Monday, December 26, 2011 10:12 PM

The trouble of having a two day weekend is that you never know when the weekend arrived and when it passed by. Same with me here. Again the first day of the week and again back to the same old routine of work home and work for the next 5 days. Sometimes, the routine begins to suck and one starts wondering Why life can’t be more interesting? But then you realize that life is like that. “Today” has to change and make for a better and brighter “Tomorrow”. If life were not unpredictable, then all the fun would be lost.

Today was the second last day of classroom training at WNS. Had lots of fun and activities. The second week assessment results were declared. All, but two of the colleagues had cleared. We processed some cases in KANA. By look of the things, I don’t think it will be tough to process cases. Just read the mails, think about the solution, draft the mail and then send it back to the clients. Lets see.

The Gods were kind enough to me. Got an empty bus pretty quickly without having to stand in queue. Reached home quickly. Called up Niloy in between. The loan issue is still pending. He is going to Shirdi this Wednesday. Asked him to get Prasad and pendant from Shirdi. I would have loved to go with him but monetary issues forced me to do a rethink.

Finally started reading Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho. The story seems to be quite interesting. Cant keep the book down now. The only thing is that since the distance between my residence and office is quite short (just 15 minutes), I am not finding enough time to read the book. Will have to find some way to work around this issue.

Tomorrow being the last day of process training, we will be having a small recap session. And then, we will be setting sail in the rough waters. Lets hope to make ground safe and sound.

Life does pass by you quickly. With just 5 more days to go for the end of 2011, I am trying to take stock of my life in the year that’s gone by and trying to plan for the future. There are lots of things to be done and little time left. Whatever, I have full faith in the Almighty. He will definitely guide me.

Sunday, December 25, 2011 9:39 PM

 

Dear Diary,

Woke up at 8 am today.. Was quite a lazy Sunday today with nothing do. Cancelled my plans to go out and meet Niloy. Watched an interesting Malayalam movie. Jayaram has always been one of my favorite actors and the movie was quite good. After lunch again watched another movie with Mammotty in lead. Did not sleep in the afternoon today. The library management software that I downloaded yesterday proved to be inadequate. After a prolonged search, got a new software. The bad part was that I again had to catalogue the books. Spent my entire evening arranging the books in order. After 8, it was time to go out and have a smoke. Wonder how I manage to control my urge to smoke on weekends and how I manage with just one cigarette. Will have to work on this factor. Quitting smoking is my topmost agenda for the new year. Just waiting for my salary to arrive so that I get on to the ayurvedic pills that I used to take earlier. This time I will quit for good.

Just got a chance to speak to one of my online friends Krutika. She has been friends with me ever since I joined Facebook in 2009. Was happy to hear that her wedding has been fixed for June next year. Wishing her all the best. She has always come out as a level headed character. May God bless her with all the good things in her life.

Like I mentioned earlier, getting two days off after a hectic week is like the onset of rains after scorching summer season. I never got to know how these two days went by. From tomorrow, its again back to the old grind. But the good thing about it is that you get to meet your friends and colleagues after a two days gap. And be with them for the next 5 days.

Finally started reading Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho. I had borrowed this book from Pavan on the promise that I will return the book to him on Monday. But I never got time to read the book. So will start to read now. Ever since I have read the Alchemist, I have been a very big fan of Paulo Coelho. So very eager to read this book.

Saturday, December 24, 2011 10:19 PM

 

Dear Diary,

After 5 days of hectic work, finally two days of rest. It is like the coming of the rains after the end of a scorching summer. Got up late @ 9 am. With nothing to do, had a light breakfast. Then went out to Thane for some personal work. While returning from Thane, the train got late. Got down at Bhandup station and reached back home at 1:30 pm. Had lunch. Was surfing channels aimlessly and finally settled down to watch The Chronicles of Narnia on Star Movies. This is one movie that I like and I have watched it many times. But still it does not bore me a bit. Dozed off at 3 pm. Drifted into one of my dreams (don’t remember what it was all about) and only woke up on hearing my mom’s voice. She wanted me to come with her to the market. Had to send out some emails so I asked my mom to go ahead. By the time I finished and joined her, she was done with her shopping and was coming back. Met her half way down. The good thing about this chore is that I get to see different people in the market busy purchasing or arguing with the vendors. Also it refreshes me and gives me a much wanted exercise. But the toughest part is negotiating the crowd at the market.

After returning, just watched some TV. (Some random programs on A Malayalam channel). A cup of tea with hot bhajiyas prepared by mom and I again stepped out @ 8 pm. This is my usual routine when I am @ home. I usually excuse myself on some pretext and then go out for my smoke. This time I had a genuine reason as I had to recharge my mobile. After that came back home and had dinner.

I have made up my mind to catalogue my books and finally found a suitable software from the net. Now I have just sat down to catalogue the same. Will be hitting the sack late today. Logged on to FB and sent out some Christmas wishes to my friends.

The place where I stay now does not have a major Christian presence. So Christmas celebrations are on a low scale. I still remember my childhood days, when we were surrounded by Christian families. Christmas used to be a very big affair than with Santa Claus, Christmas Cakes, Carols and many such things. Miss those days a lot.

