... it was turning out to be another Saturday... nothing extraordinary... however... some events... rather series of events... unrelated to each other... had occurred... and some were still occurring...till late nite...
... the thing is... all of us in our company are eagerly waiting for the Appraisal Letters... i mean u have NO idea how eagerly... EVERY mail from the APAC or HR or any official NOT related to E&D was given utmost priority... so much that the 'Send/Receive' became the most clicked button after 'Delete' in our MS Outlook app...
... so when one fine morning we received one such mail... about our President posting on his blog there was a swarm in the office... everyone even remotely aware of the word 'blog' ended-up on the link... and some people (including ur's truly!) were also busy in 'spreading' the awareness about his latest post... and dear-oh-dear... it has become the MOST read and MOST commented and MOST viewed item on our corporate intranet till date!!! ...
... and as if the hell broke loose in response to that post... the comments and the arguments and reasons and the anger and the frustration and every possible emotion except the ecstasy (and related ones) were flying in all the directions... phew!
... and then one Friday morning while i was busy gearing up for the office... AJ pinged me on Gtalk... now he is one guy who has kept himself insulated from the adverse effects of technology w.r.t social networking, to a very good extent... so i was mildly (and pleasantly) surprised seeing his 'Hi!' on the screen... to cut the chase ... he wanted me to make some arrangements for some trips... and even after some frantic phone calls and requests for favors i felt kinda bad coz his wife had to close the deal on her own... although seeing the bottom line today i am happy that the things worked out for 'em...
... so now that i have mentioned today i must continue from the morning... but nah! wat happened on Saturday MUST go on the record! ;-) ... one of my colleague staying at the floor above mine was moving out on saturday... and my landlord, being the good man he is, helped him... so while all the guys were busy packing and all... an idea, that i have executed on prior occasions as well... was put into my mind (... i am already inspired by the Inception! ;-) ... ) and it was simple... all that we had to do was to sell the raddi and the money that we would get will be spent on the Pizza and stuff... now this time the idea made even more sense... in terms of the money we might get... this colleague of mine had apparently never sold the old newspapers to the scrap dealer... so all i had to do was open the boot of my Vista and fill it to the top... with the good old newspapers... and boy-oh-boy it was trunkfull...
... and we ordered what we thought wud fit in that budget and sufficient for us... but when u have spent the entire saturday afternoon packing and moving and unpacking your hunger has no bounds... so while i collected the pizza, others were busy in moving and un-packing the stuff at the far away lands... and when they came back and opened the Pizza box... our jaws dropped... not because we were starving... i mean not ONLY because we were starving... our jaws knew no bounds of the ground beneath and they followed the gravitational pull without any effort...
... we realized immediately that the pizza was insufficient for the workforce sitting around it... and i had to make the emergency phone call to the PHD for repeat order... and then we waited... slowly munching the mozzarella and whatever topping was there... while the pepsi flowed like anything... and then it arrived... the second batch... and then came the signal... the stomach was quiet... all the growling and whining was gone... the eyelids were falling over... had trouble keeping them 'upright' ... and the speech was... well... ummm.... i dunno... i felt asleep...
... it was the knock on the door this morning from my landlord that made me realize... it was Sunday! yippie! ... and now the story begins...
...waiting for the story about Sunday ;-)
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