http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/international/
just to give u a vague idea :
Canada:
--If you are released from prison, it is required that you are given a handgun with bullets and a horse, so you can ride out of town.
--When raining, a person may not water his/her lawn.
--It's illegal to climb trees.
--A purple door get you a fine.
Readers have fun!! and go thru other countries as well. Really funny.
not worth pretermitting. :LOL
Right now, am not feeling like going ahead writing, still have decided to do so. most often that happens with me, never mind.
okie, okie!.. Who said, work life sucks! Who said, work life is a slave life! who said mentors at office are tormentors!! And who said, manager are your bosses!! And I also had many not-so-positive comments about the work life, from seniors and super seniors. However glad that, they are not working in the way, i learnt.
My lead is an awesome guy, who is definitely very sensible and always approachable, and who "strongly" suggests not to come on weekends to office. I barely see him as my lead. He sounds more of a companion to me rather than a superior. And always owns a joke when the things do not really go in our way. And my boss, who is often called Mr. Brains, though his actual spelling varies a little, by the other intelligent crew. Hezz is gem of a guy. Though haven't got a chance to meet him yet. And have never heard any boss-like stuff from him till to moment. That only shows his maturity and temperament apart from his technical knowledge. And it all only motivates to learn faster and work better. And the only bad thing occurred of late is that, one of the most valuable candidates of the team, and the only [senior] person in my module has decided to switch to another team leaving the lone candidate in the team. And therefore increasing the responsibility and possibly work-load exponentially. Which of course, also gave me a chance to be an interviewer with in 5 months of my joining under fresher recognition.
Apart from this stuff, there have been a few funny things happening in the casual workdays.
Lately a guy has been seated in the cubical besides mine. [hope he is not reading this !]. And he has this 'habit' that when ever he stands up he peeps into my monitor. And i was least bothered about it, in spite of my frequent visits to orkut and youtube. And one day he was staring constantly. So I looked at him in a way posing "So, what now ?". He smiled, and passed his hand, saying "Hi, am ******". I understood then that he was waiting for an intro, all these days. [I thought, 'come on man, you must have told that on the first day. Am not sitting hear reading minds of ppl!'] But i also learnt that he was a newly joined Product Manager !! And from that day, he looks at me waiting for a 'Hi', but some how, i like going pretending unnoticed.
And another incident included, where I got an internal e-mail with several senior managers in CC asking for an "urgent" help on an issue about some data loading, as they felt I was expert at dealing with such issues. And god knows, why they thought so. As I did not understand a single line from that mail, except that they were addressing me and the issue was Yama urgent one. And for a few minutes, I didn't know how to react on that. And soon my lead clarified that, it was a mistake, after which they started addressing the issue to my lead. And then my manager had to interfere and convince them, we are not the right ppl.
And then on one day, got a call. There was no his or hellos, just started off explaining the bug hizz got, with whole new technical jargon[hope his team's]. And said finally "I hope thats ok with you, call me if any problems", and was about to hang up the phone. I was like Daa!! Dood, what is with you! And i said "Hello, i am sorry, i am not sure if you are addressing the right person !!, as honestly, I did not understood a word of what you said just now!!". He asked puzzled, "Isnt this Abhishek". No dood, this is Aamir!, wanted to say, by when he apologized and cut the line.
And others included such as, when we assign a P1 bug on friday noon to some internal team, which is obviously the least desired, should watch their struggle to convince the bug raisers that its "Not a bug" actually[else, it might end up pulling you to office on the weekend]. That is a real fun scene, if you are not on the receiving end. And my dear new joinee, also entertains almost 2-3 cubicals around, by talking on phone so loudly and funnyly[definitely not to the guy on the receiving end], bashing away the airtel connection providing personnel.
However the work gets hectic soon I realize. the work load must have increased exponentially by now, however my lead is screening me time to time from them. I earnestly like to thank him, however he doesn't take it seriously and pushes on things. I am pretty confident that, he doesn't have time to read all this leaving me freely write my thoughts out. And would like to thank the anonymous reader who left a warning comment with the analysis of otherwise-unnoticed figures, which definitely fetched the needed time.
I should say, it was one of the excellent experinces I have had till to date. And I don’t know if I have learnt any of the values of the company, which the trip was intended to teach, but have leant quite a bit of in terms of values of life. It was a trip for 28 employees, out of which only 24 turned up. And the best point was that, hardly any one knew the rest of the crew. And in my case, I knew only 2 ppl by their faces, and was as close as returning a smyle or a hi when treated with either.
And when I started, though my teammate looked so eager to explain me about the fun she had, and out of my nature I was just indifferent to the openions. However, once I was back, I looked overexcited as I could judge from their looks.
Starting from, sharing the seat when started towards Lahari Resorts, till the moment got down at Madhapur from auto was a memorable moment. And must thank my company for having arranged such a lovely trip. And there is one more thing, which owes thanks the most. It’s the weather. Weather had been simply awesome throuout the 2 days and 2 nights, without which it would have never been the same.
In 2 days, we had a chapter of life I can offord to say. May be it’s a little exaggerating, but it was almost as hell of an experience as it was.
I did not really learnt what they actually wanted to teach, I did not really participate in the way they intended while coming up with the events they conducted, I did not really wanted to win in any of the games/events in which I participated with atmost curiosity (which I realize only now, as there was no place for thinking about these), I did not really recall the tough week I was going to have on the coming week, which am enjoying (!!) now. I just participated. I was just being an active team member all the while (though, had to lead the entire group in an event, at the end of which I had received cordial hugs from the totally new pals, which were selfless, unbiased and the best part, no place for egos, out of the fun they found from words and acts of mine).
There was this swimming pool always welcoming us so warmly, despite of the busy days and rainy cold nights we had, that I definitely cherish to remember a long while. Rain dance floor was no exception. It was in a way great to have no aquaintance on such a trip. I was open, open and in fact open. It was one of those extrovertic days, where no place or time to think about self and was just busy get going. There were no rights nor responsibilities, just a plain, busy and fun filled 2 complete days. Ofcourse, there were rewards, cheers and lessons as well. And was complimented “The super man” by the trainer who excels in paragliding, swimming, surfing, mountain climbing and 12 such adventures in total. And if the god had appeared and offered me a boon on any moment during those 2 days, I would have pleaded him earnestly for a life like the one Nevil is leading. And could learn to swim (if I can call so), about 40-45 feet (holding the breath :D) in 2-3 hrs of swimming with informal trainees by the side, which were again the fellow trippers. And loved participating in C/D game which was the only indoor game(kinda gambling game), I felt as not senseless. And at the end of all the events our team was recognized as the most creative (out of 4 teams they formed out of 24 people). And was one of the 9-10 people recognized as the most actively participated folks. [Honestly speaking, I was surprised, to know that the trainees noted that a person like me existed during the 2 days. Good, good.]
And finally, while coming back, we had no time to waste. I was one of the most actively participated Ahthyaksharist. ;), Which was totally of not my kind. And one or two northies couldn’t restrain to admire me at the end of the event, for my choice of songs and ofcourse voice in choosing the enegetic and fun filled “Telugu” songs, whom I still retain on my orkut on buddies list.
Luxurious rooms with 25”(I suppose) lcd Samsung TVs, gratuitous to mention air conditioned are worth mentioning. And may be the comfart they offered was the reason for my being one of latest guyz to reach the venue either it was Yoga or was any senseless indoor game they conducted..
On the whole, it was a one sweet memory. And one unrythamic heart beat worth taking place on my blog.
GG guyz and galz(iiit slang, cant help)… keep rocking where ever you are!! 3 cheers to GO+ comrades. :))
