Being in the city with chronic traffic problem plus living in the heart of city becomes very frustrating not at times but almost daily. All the roads going towards home will have traffic at all the times! So long time to wait before you can stretch over sofa. :(
I observed this for long that by the time I reach home am so irritated that I had started getting edgy with my family members also.
Reality check: “This is no good. I must do something for it.” But what? Of course I can not reduce the traffic. The distances are high I can’t start walking around to my destinations. Correct I can’t do any thing about the situation. I have to change my perception of the situation.
So far so good. But that’s not easy. Where do I start?
Ok I get most irritated due to the unruly traffic. The vehicles suddenly taking turns, bicycles thinking the whole road is simply made for them, rickshaws going slowly checking chance to get passengers, potholes which are randomly or put crisscrossed on road. You never know where and when you are going to go for a trip inside the pothole. And when all this happens; what do you do? A lot of $#@$#@$@@@!$@. Not loudly most of the time. If start saying all this loudly I would probably take whole day in traveling and in quarrels. Mistake is yours or not, it’s human nature not to accept mistakes. Not to stranger at least! “Saying bad names for what seems to be a regular habit to all the guys in town. What does this lady think? She follows all the rules or what?”
Right!
So what do I do? Get frustrated each time. Let’s start here…
Will say only “The Idiot”!
This may sound idiotically simple. But believe me it’s NOT!!
Because it’s “THE Idiot”. Ok I can’t hold annual function for this award. It’s gotta be daily! But it gotta be only One! But it’s little tough. Cause you have to give it immediately. Not at the end of day after whole analysis. So you have to increase your patience to find that One person of the Day!
In the beginning I have been very liberal with the award. Many many almost every one who frustrated me even little would get it. But awards are not meant to be given to all yaar! One only one deserves it. Ok some rare times two, but not any more.
So finally I did become “chingu” enough to give my unique award to one person in one day. All the regular incidents no more invoke irritation. “This is regular yaar! What’s so special?”
I also learned to follow more of traffic regulations. I don’t want to gather the “The Idiot” awards given to me by some one else ;)
Now there are even more categories of people added for the same award! The idiot checking out each and every lady passing by, throwing some stupid lines to catch attention of passing by girls, people walking right in middle of road, people crossing from any where, some honking horns unnecessarily scaring the people crossing the roads, some times a colleague with stupidest doubt or some times even myself for a silly silly mistake! :)
This has helped me a lot to cool down and be my earlier cool self.
I am not that irritated when I reach home. :) Thankfully!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Airtel Oops!!
I have written about a incident some time ago. Some thing happened to remind about that again, so just thought of putting it on blog.
So the incident goes like this:
This thing really happened at my office!
We 4 of us seat in a cubicle Me,Radhika, Amruta and Deepak.
Whenever we go for lunch or snacks we make it point that if any one of us is not in cubicle, we give a missed call to a person just to say "Going to Cafeteria, join us there! "
Following the tradition on the day Radhika gave missed call to Deepak.
And to our surprise he gave a missed call back!
We were wondering "What does this mean?"
When he didn't turn up for some time we assumed it was to say "I am going to be late, go ahead!"
When we were going for snacks in afternoon, Deepak was missing again.
So Radhika, gave him a call which was supposedly to be a missed call.
But this guy picked up phone in 1 ring,
Radhika : " Deepak, Snacks ko aa rahe hona?"
(Supposed to be Deepak ): "Wrong number!"
Wow now what was that??
Probably Deepak has overworked himself :)
Just then we saw him talking to a guy near the floor entrance.
Radhika :"Apane wrong number kyon bola??"
Deepak : "Kab?"
Radhika:"Abhi! Meine phone kiya tha naa"
Deepak :" Mujhe koi phone nahi aya!"
Radhika:"Aise kya karate ho aap, ruko mein vapis karati hun"
Radhika dials the number, Deepak's phone does not ring
A guy picks up the phone
Radika:"Hello, Deepak"
(Supposed to be Deepak ): "Wrong number!"
Radhika:"Ye konsa number hai?"
(Supposed to be Deepak ): "Jo apane dial kiya hai"
Hmm………….. smart answer, by a smart %$@#%
We check deepak's cell's received calls, Rads number is not there!
Too good!
We went for snacks debating ye ho kya raha hai.
