Happy newz year...

Hello People..!
Y’know I just HAD to return to my blog. People have been flooding the post with comments (I counted and there are THREE (!!) out of which two are by ‘Anonymous’, who in all probability is one person. This is just too much adulation to handle.

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Ok..I begin the new year with a dash of sarcasm…so what?

I am not sure why I wasn’t in a mood to write! (writers’ block??)

Well, I anyway haven’t been doing much except falling sick..and getting well..and falling sick again! (I guess the body did not take the ‘quit smoking campaign’ too well! But in the end, I managed to convince the body and she agreed. She will have to put up with a lil more weight though. That’s fine, as I explained that it is better than putting up with a pair of black lungs.)

Amidst all this falling ill and recovering, I also switched to a new job. (Yes y'all, this is getting beyond the Guinness Book of Records.)

Normal people take vacation ‘from’ their jobs to relax…But I relax ‘in between’ jobs..!
It’s a very sad thing to do…hop and skip jobs so often…but then there is the ‘silver line’. For example, I have become the most confident candidate for any interview. NO interviewer can make me nervous. To the extent that I get all sarcastic and cynical with the interviewer..
(excerpts from the most recent interview)

“As a team leader….”

(interrupting) “ you mean, hypothetically? Because u know u are not selecting me to lead a team.”

Or

“We often have ‘onsite’ opportunities”

(mumbling) “yeah sure”

“are u ready to travel?”

“are u ready to send me?”

(I know…’very cocky’)

When I told this to my dad, he told that it was definitely NOT a silver line, and that I should not take my ‘naukri’ lightly. I don’t blame him. He is working for a bank since the past 30 years and doing pretty well. But Dad, you know we are the Gen 'why'.


Anyway, so here I am again, attending one more ‘in-fucking-duction’.

Its epitome of boredom. My jaws ache from yawning and I feel like an alien amongst all geeks. Mind you these are the ‘real geeks’. They somehow manage to divert all topics to ‘product development’ so that they talk endlessly abt ‘coding’, and ‘SDLC’ and ‘testing’ and god knows what! If there were no cell phones to pretend I was getting a call from ‘someone-very-important’, I would have been long dead.

For some reason, all facilitators come in and first divide the whole group into further small groups and make all do some dumbass activity. I think they are all sadistic and they just want to move ppl arnd a bit from the chairs (even the chairs are highly uncomfortable. I tell u, there is no end to the agony).

Meanwhile, God is playing his own sadistic games. The first session was on Ethics, and I was supposed to talk on ‘loyalty’ (this I felt was very deliberate on God’s part, as I have changed 3 jobs in the past one year. Loyalty plays little part in my professional life, He should know, hmph!. And yes, this reminds me, even my ‘temporary staff id’ number is ‘420’. I must tell Him, that its NOT funny.)

Also, in whatever group I am, I am the one who is supposed to talk! And I am not all that great at public speaking. I get all red and pathetic.

Today, was another session where the facilitator was making slight sense…but he kept nodding his head, as if to ask ‘isnt it?’. But, I felt it was too frequent and just looking at him shake and nod his head a hundred times in a very short time, made me all giddy.

Tomorrow, I have a test from all that I have learnt today. But all I learnt today was that I can draw 13 different types of page borders, all of geometrical design, while I was doodling on my notepad the whole day. I have a feeling that this learning will not fetch me any marks tomorrow.
Please pray for me. Its really very embarrassing to flunk at this stage in life.