I was sitting in my hostel room, studying for my last semester exams starting next morning, when my cell phone rang. It was a female voice from other end. I hung up the call in few minutes, threw the phone in frustration and fell on the bed motionless and lost. I opened the wardrobe and took out a packet with some letters in it. With shivering hands I opened one letter and started reading it. I don’t know how many times I read those five letters in next few hours. Millions of tear drops rolled from my eyes while I was continuously looking at the ceiling. Every single second of last few months flashed in front of my eyes……
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“Are you in constant touch with your old friends?” “Yes they are all in my facebook friend list… I am a pretty much social person.” Are we? Really??
When I was kid, I read somewhere that Man is a social animal. As life progress, I heard the same line from multiple sources. Earlier I didn’t know the meaning of being a social animal. I belong to a small society of a small town where almost everyone knows each other personally by name and face. Then I saw the village life where…..
1st Jan 2010 00:00 AM… it was less than a month I shifted from Chennai to Hyderabad. The whole world was celebrating New Year and I was all alone in Anupam’s House. I bought a half-bottle of Antiquity, drunk alone while watching some New Year performances on TV and Slept. It was totally a different kind of New Year celebration for me and very much unexpected in Hyderabad. The place, I used to come from Chennai on weekends to spend some good time with my friends….
My train was scheduled to reach Warangal at morning 9 and it was running 1 hour late already. I made some calculations that even I sleep at 4, I will get 6 hours of sleep before getting down and continued the text exchange till 4. But as per AC boy, train did some kind of makeup in night while I was sleeping and reached Warangal at 8:45. Good thing was, I got a connecting train for Hyderabad at 9. Compartments were looking like certificate of India’s 2nd position in population and that was the last train….
Learn to speak quicker than other known kids of same age group. This followed by ability to recognize letters and numbers. Admission to best school in city. Race to be in top 3 in class ranking. Good academic score with some great achievements in sports and other extracurricular activities. More than 90 percentile in board exams. National level competitive exams. Again a great academic score for a nice job. Appraisals, promotions, salary hike, company switch and many more. Much before you could even pronounce RACE….
Onsite travel is not a big thing in IT industry. Daily hundreds of IT professionals fly overseas on various roles. This is very much common that there is nothing special to write a complete blog on that. But this story is different. This story is of an IT professional travelling onsite to Denmark and a refrigerator. Yes a refrigerator. You must be wondering what a refrigerator has to do with onsite travel. We can understand a role of visa, passport, airline tickets, and hotel bookings but a refrigerator….
