Tension is a feeling of worry and anxiety which makes it difficult for you to relax. Noun (uncountable) also N in pl

I am also in the state of the same, though not always but at times.

Some of such moments are/were,

1. It turns out that my killing rate has hit its all time low and I came to know of that while playing Max Payne and During office hours when I have to kill time
2. I am sleeping for 30-45 minutes after lunch @ office where as in past it was between 1 – 1.5 hours.
3. I own 3 mobiles and 5 mobile numbers out of which i am using just one of each.  (these don’t include the one i have lost.)
4. My MBA plan is  down the drain. No B-School is ready to offer me a seat.
5. I used to earn the max among my friends and suddenly i am the least earner among all of us.
6. and another Birthday and the party sharks are already at the door.
7. My drinking and smoking habits are a hard to quit.
8. I am still in search for a GF.
9. and those which i had think that i am good at flirting than actually falling in love.
10. I am losing hairs faster than any bollywood movies are losing viewers.
11. and gaining weight faster than the number of shopping mall opening in your locality.

Those who are thinking when was my birthday it was on 29th may.

PS-> the google talk gadget is now working.

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I think there are less than 2 readers at present who come and visit this ever dying website. And the hope taken even deeper plunge that after this post the number will reduce to 1.

So here is the run down of the events of last one month or so.

Let start from January End.

1. I started my night shift. Yes it was the last thing they could have done. I was asked to come to office at 12 and leave by 8 in the morning so none of my team mate could meet. In true worlds of my manager “Without you in the office the whole team’s productivity increase many fold. I never knew that just by reducing 8 men hours (that is mine) I could get extra productivity of 40 men hours.”

2. Around the same time XAT (XLRI Aptitude Test) score were declared. And your truly score a mere 97.06 Percentile in that. For those unknown XAT is entrance exam for the one some of the best B-Schools in India. Yes, I am planning to get a degree in Ymmm Bee Aye.

3. Left my last room which I shared with my class mates and shifted with a colleague. Reason of leaving None!!

Some time in Feb

1. Got a call for college interview from the best place in India, GOA (Institute of Management). Yeah. Party time!! I was so drunk that forgot the close the door of the house. The next morning I had lost 2 phones total worth 17,000 INR. Yeah GOA did it to me. Again. This was the 4^th and 5^th mobile and 4^th theft.

2. Started the regular office shift.

3. Went for the Interview for GIM. Screwed it up big time. Yeah. Again. Bloody Incompatibility.

4. My roomie was sent on exile to Nigeria. Why the heck he was so happy going to such a place. Green Paper still rocks.

5. Got another interview call form worst place to go, Chennai. Interview on 12th March. More updates soon.

6. Was down with cold and Fever so no Holi this year. And no booze too.

Now in March

1. One of my friend’s Friend called, “Hey Santosh me at Airport. I am off to Canada for 11 months. My company is sending me. See you after that.” Bloody Green Paper.

2. Got another Interview call from 2nd Place in India. Mumbai. (NMIMS, the best call). Will in Mumbai for the interview in the month end. IF you are in Mumbai than meet you there!!

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Note: This post is nothing to do with the book “Delhi” by the author Khuswant Singh  but may refer to both.

Just now I have reached home from a short trip to Delhi! By short it means that i was there for the weekend. Something in tune to a weekend getaway but the trip was more of “Getting In”

The start from Bangalore was both good and bad. Just for the record I left Bangalore on Friday, 20th Of November. Reasons the start was Good

The Goods:

1. My manager was absent on the day. and i was able to leave early

2. I got the airport shuttle minutes before it left.

3. My flight was rescheduled to 7:10 pm (I had a 8:55pm flight)

The Bads:

1. The flight took off half an hour late

2. my friend who was supposed to pick me up at Delhi was also late by half an hour

The Ugly:

1. The reading light was not working in the flight i was travelling

2. The safety jacket for the seat in front of me was not attached to seat and was roaming all through the plane.

Now a quick rundown of my itinerary.

Day 1: Friday

1. 7:10 Leave Bangalore

2. 10:30 Reach Delhi

3. 11:45 Reach my friends home @ gurgaon

4. 11:47 Open a bottle of whiskey and start drinking

Day 2: Saturday

1. Time Unknown: Go to bed after the bottle was empty, our belly full and mind screwed

2. 10:00 am – wake up, get ready

3. 01:00 pm – go and meet one of my online friends @ Gurgaon Central (Yeah i do meet my virtual friends. so next time you are Bangalore and need some one for drink you know who to call )

4. 05:00 pm: Back at friend’s palace. Have couple of pegs and get ready to attend one of my school mates marriage (yeah this was the reason i was Delhi.

5. 07:00 pm: Reach the venue for marriage just to find out the time on the invitation was written in IST. ( IST means that leave the house half an hour after the time mentioned on the invitation)

6. 07:10 pm: Meet with some of my other school mate who were to attend the same wedding.

