Days at office …… when you have no work !!!!
Early morning ….. the sun shines, the birds sing and the suprabatham starts…..that’s when you wake up after a tired and long night at office…your head feels like a boulder and your body just dosen’t want to move…u feel you are ‘petrified totalus’ !! but still you build up all that is left in you and get up from you bed…put your feet down on the ground and that’s when you believe you can do anything humanly possible !! You are surprised by the activity going on at home and that’s when you realize that’s its not ‘early morning’ but you’ve only an hour to report at office. You are excited and panicked…you scream to your mom about the toothpaste and every little thing you find in your way….you ask her to get your coffee ready and you stand behind you dad waiting for the paper…..finally you loose your patience and say ‘dad….i need the paper..i’m getting late for office’….as if he’s got no better work to do….all of a sudden you forget everything….you plunge deep into the realms of the newspaper…you are among the action, the disasters, the controversies…..to the fact that you imagine to be the Indian cricket team captain and of course jyothika’s hero in her next movie !! from nowhere you hear a voice… ‘kanna , the water is already boiling’…..oops, you know it’s time for your bath….you leave the paper as it is…..n your poor dad who waits there all this while , gets to save the newspaper from the clutches of the ceiling fan !! just as your mom is about to pack your food …..there’s a scream…. ‘amma, where’s my towel’…..poor lady , she has to rush all around the house looking for your towel….finally she finds it under your helmet(for reasons unknown)…..and all you have to say when she hands it over to you is ‘what took you soo long ?’ . she goes back to the kitchen to pack food when you ask her to get you breakfast and turn to your dad for clothes……he points you to the chair beside you and as if you had known all this while, you casually pick ‘em up !! by the time you are dressed, breakfast is ready and you gobble up half of it and leave the rest….you put on your shoes and pick up your bag……and then the search for the bike key starts….you are worried about the time…and start cursing the keys….that’s when you realize that your dad has already taken the keys and is warming up the bike….you run to it and sit and once again you realize you haven’t taken your lunch….you scream to your mom for your lunch and finally when she brings it…..you look as if it’s all her fault and you’re getting late ‘coz of them !! but then just before you leave…your mom says ‘take care kanna, don’t go too fast, when will you come back…..’ and that’s when you start off ‘mom…I’m not a kid…I can take care of myself’ ….even before you finish this you give your mom that totally lovable kiss and she smiles back at you ……..no matter what happens in this world…..this love between a mother and child always lasts long….really long !!
The journey to office starts….you’ve only 15 min and you’ve got to travel 10 kms in the most ruthless, savage, and unmerciful traffic anyone has ever experienced!! You drive through each and every narrow gap you can find on the road….be it pavements or the mud that’s recently been covered over the dug, roadsides. Signals are not a matter of concern at all and if there’s no policeman….any signal means ‘you are welcome to pass…jus don’t bother about the others !’ The trip is one of the worst as you go down to the wire of almost driving over people….if not for those brakes that you had just repaired after a huge battle with your dad …..trying to convince him that they are alright just because you have to move out of the house on a Sunday morning to get them fixed. This is the time you try and recollect all the bad words you come across in movies….but unfortunately however bad they are……the others have worse words to say…which make you feel down right dirty….that’s when it strikes ‘silence is golden’ ….n for the next few minutes…..no matter what happens…..you keep shut !! finally the eventful journey is over….and you reach office in the nick of time !!
You find out that the parking lot inside the campus is full and you’ll have to put the bike outside…you think about the dust and the crow’s….( i guess you would have figured that out) and start cursing all the people ‘coz of whom you were late (except yourself …obviously) and finally you find a spot to park the bike. You go in with an air of authority as if you are the head of the entire company…..as if you are the most busiest man on this planet…and all that just dies down once you see your friends…all your college instincts rush up your brain..and all that machan, mama talks starts off !! You sit infront of the pc and twirl about in your chair with the impression that you’ll look totally cool but you fail to think about the fun the others are having seeing you do the things you do…which you actually think is attracting them….it definitely is attracting but only for a different cause…..i call entertainment !! You then check your mails as if the entire nations’ security lies in your mailbox….but all you end up doing is reading about how the sardar goes about doing things in his life…..which you think is the most funniest thing on this planet…..what you don’t realize is what you do isin’t forwarded or else the scenario is a lot different !! You go about looking at ice-castles, horoscopes, clips on babies and what not !! and by the time you finish with all that you realize it’s time for tea…you go around ..maybe even to the terrace, have a cup of tea and come back to work !! then it’s up to you to send all the important mails you’ve been looking at until now to all the other people whom you think is of worldly importance and also the people whom you think aren’t all that important and infact you send double the mails to the people who aren’t important at