The forgetful bird will always miss the Bus.!!

Yesterday Oct 14th was the Global Day of Service(GDS) here in our office.The volunteer enrollment forms were issued long back in September precisely on the 15th of September.
FLAAAAASHBAACK....
The very day I received the volunteer enrollement form for GDS, as usual I did my routine screening on it,pressed CTRL +DEL to ensure that it doesn't stay in my vicinity anymore.
But my Mentor Motivator Mr.Hulk convinced me to enroll for it.
"Stand up and volunteer, this is your chance man.You don't get to do something like this very often.. You are a social animal and you have an obligation to the society.. Do it..now " Hulk said.
This ignited the "Social Responsibility" spirits in me and it overhauled the levels of laziness and finally I decided to register.. 
But having deleted the enrollement mail, I couldn't ask him to forward me the same to enroll because if I had done that he would have slapped me on my face..!!.So I asked Mr.Madhu if he had the enrollement mail with him.
"Dude are you mad.. I think I deleted that mail the very moment it popped up " Madhu replied.
For people like us "Ignorance is Bliss.."
I thought "its my chance to awaken the social service spirits in him..".So I bestowed Hulk's dialogue spiced with my own emotions to him and came back to my seat.
In five minutes my outlook inbox flashed "Fw : FW: GDS Enrollment" Sender: Madhu. 
"God .. is it because my speech was inspiring enough or did he sleep half way through the speech.. ??".
Finally both of us enrolled for GDS -Recycle Wing that had vaccany for only two volunteers from our office.
My urge to motivate people din't end up there.I scrubbed through my IM list pinged all of my friends and conveyed the necessity of social concern to all of them.Many of them did register on the very same day.LNK ,Merin ,Ganesh  and RK were among my victim list.I went home with a light heart having done something good.
I received two meeting invites scheduled for the weeks ahead from the head of the GDS-Recycle wing dept.Unfortunately I missed the first one since I had to go home on that weekend.I was confident that I will be able to attend the second one,and hence prior to the meeting day I checked the mail.The meeting was scheduled at 9,Saturday.I reached office at 8.50 AM opened the web session for the meeting and 
clicked on the link."The link is unavailable.." a message appeared on the screen.I checked my watch once again..it was 8.55 AM,i decided to wait for 10 minutes.Finally at 9.10 AM i tried again,but again i got the same message.!!It was then I realized that I hadn't received the meeting reminder alarm from outlook.I checked the outlook calendar for the meeting time and.. I was shocked to see the time on it "9 PM".God.. this is embarrassing..!!
After having deceived by my own PC,I  decided to skip the meeting that day...!! and the flash back ends here.


Yesterday as usual,I woke up late ,but luckily at 8.30.Mr Riddi was already on his canvas to go to gym.I decided to go with him to our office gym.Everything seemed normal on the way.As we took the turn to 
office, there I could see couple of buses lined outside the office.As we entered, many of them in organe T shirts were hurriedly packing their stuff and boarding the buses parked outside, and the buses started moving out of the parking space.

"What is happening man..?" I asked Riddi.
and then I saw Ganesh waving at me from the bus.. he was shouting something and it wasn't clear.. but before I could focus on him ,I read the banner put up behind the last moving bus.. It said "Global Day of Service -Oct 14".
And that marked the end of my Social Obligation. 

Keep the newspaper and toilet the way you expect it to be..!!

Hypothesis proposed by Mr.Riddi at 9am today morning.The reason behind the proposal of this potentially preposterous hypothesis was the sight of the DISMANTLED "The Hindu".Riddi as usual figured out the person behind this.. it was Mr Rapheal,the time man of the moment. The hypothesis was welcomed by the signature "I JUST DON'T CARE" grin from Rapheal coming after the shower in his stripped and "dandruffed" towel.After a couple of rehersals in front of the mirror ; the one which he always does to ensure that his beer belly which he feels is ominous is tightened by a belt to tone it into the stupefying abs.
It was then that Raphel realised that he hasn't brushed his teeth..!!
"All wise men make the same mistake..!!".
Mr Raphel having realised his blunder reached for the empty Pepsodent Tube and strained his muscles to squeze the last molecules of paste from that, but he failed miserably.
Mr Rapheal thought for a moment and then with the EUREKA smile ran into the kitchen and started searching.
"Dude the scissors is not here in the kitchen" Rapheal shouted.Riddi on hearing this, accosted and rephrased his hypothesis a second time..  
"Man Keep the scissors at the place where you expect it to be and not at the balcony.!!!" 

