ThoughtfulChaos

I have been having a very interesting week till now. Interesting. Hectic. Confusing. Challenging.

We (my boss, a colleague and me) interacted with a group of Dutch students who had come to India on a study tour. Most of them were computer science students and a couple of them were Mathematics students. They were accompanied by two of their senior professors. My boss gave a presentation on Security, more specifically on some of the areas we are focussing on right now. Initially I found it a bit difficult to understand their accent but after a few minutes it was OK. We had a lavish dry lunch.

I moved out of the company guesthouse on Wednesday and moved in with 3 company-mates living in a 2BHK flat. Shifting was not so difficult... settling in at the new house was. 2BHK is actually a bit misleading. It is actually a 1BHK with the bedroom split into two smaller bedrooms. Thr good news is that the house is furnished, so we have a TV, cots, chairs, tables, fridge etc. We do not have a washing machine though. Since I shifted on a weekday and all of us (my new roommates) are quite busy nothing else happened during the week. I came to office on Saturday because I had to catch up on my reading. Sunday started off on a very interesting note... we fired our bai (maid servant). It is very difficult to hire a good bai here. They charge exhorbitant fees, are very moody and talk too much. This particular bai, whom I have not talked to much, was perpetually on vacation. She used to come on an average 2 days in a week, refused to mop the floor and was addicted to gossiping. So we fired her.

On Sunday my new roommates: Tony, Tejas and Abhishek and I cleaned up our house. Even they had moved into this house only last month or so and there was dust everywhere. Dust on the furniture, dust on the floor, dust on the doors... basically everywhere except the bathroom probably. We had brunch and then we got down to business. We threw out all the junk that was accumulating in nooks and corners, wiped all the furniture, fans and appliances, shifted the furniture to utilize the limited space in a better manner. Rock music (Tony and Tejas are big rock music fans... in fact Tejas plays the guitar quite well) was being played in the background and I am sure that helped us in ignoring the fatigue that was slowly coming over us. But finally we did it. The house was much cleaner, you could move around barefeet and one could move around freely without worrying that the clothes would get soiled.

And then there was better news. Our neighbour aunty helped us hire a new bai. This bai charges more and has a more eccentric schedule of cleaning and washing clothes... we tried to understand her timetable for a whole of 10 mins but finally we gave up. We just gave her blanket instructions to do the job and not bother us. Just imagine, 3 graduates and 1 post-grad with 7-8 years of experience between them not being able to comprehend a bai. Sigh.

We celebrated by dining out at the Pizza Hut in Green Park area. The service was terrible but the pizzas were good.

All in all a good day.

Life at work has also been good lately. Lots of stuff to learn (I seem to be repeating this around 20 times a day nowadays), lots of assignments to work on... but all of them quite interesting so no complaints... well not many in any case. I was doing some blog introspection and I realized how off-track my blog has become. Originally it was meant to mirror my thoughts and opinions. I also planned to exhibit my technical brilliance (hah!) by penning excellent techie articles and attract hordes of geeks and become famous overnight. But that never happened. Instead this blog has become a daily diary kinda place. And looking at my busy schedule that is how it is going to be for at least a couple of months. And maybe a couple more. And possible a couple more. You get the idea.

I have to attend a seminar next Monday. I will probably give a talk at a college level event next to next Friday so have my hands full.

Well if you are thinking when I will end the post you just got lucky. I am ending it right here. Was feeling a bit sleepy and decided to scare away sleep by blogging. Ploy seems to have worked so back to work.