Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Mera Bharat Mahan
This year 2009 witnessed one of the greatest recessions ever. I looked around me and was trying to understand how would it's impact be? Well at first it instilled in me a constant fear of losing my job. Some of my dear friends did go through this ordeal. My heart goes out to them and I wish them all the very best till they come out of this temporary yet painful phase.
So, going along, it was one of those times of the year, where the ladies have a gala time!! It is called the End of Season Sale.I saw every shop which had something or anything to sell, put up a 50% off board outside. I thought, hmm, recession time, this year the sale season is not being to be a super duper hit. I thought some of those rare people who are still managing to keep up a good and stable job might be turning up.So, just to spend a Saturday afternoon doing something better than sleep at home, I decided to venture out, to check out one of the malls.
And what I saw amazed me and all I want to say is Mera Bharat Mahan. Ladies, ladies, ladies with sacks full of shopping, running around lest their keen eyes have missed something out of this world. Whilst keeping an eye out for what thy neighbor is checking out, (how can she have what I don't?), handling kids and promising them goodies if they were patient enough to sustain in this boring hell for a little while longer, gossiping on the cell phone and informing more of their clan as to what they were missing out and how they should be at this happening place at the next instant.(Before the stocks run out).
Recession? Huh, what is that?????
So, going along, it was one of those times of the year, where the ladies have a gala time!! It is called the End of Season Sale.I saw every shop which had something or anything to sell, put up a 50% off board outside. I thought, hmm, recession time, this year the sale season is not being to be a super duper hit. I thought some of those rare people who are still managing to keep up a good and stable job might be turning up.So, just to spend a Saturday afternoon doing something better than sleep at home, I decided to venture out, to check out one of the malls.
And what I saw amazed me and all I want to say is Mera Bharat Mahan. Ladies, ladies, ladies with sacks full of shopping, running around lest their keen eyes have missed something out of this world. Whilst keeping an eye out for what thy neighbor is checking out, (how can she have what I don't?), handling kids and promising them goodies if they were patient enough to sustain in this boring hell for a little while longer, gossiping on the cell phone and informing more of their clan as to what they were missing out and how they should be at this happening place at the next instant.(Before the stocks run out).
Recession? Huh, what is that?????
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Swine flu mania!!
Did you ever wish that you had some magical power? A power that would have people a little petrified of your presence?? Gone are the Harry Potter days where if you uttered the words "Expecto Petronas" people around you would scurry for cover.This is the new age, the age of a influenza virus commonly known as swine flu!!
I have cold today, have been sneezing a bit and voice sounds a bit husky(I treat this as the best part of having a cold..I like my voice like this!)...and I have been able to successfully send people (friends and foe included)...atleast a few feet away...the fear in their eyes ... the doubt in their mind in my presence...it feels wonderful...For those of you after reading this, want to recommend me to a dear psychiatrist of yours, shoo away.I am thoroughly enjoying this! I am the chosen one (:p).
Added to this the guys at my office, have been pushing out mails that "Prevention is better than cure" for this virus. And to show that they care, they have placed hand sanitizers and charts showing us how to wash our hands (like we needed it to be shown to us in 5 easy steps with images for God's sake). Yes, I agree, us software engineers are the geeky lot who don't move a inch from their seats and know nothing outside their virtual world, but let me tell you we know how to wash our hands!!! At the same time that we are being treated to this new found piece of knowledge our AC guys didn't want to be left behind. They took this opportunity to show off their ware. They have reduced the temperatures to such lows, that this is forcing me to think that sitting and working outside in the rain would also not cause me to catch a cold as sitting in this AC would.
Hmm, so all things aside, this is for all of you, take good care of your health and have a good time ahead. Me off to have a good cup of steaming hot tea. Nothing like tea to kill the virus.
