Finally at 5 am last night.. er.. today morning.. I had resolved all issues and left with Shailendra and Vandana, for home.
As soon as I started riding out on my bike, I realized that something was wrong.. And when I looked back, my suspicions were confirmed.. I HAD A FLAT TYRE!
How it happenned was a great mystery, because it was fine when I had reached office in the morning. It was probably my bike's way of repaying me for all the torture that I put it through by riding on the Bannerghatta Road(?) on the way from and to home.
I rode it for a while, in hopes of getting some place open. (It was five am so this was stupid!, but if you have been awake till five am, then sometimes its ok. to be stupid... ) Finally I parked off the bike at some petrol pump and started to walk towards home (only because there were no autos in the vicinity..). Just as I was contemplating my deplorable condition after the 6 km walk to home, I spotted an auto coming towards me, and caught it promptly.
The fact that I had to skip lunch because I was getting my bike fixed is only a sideline. Ofcourse, since its not the first time I'm skipping a major meal in the last few days, this does not count as a major disaster.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
No Dinner for me!
Well, so it was a rare occassion. Really rare that I should ever give hunger a lower priority than anything else. But I did.
I had loads of work to do, so I asked DJ to get some food for me from wherever he was going, instead of going along with him, as I usually do.
After waiting till nearly midnight, hunger finally overtook my concentration on the work to be done, and I called up DJ to find out what exactly was holding him up??
As soon as I greeted him, he realised what he had been forgetting all through dinner, and his silence was kind of enough to make things obvious. He had come back to office, and had forgotten all about my dinner!!!!!
Even the office pantry had run out of most edible supplies, and I had to have Cereals + Milk (which is usually breakfast for me) as a poor substitute for dinner.
Reminds me of the golden rule in life, "Pehle pet puja, phir kaam duja!" (translated from hindi: "First worship your stomach, then go on to other work!")
I had loads of work to do, so I asked DJ to get some food for me from wherever he was going, instead of going along with him, as I usually do.
After waiting till nearly midnight, hunger finally overtook my concentration on the work to be done, and I called up DJ to find out what exactly was holding him up??
As soon as I greeted him, he realised what he had been forgetting all through dinner, and his silence was kind of enough to make things obvious. He had come back to office, and had forgotten all about my dinner!!!!!
Even the office pantry had run out of most edible supplies, and I had to have Cereals + Milk (which is usually breakfast for me) as a poor substitute for dinner.
Reminds me of the golden rule in life, "Pehle pet puja, phir kaam duja!" (translated from hindi: "First worship your stomach, then go on to other work!")
Thursday, October 21, 2004
ICQ
Amit's ICQ crashes when he tries to add me to his buddy list... This happens only with my ICQ UIN!! Now is that wierd or what??
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Disaster Aura
Seems like the disaster zone around me is growing in size... or maybe I am developing a disaster aura..
The following incidents are why I'm saying this:
(1) New Office, busy with setting up a server : Housekeeping dude is collecting cups.. while passing in front of me.. he almost drops his tray.
(2) Asif, Mrinal, Bill, Joe, Jason, etc. sitting and talking.. Asif is leaning on the separating glass pane, and I'm standing with my back to it but not touching it..
Suddenly, I hear glass breaking behind me, and shards of glass touching my back.. Apparently asif, lightweight as he is, was a bit too much for that poor piece of glass.. Phew.. this one really scared me...
(3) I enter cafeteria, Jyothi drops glass. As usual, I get to carry the blame on my broad shoulders... 8-)
(4) Ooops.. forgot to add this... A couple of us were heading to Corner House, and Gaurav was riding his bike alongside me. Suddenly at an intersection, another bike came and crashed into Gaurav's bike. It wasn't even Gaurav's fault at that, but people kept throwing slanting glances at me, when they heard about this.. :P
The following incidents are why I'm saying this:
(1) New Office, busy with setting up a server : Housekeeping dude is collecting cups.. while passing in front of me.. he almost drops his tray.
(2) Asif, Mrinal, Bill, Joe, Jason, etc. sitting and talking.. Asif is leaning on the separating glass pane, and I'm standing with my back to it but not touching it..
Suddenly, I hear glass breaking behind me, and shards of glass touching my back.. Apparently asif, lightweight as he is, was a bit too much for that poor piece of glass.. Phew.. this one really scared me...
