Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Plan Busted..!!

Date: 27th Sep'04
Time: 1:06AM

Writing at this time!! Yes...Why??..Because i just felt like writing something ..thats it. But the sad part is ..am not writing on MS-Word,instead its my writing pad..So i will have to put some more pressure on my finger tips (which are already having hard time as i am practicing leads on my guitar these days) & will have to type everything again (which i am doing right now..)

But its very essential to write..Because i want to write how a maid servant who has nothing to do with u r life can bust u r idea of an ideal week end.Yes..I was supposed to have a guitar jam at my friends place. Then revision 1 of the program came & he decided to come to my place on Sunday morning. He never turned up as his maid kept him waiting too long & we had to drop the idea.So, this way, a maid servent, who is not even remotely connected to me,who has nothing to do with my life...took the life out of my weekend & instead of having a jam, i ended up watching TV, eating maggie, sipping tea and sipping more tea!!!This is just another example of how my plans take 180 degree turn at the last moment & how the chairman of the planning commission sitting inside me mourns the death of each & every plan conceived by him.

I just hope my plan for this weekend will not meet the same fate & just to continue with my tradition of making plans..i have planned another weekend..(9-10 Oct.)

As it was sunday,i did some dusting..and as it was sunday ..i obliged myself by washing not two but three clothes...2 t-shirts and a shirt..

PS:Bought SONY music system..2600 Watts..!!

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Another Plan!!

Two weekends are fast approaching. One is “Reliance Weekend “ while other one is “True Weekend”(2nd – 3rd Oct.) Although I have plans for both the weekends, I am sure the first one will be over till the time I realize that it was Sunday…Planning to have a guitar Jam session at friends place this Sunday.This clearly indicates that I need to go through the Joy ride of Local Train (Kindly read "SELF IMPOSED TORTURE") for full two hours. Apart from that, a friend’s party is also due. I just hope that I will be able to snatch it from her atleast this time.

As far as the TRUE WEEKEND is concerned. I don’t want to write about that at this point of time, as there is every possibility of it dying premature death.

Nothing much happening these days so not much to write. In office the day is getting evaporated in Meetings, VC’s and Presentations. Sometimes I really wonder whether I do any work on my desk or not!!

Have a nice weekend…

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

True weekend...

After reading this space, one of my friend suggested that this is more like a diary and not a blog. I concede that it actually is my diary.Writing on various topics and discussing them was never my intention. I just want to write about me, about my life, my experiences…basically my journey of life even if it means writing my day to day stuff…

I had a bad headache for two days. probably my “out of choice adventure” (sleeping at 3:00 am) took its toll on me. So now I have truncated my adventure till 2:00!!

I had a Weekend sort of weekend this weekend (what was that??).Actually its was holiday on sat. so got 2 consecutive days off. And enjoyed the two days thoroughly…Did everything…from playing guitar to watching movie..to eating parathas in the midnight to walking aimlessly on road in the night.It was fun and although I came back to my flat half dead at 1:30 AM on Monday morning, I enjoyed my rare weekend.

And now about the movie I watched.It was “Dil ne jise apna kaha”.It truly superceded our expatations. We were expecting a crap and it was well beyond that. Script was hopeless, Bhumika was disappointing, direction was directionless and the product was garbage. Somebody pls tell Salman that summation of crying 5 times in a span of 2 hours does not amounts to good acting.

Monday was as hectic for me as could have been. Generally am busy on Mondays and in that power packed schedule a meeting (which lasted for 2 hours!!) was stuffed. Barely managed to finish the work on time.

A little reassignment of work group was done in our deptt. today and I managed to come out with my old responsibilities…no new additions!!


Looking forward to this new week…

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

A day 48hrs long...

This is the last one from the old writings...
will start posting new ones as and when i write...
Till then enjoy...


Date: 9th Sep.
Time: 4:55 pm

Having a nice feeling today…Reason? Did some work, had one to one meeting with HOD twice and was asked to attend the all-important Friday meeting from tomorrow onwards. I think these are enough reasons to be happy.