7. 07:11 pm: Find a bar and order some beer

8. 10:00 pm: has someone mentioned shaddi (marriage).

9. 10:10 pm: order the last round and leave for the marriage venue

10. 10:45 pm: reach the venue to find out the marriage is over. and reception is on

11. 10:46 pm: lets have dinner than we will meet the groom.

12. 11:00 pm: meet the groom. (it was a muslim wedding so we had to wait to meet our bhabhi. They have this tradition that the bride and groom cant see each other till the marriage ceremony is officially over)

Day 3: Sunday

1. 12:15 am: After 3 rounds of deserts and half pack of cigarettes we (including the groom) finally get to meet the bride.

2. 12:30 am: wish the friend and wife happy marriage life and leave for gurgaon

3. 01:15 am: reach my friend’s place to find him with another bottle.

4. 02:30 am: Sleep.

5. 07:00 am: wake and get ready

6. 08:30 am: Reach the venue for IIFT entrance test

7. 12:00 pm: finish the exam and head back to friends palace @ gurgaon

8. 01:00 pm: call up another school friend and decide to meet her at metropolitan mall @ gurgaon

9. 02:00 pm: meet this friend over lunch.

10. 05:00 pm: back to my friend’s place and pack to leave for Bangalore.

11. 08:10 pm: board the flight for Bangalore

Those who have read the above itinerary. give your self a pat on the back (for achieving this milestone) and kick on the ass (for wasting your time). I am sure your jobless self will some questions coming up. So here is a quick faq

• Why there are no names in the whole of the post?

• Do you really wish to know names like tom (not the cat/dog), dick (not the body part) and hairy (nothing related hairs other than the ones on the head).

• Why are the airlines name missing?

• Here is the airline name. For onward it was a jetlite (formally Sahara) flight i was booked in. which was later changed to jet connect. for return it was Air-India (formally Indian Airlines)

• What was the main reason for going to Delhi?

• To drink what else? Rest were just lies created round this truth. I had changed my IIFT exam center from Bangalore to Delhi

• How was the trip?

• Pleasing and left me wanting for more.

Till next time. Where i compare Jet Connect with Air India and pitch BIA (Bangalore International Airport) VS  IGIA (Indira Gandhi International Airport) Terminal 1A.

• April 26, 2010 -- Stalker or Just Anonymous People? (2)
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• March 7, 2010 -- What a Month!! (7)

If you remember my year started without a bang and buzz. As the year evolves i find my self getting more and more busy but i do got a fair share of happiness. Including new job, a nephew and lots of work at office (Yeah i love working).

So there was shopping mostly for booze because i was sad that the year started bad and then it was more booze because it getting better. The extent of drinking can be measured by the fact that i am alone at home at 6 PM IST and I have glass of whisky on the rocks. Now a Question arises have i been turning into a compulsive drinker? I would say bull shit. Drink 2+ liters of water at one go and you will have the same sensation that of the after a few drink. So essentially we all are a compulsive drinker the difference is what we drink!! 

So here i am thinking what to do about it and I got another idea. Go shopping!!  So in the last 3 months i have shopped for— Hold-Your-Breath just a little over 0.75 Lakh rupees. Ladies you will love me for this . Most of the shopping were for a change of wardrobe,  few necessities including a brand new iPod Touch (16Gb Version), a washing machine and some jsut waste of money like a change of my 5 years old undie. 

but the final result is that after seeing those bill i am back to my room drinking some more and thinking what have i done!!  So you see shopping didn’t help in my drinking drive . Guys!  any new ideas?

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I seldom got to celebrate my birthday with friends for the reason all my b. days came during summer vacations.  Now i dont get to celebrate my birthday because we dont have a vacation from work. If you guys wanna throw me party my number is listed http://blog.krishnausha.com/about/ or drop me mail or comment i will call you back to know the address of the party. Those who wish to send gift please send them via “online money transfer” to my bank account. (details will be provided on request)

• April 26, 2010 -- Stalker or Just Anonymous People? (2)
• April 14, 2010 -- Something Serious Called Life (0)
• March 7, 2010 -- What a Month!! (7)

This is not about me but one of the best emplyoer of the world. These guys have the policy of giving free services to the world. I am talking about Google. The biggest search engine has got a bug.  The title also mentions the same

BugLE = Bug + gooGlE

There is a bug while doing a dictionary search.

step to generate the bug. First goto http://google.com

1. Search for “define:Santosh” (or any term after define:)

2. It shows related phrase and definitions

3. Click on the any related phrase except the first one. (anything other than santosh sivan)

4. instead of displaying the definition of clicked item. the page displays the clicked item appended to first search term

Make sure you check it before google rectifies the problem. Bab bad coder google. And you test enginners at google here is a message for you “Your testing Sucks”

• April 26, 2010 -- Stalker or Just Anonymous People? (2)
• April 14, 2010 -- Something Serious Called Life (0)
• March 7, 2010 -- What a Month!! (7)

It was something more grave. I had given my cloths to the  washer man on Monday to iron them but till Wednesday he wasn’t done. So i had to take out my lone clean trouser. A Scullers Trouser which was bought Sunday and got on Wednesday after alteration. (The details here are worth remembering for future reference )

So i donned in a brand new cloths leave for office. Hailed a auto with whom had a discussion (read had to haggle)  about the charges. Reached safely to office. and while getting down i heard a faint sound. As i turn around i find a piece of my trouser is left on the auto.  As i turn around everyone has a Big-Fat-Grin except Me. Now i had just 2 options

First Go back home and change

Two Stay at office with a extra hole on my back side. That’s what my colleagues called it when I reached office.

