T.G.I.F. - Re-loaded
Never fake soooo close to reality cos it has a very bad habit of all coming true and sometimes.. actually almost always, in greater magnitude.. as I found out the hard way.
Last friday, I was almost euphoric (without any chemical aid) - another hard-earned friday (well, waiting desperately does count as hard work !!), another happy weekend teeing off.. a decent post on my blog...
well, little did I know, someone from upstairs thot I should actually have a taste of life at office on weekends too... so, there I was happily drowned in sweet slumber, with no care for the world - not the least for the office, and the chaps who come and slog there on saturdays.. I didn't someone was calling me.. saturday mornings are exclusive sleeping times.. not even for picking up calls and teling them you'd get back once ure up later in the day.. but there's this persisitent caller, perseverent enough to have shaken you out of your sleep.. now this chap deserves to be answered atleast to be shouted - grumbling at is only for the regular days. unknown number - a chap from the office (I recognise after he repeats his name thrice and I a distant cubicle floats in hazily). the usual sup from me, my mind already waking up - this chap NEVER calls, wats it now, and there are a few missed calls - unlike my Nokia, u can view tht in my Sony Ericson.. wat could he want from me ?
"You need to be in the office in half hour !!" If this is his sense of humour, I was ready to hunt him down to the end of earth and give him a piece of my mind - almost ready to devote an entire weekend to tht end. nevertheless, I tell him I'll be right over. I chk the missed call - a lead from the office !!! I call him back - he confirms my worst fears (ya, going to the office for one weekend itself was my worst fear), the chap wasn't lying...
I haul myself out of the bed, profusely apologising to my body... an hour later I find myself entering one of the conf rooms - shock chilles my spine as I take in the room filled with the head honchos. something tells me(I think some would want to call it instinct) this is only a trailer to a bigger drama about to unfold. As the top chaps deliver teh presentation with clinical precision, my head reels with the onslaught of news - one after teh other like a, like a... Only my good friend RDG can fill this loss of words for an astounding comparison. O, btw, I actually happened to arrive before him - an unprecedented event which definitely bode no good.
At the end of a few hours, I understood tht atleast for several of the coming weeks, a saturday or even an occasional sunday, I'd be coming into the office like it were any other day..
This doesn't mean I'd hate mondays any lesser, or I'd love fridays any lesser one jus signifies there's possibly only one more day to go before the Sabbath, and the other tht, well, again to quote from the master piece of Bill
Watterson Calvin - "Life can Never get so bad, that it cannot get worse.."
But then again, I think, I should NOT sign off on a pessimistic note even mazaak mein, coz, my situation could also be directly blamed to tht, So long as u can
Aaj kare so kal kar, kal kare so Parso;
Itni bhi kya jaldi hai, jab jeena hai Barso...
and a very Soni Kudi from my office happens to concur too... :D
T.G.I.F. :D
As usual, its morning before u know it, and also, I'm up a good hour and a half AFTER I had initially intended to, but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF.
Sis' got an internal, so she gets the priority on using the baths, and unfortunately, dad is in a hurry too.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
Suddenly, (I dunno why this always happens "suddenly") I realise I should've hit the road by now and I hadn't even showered !! I run in and without realising the half-a-bucket of water is only lukewarm unlike the regular piping hot, I turn on the cold water too... and end up taking a cold shower.. Brr.. !! Icing on the cake - its been raining (and me getting wet from the last 2 days), but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
These things happen; wat surprises me is that they all can happen to a single person on the same day and without mercy..., but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
I arrive at work (well yes, college days are unfortuantely behind me now.. :'( ) only 10 minutes late, and find that I have been marked yet another half-day off on a day when I had specifically intimated beforehand I'd be coming in late (doesn't work on a daily basis, unfortunately) and on another, when I had left the day before really late (company policy allows u to come in a li'l late, if u went home late the prev nite), Grr.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
well, no interesting forwards today, same old crap from one or the other paranoid orkutters..., and my machine now has Vista.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
My work sets off, meandering thru the day, dreaming abt the wonderful slumber I'd be in by this time the next day.. Ah!! the dreams of a fri morning.. TGIF
I think this was once there in a Calvin & Hobbes strip, when Calvin wonders aloud, "You know, life can never get so bad that it cannot become worse !" It was funny, when I'd first read; the irony - now crystal clear.
The comp starts giving problems not all at one go, one, as soon as one is done - almost like a minion of the satan; I'm in an unnaturally forgiving mood today, Fridays have tht effect on u...
My lunch is jus getting pushed down the afternoon; Indulge, the cafeteria in my office (posh, eh ?) serves up chicken Biryani today, something I really look forward to.. a fella returning from lunch tells me the thali is out, and ppl are now onto the Biryanis and other stuff... I try to hurry thru the work, only making meagre progress.. finally when I'm done, another chap calls out and asks me to wait up for him... FINALLY, when I do manage to reach the place, the Biryani is finished. I go in for something they christened Achari Chicken.. It was sweet (Yuck!).. quick lesson - on any given fri afternoon, abandon all work of any priority and grab ure biryani, before all ure left with is Achari Chicken and the likes of it.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
I come back, and start preparing to leave for the day.. the weekend... the eternity....
The afternoon wears on slowly, if only I had managed to wake up earlier, I could've driven into work and driven out in the pouring rain.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
The dark clouds do not let up any hint as to whether it is 3 or 4 or 6... almost all the things to do for the day are done.. a few, SHOULD always be left for monday morning.. a li'l warm up with familiar things, u know.. so, wat if the "few" things this time around are one too many ?? hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
The final (read nth) countdown starts before I decide it is ethically, morally (poor dev guys, some support I should be extending by sticking around even if I have nothing to do arnd here..) ends and starts again, before I'm convinced I'll not get vicious stares plainly wishing the plague were on me for the weekend.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
My lead steps out of his room, Ah!, now this is fate smiling on me, cuz I was dilly-dallying from a while to hop into his room and bid good-bye.. but now tht he is here..
Am I imagining it or is he heading straight at me ?? well looks like it, but no matter, I'm almost packed and ready to fly (but for the untrained eye, my desk would look the same as it was before - cluttered beyond repair(read Human Capacity))... but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
He walks over to my desk, casts one highly imperceptible (I and I alone shall choiose what I want to percieve and wat I don't want to), disgusted look at my desk, and says, "This just came in the mail, requires urgent attention and despatch. look into it and get back asap.." Grr.. y.. of all the days... of all the people.. hey, he doesn't usually come to me, but, then.. I look around - half teh fellas have taken off from my department... their insensitivity and immorality saving them.. but hey its ok, cuz, TGIF
Well, now when he said a document, he really meant it in the plural, and when he mentioned take-a-look, it meant make on mistake and heads -will-roll, and get back asap could very well take 2 days.. 2 whole days !!.. Suddenly friday has lost all meaning.. all of its charm Grr...
I HATE FRIDAYS !!^&W%^&^*
P.S. : Only the last paragraph is fiction, and I'm hoping to take off, before it turns, as it almost always does in my life - to reality
