<< Monday Blues - JLT!!

What all I do to beat Monday morning blues..:) Dated : 03/12/2007

Ahh....!! Its Truly a typical Monday.......,

Day on a sleepy start,

With Loads of work to tear apart... ,

No mails or news from friends to react...... ,

Even when its time to Depart.....!!! :-(

So I just had this thought....,

That why not I take a part ....,

Just before its too Late..... ,

and end the day on a Happy note......:-))) Just Like that!! :)

A Very Good evening ....!!

~$,13/05/2008, 9:00pm

~ A thing of beauty is joy forever...!!~

“A thing of beauty is Joy for ever…!!” ~~ John Keats

The poet who quoted this quote ages back, never would have thought that the “Forever” word used in his quote would be short lived. He would not have foreseen that there will be a point in time where an ignorant human mind can get ugly and transform the thing of beauty into a beast, slowly yet steadily.

Yes!! Our reference here is to Nature/Earth which is the only beautiful entity that has been taken for granted and misused from times immemorial. It is high time that each one us, being a part and parcel of this entity, turn our energies and thoughts to bring back the original glory of nature. Theme of our module has been one of the most obvious, unanimous and relevant choices of recent times.

Our theme “Rescue Earth – Together “ is just our way of paying tribute to mother Earth and Nature which has served, cared and nurtured us through the ages with true harmony, synergy, ecological balance and persistence. Of course last but not the least, rewarding us with an amazing spectrum of what we call “Colors” today.

Our motto of life from today should be living in agreement with nature rather being the cause for its detriment. Let’s pledge – “We will Rescue Earth – Together”!! "

When I wrote this write-up for the creative module contest that explained in nutshell the theme of our module, I was pretty confident of us being the best but never knew my confidence was also short lived like the poet. The theme was an easy choice by couple of other modules too but we (Module C3) were very proud of the way we carved, engraved and depicted the concepts in a unique way that others couldnt even think of. We had chosen a constructive central sub-theme where we depicted the Do's and Dont's of how we can bring about a change to rescue Earth. And the rest of the module took the theme of 5 elements of nature in Earth (Brown), Sun & Fire (Yellow & Orange), Air & SKy ( White), Water (Blue). We had a Banyan tree effect with a tree sturcture at center of the module with birds and monkeys hanging from it. You wouldn't believe that it actually gave our module an effect of a forest and our efforts did really satify us.

Alas! The results were out today and it came as a shocker to us that we never bagged a prize. It was beyond anyone's sense and sensibility that how this could happen. We questioned, rebelled and cursed amongst ourselves that how could the panel of judges dint have the aesthetic sense to see a true conjuntion of Color, Theme and Beauty which everyone else around could see and appreciate. These were words not out of frustration but the confidence on the kind of effort and sincerity potrayed by each and everyone in our Team. We wanted to know the parameters on which judgement was made and boo wooed HR for handling it very unprofessionally. Anyways guess thats the way certain things work at times.

A temporary gloom filled all of us for a while and we being the best enthusiastic and enrgetic module around, cheered ourselves, boosted each other and made an oath that we would turn up in BLACK this friday to silently show our protest against such a judgement :-) I guess its these times our strength as a team doubles and quadruples;);)

At the end of the day, we knew and believed who was the BEST and all that mattered was the JOY we experienced creating the creative pieces that would surely remain with us FOREVER whether we bagged a prize or not... he he :-):-) Guess this is exactly what the poet had in his mind when he would have written that quote... Its the intangible joy you experience which would remain with you forever rather the tangible returns.....Phewww!!!!!Getting philosophical actually helps you a lot at times he he ..;);)

I somehow had carried a lot of negativity thru out the day at the whole affair and found this is the best way to vent it out...:-) I bet the day would pass and tomorrow we would be all in the best of our spirits with a new hope and belief. As someone rightly said, its on this HOPE that earth revolves which is bigger and stronger than gravity ;)

~$,02/18/2008, 11:00pm

Little Lizzy and Me..!!!:-(:-(

This is my desk where Lizzy found its groove and you can see how comfortable this part of my desk is to hide and laze ....;))