Riddi the Blackberry man of the moment decided to wear his blackberry trousers to office today.After 10 minutes long meticulous and punctilicious ironing,Riddi finally got dressed in his blackberry no wrinkle for today trousers,greased his hair, tucked his formals neatly and literally hosed a bottle of Spar's "Nivea Men's" and came out.I was waiting outside.Riddi checked the shoe stand for his Liberty Black Formal Shoes, since he thought that canvas will look awkward with his blackberry.And it was after a thorough search of the shoe stand from top to bottom, Riddi realised  that Mr Sharan too was in a blackberry today...

 and since "All wise men think alike", he too might have had the same hunch of wearing  the Liberty Black Shoes...and since there was only a single pair of Liberty Black Shoes, its very likely that the person who had the hunch first will wear it first...!!
Finally feeling frustrated on account of this Mr Riddi called up Sharan and rephrased his hypothesis a third time.. 
"Man I have kept my shoes where I expect it to be .. but still i don't find it there..!!!" 

Dude we FAILED again..!!

Today morning i woke up hearing Riddi shouting "Dude we failed again..!!".

It took me a couple of minutes to comprehend what he meant by that.

I looked at my watch  God.. its 9.45 AM. I just couldn't  digest that.I searched for my mobile to have a look at the timer on it.He was right.. "We failed again..!"

I feel that my bio clock is running on US Time.We had plans to go to gym today morning and Riddi had assured me that he will wake me up  at sharp 7.30.But.. as usual his bio timer failed to fire..!!

But I had made the preconditions for an early wake up perfect ;before I went to bed yesterday night.

I had setup TWO alarms to make sure that even if one fails to disturb me the other one will definitely disturb my room mate Spar and he will defnitely slap me on my back for having disturbed his sleep and hence i will wake up having received a blow on my back.lol.. the idea was perfect."Spar sorry for putting you in trouble. :-)"

I just couldn't accept that my plan failed.I decided to do an RCA on the issue before brushing.I checked my mobile alarm if it had belled at the scheduled time.The alarm was fine.What else was the problem..??

And then I saw the villan abut the range bar flashing at me "Slient mode".

My poor gadget must have vibrated his gut out in its desperate attempt to wake me up..!!

The interesting fact about bad news is that they never stay single.I realized that when Raphel came up to me and said "Da.. I don't think we can go by train this time to Ekm..the tatkal tickets are sold out..!!"

"Oh..man this is Catastrophe..!!" I replied back.

Sometimes you feel that nothing turns out right even when you do it right.I was brooding on this philosophy when Riddi commanded "Man go get a shower.We're getting late for office.I won't wait if it gets beyond 10.20"

Amma says that a good clean shower can wash away your worries make you fresh all day.Since the geyser had gone for a toss,my shower was literally a shivering one.It was after the shower that I realized that I forgot to brush.!!Damn ..!!

After that mix-match daily routine session I finally reached office holding the faith that no more bad news is on the cards for me today.But.. as I said good news comes single but bad news ain't; they have company..

ADP our new time keeping system was the villian this time.PROCRASTINATION my noble virtue made me succumb this time too.  God..  I fail to stick to my resolutions.I should have filled my leave application yesterday morning itself, but my dear friend Mr PROCRASTINATION convinced me to ignore ADP even on knowing that today the ADP system will be cut and that means I will not be credited with 3 days salary on the paycheque this time.!

NO MORE BAD NEWS PLEASE.. I will take the remaining on some other day..!!

Monday Morning Blues..!!

How many of you wake up on Monday mornings craving for a holiday..??

....Is that a smile on your face..!! 

