FACTS ......

Do you think you belong to any of these categories? I don’t know if I belong to any of these! But they do exist in almost all the BIG MNCs.

DNPTC list in mobile phones / phone with caller id.

It is DO-NOT-PICK-THE-CALL list. The category I am talking here is people who just call up and keep talking. I mean they keep talking even if they are properly informed that you have work or other important things to do. These folks always have all the time in the world to keep the phone numbers updated and call up intermittently. They might call you in the morning and again call you in the evening and ask the same question like, ‘how is your family?’ or ‘You still have five fingers in your right hand?’

DNRTM list in your outlook or in outlook rules

It is DO-NOT-REPLY-TO-MAIL group. These are the people who send the same old forwards and wearied news everyday to your inbox. They never forget any of the father-mother-human-women-valentine-etc days. If one unfortunately reply to any of such mail, they will continue with that mail chain until we say that we have to go / we got work / or boss around the corner

DNSTT

DO-NOT-SMILE-TO-THEM-GROUP. This group of people is often seen roaming around the corridor, office lobby and in the reception with coffee or with mobile on their hand. They check their cell phone at least two times in three minutes if they have a missed call or message, but in reality the only messages they get are from the ring tone advertisements and the calls from credit card advertisers. If, in any awkward moment you happen to exchange a smile with them, they will make a biography out of it. Be ready with a statement next time which sounds like “Are you angry with me? You ignored me when you saw me on Eat-Street” This group usually has only guys, but I know couple of females also which falls into this category! These folks always target elevators and walkways where people can be lured into easy conversations.

DNGL

DO-NOT-GIVE-LIFT-GROUP. Often good minded people fall pray for this group. If you own a vehicle, a two wheeler or a four wheeler and you happen to offer one person a lift one day! In the commute conversation, the hunter collects the information on your routine and makes sure the availability of your vehicle and timings. Next day on the same place at the same time, you will find the same person with a plastic smile all over his / her face with an extended hand. I am not against giving lift to people, but every day lift, that too some times, you get a message, “I will be 5 minutes late today, can you leave late or please let me know if you are leaving early today, I want to go to a movie, so have to leave early” kind of messages

KA

KEEP-AWAY group. These are jobless folks who go around the company website and keep track of everyone’s detail and demand treat for anything from a sneeze to completion of 1 month in a new cubicle. They call you up on your date of birth with a cheerful voice and wish you a happy birthday day. Around 3 O lock in the after noon, you can see the same folk leading a group of people to you cubicle with a 70 mm smile demanding a treat for birthday. If you are a guy, some kicks on your butt is a token gift together with a nice bill in the name of birthday treat. You should consider yourself lucky if they don’t come with a cheap cake for the birthday and paste it all over your face and dress. If you are a vegetarian and the cake is with eggs, your so called best day of the year, I mean birthday is ruined! It will remain as the smelliest day of the year.

KA-Version2

This KEEP-AWAY- version 2 are people we have to watch out, if there is some function going on in your office. It might be an open air event or a get together event. These folks can be sported with a nice looking, heavy camera which is carried around like an Olympic medal. They cruise around the crowd, making sure that the best faces are always captured for their personal use. It might not be long before the same snap will come out in the KA-V2 guy’s private orkut / picassa album. If it is a stage event, they join you in the crowd making sure that he makes the most intolerable comments and PJs. He might even run three or four times with one coin or a white hand key towards the stage to win a goodie price from the MC, but will always be late, cursing the crowd about not giving him space to run.


ORB

These are the onsite-return braggers. They are usually spotted with an I-pod Nano or an I-phone, with a face & smile which says, I am just from US/UK. They always complain about the weather, the sub standard AC in office, the substandard coffee provided by the company, about unavailability of MC-DY and Star-bucks in Indian office premises. The fake accent added to their broken English from 6 months to 1 year assignment in US is an added edge. Mostly, these are folks who where sent to create an excel sheet or to assemble a machine from package to desk. They talk like they where working in a NASA- initiated rocket launcher application code and series of escalations they faced in client place. The worst part of this group is their bragging about the places they visited, how smart they where to learn the foreign culture, ‘things’ they achieved in foreign land. Once they get a chance to start, they go on and on and on.

The groups are the unfortunate folks who are on bench or not required in any of the project, who has to kill time inside the office premises without almost anything to do. All we can do is pray that these folks get a VISA soon and packed uo to some far off countries

Feelings...