Its may be very wierd that today's topic is as trivial as a Lizard and its impact on me...;))))You might be thinking WTH??!!!:-)) Yes....!!! There are certain things in life which are so insignificant by nature but can be biggest troubles for u on a given day and obviously very very situational...he he he So I am going to write about how a little Lizard (lets name it Lizzy for conversational convinience hehe;) scared hell out of me...Sorry for those B rated words here and there....;))

Yesterday was like any other typical Monday's (may be I am writing for 10th time now in my blogs;) where morale was low, work load heavy, 100 things running in parallel and I was all worked up, exhausted by the time it was mid day.

Some times when I am worked up, I tend to scoot off home at three to have a breather, leaving work for the next day. But Yday, I had some handful of tasks and anvil right on my head that I had no chance of escape....Guess when ur not so energetic or interested, even ur body doesn't seem to cooperate. I was slowly developing a soar throat also by tea time but still kept myself motivated for the long day ahead......Then came the real terror.....!! This little lizzy which was sitting on my desk behind a calendar on the desk wall scurried off and I frenzied in my chair not knowing what to do.

People who know me would know how much I hate this little thing and how scared I am of it..:-((

Since childhood times, I never used to go into the room(rest room;) if I spotted one on the wall. I used to make my dad run around it with a broom to shoe it off the wall to be in peace. This fear doesnt stop with just Lizard but with rats,cats, dogs etc etc he he he I am no Maneka Gandhi, but just enjoy watching any pets from distance and a Lizardddd......Absolute NOOOOOO to even look!!!! And see, how well God tailors a script where I find a Lizard right on my working desk in what we call a sophisticated IT company and of all the people, just ME..;))

When I saw it hurrying it to next desk, I got up with a little scream and warned people in and around. Few teammates gathered around and started watching its movements and making fun of the special affinity these creatures have towards my desk which is pretty much colourful and no less than a fancy store...he he he btw this is the second time a Lizard is found in my vicinity, the first time on my neighbours desk. Another instance was a small cockroach in my food in canteen...Hmm..Scary...!! Ain't it??? My life's always happening you see...;)))

Yeah coming back to yday, I immediately reached the maintenance number and asked them to send help( he he ) to clear this little lizzy off my desk.... I was closely monitoring its movements so that I dont lose track of it by the time they come.

Just as we find our Indian Police reach after the thief leaves the crime spot in movies, so were the maintenance guys at my work too. They are always late and by the time this lady came, the little lizzy scooted off somewhere in a fraction of second when I just turned my eye :-( After a 15 mins exhaustive search in and around, we couldnt spot it. With giggles all around, the lady left saying, " Why are you scared ma??? Its a poor little thing". But in contrary, I felt rather I was the poor little thing left at the same desk not knowing where and when Lizzy would pop up;) Lizzy would surely have fun now with poor little Silly...;))

This thought( quite imaginative though) was heights for me after a frustrating day and with a feeling of disgust and pressure(;) I decided to go home even if the pending tasks are at stake. I started immediately and all these trivials guess subconsciouly effected me and I was down with soar throat and fever when I woke up this morning....;))) Phewwww!! At least this timely fever made me escape the little lizzy and its troubles that were awaiting me at my desk....But what about tomorrow??? Boo hoo....:-(:-( Wait if there would be more adventures of Silly with Lizzy...!!

~$,01/29/08,11:15pm

Its all about Lac :)

No No....Thats not a spelling mistake for a Lakh but Lac that I am going to talk about:-) Sometimes weekends get really boring with friends not around and this weekend something very interesting came my way when I was thinking what to do after a really hecitc week at work. I have been looking to get into some kind of creative learning for sometime now and One of my very close fren told me about this 2 day "Lac jewellery making" workshop that was being held@ Dakshin chitra on ECR.
Without any second thoughts both of us enrolled and were all excited to know what did this Lac jewellery all about.
Saturday morning!! and I got ready by 8:30 and we set out to take the cab provided by the organizers. All thru the way, we were discussing and planning how wud it be if we would take this up as a Business line down the lane when we get fed up with our work:-) I was almost ready and quoting my success speech too...he he he
We reached and being there for the first time, I felt it was a great concept at Dakshin Chitra. It has a village like atmosphere of all south Indian states and lot of stalls and ofocurse mostly visited by foreigners though to learn about our culture and aesthetics. We were greeted by a Tutor( Rajasthani) who was going to be with us thru out the day.

