Hi Shukla, Good Morning; Deepak called me early in the morning. I tried opening my eyes, but my conscience was saying – “Don’t try, you can’t”. I told Deepak, “Please you are a good friend of mine, a short nap please”. This is how the day started for me.
I looked at my cell, just 0700 hrs, what am I going to do waking so early. I stood from the bed, stretched a bit, and went out for the newspaper. But once a while when you wake so early you come to know newspaper vendors also doesn’t remain time efficient, even they deliver the bed tea newspaper, with the mid-day newspaper. Now what? I put on my shoes, and made a determination to start jogging daily, today onwards. I came out of my flat, and in a flash, observed that elevator is waiting there on my floor only. They say “beginners luck”(picked from Summer 2007). I immediately entered into the elevator and pushed the parking button. Soon reached the parking floor, I opened the lift channels came out of it. My society’s security guard, who also use to wash my bike came and said “Namastey Sir, today so early, is everything alright?”. I blushed as if waking late is a kind of achievement I had made these days. I looked around, feeling the clarity of the sky, looked up for the Sun, so that I might come to know where’s east. I noticed that traffic is rushing, god knows what they were doing at so early hours? I made a thought, let’s not run too rigorous today, and took some rounds of society’s park, and then put myself on one of the benches there. The very next moment I dialed to my mom and made her happy, that I had started waking early and will do exercise daily. Observing the response from my mom, I made the call to my bro, and sis as well making them aware too of today’s achievement of waking so early. 0730 hrs, I started moving to my flat. When I reached I didn’t find newspaper, I immediately made my mind to stop the paper if it does come so late. I surfed through star-news to zee-news to ibn7 to etc. everywhere the same story of vote for confidence for Manmohan Singh. How long could I persist with the same flashy “Breaking News” footer. At last, moved to MTV and V, but the videos there were running were the same, which these channels were telecasting for quite a long time. I, bored of the TV, felt that I didn’t have enough of sleep. Thank god the paper has come, I took the paper sat on the mattress in the living room and was reading top stories. Soon I realized position I was holding was not comfortable. So I moved to my bedroom, sat on the bed shuffling through the paper. The fan was on, I was feeling a cool shiver so took the blanket on me and I don’t know when I was again went to my finish my half done task of sleep.
0930 hrs it was, I opened my eyes, thanked to god, I got my full sleep. I was roaming here and there, Ravikant spoke to me, “hey aren’t you going office today?”. To that I responded “yes I will” and continued my work – actually what defines work, nobody knows. 0945 hrs, I realized I thought time to get set go. But bad – I have to shave. Believe me it is the most boring job to lather your face and then shave it off.
I finally got ready for the office. The only time of the day, I feel I am not lazy is when accelerate my bike while way to office. At 1045 hrs, I finally reached to office, which starts at 0930 hrs. After pressing the laptop power button, I exchanged the greetings with E, Negar Khan, Patil, Krishna and Mr. Chetan B. Asked them to come for tea – I don’t drink tea for tea but for TP. By the time we were back it was 1115 hrs.
I checked my emails, basically “Case Assigned to you” – flashy two new cases on Lalit and both on OpenVMS. Since I couldn’t do a much to close these cases, I went to cubicle “I-C” for our so called “Drive to Five” commitments. 1145 hrs, and still not started with my day. I came back to my desk, opened Remedy and started on cases. I tried to follow the execution flow in the code and mapped with issue details, by 1245 hrs I was done with the issue updates – not sure, if this would resolve customer’s issue, but no other options. At this time I GAed my chat friend but sad no response.
At 1300 hrs we got up for lunch. Since we have two cafes in our office, it had always been a point of debate where should we have today’s lunch. The only thing I don’t understand till is, if both of them are offering shit, and you have to choose one of them, why should it really matter to have which shit. The only suggestion to HR is if you can’t control the quality of any don’t confuse the employees to choose from two options. We finished our lunch, and went out for a walk, the only different with other days was that today we were missing the company of Wills Classic Mild, as we didn’t have the threshold of how long we were going to sit besides the sphinx of the pyramid.
At around 1400 hrs, I was at my workplace. I surfed through web, which would help in the current technical project ahead. Krishna and Chetan were setting the build and installation environment for the environment. Chetan looked for me for some execution steps. During the course we dwelled into what and how should be done for the release. A lots of ifs and buts, design specifications boggled through our mind – the only thing we are good at(the endless discussions on any topic). And in the end, we concluded that we need to ask why so much was taken for this project if we already have a parallel product doing well in the market. In between our discussions Krishna came and called for tea, for which I told him, we might have a meeting in a short while, so let’s not go for tea now. I was waiting for the call, so thought of to do a talk with my chat friend, usual stuffs – bzzy/smileys/wassup….In between Krishna came up again and asked for tea. It was 1530 hrs, and me, Krishna and Chetan sitting in the Swad – the tea house and looking for Baadal and Dharkan – the usual tea boys name in the country. We took the tea involved us in the gossip.
When you have gmail/orkut/google available at your workplace you check your private emails so often as if someone is sitting on google server just to write mails to you or scrap you. Sometimes if you don’t get scraps you peek into other’s profile and check what is hot in there. The case with the search engine is you type anything it is there in its database, but after one or two clicks if you are not two keen on any of the specific topic, you will be lost to into space-time continuum. The same I did today during evening hours of the day. 1730 hrs, when I didn’t find enough of the space on the WWW to keep me involved, I asked Negar and E for the tea. E today was in “Kuchi kuchi rakma mode” said a few senti dialogues to me, which no one can understand as his Hindi is so good J - “once for andheri raat, he sai – jis raat ko chhand nahin nikalta”. After tea we came back, I thought 1800 hrs it is, before the roads could get packed jam, I should sign off for the day, so a day in the office finally ended.
I reached home, put on the Zee Cinema, there movie Baadal was starting, by the I would get to know the stars, I was once again in my dreams. In the “Gau Bela” jatti woke me up, I immediately told lets finish off with last job of the day – Dinner. We went to DCB and came back at a decent time. After a lot of gossip, i thought of playing with my laptop, I booted it and to some reason thought of blogging one more thought. Its 0134 hrs and I’m done with my stuff. Will I be jogging in the morning?
