another nice weekend....they make me happy
left office at 7:15 after some internal meetings....went home, spent about 20 minutes there, and we left for fort. had a quick dinner at khyber with suhail, ruchi, dipu, shek and shefali. went and watched 'michael clayton' at metro with murli joining us. got home at 2, murli spent the night, so slept aroung 3.
saturday was the d-day (wonder what it means). office finished for me at 1:30. went for lunch to moshe with aashika, jassi, manish, dhruv and chirag....where i received a rude shock when the bill was given to me as an initiation ragging. finished lunch around 4....
got home only close to 6, after shopping at zodiac, cr2. relaxed about 1.5 hours, and did some housework. left around 7:45, went to mocha, churchgate where i met up with shek, shefali, murli, suhail n ruchi. spent a nice while there, till 10ish. then i went to bombay gymkhana, fort, for a party with my ex-silo. present there were ruksh, nipa, dhruv, vodhi, sagar, shradha, od and mustu. crowd was killer. tube tops, backless dresses, boots, the works. all classy, all beautiful. met up with other colleagues there. saw clients of the company.
danced a lot. had a corona. had 6 vodkas. had a blast. god knows what time we left. took a cab with dhruv, vodhi and sagar.
digression 1: chruchgate station, thela next to it. had egg bhurji and pav. tasted damn nice
digression 2: breach candy, for some famous paanwaala....which had closed by then
got home and slept around 3.
was woken sunday by the kaamwaali. assume her name is asha. she bugs me. wakes me every sunday. curse her. watched the match. had lunch at copper chimney with shek, shef, ruchi, suhail. dipu joined in later. mom also joined in. spent an hour with her at barista. got home n played xbox. went to cinemax matunga and watched 'jumper'. walked to tibbs and had frankies. walked to ccd shivaji park and had chai. walked to dadar seaface and had overdose of sewage smells. walked home and had an overdose of walking. and now here i am, with an overdose of typing. so tata for now.
Sunday 24 February 2008
Tuesday 19 February 2008
weekend warrior!!! the genuine....
well well well well WELL!!!
what a wekend it was, the weekend of 9-10 feb. i ended up in office on both days!!
we've had classes on a sunday in iim, several friends of mine have worked on weekends, i've heard them grumble and i've pitied them and felt some contempt, but this was the first time i experienced it myself. and i felt like a trooper, a slogger, a workhorse, etc. no jokes!
it all started on the wednesday before that weekend. the country head gave me some work and put me under the charge of vodhi....and looking at the work, i was thrilled. it seemed like an exciting challenge. it also seemed to be a way of making a difference. i think i was kind of wrong in these assumptions.
it was a lot of dirty work. i ended up missing the PE/RE meet at the renaissance on thursday and friday. i was one of only 7-8 people in office on saturday. that too till 7 pm. and one of two people on sunday. that was till almost 4. and it was all unexpected. the string of unexpected delays led to a string of dismay, which finally turned into disgust, i dont know exactly where.
what i basically had to do was create a template for a portfolio monitor, to be used for clients with investments of more than INR 500 million.
i thought i was done on friday evening, and was very happy with myself for meeting a deadline. office on saturday was supposed to be a 10 minute review with JH, and then on to the weekend!! well that review was postponed to late afternoon. but that was before early afternoon when we were given more work. that started the dismay. he kept asking for more from the MIS till at 7, vodhi said he had a movie to go to, so lets work tomorrow instead. he said he would pick me up from dadar at 10 am. that was that.
next morning i ended up following him to office around 10:20, reached there, had a struggle to get in since lifts werent working and door was locked. worked till 4, then i finally left. to have my first meal of the day. i was more disgusted than words could express, mostly coz the delays had been needless.
that being said, i managed to have fun as well. watched a movie on friday, mithya, after dinner at zaffran. saturday we watched fool's gold in versova, then went to club escape (a truly sad place), with a late late dinner at kareem's, bandra. and sunday was chilled, spent at phoenix mills, in front of xbox, and finally a lavish 900 per head dinner at out of the blue with murli and dipu.
finally, in epilogue, i did 2 more portfolios. they took much lesser time, but were almost equally frustrating. hopefully i'm done with that now!
