....That explains why me day has gone to the dogs....
Ended up having a three and half hour conference call with ppl at work starting yest midnight.....follow that up with reaching work early and leaving late.....
Ok I got cake at work out of it....an altogether wonderful day...
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I got fire....I got fire...
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
The week just gone by....
Monday morning get up a bit late...was supposed to go in in the
morning....was leaving home at 830....when i get call....where the
crap are you....get work as soon as possible..listen to the
pm...put mobile in pocket...get on bus...get off bus...check
pockets...no mobile...
Tuesday.....miracle happens....i reach work before 9....am dazed for
the rest of the day
Wednesday...reach at around 930...go have breakfast...come back..see
mail from PM asking to meet her...go thinking i'm going to get crap
for not doing any work...sit down...she asks...how you feel about a 1
month...max two month stint in Bombay...me
thinking...huh...where did that come from...think abt for a
moment...then signed me own death warrant by saying yes....am told i
have to leave asap...if possible get there by tomorrow morning....put
in a travel request...get tickets to travel by the 9pm flight to
Bombay...am told this is a EMEA/ES project by the new PM who is in
Pune in the afternoon...leave work at 7....reach home at 830...chuck
my clothes into a bag...reach airport at 855...to b told that i
have missed flight....again...
This is where Thursday comes in...run around at the various airline
counters in Bangalore Airport...to be told that only Jet has a flight
by which i can even hope to get to Bombay in time for Thursday
morning...buy ticket....leave Bangalore at 12...reach bombay at
2...home at 230...sleep...and am of to Lower Parel at 9am....come home
i think at 1030...eat...sleep...
Friday...home....work...home...sleep...
Saturday...wait today is saturday right?
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Guess who's back
Back again
Shady's back
Tell a friend
morning....was leaving home at 830....when i get call....where the
crap are you....get work as soon as possible..listen to the
pm...put mobile in pocket...get on bus...get off bus...check
pockets...no mobile...
Tuesday.....miracle happens....i reach work before 9....am dazed for
the rest of the day
Wednesday...reach at around 930...go have breakfast...come back..see
mail from PM asking to meet her...go thinking i'm going to get crap
for not doing any work...sit down...she asks...how you feel about a 1
month...max two month stint in Bombay...me
thinking...huh...where did that come from...think abt for a
moment...then signed me own death warrant by saying yes....am told i
have to leave asap...if possible get there by tomorrow morning....put
in a travel request...get tickets to travel by the 9pm flight to
Bombay...am told this is a EMEA/ES project by the new PM who is in
Pune in the afternoon...leave work at 7....reach home at 830...chuck
my clothes into a bag...reach airport at 855...to b told that i
have missed flight....again...
This is where Thursday comes in...run around at the various airline
counters in Bangalore Airport...to be told that only Jet has a flight
by which i can even hope to get to Bombay in time for Thursday
morning...buy ticket....leave Bangalore at 12...reach bombay at
2...home at 230...sleep...and am of to Lower Parel at 9am....come home
i think at 1030...eat...sleep...
Friday...home....work...home...sleep...
Saturday...wait today is saturday right?
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Guess who's back
Back again
Shady's back
Tell a friend
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Rant....Rant....Rant....
Sri Sri Ravishankar has decided to descend on this town....Him and his legions of followers....I land on Monday and the first thing i see as i am exiting the ariport is this desk set up to help 'devotees' ...behind them this massive hoarding ...4000 thousand buses have been engaged to pick and drop ppl...largest collection of musicians anyone has ever seen...over 2 lakh people attending his rally...
Now the question that comes to mind is....How many chutiya's are there in this world? Do you really need to go some hack to help clear your mind...wont just five minutes sitting and thinking calmly help you?...NO....it has to be packaged and branded as some shitall course...the yuppies lap it all up...then the rest of the chutiya world take it up...
Whats with this town anyway....last year Benny Hinn...this year this idiot...next year who? Osama? thats probably the only way the yanks will catch him....
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On a side note, got on the pubilc bus(one the few that werent drafted for the grand rally) to get to work today...the crowd dwindles...and there right acrross the aisle...there be this chap with a kid in his hands...not bacha type kid....but the goats offspring types...i cant remember ever seeing a dog/cat in a BEST bus...cows all over the road and cattle in the busses...where am i? Lalooland?
Now the question that comes to mind is....How many chutiya's are there in this world? Do you really need to go some hack to help clear your mind...wont just five minutes sitting and thinking calmly help you?...NO....it has to be packaged and branded as some shitall course...the yuppies lap it all up...then the rest of the chutiya world take it up...
Whats with this town anyway....last year Benny Hinn...this year this idiot...next year who? Osama? thats probably the only way the yanks will catch him....
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On a side note, got on the pubilc bus(one the few that werent drafted for the grand rally) to get to work today...the crowd dwindles...and there right acrross the aisle...there be this chap with a kid in his hands...not bacha type kid....but the goats offspring types...i cant remember ever seeing a dog/cat in a BEST bus...cows all over the road and cattle in the busses...where am i? Lalooland?
Friday, January 27, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Moo Tales....
An IAS candidate once wrote:
He is the cow. The cow is a successful animal. Also he is four footed. And because he is female, he give milks, but will do so when he is got child. He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards.....(full text here)
I just wonder...has this person been charged at by one of the species while standing in the middle of nowhere? Was waiting for the bus to come the other day when i see this blasted cow decide that it likes the look of the grass on this side of the road. From its warped perspective the grass must have seemed to be on the move...so it decides that it must charge accross before it gets away...Me just stands there thinking 'Hmmm...i should move out the way...'as it charges past... what i want to know is how something that size dont get hit while going for a blind charge...me feels inspired...maybe me should try it sometime...probability must favour me...
