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The Week That Just Was: Perfect Work-life Balance!

October 3, 2009 · 7 Comments

 

And so it happens that this week turned out just the way I think every week should – a three-day weekend, followed by a three-day working week, followed by a three-day weekend.

The real work-life balance.

If you have read some of my earlier posts about work-life and balancing it you will know exactly what I mean. If you haven’t, hop over to those posts right after this [links served at the end of this one] .

The reason I take a helluva objection to the whole debate is, hell, why are we even talking about balancing our personal life and work life? It’s not two things. It’s life. And to live it in a certain way we envision it, we work.

And what happens slowly and silently without us even being aware of it?

Work gently eases in and seeps into every corner, takes hold of our thoughts and actions and finally like cancer consumes our whole core of existence, creating more and more room for itself and less and less room for us to live the life we envisioned for ourselves to start with.

And then we create professionals who come in and train us on finding the work-life balance. Irony of it all, is these people have chosen that as a profession. It’s suddenly their work to help us find that work-life balance.

And so they work through the night to prepare power point presentations to deliver their training.

People, we are all sheep on a hillside, hopelessly lost, refusing to see it, hating to admit it. 

The links I promised – It’s Not What You Think  and Words of Wisdom! | !modsiW fo sdroW

Categories: Lets Make a Difference · Life · Life In Mumbai · Work

This post will have no name.

March 14, 2009 · 9 Comments

You noticed I have been scarce here.

You did, didn’t you?

Just been a little too tied up at work. I’m not complaining, mind you. The times are-a-changing and its good to be busy in these a-changing times.

Ok. Now that we got over the cliched apology for not living and breathing Pathe for such a long stretch, and now that we got over the cliche about the slowdown and now that we got over the shameless show-offing that I still have a job*, lets bring on the main course, boys and girls!

Hold it. Just have a small clarification to make before I tempt your tongues to drool or attract the attention of devious moral police and mutt-a-licks. The main course is not boys and girls.

The Main course, Ladies and Gentlemen, is Just Pathe!

I read this incredibly funny post yesterday and thought I’d do a shameless me-too post in the guise of being inspired by it. This is something I wrote a few weeks ago but didn’t post because I had to attend a conference call just when I was about to click the “post” button. (nudge nudge, wink wink).

So lets move on to some kick ass Pathe putting.

This time, I want to share some of my woes with you. The following incidents actually happen not once, not twice, but as many times as Ramalingaraju lied between 2005 to 2009.  Mmmm…actually not that often.

“Aapka naam?”

“Haan ji. Main Sundar hoon.”

“Haan theek hai sir. Aapka naam sir”

“Main Sundar hoon”

“Zaroor sir. Lekin aapka naam batayiye?”

“Oh…err mera naam Sundar hain!”

“Ji bilkul. Aap sundar ho toh aapka naam bhi bahut sundar hi hoga. Good for you sir. But pehle aapka naam toh batayiye!!”

“Yeah yeah my name is Sundar”

“Of course, sir. Your name too! Good for you. I am not arguing with you. You are holding up other callers, can you please just let me have your name?”

“Ma’am. I am telling you my name. My name is Sundar”

“Oh. Ok Mr.Sundar. Our Rep will get in touch with you soon. Thanks for calling”

Click.

 

 

*as of Saturday 16.56 pm (IST)

Categories: Insight · Life · Life In Mumbai · Musing

What the dai…!

January 22, 2009 · 9 Comments

Two recent incidents that have practically shaken the world, must have a mention on Pathe.

One is the Mumbai terror attack. The other is the unimaginable fraud, Satyam.

Both incidents represent capital let down by leaders.

It will be the worst shame if the allegation that our coast guard accepted a bribe to let Kuber sail into Indian waters is proved true.

It will be the worst shame if Ramalinga Raju  had indeed created fake employees so he can siphon off funds (Rs.200 million, not less). Every month.

The incidents represent a crass compromise of our trust. We pledge blind trust on the leadership. And what do they do in return? They pledge their values and their shares.

The mind is numb. Only one thing comes to mind though. A graphic curse expressed in the tone of  surprise and alarm that cannot be typed here*.  But, well, can only be expressed graphically. So you figure out.

                                                                                           

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*Pathe will remain a hangout blog for the whole family.

Categories: 'Huh?!' · Life · Life In Mumbai · Musing · Pathe-ology

Boss Is Always Left

December 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Glad tidings, everybody.

I have good news.  But before that, a word from our sponsors.

