Scribblings of the Week

So Finally the long awaited rains in Bangalore are here..and so are the not so awaited power cuts. Funny aint it how our system works. Rains or no rains power cuts have become an integral part of our lives. Jut like our daily meals. The power goes off daily 3 times. Once for Breakfast, then for luch and then for dinner, and if at all it does night shift, it goes off for a midnight snack. And I thought it just survives on Water.

While it had been raining outside this week, it had been raining inside our office as well. Rain of a different sort. The one which nobody enjoys. Well its been competitive everywhere with all the economic downturn and all. But when it starts taking the juice out of you then it means it time to halt, look back and start all over again....nah.It means its time change jobs. So , anybody with a good offer with a special clause stating "ONLY 8 hours of work", please please let me know.

Remember the ad where the sun just sucks the juice out of the kid while playing cricket and comes back home all worn out, I feel the same when the folks in US and a few people back here take the juice out of me with their requests which even they cant comprehend and i ultimately end up home good for nothing.And i dont have my mom here who can prepare a glass of Glucon D for me like in the ad. I consider Preparing a glass of juice cooking and i dont cook. So i dont venture into the Kitchen area much. And finally at the end of the request they have these 4 most dreaded words..."ASAP". In our office it just does not mean "As soon as possible " but "As soon as possible Yesterday".

And yea, amidst all this work they also give us long weekends once in 3-4 months. This time being Memorial Day in US . Friday is given off so that we can bug other people by blogging and Monday, which is when the Memorial Day is observed ,is given a holiday in India to fill yourself with enough juice for the next round of juice sucking.


Anyways I have exams coming up in next 2 weeks. I have been stuck with CA since the time i remember. Its kind of become a hobby for me to collect the Income tax books every year with the latest amendments. I have lost count of the the number of IT books i have.And the best part is they are still all brand new.....Damn!!!

Show Me the Money!!!!

Remember when we were young and we used to wait for our Pocket Money and the joy and the happiness associated with it. Well its the same feeling i get every 1st day of the month. and unfortunately that's the only good feeling which has been carried forward from my younger days.

Come the first day of the month and we can't wait to grab the salary what we earned for. No matter , whether we were just warming up our seats or staring aimlessly at the computer . It's the beginning of a new month. A whole month of experience gone by and another whole month of paying bills, bills and more bills.

During our younger days we would spend the money on all the fun things in life. Then we didn't have to prioritize and even if we had to we had to it was between 2 good but different things. But now It's a challenging thing of prioritizing what needs primary importance. Loans v/s a Fine dine at a good restaurant, Movies v/s Payment of Instalments etc etc

Credit Cards a.k.a Plastic Money a.k.a The Persuader. They will be the first to know when we are short of money as they both are neighbours in the wallet. They would shout out "Use me and Buy NOW, Pay LATER" and as the human mind goes we give in to their persuasion.Thus we blame it on the human mind. And its amazing to see how quickly the LATER comes when we buy NOW. Days have lost its consistency. It would be short one day and longer the next day and the days are smart too, they adjust as per our inconvenience.

How much ever we say Money isn't everything, ultimately we run behind money. We go to a store we bargain, we fight for salary hikes, the companies are trying to cut cost in order to have more money. Ultimately it all ends up having more money. and we say Money isn't everything. Well it may not be everything, But its definitely a lot more than something.

And if you feel your friends are getting away from you or are forgetting you, Just borrow some money and give the payments a miss. One of the best ways to make people realise that you are alive. Trust me. It works. I've tried it

So Money talks my dear friends and yet it can make one silent. Money is undeniably the one of the strongest asset in the world, rich or Poor, Money is definitely crucial to life.

The Week That wasn't

Finally the week has come to an end. It felt like an eternity.I knew that eternity is long. But this long I was not expecting and that too near the end.

I wake up on Wednesday afternoon and what do i realise... its not Friday.whereas it should have been a friday or at least a thursday. But no... It was a Wednesday..No not the movie. Just the wednesday like any other week but only this time it was a drag.I was lagging behind by 2 days.
And as always i tried to look at the positive side of things. I considered it as an additional virtual day in my life. Not that i wanted one but just wanted to make me feel good about the week not racing ahead like it always does.

