Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Confrontation...

I don't know why but all my life I have tried to avoid confrontations as much as possible. Human confrontation that is. Confronting your fears etc is something totally different. The definition I am going by is - a hostile disagreement face-to-face.

I think it's because I never forgot people who were nasty (thankfully not too many people are nasty to me - which I find strange actually cause it's not like people who are nasty are only nasty toward some). I don't think I would forgive such people either. The memory of their actions would stay with me no matter how cordial we were on the surface or how much 'closer' we would have become after a span of time.

All confrontations have some bad blood involved. There is always something that someone doesn't like. But there are instances when a confrontation is very important. It might be selfish or it might be the exact opposite but honest things have to be said to people. And obviously these honest things will not be accepted very well.

I have realised that to improve personally, I need to confront people (who need confrontation) more often and I will.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

If you haven't watched Lost, you're missing out on good stuff...

Just finished watching Season 2 and it's so mind blowing.
I think everyone should check the show out. It really messes with your head cause you keep wondering what's going on.
It's a show that has real good mystery. It's being made really well.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Got to study got to study got to study...

Yup I have got to study.

Who would have thought going back to books would be so tough. I mean I use to be a good student. Super lazy but still good. Sure I could have done much better if I had worked harder but that's a different story. Now I find that it's so difficult to concentrate. I guess when you are a student the core work of your life is to study so you end up doing it well but when you have other 'jobs' and have to study at the same time, the other work gets priority.

Anyway I hate our education system because only now when I work do I understand half the non sense that I studied because it all was in my books when I was 16.

My question is - What is the point of doing something when there is no real significance of doing that thing, at that point in time? It's like reading Don Quixote when you are 10.

Friday, February 16, 2007

The Bigger Picture...

Do you see it? I usually don't and I realise that I need to.

So what is the bigger picture? Is there a limit to how big the bigger picture can be? Is there always a bigger picture? Do you absolutely need the bigger picture? Is 'the bigger picture' just a management jargon? Are you going to fail if you can't see the bigger picture? Do you become a visionary if you see the bigger picture? Do you have to be a visionary to see the bigger picture? Is there always a bigger picture? And if there is, do you always need to see it?.....

See nothing is as simple as it seems...get the picture?

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Happy Commercialization Day...

Well talk about rotten luck. Was writing this really good post and my comp hung and had to restart it. Lost the post. Funny thing is I am more sad than I am angry.

Anyway will try and re-write as much as I can remember.

Was sure that I had written a post on Valentine's Day last year - Same nick, different year.
Different year, different sentiments? No.

Though when I read the previous post it sounds very harsh. Maybe I had just heard a news story about sales of Hallmark, Archies and the likes.

So do I believe in love this year? Nope. Do I support Valentine's Day? Nope. Do I think we are stupid? Yes.

Anyway read 3 lines of this article, which I am assuming would have been interesting, which said that environmentalists now are lashing out at V Day because of increased sale of flowers in the UK. These flowers get imported so there is a huge cost attached to them. Financially and environmentally too. One more reason to boo Valentine's Day hehe.

Anyway it makes me think about why it is that we get so caught up in our daily routine lives that we don't have 'special' days everyday of the year. Is it that we don't know how to manage our lives? Don't know how to prioritize? Is it that we expect too much when we expect life to be more special? Is it inbuilt into our systems that we will only be grateful for things once we have lost them? Is it that we think we will have tomorrow to do what we should have done today and couldn't?

Lots of questions...no answers.

I can most probably see next year's post (if I am still blogging then). Same nick, different year. Maybe I will say something like, I was in a pensive mood that day. Different year, different mood.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Why it's hilarioussssssssss...

Okay so let me be honest - if I don't say the prank was super hilarious then I have to admit that it was super embarrassing.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Hilarioussssssss

Now I don't like thinking of myself as gullible, who does? But I have to admit I fell for this one.
Now you do have total permission to laugh on this one but do note that I felt like such a fool when it was all over.
What's even worse is that EVERYONE was in on this one and I fell for it BADLY.

Okay so a colleague of mine comes across this website that gives a free demo for, out going mobile text messages (sms). Don't know how the website or technology works but I guess it allows you to type out a message and send it to a number of your choice.
So I get the following message on my cell phone from 'BJS' - 'Hi, u have won a New Moto Razr 4 buying a Motorola Phone nd also using d ringtone Phone Uthao Phone Uthao.Contact 98-------- (an actual mobile number) 4 collecting ur phone'

Yes I know how stupid to even read a message like this but still I went around the office showing this to some people cause I thought it was hilarious that I get a message saying that I will win a new Moto Razr for buying one already. So I even go ask our tech guy if they are doing some testing and stuff but he says no (I don't think he was in on it)

Anyway Bhavna insists that I should call the number up and see what happens. I obviously say I won't do any such thing, so she asks me for the number and dialed it on her phone and when it was ringing was shoving her phone at me to talk when someone picks up. I said no out right. So someone answer the number and says 'Welcome to 'BJ Technologies', how may I help you' in a damn weird accent. So Bhavna then passes on the phone to Binda who starts talking to this female (on speaker).