all !! by the time you’ve finished with all that…it’s time for lunch !! you go to the pantry…sit there waiting for your friends…once they’ve arrived, you go about having your food and talking about all the people who you consider the most irritating people on this planet (for eg: TL,PM,AM etc.) and it’s only when you’ve finished with all that you realize you’ve been sitting there for over an hour and there’s a long queue waiting to get a place to eat…you give them the look as if they’ve been standing there ogling at you all this while, and cursing you while you were eating…and coolly walk away without even bothering to realize that they are the senior-most people in the company !! you go back to your workplace….start talking to your friends again…curse them for having put you in this situation..as if it’s been their fault that you are here and curse them that they’ve been really lucky to get into another stream and that you’ve been struggling all through out going home late at nights and coming back early in the mornings….all that is to say is ‘whatever’!! you are bored…that’s when you get the idea of using technology to the full extent, so now use start using the most trendy electronic device today….the cellular phone. phone calls and sms now flow and you exhibit the sleight of your hand by sending consecutive messages even before the receiver can read them…you don’t expect anyone to reply you back but when you get one….you feel as if you are bayangaramma getting disturbed. Even this gets bored after sometime and you feel you head is heavy and is not able to take the stress any longer…your eyes are tired and they are not able to make you see anymore…your mouth starts opening up and even before you know it…..your head places itself on the chair and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. All of a sudden there’s an aroma, you can see tea gardens all around the place….the climate is wonderful , cool and windy and you are shivering…..poof you get up realizing that the air conditioning in your room is really cold now and you remember it’s time for tea….you go for a tea-break ….once again the chat with friends start….only this time it’s about messages and when they’ll be leaving home. You come back searching the LAN for movies esp. English as you don’t have 3 hours to spend on a desi movie. Finally you get to watch the same old desi movie you’ve watched a hundred times over and over again!! In between it’s time for snacks which brilliantly synchronizes with the snack-break….so you go for snacks once again talking to your friends about the movie and giving expert dialogues and posing your acting skills….you go back after 10 minutes giving it a real theatre effect for the break…and then resume the second half of the movie. Finally the hero instinct within you springs up after ‘the end’ of the movie….you have a glass of water, visit the restroom and with all the enthu, come back and start playing your favorite game..be it riding a chopper or hanging a kangaroo !! After a while you begin to look at the timepiece and realize it’s almost 6 p.m…..you pack your bag and get ready to leave when you realize you team leader and project manager are still waiting there ( for reasons not to be disclosed) …..and so you have no other choice rather than sit and wait for them to leave first…..so you get back to your gaming trying to break all your friends’ records !! Finally your team leader leaves his place…..and even before he steps out you are there at the lift waiting for him….you smile at him and say ‘ah ! what a day’ felling all the more tired and as if you’ve been doing all the work at office. You go to the parking lot showing the ‘tata’ sign to everyone (whether you know them or not) and are surprised to see all the bikes still there…anyway who cares !!
The drive back home is again hideous, battling through nastiest of all battle the human race has ever seen….finally after evading every death threat and with a lot of heated verbose accusations….you reach HOME !!
As you get in, you create that sympathy ambience for yourself …..and your mom comes and asks you how your day was…and that’s when you give this expression of …what do you think…it was evidently hectic !! you go have a nice bath in warm water and sit down to eat those lovely chappatis mom has made for you….you happily hog and watch the television for sometime…even your grandma is willing to give up her age-old mega serials for you , NOW !! You are bored watching the dumb channels …entertainment has lost flair once the CAS was into the picture …..so you go to bed….taking the most boring book you’ve ever read (now it’s no more the college text book) … and before you finish up with the first few lines…all is dark ……….the end !!
The journey to office starts….you’ve only 15 min and you’ve got to travel 10 kms in the most ruthless, savage, and unmerciful traffic anyone has ever experienced!! You drive through each and every narrow gap you can find on the road….be it pavements or the mud that’s recently been covered over the dug, roadsides. Signals are not a matter of concern at all and if there’s no policeman….any signal means ‘you are welcome to pass…jus don’t bother about the others !’ The trip is one of the worst as you go down to the wire of almost driving over people….if not for those brakes that you had just repaired after a huge battle with your dad …..trying to convince him that they are alright just because you have to move out of the house on a Sunday morning to get them fixed. This is the time you try and recollect all the bad words you come across in movies….but unfortunately however bad they are……the others have worse words to say…which make you feel down right dirty….that’s when it strikes ‘silence is golden’ ….n for the next few minutes…..no matter what happens…..you keep shut !! finally the eventful journey is over….and you reach office in the nick of time !!
