My apartment building is getting cleaned & painted and that is a good thing. Our smallish 7 storey building, other than being dwarfed by the 10 storey apartment (by a bigger & more lavish construction) building opposite it, was also looking like the ugly sister. The teal & while gorgeous building opposite mine is the pride of it’s dwellers and the envy of people who live here and me in particular. It is just so much more spacious and cleaner looking and it is newer than this one. You always see small kids playing on the side of it in a small playground sort of thing that they have. We don’t have that, although I do appreciate the quietness of my building.

There are even newer apartments being constructed near us and it is making us really miserable just to look at it. The only consolation is that we aren’t the ugliest building on this residential road; that honour falls on an almost empty complex that looks ready to be demolished.

So the cleaning and the painting is a much welcome push in the right direction. Only thing is I hate the invasion in privacy. Wherever I look – out the balcony or the window – I can see ropes & ladders and men painting and shouting at each other! They r so loud and obnoxious. When I go to shit I can here them. When I shave or take a bath I can hear them. When I watch tv or read or have my breakfast & coffee, I can usually see a couple of them hanging onto ropes nearby. And sometimes these buggers start singing songs. We just had to endure many weeks of carpenters and painters in our apartment during the building of the cupboards & shelfs & the kitchen stuff. Hardly a few days went by when this thing started. I can’t wait for it to get over.
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Song for the day – “Roughest Neck Around” – CORB LUND

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Leaving from work back to home at the late night hour that I do, I tend to let my thoughts drift to the imaginary world that I have created in my head. One of these days, I must put that world into words that can describe it for all my friends. It is difficult to put it in text all the ideas and fantastic happening that I have constructed in my brain for the past 5 years since I first dreamt up this world. It is a futuristic world, approximately 5000 years in the future.

I think I shall start my new venture of typing up a ‘blue-print’ of my imaginary world, so to speak. Only thing is there is no way that it can be even 1/6th as fantastic as it is in my mind. If only I could make it come alive and separate from my mind.

The night brings a new world to our eyes, illuminated by the different coloured lights that lit up my city. Even as I sat and had my dinner, the night beckons my thoughts to drift into this imaginary world. Soon!

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Song for the day – “No Cars Go” – ARCADE FIRE

Glasses, spectacles….I have been wearing them since I was 10 & a half years old. This month (can’t remember the date) will mark the 20th anniversary of me being a four-eyes boy. I can remember thinking that it was a huge deal for me to get glasses. Why? Cause my dad had glasses, my mom had glasses & my sis had glasses. We were the friggin’ glasses family. When the eye doc said to my dad that “your son will need to start wearing glasses”, I went “Whoo hoo”!

So I started wearing them and the first day it felt like I was wearing a ton of bricks on top of my nose. I hated them! I thought they looked cool but it felt weird having something on top of my nose although it made me see better. I wished at that point that it would only be temporarily…and here we are two decades later.

But I was excited about it; I thought it was so grown up. Yeah, I was 10 what do you expect me to be? So excited that when my parents & my sister were out the next evening and I was bored at home, I decided to call my grandma and tell her the news! What’s so nutty about that you say? I lived in Kuwait at the time and my grandma was back home in Cochin! Yeah, so fucking sue me already.

Anyway, I hear about these Lasik surgery; laser surgery that can rectify, among other eye problems, myopia. And I read about Zlanth from Ottawa (Canada) getting it done to get rid of his glasses. He seems very happy about it and is quite pleased to be spectacles-less. I have been thinking about doing the same myself, probably towards the end of the year but then I think : What will I push towards my forehead when I want to emphasize something I am speaking!

Song for the day – “Save Your Scissors” – CITY & COLOUR

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“Ironic isn’t it?”, said Roshan to himself! He ran away from the heat & humidity from one place and landed up in another with a similar setting. Hot nights, sweat poring down his skin and causing him discomfort and misery. Sapping away at his energy and his will to work & causing his body to balk at the situation!

Lol, my attempt to think of myself like a character inside a novel. The fact is that the training conditions are so terrible at my new job. Picture this, 18 trainees squashed inside a room with very little ventilation, two fans that vainly try their very best to dispatch cool air to the occupants. Computers blocking their view to the front of the room, wires & cables all haphazardously (is that a word?) taped to the floor and the sides and the desks. If you are not careful you might trip on said wires or pull them out of their sockets and the monitors could conk off. To walk from one end of the small room to the other is like going through a maze!

My only consolation is that this is a temporary office that was signed on at the last moment, as none of the other available centers had enough rooms or had the infrastructure or allowed our company to arrange for such infrastructure. Feeling of irony is all over the stratosphere. And the heat saps away at our energy – most breaks we trainers head straight for the nearest stores to drown ourselves in their coldest soft drinks.

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Song for the day – “Temptation” – THE TEA PARTY

I am just wondering, if the dark & overcast cloudy look outside my apartment window is symbolic of what is to be later on today? Today I start my first day of “actual work” at the new company. The past one month was an induction & training plus guiding process for me and my colleagues. We were being prepared & prepped for training and managing the new batch of joinees in the company’s call center. If you want to have an idea of the sheer number of people that we are going to have to handle – it will start at 400 and they have plans to make it 1000 by June-July! Yeah, man!

But that is still to come. About 400 is what they will be starting on and the 30 of us will be taking care & training & hand-holding this lot. Like me, there will be around 10 product & process trainers, perhaps 20 to 30 Team Leaders and a group of Quality Analysts. Then there are HR & Admin guys and all that stuff. I won’t have much of a clue about those people until our new office building in completed by mid-March.

I have a copy of the vast training material in a cd and I went through the Day 1 files and hopefully it will flow smoothly without much of a hitch. I spoke to Akhil, who will be taking one of the three batches (Sajith is the third guy) and we plan on being there at the new venue rented out for this very purpose by 2:30. We need the hour and a half for preparation, installing the files in their systems, checking and seeing if all the files are playing properly, getting print-outs if necessary and engage in a bit of support for each other. Of the three of us, I think Sajith is the calmest and I have never seen him getting rattled or agitated so hope that rubs off on the both of us.

I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Song for the day – “West Of Crazy” – LISA BROKOP