Saw “Phir Milenge” last Sunday. It was a decent enough movie but was slow paced. Liked the acting of Abhishek Bachchan.He is maturing with every film. And full kudos to Revathi for making the likes of Shilpa Shetty and Salman Khan to act.

Matheran planned got off the track for me and this was one more plan which will add to my list of “Failed adventures”. Actually not my fault. Our deptt. has just received ISO 9001:2000 certification and the company threw a party to celebrate that. Attended the party and danced a lot after a long long time although didn’t enjoyed much and I don’t even know the reason. Some things are beyond reasoning. That was one.

Bought a new book on Saturday and already finished half of it. It is Sam Walton’s autobiography named “Made in America”. I am reading this one fist and my “Snap shots from the hell” is in wait state now.

The days are getting longer for me. These days am not sleeping before 3:00 am. And yes, that’s purely out of choice.

Some days are too long. Approximately of 48 hours. Sunday was one of them. It was long enough to push me to come to office even on Sunday to kill time. And I did that efficiently. Killed a total of 4 hours.

These days most of the time is going in Guitar, Novel, TV and..yes here is the surprise..Washing clothes. I have made it a point to wash at least two clothes every day. Any combination will do. 1-shirt 1-trousers, 1-shirt 1-t shirt, 2-T shirts or 2-Shirts but not 2-Trousers.That will be too much for me.

That’s enough for today…


Day Out...

Penultimate...

Date: 1st Sep’04
Time: 5:38 pm

So, Starting of a new month!! Not much happened during the last three days. So not much to write. I went for shopping on Sunday. I spent majority of the time searching for the street I was looking for. Although I have already been there twice, still my sense of direction and sense of path is something to beat. Its just mind blowing. After searching for one full hour in scorching heat, I realized that the street I was looking for is at Elephanstine station while I was looking for it at Lower Parel. Apart from this small mistake, I was well on my path. Finally I reached there but dropped the idea of buying from there, as I didn’t find nice pair of shoes there. Then returned back to Dadar.I bought lovely sports shoes. Brand is “Sprendi” . Then I committed a blunder. I decided to board a bus from Dadar to Vashi. Waited for the bus for 45 minutes. It was Jam-packed and I was having the same feeling as a donkey must have after carrying load for the whole day.

I was exhausted totally after reaching home. I decided not to continue the misadventure and dropped the idea of watching movie. So, now the plan of watching movie is again in its planning stages!! Another new plan is on the anvil now. Planning to go to matheran this weekend. Lets see this will materialize or not.

Ya.. One big news is that I got my incremented salary yesterday and its Pretty satisfying as far as financial security is concerned.

Now about the CAT preparations…I have read a few RC’s and have done pretty fairly in them but apart from that haven’t done anything. I will give myself 10 more days if my preparation continue to go in this haphazard fashion, I will replace that “spent” word with “wasted”.

Enough for today..

CAT, Olympics & Plans!!

Fifth one...bear with me...Just two more..

Date: 28th Aug’04
Time: 5”09pm

Finally I got my CAT form yesterday evening and thanks to our postal department it reached me in exactly 8 days. Posted on Thursday and received on next Friday. If I am not wrong normal post reaches in 4 days time and cost u just 5 bucks of stamp instead of 60 bucks for speeding it up.

Now about the cell bill, which I was supposed, to pay on 26th as it was the last day. Just before leaving for the Web World, realized that the last date was 25th and not 26th (Why this happens to me only??). At that very moment dropped the idea of paying bill. Anyways they are going to charge me 25 bucks surcharge, doesn’t matter I pay today or with the next bill. So why bother now!!

As far as CAT is concerned, haven’t started any serious preparations till now and the chapter of Ratio & Proportions, which I was supposed to wind up on 25th,still staring at me reminding me those 1500 bucks that I have SPENT on CAT material. And if this trend continues, soon I will have to replace this “SPENT” word with “WASTED”.

Yesterday saw Anju Bobby George’s Long jump event. Although she finished 6th,she leapt a creditable distance of 6.83m which is also her best and a new national record. Giving personal best in an event like Olympics is creditable and she did exactly that. Hats off to her.

