initially myself and my friend planned to spend only 30 minutes with him and thought to leave home at 5.30. But after seeing the head count, we decided to spend some more time with him. As usual he mesmerized us with his talks on varied subjects. We touched upon all the topics ranging from sports to education . He ensured to involve everyone in that one hour conversation. I loved one of his quote... life should be filled with fun and shouldn't be serious.
We had some snacks and juice and chit-chatted for a long time. We hook hands to say our final good bye and left the place. On the way to our place we discussed, why the head count was less for such a respectable man in the account. I have missed many send off's in office due to production issues, but today I realized the importance of being with someone when they say a final good bye. Our presence even for couple of minutes with them shows how much we care ,respect and value them.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Shopping Spree
Not too long, but still felt like wiping out some money today. Six hours incessant shopping. For the first time in my life I found everything of my taste.
We started our journey to Albertville Premium outlet at 10 A.M. As the mall was in the outskirts, we had to spend nearly one hour to cover a distance of 42 miles. As my friend was not sure about the route, we had to blindly follow GPS instructions. People generally say GPS directions are long distanced and we experienced it today. We went through colonies and town houses for a long time and finally reached our destination.
The first shop we entered was Columbia Sportswear, the collections were good but seeing the price tag we decided it was catchpenny for our high standard and swiftly moved to other shops. Then we entered many shops and spent some time digging the cloth and shoe section. Nothing matched our choice, except for Tommy Hilfiger , GAPS and Aeropostale. We spent hours in fitting room , trying out different garbs.
In U.S , desi people who are lean and tiny have tough time in finding dresses that fit them. As my friend and I were petite, we had to sacrifice few dresses as they didn't not fit as well. Had a late lunch at 2P.M in Subway, first time I had foot long vegetarian sandwich usually I go for 6 inches sandwich, as I was feeling empty-bellied I wanted something huge.
As the temperature was soaring after lunch we couldn't walk much. We decided to wind up everything in the next half an hour. We bought everything we intended to, except for few misses in our initial purchasing list. Headed back to Wal-Mart to return one shirt, but something pulled my attention there , a smiley umbrella . I bought an umbrella, as the one I brought from India broke last year because of inclement weather. From Wal-Mart , we left to SAMS club to get our weekly grocers.
Both of us didn't even have the energy to pull the empty cart, somehow managed to complete our impulse-buy by 15 minutes. Reached home around 5.40 P.M. I loved all the stuff I got today, except for my severe headache.
We started our journey to Albertville Premium outlet at 10 A.M. As the mall was in the outskirts, we had to spend nearly one hour to cover a distance of 42 miles. As my friend was not sure about the route, we had to blindly follow GPS instructions. People generally say GPS directions are long distanced and we experienced it today. We went through colonies and town houses for a long time and finally reached our destination.
The first shop we entered was Columbia Sportswear, the collections were good but seeing the price tag we decided it was catchpenny for our high standard and swiftly moved to other shops. Then we entered many shops and spent some time digging the cloth and shoe section. Nothing matched our choice, except for Tommy Hilfiger , GAPS and Aeropostale. We spent hours in fitting room , trying out different garbs.
In U.S , desi people who are lean and tiny have tough time in finding dresses that fit them. As my friend and I were petite, we had to sacrifice few dresses as they didn't not fit as well. Had a late lunch at 2P.M in Subway, first time I had foot long vegetarian sandwich usually I go for 6 inches sandwich, as I was feeling empty-bellied I wanted something huge.
As the temperature was soaring after lunch we couldn't walk much. We decided to wind up everything in the next half an hour. We bought everything we intended to, except for few misses in our initial purchasing list. Headed back to Wal-Mart to return one shirt, but something pulled my attention there , a smiley umbrella . I bought an umbrella, as the one I brought from India broke last year because of inclement weather. From Wal-Mart , we left to SAMS club to get our weekly grocers.
Both of us didn't even have the energy to pull the empty cart, somehow managed to complete our impulse-buy by 15 minutes. Reached home around 5.40 P.M. I loved all the stuff I got today, except for my severe headache.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Got Reconnected
I had severe headache and body pain ,I was unable to get out of my bed in the morning. Somehow managed to arrange our kitchen racks and cook in the afternoon.
I was not willing to hibernate in the afternoon but wasn't sure how to get rid of my headache. Got a call from my close school friend, when I was about to boil some water to do steaming. I recalled the days back in 11th and 12th standard , when we used to talk over phone for hours and hours. We used to gift each other on our birthdays. After heading to college, we were still in touch through Sarang and other college festivals. In couple of years both of us got busy with our work and barely found time to even talk with each other.
Today she called me at 3.45 P.M, we were discussing about our school friends. Tried to brush up every single gal and guy in our class and were wondering where each one of them was. Continued our conversation with our family and office updates. We had a small interruption at 4.30 P.M ,as I received a call from another friend . He wanted to check my availability to take Lord Ganesh Idol from our apartment. I had to cut my call with my school friend for this activity for ten minutes. Later I called her back and continued our phatic speech about college life , office friends , marriage pressure from home and future plans.
We almost talked for 2 hours over phone, I felt very happy to have got reconnected with her.
I added few other schoolmates from her friendslist in orkut. We were discussing how our friendship would be after our marriage. We assured each other not to lose contact for any grounds. I am still not feeling well, hope to recover by tomorrow morning.
I was not willing to hibernate in the afternoon but wasn't sure how to get rid of my headache. Got a call from my close school friend, when I was about to boil some water to do steaming. I recalled the days back in 11th and 12th standard , when we used to talk over phone for hours and hours. We used to gift each other on our birthdays. After heading to college, we were still in touch through Sarang and other college festivals. In couple of years both of us got busy with our work and barely found time to even talk with each other.
Today she called me at 3.45 P.M, we were discussing about our school friends. Tried to brush up every single gal and guy in our class and were wondering where each one of them was. Continued our conversation with our family and office updates. We had a small interruption at 4.30 P.M ,as I received a call from another friend . He wanted to check my availability to take Lord Ganesh Idol from our apartment. I had to cut my call with my school friend for this activity for ten minutes. Later I called her back and continued our phatic speech about college life , office friends , marriage pressure from home and future plans.
We almost talked for 2 hours over phone, I felt very happy to have got reconnected with her.
I added few other schoolmates from her friendslist in orkut. We were discussing how our friendship would be after our marriage. We assured each other not to lose contact for any grounds. I am still not feeling well, hope to recover by tomorrow morning.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Marriage Pressure
I don't feel like calling home these days, when I talk to my elder sister she says come soon I am getting bored here, want to arrange your marriage. My younger sister had already decided the venue for my wedding.
I thought only my close ones were very concern about my marriage, I kept calling my distant uncle and aunt. They drive me nuts when they ask me when are you getting married.
I politely reply back please don't ask me anything about it now, let another year pass by. I really wanted someone in the family who will not talk about this matter to me, I called my maternal Grandma, she lectured me for 20 minutes to get married soon, before anything happens to her.
And today my mom was behind me to send some solo snaps of mine. And for every photo I sent , I heard some comments from her , this one is not good , you are not smiling in the other photo, comb your hair properly...etc.I am totally disgusted hearing all these.
I don't want to do make up and pretend being beautiful, what I am is what I am.
Might be I can impress him through my high touch photo's but when he sees me in person, that's exactly what I am going to look like and I am not going to make up everyday after marriage and show him that I am the prettiest women in the world.
My focus on my daily activities are getting drifted when I fight with my parents on this matter.
I am mentally and physically not prepared to get married now.
I too have some responsibilities for my family. Just because I am a gal , people can not force me to get married.
I completely understand that when gals cross certain age limit, it is difficult for them to get a suitable guy, but why don't guys think differently ?
Why don't they understand that gals do have their dreams and responsibilties to accomplish ?
Why don't they want to marry someone who is almost of their age ?,why do they prefer someone who is younger to them?
Why don't people understand marriage is not the end of life?
Why don't people reliaze Marriage is for self happiness and not a society eye-wash?
I still have lots of why questions running in my mind.
When I say such things to my parents, they bluntly reply back you can ask all those questions to your better half after marriage . But why don't people understand that even now gals take more duties at home than guys say for example cooking, taking care of kids , home and her hubby. Guys help out but no one takes full control, which makes it very difficult for a gal to balance her dreams and family.
Friends and my relatives warn me to get married and sometimes frighten me by saying you will land up marrying guys in 30's, if you don't get married now.
I have very critical responsibilities to be completed for my family members. I am counting every single day to achieve those as early as possible. My dad always wished he had a boy child, as he always thought only guys would be able to share his burden.
Marriage is not joke, I need time to understand the other person. I am fine even if I don't get married, I have many activities that keep me engaged.
I might probably miss someone to share my sorrows and happiness if I don't get married. But I will certainly get used to it . Will any of my relatives/friends be able to guarantee the following things after marriage.
What if I get a wrong life partner ? My life is totally screwed up , will end up in divorce and finally will lead a independent life.
what if my life partner dies after some years of marriage ? I will land up staying alone throughout my life.
I am not trying to be too pessimistic, but I can't bear the pressure on me. Life is lived only once and please allow me to do things at my ease.
I would be even more sick if I was in India, now it is just swapping of photo's on the gals and guys side. If I was in India, every time the guy comes to see me I need to dress up in traditional attire and serve him coffee and complete many formalities. And eventually if the result turns out to be negative , I have to chop-chop digest whatever happened and prepare myself for the next proposal.
