Sunday, April 15, 2007

Main Cyber Cafe main hoon

haan haan ye sach hai. I have just realized it. Cyber Cafe business is still on. For all those people who have very well exploited the broadband internet technology and have sucked every last byte of that internet cable, cyber cafes do still exist. Be happy now.

Now if someone is reading this blog would be wondering if I was just imported in India from antarctica or so. But no, its not like that. Let me explain in detail. I got time as I have already paid my 10 rupees and I still have twenty more minutes to kill.

I shifted to my new house yesterday and it rained today. One, either it was a mother nature's way of applauding (by thunder) at my begining as a "Living Alone" guy. Somewhat like in those old movies where its always a thunder in an intense scene, where someone is either running furiously from bad guys or when someone is dying.

Or it was just to ruin my only good jeans left ironed and cleaned for tomorrow's office. I blame the keechad and the resturant which had to use such heavy spoons which are now dragging jeans down with weight in my pocket. (I just shifted yaar, I need stuff). To give you some heads up, I'm usually the kind of guy who usually doesn't have a backup pair of clothes ready to be worn to office. Unlike the government's Five Year plans, I usually don't even have 5 hrs plan in advance. And I can only keep a certain number of clean things with me at a particular time. Coming to think of that, I just realized that I would have been a horrible dhobi or laundry wala if I was in that business somehow. Anyway, the point is that right now I am clueless as to what to wear tommorow, and all this because of this cyber cafe.

How? because I had to walk for almost a kilometer in as huge as 3 feet long roads with a future planned footpath, jammed with keechad. But all is well when end is well, and I am in a cyber cafe to check my emails. Yeay !! And for that jeans? I think a little stain should be a style tomorrow. :)

PS: No need to judge me, I do realize that I am being live example of that software engg on that island stuck for 2 yrs , finally meets a girl and asks if I can check my emails ?? But there's a difference u c, just let me check my emails and i will tell you ;) ...

Monday, April 02, 2007

Reporting from Office

Since the time I have landed in the land of Shivaji, that is pune, its like a paid vacation I alwayz wanted. Only its a little bit on the outskirts of goa, the place where I actually wanted to be, but on the whole its not too bad. I've been able to find my own apartment (although it sounds like i had lost it earlier, but its not like that). I successfully locate food every single day, and have been able to bring down my bank balance by a few extra thousands. Thinking about bank balance, many people have already reminded me of that aate-daal ka bhav wali reality which I earlier thought I can deal with, when it comes to that. Earlier I used to think that, "Yeah!! so whats the big deal? I am moving to another city and hence bound to spend extra money!!". But coming live to it, everything seems so expensive, and I literally fought with the panwala on selling chlor-mint as expensive as 50 paisa per mint.

On a more serious note, I really haven't had time to think about anything so far very seriously. Even at office, they have decided to let go of me and not burden me with work for sometime. If someone was looking at me right now, he would think that I am working very hard with the dedication of a donkey, while I frantically hit the keyboard continuously to type this post for my blog. Blogging from office has its own advantages, you see.

Talking about office, right now it feels more like a food court than some big company's office. Wipro has its way to keep employees fulfilled and stuffed. We have all kinds of food available all the time ranging from icecreams to coffee to everything. Thinking of my earlier company gives me the shiver of being in Somalia for all those years, although it was not the case actually . With the kind of workload, where even sarkari daftars would be ashamed, you can just imagine how many extra kilos I am going to gain here. On the whole it seems just like to hold off my breath and watch everything before I can comment anything being on the positive or negative side.

Till I write a few more updates in my next post, m off to go hunt some snacks.