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Another day...was going to get on the bus to get to work...this is when this blasted cow that was lounging nearby decides that just has to sit in front of bus door...should i read that as an omen? an animal as sacred as a cow is blocking my way to work....who am i to challenge the Gods...
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You Holy Cow
The telegraph pole knows where
It knows where you live
You Holy Cow
I'll get it to take me there
And shout abuse at your window
No....I aint stoned...
He is the cow. The cow is a successful animal. Also he is four footed. And because he is female, he give milks, but will do so when he is got child. He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards.....(full text here)
I just wonder...has this person been charged at by one of the species while standing in the middle of nowhere? Was waiting for the bus to come the other day when i see this blasted cow decide that it likes the look of the grass on this side of the road. From its warped perspective the grass must have seemed to be on the move...so it decides that it must charge accross before it gets away...Me just stands there thinking 'Hmmm...i should move out the way...'as it charges past... what i want to know is how something that size dont get hit while going for a blind charge...me feels inspired...maybe me should try it sometime...probability must favour me...
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Another day...was going to get on the bus to get to work...this is when this blasted cow that was lounging nearby decides that just has to sit in front of bus door...should i read that as an omen? an animal as sacred as a cow is blocking my way to work....who am i to challenge the Gods...
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You Holy Cow
The telegraph pole knows where
It knows where you live
You Holy Cow
I'll get it to take me there
And shout abuse at your window
No....I aint stoned...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
And its 1...
...year since i came to this town...
While coming back home the day before I went for one of me random walks...walking from Palace Grounds...thought I'd get to Shivaji Nagar and get some transport from there onward home..
Walking...I suddenly realise i dont know where the crap I am...and this being Bangalore there is not a soul on the bloody road after 10 to ask for directions...unless you count the dogs...but sadly cant communicate with dogs...so just continue walking in what I think is the general direction that I want to take...15 fifteen minutes gone...there must be something that I recognise...five minutes later...wokay...where shit am I...go on...a fork in the road..now what...ah theres a bank up there..it'll tell me the area i'm in...Miller Road...where the f%#k is that..screw it just take the right fork...10 mins later a police station...Bharathi Nagar police chowky...what...follow the road...get to a crossroads...praise the lord...there's an empty rick ..make sure that he aint out to fleece me..give him directions...rick starts...100m on I pass the hotel where I had stayed when I first came here last year.
Coincidence or what.
While coming back home the day before I went for one of me random walks...walking from Palace Grounds...thought I'd get to Shivaji Nagar and get some transport from there onward home..
Walking...I suddenly realise i dont know where the crap I am...and this being Bangalore there is not a soul on the bloody road after 10 to ask for directions...unless you count the dogs...but sadly cant communicate with dogs...so just continue walking in what I think is the general direction that I want to take...15 fifteen minutes gone...there must be something that I recognise...five minutes later...wokay...where shit am I...go on...a fork in the road..now what...ah theres a bank up there..it'll tell me the area i'm in...Miller Road...where the f%#k is that..screw it just take the right fork...10 mins later a police station...Bharathi Nagar police chowky...what...follow the road...get to a crossroads...praise the lord...there's an empty rick ..make sure that he aint out to fleece me..give him directions...rick starts...100m on I pass the hotel where I had stayed when I first came here last year.
Coincidence or what.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Random Thoughts
Well
Its more than a year to the day since many of us got our marching orders to various places round the country...in some of our cases only to be booted of some place else...or back to where we came from...looking back....the wild haggling for a swap seems like madness...but its all done and burried.
This day last year was the last day of training for many of us...remember that we found out that it was Pusalkar's birthday and some of us Infy ppl ended up running around the campus trying to catch him and give him bumps...come to think of it...did we?
So its one year of being a full fledged "Professional"....now what does it feel like?
To me...nothing...no sense of accomplishing anything...just plodded along doing just about what needs to be done when the time came. All the talk of meeting life head on and similar crap just seems to be a load of bull. I really dont think that I am any different from what I was a year back....the same old slightly peeved slightly uncertain wierdo from Bombay
The next year begins....lets see whats in store for us....for atleast two it seems to be starting off rather well.....
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Dont know....but think this fits in here....
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say.
(c) Pink Floyd
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I know....probably not what most people wanted to read the first thing in the morning...but what the hell...
And no...I dont have suicidal tendencies....
A few more pics from Bangalore this time around here
Its more than a year to the day since many of us got our marching orders to various places round the country...in some of our cases only to be booted of some place else...or back to where we came from...looking back....the wild haggling for a swap seems like madness...but its all done and burried.
This day last year was the last day of training for many of us...remember that we found out that it was Pusalkar's birthday and some of us Infy ppl ended up running around the campus trying to catch him and give him bumps...come to think of it...did we?
So its one year of being a full fledged "Professional"....now what does it feel like?
To me...nothing...no sense of accomplishing anything...just plodded along doing just about what needs to be done when the time came. All the talk of meeting life head on and similar crap just seems to be a load of bull. I really dont think that I am any different from what I was a year back....the same old slightly peeved slightly uncertain wierdo from Bombay
The next year begins....lets see whats in store for us....for atleast two it seems to be starting off rather well.....
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Dont know....but think this fits in here....
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say.
(c) Pink Floyd
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I know....probably not what most people wanted to read the first thing in the morning...but what the hell...
And no...I dont have suicidal tendencies....