I have cold today, have been sneezing a bit and voice sounds a bit husky(I treat this as the best part of having a cold..I like my voice like this!)...and I have been able to successfully send people (friends and foe included)...atleast a few feet away...the fear in their eyes ... the doubt in their mind in my presence...it feels wonderful...For those of you after reading this, want to recommend me to a dear psychiatrist of yours, shoo away.I am thoroughly enjoying this! I am the chosen one (:p).
Added to this the guys at my office, have been pushing out mails that "Prevention is better than cure" for this virus. And to show that they care, they have placed hand sanitizers and charts showing us how to wash our hands (like we needed it to be shown to us in 5 easy steps with images for God's sake). Yes, I agree, us software engineers are the geeky lot who don't move a inch from their seats and know nothing outside their virtual world, but let me tell you we know how to wash our hands!!! At the same time that we are being treated to this new found piece of knowledge our AC guys didn't want to be left behind. They took this opportunity to show off their ware. They have reduced the temperatures to such lows, that this is forcing me to think that sitting and working outside in the rain would also not cause me to catch a cold as sitting in this AC would.
Hmm, so all things aside, this is for all of you, take good care of your health and have a good time ahead. Me off to have a good cup of steaming hot tea. Nothing like tea to kill the virus.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Watching a movie at Anand? Think twice!
We wanted to catch a movie , and not being much of a Multiplex fan and still believing that some of our Hyderabad city's older theaters still make for a pleasure filled evening, I landed up at Anand Theatre, Begumpet. But I was to be proved wrong.
These theater owners played spoil sport and ruined a lovely Sunday evening. We rushed to the theater at 8:15 pm, to able to pick up tickets in time. But to our disappointment and about 100 others, the ticket counter did not open up till about 15 minutes before the show. Hyderabadi Standard Time, I may wonder???
Standing aimlesssly staring at the open sky for 45 minutes, with chaos prevailing around you was a pointless affair and not the greatest way to spend time. Added to this, not knowing whether we even would get the tickets! Why can't they open the ticket counter atleast half an hour before?????Are they trying to send the message that, since we have anyway come for the movie, we should be forced to wait outside, begging for the man at the ticket counter to show up? And to top that, even though the guy at the ticket counter showed up finally, just 5 mins after the distribution he had a nature's call to attend to. And there we were again, waiting at his mercy to come back and continue the sale of tickets.
When we made some hue and cry about this, the manager instead of showing us some Hyderabadi hospitality that we are famous for, was screaming at the top of his voice in front of the crowd. He said he did not invite us to any "daawat", and also that he was selling tickets right, it's not as IF he was not selling?? Ya right!
Is it important for him or us, I ask, that his theatre runs and he is able to sell tickets.
We still require some professionalism in what we want to call the city of IT professionals!!!
These theater owners played spoil sport and ruined a lovely Sunday evening. We rushed to the theater at 8:15 pm, to able to pick up tickets in time. But to our disappointment and about 100 others, the ticket counter did not open up till about 15 minutes before the show. Hyderabadi Standard Time, I may wonder???
Standing aimlesssly staring at the open sky for 45 minutes, with chaos prevailing around you was a pointless affair and not the greatest way to spend time. Added to this, not knowing whether we even would get the tickets! Why can't they open the ticket counter atleast half an hour before?????Are they trying to send the message that, since we have anyway come for the movie, we should be forced to wait outside, begging for the man at the ticket counter to show up? And to top that, even though the guy at the ticket counter showed up finally, just 5 mins after the distribution he had a nature's call to attend to. And there we were again, waiting at his mercy to come back and continue the sale of tickets.
When we made some hue and cry about this, the manager instead of showing us some Hyderabadi hospitality that we are famous for, was screaming at the top of his voice in front of the crowd. He said he did not invite us to any "daawat", and also that he was selling tickets right, it's not as IF he was not selling?? Ya right!
Is it important for him or us, I ask, that his theatre runs and he is able to sell tickets.
We still require some professionalism in what we want to call the city of IT professionals!!!
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