We were all together 8 ladies, a very good blend of different ages and regions which added to the fun. The workshop was quite interesting and time flew never giving us even a moment to think about anything else. All of us made a pair of ear rings, pendant, bangle and a key chain out of our hand. Also the workshop was reduced to a day as only 8 of us were there and we finished our course too...;)))

By the end of the Lac jewellery making, all of us knew none of us would be able to actually try much at home as it required lot of equipment which is a little too expensive for a hobby :-((((:-) but then I was happy that atleast I dint sleep thru the day like any other saturday not knowing what to do....Made some new interesting frens and ofcourse my very own hand made jewellery to boast about...;)))) The day ended with us getting to the Besant nagar beach for an evening walk and sipping my favourite coffee from Barista and watching the waves from a distance:-)

~$,16/12/07,10:45pm

A Comedy of Errors!!:-)

I am writing a day late about the string of events that happened Yesterday . It was lazy and dull monday(as any other monday I would say) and I had least interest to get out of bed and start to work.
So I displayed heights of "Inertia" and reached work quite late. Adding to the misery, there was loads of work awaiting me and I cursed myself for not having fallen sick or finding a reason to bunk work.
Reaching my desk, I was hearing repeated announcements from the receptionist of my office that some CEO of some company is going to visit our center at some time and that he would be addressing all in the auditorium. I was wondering who had the time in the world to make time out of the busy schedules to go and listen to him. But fate had something funny in store for me.....
All of a suddenly, around 12:30 in the afternoon, the HR head of my center called me to his desk and gave a startling news that I would have to preare a welcome note for that some CEO of some company and I would have to meet our center head and few others in this regard.

That brought me right back to senses and thought how in the world was I targeted for this task but then there was no other go. I felt quite good and elated atleast for a while for having been chosen for this task. I dint know lot of fun was yet to unfold. I quickly gathered some facts about him from net and prepared a rough draft within half hour and I was all set for the speech.
When I reached the audi, I was surprised to see it in full capacity and knew there are quite a lot of people out there who are interested to listen to him :-)))) or rather.....;))))
Obviously the CEOs are supposed to reach late and so did he with his team....But meanwhile this delay screwed me as I was thumped with the mike to say few words, and out of confusion I goofed it up a bit and could see lot of smiles all around the audi:-) that was goof up No 1

They reached and I was all set with my words well rehearsed and delivered it well ( as per me) but only to know later that the mike was not fully functional :-):-):-) The only consolation was that my voice naturally being loud, it was atleast audible but that was fully eligible for a goof up No 2 ...wat say???:-)
Then the event was so very unplanned by the event team that the mikes dint work when guests wnated to speak, USB dint get connected to play a movie, lights went off when they were not supposed to and never went off when they were supposed to. The whole audi went in giggles looking at the wonderful co-ordination :-)
Keeping all this apart, even our guests were no less. They wanted to play a movie and theirs too never worked and it added more and more fun. After all this hungama, somehow the scheduled event ended with our guest delivering his set of words (which too was disappointing as the event was).

The event was closing and towards the end, I just had a thankyou line for all which I thought I would might as well skip it seeing people standing up. But guess the comedy of errors was not yet done. When people stood and were about to leave, the event team waved at me to say those words and I had to forcibly pick the mike yet again to thank all. This created a lil confusion and people stood where they were expecting me to say something but only to listen a "Thank you" note for me.
I couldnt resist the laughter myself at that point of time and thought I too would enjoy all these comedy of errors myself. So with a biiiiiiiiiggggie smile on fac, I thanked all :-)))
At the end of the day, Dont know if I can really laugh or cry at the disastrous turnout but surely I do bet people had lot of light moments to take back including me .

~$,03/12/07,10:05pm