I'm cross because I'm sick of the maniacs in this world. Yesterday, my friend and I went to this mall, and we were sitting and talking to each other recollecting happy times, and having fun. After a while we noticed three men looking at us from a distance - looking is the wrong word. Leering would be right. I felt yuck just looking at them. As we felt quite uncomfortable, after some time we got up and were about to leave the mall, when we realized they were following us. And guess what, one of them (a seedy looking creep) actually comes and says "Excuse me". My friend almost threw a fit, and barked "What do you want". At which, he backs out and says "Its okay" and walks away. Now I'm totally at a loss. What the hell did he mean by the Its okay, and what were they trying to get by following us, is beyond me. I had a good mind to go up to him and ask him what the hell they thought they were doing. Now don't try to tell me they were all innocent and probably had some nice thing to say to us, coz by the look of them, a nice thought wouldn't have occurred to them in their ten lives. I'm sick of such creeps. Out of the three, 2 were old and balding - but obviously thinking of themselves as handsome young men. One guy was tall and looked decent enough till he started leering, and making comments about us.

Gosh. What's this world coming to. Maybe I should learn Karate and beat the hell outta these guys.

Signs that you've been in the IT industry too Long...

1.) U use phrases like "No issues" and "Value addition" in everyday parlance. For e.g. When talking about your doodhwalla, U say, "His
milk does zero value addition to my health but he is the only guy around so no issues"
2.) Ur prime source of entertainment is the forwards send to U by friends whose faces U cant remember.
3.) U drink more tea or coffee than water. :)
4.) When a half-day at work means leaving at 7:30 in the evening (and U actually feel guilty about it).
5.) U keep trying to shut down ur home computer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (used to lock office comps)
6.) After U switch on your TV, U spend some time looking for a mouse.
7.) U send Microsoft Office mails with voting buttons to fix the time for a meeting with friends. :)
8.) When ur mobile rings at home, U rush outside to receive the call.
9.) When U make calls at home, U accidentally dial "0" to get an outside line.
10.) U havent played Solitaire with real cards in years.
11.) U tell everyone your favourite book is "Who Moved my Cheese?" when in reality U couldnt even finish that. Ur real favourite book is
the Oracle manual for PL/SQL.
12.) Ur last crush was a girl in HR, ur current crush is the new girl in HR and all ur crushes in the future will be girls in HR.
13.) U secretly visit sites like jeevansathi.com and shaadi.com and hope no one is watching, especially that girl in HR.
14.) U dont go abroad anymore, but go 'on site'. And when U go 'on site' your mama, chacha and l'il cousin Chintu come to see u off.
15.) U spend the entire day reading forwards, smoking cigarettes, drinking tea/coffee and playing T.T. and then complain about the late
working hours.
16.) Ur important 'meetings' usually comprise two or three people max, including yourself.
17.) U keep pressing Ctrl+Enter wondering why your gmail is not going.
18.) U substitute bad words like MC, BC with ML & PL (Module Leader & Project Leader).
19.) U secretly prepare for CAT only to find ur PL sitting behind you at the exam.
20.) Ur criteria for visiting a restaurant is whether it accepts 'Ticket restaurant' coupons or 'Sodhexo' passes.
21.) U email ur mate who works at the desk next to U.

22.) U read this list and kept nodding & smiling. :)
23.) As U read this list, U r thinking of sending it to ur friends who are also in IT. ;)

For lack of a better post... :D

Yesterday was celebrations for our office's anniversary/birthday or whatever you would choose to call it.

A gala function that threw away more money than you could make in your lifetime. It was fun! I did a dance yet again (Couldn't post a blog for all these days cos I was so busy).. this time a nice musical piece, semi-classical, choreographed by yours truly, and done with another friend of mine, who shares my craze for dance :)

It was lovely... and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. One show-spoiler was this whole oodles of smoke that billowed out onto the stage; Was probably done for effect, but I literally had to dance out of it to be seen. Sometimes, when people want to bust money, they make a mess out of it. The lighting and the stage stuff was overdone, and I would have been happier if I'd got bright lights and a plain stage to do my bit on. Coz, my dance wud have provided the decorations. Instead, the bloody laser lights were a pain, and the smoke was #$@%^%!

Anyhow, I enjoyed myself :), and lots of people liked what I did, so maybe that's all what counts!