“A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed.But the sky knows the reasons and the pattern, And you will know too,When you lift yourself high enough To see beyond the horizons.”-Richard Bach

Some thing which I read on a lazy afternoon, fighting my sleep! The moment I read this, my eye lids grew lighter and sleep fled away. These words made perfect sense to my mind set.
I cannot see anything beyond horizon and I am struggling to lift my self. My dreams are dried up and mind is empty as an old barn. I have to re discover my dreams, to get in touch with myself, get a direction to move, lift myself from where I am. The biggest question still stares at me - HOW?
My past has taught me how deep love can hurt and how much it can heal.
A sparkle in the eye, a soothing touch or a simple smile can make the world such a better place. One never needs a reason for being happy but everyone including me finds a 1000 reason to be bound with sorrow.
Heart urges to dance like no one is watching and love like it had never failed. But mind thinks and thinks as the wounds from past are still fresh and bleeding!
As I look into a new horizon, a sea of new faces and a bunch of new aspirations, my heart is vibrant with fear and excitement, over flowing with prayers and wishes.
My thee, please guide me through yet another jungle of emotions.

Compliments.....

How good you are in accepting compliments? Accepting compliments seems to be a very easy thing when it is for something which we have achieved, which was out of our shear hard work and effort. But when compliments are poured in just because one has to, then accepting them becomes a real issue. I got into such a situation recently! I had a tough time to fake ‘Thanks’ just because my name was quoted some where!
The worst part is when the person who gives it away and the person receiving it know that the compliment was for name sake. I will be the happiest person to get a compliment on something I got after I sweat out my best to get it, even when it is just a gully cricket match!

Is it just because of social conditioning or is it the way things work?


What is best way to accept compliments? Turning red on cheeks as unable to control the gush of that ‘eerrrr-hmmm’ feeling on your side neck? Such is the only time when I feel that I am getting Romancham* (hair standing situation) on my cheeks!

But down the line when the best words which are the easily forgotten words and goes down the drain. The words which criticize one, the words which hits one hard, are always scribbled on some hard rock inside ones mind. It will be there all long even when the notions and behavior is changed.

But in reality, what ever the people around say, one should go about how they feel about themselves, rather than being a foot ball of opinions and compliments. It is really tough when the compliments / feedback come from some one close to heart!

Fighting sleep …..Crazy post ahead!

Warning ..Totally blizzard and crazy post ahead!

Place: Client office – Vendor office
Time: Late after noon, 2:32 PM
Mood: Too sleepy and out of mind
Song : Mainaaka ponnmudiyil ponuruki toovi poy …. (Mazhavil Kavadi - Malayalam)

Plot: I am writing this post with one and only one intention. I have to kill time for another 35 minutes. Then head for the nearest exit and flee to my house to sleep

(Song change…. Aaro porunen koodeeee- Lal Salam)
Possible problems:

I might sleep in the train, as I am feeling so sleepy.
Client might drop a mail for a critical update while I am sleeping in the train / home
Work might not be complete as per the dead lines

Unsolvable problems:

A dead brain, a mind which wants to sleep and cannot think anything else!

Other creative ideas to kill time / sleep.

Go to 20th floor and do gaga over some thing to some job-less soul over there.
Go to 15th floor and do the same
Go to 15th floor and get the key to my house from my roomie

Drink super hot coffe and end up with a rosted tounge

Drink super cool coke and shugger off sleep

When one is over bundled with sleep, everything seems to stop. No logic in my mind is working. I am unable to think! The moment I stop talking to some one, I might fall asleep. Once i close my eyes, with in two to three minutes, my mind is drifting into weired dreams. I almost hit the table three times, falling asleep.

(Song change …. Swaminatha parypalayasuma …..Chithram - malyalam)

This song a classical song from the super hit movie Chithram, which is a Priyadharshan hit over 90’s. The musical –comedy riot in which, Mohan lal had given life to a un believably funny and interesting character on celluloid. The story is about a rookie photographer trying to find some fast money for his speechless child. The movie has an excellent script and scenario & slap stick comedy by Srinivasan and Nedumudi venu. The music in this film is awesome with couple of classical hits and a couple of melodies.

I have some how spend 12 minutes, but still left with another 23 minutes to 3’o clock.

(Song change …Eran Megham …Chithram - Malayalam)

How bad my work status is for today! My Application is not installing and throwing an error saying 'unable to open a file named para.ini'. I have been searching for three days for the same file, but could not find it. There must be a 'custom action' which is causing this problem, but I am unable to find the exact custom action or the sequence step which is causing this problem. The '/QB' switch together with 'verbose-logging' and a 'search' for the key word 'Unattended' might give me some details on what happens with the 'silent-switch-Install'.

Let me check this and come back to this post.

(Song change ...Megham poothuthudanghi …Tuvana Tumbikal- Malayalam)

The virtual machine is taking its time to start off, giving my patience a hard time. I guess patience paid off at the end and things are working now.

Here comes a call from Mr S and it seems he got some work for me.
He wants me to get into a high profile lunch meeting! Great! and my other planned lunch at small food court is going for a toss!

I think I have fought hard and won the battle with SLEEP. three cheers to myselft to fight back one of the basic human insticnt .....Sleep