Like always we had to work on nine wives and we were just given one month in office unlike the customary one wife and nine month. So it becomes really difficult in those circumstances and thats when you'll be really looking forward for your weekend where you could laugh, think and have your emotions moved to tears.

I had things planned for my weekend....Sleep, eat,sleep, IPL and sleep again. So yea i was looking froward for this weekend even though it was going to be a busy one.Maybe thats why the week didnt seem to race like it always does. I just wanted to have a productive weekend, thats all.

And like they say, a sunday well spent brings a week of content.

Mosquito the Menace

Its high time we declare the state bird of Kerala....The Mosquito.

More mosuitos are there in Kerala than any other birds. Now you would walk up to me and say that mosquitos are insects and not birds. But when u get to see mosquitos of the size of a bird flying around your head you would actually mistake it for a bird.Thats what happened to me when i went home this weekend.

We stay in the 9th floor. Closer to God than most people in our flat. I thought mosquitos were incompetent to fly all the way up to 9 th floor and suck our blood.But I was in for a surprise. Forget flying all the way up to 9th floor.I was surprised to see that they were more aggressive and vibrant when in high altitudes. Maybe its cos they dont actually fly all the way up as they use the lift . That way they conserve all the energy required to fly and use that energy on us.Strategist!!!

Looks like some chinese guy ended up in Cochin and had an encounter with the mosquitos . And like the Chinese Fishing nets, he left us with a Chinese bat.Looks more like a raquet and like all chinese products it has some dual utility or the other and so this one has a torch attached to it.So even during Power cuts you can hunt down the mosquitos. Another Strategist!!

Now, In addition to all this it also helps you improve your badminton skills,play air badminton around your house for 10 mins trying to hunt down mosquitos before going to sleep and in 6 months you'll be ready to compete in Olympics. No kidding.Try it.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope

If anybody happens to watch the Weather and Pollution levels of each city which they show in NDTV and you see that Bangalore has high sound pollution... I know who is spreading the love of sound in Bangalore

My driver....the driver who drops me to office everyday.

Whoever goes to Old Madras Road area at around 6pm on weekdays and hear an irritating honking sound (sounds something like kkkeee kkkeee kekekkkeee and mulitply that by 1000) will tend to agree with me. and if anybody sees a tall lanky fellow in there seated in th backseat , well he is innocent. Its the guy behind the wheels who is the culprit.

Now, apart from all the honking and abusing the people on the road another important charecteristic of the driver is that he does not like the roads empty. If he doesnt find any car on the roads he feels bored. Something similar to the drivers i have noticed in Delhi. They just dont like 'em empty.

The moment they see roads are filled with cars and people some kind of a mad spirit enters their body, the ones which you see on tv where people start acting weird when they go to a durgah and all.

Anyways, my point here is people have started losing patience here. There is this another case which i'm sure most of us would have come across in our daily life. There are people who keep constantly pressing the lift button expecting the lift to come to their floor faster. but the fact is that it actually comes late. Thats because the lift does not like constant reminding of what it has to do. Something similar to human mind. We dont like being reminded of what we have to do.do we? Now the key here is Patience. You just need to tbe patient till the lift arrives to your floor.

Now when my computer at work gets stuck trying to multitask and my directors are waiting for the report at that point of time i try banging my system hoping it will bring some sense into my stupid computer. well you know what, no banging brings your system into your senses. It will come back to life only when it feels like. Sometimes it likes to act dead and doesnt come back at all. Thats when you confirm a system has crashed. Now take my advice, its not good to bang at something which is dead.

There will be other instances when you feel the whole world is against you.especially in situations like when you have to reach some place urgently(most of the time office) and you get stuck in maddening traffic, or waiting to get a haircut done on a sunday and realising that 3 people have already arrived before you, or calling up a call centre for a very minor info and ending up going through all the option from 1-20 or when you are at a public place and you have to use the restroom urgently and then realise you are in queue.... hmmmm..maybe that has to do more with self control than patience.

Patience is one thing which cannot be inherited. It has to be learned and experienced. and for that too one needs patience. Now if you ask me how to get that initial patience ...I'ld just say...Read my blog.