Also watched Women’s 4x400 relay. The quartet was beenamol, chitra soman and two Kaur’s (I don’t exactly remember their names). We cheered them throughout their 3:26:89 effort and were surprised that they won bronze as they came third only to realize that we just wasted our throats for full 3:26:89 as it was heats and not the finals. Good part was that they qualified for the finals.

It’s Saturday today. So by simplest of calculations we can derive that tomorrow is Sunday and more importantly its off from office. Planning to go for shopping with my flat partner and yes this time no shoe polish and shaving cream. Probably I will buy some clothes or a pair of shoes. Also planning to see movie called “Phir Milenge”

PS: These are only the plans and there is no guarantee that they will materialize.

Vadapav..oh no..not again..

Here is the fourth one...I guess three more old writings to go...

Date: 26th Aug’04
Time: 5:10 pm

Time to write my page…am thinking of putting all these pages on net…as my blogs…some day I will have my home page and some day I will be able to put these pages on net…(Finally am putting them on net…mission accomplished!!)

Today resolved one or two official issues…so am happy…why? Isn’t it a part of my job? Probably that’s immaturity!!! Who cares.. Am happy.. That’s it.
But all in all, I didn’t have much to do today. So killed a lot of time reading mails and surfing indianguitartabs.com.Spending too much time on this site for the last few months. I think I have mastered this art of killing time now.

Didn’t do anything fruitful yesterday. Anyways, this is the case with most of the days. Reached home pretty early, and then went to eat something because I was dying of hunger. Somehow couldn’t find anything other than Vadapavs and meesalpavs (I just hate these Pav, wonder how 60% of Mumbai is surviving on this only. Infact I wonder whether they know what is sandwich and bread roll or not. I have named Vada Pav as “Doggy Meal”. No offence intended to mumbaikars.).I end up eating masala dosa. Then had a nice little nap of two hours and with this nap, my whole plan of studying after reaching home busted.

Watched India-Pakistan hockey match and we beat them 3-0 in their favour!!(We lost..) Also saw Anju George’s long jump where she took a leap of 6.69 meters (Even I can jump that distance, who cares if it is in two leaps) in her first attempt and sealed a place in finals scheduled for tomorrow. It was 11:00 pm when I again went out in search of something edible and this time again my search ended up with …Guess what…Masala Dosa…

Couldn’t sleep till 3:20 am, so again killed time watching TV. (Don’t u think I should be punished for an offence called “Murder”)

I prepared a small list of to “To Do’s” yesterday and committed to myself to finish them today. There were 6 in all and after finishing some, left are 6!! Hehe.. Haven’t finished any…

O my god, I have to pay my cell bill today. Its last date today. Going to Web World…

Am Confirmed now!!!

This is the third one in the series...

Date: 25th Aug’04
Time: 3:35pm

The time of my writings suggests that I m getting pretty much free time in office..Let me make this very clear here itself…am getting free time as I m efficient enough to complete the assigned tasks before time limit and not because I don’t have any work..another nice way to please u r self!!!

I have received my CAT material on 23rd, but yet to receive my CAT form. I have started my preparations starting with “quanta”…finished half of “Ratio & Proportions” Yesterday…will wind it up today. Although I know I had enough time yesterday itself to finish it off…but the sheer laziness got better of me…anything new? This has always been the case with me..

Have bought as new novel, “Snapshots from the Hell”. ‘The making of an MBA’. I have started it.. but I have finished just one chapter of it…So this is another place where I can put that lame excuse again…that I was too busy!!! (I know I m just not pushing myself).

I got the confirmation letter on 21st Aug.So now I am an L3 on paper also. Salary is decent enough now.. although I must admit that I have developed some sort of affinity with money now and everything is appearing as peanuts to me. Is it strange?? Nah..99.99% of the humans have this affinity…So nothing wrong with it…

Oh another news…got my quota of 41 TCS shares…The company got listed today and the stock that bought for 850 bucks opened at 1050 RS..although it has diminished to current 985 Rs (3:47 pm).

Did some shopping yesterday.. no no..not shirts and trousers..but shoe polish, shaving cream and blades…Yet to wash the clothes…(Guess this line is going to figure in every page of this diary).

Moving On...

