kaam

Been over a month since I joined work. It’s not bad. That’s how I’d put it.

After spending a week doing nothing in Vashi office, was packed off to Chennai development centre for technical training on the product, coz ‘knowing the product you’re selling, inside out, is good’. So am here, in the city, which was described as the opposite of heaven, by some of my colleagues, is not so bad ya know.

I’ve been here before. But for a shorter duration.

Two weeks and it is growing on me. And no, its not that bad. It was uncomfortable some time back, but every since it rained a week back, the weather couldn’t have been better.

I went out sight seeing today. By myself. Armed with a city map, some direction sense and the patience to haggle with the tamil speaking auto- rickshaw drivers, I soaked in some Chennai heritage. Santhome church basilica, where St. Thomas rests, Fort St. George and the St. Mary’s church that it houses, Marina and Elliott’s beaches were all on my touristy map.

Tomorrow I got check out pondy bazaar. Please excuse the name. It is not a point of sale for objectionable visual material. But really a bazaar in the oriental sense.

Hope to upload some pics the next time a get a nice and fast connection for my machine.

Making do with reliance web worlds which have a very stupid interface and make a really fu**ed up browsing experience and the b*****ds have even blocked orkut for chrissake!

Okay I am not in a very good mood. And you got the drift.

See you later.

In a better mood.

But....guys don't cry!

Was watchin a movie today. The man of the house. Tommy lee jones. Funny movie.

The man’s daughter says ‘I love you Daddy’. And ma stupid eyes swelled up again. I dunno. I thought my daughter would say that to me some day.

I remember my friend telling me the other day that I am obsessed with my girl child. Who’s ain’t born yet. who aint comin for some more years. But God knows how much I want to love a daughter.

About eyes swelling up. I cried buckets the other day. Was watchin the movie ‘saheb’. Hard core senti stuff. Why I cried wasn’t necessarily coz of the movie. But that was the ‘catalyst’. Fortunately I was alone in the room. And I kinda let go. Felt better after that.

It is not to say that I am not liking it or am not comfortable. I am ready and have adjusted to the travelling that comes with the job. Moreover I have been living away from family for a good 2 years now.

But sometimes it just gets to you.

I love u Mom, Pa and bhai.

aap agar in dino yahaan hotey

been 3 weeks since i joined. 3 days since i joined my team. and i haven't started 'working' yet.
thats not the worst.
i haven't moved into own acco as yet. found a flat, gathering the deposit for it while the date of posession nears.
in the mean while i am housed in a hotel, running up a bill which i have no idea how i am going to pay.

sab jhel leta magar, there aren't any friends around. sab ke sab town mein rah gaye. Vashi isnt such a village i had thought it'd be, there are enough places to hang around, but there's no one for me to hang out with.
To make matters worse, since i have the privileged US business to look after, i have my work hours coordinated with the team that is based in New Jersey, simply put, i am doing night shifts, and that really cuts off my last link with the people i would have considered going out with.

Earlier when one was supposed to reach the 9 am lecture on time, tab neend khulti nahi thi, and was happy being awake all night, watchin movies or playing counterstrike or NFS. And now, when those timings are actually required for my job, i am drowsy as the clock strikes 11pm and i wake up fresh at 7am. yeh bhi koi baat hui?

I got my first salary some time back, though it was only for the 15 days we'd worked for, i was overjoyed as any newbie would. but the ebullience was to soon die out as i worked on the list of expenses that were staring me in the face.
a selected list reads:
home deposit approx 30k
home rent 6k
agent's brokerage 9k
hotel bill 5k
phone bill 2k
edu loan repayment that starts this month 8k


and none of these, you would agree, are faltu expenses.
I am being good boy and not flaming my first pay over clothes or the much anticipated N series phone.

but sab kuchh chhodo, i want my friends back.
I would now kill to get an andheri posting, which is not likely to come by.
hafta shuru hua nahi ke i am waiting for the weekend to do up my home to be and then meet up with friends and everybody else who has suddenly forgotten about my existence.

aap agar in dino yahaan hotey,
hum zameen par bhala kahaan hotey.