And yet another character for the daily drama of this blog. Introducing the Funny Firang……the latest import to our office, he’s friendly, upbeat and all agog over the ‘India experience’. We’re having the time of our lives playing gracious Indian hosts to FF. Me: You know that girl who sits…
The training program is almost over. Panic, panic, panic…now do I know enough to get to work? I’m getting to know people slightly and slotting them into my caricatures of them. Meet my new masters…uh…colleagues… Smarts in an ivory tower (SIT): Pedigreed background, Mr.Ultra Cool has earned a reputation to…
I like men.I really do like men. A lot. The most important people in my life have almost always been men (barring a few, very few exceptions).The people who have shaped my thinking and my emotions, who have cut me and built me up…every single one of them has been…
There are days that are just lulls in conversations…….pauses in mid-step…..….halts in long journeys…..and white spaces everywhere else. There are days when you realise you have to climb the tall ladder to be able to enjoy the slide…and you’re doing just that……and hoping that the ride on the other side…
That is how old I am today. That statement is valid for one month more. I’m a month away from leaving twenty-five. For some reason, certain ages are of earth-shattering importance while the others are just turning numbers on the time-ticker. 16 was religion, the struggle to find meaning and…
Sagnik asked me to sum up in one sentence ‘What women want’. I thought for a moment of all the things I could say and said ‘The same thing men want’. Here’s why I think so. Men want:SexMoneyPowerRespectStatusFriendshipLoveFunSecurityAdmiration And here’s what women want:To be seen as more than sex symbols….
One interesting experience to report!!!! I paid a visit to the washroom. (No…don’t run away…I haven’t resorted to toilet humour!!!). It was because I was extremely sleepy on account of having indulged in a late night movie mid-week (tsk, tsk…it will be awhile before I can come back to the…
It’s been a week here at the new place. Everyday I’m having people getting me to make some sort of declaration…“How is it?”“Do you like your job?”“Are the people nice?”The answer to all of those is “I don’t know…yet.”I’m waiting and watching and evaluating and in the meantime, I’m being…
So now I have a whole new range of people to nickname and quote. Haven’t got the names for them yet but the conversations flow so here’s another edition of Office Capers…. Naya bachcha (NB) is a fresh-off-the-MBA-factory-lineup, as yet wet behind the ears and soooo delightfully uninitiated to the…
I was a party this week. The kind that’s thrown for people who are close to the host and know each other through posing on either side of the host for birthday photos and through hearing about each others’ exploits in conversations. The kind you wouldn’t think of as friends,…
