Whats the relation between work and mails...i mean work at office and emails....I login to my system this morning to find my outlook server down.....and i frantically check with alomost 4 other colleagues to ensure everyone else's is down too....and am not sure what i should do next...i start checking all my personal mails and here i am writing this blog!!!!
So, is it something like....I can't begin my work day without checking what mails I have received. For all that matters, during this time of the month...all that I end up receiving are some general mails from fun@work, HR, or from on-shore with info abt sites closed or opened.....most of which i trash or drag to my folders.....and yet...i can't get to start working on my list of to-do's till I check my mails....
wierd is'nt it....! people did work in the ages when no one knew what internet was. World did progress at a good pace with little or no communication.....Gandhi did make a great Leader to study abt for generations...with no great tele-communications or media exposure.....
and here I am wondering what to do???? cos my outlook server is down...damn the technology boom for making us so dependent on it...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Busy week ahead
Good morning to a busy week ahead! This weekend proved quite relaxing...with not too much of running around doing silly erands. Did quite a lot of reading of some interesting blogs and tried a Tarla Dalal Biriyani....I think that was the most relaxing thing I did this weekend.....It really did turn out great! The not so good news the last couple of days is the Swine Flu scare.....I wish the virus stops spreading and creating a pandemic....Of all the places we have planned a holiday in September to Pune & Baroda......and now it looks like its goin to go up in thick smoke:-(
Monday, August 3, 2009
Tale of 2 lifestyles...
I think it is not in me to write short blogs......look at what I have done
below...i mean towards the very end of the blog?
I always knew life in Indian cities existed in close contrast to each other
and I became witness to such a lifestyle last saturday.I suddenly got this
overwhelming desire to attend the Baktha Vijayam discourse by Shri
Jayakrsihna Dikshithar at Kamaraj Arangam,Chennai. I decided to go at
4.40pm for the program that was to begin at 7pm. Not a great distance
from where I live in K.K.Nagar...roughly about 7 km. But traversing this
distance is by no means a cake walk on a Saturday evening. For those
who have been in the city recently, the ordeal of crossing Panagal park
and Pondy bazaar would be familiar but for those of you who have not
been in the city for a couple of years....I would say...this is a must do
when u visit Chennai next time. Esply, beginning Aadi month between
5PM to 10PM on Saturday evenings!
Back home, the minute I announced my decision to go for this program,
each one came up with their own views, all trying in some way to slightly
demotivate me from going which made the desire in me more stronger. I
decided to go and immediately got into action in the kitchenette to make
dhal makhani and chapathis for dinner and finished them by 5.45pm and
left home by 6pm after eating 2 hot pulkas with the makhani dhal!!!
Me and my hubby set out to the destination and managed to cross the sea
of traffic at panagal park by 6.40pm and decided to take a short cut via
GN Chetty road to DMS. Suddenly we got this idea to go thru one of the
streets instead of taking the main road again from Teynampet.One Auto
driver...who himself looked like a Dada addressed my hubby as
"Thalaiva" and directed us to go through the "area" and a small lane and
and loooooh, we were lost in the middle of a most happening slum even
before we realised....What a world in stark contrast to the street just a
few seconds from there. Co-existence of life in both extremes so close to
each other seemed a little scary even to someone who has known and
seen such things all life. Every soul in each of the huts in the area was on
the street doing what most of us do inside our cosy homes and compound
walls. Children playing, some ladies chatting, some people getting a
tailoring job done from a mobile tailor, grandparents strolling with the kids
at home, stray dogs running around, mothers making a hot supper and
drain water cruising through a corner. One elderly man clad only in a
"langoti" standing near the mobile tailor to get his shirt sewed, was even
talking about "customer satisfaction" to the tailor....."Nee ippadi pesina
unnakku eppadi "customer" kedaipaanaga?" I was like ...WOW!
We were clearly aliens in their own small world and everyone knew we
were lost trying to find the way to Mount Road. Every person we passed
by in our bike directed us to take the left ahead and pass through the
crooked lane warning us that it is one of those muddy slippery lanes, the
effect of a good shower the previous night!
The moment we crossed this lane, we were suddenly in the middle of the
most buzzing and busiest roads of Chennai as we directly joined Mount
road near the subway at DMS! It was like, coming out of the Magic
Wardrobe in "The Chronicles of Narnia".
And here, in the Kamaraj Arangam....we were greeted by a new
life......"watch this space for my next blog on this new life"!
below...i mean towards the very end of the blog?
I always knew life in Indian cities existed in close contrast to each other
and I became witness to such a lifestyle last saturday.I suddenly got this
overwhelming desire to attend the Baktha Vijayam discourse by Shri
Jayakrsihna Dikshithar at Kamaraj Arangam,Chennai. I decided to go at
4.40pm for the program that was to begin at 7pm. Not a great distance
from where I live in K.K.Nagar...roughly about 7 km. But traversing this
distance is by no means a cake walk on a Saturday evening. For those
who have been in the city recently, the ordeal of crossing Panagal park
and Pondy bazaar would be familiar but for those of you who have not
been in the city for a couple of years....I would say...this is a must do
when u visit Chennai next time. Esply, beginning Aadi month between
5PM to 10PM on Saturday evenings!
Back home, the minute I announced my decision to go for this program,
each one came up with their own views, all trying in some way to slightly
demotivate me from going which made the desire in me more stronger. I
decided to go and immediately got into action in the kitchenette to make
dhal makhani and chapathis for dinner and finished them by 5.45pm and
left home by 6pm after eating 2 hot pulkas with the makhani dhal!!!
Me and my hubby set out to the destination and managed to cross the sea
of traffic at panagal park by 6.40pm and decided to take a short cut via
GN Chetty road to DMS. Suddenly we got this idea to go thru one of the
streets instead of taking the main road again from Teynampet.One Auto
driver...who himself looked like a Dada addressed my hubby as
"Thalaiva" and directed us to go through the "area" and a small lane and
and loooooh, we were lost in the middle of a most happening slum even
before we realised....What a world in stark contrast to the street just a
few seconds from there. Co-existence of life in both extremes so close to
each other seemed a little scary even to someone who has known and
seen such things all life. Every soul in each of the huts in the area was on
the street doing what most of us do inside our cosy homes and compound
walls. Children playing, some ladies chatting, some people getting a
tailoring job done from a mobile tailor, grandparents strolling with the kids
at home, stray dogs running around, mothers making a hot supper and
drain water cruising through a corner. One elderly man clad only in a
"langoti" standing near the mobile tailor to get his shirt sewed, was even
talking about "customer satisfaction" to the tailor....."Nee ippadi pesina
unnakku eppadi "customer" kedaipaanaga?" I was like ...WOW!
We were clearly aliens in their own small world and everyone knew we
were lost trying to find the way to Mount Road. Every person we passed
by in our bike directed us to take the left ahead and pass through the
crooked lane warning us that it is one of those muddy slippery lanes, the
effect of a good shower the previous night!
The moment we crossed this lane, we were suddenly in the middle of the
most buzzing and busiest roads of Chennai as we directly joined Mount
road near the subway at DMS! It was like, coming out of the Magic
Wardrobe in "The Chronicles of Narnia".
And here, in the Kamaraj Arangam....we were greeted by a new
life......"watch this space for my next blog on this new life"!
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