Double Digit

Wow! First Milestone Acheived!!!

Just realized that my blog count's touched the 2 digit mark. Always thought I'd stop with a blog or two at the most. Surprising to note that I have been jobless enough to have written these many.

Well, the next milestone will be the Triple-Digit mark, which I'm sure will take a lot of time and dedication from my side :-) There is always a dearth of stuff ("happening" or otherwise) in my life to write about :-(

I dont know how some people manage to bring up that third digit as well. There's this guy here who is a blogaddict!!! He's written some 600 odd blogs in the last year. He writes one almost every hour. 4-5 a day atleast - on anything and everything. For instance, how oily his breakfast dosa was, how loudly his colleague sneezed, how boring the status meeting was, how dirty his hankie is...and so on....guess you've got the drift. I think I'm being too mean; this guy actually writes good stuff too - apart from the aforementioned masterpieces :-)

Just remembered - someone once told me that a person's character/thoughts can be deduced from his/her writing style. I've never been able to do that from others' pieces. If its true, dont know what my blogs talk about me.

Anyways, sorry for digressing.
Congrats & Good Luck to me! :-)

P.S.
Nothing to P.S. ;o)

Warming the Bench

After 10 long months of toil, after hours of burning that proverbial midnight lamp, after hundereds of CRs, after numerous heated onsite calls, after many escalations, after that final client appreciation mail, after checking my project status on Sparsh, I saw 2 words...

2 words, I never thought I would see in the list; 2 words, I never knew could bring so much happyness; 2 words that spell freedom; 2 small words - SI BCH

Yes! I'm "On Bench" now!!! :-) This honeymoon period's just a week long, though. Ends this Monday, but what the hell...I'm on bench until Monday!!!! :-)

Nothing can dampen my spirits today!!! :-) :-)

P.S.
CR = Change Request
Sparsh = Infy's Intranet

Paper-back

Finally!!! Made the news....! (well not quite so, but in the papers....thats news enough!!) :-)

Campaigning for BPDC (yea! had to spell out all that crap-in-quotes....on demand :-)) well, what the hell....my pic's in the news paper man! and I'm quoted!!! :-) Yippee!!! :-)

Couldn't have happened while I was in Dubai....I could've then "marofied" some serious style then.... :-( On second thoughts, I could've been beaten black & blue for saying such "good" stuff :-)

P.S.
Pooja's my senior.
Meet's apparently my junior i never knew existed.

P.P.S.
For those who were bothered by the illegibility of the print, here's what I had to say about BPDC -
"Four years in this institution has helped me mature from an unruly high school girl to a professional SE. I've found that BITS education has definitely given me an edge over my colleagues in every task I undertake. BPDC pass-outs are all-rounders able to excel in all walks of life."

WC 2007

"Ban the effing game!"
"I swear I aint gonna watch it ever again!"
"Its those effing ads these guys are more worried about!"
"yea! this too much! they need to be taught a lesson!"
"WTF is the BCCI doing??"

Yes, I am still unabashedly writing about the great debacle!! Couldnt help but comment on the afore-mentioned nonsense...all these the statements lifted out of posts in the INFY Bulletin Board....emotions expressed by "disheartened", "outraged" "FANS"!

“Ban cricket!" cries; "Chappel Go Back" (influence of the freedom fights!!) slogans; talks about boycotting products endorsed by the players; thoughts/advices to change the team, captain, etc…
whoa! Loads of things on our hands....but, before we get 'em "dirty", let’s take a breather. . . . a reality check, shall we?

“Ban” Cricket??? Just becoz India has failed miserably?? In throes of “patriotism”??? Blue Bullionism?? Does cricket solely mean Indian team "performance"??? If you’ve answered yes, there’s no need to read further! You can go back to brooding over your failure. Personally, I have always relished every match, irrespective of the nationalities of the players (classic example was the day before yesterday's AUS/SA match...was pure pleasure...cricket of the highest class) The game, in itself, is still entertaining, promising, enjoyable....only the Indian Team is not.

Boycott cricketers-endorsed products?? Wat good could possibly come of it? The sponsors had also bet their money on the players...little did they expect their “ducks” to prematurely stop laying the golden eggs. The brand ambassadors for their products are selected based on the public “affection” for these people...so, who to point the finger at anyways? We've equally spoilt the "heroes"!
On another note, bollywood stalwarts also have disappointed /still keep disappointing us....we stop using their products as well?? :-) We might as well stop buying anything off the racks, then....

Changes in the team....
Agreed! A major revamping is called for....but this is something the BCCI has to do....where, unfortunately, more than the P-word “potential”, looks like the P-word “politics” is what plays a major role!!!

Stop watching the game!!! HAHAHA :-D This cracks me up! All our fretting and fuming will be forgotten after a few victories by the team....after they bag 2-3 meaningless tri-series/tests.... the Indian “hopes” are raised once again, new ads aired with the same team endorsing different products....it'll be like the WC2007 never happened....
Once again the midnight oil will burn 4 years later, in the hope (confidence??) that the past performance will not be repeated!!

Chill dudes!!

Questions...?

I want...
and I don't get...
My heart cries in desperation...

I want...
and I get....
My heart cries in delight...

I want...,
I get...
and eventually I lose what I have got...
My heart cries in despair...

Will my heart ever stop crying??

Or Is it me?? Will I ever be satisfied? Will I ever feel free again?

Is it better to have something and lose it? Is it worse to have something and know that I'll lose it someday? Is it better never to have had it at all? Is ignorance really bliss?

The mind seeks answers, but are there any answers to these questions? Will the mind ever be at rest?

P.S. Don't ask me why!
P.P.S I don't know either!! :-(