A few more pics from Bangalore this time around here
Monday, November 28, 2005
Its a miracle
Well...went out to Madras two weekends back...saw the reports of rain and what not...but was still skeptical...was silently giving gaali's at the thought of eating dust on the trip there...then dehydrating to the extent of braking into the component amino acids...but NO...it had actually rained in the barren land...i cant say that it was cold...for the first time that I can remember there was no oppressive heat...you could actually sleep
And there was water coming out of the taps
Praise the rain gods....now....Stop for craps sake....
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Also a piece of advice...do not travel by rick at 6 in the morning in winter. Has been attempted twice...once in Pune last year and couple weeks back in Bangalore...surpirsed that me has not lost any limbs to frostbite...yet.
And there was water coming out of the taps
Praise the rain gods....now....Stop for craps sake....
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Also a piece of advice...do not travel by rick at 6 in the morning in winter. Has been attempted twice...once in Pune last year and couple weeks back in Bangalore...surpirsed that me has not lost any limbs to frostbite...yet.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Wimps
One gets the feeling that Bangalore is filled with wimps....
It rained...rather drizzled all through the weekend....and the entry point to Hosur Road got flooded...So come yesterday morning when the horde was moving towards Electronic City they come across a 100 foot stretch of 2.5 feet of water..vehicles were diverted...some ppl ended up visting the National park on there way to office...
There were reports that it would rain again in the evening...so there was a mass evacuation of electronics city in the afternoon...rumours say that Wipro has given the rest of the week off....
Anyway....on the way back the 2.5 feet had reduced to 2 feet...but everyone got through....no rain...and thats that
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it's like you're waiting for a diamond shore to wash your way
bets put aside, you're evil
let's crawl into your face
a vision, vague or not, raising a frightful wake-you-up
time for...
evacuation
evacuation
evacuation
It rained...rather drizzled all through the weekend....and the entry point to Hosur Road got flooded...So come yesterday morning when the horde was moving towards Electronic City they come across a 100 foot stretch of 2.5 feet of water..vehicles were diverted...some ppl ended up visting the National park on there way to office...
There were reports that it would rain again in the evening...so there was a mass evacuation of electronics city in the afternoon...rumours say that Wipro has given the rest of the week off....
Anyway....on the way back the 2.5 feet had reduced to 2 feet...but everyone got through....no rain...and thats that
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it's like you're waiting for a diamond shore to wash your way
bets put aside, you're evil
let's crawl into your face
a vision, vague or not, raising a frightful wake-you-up
time for...
evacuation
evacuation
evacuation
Thursday, October 06, 2005
uhmm...
Well…I’m back….one fifteeth chink…but back I am…
Though that almost did not occur….
I was told on Friday to go get the hell out of the country…Now…my ticket was valid only on Taipei – Bangalore…that too only till 30 Sep…So when I call up the travel desk asking them to book my ticket they tell me it is not possible…you will have to raise a new travel request…It is way out of your budget and similar rot...Basically were telling me to goto hell…
Saturday was a public holiday in Hong Kong….Chinese Liberation day or some such rot…so all travel agents closed…frantic searching of airline offices result in zilch...finally reach through to Singapore Airlines reservation number…only to be very bluntly told that there are no vacant seats for travel on Monday...Next try Thai…you have a confirmed booking from Hong Kong to Bangkok….but Bangkok – Bangalore sector is unavailable…contemplate giving gaalis to the twat on the phone…but leave it…next try Cathay…seats vacant HK – Singapore – Bangalore …I’m thinking good…but the ticket will be issued only till 1pm…have to rush across the Harbour to get to the ticketing office…reach there at 1230…stand in queue get to the counter…only to realize I don’t have the cash…female there says you can come tomorrow and pay for you ticket….asgfasdgfnak…
Next day go get the ticket do some random roaming about the city after which I return at abt 12…cook…eat…pack..sleep at round 5…
Monday morning….get up at 1015..think crap...i’m screwed…needed to buy some stuff…go searching for the stuff..time 1215…ok…goto bank to say that I’m leaving, settle dues etc…time 1330….collect lunch…get going towards home ..time 1415…realize that the stuff I bought needs to be packed ...1417..start packing 1418…end packing 1425…get all the stuff down from the 19th floor to ground floor 1430…hail taxi to airport 1435…arrive at airport 1605…
Flight leaves 1550
So there I was in Chep Lai Kok International Airport Hong Kong…calmly contemplating the next outburst…goto the ticketing counter…am initially told no free flights to Bangalore till thu……After the female searches the damn system for some 15 min she comes with a flight that is going to Delhi at 2335…from there you will have to book your ticket to Bangalore…decide to take the risk…loaf about the airport for 7 hours…get on flight arrive in Delhi at 3am…clear customs etc and arrive at delhi domestic at 4am…bheek maangofied at the various airline counters for the cheapest ticket that i could find…finally caught flight at 710 and reached home in Bangalore at 11
Thus ends the tale of one slightly drowsy traveler….
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do not attempt to go here if you are on a dial up connection…
Though that almost did not occur….
