Tea Time Gossip

One of my favorite times in the day at office is the evening tea time at 3PM. This consists of tea, coffee, ice milo, kaya bun etc served at the Pick n Bite stall. Its a great time to get together and gossip about the days events and what had happened in the meetings. We discuss a lot during this span of 30 minutes. Some of them are below:

Office gossip
Current Affairs
International Affairs
Movie gossip
Reviews on cars, bikes and movies
Travel & Living

So I thought from now on I can write something on the everyday gossip that we do during the tea time. Some of them might be stupid but some are really interesting.

Changes in life with Marriage News

Below are the observations I have made after the news of my marriage.

• Increase in work (This is no way related to the news but this was coincidental).
• Increase in phone bill (This was a known thing).
• Lack of sleep (I did not see this coming).
• Wishes from friends (This is obvious).
• Decrease in number of calls to home (Work and phone calls to friends and girl is giving me less time to call back home).
• Started walking and dieting (Started feeling conscious and I want to be in a good shape by the time of marriage).

One Year in CS

It was yesterday that my salary review has been done in Credit Suisse. Thats when I realized that its been a year working here. Last year Oct 21st I started my tenure in Credit Suisse. So what did I achieve all this year? Did I learn something new? Did I earn a great name at office? Did I enjoy working at this place?

Here goes my tenure details. Immediately after joining CS(Credit Suisse), I went back to India within 15 days to attend Dolly's Marriage and Vijay & Jitna's marriage. I came back and had no work at office for the next few months. I was just passing time reading Rediff.com and Cricinfo.com. Later in May I again went to India for a North India trip. Thats when I interest in travel has come up.

I started traveling since June. I went to Vietnam Twice (HCMC-1, HCMC-2, Still have to update about the Hanoi & Halong Bay trip), Malaysia Twice (KL-1, KL-2, KL-3, KL-4, KL-5, Genting, Melacca), Thailand once (Phuket-1, Phuket-2, Phuket-3, Phuket-4, Phuket-5), Indonesia once and two surprise visits to India as well. I always had this so called free time here. I downloaded hundreds of movies. Locally I have visited so many places. Made so many new friends. Met old friends who came to Singapore. So my whole year I enjoyed traveling, watching loads and loads of movies, Having fun with friends and going home now and then.

Coming to work, I haven't learned anything new in Business Objects. I have been working on an old version of it. Recently after upgrading to the latest version I have been feeling good about the work. Its just a month ago that my work has started seriously. Now the things are a bit hectic. I have learned some facts about the queries and all. When I did not have work I always wanted to do my certifications and stuff. But this did not happen.

Other than work and travelling and having fun I have learned some photography on my new camera Sony A350. Now all my trips would be accompanied with my camera. Need to learn lot more tactics and need to expertise in many areas of photography. Hope this new year of mine in CS will bring me some new challenges and some new things to learn and finish off my certifications. May god bless me and All the best to me :-).

V-Day is the D-Day

There was some speculation about fixing the marriage date. There were some dates in November, February and March in consideration. Everybody felt November was too early and March was a little bit far. So dates in February were checked for the auspicious occasion. Firsly February 5th was considered which I have already shared with most of my friends.

Later after 3 days I was told by my parents that the date has been postponed. After hearing the new date I was more excited than the marriage. Everybody likes to have occasions on special days. Now my marriage date is also a special day in the calendar. Valentines Day is my marriage date. Even my friends were excited to hear that the marriage is on February 14th.

Now I say to friends about the date as "V-Day is the D-Day"

Golden Period in Life

This post is just to write about the time in my life where I enjoyed every bit of it.

Even though I don't remember, when I was a kid at the age below 3 years there was complete freedom to do what ever I want and get all the pampering in the world.

When I finished my 10+2 and finished counseling, I had all the time in the world for 4 months to just enjoy rather than studying something.

When I finished my engineering and was free for almost 8 months enjoying the time. Even though this period is full of mixed feelings, I always managed to enjoy rather than getting tensed about the future.

When my match with a girl got fixed and I was allowed to date the girl officially with the permission of both the parents.

Wedding Bells

I did not see this one coming so early. One fine day I got a call regarding this match with the girl. My parents liked her and wanted me to speak to her. I spoke to her the same day and liked her attitude and the way she carried herself through the conversation. I was curious and wanted to see her once directly before I say yes. I went to India and when I saw her immediately I heard the bells ringing.

Four Months exactly from now, I will be taking the responsibility of a lady for a life time. Everybody is excited about the news. I want to make this moment very very special as I will be sharing everything I have to the person I have chosen to spend the rest of my life with. Now I wonder if I would have to surrender all the perks and luxuries of single hood, that is financial, emotional, physical, psychological, and even sleeping peacefully alone at night.

Finally I would say taking this decision of responsibility for life time was very courageous. I am not that excited may because of the tension, but the feeling of getting married is really nice and special.

Going Home Yet Again

Going home sounds so good. Its just not that I am going to meet parents and friends but there are many small factors because of which we feel going home is good.

Away from work (not going to office on a working day)
Away from tensions (As of now none)
Away from deadlines (Can extend :P)
Away from skipping meals (Can have 3 meals at home)
Away from Junk Food (No need of going to Pizza Hut, SubWay, McDonald's, KFC, Bread Talk or any other food court)
Away from local transport (Can drive my bike and car back home)

Anyways this time I am going for a complete different reason which I shall update very soon here. I have just now booked the ticket for Bangalore from where I shall go to Hyderabad. Tomorrow morning by 6AM I will be home.