what a wekend it was, the weekend of 9-10 feb. i ended up in office on both days!!
we've had classes on a sunday in iim, several friends of mine have worked on weekends, i've heard them grumble and i've pitied them and felt some contempt, but this was the first time i experienced it myself. and i felt like a trooper, a slogger, a workhorse, etc. no jokes!
it all started on the wednesday before that weekend. the country head gave me some work and put me under the charge of vodhi....and looking at the work, i was thrilled. it seemed like an exciting challenge. it also seemed to be a way of making a difference. i think i was kind of wrong in these assumptions.
it was a lot of dirty work. i ended up missing the PE/RE meet at the renaissance on thursday and friday. i was one of only 7-8 people in office on saturday. that too till 7 pm. and one of two people on sunday. that was till almost 4. and it was all unexpected. the string of unexpected delays led to a string of dismay, which finally turned into disgust, i dont know exactly where.
what i basically had to do was create a template for a portfolio monitor, to be used for clients with investments of more than INR 500 million.
i thought i was done on friday evening, and was very happy with myself for meeting a deadline. office on saturday was supposed to be a 10 minute review with JH, and then on to the weekend!! well that review was postponed to late afternoon. but that was before early afternoon when we were given more work. that started the dismay. he kept asking for more from the MIS till at 7, vodhi said he had a movie to go to, so lets work tomorrow instead. he said he would pick me up from dadar at 10 am. that was that.
next morning i ended up following him to office around 10:20, reached there, had a struggle to get in since lifts werent working and door was locked. worked till 4, then i finally left. to have my first meal of the day. i was more disgusted than words could express, mostly coz the delays had been needless.
that being said, i managed to have fun as well. watched a movie on friday, mithya, after dinner at zaffran. saturday we watched fool's gold in versova, then went to club escape (a truly sad place), with a late late dinner at kareem's, bandra. and sunday was chilled, spent at phoenix mills, in front of xbox, and finally a lavish 900 per head dinner at out of the blue with murli and dipu.
finally, in epilogue, i did 2 more portfolios. they took much lesser time, but were almost equally frustrating. hopefully i'm done with that now!
Sunday 3 February 2008
weekend warrior
well, this time i had a really good start to the weekend.
i left office early, around 3:30, though it was for a meeting in yucky kalbadevi!! the meeting was ok. it got over at 4:15, and i took a cab to go to pay my reliance bill in dadar. with my luck, systems were down, so i went home having wasted money and time.
got ready, shek came over and we left via train for the iron maiden concert. we were dressed as wannabe college dudes, in three fourths, and wearing our chains and wristbands!! took a train to bandra, from where we took an auto to the mmrda grounds. our copassenger in this ride was a freddy darruwala, grasim mr. india-world 2007. seemed a down to earth guy, though he made us feel properly ashamed to be bankers!!
we reached the ground around 645. parikrama was just winding up their last 2 pieces. through coordination via smses, we met up with shaggy, kartik and basu. we also eventually met bania, butalia, soumak, kartik prasad, suchai, srini, gaurav raizada, and rohit jain. also there were venkat, bala and abhinav though i didnt meet them
maiden was awesome....played vintage pieces like trooper, fear of the dark, wasted years, iron maiden, rime of the ancient mariner, aces high, can i play with madness, clairvoyant, powerslave, number of the beast, revelations, hallowed be thy name, etc....and they had good props and costumes for diferent songs.
there was a mosh pit with people bumping into each other, girls smoking up, girls abusing and kicking guys for excessive contact. we almost caught a drumstick thrown toward us by the band, but werent able to hold on to it.
after the show shek and i went to phoenix mills and dined at copper chimney with the intent of having beer. we got home early, and i slept by 145 coz it had been a long tiring day!!
saturday i woke at 930 and read the paper, went to pay the reliance bill finally and got ready. at 2, i went to churchgate and met dipu. had some stuff to eat at croissant. then went to oxford book store. suhail ruchi and murarka joined us, and we watched american gangster in eros. nice movie, though very complicated.
