Manic monday!!!

Well today is Monday!! and am suffering the Monday blues for more then one reason (precisely 4).
First my whole boy clock thingy has gone hay wire during the weekend (Again!!!!).
Slept at 5:30 A.M. on Friday so got up at around 6 in the evening on Saturday and thus slept at 8 on Saturday and got up at 5 again on Sunday evening and finally slept for only 1 and half hours before coming to office.
So all am feeling is an urgent need of a bed and my pillow :(.
Secondly I finally finished off “Harry potter and the half blood prince” which I left last year owing to certain eerie parts in it of which I got scared and left. So I finally completed it (Yeah dats wat I was doing on Saturday).
But that was one of the most depressing novel endings I have ever read, Dumbledore is dead.
I cried my heart out when I read that (Yeah am a lil crazy and senti in dat regard). And this depressed me on Sunday as well (well it was one of the reasons).

The third reason is that the friend that I talk to the whole day about everything whatever happens to me or has happened under the sun is not well (has some fever).
So he can't chat and when he finally, did come to chat, I pissed him off!!
So am a little bored (despite of huge amount of work on my head).
And fourth and last reason is that I had to interview people today. This was my first experience with interviewing people and I did not like it at all or rather I hated it.
Yeah obviously I liked the idea of being given the importance n all that but still some how I felt its not my prerogative to decide who is worthy of a certain job.
But then I wondered someone has to do it and well this is my turn to be that someone.
But somehow I loathed the idea of crashing the hopes of someone who has come so hopeful so optimistically that this is the place they wanna be and then 20 minutes spent with someone and all those dreams come crashing down.
May be am not all that strong but I guess its just that I compare everything with what I go through. When I was looking for a job I was really desperate and how each interviewing and each cold response would make me shudder that its gone.
How each time the interview says O.K. or are you sure I use to have a reall tight knot in my stomach and how miserable I use to feel.
Anyways everything has two side and everyone experiences both sides some or the other time.
So I just tried to mellow down the pressure that my team lead was trying to build on the candidates (And I sucked at it)
I think grilling a candidate is a stupid thing to do unless you want him to be working on line of control all the time. It can make anyone might miss out on some of the good point in these grilling sessions.
Anyways it was a different experience and now I know the experience of sitting on this side of the table.

The auto menace!!!!

Just a few incidents as continuation to my last post.

There's this friend of mine, priyanka, yeah the one in the profile photograf.
She one great gal, one sweeet pal and lost about most of the things.
In our office gang she was the joey of the gang, everything will strike her some 15 minutes later and till that time she will bug everyone bout "what iteez?".
Anyways the blog is not about priyu but wat happend with her.
A couple of her incidences with the auto drivers of bangalore which are more hilarious then serious.
There used to be a line of autos standing right in front of our office, like an army standing ready for anyone who needs to get anywhere in the city.
But when you start asking whether they will come to a certain place (any place for that matter) they will outrightly reject you (yeah reject coz thats wat priyu used to say "itna tayyar hoke ghar se nikalo aur ye log aise reject maarte hai na") and on top of it they will give you such a look as if the place you live is in Mars.

Anyways on one of her traumatic days( she had a long call with our US client) she got out of the office and started asking the auto drivers if they would be kind enough to come to indiranagar(dat's whr she used to live). Be all she got was REJECTION.
By the time she got to the last auto she was totally frustrated and when the autodriver demaded double the money that she usually pays she burst out "Bhaiyya if you wnated to earn money so fast you should have studied".
"Is it our fault that you did not study or your parents did not ask you to study. You just wanna take dat revenge from us by asking us to pay you more money then you deserve".
She went on and on.
The auto driver got so scared and just took out his auto from the auto line and ran for his life.
He never even would have dreamt of such a thing in return of just asking double meter.

One more of such incidences were when the autodriver refused to drop priyu and debo(her roomie) at the place they asked for(dats our office but ofcource).
So she just blurted " Bhaiyya my dad is a doctor, and he never fails to perform his duty coz he feels everyone shud perform there duty well.But today you are refusing to perform your duty. Just wait for the day when you or your kids will need a doctor and he won't perform his duty, then you will seee how it feels".

Man!!! some high funda she gave to the autowala and he finally agreed to drop them wherever she wanted to go.
I guess he would have dropped her to any place in India or abroad or anywhere else :).