I was told on Friday to go get the hell out of the country…Now…my ticket was valid only on Taipei – Bangalore…that too only till 30 Sep…So when I call up the travel desk asking them to book my ticket they tell me it is not possible…you will have to raise a new travel request…It is way out of your budget and similar rot...Basically were telling me to goto hell…
Saturday was a public holiday in Hong Kong….Chinese Liberation day or some such rot…so all travel agents closed…frantic searching of airline offices result in zilch...finally reach through to Singapore Airlines reservation number…only to be very bluntly told that there are no vacant seats for travel on Monday...Next try Thai…you have a confirmed booking from Hong Kong to Bangkok….but Bangkok – Bangalore sector is unavailable…contemplate giving gaalis to the twat on the phone…but leave it…next try Cathay…seats vacant HK – Singapore – Bangalore …I’m thinking good…but the ticket will be issued only till 1pm…have to rush across the Harbour to get to the ticketing office…reach there at 1230…stand in queue get to the counter…only to realize I don’t have the cash…female there says you can come tomorrow and pay for you ticket….asgfasdgfnak…
Next day go get the ticket do some random roaming about the city after which I return at abt 12…cook…eat…pack..sleep at round 5…
Monday morning….get up at 1015..think crap...i’m screwed…needed to buy some stuff…go searching for the stuff..time 1215…ok…goto bank to say that I’m leaving, settle dues etc…time 1330….collect lunch…get going towards home ..time 1415…realize that the stuff I bought needs to be packed ...1417..start packing 1418…end packing 1425…get all the stuff down from the 19th floor to ground floor 1430…hail taxi to airport 1435…arrive at airport 1605…
Flight leaves 1550
So there I was in Chep Lai Kok International Airport Hong Kong…calmly contemplating the next outburst…goto the ticketing counter…am initially told no free flights to Bangalore till thu…
Thus ends the tale of one slightly drowsy traveler….
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do not attempt to go here if you are on a dial up connection…
Friday, September 23, 2005
Guandu
....no....i'm not giving the lot of you gaali's for no reason.....that would be too crass....
No....Guandu is the name of a place in Taiwan very close to Taipei....there is a water park there....i tell you....if you dont know how to swim dont goto a waterpark....almost drowning the first time you hit water is not a very pleasant experience....come down slide after your arse has not been in contact with blasted thing for half the ride and then you hit the water...you go under....you get disoriented....is this up...or is this down....one of those boxes with this side up was found wanting....so after floundering about in the water for a few moments...hand touches floor...you push in the direction that you think is up and....get more disoriented...finally somehow you get up and then you realise the bloody water is only till chest level....and you walk out.... Well did that last weekend i was in Taiwan....repeatedly....so that is that.....
Seems Disneyland is going to open in Hong Kong....me thinks that me is too cheap to go there....
Later..
No....Guandu is the name of a place in Taiwan very close to Taipei....there is a water park there....i tell you....if you dont know how to swim dont goto a waterpark....almost drowning the first time you hit water is not a very pleasant experience....come down slide after your arse has not been in contact with blasted thing for half the ride and then you hit the water...you go under....you get disoriented....is this up...or is this down....one of those boxes with this side up was found wanting....so after floundering about in the water for a few moments...hand touches floor...you push in the direction that you think is up and....get more disoriented...finally somehow you get up and then you realise the bloody water is only till chest level....and you walk out.... Well did that last weekend i was in Taiwan....repeatedly....so that is that.....
Seems Disneyland is going to open in Hong Kong....me thinks that me is too cheap to go there....
Later..
Friday, August 26, 2005
Versioning
Let me give you a brief introduction into how the management in this BU works....
Well....the maximum duration of my stay on my present visa will expire on 31st. Normally people in my situation who have multiple entry visas run off to Hong Kong for a weekend and return to spend another 60 days in this hell hole. Well i dont...so i told me manager so...
So here is when he comes out and says "But i had planned for you to stay there for a few months more, you should have told me before." Had told him previously. Blasted maroon...wat does he expect me to do....take my visa and stick it down his throat or something? So he asks me to go enquire if it is possible to get the visa renewed here itself....This is version 1....
Next day...me checks with the local people and they tell me that it is not possible to get it done in Taiwan. Manager dejectedly says....fine...goto to India get a Multiple Entry visa.....This is Version 2...
Later in the evening....frantic call from manager..."I checked with people who have just returned from HK...it seems you can get visa there....confim with people presently in HK....if possible you can go to Hong Kong for a weekend and get the visa...."....this is version 3....or should we call it 2.1.2a....
Check next morning...am told that you can get a business visa for Taiwan in HK only if you already have a business visa for HK...return back to manager with this information...he says ok...seems no way abt it...go back...but you have to come back in 1 week.....version 4....or reconciliation to verson 2
Tuesday morning one confirms with manager about travel back to india...he says go ahead...Talk to female at visa dept back in Bangalore....she cribs abt getting multiple entry...tell her me needs it...and that is that...
Tuesday evening...i get a call...pick up....and its the manager....yay....now he tells me that ppl in taiwan are considering whether they need ppl there...you come to HK for now...if taiwan says they dont need then you will spend a few months in Hong Kong....else travel back in mid september to india get visa...run to Taiwan.....too confused to give a version now....
have been booked on flight to HK on 31st...
this is as of today....nay now...discussion b/w resp managers going on today....till then in limbo we remain....woohoo.....
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meanwhile....
Jojuwan.......jojuwan....jojuwan,yojuwan,jojuwan......
translate that....should be pretty simple...
Well....the maximum duration of my stay on my present visa will expire on 31st. Normally people in my situation who have multiple entry visas run off to Hong Kong for a weekend and return to spend another 60 days in this hell hole. Well i dont...so i told me manager so...
So here is when he comes out and says "But i had planned for you to stay there for a few months more, you should have told me before." Had told him previously. Blasted maroon...wat does he expect me to do....take my visa and stick it down his throat or something? So he asks me to go enquire if it is possible to get the visa renewed here itself....This is version 1....
Next day...me checks with the local people and they tell me that it is not possible to get it done in Taiwan. Manager dejectedly says....fine...goto to India get a Multiple Entry visa.....This is Version 2...