The conventional arranged marriages and trend of guys getting married by 25 makes me feel nauseated.
I thought only my close ones were very concern about my marriage, I kept calling my distant uncle and aunt. They drive me nuts when they ask me when are you getting married.
I politely reply back please don't ask me anything about it now, let another year pass by. I really wanted someone in the family who will not talk about this matter to me, I called my maternal Grandma, she lectured me for 20 minutes to get married soon, before anything happens to her.
And today my mom was behind me to send some solo snaps of mine. And for every photo I sent , I heard some comments from her , this one is not good , you are not smiling in the other photo, comb your hair properly...etc.I am totally disgusted hearing all these.
I don't want to do make up and pretend being beautiful, what I am is what I am.
Might be I can impress him through my high touch photo's but when he sees me in person, that's exactly what I am going to look like and I am not going to make up everyday after marriage and show him that I am the prettiest women in the world.
My focus on my daily activities are getting drifted when I fight with my parents on this matter.
I am mentally and physically not prepared to get married now.
I too have some responsibilities for my family. Just because I am a gal , people can not force me to get married.
I completely understand that when gals cross certain age limit, it is difficult for them to get a suitable guy, but why don't guys think differently ?
Why don't they understand that gals do have their dreams and responsibilties to accomplish ?
Why don't they want to marry someone who is almost of their age ?,why do they prefer someone who is younger to them?
Why don't people understand marriage is not the end of life?
Why don't people reliaze Marriage is for self happiness and not a society eye-wash?
I still have lots of why questions running in my mind.
When I say such things to my parents, they bluntly reply back you can ask all those questions to your better half after marriage . But why don't people understand that even now gals take more duties at home than guys say for example cooking, taking care of kids , home and her hubby. Guys help out but no one takes full control, which makes it very difficult for a gal to balance her dreams and family.
Friends and my relatives warn me to get married and sometimes frighten me by saying you will land up marrying guys in 30's, if you don't get married now.
I have very critical responsibilities to be completed for my family members. I am counting every single day to achieve those as early as possible. My dad always wished he had a boy child, as he always thought only guys would be able to share his burden.
Marriage is not joke, I need time to understand the other person. I am fine even if I don't get married, I have many activities that keep me engaged.
I might probably miss someone to share my sorrows and happiness if I don't get married. But I will certainly get used to it . Will any of my relatives/friends be able to guarantee the following things after marriage.
What if I get a wrong life partner ? My life is totally screwed up , will end up in divorce and finally will lead a independent life.
what if my life partner dies after some years of marriage ? I will land up staying alone throughout my life.
I am not trying to be too pessimistic, but I can't bear the pressure on me. Life is lived only once and please allow me to do things at my ease.
I would be even more sick if I was in India, now it is just swapping of photo's on the gals and guys side. If I was in India, every time the guy comes to see me I need to dress up in traditional attire and serve him coffee and complete many formalities. And eventually if the result turns out to be negative , I have to chop-chop digest whatever happened and prepare myself for the next proposal.
The conventional arranged marriages and trend of guys getting married by 25 makes me feel nauseated.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sick Day
At 9 A.M,I heard someone buzzing in the living room, I opened my eyes and saw my roommate rushing to office and I was lying on the bed unable to get up.
I felt listless and then realized I was suffering from gastralgia. I was in perplexity, as I wasn't too sure if I will be able to work in office today but on the other hand I had many critical issues to be addressed today.
I thought for a while and pinged one of my colleague, explained her the situation.
She promptly replied me back to drop a mail to the clients and take the day off.
I know my clients have lots of hope on me to resolve the critical issues, and I didn’t want to break their confidence on me either.
I dropped a mail to my clients saying that I will be taking leave today but will ensure to complete the pending requests by noon. I resolved everything within two hours and went to take mikvah. I could hardly do anything, rested on bed until I heard the buzzer ring at 4.45 P.M . One of my friend had come to enquire about my health.I was feeling better after slackening myself for three hours. The day went very tardily.
From morning till 5.30 P.M, I didn't have any food except for water and pomegranate juice. I got perked up after having roti and sabji. Took a break again , chit-chatted with my roommate for a while and completed my call with offshore.
The day was draggy with no interesting events.
I felt listless and then realized I was suffering from gastralgia. I was in perplexity, as I wasn't too sure if I will be able to work in office today but on the other hand I had many critical issues to be addressed today.
I thought for a while and pinged one of my colleague, explained her the situation.
She promptly replied me back to drop a mail to the clients and take the day off.
I know my clients have lots of hope on me to resolve the critical issues, and I didn’t want to break their confidence on me either.
I dropped a mail to my clients saying that I will be taking leave today but will ensure to complete the pending requests by noon. I resolved everything within two hours and went to take mikvah. I could hardly do anything, rested on bed until I heard the buzzer ring at 4.45 P.M . One of my friend had come to enquire about my health.I was feeling better after slackening myself for three hours. The day went very tardily.
From morning till 5.30 P.M, I didn't have any food except for water and pomegranate juice. I got perked up after having roti and sabji. Took a break again , chit-chatted with my roommate for a while and completed my call with offshore.
The day was draggy with no interesting events.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Say Cheese
I never liked cheese when I was in India because of its salty taste. People say one should sojourn U.S just to taste cheese cakes. When people like me who don't like cheese, will ever risk oneself to taste cheese cakes ? Well one should unquestionably taste cheese cake no matter whether one likes Cheese or Not.
Initially even I was very hesitant to taste cheese cake in one of our business meetings. People commented wow , yummy , so good and delicious after tasting the Cheese Cake from SAMS club (http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/index.jsp). I was determined not to taste one as I was suspicious of getting vomit and other weird reactions after tasting it. But my friends assured me that nothing of that sort would happen and asked me to give it a try. Very reluctantly I took a small piece and it tasted amazing. I started eating many pieces of cake. I then realized
that I was adding unnecessary fat content to my diet, which would make me gain extra pounds.
I became little conscious and delimited myself from having more. I felt for a second, When I go back to India for Vacation, I should definitely carry a pack of cheese cake to my parents and friends, but the sad part is cheese cake has to be refrigerated, unfortunately our flights don't provide us such facilities. By the time One reaches India, the cheese cakes would have gone bad.
So far I have only tasted cheese cakes from bakeries, yesterday one of my friend got me home made cheese cake, the cake was so appealing that myself and my roommate stopped cooking and started sampling it. We almost completed the entire cake today.
My friend made the cake using unbaked cheese and chocolate mix, as I love chocolate flavor a lot, I couldn't control myself from having as much as I wanted.
Now I have a penchant towards Cheese Cake.
If you visit U.S, don't ever miss the chance to taste a Cheese Cake.
Initially even I was very hesitant to taste cheese cake in one of our business meetings. People commented wow , yummy , so good and delicious after tasting the Cheese Cake from SAMS club (http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/index.jsp). I was determined not to taste one as I was suspicious of getting vomit and other weird reactions after tasting it. But my friends assured me that nothing of that sort would happen and asked me to give it a try. Very reluctantly I took a small piece and it tasted amazing. I started eating many pieces of cake. I then realized
that I was adding unnecessary fat content to my diet, which would make me gain extra pounds.
I became little conscious and delimited myself from having more. I felt for a second, When I go back to India for Vacation, I should definitely carry a pack of cheese cake to my parents and friends, but the sad part is cheese cake has to be refrigerated, unfortunately our flights don't provide us such facilities. By the time One reaches India, the cheese cakes would have gone bad.
So far I have only tasted cheese cakes from bakeries, yesterday one of my friend got me home made cheese cake, the cake was so appealing that myself and my roommate stopped cooking and started sampling it. We almost completed the entire cake today.
My friend made the cake using unbaked cheese and chocolate mix, as I love chocolate flavor a lot, I couldn't control myself from having as much as I wanted.
Now I have a penchant towards Cheese Cake.
If you visit U.S, don't ever miss the chance to taste a Cheese Cake.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Restless day
I slept at 2.45 A.M in the morning, as I had evening nap the previous day I was finding it very strenuous to sleep in the night. Slept late, got up late and reached office tardive.
I normally attend one of our business meetings every Tuesday morning at 9 A.M. In this meeting we have people from three different teams who share their knowledge on the ordering system. So far there weren't any major issues related to my application and sometimes I felt why I was attending these meetings when there was nothing to discuss about my work. As I was surefooted I will not be able to make up on time for today’s weekly meeting, I decided to decline the meeting invite.
Our luck , in my team's absence they faced some critical issue wherein no data was sent from our application to the order management system.
I and one of our client started delving in this issue, we had to interact with other teams to resolve this issue.
I was trying to push the load to the Ordering system, one person from infrastructure team came to take my laptop for virus scanning, I was without laptop for 5 hours.
I was shuttling from place to place to use my colleagues machine during their lunch and break times. We had chats with DBA, BA and other team members. I was feeling to rest for a while, I felt completely jaded and was longing to catch a wink.
But my state was totally helpless today, when I was looking into one issue, another issue popped up. And all issues were of high importance and needed prompt attention. My head started spinning and badly wanted a break.
Went for a walk to grab some water from the cafeteria. Came back and in sometime I got my laptop back. I started to expedite my resolving process. Finally during the one hour meeting at 3 P.M, I completed most of my pending stuff except for one urgent script execution, which I would work on tomorrow.
After reaching home I had to execute few jobs and was preparing myself for discussing one requirement with my offshore team. The day was very restless that I hardly found anytime to have my food properly. I felt absolutely discontented today.