Though these stories sound hilarious but it just shows how much people can be pushed around by these guys.

One of the auto driver lost his life because of such thing. The auto driver asked for high fare when the distance was miniscule. The guy refused to pay so much and waited for another auto.
So did the autodriver coz he knw that there wnt be many autos plying on that road and he
can ask for whatever he wishes.
Finally that guy gave up and told this auto driver that fine take the money you asked for but this autowala said no now the fare would be higher then that and asked for another insane amount.
The guy got so pissed he simply murdered the autowala.
well the people are actually losing there patience 'coz after slogging for the whole day in office the last thing that you wish for is a tussle with the autowala or anyone for that.

Apart from this if you tell the autowalla that you will go to the police they welcome the proposal with open arms 'coz they know nothing would happen to them there also.
One of my friend once took an auto which was 15 rupees fast so he argued with him and they ended up in police station, where the police men took the autowalla's side and scolded my friend
That day he swore that he will never to go back to police station atleast regarding an auto issue.

So this has no solution just some go with the flow.

The language barrier??

Today was a real high pitched morning.
But well after listening to a lot of junoon I have finally been able to come out of the bitter barn and currently playing in hay (this is the effect of watching too much phoebe in friends, I really like).
Anyways it all started with me being really pissed with my maid for not cleaning the house at all (leave alone properly or nicely or nay such words).
I miss her everyday owing to either me getting up late or she coming late or something or the other, basically mismatch of timing.
So when I finally got hold of her today I just burst out on her yelling bout the whole cleaning thing, which she out rightly denied and said she is doing it.
Had it being any other occasion I would have just said this and stopped there but today she was lying blatantly (not that I don’t lie or am against lying or anything but it was just so evident) which just totally pissed me off.
It was just too much I just started shouting at her and she did the same the only thing was that I couldn’t get a word of what she was saying and (hopefully) she was also not getting anything that I was shouting at the top of my voice.
We were so loud that the guys living above us, on third floor (we are on first floor) raised the volume of their songs real high (which they only do on Fridays).
Finally she did the whole thing with a lot of blabbering to herself and shouting at me, which I totally ignored (there was no other way), and left.
After she left I too got ready and moved for my office, for which I took an auto, I told him where I had to go and he said fine.
Then he asked me for directions in kanadda of course which I got owing to the fact that it’s been 4 years since I shifted to Bangalore and I do get a little bit of kannada sprinkled with English here and there.
Then when I finally got to my office, he started off about how he will have to go without any passenger and all that.
But he obviously was talking in kanadda so I didn’t bother saying anything to him and left after paying him.
But the thing that struck me was that how people just ignore the thing they don’t wanna hear (I do that too).
But after you come to a city, whose native language is different from your mother tongue, it becomes especially tough.
I mean people start ignoring you as if you don’t exist (which my maid does very frequently, I become the superwoman with the power of invisibility), they treat you as if you a Martian and its no point talking to you.
Also I have realized how much resentment is there in this city against the people who do not belong to this city and this resentment comes in these forms.
They charge you more; they try to fool you in every possible way.
Your fault "YOU DONT BELONG HERE".
One day when I was coming with my friend(who knows kannada) in an auto that guys over something started saying that you guys come here in land earn money from our city, sit in front of computer, what do u know how tough life is for the poor.
I can understand his resentment, owing to shape Bangalore has taken in the last ten years, but still, is it the fault of the people who are trying to make a living in an unknown city, who leave the comfort of their home and come to this city where they have to fight every day with the boss, with the subordinate with the colleagues, bear all the office politics, bear everything goes on , bear any partiality done in and around their office and come back in an auto who tries to take him for a ride (literally),bear his blah blah when he starts off with his tantrums (specially with girls), face the traffic and the people who learnt driving in a park and think they still are driving in the same park and they can turn anywhere they want, and finally reach home to find there is no water or something else is broken and finally make Maggie eat it and sleep.

And these poor chaps are blamed for all the price rise and inflation that the city suffers from.
I somehow don't feel so I think these guys are the ones who are suffering the most.
They don’t know the language, they have a problem in everything right from renting a house to buying vegetables to commuting everyday and even dealing with the police (my roomy had to pay the police just in order to lodge a complain of mobile theft) despite of the fact that they pay all the tax possible (road tax, service tax, income tax, u name it we have got it) and still we are treated as the step children of this city.
Why aren’t we treated the same when they are expecting the same from us???

