The 3 months old planning came to fall in place last
Wednesday and I was enrooted to Calicut for my friends A’s brother in law. The
whole Football group who plays fantasy food ball was invited and our common
friend Thimmz was also there. More than the reunion, lot of drinking and memory
sharing was in cards. So after a long break, to be precise, 6 years break, it
was a 6 hour train journey for me – alone! The journey when taking around your
family and travelling alone are at two different levels. One will start
enjoying the loneliness when the burden of taking care of family through out
the journey is not there ( it is enjoyed when done in short spells) rather than
long journeys. The train journey ended
without much of a surprise and Calicut had two hotels with the same name
Emperor. As it is very famous, the cordial Auto rickshaw driver took me to the
second hotel with in a blink of an eye and alaz – I am at my destiny. The next
6 hours was more of booze and lot of talks including 25 years old stories of
making and breaking of love life,, what was planned and how it panned out, how
people we know from last 10 years have grown to things we could never imagine,
a few who met our expectation as per our teenage mind projected etc. One thing I
really enjoyed in this discussion was no one was so sad with what was happening
today and all of us were so happy about the days passed and how we had lived
those. So no regrets and such get together really bring back the gest of life
and living them with the company of people who we enjoy the most !
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
ohh i am forgetting myself
The social conditioning has almost left one to place were
they trying to re discover by looking back on one’s life. It’s strange to see
that many things which I enjoyed a lot are forgotten and now I need to read it
myself to realize that I enjoyed song or
doing some specific thing on day! Sadly that’s what life does to you and when I
say life, it’s the expectation, people and things around you make you do. It’s
a little harsh on others when you put it like that but things change as the
time passes away. Every item on you list if linked to happiness of some one or
something around you and yourself is lost in the midst. When everything on the
list is done and dusted and that small corner of hour if left with you, most of
the time one will find happiness in a bit of sleep or a short bit of silence
among the chaos – not the bit for entertain / enjoying myself
As the time progresses and our life gets evolved into
something like a strings of a woolen sheet were we lose track on what’s mine
and what’s not and it leaves you at a place where you hardly care. This is time
when one starts living life over days and hours just passing through the daily
chores and not into anything specific. It more of like status updates on done
done done! and pending and WIP. The list often reflects in smiling and frowning
faces. When it becomes the order of the day, it cease to spring the smile back
on you as it just build expectation and as always Expectation reduces joy !!!
The guy who is always on the conf call .....
As usual, I am listening to a product demo and over view
presentation. I was reading through some film reviews and preparing some
queries on the back ground to check if I get some good talking points when I
try to sell the same. I just got a call from my better half with cold sharp
queries like
S: you know, Junior is having temp
Me : ya, Mom told but was on back to back calls
S : so ?
Me : how is he now ?
S : passed tools 5 times and have temp
Me : checked with thermometer or feel factor ?
S : huh ? I just came home, need to check
Me : ok, check and see that he drinks lot of water
S : when will you come ?
Me : post 8 , why ?
S : nothing, will come in time or as usual …
Me : yes, bye – need to join the call, bye
S: Bye
Believe me, listening to sales pitch and typing the things
that come in my mind is not as easy as it used to be.
Now I see that the bunch of fresher’s who joined our floor
went past us. I see that the short guy in the group making some hand gestures
meaning – this guy ( me) is always on
phone. Does he work anytime ?
I had a smile coming up on my lips but somehow I kept it
straight and played the ‘senior’ face. I wanted to stand up and say, buddy –
listening to such calls and finding out talking points which makes sense is
much tougher than you think. This is the place where we find out selling points
for our solution. Also get answers for the tough questions we have in all
customer calls.
Now I see two ladies coming to floor looking for someone. I
think they found who they were looking for over the corner of the floor. They
also exchanged the same kind of look – why this guy is always on the phone ?
I need to get to talk in the call and will not be able to
concentrate on this anymore, more to add on….
Sudden Death
Old clean up and appearing fresh and new here !
Don’t get surprised by the title of this blog. It has
nothing to do with content. As its football feature right around, thought of
using a word from football world ! From a work perspective, I was on bench for
last two to three months. Family kept me quiet busy with arrival of our new
member, followed by an infection to my mom and then it continued with dad. So
more of the days part was buying tender coconut and getting it back to the rite
room in the hospital, night outs and not the least – waiting in queue. The
monsoon season is yet to hit the country cost but the fever season has. As I
see it, the current fever leaves people like squeezed molasses. I remember by
fevers in childhood as three days of complete rest, no fan and only jeera water
with pain staking calpol syrup or a tablet. Just the memory of it brings the
bitter memories. Ohh just coming back to the point of starting. As I was too
busy with family, had kept low life in work meaning on bench and not hunting
for a project. It has been hardly one week into work and I can see hard stuff
coming along from nowhere. I left office almost at 10 yesterday – still not
into a project but just doing client presentation and capability decks!
It is a little mysterious that – anything you like will not
last too long to get to boredom. I was kind of enjoying my daily routine with 4
to 5 hours of perennial work, then the routine tea / coffee breaks and lots of
time on talks and healthy stuff. Forgot to add, as my wife and kid are at their
home enjoying the “ after birth treatment”, I am back on the health regime with
30 minutes swimming and 5 minutes stretch every day. It again proves that a
little bit of physical exercise can do wonders to both mind and body. My list
of “ to-Do’s” has come down to almost under 10 with no urgent item pending –
including house hold chores “ which with my track record is an amazing
achievement. OK, as usual I have a presentation catch up and I have my creative
tooth pushing me to write down the above crap at this umpteen moment. Let me get
back to stuff that matters now – calling sudden death ( disaster control after client presentation J)
XIXIX bank and credit cards
Today morning, I get a call from a 1409XXXXXXX number, looks
like a marketing call. As I was bored waiting for a deck review / change
request, I picked up the call to talk through the marketing details of the
product.
Girl voice at other side : Hi sir, Good Morning, this is
Rupali from XIXIX Bank
Me :
GM Rupali
R :
As you are an esteem customer of XIXIX bank, we would like to offer you a
Platinum credit card
Me :
OK, good, so ?
R :
This card is really beneficiary and first year comes with no annual fee or
Joint fee
Me :
So what is the fee for second year ?
R :
It is 99 Rs but will be waived off if 50K Rs purchase is done annually. This card offers a 2.5% pay back on fuel ser
charges and for shopping at malls it offer pay back points. So you stay in
Trivandrum rite sir ?
Me :
Yes Rupali, you had called me three days back, we went through this ordeal and
I confirmed that I will have the card. You told me that you will check and call
back
R :
As you are staying in Trivandrum I cannot offer you this card as this city is
not serviceable for platinum card
Me :
Ohh is it ? should I change my residence location for the card ?
R :
No sir, sorry sir, thank you sir, have a great day ahead sir
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