Lil Rascals

After a long time I actually decided to take a weekend off from Chennai. Went down to Cochin to meet D and also the latest addition to her family. A basset hound. I had a campus event near Salem and decided to go to Ernakulam from there straight. I reached at 3 in the morning. Sunny was waiting for me at the entrance and when I reached the auto I saw D with lil D on her lap. He was the most adorable thing I had laid my eyes on. He was ochre brown and white with ears that he tripped on every two steps. We reached home and D and I slept in the hall and lil D was running around and finally settled between us. Though I had slept at 4 I was up by 8 coz I had to catch lil D from running towards Big D’s mum who is terrified of the brat. I woke up so fast that I sprained my neck.
Lil D has a mind of his own. You can call him a million times but he will respond only when he wanted to. He loved chewing D’s fingers, hair, ripping up the plants kept outside and standing in the kitchen waiting for food. D threatened people but lil D could threaten Big D and she would quietly do his bidding. One person who can finally threaten her and make her dance to his tunes. Amma is dying to see this lil one and cant stop imagining what he might be like with all the stories ive given her.
Lil D has been baptized. He will henceforth be called Cookie. We were thinking of Rascal but Big D refused to name him that. Sunny and I quietly revel in the fact that the D not naming him Rascal was fear of having people say ‘ Like master like dog’. Rascals apart, I had a blast with this little chap and the big brat. Was great to be back, secure, happy and well rested. Went for a body massage and felt that my body had really gone on vacation. Though it was just a weekend, feels like I can go on without holiday for another month. Then it will be time to come back again to big D and lil C.

sleepless in salem

We reached Salem at 5 in the morning. An unearthly time that I rarely see unless im unbelievably inspired to go for an early morning workout. Not happening. Me and 5. LOL. Anyway we came to the hotel and there were no rooms for KR and me. We are still waiting for a room. I was hoping to sleep for a bit and then get ready for the days event. Doesn’t seem to be happening now. Theres some religious music running in the background. I have nothing against it but just that at 6 in the morning ( yea we have waited for that long ) id rather climb into bad with some soft music and fall sleep. The HOD of the MCA department in the College to which we are going is sitting with us pretty helpless. Still no rooms. Apparently Indian Oil employees are in the same hotel and have occupied all the rooms. Hmm…no sleep…no rest…. Nice day. On top of that I take a train tonight to Cochin and the darned thing reaches at 3 in the morning. I have to train Ds dog over the weekend. Love to do that and looking forward to atleast that. KR is dozing away sitting here in the lobby. I cant quite do that coz the chair im sitting is not as comfortable. Grrrr…

I am a dog

I took the test Nothings Aplently took. Seems interesting. Here are the results.

You are one of the best friends that someone could ever ask for. A very loyal, compassionate person who is always there for close friends and family members who are in a tough time. You are someone who can be counted on time and time again and never let small grudges get in the way of a good friendship. But unfortunately, you are very dependant, and every now and then someone will take advantage of your loyalty, and it is most often not until you end up hurt that you realised your foolishness.

Celebrity for a day...

Funny are the ways of people who are new to something. Well I handle campus recruitment and my sole duty is to visit colleges in Tamil Nadu and recruit freshers for the following year. Its a challenge to get the prime slot that is the Day 1 slot and most companies fight tooth and nail to get it. We almost always get a day 1 or day 2 slot. Anyways, there was this college we had never visited before. They themselves called and offered us day 1. We thought we might as well give it a shot coz you never know the students might just be really good. We sent the tech panels earlier. My boss KR and i left a little later. We were just planning to leave, well the cab driver was missing. We tried calling the cab service and they couldnt help. Finally he came walking out of OUR office, slowly. When KR hailed and asked him to come faster, he actually waved back saying he will come slowly.
Fine, we left. The driver was a PSYCHO. If he couldnt overtake he would slam his fists on the steering wheel. If someone called he would speak to them like he was the boss. We hadnt even reached the airport and when the other driver called he said he had crossed the airport long back. KR and i werent quite sure if we would ever reach. We turned into a road and KR told him to ask someone where the college was. He stopped at a place where there was NO ONE. Guess he expected to look up at the sky and see some sign. After all that havoc we reached in one piece.
We just got out of the car. A whole lot of people crowded around us, shook hands, gave us flowers, took photographs. Neither of us knew what was happening but we simply smiled and went on to the control room. All neatly arranged. They forced us to breakfast. The arrangements were done by a 5 star hotel. Why God knows !!@#!@ We went on to make the pre placement talk. Mr KR was introduced as Dr. KR. His expression was priceless. Then he was introduced as the Location Research Manager though he was the Location Resource Manager. I couldnt quite control myself. KR was also felicitated with a shawl. LOLLLLL. He looked like he was getting a Ph D or something. Ohh by the way the prayer song killed me. They tried to sing Mahaganapatim. I love that song... well atleast i loved it till then. The words were all wrong, the rendition was.. well i wished i was deaf thats all.
The day went on like that. The faculty was all over us. The placement officer smiled like we were stars she had never seen. There were a lot of mishaps but they tried covering it up. Finally the day winded up and i had no energy left. Came back to office. There was a crisis situation. I was hoping to head home straight. Thankfully i checked my mail. Everything sorted i reached home at 10!!. Now im back in the office and honestly wondering what the hell im doing here... :)

Confidential...meaning revisited

Had one heluva tiring day.After work had to meet some people from some colleges, not students but faculty, placement officers etc. Dinner was an out and out business affair. My friend Ms.J called in the middle, surprised i picked up the phone and told her i was a bit busy and that i would call her back. Well J and i have been friends for ages, and well its jus that she never calls. I dont have a problem with that but still when she does its like snow in Chennai. Anywayz i presumed she called to tell me she was free so we could meet up tomorrow. We were thinking of a movie. I got back home and called back quite happy that we were to meet after a long time. Well apparently she called to tell me that i had discussed something confidential in public. Public being one lady i knew and the confidential info being that a someone she knew from my company dint have a good time abroad.
Whoa... every company has confidential stuff but since when did such shit become that. Well felt something snap inside and knew i was going to blow it soon. So told her that if something was confidential, why the hell should you tell me in the first place. There are millions of things that happen around me..that are really meant to be CONFIDENTIAL...i dont go around discussing it. Well i dont blame Ms J. Those someones shudda been more careful and less judgmental. I dont like people telling me , I TOLD YOU SO. If you told me so then u shudda freaking stressed it or pput a post it on my face. Then id have remembered. Or next time when we talk take a sheet, take a ruler, take a pen. Divide the page into two columns. One as confidential and the other as public knowledge. Fill up both columns. And once you're done...

... LEAVE IT IN THE BATHROOM SO SOMEONE COULD USE IT AS TOILET PAPER!!!

Uncle's BACKKKKKKK

D's dad is back and hes fine. Im relieved. D's been under tension for ages and shes been going mad for awhile thanks to all the tension. Additionally her dad was not well. He was having some heart problems.
D urgently called me one day and told me that Appa failed the Tread Mill test. Which meant that his heart was week. Within a couple of weeks he had to have a by pass surgery. He was brought from Ranny to Cochin and admitted in the hospital. Three arteries were blocked. While the surgery was to take place his heart was functioning only 40%. The surgery was done and he was in ICU. He survived it and all our prayers from everyone i knew was with him.Now hes back home. D's sort of relieved but the tension in her voice is evident. Will be tough ahead but he will get better.
Dont worry gal... Everything wil be goood.

P.S.- Im not writing just because you fought with me... this happenend today..im relieved and im writing. My justification for the post :)