Hope to have a sound sleep tonight.
I normally attend one of our business meetings every Tuesday morning at 9 A.M. In this meeting we have people from three different teams who share their knowledge on the ordering system. So far there weren't any major issues related to my application and sometimes I felt why I was attending these meetings when there was nothing to discuss about my work. As I was surefooted I will not be able to make up on time for today’s weekly meeting, I decided to decline the meeting invite.
Our luck , in my team's absence they faced some critical issue wherein no data was sent from our application to the order management system.
I and one of our client started delving in this issue, we had to interact with other teams to resolve this issue.
I was trying to push the load to the Ordering system, one person from infrastructure team came to take my laptop for virus scanning, I was without laptop for 5 hours.
I was shuttling from place to place to use my colleagues machine during their lunch and break times. We had chats with DBA, BA and other team members. I was feeling to rest for a while, I felt completely jaded and was longing to catch a wink.
But my state was totally helpless today, when I was looking into one issue, another issue popped up. And all issues were of high importance and needed prompt attention. My head started spinning and badly wanted a break.
Went for a walk to grab some water from the cafeteria. Came back and in sometime I got my laptop back. I started to expedite my resolving process. Finally during the one hour meeting at 3 P.M, I completed most of my pending stuff except for one urgent script execution, which I would work on tomorrow.
After reaching home I had to execute few jobs and was preparing myself for discussing one requirement with my offshore team. The day was very restless that I hardly found anytime to have my food properly. I felt absolutely discontented today.
Hope to have a sound sleep tonight.
Monday, August 24, 2009
S07
I recapped my sweet memories in 2007 with my friends in MGM water park when I chit-chatted with my old friend.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
GC Contd.
We screwed up our plan a little, me and my roommate got up little late, but we managed to cleanly execute all our plans today.
At 9.30 A.M both of us got dressed in traditional salwar kameez and started with our pooja for Ganesh Chaturthi at 9.45 A.M.
After two years I am celebrating Vinayak Chaturthi, I was feeling very happy.
Immediately after aarthi, myself and my roomate divided our cooking task.
She started preparing Modak and I focused on Sundal, Rice Kheer, Dinner and Lunch preparation. We completed everything within two hours, isn’t it incredible?.
We served God all the delicious food that we had prepared for him and the very next minute after the short aarthi we had our lunch. We both were feeling empty-bellied.
At 1.15 P.M we broke for some rest, and at 6.15 P.M we visited our friends place to distribute the prasad. My friend was totally excited to taste Modak as it looked very enticing. She was in full praise for the Modak and in between I had to remind her to taste Kheer and Sundal as well, just to see how it has come out.
We had some fried modak at her place and chit-chated for 15 minutes. My roommate headed for a walk and I headed home at 6.45 P.M. I was practicing piano for 30 minutes and got a call from one of friend. We had invited four of our friends home to celebrate Vinayak Chaturthi and had been waiting for them from afternoon.
Instant comment from one of my friend after seeing modak was, "it looks like garlic"
we all laughed and meanwhile my roommate returned back from her walk. All the 25+ Modak's prepared by my roommate got over except for three.
We both were extremely happy for celebrating Vinayak Chaturthi and for sharing our happiness with our friends and neighbors. Hope next year too we would have the blessing of Lord Ganesh for the same.
At 9.30 A.M both of us got dressed in traditional salwar kameez and started with our pooja for Ganesh Chaturthi at 9.45 A.M.
After two years I am celebrating Vinayak Chaturthi, I was feeling very happy.
Immediately after aarthi, myself and my roomate divided our cooking task.
She started preparing Modak and I focused on Sundal, Rice Kheer, Dinner and Lunch preparation. We completed everything within two hours, isn’t it incredible?.
We served God all the delicious food that we had prepared for him and the very next minute after the short aarthi we had our lunch. We both were feeling empty-bellied.
At 1.15 P.M we broke for some rest, and at 6.15 P.M we visited our friends place to distribute the prasad. My friend was totally excited to taste Modak as it looked very enticing. She was in full praise for the Modak and in between I had to remind her to taste Kheer and Sundal as well, just to see how it has come out.
We had some fried modak at her place and chit-chated for 15 minutes. My roommate headed for a walk and I headed home at 6.45 P.M. I was practicing piano for 30 minutes and got a call from one of friend. We had invited four of our friends home to celebrate Vinayak Chaturthi and had been waiting for them from afternoon.
Instant comment from one of my friend after seeing modak was, "it looks like garlic"
we all laughed and meanwhile my roommate returned back from her walk. All the 25+ Modak's prepared by my roommate got over except for three.
We both were extremely happy for celebrating Vinayak Chaturthi and for sharing our happiness with our friends and neighbors. Hope next year too we would have the blessing of Lord Ganesh for the same.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Bless US Ganesha
Today my roommate bought Ganesh Idol from MN Hindu Temple for tomorrow's Vinayak Chaturthi. We were fortunate to have him. His arrival to our home was totally unanticipated.
Until yesterday we only had plans of taking a print out of his photo. We even forgot to get his photo printout as we were caught in production issues on Friday evening. The only last option left with us was to sketch him, I still remember the days in my childhood when I used to sketch Lord Ganesh in different poses every year. After ninth standard I got busy with my studies and I hardly found any time for drawing.
My dad has the habit of learning anything through observation. Probably I inherited that quality from him. For two - three years I molded God Ganesh with my fingers in clay. I observed few of my seniors creating Lord Vinayak when I was waiting for my dad's pick up from tuition. The every next week I demanded my dad to get me some moist clay and he had no clue why I wanted those. He would have taught, his daughter wanted clay to create some funny dolls. When I was done with Lord Vinayak, he and my mom were stupefied. I got the freedom to mould Lord Vinayak for two-three Vinayak Chathurthi's. As I had lots of commitment in studies, I couldn't take care him in his consecutive birthdays.
We have planned to prepare kolukattai and sundal tomorrow morning at 6 A.M, hopefully we would get up on time as it being Sunday. My only prayer this year is...give everyone the strength to fight against all evils in their life.
Until yesterday we only had plans of taking a print out of his photo. We even forgot to get his photo printout as we were caught in production issues on Friday evening. The only last option left with us was to sketch him, I still remember the days in my childhood when I used to sketch Lord Ganesh in different poses every year. After ninth standard I got busy with my studies and I hardly found any time for drawing.
My dad has the habit of learning anything through observation. Probably I inherited that quality from him. For two - three years I molded God Ganesh with my fingers in clay. I observed few of my seniors creating Lord Vinayak when I was waiting for my dad's pick up from tuition. The every next week I demanded my dad to get me some moist clay and he had no clue why I wanted those. He would have taught, his daughter wanted clay to create some funny dolls. When I was done with Lord Vinayak, he and my mom were stupefied. I got the freedom to mould Lord Vinayak for two-three Vinayak Chathurthi's. As I had lots of commitment in studies, I couldn't take care him in his consecutive birthdays.
We have planned to prepare kolukattai and sundal tomorrow morning at 6 A.M, hopefully we would get up on time as it being Sunday. My only prayer this year is...give everyone the strength to fight against all evils in their life.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Memories of G
I always loved her more than my mom. I am always enthralled by her guts and tenacity. She just keeps going undeterred by any hardship in her life.
Women of power and network , the women who is my role model from my childhood is my maternal Grandma.
I used to comfortably sleep on her laps as a kid and even as grown ups I loved taking naps on her lap. Everyone in our family liked her for being extremely gregarious and amiable. She is the one who holds all our family members under a single roof of love and affection. She is very very concern about her things. I still remember the day when I borrowed one of her most diminutive needle to stitch my clothes and my mistake dropped it somewhere. As I know she is very particular about her things, I replaced the original one with some other needle. I behaved like a smart kid, but my grandma turned out to be even more sassier than me. The needle I replaced was of the next size than what I lost and from the size difference she could identify that I had not returned back her original needle. I later understood that my grandma is very sharp like a razor, it is very difficult to cheat her by any means.
Though she was bought up in tycoon family, she knew the importance of every rupee. In the night one can see her jot down all the expenses for the day. She bargains with autowala if they demand her more. Even when the auto driver yell at her saying you are old, why don't you pay what we demand for ? , she smiles back and replies why are you wasting your energy fighting for five rupees with this old lady, why don't you compromise? . My relatives and even my mom is very afraid to board her in the auto from hospital to home.
I usually hesitate to visit grandma's place during summer vacations as she never allows any of us to catch a wink, she pulls us in some job and ensures we do not take a snooze in the afternoons.
My grandpa passed way in 2001 and all adversities surrounded her, in the same year she was diagnosed with cancer, her sons and daughters were far apart and couldn't frequently accompany her to the hospital, it was just her sheer will to live made her fight back all odds.
We tease her for lots of things such as "She sleeps with her mouth wide open in the chair during odd times in morning and afternoon" and asks her grandchildren to avoid sleeping in the afternoon. She is hyper conscious about her food, her day starts off with some fruit juice, she loves apple juice compared to any other fruit juice. It is mandatory to have some non-veg item during lunch and milk after dinner.
Even when the doctor advised her to cut down fatty foods (eg.mutton) in her diet, she never restricted herself from tasting anything she loved the most.
She easily adjusts to any environment and people. Yearly once we go out for family trips and we generally complain about hotel and outside food. She grins and says you need to be flexible from this young age and have to adjust to such situations in life.
