Shoot them!

I hate people who jump the line, that too with lame sadistic excuses such as pregnancy and sometimes not even that. I dont understand how people can shamlessly prance in the middle of the queue. Its aggrevates me the mostwhen I am all starving and standing in the line for lunch at my canteen. I see first a pregnant female do it, am agitated but then I kinda excuse her for her state - huge belly and all. Right behind her patner in crime joins her. All I wanted was a double barrel gun to shoot both the preggy and her friend... No mercy at all!

Seriously I am driven to my wits end when I see 2-4 months old pregnant as though they are in their 9th month bearing quatriplets. Jeez what a drama. Wont drink filtered water, it has to be boiled and brought from home. Later in the day I see them having chaas at the sidey dhabha outside the office. Cant eat canteen food but can gobble down a good number of vada pav fried in stale oil from the street side tea stall surrounded by all kinds of filth all over.

See I have nothing against pregnant women, and their state. I undestand their difficulty & pain in moving around with a enormous belly. I understand that we have to be considerate with them and all that. But these people whome I am refeerring to are one of a kind. They simply take advantage of the fact they are pregnant and expect every one to bend and twist according ot their wimps and fancy. Gosh I pity their husbands who have to live with it!

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Weekend in genral

Although it was a very wet weekend, I must admit it was not at all bad for me. I stayed at home, with the exception to go out and buy the groceries. I was in the mood for cooking and hence made three different types of seafood. Richard Clayderman makes cooking and cleaning (the house) so much fun. I recently got these CDs copied from a friend of mine: Best of Kenny G, Yanni & Richard Clayderman. Although Yanni manages to some how throw me into a very weird mood, I must say that Richard and Kenny G are music to my ears literally. I also managed to get wet in the rains on my way back from the grocery store. I hadn't really got a chance until yesterday to do so at least during this monsoon. The best part was that I was not feeling bad to say goodbye the weekend and to face Monday.

Moving further, do you feel the need to please everyone, if not the the fullest but at least so that ppl don't talk bad about you. I realise that its difficult to please all, and that ppl do back bite abt one another. I am not a saint either. But one thing that really concerns me is about these 3 colleagues of mine (one of them used to be my 'so called friend') who have started talking rubbish about me and my mgr. Out of the 3, one did try hard to be as close to the manager as possible but to her bad luck I moved into this department and my mgr was also a good friend of mine. True we share a lot of common interests and I like to once in while sit and chat with him. But I don't feel that he lets me slack on my work, and whenever required he has pulled me up and we have had our share of fights/arguments. I am not really sure how should I take this incident forward. I did give a lot of thought about this during the weekend. Not really sure about it though, I have a couple of ideas. The best being that I totally forget what they talk and cut interaction with them to the minimal, and simply just concentrate on my work. Am sure that in time things will be alright and their opinion will change.

Today morning on my way to work I noticed that my vehicle took an unusual route. A route I had completely avoided for the past couple of months. Its were he stays. Never before have I had to take this route (at least in the past couple of months). Coincidentally today early he was expected to come back to India ( I am not sure if he has already reached). I couldn't help myself from leaning out the window and take a peek of his house far inside the compund. Althought I really couldn't figure out much it was just an act for mental staisfaction. The rest of the journey to work, my mind was full of moments of the past and conversations we had, particularly one. There is a good chance I might bump into him. I do want to see him, atleast just to see how he is doing.

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England Weather

Yes that exactly how I can describe my mood lately. Today its bright and sunny and the very next day its gloomy. So unpredictable and fluctuating like the typical moody crab. Well I guess that is just being me, although as mentioned in my last post, these days I tend to lean towards more of the negative side.
Today am a happy gal ( yest I was all down). A good 33% raise, a colleague treating me to tasty 3 course lunch, no deadlines (at least for today) and in just an hour I will be heading home (relatively small day at work), I guess my sunny days are back again ... when in actual its cloudy outside :)

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Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gum

Well I got my yearly appraisal, and must say that the hike I got is pretty decent. Okay okay its very good.... much much more than my expectation...but common which employee is ever satisfied with the raise. I should be jumping with joy, but here I am instead sulking, remembering the past. Lately I have got into this habit of always looking at the one bad thing which has happened to me lately rather than looking at the 10 other good things which has happened after that one bad incident.

Or may be it is the fact that am not able to share my happiness with the one person with whom I want to. That is why it is said that Life is not fair always.

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Becoming wise

I have been working in the BPO industry for the last 3 yrs or so. The general trend I have seen with BPO crowd is they like to party, go to pubs/ discs, or to places like Manori/Gorai/ Madh etc and again party hard. With BPOs providing the option of financial freedom (that too a good amount) for kids just out of college its obvious that these young bubbly BPO crowd like to do things they could not do with their measly pocket money or allowances given to them by their family.
Ask any BPO guy about their plans for the weekend and its pretty much the same - party, meet gf/bf, go out with gf/bf, movies, malls, go to drink etc. But today things are changing; there is a small group of population who is breaking the monotonous Ways to spend their weekend. One of the hot favorites of the crowd esp BPO couples are Dance classes. Couples that its more quality time spent while they try to get a step of two with their duck feet plus its always cool to flaunt those cool moves the next time they hit the dance floor at the disc or at a party. Even singles feel that a little cha cha cha really helps them unwind after a hectic monotonous week at call center between cold calls, meeting targets and. providing customer service to irate customers.

I think finally the BPO crowd is slowly but steadily becoming wise. They are no more the kids who are looking out to just to make a quick buck till the time they actually want to decide what stream they want to do their Masters Degree. Even the BPO industry was considered to be like bubbles, which was expected to burst after sometime. But companies like 3G, J P Morgan, Accenture and IBM has proved that this is a serious business and they need mature and serious people who take the BPO job as seriously as any other full time career. As the industry matures the people in the industry too a maturing.

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