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?????

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.