Anyways nothing would change, we would be treated the same and we would face the same language problem that we always do, its just that this doesn’t seem to be fair equation, as the left hand side does not equate to the right hand side.

One more !!!!!!

Came across the lyrics of IRIS from Goo Goo Dolls.
one of the most touching songs that I have come acrosss

Here it is

And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now


And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive


And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

AWESOME is the only thing that comes to my mind (there could be better words but owing to my vocab problemdats the best I can come up with :D)

HMPPPPPHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate it
I hate it
And I hate it
I hate not sleeping and coming to office.
I hate not takong bath and coming to office
And I hate brushing in office.
The situation at my place is deteriorating by day.
There is no electricity for most part of this weekend.
Plus this morninf there wasnt any water either(some junk motor wasn't working properly).
Not done.
Plus now I will have to work all day without taking bath which wont be easy as I havent slept.
And if that was not enough someone took my chair and kept some arbit chair on desk.
And to top it all when I have adjusted the everything in the chair to my confort(yes we have the most technically advanced chair with some 23456787654 button and levers n all that) the HR guy came and said "Hi I think u r sitting on my chair"
And wen I asked "how do u knw its ur chair is ur name written on it".
He smiled and turned the chair and yesss hihs name was written onit.
I was shocked and irritated (yet again!!) and he smiled and said "I have been doing this since 6 years" which didn't do any good to my wonderful mood. I meab it's like school all over again.
thats wat used to be in school.
This is MY desk becoz I have written my name on it.
I mean why dont they chain their chair to the desk if they are so particular bout it.
Anyways me will get back to work coz have to take care of a lot of things today :(

Disturbing

Its been really long since I came in and wrote anything, not that anyone is bothered or effected by it. But still.
I have completed all the things I was suppose to and now am a little free, comparatively.
Last week went very slow though it was a short week(working week, I mean) but still thanks to all my pending work which i was suppose to finish it went at snail's pace.

The weekend was awful. Did something really foolish thing(as far as I can recall) and mostly was bored.
The only good thing that I did was that I rearranged my cupboard which was due since last year :D.

Any on Sunday night I came across an article in my newspaper (My newspaper is the photographic part of the newpaper, full of colors and photos, at least on Sundays). I read this part of the newspaper during the weekend to get away from the regular crappy news which might make u think and weekend is a non thinking time for me. So for the weekend is mostly gossips, who is marrying who, britney, paris, john, hrithik, abhishek etc.
But I came across an extremely disturbing article in this colorful part of the newspaper.
The article was "can child abuse be accounted for cannibalism" or something like this.
It basically talked about the Nithari case where the guy Moninder singh used to sexually abuse kids and women and then used consume them.
It went on to talk about all such incidents. One of them being in Europe, where the guy ate almost 300 people in an year.
The article was disturbing to an extent that it scared me.
How can someone be so barbarous as to eat someone? And it went on to add that these guy generally have a disturbing childhood and are mostly abused during there childhood which leads to such a behavior in their later life.
Can it be an excuse or can anyone possible out that in a court or can any judge actually look at this excuse before passing our the final judgment.
There are around 52% of kids who are sexually abused (yes that's India where kids are denied sex education by the government and their relatives take advantage of it).
If each one of them has this kind of grudge against the society or has such intrinsic tendency then I don’t think so India would have a population problem rather it would be the a different problem coz these 52% would eat up the rest of the 48% and there wont be any population left.
Anyways I feel that there has to be some inhumanity present in a person to commit such a heinous rather more then heinous crime.

A children is the most innocent things and if anyone can hurt them then I don’t think that he or she has any right to be called as human.
And this person is not at all sorry for whatever he did and even if he was sorry it no more makes any difference nothing can change the severity of the crime that he has already committed.
And there was always a first time when he committed the crime and even if he lost the all the senses to know the difference between right and wrong after all these killings I think at that time he was fully conscious of what he was doing and what can be the consequences of it.
So there should not be anything like mercy or anything close to this case or any case involving children coz if we can’t save them I don’t think we have any right to hope for any future leave alone good or bad.