This blog has, over the past several months that it has been around, brought unmatched joy and incredible delight to its loyal readers. The fan following number has only been steadily increasing from what it was early last year and the only way has been up*.

Readers of this blog swear loyalty and are in fact willing to beat up and even kill those people who write better blogs. First give this blog from our state the recognition it deserves, they say. They swear not to allow new blogs, especially those from other states. There is also some talk about asking for quotas. They are even going to ask for a bill of reservation to be passed. Or so the Santa Cruz West wing of the fan club reports.

Ha. The clowns. What do they know. There can be no one from the state which this blog comes. For though we’ve heard of Andaman & Nicobar, there is no state in India to the best of my knowledge by the name Madness & Chaos, is there?

In any case, point I am trying to make is that old mechanical typewriters are difficult to swallow. A nice glass of sherbet is any day better. Just as much as Juhu Beach is salty. But nothing can match that nice wall painting across the moon.

That’s right. There is no point.

I love my readers cuz they find my humor delectable. In case you are new to this blog, my humour, is the kind of humour that calls for a very refined taste and an acute sense of perception to the finer things in life. Typically, smart people tend to find my humour humorous. What? Did you just say you don’t find that funny? Oh, I know what that means, it means th…what? you just realized you find it humorous? oh good. I thought so.

Anyway, as I was saying, smart people find my humour humorous. Which explains why all of my readers are smart. I read my blog posts the most, incidentally. And a lot of people have always said I was very smart. One of them was of course, my mom. The rest of them was a lady who was in fact my aayah when I was around 3 or 4. I dont remember her. My dad apparently had insisted on sacking her after he realized she was a compulsive liar too old to be an aayah.

But seriously. I love my readers. You can say something stupid and they see something deep and philosophical. You say something deep and philosophical and they go into raptures of laughter. What a sense of humor hahaha. I love Pathe, they say.

But then again thats the way it works I guess. Like back then many years ago, a man tripped and fell on his head. And the fall was so bad his head started spinning. Thats when he, Copernicus, saw the world spinning and then immediately ran to the Church to tell them his new theory. All they did was laugh at him and ridicule him. Soon his head stopped spinning as he recovered from his fall and he stopped caring about his own theory.

I felt rather like him right till a little while ago. I saw the world spinning. No one else did. I am fine now though. I think.

Let me explain – BiggBoss Season 2 is finally over. Ashutosh Kaushik is the winner. Let us all clap and get the hell back to our lives and hope we recover soon.

Before you think I am a deviant species, let me tell you frankly that I hated the show. The concept is warped. I think I may finally have the answer to making a super mega-hit reality show. I will put a stone in a cage and shoot it for 3 months and beam it prime-time into the homes of 3 million unsuspecting idiots. If they are not busy going crazy in Big Bazaar and buying things they have no clue about or use for, they can watch the show. And it sure is going to be a super-hit. I will have every news channel cover it like it was some world event and juxtapose it with APARTHEID ENDS. Or some such other microscopically more significant news.

Great. Thank you very much. Now, can I Please change the channel?????

Would you believe this?? Bigg Boss even has a site! You have no idea how the great Shilpa Jetty affects me. Its worse than Rupa Baniyan. (And you can look that up if you even care).

Many of us have been going through a rather silent, rapidly affecting sickness.  If you have sensed a difference in me by now, there is a good chance it is because of this affliction. For, I am one of those unfortunate souls that’s been infected. It is not quite a disease. More of an affliction. It takes over your immune system slowly and silently and before you know it, it has taken control over your body, mind and soul. And you realize too late that you are a victim yourself and it is going to be very difficult to reverse the situation.

Over the last several weeks, I have been silently suffering. And now that the good news is out, I feel like a free man who can tell the world his story. Let me take more joy by saying, “Bigg Boss season 2 is finally over!”

Allow me to milk it some more. “Guys! Bigg Boss season 2 is finally over!!!!”

How many times has it happened to you that your friend(s) or people at home high-jack the TV to watch a specific program and you have to submit passively and join them. First it’s for a few minutes. Then a few more. One episode, then two and before you know it, you have been sucked into it because you were too passive and to lazy to take a stand. And thats precisely how I got sucked into this infernal, otiose ‘reality’ show.

But hey, guess what? BiggBoss season 2 is finally over!! Really, really over!

 

*Of course. That’s the only direction – for, the number in question early last year was 1 (guess who?).

Categories: Insight · Life · Life In Mumbai · The Idiot Box