Me : "A re Deepak ne Radhika ko galat number diya hoga"
(Deepak had recently changed his number , gotten Airtels 999 Life Time Card)
Radhika:"A re usko khud ka number pata nahi hoga kya"
Deepak:" A re wo sahi number hai! Meine dekh ke hi to diya hai!"
( and in any case Deepak's cell keeps on ringing daily in regular intervals, he could not have given right no. to some and wrong to some)
Whatever yaar ! It's just not possible that the number will change out of blue, like this. There has to be a mistake, n the only mistake could be miscommunication of the number.
Radhika won't agree!
Radhika:"A re meine phone kiya hai es number pe, isko pahele! The number is correct"
Whew!
The debate continues!
Deepak's mobile rings, this time it's his wife's missed call.
Ok, at least now we can ask his wife and find out the correct number!
After coming back to workstation,
Deepak, call's his wife.
Before he could say anything,
Deepak's Wife : "Kitana natak hai, Tere ko missed call mila kya?"
Deepak: "Haan!, par.."
Deepak's Wife :" meine tere number pe phone kiya , to ek adami bola, wrong number aur rakh diya! Phir meine vapis se phone kiya, usko bola ke bhai sahab ye mere husband ka number hai, kuch to panga hua hai, aap mujhe aap ka number batao mein wo try karati hun. So then I got this other number, that's now ur's"
Wow! So the numbers actually got exchanged in middle of the day??
Deepak called Airtel, the Airtel guy says he can't change back the numbers till next 15 days,
(Why is that?? Galati to sudharo yaar! Usmein bhi bureaucracy)
So Deepak said fine then at least keep this number forever, so I won't have to keep communicating my new number to all. Airtel guy said fine (Without taking consent of the other guy, Howz that?)
Questions remain:
Who got billed for what?
N what had inspired someone smart man at Airtel to actually exchange numbers like this??
The moral I take from the story??
Well right there Sherlock when u said
"When you take out whatever is Impossible, Whatever remains how ever improbable, has to be the Truth"
It's just that be careful while defining a thing as Impossible! ;)
So the incident goes like this:
This thing really happened at my office!
We 4 of us seat in a cubicle Me,Radhika, Amruta and Deepak.
Whenever we go for lunch or snacks we make it point that if any one of us is not in cubicle, we give a missed call to a person just to say "Going to Cafeteria, join us there! "
Following the tradition on the day Radhika gave missed call to Deepak.
And to our surprise he gave a missed call back!
We were wondering "What does this mean?"
When he didn't turn up for some time we assumed it was to say "I am going to be late, go ahead!"
When we were going for snacks in afternoon, Deepak was missing again.
So Radhika, gave him a call which was supposedly to be a missed call.
But this guy picked up phone in 1 ring,
Radhika : " Deepak, Snacks ko aa rahe hona?"
(Supposed to be Deepak ): "Wrong number!"
Wow now what was that??
Probably Deepak has overworked himself :)
Just then we saw him talking to a guy near the floor entrance.
Radhika :"Apane wrong number kyon bola??"
Deepak : "Kab?"
Radhika:"Abhi! Meine phone kiya tha naa"
Deepak :" Mujhe koi phone nahi aya!"
Radhika:"Aise kya karate ho aap, ruko mein vapis karati hun"
Radhika dials the number, Deepak's phone does not ring
A guy picks up the phone
Radika:"Hello, Deepak"
(Supposed to be Deepak ): "Wrong number!"
Radhika:"Ye konsa number hai?"
(Supposed to be Deepak ): "Jo apane dial kiya hai"
Hmm………….. smart answer, by a smart %$@#%
We check deepak's cell's received calls, Rads number is not there!
Too good!
We went for snacks debating ye ho kya raha hai.
Me : "A re Deepak ne Radhika ko galat number diya hoga"
(Deepak had recently changed his number , gotten Airtels 999 Life Time Card)
Radhika:"A re usko khud ka number pata nahi hoga kya"
Deepak:" A re wo sahi number hai! Meine dekh ke hi to diya hai!"
( and in any case Deepak's cell keeps on ringing daily in regular intervals, he could not have given right no. to some and wrong to some)
Whatever yaar ! It's just not possible that the number will change out of blue, like this. There has to be a mistake, n the only mistake could be miscommunication of the number.