Later in the evening....frantic call from manager..."I checked with people who have just returned from HK...it seems you can get visa there....confim with people presently in HK....if possible you can go to Hong Kong for a weekend and get the visa...."....this is version 3....or should we call it 2.1.2a....
Check next morning...am told that you can get a business visa for Taiwan in HK only if you already have a business visa for HK...return back to manager with this information...he says ok...seems no way abt it...go back...but you have to come back in 1 week.....version 4....or reconciliation to verson 2
Tuesday morning one confirms with manager about travel back to india...he says go ahead...Talk to female at visa dept back in Bangalore....she cribs abt getting multiple entry...tell her me needs it...and that is that...
Tuesday evening...i get a call...pick up....and its the manager....yay....now he tells me that ppl in taiwan are considering whether they need ppl there...you come to HK for now...if taiwan says they dont need then you will spend a few months in Hong Kong....else travel back in mid september to india get visa...run to Taiwan.....too confused to give a version now....
have been booked on flight to HK on 31st...
this is as of today....nay now...discussion b/w resp managers going on today....till then in limbo we remain....woohoo.....
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meanwhile....
Jojuwan.......jojuwan....jojuwan,yojuwan,jojuwan......
translate that....should be pretty simple...
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Naruwan II
ok...where were we before ur friendly neighbourhood typhoon which neverwas came around...oh yes...me had landed in this wierdall country..
I land in taipei...meet up with the ppl here...one from my team in bangalore named guru...he introduces me to this other guy..."This is Ganesh Gopal Masti Jayaram...all in all for CRM"...well i thought he was just joking...but later on me finds out that the chaps name is really exactly that....seems he lived up to name...
The monday me gets the first taste of what is to be gruel in this world out here...Lunch time all feel hunger....me wondering what the crap we are going to do for food...1230 ppl get up...chalo...lets go to this restaurant for lunch...so we get up trudge about side streets of central taipei for 15 min and we are at this Burmese place called Kunmings...In the three of us go...get to a table...no verbal exchange..just a indication from one of the other chaps and lo and behold....five minutes later food is here....Consisting of one bowl's worth of rice, some dal,some form of roti, steamed cabbage,some sort of rot made out of soya and salad...this remains staple to ths day...me asked how ppl discovered this place in the first place....seems that no one knows ...infy ppl have been coming here since the dawn of time...There be these two Paki places around which we go once in awhile...but then they not near the office or near where we stay...so the same rot itis....unless someone feels inlcined to do the cooking....and the only chap who seems to do so is going back next week...so bring on the rot....
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Been one month here now....what have i seen of this country...nothing...only that which i have seen in random walks (both forced and intentional) around the city. Wonder how many of you have walked from Fountain up DN Road past BMC,Xaviers, Metro and then Kalbadevi Road to Princess Street? Dont believe there are many....Well that is pretty much what me saw the other day..Somehow got to this place where there be all these massive old fashioned buildings...nice wide road...you come to this ground off to one side...walk further up...the road narrows....hawkers appear...thebuildings have all these small shops selling god alone knows what...it becomes cramped...the crowd slows the traffic down....suddenly...in the middle of it all...you see this old majestic place...like the fire temple at princess street...uncanny
Praise the lord that there are no Gujjus around...
I land in taipei...meet up with the ppl here...one from my team in bangalore named guru...he introduces me to this other guy..."This is Ganesh Gopal Masti Jayaram...all in all for CRM"...well i thought he was just joking...but later on me finds out that the chaps name is really exactly that....seems he lived up to name...
The monday me gets the first taste of what is to be gruel in this world out here...Lunch time all feel hunger....me wondering what the crap we are going to do for food...1230 ppl get up...chalo...lets go to this restaurant for lunch...so we get up trudge about side streets of central taipei for 15 min and we are at this Burmese place called Kunmings...In the three of us go...get to a table...no verbal exchange..just a indication from one of the other chaps and lo and behold....five minutes later food is here....Consisting of one bowl's worth of rice, some dal,some form of roti, steamed cabbage,some sort of rot made out of soya and salad...this remains staple to ths day...me asked how ppl discovered this place in the first place....seems that no one knows ...infy ppl have been coming here since the dawn of time...There be these two Paki places around which we go once in awhile...but then they not near the office or near where we stay...so the same rot itis....unless someone feels inlcined to do the cooking....and the only chap who seems to do so is going back next week...so bring on the rot....
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Been one month here now....what have i seen of this country...nothing...only that which i have seen in random walks (both forced and intentional) around the city. Wonder how many of you have walked from Fountain up DN Road past BMC,Xaviers, Metro and then Kalbadevi Road to Princess Street? Dont believe there are many....Well that is pretty much what me saw the other day..Somehow got to this place where there be all these massive old fashioned buildings...nice wide road...you come to this ground off to one side...walk further up...the road narrows....hawkers appear...thebuildings have all these small shops selling god alone knows what...it becomes cramped...the crowd slows the traffic down....suddenly...in the middle of it all...you see this old majestic place...like the fire temple at princess street...uncanny
Praise the lord that there are no Gujjus around...
Monday, July 18, 2005
Haitang
On the news (ie CNN, chink tv too..but then cant understand any of tht stuff can i...) every 15 mins or so...
Typhoon Haitang
Category 5
Winds of upto 250 kmph with gusts of 300+ kmph
expected to hit Taiwan sunday night just south of Taipei...
Blasted damp squib i tell you....i've seen heavier rain in bombay...i've stood in winds which were atleast the same force at the sea shore or on the colonade...BUT....me got a holiday for it...and for that one thanks the rain gods...