(3) I enter cafeteria, Jyothi drops glass. As usual, I get to carry the blame on my broad shoulders... 8-)
(4) Ooops.. forgot to add this... A couple of us were heading to Corner House, and Gaurav was riding his bike alongside me. Suddenly at an intersection, another bike came and crashed into Gaurav's bike. It wasn't even Gaurav's fault at that, but people kept throwing slanting glances at me, when they heard about this.. :P
Disastourous Update
Long time no disasters?? Or more like, long time no disasters reported!!!
I guess an update here is long pending.. But adding a separate post for each disaster is overkill..
So, I'll just list out the most notable disasters so that we are back on track and I can get back to periodic reporting.
(1) Crashed Mrinal's car:
Poor Mrinal :( . He developed some sort of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or something, which basically rendered his wrist useless due to pain. Since he was on his dad's Fiat Uno, which basically steers as easily as a truck, I offerred to drive for him.... Barely had we come out of the new office building, that an auto sverved and hit the front of the car.. Sahana was around and handled the situation, and one of the turn signal indicators of the Uno was damaged.. I want to get them fixed but mrinal doesn't seem to be interested in that... :(
(2) Jinxed journey:
It seems that my journey to meet my parents in Lucknow is jinxed. There hasn't been a single occasion when I have completed the journey from Bangalore - Lucknow - Bangalore easily and without any glitches..
Like this time (yup I was on vacation recently), I was determined to have a comfortable and flexible journey. So I booked flight tickets for Bangalore - Delhi, Delhi - Lucknow, Delhi - Bangalore, left out the Lucknow - Delhi tickets for flexibility.
After reaching Lucknow, I got train tickets for the most ideal train which would give a 6 hour window in Delhi, having enough margin for the possibility of the train getting delayed.
On reaching Lucknow station at 5 am (yes thats when the train was scheduled to leave..) I found that the train had not yet arrived from Delhi. The right time for it to have arrived was the previous night, 10 pm and it was late by over 8 hrs. Also, it would take about 4 hours to depart once it had actually arrived, which means that my 6 hr window was basically worthless.
I tried to get a bus to Delhi, but apparently there is only one a/c bus, and that too leaving at night, which meant that option was meaningless again.
Ofcourse, I finally did get to Delhi (took a flight, the most expensive option), but it just goes to show that basically trying to plan life is meaningless...
I guess an update here is long pending.. But adding a separate post for each disaster is overkill..
So, I'll just list out the most notable disasters so that we are back on track and I can get back to periodic reporting.
(1) Crashed Mrinal's car:
Poor Mrinal :( . He developed some sort of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, or something, which basically rendered his wrist useless due to pain. Since he was on his dad's Fiat Uno, which basically steers as easily as a truck, I offerred to drive for him.... Barely had we come out of the new office building, that an auto sverved and hit the front of the car.. Sahana was around and handled the situation, and one of the turn signal indicators of the Uno was damaged.. I want to get them fixed but mrinal doesn't seem to be interested in that... :(
(2) Jinxed journey:
It seems that my journey to meet my parents in Lucknow is jinxed. There hasn't been a single occasion when I have completed the journey from Bangalore - Lucknow - Bangalore easily and without any glitches..
Like this time (yup I was on vacation recently), I was determined to have a comfortable and flexible journey. So I booked flight tickets for Bangalore - Delhi, Delhi - Lucknow, Delhi - Bangalore, left out the Lucknow - Delhi tickets for flexibility.
After reaching Lucknow, I got train tickets for the most ideal train which would give a 6 hour window in Delhi, having enough margin for the possibility of the train getting delayed.
On reaching Lucknow station at 5 am (yes thats when the train was scheduled to leave..) I found that the train had not yet arrived from Delhi. The right time for it to have arrived was the previous night, 10 pm and it was late by over 8 hrs. Also, it would take about 4 hours to depart once it had actually arrived, which means that my 6 hr window was basically worthless.
I tried to get a bus to Delhi, but apparently there is only one a/c bus, and that too leaving at night, which meant that option was meaningless again.
Ofcourse, I finally did get to Delhi (took a flight, the most expensive option), but it just goes to show that basically trying to plan life is meaningless...
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