She loves exploring new places. Thanks to my grandpa’s government job which made her visit different places in India every three years on his transfer.
I would be the happiest soul if I could satisfy her wish to visit America. I can never forget the memorable days I had with her.
I spoke with her last night and she started crying, as she was missing me a lot , as I am the most-wanted of all the grandchildren :)
Women of power and network , the women who is my role model from my childhood is my maternal Grandma.
I used to comfortably sleep on her laps as a kid and even as grown ups I loved taking naps on her lap. Everyone in our family liked her for being extremely gregarious and amiable. She is the one who holds all our family members under a single roof of love and affection. She is very very concern about her things. I still remember the day when I borrowed one of her most diminutive needle to stitch my clothes and my mistake dropped it somewhere. As I know she is very particular about her things, I replaced the original one with some other needle. I behaved like a smart kid, but my grandma turned out to be even more sassier than me. The needle I replaced was of the next size than what I lost and from the size difference she could identify that I had not returned back her original needle. I later understood that my grandma is very sharp like a razor, it is very difficult to cheat her by any means.
Though she was bought up in tycoon family, she knew the importance of every rupee. In the night one can see her jot down all the expenses for the day. She bargains with autowala if they demand her more. Even when the auto driver yell at her saying you are old, why don't you pay what we demand for ? , she smiles back and replies why are you wasting your energy fighting for five rupees with this old lady, why don't you compromise? . My relatives and even my mom is very afraid to board her in the auto from hospital to home.
I usually hesitate to visit grandma's place during summer vacations as she never allows any of us to catch a wink, she pulls us in some job and ensures we do not take a snooze in the afternoons.
My grandpa passed way in 2001 and all adversities surrounded her, in the same year she was diagnosed with cancer, her sons and daughters were far apart and couldn't frequently accompany her to the hospital, it was just her sheer will to live made her fight back all odds.
We tease her for lots of things such as "She sleeps with her mouth wide open in the chair during odd times in morning and afternoon" and asks her grandchildren to avoid sleeping in the afternoon. She is hyper conscious about her food, her day starts off with some fruit juice, she loves apple juice compared to any other fruit juice. It is mandatory to have some non-veg item during lunch and milk after dinner.
Even when the doctor advised her to cut down fatty foods (eg.mutton) in her diet, she never restricted herself from tasting anything she loved the most.
She easily adjusts to any environment and people. Yearly once we go out for family trips and we generally complain about hotel and outside food. She grins and says you need to be flexible from this young age and have to adjust to such situations in life.
She loves exploring new places. Thanks to my grandpa’s government job which made her visit different places in India every three years on his transfer.
I would be the happiest soul if I could satisfy her wish to visit America. I can never forget the memorable days I had with her.
I spoke with her last night and she started crying, as she was missing me a lot , as I am the most-wanted of all the grandchildren :)
Thursday, August 20, 2009
With and Without Roommate
Never in my life did I get a chance to stay away from my family members.
School, College and Office were within the maximum range of 10 kilometers. I estranged from my folks only for my 15days NCC camp to Pune and Vizag. I always longed to lead an independent life and be away from my family for at least a year. Being independent teaches us many lessons ,in a way it is risky too if you don't get the right company.
Though my parents bought us in strict discipline, I was diffident on how well I would get along with others of my age. I wanted to explore how comfortably I would mingle with new people. The much anticipated opportunity clicked in December month when my team lead was hashing out about my onsite trip to U.S. I first gave this news to my mother, my thickest friend. She only asked for my choice and very clearly stated if you are interested you can go to U.S but ensure to return back in a year. She was behind me to get married at the right age, but I absolutely lacked interest in marriage. Even now I am afraid to visit India as she would for sure give my hand to some guy of her choice. Not that her selection is bad but I am only appalled of my personnel restrictions after marriage. My parents did restrict us in few things, but we were given full freedom to step in all the activities of our interest.
Before reaching U.S I was praying god that I should get a proficient room partner, as this being my first stay outside home.
Fortuitously my first roommate had the same frequency as that of mine and I could rapidly adjust with her. she taught me how to roll roti's, cook different potpourris and how to manage home expense.
We shared personal and official matters during our cooking time. We always had a open conversation, if anyone of us did anything wrong, we were very direct in expressing our rough comments to each other. During this period I relished my first sojourn outside home. We welcomed second roommate in our apartment, as all three of us had good understanding, we had great fun and rollick together. As people get closer their expectations increases, that's exactly what happened when we got along. One of my roommate expected that all three go for grocery shopping and I would be caught up with some official/personal work and would ask them to go ahead with the weekly purchase. All the No's from my side accumulated and bombarded one day, from there on we started maintaining distance among ourselves. We shared only general matters and nothing personnel.
My only learning from this incident was never set expectations for the other person. It is better to do things on your own than relying on someone.
In my initial months I was finding it very difficult to adjust with people, as I had different thoughts from theirs. Say for example I would not like using any of the kitchen utensils in the rest room but my roommates viewed it exactly in the opposite manner. I had to calm down myself my saying "Opinions Differ".
Then I moved with another roommate in Heritage. The two months stay with her was terrific as we hanged out every week in shopping malls , temple or in friends place.
Two months passed in jiffy. After she moved to India, I decided to stay alone for sometime as I wanted a break from others view and wanted to see how well I can manage myself. Only the first week I was getting bored without a room partner, later on I had so many things to manipulate in the apartment. House cleaning, keeping things in the right place and arranging racks in my spare time made me very busy.
My days flew very fast with Tennis tournaments and Offshore calls.
I loved those two months as I could cook, eat and clean at my desired time.
Now I am with my third roommate, after spending more than one month with her I have realized that not digging too much into others matter and not getting too personnel makes one's relationship healthy.
Staying with new new roommates taught me several novel lessons while staying alone taught me how to manage time and material.
School, College and Office were within the maximum range of 10 kilometers. I estranged from my folks only for my 15days NCC camp to Pune and Vizag. I always longed to lead an independent life and be away from my family for at least a year. Being independent teaches us many lessons ,in a way it is risky too if you don't get the right company.
Though my parents bought us in strict discipline, I was diffident on how well I would get along with others of my age. I wanted to explore how comfortably I would mingle with new people. The much anticipated opportunity clicked in December month when my team lead was hashing out about my onsite trip to U.S. I first gave this news to my mother, my thickest friend. She only asked for my choice and very clearly stated if you are interested you can go to U.S but ensure to return back in a year. She was behind me to get married at the right age, but I absolutely lacked interest in marriage. Even now I am afraid to visit India as she would for sure give my hand to some guy of her choice. Not that her selection is bad but I am only appalled of my personnel restrictions after marriage. My parents did restrict us in few things, but we were given full freedom to step in all the activities of our interest.
Before reaching U.S I was praying god that I should get a proficient room partner, as this being my first stay outside home.
Fortuitously my first roommate had the same frequency as that of mine and I could rapidly adjust with her. she taught me how to roll roti's, cook different potpourris and how to manage home expense.
We shared personal and official matters during our cooking time. We always had a open conversation, if anyone of us did anything wrong, we were very direct in expressing our rough comments to each other. During this period I relished my first sojourn outside home. We welcomed second roommate in our apartment, as all three of us had good understanding, we had great fun and rollick together. As people get closer their expectations increases, that's exactly what happened when we got along. One of my roommate expected that all three go for grocery shopping and I would be caught up with some official/personal work and would ask them to go ahead with the weekly purchase. All the No's from my side accumulated and bombarded one day, from there on we started maintaining distance among ourselves. We shared only general matters and nothing personnel.
My only learning from this incident was never set expectations for the other person. It is better to do things on your own than relying on someone.
In my initial months I was finding it very difficult to adjust with people, as I had different thoughts from theirs. Say for example I would not like using any of the kitchen utensils in the rest room but my roommates viewed it exactly in the opposite manner. I had to calm down myself my saying "Opinions Differ".
Then I moved with another roommate in Heritage. The two months stay with her was terrific as we hanged out every week in shopping malls , temple or in friends place.
Two months passed in jiffy. After she moved to India, I decided to stay alone for sometime as I wanted a break from others view and wanted to see how well I can manage myself. Only the first week I was getting bored without a room partner, later on I had so many things to manipulate in the apartment. House cleaning, keeping things in the right place and arranging racks in my spare time made me very busy.
My days flew very fast with Tennis tournaments and Offshore calls.
I loved those two months as I could cook, eat and clean at my desired time.
Now I am with my third roommate, after spending more than one month with her I have realized that not digging too much into others matter and not getting too personnel makes one's relationship healthy.
Staying with new new roommates taught me several novel lessons while staying alone taught me how to manage time and material.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
What as an Engg ?
As an engineer I chew over if I did something new to solve any of the existing conundrums in the world. There are scarity of basic facilities in our country.
When I think of Michael W. Pritchard the inventor of "LifeSaver" a portable bottle that converts filthy water drinkable, I feel dishonored.
More than considering engineering as a degree, professional course and biz , I believe one has to dream what changes one can bring in others life and stratum.
After four years of merit oriented studies, I only dreamt of getting placement in multinational company.
As an engineer I only wanted to eke out and never ever thought to emphasize my fellow beings difficulty.I have been an literal engineer who has only strived to operate ones life engine.
What can I do differently in this extremely agonistic world?
When 4.5 to 5 Lakh engineering graduates pass out every year in India , of which 70-80% step into outsourcing world.