This is the second one of that "OLD POSTINGS" series..Hope am not confusing anybody..

Date: 21st Aug’04
Time: 5:56pm

The best thing about writing on PC is that u can be as exact as u want with the time..just look at the bottom corner of u r right hand side on the screen and u can write precisely the seconds also..really gone are the days of wristwatches. This whole thing about time struck me when I was writing the time in today’s diary…although I sport a wrist watch, which is pretty cool…I wonder..had I ever watched time in it…mostly I pick the time from my cell or from my comp…really we are living in 21st century…

Just noticed that I m writing after exactly 10 days…and where are these days gone? No idea!! Err…O.k. have idea about last 5 days..was attending training on LMDS…(Local Multipoint Distribution System)..wrote the full form here so that I can remember this Abbreviation for few more days!!! Anyways its going to get evaporate from my Cache pretty soon!!!
And yes what about the other 5 days…?? Don’t know ;-)..So am taking it as “was too busy”…Every time when u cannot give an account of the days gone, to u r self…just assume that u were too busy..atleast I do that…and it gives u a feeling that u were pretty overloaded and worked u r heart out..Nice way to relax!!!

So finally I have decided to appear in CAT this time…am not too hopeful about my chances…but I thought I would be a nice idea killing time preparing for CAT instead of killing it on TV!!
My form as well as the CAT material is on the way…probably I will get both on Monday..will start my preparations then..

Tomorrow its Sunday…So it’s a sort of week end for me…actually there is no week end for me..As I work 6 days week…So no Saturday holiday…so no week end..Week for me just ‘ends’…abruptly..

Have lots of things to buy..No shoe polish, no brush, no shaving cream, and no blades. Will buy them tomorrow..
Plus loads of clothes to wash..This is one thing I hate. Everyday I look at the hook trying to figure out which pair is less dirty..and i Keep wearing dirty clothes. I must be smelling like a pig these days…Probably that’s the reason.. No chicks in life!!!

Closing here today with a promise to myself that I will be more regular in writing from now onwards…

Getting started..

Just created my blog..i have written somethings during the last few days..so for the sake of continuity,I am posting them (old ones) in chronological order and then i will start afresh...

Date: 11th Aug’04
Time: 4:55 pm

So…I Am making another attempt to write my diary…to be exact, this is my third attempt…First two (mis) adventure died “Natural Death”… Am in love with this word “ND “ these days...My first foray into writing lasted few days…that was first yr. of my engg. And I stretched the next one to more than a yr.. First time, I started JLT (Just Like That..) and the driving force behind the second was the movie called “Astitva”..as the male lead in that movie used to write his own..and if I m recollecting correctly.. he was Sachin Khedekar…Now the question arises ..Where are those two Shakespearean Works??
Answer is ….GOD ONLY KNOWS…I don’t even have the faintest of idea where are the manuscripts!!! First one is truly lost..and if second one has not met the same fate yet.. it must be languishing somewhere in the storeroom of my house in Gwalior waiting for someone to take it out and sell it to some kabadiwala…

Now am having comp. at my disposal and a bit of free time too…always wanted to write my own diary…so I am starting an all new Shakespearean work again!!!Lets see how far it goes…The best part is…I don’t have to bother to search a pen every time to start writing …thanks to Bill Gates….
Am having amazing (???) tool called MS Word!!!

Going through a lot of things these days.. but first a special one…just completed my one yr in office on 4th of august…This is another indication that the time does not melts…it just evaporates…its just a week since I have completed a year yet I can see a positive change in the behavior of my seniors…they are now treating me more as one among the equals and not as a petty GET!!!Am an L3 (this is the hierarchy in our company, L1 being the highest) now and got a considerable hike in my salary also…hope this trend will continue….

Trying to do a lot of things these days…reading novels regularly…Right now am going through “Wise or Otherwise” by Sudha Murthy. Before that I read “Five Point Someone” by Chetan Bhagat.. My true inspiration for my third attempt!!! Really. the novel was awesome…one-liners were great…real humour…great narration…each and every line was carefully written to keep u tightly bounded to the Novel…Unarguably one of the best I have read till date…