Radhika won't agree!
Radhika:"A re meine phone kiya hai es number pe, isko pahele! The number is correct"
Whew!
The debate continues!
Deepak's mobile rings, this time it's his wife's missed call.
Ok, at least now we can ask his wife and find out the correct number!
After coming back to workstation,
Deepak, call's his wife.
Before he could say anything,
Deepak's Wife : "Kitana natak hai, Tere ko missed call mila kya?"
Deepak: "Haan!, par.."
Deepak's Wife :" meine tere number pe phone kiya , to ek adami bola, wrong number aur rakh diya! Phir meine vapis se phone kiya, usko bola ke bhai sahab ye mere husband ka number hai, kuch to panga hua hai, aap mujhe aap ka number batao mein wo try karati hun. So then I got this other number, that's now ur's"
Wow! So the numbers actually got exchanged in middle of the day??
Deepak called Airtel, the Airtel guy says he can't change back the numbers till next 15 days,
(Why is that?? Galati to sudharo yaar! Usmein bhi bureaucracy)
So Deepak said fine then at least keep this number forever, so I won't have to keep communicating my new number to all. Airtel guy said fine (Without taking consent of the other guy, Howz that?)
Questions remain:
Who got billed for what?
N what had inspired someone smart man at Airtel to actually exchange numbers like this??
The moral I take from the story??
Well right there Sherlock when u said
"When you take out whatever is Impossible, Whatever remains how ever improbable, has to be the Truth"
It's just that be careful while defining a thing as Impossible! ;)
Friday, February 09, 2007
Being in Mummy’s Shoes
It’s not easy to be in any one else’s shoes, especially when you have seen a person doing a job so fine so smooth which doesn’t seem to have required and special efforts at all!
But when you actually take it up that you realize there is a lot of thought process going on continuously years of experience that gives this smooth and effortless effect!
It’s not that I have never entered kitchen. I have helped mom more than couple of times when some guests are coming down or she is making some thing special. I have handled the regular chores when she is been out of station for but a couple of days. But it was different then as I was in college. I used to bunk couple of lectures and used to stay back home doing the chores. Now that I work that option is out. My company has flexible working hours but I do have to finish at least the day’s job, which of course takes time and you have to stay back late if you enter in late. And now she went visiting her mother and is not going to be there more than a whole week!
It so happens that my dad doesn’t like outside food with all the oil and spice and nor do I. Plus it’s not good for him health wise. So we binge on out side food very very very occasionally.
Now when mummy’s not around I have to cook, make sure I am doing it in appropriate proportions so as not to waste a lot of food. If it remains do remember to take it out the next day out of fridge. (This is toughest. I always used to forget it and then when mummy used to get back she would have some amount of fridge cleaning. Now that mummy was not there for more than a week, I do have to remember about all this!) Make sure maids are coming and the cleaning and all is getting done properly. That’s it actually. But how much time it takes out of you! Oh and deciding which vegetables to get and make is like such a difficult tedious yet so illogical question!
Doing it all along with the job gave me a sample experience of working woman’s life. I was so tired and disheartened by the mummy came back! There is no way I can carry on my life like this after my marriage!
But mummy pulled me out of all that with the same easy grace of hers! She took over the next day with the same easy effortless style of hers! And I am again back to “Oh, damn it yaar! It doesn’t look so difficult. Well, you know I am little inexperienced. I will be fine in not time when I will start over!” :))
But when you actually take it up that you realize there is a lot of thought process going on continuously years of experience that gives this smooth and effortless effect!
It’s not that I have never entered kitchen. I have helped mom more than couple of times when some guests are coming down or she is making some thing special. I have handled the regular chores when she is been out of station for but a couple of days. But it was different then as I was in college. I used to bunk couple of lectures and used to stay back home doing the chores. Now that I work that option is out. My company has flexible working hours but I do have to finish at least the day’s job, which of course takes time and you have to stay back late if you enter in late. And now she went visiting her mother and is not going to be there more than a whole week!
It so happens that my dad doesn’t like outside food with all the oil and spice and nor do I. Plus it’s not good for him health wise. So we binge on out side food very very very occasionally.