Anyway, with one more Christmas approaching hoping for peace and well being of all around me. Finally finished with cataloguing of books. Ready to hit sack at 12:41 am. Talked to a old friend from FS. Felt nice.

Friday, December 23, 2011 9:37 PM

 

Dear Diary,

Had an early start to my day today. Got up at 4:30 am. Had to take dad for a checkup. I dropped them at hospital and returned back to office. Missed WNS Express. Missed my first smoke as I was getting late. Today we had the secret Santa stuff. Was nice to see every one bring gifts. I got a book to read. One more book to my library collection. Had superb fun today. First time I laughed till my tummy ached. We cut the plum cake in the cafeteria. Towards the end of the day, we were visited by Santa Claus and Christmas carols were sung. Smita Deolkar, our training in charge came in and conducted some fun activities. All in all we were quite happy and had fun.

The fun came in when we were returning. We literally dragged two of our colleagues till Kanjur Marg. They were supposed to get down at Vikhroli. Mayur the prankster of our batch did not allow Pooja and Rakshita to get down at Vikhroli. After much pleading, they finally got down at Kanjur Marg. Once I reached Bhandup, I called Pooja to confirm if they had reached the station. Was relieved to hear that they had. As usual, had to wait for quite long to get a bus from Bhandup and finally when I got one, got stuck in traffic. Finally, reached home at 8:00 pm.

As usual, the net connection was down. So settled down to have dinner. Mostly, I will be spending this weekend at home with my books. Just got two books to finish. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (Borrowed from Pavan, my colleague) and the other one The Secret (Gifted to me by Sujith, another colleague of mine. He was my secret Santa).

Looking forward to Christmas. Most probably might go to meet Niloy at Ambernath on Sunday. Nothing decided as yet.

Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:07 PM

Dear Diary,

Hurray! Finally the SSO id’s have started working. Nice to be working on owns id instead of someone’s else. Covered a pretty boring topic of joint energy billing. Well seems like our pot lunch has been postponed. But I am pretty much excited about the secret Santa stuff. Wonder who my Santa is going to be? Almost missed my transport today. But was lucky to get into our WNS Express. Speaking of WNS Express, the driver of the bus seems to be a very big fan of Michael Schumacher. Trying to speed up at every instance and breaking hard. We all were rudely awakened from our early morning slumber by the fellow. Reached office by 9 am. After the early morning ritual settled down to a long session of training. The training ends on Tuesday and after that it will be OJT (On job trainings). Like our trainer said the other day, the honeymoon period is getting over. From Wednesday onwards, we might be processing cases and it will be work and work all around.

As of now the entire office seems to be in the Christmas Mood. Decorations were going on full swing. This time Christmas being on a Sunday, the training batch will be celebrating it on Friday. Dress code for this Friday is Red or White. I will be wearing White shirt without jeans. Jeans hampers my mobility.

The batch consists of 22 trainees all with varying degree of adaptability. As of now all seem to be good at heart. Enjoying their company. It will be an early start to my day tomorrow morning. First I will be going to byculla and then going back to Office. So tomorrow no WNS Express. Good Night

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:33 PM

Dear Diary,

Last few weeks of process training going on.. Just getting to know the colleagues better. All r good . Today assessments were taken. Were pretty easy… SSO ids still not activated. God pls help me…

Again trying to reinforce my resolutions of not smoking in the new year. We are having a pot lunch and a secret santa on Friday. Just went out for a few minutes for shopping. Did not find any Good Christmas cards though.. Awaiting assessments results with bated breath. Today for the first time I carried a personal coffee mug. The coffee from the coffee vending machine tastes better than that sold at the counter.

No plans for Christmas and new year as salary is due only after the new year. Plan to make some new additions to the book collections soon.

Thane doctors save infant with fetus in belly

In a rare medical case, a two-month-old infant carrying the foetus of its malformed twin in its belly was successfully operated upon by doctors from Kaushalya hospital on Friday. Ishita Ramsurat Gupta, the first child of a Bhiwandi based couple is under observation at the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, after doctors cut open her abdomen and removed a 500-gm tumor, following a two and-a-half-hour operation by Dr Laxmikant Kasat and anesthetist Dr Sandhya Bua and Dr Jayanti Bhate. “The child is safe and surgery relieved her of irritability and pain, which was due to the presence of the malformed foetus. One in five lakh births is with a parasitic twin,’’ Dr Kasat said. He said the infant’s 26-year-old mother conceived twins but the growth of one stopped and it died at an early stage of pregnancy. The other fetus grew normally and there was a merging of body parts; a condition called ‘foetusin fetu’. Dr Gupta said it is generally referred to as a parasitic twin which has skin, hair, spine and thigh bones but without any brain. In this case, the thigh bone, vertebral bone and limbs were evident but a malformed tumor had to be removed to save the infant. “With prayers on my lips, I entered the operation theatre and removed the tumor, which occupied 60% of the abdomen. The baby will lead a normal life,’’ said Dr Kasat