But, by the look of images shown on the same chink channels..there seems to have been heavy rain in southern Taiwan...500 odd mm in some place...with flooding and roads being swept way and all the jazz...me would have liked to see that first hand...but that did not happen...
Well theres still time....later...
Typhoon Haitang
Category 5
Winds of upto 250 kmph with gusts of 300+ kmph
expected to hit Taiwan sunday night just south of Taipei...
Blasted damp squib i tell you....i've seen heavier rain in bombay...i've stood in winds which were atleast the same force at the sea shore or on the colonade...BUT....me got a holiday for it...and for that one thanks the rain gods...
But, by the look of images shown on the same chink channels..there seems to have been heavy rain in southern Taiwan...500 odd mm in some place...with flooding and roads being swept way and all the jazz...me would have liked to see that first hand...but that did not happen...
Well theres still time....later...
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Naruwan
Well....its been one week way out in the far east...lets start about the beginning...
Travelled last fiday night to Taipei through Bangkok (no thunder thai jokes please..)...Landed in Bangkok around 4 am local time..went to the transit lounge where me made a bed out of two seats and me hand baggage on a trolley..Maroons have a foot massage parlour in the lounge...but cant provide some reclining chairs...Anyway got me connecting flight at 7AM...had a decent heavy breakfast...dozed off....and woke up in time to hear the captain announcing what i think translated to the approach into Taipei. Btw you movie buffs would be excited to know that i had the opportunity to see art house productions 5 children and it and Man of the House in flight...sadly as i said, sleep got the better of me...
Anyway got off at Taipei (good thing that i did...else might have ended up in Seoul in some student protest)...Converted some of the cash that me has been given and went to immigration...went through without any problems...me thinks tht it has more to do with the immigration chap and me not having any common language by which he could ask me anything than anything else...got out of the ariport and got to the taxi stand and the robot that i am vomittefd what i was told to tell the cabbie " Pathe Lu, IBM"...cabbie responds in garbling something in chinese and opens the bonnet..so i took that to be get on and got on..
An hour later and 1240 taiwanese dollars lighter me arrives at Pathe Lu IBM...which it seems is IBM building on Pathe Lu. get to the reception ask for ABN-AMRO...the chap there starts gesticulating and garbling away...two minutes later the chap is actually feeling guilty that he can't speak english...somehow me and him come to the understanding that it is on the 11th floor...further gesticulation...and me understands that there be a phone in the lift landing from which i can call the chaps i'm supposed to meet and return to some sanity...
Went up tried to contact the people...couldnt....came down to see them down waiting...cursed a few gaalis and went met them...got home had some lunch and slept....
good thing too...seeing tht i had to come in in the night on the first day...any the first day ends there...will continue some time later...
be warned...there shall be random profanity and frustration thrown about without warning...for now...top of the morning to you...keep it too...me is off to sleep...
Travelled last fiday night to Taipei through Bangkok (no thunder thai jokes please..)...Landed in Bangkok around 4 am local time..went to the transit lounge where me made a bed out of two seats and me hand baggage on a trolley..Maroons have a foot massage parlour in the lounge...but cant provide some reclining chairs...Anyway got me connecting flight at 7AM...had a decent heavy breakfast...dozed off....and woke up in time to hear the captain announcing what i think translated to the approach into Taipei. Btw you movie buffs would be excited to know that i had the opportunity to see art house productions 5 children and it and Man of the House in flight...sadly as i said, sleep got the better of me...
Anyway got off at Taipei (good thing that i did...else might have ended up in Seoul in some student protest)...Converted some of the cash that me has been given and went to immigration...went through without any problems...me thinks tht it has more to do with the immigration chap and me not having any common language by which he could ask me anything than anything else...got out of the ariport and got to the taxi stand and the robot that i am vomittefd what i was told to tell the cabbie " Pathe Lu, IBM"...cabbie responds in garbling something in chinese and opens the bonnet..so i took that to be get on and got on..
An hour later and 1240 taiwanese dollars lighter me arrives at Pathe Lu IBM...which it seems is IBM building on Pathe Lu. get to the reception ask for ABN-AMRO...the chap there starts gesticulating and garbling away...two minutes later the chap is actually feeling guilty that he can't speak english...somehow me and him come to the understanding that it is on the 11th floor...further gesticulation...and me understands that there be a phone in the lift landing from which i can call the chaps i'm supposed to meet and return to some sanity...
Went up tried to contact the people...couldnt....came down to see them down waiting...cursed a few gaalis and went met them...got home had some lunch and slept....
good thing too...seeing tht i had to come in in the night on the first day...any the first day ends there...will continue some time later...
be warned...there shall be random profanity and frustration thrown about without warning...for now...top of the morning to you...keep it too...me is off to sleep...
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Screwed
Me is being forced to go on a covert mission to The Area In Which Arseholes Nitpik to bring down a bank tomorrow night. Me is already putting meself in grave danger by sending this out....can almost hear them shouting 2 plus 2 is 5.
Considering that i have to face :
a) Mad bankers
b) Possible outbreak of The Bird flu
c) The cyclones that come around every month or so
d) Impending attack from the commies
e) and being a country on the Pacific rim...earthquakes...
...me does not have very high hopes of survival. If by some weirdall chance i do survive...they telling me that me will be evacuated in three months time...maybe i'll learn ancient kungfu torture techniques (hmm...there be a plus side....)....so long folks
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Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to know what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't wanna see you die
I hope that this is not goodbye
Considering that i have to face :
a) Mad bankers
b) Possible outbreak of The Bird flu
c) The cyclones that come around every month or so
d) Impending attack from the commies
e) and being a country on the Pacific rim...earthquakes...