Now when mummy’s not around I have to cook, make sure I am doing it in appropriate proportions so as not to waste a lot of food. If it remains do remember to take it out the next day out of fridge. (This is toughest. I always used to forget it and then when mummy used to get back she would have some amount of fridge cleaning. Now that mummy was not there for more than a week, I do have to remember about all this!) Make sure maids are coming and the cleaning and all is getting done properly. That’s it actually. But how much time it takes out of you! Oh and deciding which vegetables to get and make is like such a difficult tedious yet so illogical question!
Doing it all along with the job gave me a sample experience of working woman’s life. I was so tired and disheartened by the mummy came back! There is no way I can carry on my life like this after my marriage!
But mummy pulled me out of all that with the same easy grace of hers! She took over the next day with the same easy effortless style of hers! And I am again back to “Oh, damn it yaar! It doesn’t look so difficult. Well, you know I am little inexperienced. I will be fine in not time when I will start over!” :))
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Glass Cleaning……. From inner surface
Diwali is coming and had to help mummy in the cleaning activities.
Was cleaning all the showcases. Just realized that the glasses look dirty cause they are dirty from inner surface. Generally when we do a daily or weekly cleaning then we do clean the glasses from outside, but hardly from inside.
Cleaning the glasses from outside is always important but insides of the glasses also needs cleaning once in a while!
Small thing it is but it tells a lot of things! : )
Was cleaning all the showcases. Just realized that the glasses look dirty cause they are dirty from inner surface. Generally when we do a daily or weekly cleaning then we do clean the glasses from outside, but hardly from inside.
Cleaning the glasses from outside is always important but insides of the glasses also needs cleaning once in a while!
Small thing it is but it tells a lot of things! : )
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Happy Friday
I just found this a little amusing!
I was really happy while going home on that friday. Nothing great had happened really. But I was happy for I don’t know what reasons.
I do generally take close to 15-20 minutes to reach home from office. But by the time I reach home I am completely irritated with the unruly traffic the bad roads. No matter in what state of mind I leave the office I will be in the worst mood possible after reaching home.
I had thought the same will happen that friday as well.
On that Friday though, I took some thing over an hour for the same journey. It was raining heavily. I was half drenched. The traffic was immovable. Still you have to keep your vehicle running for the fear that poor gaddi might not start again as the start plug might be getting soaked in water. The roads were full of water, so u can not even make out the path holes also and get down right thorough them.
When I reached more than half way close to my place, the traffic became quite light. There was a cow standing right in the middle of the road. I tried to move her off by honking the horn. When I pressed the horn button, the gaddi abruptly stopped. The button start refused to work. But my dear gaddi did start with 2 kicks. I was smiling to myself till I reach home.
I think I should have gotten in the foulest mood ever after whole 1 hour in traffic soaked rain, but instead my happiness had not reduced a slightest bit.
Just so true is that when it is said, Nothing can alter your mood, if you are happy deep down inside. A pure happiness which just came by even without any particular reason just makes u happy from within.
Not yet got the formula to get that pure happiness yet. But looking for the day again when absolutely nothing can affect my good mood! :)
I was really happy while going home on that friday. Nothing great had happened really. But I was happy for I don’t know what reasons.
I do generally take close to 15-20 minutes to reach home from office. But by the time I reach home I am completely irritated with the unruly traffic the bad roads. No matter in what state of mind I leave the office I will be in the worst mood possible after reaching home.
I had thought the same will happen that friday as well.
On that Friday though, I took some thing over an hour for the same journey. It was raining heavily. I was half drenched. The traffic was immovable. Still you have to keep your vehicle running for the fear that poor gaddi might not start again as the start plug might be getting soaked in water. The roads were full of water, so u can not even make out the path holes also and get down right thorough them.
When I reached more than half way close to my place, the traffic became quite light. There was a cow standing right in the middle of the road. I tried to move her off by honking the horn. When I pressed the horn button, the gaddi abruptly stopped. The button start refused to work. But my dear gaddi did start with 2 kicks. I was smiling to myself till I reach home.
I think I should have gotten in the foulest mood ever after whole 1 hour in traffic soaked rain, but instead my happiness had not reduced a slightest bit.
Just so true is that when it is said, Nothing can alter your mood, if you are happy deep down inside. A pure happiness which just came by even without any particular reason just makes u happy from within.
Not yet got the formula to get that pure happiness yet. But looking for the day again when absolutely nothing can affect my good mood! :)
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