Will software engineers be able to think out of their humdrum work?
High pay packet has totally supressed the creativity and the initial germination of innovation in the minds of the budding engineers.
The government and parents need to ensure that their children get quality education that would allow them to do simple but helpful things for their companionship.
In coming years, I will prove the purpose of being an electrical engineer.
More infos when I am done executing my action items.
When I think of Michael W. Pritchard the inventor of "LifeSaver" a portable bottle that converts filthy water drinkable, I feel dishonored.
More than considering engineering as a degree, professional course and biz , I believe one has to dream what changes one can bring in others life and stratum.
After four years of merit oriented studies, I only dreamt of getting placement in multinational company.
As an engineer I only wanted to eke out and never ever thought to emphasize my fellow beings difficulty.I have been an literal engineer who has only strived to operate ones life engine.
What can I do differently in this extremely agonistic world?
When 4.5 to 5 Lakh engineering graduates pass out every year in India , of which 70-80% step into outsourcing world.
Will software engineers be able to think out of their humdrum work?
High pay packet has totally supressed the creativity and the initial germination of innovation in the minds of the budding engineers.
The government and parents need to ensure that their children get quality education that would allow them to do simple but helpful things for their companionship.
In coming years, I will prove the purpose of being an electrical engineer.
More infos when I am done executing my action items.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Me and TM
I completed six months with toastmasters club (http://www.toastmasters.org/).I had lots of learning from this club . I considered myself as a good speaker until I came across maginificient and seniour most speakers in this quorum.
I was attending the toastmasters meeting as a guest for one and half months and later enrolled as a member.I feel touted as I have surpassed my senior members in the first level (Competent Communicator).Lots of appreciation from my club president and vice president for compeleting ten speeches in short span of time.
What I like the most about this club is the committement and dedication each members have in the weekly meetings. We have different roles assigned to people and every time people try to do something different and innovative. Say for example if a person is assigned the role of " Wordmaster / Grammarian ",the roles expectation is to track the usage of "Word of the Day" and good usuage of english. What can one do differently in this role was I thought when I had to fill in this role during one of my colleagues absence? But Carl (amazing personality) proved me wrong.
I still remember the word he got when he was assigned the role.The word of the day was "Sultry" and the printout he had got to explain the meaning of this word was awesome as he had expressed the meaning of the word using images, which none of us so far dared to do.
As rightly said by Pepsi Co CEO Indra Nooyi, don't think about your next assignment but think how effectively you can perform your current assignment.
Thats exactly what our tartan club members do for toastmasters meeting.
I was attending the toastmasters meeting as a guest for one and half months and later enrolled as a member.I feel touted as I have surpassed my senior members in the first level (Competent Communicator).Lots of appreciation from my club president and vice president for compeleting ten speeches in short span of time.
What I like the most about this club is the committement and dedication each members have in the weekly meetings. We have different roles assigned to people and every time people try to do something different and innovative. Say for example if a person is assigned the role of " Wordmaster / Grammarian ",the roles expectation is to track the usage of "Word of the Day" and good usuage of english. What can one do differently in this role was I thought when I had to fill in this role during one of my colleagues absence? But Carl (amazing personality) proved me wrong.
I still remember the word he got when he was assigned the role.The word of the day was "Sultry" and the printout he had got to explain the meaning of this word was awesome as he had expressed the meaning of the word using images, which none of us so far dared to do.
As rightly said by Pepsi Co CEO Indra Nooyi, don't think about your next assignment but think how effectively you can perform your current assignment.
Thats exactly what our tartan club members do for toastmasters meeting.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Back to routine
Tennis match in the morning after a very long time.Morning exercise does wonders, I felt fresh and energetic.
I couldn't see anyone except for my opponent in the court.The climate was dulcet.
I was only afraid of falling asleep in office after today's match.At the end of the day I was happy to have got my old routine.
Lots of memories flashes in my mind when I think of morning tennis practice.I still remember the days when I used to cycle two kms to the tennis court. Sharp 5.30 A.M that's exactly the time my mom comes out to do some sandpainting with rice powder at our home entrance, she would start off why don't you study something instead of playing tennis in the morning.I usually pretend insensitive when she talks about studies in the morning.My dad doesn't like me going empty stomach anywhere, every day morning he clamors when I leave for tennis practice. I buzz off saying that I am just fine and I don't feel hungry to have anything early morning. I bike rapidly and ensure to reach the court by 5.45 A.M. I was always delighted to see my tennis friends. Invariably I felt their care while playing with them,as I was the only girl in the group. We spend the first 15 minutes in quick warm ups followed by half an hour tennis drill.
From 6.30-7.30 we play a set, mostly our games would have tough fight. It is usually doubles during weekdays and mix of singles and doubles matches during weekends.
One hour would be packed with loads of fun, for every messed up shot you will receive humorous comments. At 7.30 we would all head towards our daily activities. I rush back home,grab my breakfast and leave to college. Initial few days I used to sleep in the first two periods. As days went by I got used to the routine.
Hopefully I will strike a balance between work and tennis in the coming days as well.
I couldn't see anyone except for my opponent in the court.The climate was dulcet.
I was only afraid of falling asleep in office after today's match.At the end of the day I was happy to have got my old routine.
Lots of memories flashes in my mind when I think of morning tennis practice.I still remember the days when I used to cycle two kms to the tennis court. Sharp 5.30 A.M that's exactly the time my mom comes out to do some sandpainting with rice powder at our home entrance, she would start off why don't you study something instead of playing tennis in the morning.I usually pretend insensitive when she talks about studies in the morning.My dad doesn't like me going empty stomach anywhere, every day morning he clamors when I leave for tennis practice. I buzz off saying that I am just fine and I don't feel hungry to have anything early morning. I bike rapidly and ensure to reach the court by 5.45 A.M. I was always delighted to see my tennis friends. Invariably I felt their care while playing with them,as I was the only girl in the group. We spend the first 15 minutes in quick warm ups followed by half an hour tennis drill.
From 6.30-7.30 we play a set, mostly our games would have tough fight. It is usually doubles during weekdays and mix of singles and doubles matches during weekends.
One hour would be packed with loads of fun, for every messed up shot you will receive humorous comments. At 7.30 we would all head towards our daily activities. I rush back home,grab my breakfast and leave to college. Initial few days I used to sleep in the first two periods. As days went by I got used to the routine.
Hopefully I will strike a balance between work and tennis in the coming days as well.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Loss of Wisdom
Nothing special today except for this speech on "Loss of Wisdom" that I heard during lunch time.
The speaker conveys how one should lead life with morality.He gives several examples and justifies why it is important for all us to be ethical in our profession and life.
I liked the following statement originally given by U.S President Barack Obama in his speech:
We must ask ,just not if it is profitable but if it is right.
The speaker emphasis on "Ethical Lessons" in schools and colleges. Education with ethical background teaches a person to respect oneself, their elders and teachers.
As we have been compromising on rules and regulation within our organization we are never given a chance to think if we are morally correct.
Giving incentive wouldn't motivate people to be moral, it has to be enforced from one's self attitude.
Immediately I started to imagine how would schools and colleges be, if there was no one to invigilate us during our exams. Would everyone be honest and write what they know rather than copying from others ? Would the students ground themself in character than worrying about marks ?
Would organisations hire people based on character than on merits ?
Looking forward for such changes in future.I am feeling very sleepy today.So keeping my content short.
The speaker conveys how one should lead life with morality.He gives several examples and justifies why it is important for all us to be ethical in our profession and life.
I liked the following statement originally given by U.S President Barack Obama in his speech:
We must ask ,just not if it is profitable but if it is right.
The speaker emphasis on "Ethical Lessons" in schools and colleges. Education with ethical background teaches a person to respect oneself, their elders and teachers.
As we have been compromising on rules and regulation within our organization we are never given a chance to think if we are morally correct.
Giving incentive wouldn't motivate people to be moral, it has to be enforced from one's self attitude.
Immediately I started to imagine how would schools and colleges be, if there was no one to invigilate us during our exams. Would everyone be honest and write what they know rather than copying from others ? Would the students ground themself in character than worrying about marks ?
Would organisations hire people based on character than on merits ?
Looking forward for such changes in future.I am feeling very sleepy today.So keeping my content short.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Shots mite hurt
As the climate was moody, I wasn't sure if my singles match was confirmed.
I tried calling my opponent once before heading towards the tennis court.
It rang and reached his voice mail after a while,that gave a positive sign to step ahead.I saw my opponent having some warm ups in the court and my other friends were playing singles in the adjacent court.
We kick started the match within 5-10 mins as I was afraid of my visual range in the cloudy weather. I generally find it difficult to view the balls when it gets little darker .Thereby decided to complete the match as early as possible.
In the first set I made many unforced errors and was basically trying to get momemtum to attack my opponent.The first set got over in jiffy.Unshaken by my low score in the first set, I geared up with different strategies in my second set.In every match I always ensure to have a progessive score and in this match too I wanted atleast one game point more than my first set.
Only distraction in today's match was rain, but as we were confident that it would stop in quondam, we continued playing.We winded up the match in 45 minutes.