...me does not have very high hopes of survival. If by some weirdall chance i do survive...they telling me that me will be evacuated in three months time...maybe i'll learn ancient kungfu torture techniques (hmm...there be a plus side....)....so long folks
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Who's to say where the wind will take you
Who's to know what it is will break you
I don't know where the wind will blow
Who's to know when the time has come around
I don't wanna see you die
I hope that this is not goodbye
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Revelations
Things I have learnt from running around TN:
It is impossible to live in a city like Madras in summer...me opinion is that you spend long enough there and your brains will boil and come oozing out of your ears...
Do NOT go walking barefoot anywhere in tamil nadu at 1300 hrs...the ground will bake your feet hard...maybe this is what hell might be like....in that case tis good practise then....
Do NOT sit down when there is a three year old and a plastic table in the vicinity. there is a good likelyhood of the kid picking up the table and advancing on you with the intention of impaling you on it...
Villagers are money grabbing bastards
There is a certain splendour about ancient historical places...you cant help but feel it..
There is nothing like home made food
//end revelation....go back to watever you were doing
It is impossible to live in a city like Madras in summer...me opinion is that you spend long enough there and your brains will boil and come oozing out of your ears...
Do NOT go walking barefoot anywhere in tamil nadu at 1300 hrs...the ground will bake your feet hard...maybe this is what hell might be like....in that case tis good practise then....
Do NOT sit down when there is a three year old and a plastic table in the vicinity. there is a good likelyhood of the kid picking up the table and advancing on you with the intention of impaling you on it...
Villagers are money grabbing bastards
There is a certain splendour about ancient historical places...you cant help but feel it..
There is nothing like home made food
//end revelation....go back to watever you were doing
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
IST -13 part trois - Travails of the frustrated soul..
Third shot at the graveyard run..dont know why they haven't been able to bury me as yet tho....possibly me be undead...
One more week of doing nothing...staying uptil 3 then dozing off in the chair...me is getting talented at that i think. This time around atleast there be another fresher chappie like us...so unleashed some nice gaalis...nice feeling tht..been a whle and all..ended up playing some underarm cricket in the pantry as well in the middle of the night.
the futility of these brillaint night shifts leads to such pure frustration that it can not be described. Add to this come friday night there be this chappie who be three year our senior decided to give us his entire dukh bara kahani...end result saturday morning me be a bit gone...fri night certain creature in mysore had told me that she is going to exit the city in a bit...think i said something along the lines let see if i can drop in this weekend
saturday comes...go back home after the night ...sleep...and saturday's gone
sunday comes...was so peeved that decided lets get out of the city...coimbatore is too far off...so might as well end up seeing mysore..and thus begins the tale of insanity and idioacy...
Dont know how to go there, so decide to goto the holy grail of transport in bangalore Majestic. Come out to catch a bus to there..waiting at the bus stop some 5-6 buses came along which i knew didn't go there...another bus comes i ask him Majestic, he says something that i hear as yes..get on ask for ticket chap says "no majestic, market". I had heard that there be busses to out stations from there so think fine...there must be bus to mysore form there. On the way there i am greeted by a signpost which tells me that this is mysore road and i'm kicked seeing as how my idioacy paid off. Get down..am told no busses to mysore..ok, this is right beside mysore road so i think i'll walk there and flag down some bus going in that direction.
Come out onto mysore road and notice a flyover and believe that buses must be taking that to avoid the congestion below...Now flyovers generally are what 500 odd meter things...so think we'll walk to end of flyover see a bus and get on be in mysore in 3 hours...the walk begins...five minutes later...the walk continues......15 minutes later i think that i spot the end of the thing.....blasted false alarm.....25 min later come to the end of the bloody thing in time to see a bus zoom pass. this bus had mysore written on it (in English, normally everything is in blasted kannada)...i was thinking finally something going my way. idle about for a few mins waiting for the next bus to come about....none forthcoming...my brilliant mind hear kicks in and gets the motor muscles moving...few minutes later i see another bus go by...missed cause i wasn't looking for it...mutter some gaalis beneath my breath and stand waiting for next bus....this cmes around in two minutes....i try to flag down the prick....who calmly ignores me and drives on..this happens twice more...then mind starts working again..bus will stop only at the bus stop...there must be a bus stop nearby...lets walk to it...so the trudge begins again...onwards we go....5 min...no bus stop...10 min no bus stop...15 min bus stop...see tht a mysore has stopped....yaaayyyy...all this while i see tht busses are fairly frequent...so decide no point in running...will wait for next bus...next bus comes...gos...another same story...another....again the same story....no blasted bus stops...finally give up go back to Majestic somehow...get instructions from amma in mysore and am on bus..this bus however stops jsut abt where iwas standing....&!@#@^^%$@
Bus moves along the 120 odd km in some 4 hours...me has breathed in enough dust to choke an elephant in this time...give a few more curses about road travel and look for bus to get to infy...i see large clock tower...walk in that direction...look to the left and see Mysore palace...beautiful is all i can say..look right and see the bus which i have been instructed to take coming down the road...sprint after it and get on...i'm almost there....
Well, not quite..bus goes through to town...nice wide raods with lots of greenery abt...then goes out of town..and on and on and on (like this mail)....if you former room mates of mine remember...this route was similar to the bus which gave us a guided tour rural mulshi taluka before reaching Hinjewadi minutes before the compre..finally reach infy mysore..hear this hysterical cry from accross the road and see tht it be amma...cross the road...meet friends of amma and am told that we be going back the entire distance to city bus stand..the morons couldnt have come around when i was in the blasted city could they..ended up going to this place where food takes more time to come than it possibly takes for a chicken to hatch...came back to infy mysore around about 11..was shown around the campus in mysore in the night...nice place but over the top...as everything this company is..
