ooops suroor

‘How many of you like Himesh?’ Asked my cubicle mate. I voluntarily turned myself away from my system to get into a subject which was going on my mind till recently.
‘Why’asked preth.
Atr is still at me and expecting an answer from me. I gave a smile and told her ‘I liked him till recently’.
‘Why not now ??’
‘It’s a bit too much now-a-days. Its more of forcing to hear his music.’
‘Ya thats the point. I started hearing his voice even my hubby sings.’

‘Don’t crap ! prashu has got a better voice!’ Poked preth.
Atr gave a stern look and turned to wards her monitor.
I wanted the conversation goin.
‘Ya. U r correct. Did u noticethis. For the last three months the morning slot of Mtv has only his songs.Either his album or movie songs and he is every where’
'Ya. Also that irritating fanna fanna song.Infact they alternate' added preth.
‘Correct !. Thats the irritating part.’ Atr back into conversation.
‘Its not just in Mtv , even in V and any damn music channel.And its kinda too much now-a-days. I want to do some thing’exploded Atr and is looking at us for our reaction.

Me and preth spoke in one voice.'Ask prashu to start singing’ and turned towards our system.
Later in the day I got this picture as forward and forwarded to both of them.

knock knock...

His diary read 'I think I lost my mind. I think I stopped thinking.'
And he really meant it. He works for a big MNC. Joined just 6 months back. His company is THE market leader in its space. Has a cool n creative job, tools development on a web application server. New development projects and still not into maintainance. Nice job,Nice sal and happy environment !!!.

Then the problem started. The problem was there was no REAL problem.Not so understanding manager is every one's problem. Yet started getting frustated for every small thing. When his frustration was at its peak, one of his friend called him to have a casual chat.They chatted about everything and one such was life at the friends office.He was mentioning abt the party coming up and all the fun they are having. TO keep the conversation going he asked his friend to forward his resume to his group. After an yes, the conversation turned to another subject. He too lost himself in his world.

In three days he got an interview call.Without thinking about the repurcussions , he attended the interview and got an offer. Though the offer is not great and the work is going to be in maintainance for time being, he was happy that we will be under a more understanding manager.

Now the real problem starts.
His heart asks him to quit and join the new company. His mind advices to adjust and stay,for things will be better here in future. Being a south indian, he too believes that every one has problems and problems are the stepping stone for success. He is one guy who read a lot of self help books. He is one guy who know howw to motivate hinself when things are not in his favour. He is one guy who got things only because of hard work.He thought that he knew when to think from heart and when from mind. So the soln looked simple for him.

Yet he told his boss that he quits.Though he is not convinced of the reason. The Manager is not convinced. Its more than a week they are talking and still no conclusion. He is not telling any strong reason why he is quitting(wonder he has) and the manager is not ready to leave a employee whose productivity in last 6 months is more than most of the senior members of the team. Today the manager escaleted the issue to the director.

Tomorrow he is meeting his director for the first time.

saka@Wonder-la

With the launch of P9, the group became more cohesive and more active. Lot of mails on democracy, expressive signs, gyans, statistics and the creativity n ability to deliver sarcastic replies have increased multifold in most of us. But all the activity stops there. Never the mail chain regarding weekend meet or abt a weekend trip received more than 7 replies of which 3 will be decline mails. But somehow when the idea of wonder-la was revived again, most of us were ready to go for it with few tentative ppl who ultimately turned up. Thus some of the p9 members (totally 9 of us) roared towards wonder-la on our bikes on saturday morning.
The platins (chax terminology) were
me and bhasa -on my bike
rp and sriram - on rp's bike
subbi and kallu - on subbi's bike
jaya - jaya's bike
manoj - manoj's bike
MC - MC's bike


It was really a wonderful trip. We started off with dashing car, where I was the target since I ditched them and went for the previous round with some other people. Then the drop zone which really excited us .So we went twice in that. Then straight to Y Scream - the ultimate one.



Oops at one point of time me and manju (2 will sit together) were hanging upside down and waving at jaya and subbi . It was great . Kallu dropped out of this . Then the next one was maverick. This one was specialized in churning the stomach. We pulled in MC who along with kallu tried to skip this one. It was really a churner and luckily rp was the only victim.

Then we moved on to water rides after our lunch. The water riders were too good and enjoyed a lot. Late in the night at 7.30 we went to the gaint wheel which is on the 13th floor, followed by the musical fountain and laser show...

Over all an enjoyable one. But what I really liked was the spirit of manju , and sriram. Manju because he came in spite of his leg sprain just to make sure that this trip is also not cancelled and sriram who joined us at the expense of something which is more close to him.