My opponent left the court and I called one of my friend who was practicing on the wall.We rallied for a while and later decided to play one set.This time the set was having mixes of deuces and advanatages.We completed our first set and as we still had time, We planned for the second set. We were swapping sides for the second set and all of sudden we found one of our friend fall on the ground covering one side of his eye. I had no clue as I turned the other side to grab some water. The whole tennis crew on the court surrounded him. We found his spectacle smashed few inches from his foot.We weren't sure if any glass pieces had affected his eye, as he was unable to open his eyes for a while. We asked him to rinse his eyes with water and were planning to take him to the hospital. Meanwhile people explained me that my friend turned back exactly at the same time when his doubles partner was returing a strong shot. Samething I experienced couple of weeks back, luckily the ball hit on my cheeks and not on my eyes.
As time passed it started raining heavily and we marched to our friends car.
People offered to drop my friend home as he was not in a position to drive independently without his eyeglasses.His eyes were reddish and swollen,we strongly recommended him to go for a check up on monday.He replied I have some contact lens solutions, if that doesn't help I will definitely go to the doctor.
Powerful play shots sometimes turns out be hurtful in some occassions like the one above.
I tried calling my opponent once before heading towards the tennis court.
It rang and reached his voice mail after a while,that gave a positive sign to step ahead.I saw my opponent having some warm ups in the court and my other friends were playing singles in the adjacent court.
We kick started the match within 5-10 mins as I was afraid of my visual range in the cloudy weather. I generally find it difficult to view the balls when it gets little darker .Thereby decided to complete the match as early as possible.
In the first set I made many unforced errors and was basically trying to get momemtum to attack my opponent.The first set got over in jiffy.Unshaken by my low score in the first set, I geared up with different strategies in my second set.In every match I always ensure to have a progessive score and in this match too I wanted atleast one game point more than my first set.
Only distraction in today's match was rain, but as we were confident that it would stop in quondam, we continued playing.We winded up the match in 45 minutes.
My opponent left the court and I called one of my friend who was practicing on the wall.We rallied for a while and later decided to play one set.This time the set was having mixes of deuces and advanatages.We completed our first set and as we still had time, We planned for the second set. We were swapping sides for the second set and all of sudden we found one of our friend fall on the ground covering one side of his eye. I had no clue as I turned the other side to grab some water. The whole tennis crew on the court surrounded him. We found his spectacle smashed few inches from his foot.We weren't sure if any glass pieces had affected his eye, as he was unable to open his eyes for a while. We asked him to rinse his eyes with water and were planning to take him to the hospital. Meanwhile people explained me that my friend turned back exactly at the same time when his doubles partner was returing a strong shot. Samething I experienced couple of weeks back, luckily the ball hit on my cheeks and not on my eyes.
As time passed it started raining heavily and we marched to our friends car.
People offered to drop my friend home as he was not in a position to drive independently without his eyeglasses.His eyes were reddish and swollen,we strongly recommended him to go for a check up on monday.He replied I have some contact lens solutions, if that doesn't help I will definitely go to the doctor.
Powerful play shots sometimes turns out be hurtful in some occassions like the one above.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Movie Time
Friday nights I generally watch some movie that makes me gag.Last week one of my friend recommended me to watch Bheja Fry (Hindi Movie which means someone is really annoying). Probably my taste was different from his that I didn't like the movie much. This time I didn't want to waste much time in exploring for new ones and decided to watch something I had seen already.Now which one to watch was still a question mark in my mind. As my brain was completely ammonified I asked few suggestions from my roommate , she listed down few movies and I had no interest in any of them except for "Jab We Met". Well I told her I am not sure if I would love watching that movie for the second time, she grinned and said I have watched that movie for more than 5 times.
Except for Naayagan (Tamil Movie), never in my lifetime have I watched anything for the second time. Sometimes I wonder how people watch the same movie for 'N' number of times. Believably I am very impatient for such things.
Finally we compromised on "Jab We Met". I always loved the character "Geeth" in this movie for her boldness , candidness, talktiveness and josh. undoubtedly the movie is fantastic and is worth watching for the second time.
This movie reminded me of an heated argument that I had with one of my friend.Both had different viewpoint for Geeth's final decision to lead her life with Adhitya(whom she considers as a friend in the beginning and later considers him to be her lover).
He debated saying that according to Indian culture no matter what happens the gal/guy should only establish love relationship with one person,she all of sudden changes her mind and considers a friend as lover.It is totally unbearable Ashwini.
When someone doesn't understand the importance of that relationship ,what's the point staying with him/her ?
Pleasure of love lasts for a moment but Pain of love lasts for lifetime ,when someone is trying to recover you from that pain, What's wrong in marrying him/her?.
You can't blindly follow everything in our culture was my justification.
Opinions differ,but I strongly felt her decision was honorable.
Except for Naayagan (Tamil Movie), never in my lifetime have I watched anything for the second time. Sometimes I wonder how people watch the same movie for 'N' number of times. Believably I am very impatient for such things.
Finally we compromised on "Jab We Met". I always loved the character "Geeth" in this movie for her boldness , candidness, talktiveness and josh. undoubtedly the movie is fantastic and is worth watching for the second time.
This movie reminded me of an heated argument that I had with one of my friend.Both had different viewpoint for Geeth's final decision to lead her life with Adhitya(whom she considers as a friend in the beginning and later considers him to be her lover).
He debated saying that according to Indian culture no matter what happens the gal/guy should only establish love relationship with one person,she all of sudden changes her mind and considers a friend as lover.It is totally unbearable Ashwini.
When someone doesn't understand the importance of that relationship ,what's the point staying with him/her ?
Pleasure of love lasts for a moment but Pain of love lasts for lifetime ,when someone is trying to recover you from that pain, What's wrong in marrying him/her?.
You can't blindly follow everything in our culture was my justification.
Opinions differ,but I strongly felt her decision was honorable.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Weird Day
My day started off with strange issues in my application. We went live couple of days back. We generally face cache issues with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan users on the very next day of our production move. This time we were goggle-eyed as we had no such complaints from any of our Asia Pacific users.
Instead our application behaved more nonfunctional as none of the APAC users were able to login.Our application bumped them off in spite of providing the correct user id and password.We replicated the issue in U.S by changing our country code to 'TW' (Taiwan) and things (including ENL and our new changes for this release) worked as gestated. We had no clue what could have made our requirements to work differently in Asian countries. We had chain of mails flowing between our team and ECDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Networks).
We pushed the ECDN team little harder to flush the cache by evening and planned for a night time conference call with Taiwan Team.
I stopped thinking anymore about cache and flash and started to work on SSIS package deployment in the later half of the day. I tried executing the package locally once before sending the deployed packages to my DBA. I got a message "Invalid Password" my brain whirled as the same package worked fine yesterday. I validated the password with Teradata DBA,he confirmed that I was using the correct password. Now I tried connecting directly to Teradata and was successful. Then I re-executed my package ,this time it threw me a different error "Account Locked".I raised the ticket to unlock my account.I repeated the same step and was not sure what was locking my account.I directly approached the DBA, he tried few things from his side and he too faced the same stumper.Hearing our conversation our Teradata DBA pitched in.Three of us spent more than an hour in troubleshooting why the login was successful for the first time but threw "Invalid Password" in the consecutive attempts.As my DBA's were getting late for their next assignment,they couldn't try any longer on this strikingly unusual trouble.
I winded up the work time by completely a script execution and rushed home.
Our conference call started at 7.30 P.M,in the beginning I found it little hard to understand Taiwanese Slang,but my clients from U.S side re-explained what they were trying to convey.
Though our call overstepped our estimated time,we continued our line of work on this issue.Finally we confirmed that the defect was not related to the application, but was due to some infrastructure set up in Taiwan.
One itty-bitty issue killed my whole day.Today's learning was to empathize my end-user's problem inspite of it being big or small.
Instead our application behaved more nonfunctional as none of the APAC users were able to login.Our application bumped them off in spite of providing the correct user id and password.We replicated the issue in U.S by changing our country code to 'TW' (Taiwan) and things (including ENL and our new changes for this release) worked as gestated. We had no clue what could have made our requirements to work differently in Asian countries. We had chain of mails flowing between our team and ECDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Networks).
We pushed the ECDN team little harder to flush the cache by evening and planned for a night time conference call with Taiwan Team.
I stopped thinking anymore about cache and flash and started to work on SSIS package deployment in the later half of the day. I tried executing the package locally once before sending the deployed packages to my DBA. I got a message "Invalid Password" my brain whirled as the same package worked fine yesterday. I validated the password with Teradata DBA,he confirmed that I was using the correct password. Now I tried connecting directly to Teradata and was successful. Then I re-executed my package ,this time it threw me a different error "Account Locked".I raised the ticket to unlock my account.I repeated the same step and was not sure what was locking my account.I directly approached the DBA, he tried few things from his side and he too faced the same stumper.Hearing our conversation our Teradata DBA pitched in.Three of us spent more than an hour in troubleshooting why the login was successful for the first time but threw "Invalid Password" in the consecutive attempts.As my DBA's were getting late for their next assignment,they couldn't try any longer on this strikingly unusual trouble.
I winded up the work time by completely a script execution and rushed home.
Our conference call started at 7.30 P.M,in the beginning I found it little hard to understand Taiwanese Slang,but my clients from U.S side re-explained what they were trying to convey.
Though our call overstepped our estimated time,we continued our line of work on this issue.Finally we confirmed that the defect was not related to the application, but was due to some infrastructure set up in Taiwan.
One itty-bitty issue killed my whole day.Today's learning was to empathize my end-user's problem inspite of it being big or small.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Friend's Wedding Invite
My day was messed up as I was feeling completely exhausted and jaded.None of my plans were executed.Wanted to sleep little early after my offshore call,but a wedding invite from one of my friend pulled my attention.
