I am not a smoker. I also don’t drink coffee. So coffee breaks and cigarette breaks are non-existant for me. I still do need breaks though. I don’t know how some people manage to put in endless hours of work because I can’t. I need to zoom out of whatever…
Inter office emails are hilarious!
Was out for a meeting all afternoon and I got back to find a mailbox full of messages. SNC turned up skulking close by and here’s what followed: SNC: Anyone interested in an aloo paratha? Me: I have an aloo paratha left over from lunch too. SFOS: raising eyebrows Me:…
Valentine’s Day at office
It must have been 1988…the first time I read the story of a man who loved children and flowers, who conducted surreptitious marriage ceremonies for couples in love, against the orders of the then king who decreed that his soldiers must stay single so as to not have any attachments…
Has anybody noticed that fatherhood is suddenly in fashion? The advertising guys surely have. So, corollary to the Metrosexual Man is the Proud Papa syndrome. If I’m not much mistaken Nivea started it with the black-and-white shots of a shirtless hunk with an equally (but for different reasons) luscious baby….
Losers and neighbors at work.
There used to be an ad for a shampoo on TV that went “Dandruff is like ex-boyfriends…keeps coming back!” Of course I’m repeating myself. Yes, this is going to be a raving post. I don’t give a damn. So here’s presenting the must-read manual for ex-boyfriends. (How I wish I…
“Do you remember?” he asked.I was silent for a long moment.“Okay, I understand” he said and he walked away. And I was standing on the dark, shiny wet roadSpotted by the reflection of the street lampsThinking, “Do you really?” Do I remember? When I hug someoneMy arms seems to move…
I spent a good three hours last Sunday on a wedding gift. Why, oh, why do people get married? It is such a task getting them wedding gifts. I mean, it is difficult enough trying to buy one person a gift. Now double that number, make it two sets of…