The conversation is something like this -

Weird Accent : Welcome to BJ Technologies
Binda : Ya who is this
WA : This is BJ Technologies
Binda : What?
WA : BJ Technologies.
B : What is this? Is it a company
WA : Yes Madam
B : Where are you located?
WA : Andheri East
B : Okay, I got a message from you people saying that I have won a moto razr.
WA : Okay can you please give me your name and I will check my database.
B : Deepali
WA : Right madam your name is there, so you have won a phone.
B : How have I won this phone?
WA : By lucky draw madam.
B : How was my name picked
WA : From names in our database. Can you come collect the phone today?
B : Where do I have to come?
WA : Saki Naka
B : No I don't think I can come there and pick it up. Can you deliver it to me?
WA : What is your address?
B : 123, abc def (gives the office address)
WA : I am sorry can you repeat
B : 123, abc def, got it?
WA : Yes madam
B : ghi jkl mno pqr (completes the address)
WA : Okay madam we will deliver it to you. You will be available between 9 am and 3 pm at this address tomorrow right? (it's a friday)
B : No not tomorrow, can you send it on Monday.
WA : Okay we will send it on Monday, you will be available between 9 am and 3 pm right?
B : Yes (pause) How are you going to send it
WA : We have our own courier company.
B : Okay what is your name?
WA : (Name) some name that I don't remember.
B : Okay thank you, bye.

Suddenly Binda , Bhavna and all are asking me how I won this. And I am like "how would I know? I don't know. Maybe it's got to do with the place I bought my phone from. Don't know where it is from though, maybe I'll call home and ask if the phone was purchased that BJS.

So I called my sis up (ya it looks very stupid a move, right now). And ask her the name of the company and whether it's BJS. She says she doesn't know and can check the bill for me. She ask why and I tell her the story of the SMS. She finds out that I haven't purchased the phone from any such company. So I tell her it's okay.

Everyone around now is asking me how these people knew not only that I have a new phone (which is a VERY big deal in itself), but also know that I have this ring-tone. Miss B comes up with the theory they must have got my number when I downloaded that ring tone. But I tell them I didn't download it and it just got forwarded. Anyway we all get back to work.

After about 30 mins I get a second message from BJS saying -
Thank you for returning our call and confirming your address. Please send us a DD for Rs. 12000 as a membership to BJ Tech. Thank u and welcome to BJ Club.

I am then thinking shit man - nothing in life comes for free - how depressing. And kinda sad that I am not going to get a new phone. Then I worry about whether they will actually send the phone before the DD reaches them. Yes I know - the whole incident is very stupid. Anyway I think why go through the headache on Monday morning so I reply to the second message saying 'I'm not interested' but the message fails (this is just an outgoing message demo). So I think chuck it, I got better things to do right now and that Monday morning might be painful cause I might have to get on the phone and fight with someone about how I wasn't told I was suppose to be a member and the membership number.

So I am working and after another 30 minutes I get a call from BJ Technologies (same weird accented female) asking me to confirm the address. So I say start walking out of my room cause it's too noisy saying 'ya I'm not interested'. What I don't realise is that while I am walking toward the main door, the whole bunch of people are standing around. The female starts to say something else and I realise that the voice is coming from the phone and also from around. I turn around to see the gang and I see it's Priyanka talking to me on the phone. LOL. And as soon as I realise everyone bursts out laughing.

Ah well I haven't had too many pranks played on me (thank god otherwise people might realise how gullible I am). But it wasn't super fun when everyone was standing around laughing. And I mean everyone. And all of them were in on it from the start man.

Anyway what I am happy about is that it was well executed. Also everyone acted it fantastically. Bhavna with her eagerness to get me my new 'free' phone (btw BJS are her initials - yes I know that you are also realising that I am gullible AND stupid). Binda for having that whole conversation with the weird accent woman. And Priyanka for being the weird accent lady. Very well executed.

Hats Off.

Friday, February 09, 2007

I refused to play in your tragedy...

To & Fro by Mattafix.
Fantastic song.
Where is the connection? This is a line from their song.

Monday, February 05, 2007

R.I.P. Bahadur - The best liftman there ever was...

My earliest memories of going up and down in the lift have images of Bahadur. The short Nepali guy who would keep blinking his small eyes all the time. He was always at work when his shift was there. We troubled him a lot on days we went and sat on the building terrace. Would keep telling him to lock up just before his shift ended at midnight, and he would oblige.

He was also the most efficient lift man there was. It might sound like I'm crazy, but he would actually stand properly in his corner, open the doors faster than the other guys, switch on the fan before pressing the floor button.

He was such a strong part of this building that many of my relatives from abroad would actually enquire if was actually still around, how he was, etc.

He use to also tell me that I should walk up by chairs to lose some weight :)

You will be missed Bahadur

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Chance pe dance

I hate BAD people who are opportunists.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Thanks...

Thank you to everyone who took the effort to remember my birthday and took the extra effort to wish me.
And thanks to everyone also who realised it was my birthday and took the extra effort to wish me.

It was fantastic receiving so many calls and SMS's this year.

I swear I will make it a point to wish people on their birthday.

Thanks to everyone at office too for letting me get away with one song, that too sung in a group. And the cake cutting too, on my birthday and not on a Friday.

Also just for the record - I don't view birthdays as days to celebrate. Any day that makes you think of your past and your future is a depressing day.