I always get excited when I receive wedding invites from my friends.As I feel happy for their new relationship.The personalized wedding invitation from her played one of my favorite song from Alaipayuthey(Tamil Movie directed by Mani Ratnam)
"Mangalyam thanthuna nena
Mamajeevana hetuna
Kante badhrani shubage
Thwam deeya sharadam shubam"
It basically means that by tying the "mangalyam" (sacred thread) around her neck, the husband is entwining his life with his wife's.(Courtesy : "Yahoo Answers" ).
There were many sections in my friends online wedding invite card.
I started to patiently dig through each of them putting aside my eternal rest .The way she had described about her family made me feel how grateful the Bride and Bridegroom were towards their parents. I had been hankering since college to attend atleast one Brahmin wedding and never got a chance for the same.Either my friends marriage was in their native place or I would have something important.The explanation that she has provided in "Wedding Events" section gives anyone a wholistic view of typical Hindu Brahmin Wedding .
My wedding friend and co have used many catchy and fun filled words to make the invite very cozy.Few of which I liked are stated below:
1.Marriage food" is way better than restaurant food.
2.We took it from there
3.There was no getting on one knee, popping a ring and proposing involved.
4.If you want to thank (or blame :P) someone for bringing Ms.XXX to Planet earth, here you go ;-)
5.A true Indian wedding is not just about two individuals getting married, but signifies the union of two families
I found the remaining sections (Contact,GuestBook,Photo Albums ,Our story,Accomodation ,Welcome and Cover page) to be very wonted.
Overall I liked everything in her wedding invite.Only missing information in the wedding invite was about me and other friends :).Just kidding :).
I always get excited when I receive wedding invites from my friends.As I feel happy for their new relationship.The personalized wedding invitation from her played one of my favorite song from Alaipayuthey(Tamil Movie directed by Mani Ratnam)
"Mangalyam thanthuna nena
Mamajeevana hetuna
Kante badhrani shubage
Thwam deeya sharadam shubam"
It basically means that by tying the "mangalyam" (sacred thread) around her neck, the husband is entwining his life with his wife's.(Courtesy : "Yahoo Answers" ).
There were many sections in my friends online wedding invite card.
I started to patiently dig through each of them putting aside my eternal rest .The way she had described about her family made me feel how grateful the Bride and Bridegroom were towards their parents. I had been hankering since college to attend atleast one Brahmin wedding and never got a chance for the same.Either my friends marriage was in their native place or I would have something important.The explanation that she has provided in "Wedding Events" section gives anyone a wholistic view of typical Hindu Brahmin Wedding .
My wedding friend and co have used many catchy and fun filled words to make the invite very cozy.Few of which I liked are stated below:
1.Marriage food" is way better than restaurant food.
2.We took it from there
3.There was no getting on one knee, popping a ring and proposing involved.
4.If you want to thank (or blame :P) someone for bringing Ms.XXX to Planet earth, here you go ;-)
5.A true Indian wedding is not just about two individuals getting married, but signifies the union of two families
I found the remaining sections (Contact,GuestBook,Photo Albums ,Our story,Accomodation ,Welcome and Cover page) to be very wonted.
Overall I liked everything in her wedding invite.Only missing information in the wedding invite was about me and other friends :).Just kidding :).
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Oops I forgot
At 6 A.M I got a call from my offshore team.I had plans to discuss something very important with them.As I was unable to sleep properly last night I could hardly speak anything in the early-morning hour.I gave long pauses in my conversations and prattled about movies and other stuff unrelated to project.My offshore team was quite understanding and said we will mail you the details Ashwini.
I was waiting for this moment to catch a wink ,but again my sleep was interrupted by another call at 7.20 A.M.Oh no...I screamed I am late today,I quickly called one of my friend to inform him that I will not be able to make it up at 7.30 A.M for a ride to office.He said I think we might leave around 8 A.M or so,will let you know when we start.I quickly got ready and was waiting for his call.I lot my longanimity and gave him a call at 8.15 A.M.Sorry Ashwini I forgot to call you,We reached office,was just about to call you.I replied no problem my friend, finished our call in few seconds and started heading to office.I completely understood that my friends were in some rush that they altogether forgot me.
This reminded me of one incident that happened between me and my younger sister.
We were returning home in the last bus from Besant Nagar Beach (one of my favorite spot in chennai).My uncle who accompanied us was on the rear portion of the bus , me and my sister were on the front portion of the bus.Me and my sister didn't sit together as both of us were fond of window seats we occupied sequential two seaters.
I fell asleep and after a while my uncle called my name and asked me to get down.I immediately got down.In fraction of seconds my uncle questioned where is "Akshara" ?. I was questioning him back where is she ? .I thought she got down with you.My uncle got tensed ,he quickly banged the bus to stop it as soon as possible.He called "Akshara" are you there ? ,promptly she replied yes I am,get down we have reached our stop.
You are so responsible Ashwini,he started blasting me. Akshara is too young and it is your duty to take care of her when she is with you.Sorry mama I completely forgot as I was in a rush to get down.
I believe it is a natural tendency for any of us to forget even people when we are in rush.
I was waiting for this moment to catch a wink ,but again my sleep was interrupted by another call at 7.20 A.M.Oh no...I screamed I am late today,I quickly called one of my friend to inform him that I will not be able to make it up at 7.30 A.M for a ride to office.He said I think we might leave around 8 A.M or so,will let you know when we start.I quickly got ready and was waiting for his call.I lot my longanimity and gave him a call at 8.15 A.M.Sorry Ashwini I forgot to call you,We reached office,was just about to call you.I replied no problem my friend, finished our call in few seconds and started heading to office.I completely understood that my friends were in some rush that they altogether forgot me.
This reminded me of one incident that happened between me and my younger sister.
We were returning home in the last bus from Besant Nagar Beach (one of my favorite spot in chennai).My uncle who accompanied us was on the rear portion of the bus , me and my sister were on the front portion of the bus.Me and my sister didn't sit together as both of us were fond of window seats we occupied sequential two seaters.
I fell asleep and after a while my uncle called my name and asked me to get down.I immediately got down.In fraction of seconds my uncle questioned where is "Akshara" ?. I was questioning him back where is she ? .I thought she got down with you.My uncle got tensed ,he quickly banged the bus to stop it as soon as possible.He called "Akshara" are you there ? ,promptly she replied yes I am,get down we have reached our stop.
You are so responsible Ashwini,he started blasting me. Akshara is too young and it is your duty to take care of her when she is with you.Sorry mama I completely forgot as I was in a rush to get down.
I believe it is a natural tendency for any of us to forget even people when we are in rush.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Tracking U
I usually kick start Monday's with a black attire explicitly expressing my sadness to "Get Ready to Office" after a atypical Sunday.
I didn't have anything spellbinding in today's work until this mail popped up in my inbox. I had mailed one of my friend to know his availability for a singles match,he replied me back saying that your mail sounded very formal. I have heard similar comments from many of my friends. I had to recollect few of my past incidences and was in deep thoughts why people think I was formal in my conversations. Is it because I don't take people for granted or is it because I use bands of "Thank you" ,"Sorry" and "I appreciate it" ?.
Not sure what was the reason behind me being formal, but I was happy that this person who is totally new to me gave his true feedback.
Continued with my production move activities for tomorrow and abruptly one of my colleague started questioning me about my marriage and the kind of person I was looking for as my life partner. I blushed for a while and was thinking hard "what to say ?", before I could answer he started teasing me saying that you need someone who is "Idealist", "Mechanical" and "Goal Oriented" correct. I couldn't control my laughter as the way he expressed things appeared extremely funny to me. He used the same set of words that I use to describe people on a regular basis. It made me feel "what a boring person I am ?". He commented it is unimaginable for a person like you to know the meaning of "LOVE" and "MARRIAGE". I always hear you only talk about dreams,goals and planning, nothing apart from work or career.He advised me to take pleasure in every small things I do and thought me to live a flexible life.Oh my god this guy judged me accurately just in couple of months.
End of the day I came to know that there are people who keep an eye on every single actions of mine,even if they know me only for few months.
I didn't have anything spellbinding in today's work until this mail popped up in my inbox. I had mailed one of my friend to know his availability for a singles match,he replied me back saying that your mail sounded very formal. I have heard similar comments from many of my friends. I had to recollect few of my past incidences and was in deep thoughts why people think I was formal in my conversations. Is it because I don't take people for granted or is it because I use bands of "Thank you" ,"Sorry" and "I appreciate it" ?.
Not sure what was the reason behind me being formal, but I was happy that this person who is totally new to me gave his true feedback.
Continued with my production move activities for tomorrow and abruptly one of my colleague started questioning me about my marriage and the kind of person I was looking for as my life partner. I blushed for a while and was thinking hard "what to say ?", before I could answer he started teasing me saying that you need someone who is "Idealist", "Mechanical" and "Goal Oriented" correct. I couldn't control my laughter as the way he expressed things appeared extremely funny to me. He used the same set of words that I use to describe people on a regular basis. It made me feel "what a boring person I am ?". He commented it is unimaginable for a person like you to know the meaning of "LOVE" and "MARRIAGE". I always hear you only talk about dreams,goals and planning, nothing apart from work or career.He advised me to take pleasure in every small things I do and thought me to live a flexible life.Oh my god this guy judged me accurately just in couple of months.