You find out that the parking lot inside the campus is full and you’ll have to put the bike outside…you think about the dust and the crow’s….( i guess you would have figured that out) and start cursing all the people ‘coz of whom you were late (except yourself …obviously) and finally you find a spot to park the bike. You go in with an air of authority as if you are the head of the entire company…..as if you are the most busiest man on this planet…and all that just dies down once you see your friends…all your college instincts rush up your brain..and all that machan, mama talks starts off !! You sit infront of the pc and twirl about in your chair with the impression that you’ll look totally cool but you fail to think about the fun the others are having seeing you do the things you do…which you actually think is attracting them….it definitely is attracting but only for a different cause…..i call entertainment !! You then check your mails as if the entire nations’ security lies in your mailbox….but all you end up doing is reading about how the sardar goes about doing things in his life…..which you think is the most funniest thing on this planet…..what you don’t realize is what you do isin’t forwarded or else the scenario is a lot different !! You go about looking at ice-castles, horoscopes, clips on babies and what not !! and by the time you finish with all that you realize it’s time for tea…you go around ..maybe even to the terrace, have a cup of tea and come back to work !! then it’s up to you to send all the important mails you’ve been looking at until now to all the other people whom you think is of worldly importance and also the people whom you think aren’t all that important and infact you send double the mails to the people who aren’t important at all !! by the time you’ve finished with all that…it’s time for lunch !! you go to the pantry…sit there waiting for your friends…once they’ve arrived, you go about having your food and talking about all the people who you consider the most irritating people on this planet (for eg: TL,PM,AM etc.) and it’s only when you’ve finished with all that you realize you’ve been sitting there for over an hour and there’s a long queue waiting to get a place to eat…you give them the look as if they’ve been standing there ogling at you all this while, and cursing you while you were eating…and coolly walk away without even bothering to realize that they are the senior-most people in the company !! you go back to your workplace….start talking to your friends again…curse them for having put you in this situation..as if it’s been their fault that you are here and curse them that they’ve been really lucky to get into another stream and that you’ve been struggling all through out going home late at nights and coming back early in the mornings….all that is to say is ‘whatever’!! you are bored…that’s when you get the idea of using technology to the full extent, so now use start using the most trendy electronic device today….the cellular phone. phone calls and sms now flow and you exhibit the sleight of your hand by sending consecutive messages even before the receiver can read them…you don’t expect anyone to reply you back but when you get one….you feel as if you are bayangaramma getting disturbed. Even this gets bored after sometime and you feel you head is heavy and is not able to take the stress any longer…your eyes are tired and they are not able to make you see anymore…your mouth starts opening up and even before you know it…..your head places itself on the chair and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. All of a sudden there’s an aroma, you can see tea gardens all around the place….the climate is wonderful , cool and windy and you are shivering…..poof you get up realizing that the air conditioning in your room is really cold now and you remember it’s time for tea….you go for a tea-break ….once again the chat with friends start….only this time it’s about messages and when they’ll be leaving home. You come back searching the LAN for movies esp. English as you don’t have 3 hours to spend on a desi movie. Finally you get to watch the same old desi movie you’ve watched a hundred times over and over again!! In between it’s time for snacks which brilliantly synchronizes with the snack-break….so you go for snacks once again talking to your friends about the movie and giving expert dialogues and posing your acting skills….you go back after 10 minutes giving it a real theatre effect for the break…and then resume the second half of the movie. Finally the hero instinct within you springs up after ‘the end’ of the movie….you have a glass of water, visit the restroom and with all the enthu, come back and start playing your favorite game..be it riding a chopper or hanging a kangaroo !! After a while you begin to look at the timepiece and realize it’s almost 6 p.m…..you pack your bag and get ready to leave when you realize you team leader and project manager are still waiting there ( for reasons not to be disclosed) …..and so you have no other choice rather than sit and wait for them to leave first…..so you get back to your gaming trying to break all your friends’ records !! Finally your team leader leaves his place…..and even before he steps out you are there at the lift waiting for him….you smile at him and say ‘ah ! what a day’ felling all the more tired and as if you’ve been doing all the work at office. You go to the parking lot showing the ‘tata’ sign to everyone (whether you know them or not) and are surprised to see all the bikes still there…anyway who cares !!
The drive back home is again hideous, battling through nastiest of all battle the human race has ever seen….finally after evading every death threat and with a lot of heated verbose accusations….you reach HOME !!
As you get in, you create that sympathy ambience for yourself …..and your mom comes and asks you how your day was…and that’s when you give this expression of …what do you think…it was evidently hectic !! you go have a nice bath in warm water and sit down to eat those lovely chappatis mom has made for you….you happily hog and watch the television for sometime…even your grandma is willing to give up her age-old mega serials for you , NOW !! You are bored watching the dumb channels …entertainment has lost flair once the CAS was into the picture …..so you go to bed….taking the most boring book you’ve ever read (now it’s no more the college text book) … and before you finish up with the first few lines…all is dark ……….the end !!
posted by B.V.K. @ 1:46:00 AM
2 Comments:
hehe.. really amusing, Blog, Karthik... sounds very, very familiar.. in fact, it sounds like most days in my office... ;)
This is Universal stuff. PS work or lab research for PhD guys its mostly the same.... We used to study for exams at the last moment, so we do our goals at the last moment too... So not to worry my funny Indian friend.. carry on the good work (Oh sorry not the work the fun)
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