The first option was rejected outright. For I dont have anything washed and ironed at home. Second I was already 30 minutes late for office. So it was Out-Shirt (untucked). It was so obivios that half of my office knew what i been through.

It was so obivious that when I was bent down to work on one my colleagues system. My PM comes from behind and says “Santosh don’t bend too much people may take Advantage.”

Now those who read this let me know who should i blame?

The washerman, who was late in ironing my cloths.

The auto guy for not keeping his nails in in control.

The trouser manufactrer (Scullers) for not using strong cloth.

My own compnay who askes every employee to wear formals from monday to thrusday.

• April 26, 2010 -- Stalker or Just Anonymous People? (2)
• April 14, 2010 -- Something Serious Called Life (0)
• March 7, 2010 -- What a Month!! (7)

If you remember my this post written some where last year when i was in the heaven called Bench. From then till now there were lots of changes on my professional front that includes few projects, some more becnh hour and a emotional job change. Emotional becuase it was one hell of thinking between a compny with a brnad value or a company which is still paying salary. (My last job had resorted to pay cut of upto 100%) Money got the better of me and here i am working for a company who is still paying salary. (That too 100% including variable component.) 

I am trying to make sure that this company keeps paying me my salaries and to do so i am working hard. Which has taken a toll towards my blogging and related activities. If there are chances that i have not visited your blogs in years then please bear with me. Lets hope that i come out of this soon and become a active blogger.

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– You no longer know what time fast food drive-thru windows close.

– Your potted plants stay alive.

– You pay at least a dollar more than the minimum payment on your credit card bill.

– Your friends’ hook-ups and break-ups are now marriages and divorces.

– You attend parties that the police don’t raid.

– You’re not expected to leave the room when the adults are talking.

– You refer to college students as “those kids.”

– You drink wine, scotch and martinis instead of just beer, beer and beer.

– You feed your dog Science Diet instead of leftover pizza.

– At 6 a.m., you’re putting your contact lens in instead of taking them out.

– Naps are no longer weekday options.

– Dating involves dinner and a movie, not keggers and Ecstasy.

– Grocery lists contain more than toilet paper and potato chips.

– Wass’up Dude is replace with hello Mr. XYZ

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• March 7, 2010 -- What a Month!! (7)

but as i promised in my last post here comes the “HAPPY POST!!”

So why this topic. Simple to get your attention. I asked this question when i was on the verge of getting terminated (not life but job). But then came this new mail like a “knight in Armour coming for the rescue of damsel in distress.” The word etched in gold, written in the ancient language of HRism. If you don’t know the language than you are in either of the two category. You were never employed or You are a member of the secret society of HR. So the mail brought the news of a potential “Job Opportunity.” and it also said that if i am not interested than i should forward it to my friends.

Thus started the journey from being a prospect employee to a indispensable asset. An interview was “scheduled.” which brings me to a question which i always ask my self  “Interview is derived from Inter + View. INTER means between two or more people or things and VIEW means to see. Combined it  gives the Meaning as two or more people seeing each other. But when we go for an interview its just the other guy asking questions?” Some times this so called process is also called “Technical discussion.” Those who are good at this old and mystic language of HRism please do let me know the answer.

On the appointed day I was there in the office for technical interview and there comes a fat ugly looking  guy and says “Santosh? Come!” No introduction as who he is or what he does. Shoots some question and leaves.  Lets not blame this fellow.  He is programmed to work like a machine. Exactly 9 hours a day (8 hours work plus one hour of lunch). Never had a GF, Married to a women, Has a car but takes company cab, Smiles at his junior when he is about to screw them and seniors when he know he is screwed. And thinks that the Company HR is the most beautiful person the world. These type of species are called Manager. Refer my this post for more info on them.

Than comes guys who calls himself HR head. But i don’t believe him. Because HR is a secret society and the person standing in front of me is MALE. which cant be possible! but he said you are hired Welcome to <BEEP> <BEEP>. Yeah i am being secretive because there is another society called the-angry-and-screw-you-type-of-managers-and-Company-Representatives. Who don’t like the employees to write about company.

All in all i am Hired and working again. Those asking for  party can come down to Bangalore and we will go some place nice for a drink and than you can pay the bill and drop me home.

P.S.-> if you can’t understand the above post or some of the words than please contact someone who is employed or get hold of a HR (if you can find one do let me know)

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