End of the day I came to know that there are people who keep an eye on every single actions of mine,even if they know me only for few months.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Lazy Sunday
I had set the wake up call at 7 A.M this morning but landed up being in bed till 9 A.M. I keep compromising myself 5 more minutes I will be up and my every 5 minutes cumulates to more than an hour.
My friends keep saying "Relax Madam It is Sunday" sleep well, take rest as you need to work diligently the next five days.
Waking up late on Sundays make me feel a day late and a dollar short. Why does the 1st day of the week (as in U.S and Japan) or the 7th day of the week (as in U.K)
make me feel that I am #1 lethargic person in the world ?
I have been trying hard to keep the same schedule even during weekends especially on Sundays. Way back in Chennai I remember reading an article from "Frozen Thoughts" magazine about having same routines even on Sundays. The author had beautifully explained that our body behaves on a biological clock mode, forcing it to sleep beyond the usual time on Saturdays/Sundays does no good to our health or mind.
Then what makes me to log Z's on Sunday Mornings? Is it the aftermath of Saturday's late night movie watch or dinner or outing?
I have been analyzing my wake up timings on Sundays for the past three months. It is very obscure when I maintain standard wake up time at 9 A.M or beyond even after going early to bed on Saturday nights.
Could be that 100% exhaustion on Saturday and the weekday drives me nuts to slumber more on Sunday mornings? Or Am I energizing myself to face all unexpected challenges for the approaching working days?
Whatever is the reason?, now I have completely soothed my mind to "just chill out" on Sunday mornings.
This is the day where I am free from rush hour office work and the day where I hang out with friends.
Time for oneself is just this day of the week. Just do what you feel like no matter even if it makes you feel lazy.
My friends keep saying "Relax Madam It is Sunday" sleep well, take rest as you need to work diligently the next five days.
Waking up late on Sundays make me feel a day late and a dollar short. Why does the 1st day of the week (as in U.S and Japan) or the 7th day of the week (as in U.K)
make me feel that I am #1 lethargic person in the world ?
I have been trying hard to keep the same schedule even during weekends especially on Sundays. Way back in Chennai I remember reading an article from "Frozen Thoughts" magazine about having same routines even on Sundays. The author had beautifully explained that our body behaves on a biological clock mode, forcing it to sleep beyond the usual time on Saturdays/Sundays does no good to our health or mind.
Then what makes me to log Z's on Sunday Mornings? Is it the aftermath of Saturday's late night movie watch or dinner or outing?
I have been analyzing my wake up timings on Sundays for the past three months. It is very obscure when I maintain standard wake up time at 9 A.M or beyond even after going early to bed on Saturday nights.
Could be that 100% exhaustion on Saturday and the weekday drives me nuts to slumber more on Sunday mornings? Or Am I energizing myself to face all unexpected challenges for the approaching working days?
Whatever is the reason?, now I have completely soothed my mind to "just chill out" on Sunday mornings.
This is the day where I am free from rush hour office work and the day where I hang out with friends.
Time for oneself is just this day of the week. Just do what you feel like no matter even if it makes you feel lazy.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
I love making Friends
It becomes very easy for me to make friends as my blood has imbibed extrovert and garrulous qualities.
No matter how reserved or moody the person is,I love talking to them.Rich or poor ,pretty or ugly and bus or train doesn't matter ,all that concerns me is just friendship.Well to me friendship is someone who makes you feel good,it could be anything varying from a simple hi/hello to a giant help.
My momentary friendship in bus or train did teach me several lessons. One of them being "light hearted and caring",is what I learnt from this person whom I met for the first time in MTC(Metropolitan transport corporation) bus .Our relationship started with a simile,whenever we met eachother we acknowledged with a simple simle.As days went by I started understanding her better from her naughty activites in the bus.I found her extremely light hearted and caring.I laugh loud when she cracks witty jokes on the footboard passengers.What bought us close was the ticket passing process in crowded MTC buses,the passenger in the other end generally passes the money to the conductor through the passengers in between to get their tickets.Luckily we both were standing next to each other ,heard her murmuring comments about the conductor and I started to add some more from my side.From then on we have become very thick friends.We talk about everything during our 40 minutes travel.
My second unforgettable travel friend was from Mauritius island.We became friends in our 3 days trip to Hardiware-Rihikesh (one of the hindu holy city in Uttarakhand, India).Coincidentally she had the same name as of mine.For the first time I was meeting someone who has the same name and age as of mine.Thank God we didn't look alike :) .We talked a lot to understand if we had the same characteristic.I found her to be very religious and down to earth.And no one can say this from her appearance as she looked hyper stylish.Learned to be modest and traditional from then on.
I was waiting for my flight to Amsterdam with mixed feelings as this was my first trip aboard.I met this amazing personality Pallavi in hyderabad airport.
I found her to be very enthusiastic,talented and versatile.My talents in drawing,tennis and piano sometimes made me feel proud. I felt I was absolutely nothing after hearing her lengthy list of talents/activities.
I call myself lucky to have met such magnificent personalities during my journey to different places.
I never tried my hands in extending my friendship with opposite gender,but very recently I found even that to be interesting.Last week I made friendship with Dave in tennis court and this week with Mark in office.
You are wondering if I am still in touch with any of the above three friends well my answer is simple "NO".As strangers we would never know how reliable the other person is.Just converse,learn something good, if possible help them and end your relationship by saying Gooood Bye. But those beautiful moments of relationship always stays fresh in my mind.
Don't know what I gained or lost of such relationship,but trust me ...my personality transforms each time I come across such lovable people even for short duration of time.
No matter how reserved or moody the person is,I love talking to them.Rich or poor ,pretty or ugly and bus or train doesn't matter ,all that concerns me is just friendship.Well to me friendship is someone who makes you feel good,it could be anything varying from a simple hi/hello to a giant help.
My momentary friendship in bus or train did teach me several lessons. One of them being "light hearted and caring",is what I learnt from this person whom I met for the first time in MTC(Metropolitan transport corporation) bus .Our relationship started with a simile,whenever we met eachother we acknowledged with a simple simle.As days went by I started understanding her better from her naughty activites in the bus.I found her extremely light hearted and caring.I laugh loud when she cracks witty jokes on the footboard passengers.What bought us close was the ticket passing process in crowded MTC buses,the passenger in the other end generally passes the money to the conductor through the passengers in between to get their tickets.Luckily we both were standing next to each other ,heard her murmuring comments about the conductor and I started to add some more from my side.From then on we have become very thick friends.We talk about everything during our 40 minutes travel.
My second unforgettable travel friend was from Mauritius island.We became friends in our 3 days trip to Hardiware-Rihikesh (one of the hindu holy city in Uttarakhand, India).Coincidentally she had the same name as of mine.For the first time I was meeting someone who has the same name and age as of mine.Thank God we didn't look alike :) .We talked a lot to understand if we had the same characteristic.I found her to be very religious and down to earth.And no one can say this from her appearance as she looked hyper stylish.Learned to be modest and traditional from then on.
I was waiting for my flight to Amsterdam with mixed feelings as this was my first trip aboard.I met this amazing personality Pallavi in hyderabad airport.
I found her to be very enthusiastic,talented and versatile.My talents in drawing,tennis and piano sometimes made me feel proud. I felt I was absolutely nothing after hearing her lengthy list of talents/activities.
I call myself lucky to have met such magnificent personalities during my journey to different places.
I never tried my hands in extending my friendship with opposite gender,but very recently I found even that to be interesting.Last week I made friendship with Dave in tennis court and this week with Mark in office.
You are wondering if I am still in touch with any of the above three friends well my answer is simple "NO".As strangers we would never know how reliable the other person is.Just converse,learn something good, if possible help them and end your relationship by saying Gooood Bye. But those beautiful moments of relationship always stays fresh in my mind.
Don't know what I gained or lost of such relationship,but trust me ...my personality transforms each time I come across such lovable people even for short duration of time.
Friday, August 7, 2009
My second visit to Serenity
Today I visited Serenity Dental for the second time. This time I visited the clinic for filling my wisdom teeth. I love spending time in this clinic as the ambience is surrounded with archaic potteries, artistic work and thought provoking quotes.
I reached there close to 7.55 A.M; I had to wait for ten minutes. I quickly took a book and started reading an article on climate change. I was totally amazed to know that “Soot” impure carbon form was another villain for our global warming and climate change. Meanwhile
Dental Hygienists called my name, I ran to the book rack to place it on the same shelve from where I grabbed from. She gave me a big smile and asked “How are you doing today” and I gave my usual reply good very good how about you? I always appreciated Americans for their friendly attitude and honest conversations. They make you feel you very comfortable.
She was questioning me a lot about my short hair; few of my friends who visited the same clinic had long hair so she was under the impression that Indian gals only have long hair. I thought of giving examples from my role models list such as Kiran Bedi, Indira Nooyi , Priyanka Gandhi and Barkha Dutt with boy cut but as I was in a rush to be back in office by 9 A.M,I kept my conversation short.
She made me sit on the reclining chair and played ‘Madagacar” movie after knowing that I was a great aficionado of Dreamworks animated movies. I got totally obsessed with the movie that I didn’t feel any pinch of tooth ache during the cleaning. My tooth cleaning was done within 45 minutes.
Then I had to move to another room for teeth filling .My dentist inquired me “Did you find everything ok today “another trademark question in
I quietly whispered sure will let you know. Within 10 mins I got my filling done.
And she asked me to come back after 6 months for a general check up.
My tooth looked awesome after the filling.
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