Cheers mate you are of my kind :P

So tell me what makes you sad on Mondays..?

Is it the inertia to get up from bed before 9.. 

or is it the midday naps that you'll miss on Mondays to Fridays.. 

or is it the PROCRASTINATION, the virtue of the wise, which made you pile up all the pending works to Monday.. 

or is it the bundle of surprise in your OUTLOOK inbox.. 

or is it the weekly status meetings on Monday afternoon.. 

or is it the "Mondayitis" because of an unforgettable weekend.. :P 

To be very frank my problem is a mix of all these topped wit the saddest of the ingredients, the "TIMELESSNESS"..You may wonder what Timelessness means.. :) yeah.. that's a surprise..after pepsticide the next word which is to be added to The Oxford Dictionary and that too coined by a Keralaite is TIMELESSNESS.You will get to know the real meaning of it in a couple of weeks from now lol...

I try to pose a smile on my face every Monday morning but don't know why.. i fail miserably in doing that.Check out the stress lines that you have on your face the next time you look yourself at the mirror and if possible count the number of lines.I bet the number of lines will be proportional to  the number of Monday mornings.. :)but this is applicable only to the unmarried SINGLES..

GOD.. if Monday was Friday then I would've stayed young forever..!!

Don't know what surprises are in store for me this week.. "Dear surprise box.. you can beat me.. you can break me.. but you cannot CHANGE ME..!!"

Another Friday morning @ office..

Hurray..!! its Friday again ..I had lost a sense of time when I was in my college because each day was more or the other same.. be it a weekday or a weekend you had the liberty to linger around with same bunch of FRIENDS.. had the freedom to schedule events of the day at will.. had the liberty to sleep whenever..Gosh I feel  sad.. :( If I could ever turn back time I would go back to my COLLEGE.. I miss my Alma Mater..

Gone are those days .. My sweet old memories ..I THRIVE on YOUR HEART BEAT..
I don't know why people run around with their open laptops in search of conference rooms.. If they can't fix a conference room for a meeting how are they going to fix the bugs in the code.. lol..
At times you feel that your watch ain't ticking that fast.. Today is one such day.. Nothing to do at office..Dangerously work less..  I have spend half my time gazing at people running around with their notepads in search of the conference rooms..God I feel like an alien..! I don't belong here anymore.But am lucky that at least my outlook is busy gulping mails.And talking about mails I really wonder why do people take so much of pain in writing mails to the person sitting next to him.. Why can't they just walk up to him and speak..!Its a crazy world around me.. bound by rules and ethics..!Moma.. I want to come home.. :(

First day at the new house.. will it be our TIME house ..??

Mmm.. ye a its my first day at the Pragati apartments that we had taken on lease for 11 months from today.. I never thought that shifting of stuff from our old apartment to the new one would be so much fun.. It was literally the second best endeavour of ours in 2009.We managed to crack the record shifting time set by the packers and movers. lol..
The first step to the new apartment was welcomed by the very sight of the RED T-shirt lady who stays in 203 I believe.We dropped our baggage and stood there gaping behind her back.She definitely must have felt very proud to see a band of boys staring at her amused, spelled by her beauty,enchanted by her charm, but she failed to realize that open mouth gaping is an act patented by us from the very first day in bangalore and we have taken the oath to practice it on every possible occasion.
But I feel that this time things are not going to be like before.I feel that a change is there on the cards.I feel the aura of its presence around me.. Yea i strongly feel that this time I will get it :P

Shantaram finally..!!

I had been waiting for this one desperately for the last couple of months ever since I heard that its going to be filmed..!! Shantaram starring Johnny Depp. :)
Guys its an amazing feeling when you get what you had been craving for a long time.. I bet the last person who had read that book hasn't read it in full.The pulp odor is very much intact.The edges are a bit ruffled but the pages are very much in place.Glad that I got an original copy now that i don't have to take the pain of reading the look alike xerox copies where you have to spend half the time dismantling the bind arranging the pages in order,rebinding it and then reading..
Its there lying on my bedside table waiting to be touched.. Shantaram ..!!