When the systems went down...

It was a normal sleepy day in office... Tired of the work, which involves using your computer most of the time... With eyes hurting, shoulders paining, I was longing for a break.... May be someone above (or below; our office is in top floor) heard me; the systems just got shut down....

It was due to some kind of power failure/UPS issues... whatever it was a welcome break... All of us got up, had a small chit chat.... i got to stretch my legs, hands.... a welcome break... Time for some facebooking, tweeting from my phone.... a shot blog entry.... Anything can happen on a 'power-down break'... ;-)
Looking forward to more of that in our 'workaholic' office.....

'Kerala belongs to which state in India?'

That was not a question from any non-Kerala kindergarten kid.... that was from a HDFC bank employee to me last Saturday when i was submitting my documents to take a new account....
Last one week shuttling up and down to the HDFC bank was an experience, especially experience of north India... In kerala, if u find a person working in a bank, u assume him or her to be well educated.... they always treat u well in bank.... After being treated by banks in that manner back home, the sub-standard behaviour of bank employees in a reputed bank like HDFCin Delhi surprised and shocked me...
A bank employee who doesn't know about the states of India... who doesn't know whether Kerala is a state or a city or a town, how on earth he got a job in such a prestigious bank!!!!!!! Whether he was trying to ridicule a south indian, i don't know... but a behaviour like that is worth firing that person.... The question angered me first, and i asked him whether he attended any school in like or studied geography.... his shameless reply was 'i am not familiarised with south'.... asif south India is some remote area where there is no electricity etc.... He was mentioning about a place where the literacy rate is the highest in India.... 
What made the whole incident funny was when i looked at the logo of the HDFC bank, which says 'We understand your world'.... i can add, '... but we dont understand you  at all in North, 'cos we have only illiterate employees here'!!!!!!! 
But one thing these fellows dont know is the power of social media... I updated the incident in twitter/facebook...  immediately it got attention even from the bank's twitter handler.... Glad my message reached somewhere....
What i want to tell HDFC again is; all your bank has is just a name... u have employed only illiterate people who dont have any general knowledge outside the1km area around them.... shame on you HDFC..... 

Dusty.... dusty.... dusty Delhi....

One thing i cannot / will never stand in a place is the dusty atmosphere.... i had a tough time in Chennai.... Not its the Delhi summer that is driving me crazy....

You cant go out for a walk in the morning, you can never enjoy an evening breeze.... 'cos it had added dust with it.... You can keep cleaning your room whole day... still within hrs u can feel the dust.... And i am so sensitive to these things, its irritating me....

Everyone says once you are out of a place like Kerala, all you can do is just keep complaining....

Sigh.... Life!!!!!!

Settling down.... busy days.....

Life these days in Delhi!!! busy like never before... even had to work last week-end... some deadlines to meet.... For some reason i am not complaining... May be I wanted a break from my research life and home so bad past few months, liking this new schedule.... And being busy made me happy always.... can forget all the personal crap at work.... My moto these days; 'keep working... keep working.... and keep partying in week-ends'....


Getting to know my colleagues better.... three weeks, most of the ice is broken now.... Getting to know the delhi ways more.... and getting to know my neighbours more...


And Delhi is not Chennai, where i was all alone.... friends around in Delhi, the main thing keeping me in good spirits here... One thing i am waiting for is the summer to get over.... I hate summer.... i can never find my energy level going up any fraction above the average... Once the temp comes down, i am getting out with my camera and start my Delhi Album... Surprisingly, i haven't used my camera much here... Poor fellow might b eager to get out of the bag and a look around....


Anyways, its so-far-so-good in Delhi.... looking forward to some real adventures here.... 


More posts coming up on delhities.... and delhi ways....  soon....

Sick Days... Tough Days....

I hate being sick again.... New place, new job, needed to settle down first... Even before that, down with a terrible cold and cough....

The dusty Delhi made me sick... was coughing for a week, and finally lost voice... yesterday in office i had to virtually communicate via notepad and sign language....it was terrible... All the self prescribed medicines were of no use... 

Yesterday I had to run out of the conference room, because of the cough... It was awkward... but couldn't help....

I should have consulted a doctor in the first place, waited till everything went bad... The worst part was even my house mates were sick one way or other... and i haven't found a place for my own.... everything was crazy.... tough times....

Finally felt a bit better today... voice is slightly better.... the new meds are working...

Also found a place to stay, though the bathrooms were horrible... need to adjust, till i find a better place and some company.... shifting tomorrow.....

so good luck to me to adjust in the new place....

Working with the bees....

My first week at work... Thank god it went well... The impression i have at the end of the week - 'i am working with some bees'!!!
The work culture of the people in Wiley is highly commendable... No chit chats, no unnecessary breaks... Seems everyone is thinking only about work from morning to evening... No personal emails, chats, facebook!! ppl can spend a whole day without these actually... Wiley is teaching me that... With the amount of work we have there at this time of year, nobody can think of anything else...
I am trying to adjust to this work culture as well... Its hard.... Being an in academics, sitting in lab, having breaks and decidng to work whenever we feel like like sundays or at night.... Coming from there to work in specific time and days will be.difficult... But i did manage, except for the sleepy friday evening...
This is something new for me, the whole feeling of 'work in office'... But i think i am prefering it better than teaching in a classroom... But time will tell whether i will be liking it on a long run....
As of now, enjoy the sun , heat and dust of delhi... And enjoy the company of my 'bee' colleagues...