Sat abt while amma and gang went about their (seemingly)nightly ritual of keeping awake their gods with their singing...slept finally around 2 in the night...got up today morning and braved the 4 hour ride back...came in for afternoon shift 1.5 hours late and now on me way out...
as a parting shot....witness the power of ze google...
http://www.telugubiz.net/songs/search.php?do=list.tracks&col=tr.name&val=aa%20ante%20amalapuram&sort=al
tht b Jan 05 mysore dc anthem....maroons have it running in me head...they shall pay for it with their lives if ever met again....
dont kill me for this...
notice no gaalis in mail...imagine them...you know where they are likely to appear...spam away idiots...in all likelyhood it will bounce back at you
One more week of doing nothing...staying uptil 3 then dozing off in the chair...me is getting talented at that i think. This time around atleast there be another fresher chappie like us...so unleashed some nice gaalis...nice feeling tht..been a whle and all..ended up playing some underarm cricket in the pantry as well in the middle of the night.
the futility of these brillaint night shifts leads to such pure frustration that it can not be described. Add to this come friday night there be this chappie who be three year our senior decided to give us his entire dukh bara kahani...end result saturday morning me be a bit gone...fri night certain creature in mysore had told me that she is going to exit the city in a bit...think i said something along the lines let see if i can drop in this weekend
saturday comes...go back home after the night ...sleep...and saturday's gone
sunday comes...was so peeved that decided lets get out of the city...coimbatore is too far off...so might as well end up seeing mysore..and thus begins the tale of insanity and idioacy...
Dont know how to go there, so decide to goto the holy grail of transport in bangalore Majestic. Come out to catch a bus to there..waiting at the bus stop some 5-6 buses came along which i knew didn't go there...another bus comes i ask him Majestic, he says something that i hear as yes..get on ask for ticket chap says "no majestic, market". I had heard that there be busses to out stations from there so think fine...there must be bus to mysore form there. On the way there i am greeted by a signpost which tells me that this is mysore road and i'm kicked seeing as how my idioacy paid off. Get down..am told no busses to mysore..ok, this is right beside mysore road so i think i'll walk there and flag down some bus going in that direction.
Come out onto mysore road and notice a flyover and believe that buses must be taking that to avoid the congestion below...Now flyovers generally are what 500 odd meter things...so think we'll walk to end of flyover see a bus and get on be in mysore in 3 hours...the walk begins...five minutes later...the walk continues......15 minutes later i think that i spot the end of the thing.....blasted false alarm.....25 min later come to the end of the bloody thing in time to see a bus zoom pass. this bus had mysore written on it (in English, normally everything is in blasted kannada)...i was thinking finally something going my way. idle about for a few mins waiting for the next bus to come about....none forthcoming...my brilliant mind hear kicks in and gets the motor muscles moving...few minutes later i see another bus go by...missed cause i wasn't looking for it...mutter some gaalis beneath my breath and stand waiting for next bus....this cmes around in two minutes....i try to flag down the prick....who calmly ignores me and drives on..this happens twice more...then mind starts working again..bus will stop only at the bus stop...there must be a bus stop nearby...lets walk to it...so the trudge begins again...onwards we go....5 min...no bus stop...10 min no bus stop...15 min bus stop...see tht a mysore has stopped....yaaayyyy...all this while i see tht busses are fairly frequent...so decide no point in running...will wait for next bus...next bus comes...gos...another same story...another....again the same story....no blasted bus stops...finally give up go back to Majestic somehow...get instructions from amma in mysore and am on bus..this bus however stops jsut abt where iwas standing....&!@#@^^%$@
Bus moves along the 120 odd km in some 4 hours...me has breathed in enough dust to choke an elephant in this time...give a few more curses about road travel and look for bus to get to infy...i see large clock tower...walk in that direction...look to the left and see Mysore palace...beautiful is all i can say..look right and see the bus which i have been instructed to take coming down the road...sprint after it and get on...i'm almost there....
Well, not quite..bus goes through to town...nice wide raods with lots of greenery abt...then goes out of town..and on and on and on (like this mail)....if you former room mates of mine remember...this route was similar to the bus which gave us a guided tour rural mulshi taluka before reaching Hinjewadi minutes before the compre..finally reach infy mysore..hear this hysterical cry from accross the road and see tht it be amma...cross the road...meet friends of amma and am told that we be going back the entire distance to city bus stand..the morons couldnt have come around when i was in the blasted city could they..ended up going to this place where food takes more time to come than it possibly takes for a chicken to hatch...came back to infy mysore around about 11..was shown around the campus in mysore in the night...nice place but over the top...as everything this company is..
Sat abt while amma and gang went about their (seemingly)nightly ritual of keeping awake their gods with their singing...slept finally around 2 in the night...got up today morning and braved the 4 hour ride back...came in for afternoon shift 1.5 hours late and now on me way out...
as a parting shot....witness the power of ze google...
http://www.telugubiz.net/songs/search.php?do=list.tracks&col=tr.name&val=aa%20ante%20amalapuram&sort=al
tht b Jan 05 mysore dc anthem....maroons have it running in me head...they shall pay for it with their lives if ever met again....
dont kill me for this...
notice no gaalis in mail...imagine them...you know where they are likely to appear...spam away idiots...in all likelyhood it will bounce back at you
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