then murli went to meet a school friend. suhail ruchi went shoe shopping. dipu n i walked to theobroma and had some pastries. then with suhail and ruchi we went to crossword in kemp's corner. murli joined us there and i bought 4 books. after that we went to crystal at chowpatty and the 5 of us ate like kings for a total of 350/-!!!
then after a nice walk to peddar road, we went to phoenix mills and settled in sports bar. checked out the awesome crowd at play, shot some hoops, had some beer, met raghavendra, saurabh, shatanshu, TJ, shalaut and arkaj. came home around 1ish, played xbox till 4 and slept off.
sunday we woke at 1130. went to imax wadala, lunched on some oriental shit at the food court and watched 'we own the night'. also a nice movie!!
we came home and i settled in when shek and shef arrived. after pottering around a bit, we went to tamnak thai in shivaji park for dinner. it wa nice n upscale (and expensive!), and shek made an embarassment of himself. the food and budweiser were smackalicious!!
followed up with a frappe at ccd in prabhadevi.
i finally slept at 3am. turned out to be a sleepless night. now i'm tired, but happy.
coz i just went to bkc for a meeting, and met up with rohan for an hour. i like meeting people, and rohan is a good friend. and it's been long....
i left office early, around 3:30, though it was for a meeting in yucky kalbadevi!! the meeting was ok. it got over at 4:15, and i took a cab to go to pay my reliance bill in dadar. with my luck, systems were down, so i went home having wasted money and time.
got ready, shek came over and we left via train for the iron maiden concert. we were dressed as wannabe college dudes, in three fourths, and wearing our chains and wristbands!! took a train to bandra, from where we took an auto to the mmrda grounds. our copassenger in this ride was a freddy darruwala, grasim mr. india-world 2007. seemed a down to earth guy, though he made us feel properly ashamed to be bankers!!
we reached the ground around 645. parikrama was just winding up their last 2 pieces. through coordination via smses, we met up with shaggy, kartik and basu. we also eventually met bania, butalia, soumak, kartik prasad, suchai, srini, gaurav raizada, and rohit jain. also there were venkat, bala and abhinav though i didnt meet them
maiden was awesome....played vintage pieces like trooper, fear of the dark, wasted years, iron maiden, rime of the ancient mariner, aces high, can i play with madness, clairvoyant, powerslave, number of the beast, revelations, hallowed be thy name, etc....and they had good props and costumes for diferent songs.
there was a mosh pit with people bumping into each other, girls smoking up, girls abusing and kicking guys for excessive contact. we almost caught a drumstick thrown toward us by the band, but werent able to hold on to it.
after the show shek and i went to phoenix mills and dined at copper chimney with the intent of having beer. we got home early, and i slept by 145 coz it had been a long tiring day!!
saturday i woke at 930 and read the paper, went to pay the reliance bill finally and got ready. at 2, i went to churchgate and met dipu. had some stuff to eat at croissant. then went to oxford book store. suhail ruchi and murarka joined us, and we watched american gangster in eros. nice movie, though very complicated.
then murli went to meet a school friend. suhail ruchi went shoe shopping. dipu n i walked to theobroma and had some pastries. then with suhail and ruchi we went to crossword in kemp's corner. murli joined us there and i bought 4 books. after that we went to crystal at chowpatty and the 5 of us ate like kings for a total of 350/-!!!
then after a nice walk to peddar road, we went to phoenix mills and settled in sports bar. checked out the awesome crowd at play, shot some hoops, had some beer, met raghavendra, saurabh, shatanshu, TJ, shalaut and arkaj. came home around 1ish, played xbox till 4 and slept off.
sunday we woke at 1130. went to imax wadala, lunched on some oriental shit at the food court and watched 'we own the night'. also a nice movie!!
we came home and i settled in when shek and shef arrived. after pottering around a bit, we went to tamnak thai in shivaji park for dinner. it wa nice n upscale (and expensive!), and shek made an embarassment of himself. the food and budweiser were smackalicious!!
followed up with a frappe at ccd in prabhadevi.
i finally slept at 3am. turned out to be a sleepless night. now i'm tired, but happy.
coz i just went to bkc for a meeting, and met up with rohan for an hour. i like meeting people, and rohan is a good friend. and it's been long....
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