B'days are expensive!!

You expense not just another year in your life but also sometimes shell out bucks enuf to call it an 'Expensive B'day'.

One such B'day was my latest (2010). Hope you guys remember the date.


The feeling of having most of my close allies with was really special. As usual, i was late to the venue, Water Front, making my entrance embarrassing for me however 'star'(r)ing for onlookers. Had blessings and wishes flying in the air accompanied by warm hugs and arms arounds. Thank you guys for making the night special by being there, especially after the kinda party we had one night before.


Waited for close to 3 quarters of an hour to find a table (again embarrassed myself by not booking the table in advance), folks with cameras pounced on the opportunity to put their disastrous creative talents to use by clicking random pics and the waiting time flew by like a jiffy (samples provided). Flip side, delay put some guests in discomfort on timelines.


People who have been to W't'F (Water Front..i don't read between the letters :P) will concur with me that the service is anything but satisfying. Cliched, but service could be better, atleast with the time taken from order to serve. Had food and drinks served, at last..and gulping it down dint take much time for the group that was.


Slowly the group started to shrink in size as people started to disperse in different directions to head back home in different paiyyas..i was with the last set of people who were dependant on me to drop them at their destinations. How stupid of them knowing me..i mean what were they even thinking?? huh!! but i guess they know me real well...


Then came the SHOCKER..the check..a whopping amount which blew me off my feet (literally) and off my drinks, for sure. Until that point, i had not bothered about the rate on the menu card. But the moment of truth, which it was, made me read the menu card once, twice , thrice and also enquire on a few things, with one of the remained stewards in the restaurant, which may have sounded idiotic to him. By then, i was back to my normal life. Had no choice but to pay the 'check' amount with 'credit card' (of course mine!!); what a ridicule in life!!


I spent the rest of night making sure that the entire situation dint get into my head and heart. Had i allowed that, the set of people with me would have lost control on their senses...as i was behind the steering wheel of my car...hahahaha!! 'All is well that ends well'.


Albeit expensive till date, was place beautiful, guests lovely, night special and unforgettable...Had a blast!!


Now that's wat i call a B'day to remember. Every single moment was worth it!! Really WORTH IT!!

It can happen to anyone!!

and i am no exception...

Day started on a dull note with a team huddle first up as usual..but ended up as a meeting with twists turns, ups lows, discussions arguments and finally got to my desk to setup laptop with a 'morning namaste' (routine and mandatory bend to reach for the adapter plug in).

As habituated as i am, logged into gmail, bad at work and injurious to job though..then checked my emails..this time official and sat back thinking about all the work i had to finish during the day and realized there was too much for a soul lacking day. But deadlines forced me to start stuff that was expected of me. 10 mins down realized deftly that it was not day but me that lacked enthu...so tried different stuff like reading through news, sports, movies,etc..etc.. for the kick to creep in, but nothing helped me. I continued to work continually, thanks to multi tasking, finished a task JIT but was tired trying to find a grin on my face. That was when something flashed in orange on my laptop screen.

It was a message from one of my very close allies about movie 'SHREK'. Loved the way he expressed his disgust of not finding company to watch that animation movie. That chat triggered brightness in my day.

Indulged myself in performing the other dry tasks pending to be closed when met another friend of mine online and this bit had actually, in true sense, raised my spirit to a level where i put everything i was doing on hold and engrossed myself in the conversation with a deep dive. By the end of working day i was happy for i had a check mark against each of the tasks on To-Do list whilst concurrently the enthusiasm and excitement levels were shooting over the top.

I called it a day when i realized that my state of mind was in no way better useful than it was in the morning except that they were 180 deg apart and at an unbeatable radius from what i would have liked.

A day with mixed feelings . As i write this post, i feel content as i had more than required of both the worlds.

On one side, if 'how many of us?' get to experience such a day is a query, then reserve it for later coz on the flip side, 'how often??' in a week is a bigger question. If the answer is almost everyday, then my recommendation is to find a counsellor (expensive might help!!), twice is an average. Above average - buy time to find what is missing in life. Folks below average are doing fantastically great for themselves.

Oh, I should not leave my answer to guesses. I fall under below average category which means i am doing great for myself...AWESOME!!

On this note, i bid adieu and wish you guys a rockin weekend!! Let yourself loose....not a bad name for a pub!!..hmmm!!

Believe it or Not!!

Here i am..back after a month hiatus caused by reasons that seem silly in this age of internet and technology. I HAD NO INTERNET AT HOME for a month :( ridiculous!! But that's the fact i had to put up with. But now things have started to look better and this makes me even more optimistic about the days to come in UK. Phew!! Nothing has come easy here unlike other places i had been to. There is lotsa drama around activities in this part of the world. More saddening is the rate at which the drama unfolds.

Disappointing, disheartening, irritating, frustrating, depressive, demoralizing..aaaahhh..can't type all the synonymous adjectives in here. To say the least, experience in UK has been nightmarish thus far. Coincidentally all my colleagues have expressed similar feelings. That makes me feel better that i am not the only one to suffer from IUS (Irritating UK Syndrome).

To open a Bank account, address proof in UK is mandatory and for residence agreement, Bank account is mandatory...follow up for 18 days after raising a fault against broadband line had finally resulted in getting the internet going..astonished to know that there are 3 phone lines for the same residential address (where i live) and none of them work....a few examples of how things work here.

Now when things started to get tough, everything around me seemed almost impossible. My laptop crashed when at work and took me a day to reboot it with the help of some real honest folks from my client's place who gave up saying the resolution to the problem was not their skill. Well, worse is not worse always, it can be be bad..as it turned out in my case. I was cribbing over lack of internet when my laptop gave me a full plate.

When so much had happened just over 2 months of stay here, there was no way...no frigging way that i cud see this day without contributing to the income of UK Govt...oh yeah!! you guessed it right...the habit has continued from US to UK. A speeding ticket was issued to me on my way back from London. This time it was due to lack of information though.

Missed bloggin!! Will start sharing more experiences in my coming posts.

Anyways, i sign off with a hope to revive my plight during the next few weeks of my stay in UK. Until then, CHEERS!! Kecchhhhaaawwww!!