I had a very long day yesterday. Entered office little after noon, and left at 6 am today. the interesting thing about the day was the variety of things that kept me busy:
Firstly, I had some work. Now thats really unusual, having work in office, that too work worth mentioning on my blog is just something out of the box. Well, I had to build the interpretation & presentation of the an analysis that our team has been doing for a couple of months. We had hoped that the project would have got wrapped up yesterday, but looks like its gonna haunt us for as long as we are around in Bank of America - which I hope is not very long. With offers being rolled out to me thick n fast , doesnt look like converting this hope into reality is much too difficult, but if only I can settle things on my personal front can I think of settling into something new on the professional. Looks like I am running a dasa wherein everything seems to be stuck. Happens sometimes, and the upside of such situations is that it teaches u the virtue called 'Patience'. I sure needed a primer on that!!
Secondly, I denied credit to someone. Well I had my genuine reasons for that & though saying 'No' is something I just hate doing to someone, I guess practice has made me perfect. With having said 'No' to a couple of consultants after job offers were rolled out. And with now saying 'No' to my colleague for credit, I think I am only getting better with the art of saying 'No'. And just as I write this I said 'No' to an ICICI bank health card insurance tele-caller. Oh my God!! with me saying 'No' so often nowadays I am beginning to wonder if very soon I would begin introducing myself as Shubham No, instead of Shubham Nath. Good Lord, save me!!
Thirdly, I procastinated the decision of alliance with a guy, who has quite shown interest in me over the past few weeks. Now that was a real difficult one, it was almost like the art of saying 'No' which I have been practising, but it had to be done very tactfully. There seems to be the involvement of some emotions in this one, so I just wanted to make sure that the 'No' always sounds like a'no' and not a 'NO'. It was tough, and though I know, in the heart of hearts it is 'NO', I really wonder whether I will be able to make him feel the 'NO' politely or without hurting him. It really bothers me , this 'No' business. But I guess thats life, and thats how languages were created with antonyms. Hopefully I will be able to use the antonym to my recently acquired habit very soon. It never feels nice to get & remain in the habit of negative words.
Fourthly, caught up with Mayank after a month. He returned to the city on Monday after having got married in his hometown- Kanpur on the 1st of this month. It was really nice conversing with him. Especially him being from IITK ( though he was a 2001 batch btech) allows me to take the liberty of connecting with him, in many several ways. Also with him having worked on the same team as I do, we always have a common topic to talk about. We had wanted to catch up for dinner/coffee late last evening but didnt work out. Anyway we ended up talking on phone for more than an hour, till we were interuppted by his newly wed wife's( she is still in Kanpur) phone call. Will meet up with him some time during this week. I have to do some interrogation on Ayon;), though I know he is a hard nut to crack. Infact I fear being interrogated back...anyway, we'll see!!
Next, was Sweta di, she called me up after nearly 15 days. Sweta di was my wingmate in IITK, & also my accomplice in the several mischiefs that we did in IITK as a wing. She was a Ph.d student then & now a prof in HR in IIM Kozhikode. She called to tell me that she is leaving for Sweden next week, where she is going to stay a couple of months on an exchange program. After returning she is gonna resign from IIM Kozhikode, and join Fore School of management in Delhi. Now, any sane person on earth would ask me, why on earth is she doing that?...the answer is she is married, and married to a guy who lives in Delhi, and the guy is not willing to relocate anywhere in the world without his parents. And his parents are not ready to live anywhere in the world except in Delhi. So poor Sweta di, after having stayed away from husband for a couple of years already, she has had to decide to be a dutiful bahu & a dutiful wife. God bless her, & God bless me too, I just hope I never have to make such hard choices in life between family & job. People like Sweta di & situations like the one in which she has been for the past couple of years only go to prove how hard it is to be the modern Indian woman!!
After all the chit-chatting which my atmakaraka chatty Mercury had put me through, I sat at my office desk to listen to Visti Larsen's astrology lecture series. Just when I was brushing some concepts by looking at some sample charts, Gaurav Singh of CDP(corporate debt products) team caught view of the chart on my monitor. He was quite surprised that a modern, smart girl( i guess thats what he thinks about me) like me indulges in the so viewed dhakyanusi science of astrology. Anyway, he came upto my desk and started elaborating on some astrologers he has known in his hometown- Banaras, he mentioned about some accurate predictions that they had made. He even claimed that he was a palmist himself, and then as the conversation materialised, he read my palm too. He mentioned a few things about my temprament, quite correctly; a few things about my past, quite bang on target; but he didnt say much about my future. He said by principle he doesnt tell people about future. Now wasnt that the whole purpose of astrology/palmistry??...i mean if not the whole, atleast part of it, sure is!!...Anyway we discussed a lot of things from all around the globe, till it was very late in the night & nearly the entire office had emptied. He decided to take leave,I dont blame him, he doesnt live at stone's throw from office, like me. So I let him go, but i didnt leave!!...I lingered around in the silence of an empty office, and when I had thought I had spent enough time with myself, I turned to write some memories from IIT days.
At 6 am I took the office cab back home, actually on second thoughts I should have waited another half an hour & walked back home in the dim dawn light. Maybe some other day...I dont know if I will be able to do it again. In IIT I did it almost everyday ( in summers specially). At 5.30 am I used to go for a swim at the instt. swimming pool. That was some swimming experience, with the enitre olympic size pool, all to yourself.
Anyway, once home, I was reasonably tired. I had thought I ll go to the gym before sleeping, but then I just lazed away. I had been awake nearly 20 hours by then. On days when you havent slept for that long, sleep just caresses you with its welcoming arms, and your mind gives in guiltlessly, for it knows this is the 'sleep' you deserve!!
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