Very Gooddum!

Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi

Thodi Meethi, Thodi Khatti

Thodi Teekhi, Thodi Pheekee

Phir Bhi Isko Hanskar Jeeneka.....

 Ik Alag Hi Hai Mazaa!

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Before you start wondering about my post title today, the title is lifted from one of the early episodes of the popular TV serial of the 80s - Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. I am sure most of you have heard of or watched this serial and you may be aware that the storyline revolved around the funny incidents in the day to day lives of  Ranjit, Renu and Raja played by Shafi Inaamdar, Swaroop Sampath and Rakesh Bedi respectively. The diverse roles played by Satish Shah is beyond praises.

Yesterday was particularly a stressful day in the office. Some of the ‘office politics’ really brought me down.  Talking to a dear friend helped. Just to cheer my mood further, I decided to watch Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi in the evening. I watched one of the early episodes of the serial where Ranjit and Renu let their South Indian neighbours invite a prospective groom and his parents to meet their daughter, at their house. Rakesh Bedi disguises as a renowned astrologer Rajam Shastri to match the horoscopes of the groom and the bride and during the process of matching the horoscopes he uses terminologies such as immediate resultam, fast parinaamam and very gooddum! The episode had me laughing heartily and made me forget all my worries. Thus passed another day. There is always a reason to laugh. Yeh jo hai zindagi – very gooddum!

Phew!!!

That’s how I feel at the moment just after a job interview - an INTERNAL interview. It felt very strange to give an interview to people who I work with everyday. Prior to the interview, I thought there is possibly nothing more that I can tell the panel than what they already know about me. But I was wrong. The interview appeared to be the best time for me to demonstrate to the panel what skills and experience I have developed while working with them over the last two years and how I would like to develop it further.

I am not too worried about the outcome as I absolutely love what I currently do. Of course, it will be an added bonus to be successful today and move a step ahead in the career ladder.  But I have nothing to lose if I am unsuccessful today.

When I stepped out of the house this morning, all I had in mind was that I must do my best in both rounds of the  interview and I have managed to achieve that. During my interview prep, it was interesting to analyse what the other external candidates may bring to the position and what unique thing I have to offer to the role. Well, to find answer to that I had to be myself at the interview. After all, who else is responsible for creating my professional reputation other than me!

Since Last Three Days.............

I have been feeling a bit lost in the evenings after work.

I have been spending atleast a good 25 minutes clinging my phone to my ears and waiting patiently (?) to get through to a voice that asks me ‘how can I help you? '   

I have been watching a lot more of television than usual.

I have been working on a blog post and yet I have not been able to complete it. 

Each morning I have been hoping that I don’t have much to do in the office so that I can catch up with my personal work in the World Wide Web including blogging, from the office.

Last but not least, Since last three days...I HAVE LOST SOMETHING SPECIAL - My internet connection at home due to some major maintenance work going on in my locality. 

A Random Post

  
It feels weird to be sitting in the office and writing a blog post but hey, I have been working really hard over the last few days to get to the top of my workload. Now it feels nice and today I can afford to take some time off work to check personal emails, read and write blog posts.

Over the last few days, I had been waking up early to get to work early and I also used to stay a bit late in the office in the evenings to get on with my work load. What I have realised is that the best way to start my day is to wake up early rather than letting the alarm snooze. How I start my day sets the tone for rest of my day.  Start off with some energy and optimism, then I am steered in that direction. Start off with a bit of lazing around, then the entire day appears to be dragging. Going forward that is the plan for the weekdays - To wake up early with a bit of spring to colour the rest of the day accordingly.

Ok, back to work now….will be back soon…………….

Yeh kya haal bana rakha hai??

 

.....Kuch letey kyon nahi??

 ...

Nah..I am not down with cold/flu. Not sure what is the matter with me. For the past few days, I have been feeling a bit restless and a bit disinterested in everything. I haven’t been watching my favourite TV shows, I haven’t been interested in cooking, I haven't been face booking much, I haven't been calling up friends.

On the blog front, I have been publishing posts that I actually did not intend to publish. I would set out to write on a particular topic but I ended up writing and publishing something totally different.

 

All I see around me is my neighbours taking down their Christmas decorations and putting them away in their lofts. All I hear around me is my colleagues in the office discuss about their New Year resolutions. I find this funny because they had discussed this at the beginning of year 2010  as well. After all,  it is the same resolution every year – losing weight, eating healthy, going to gym, giving up smoking and alcohol and so on and so forth - only to forget about these resolutions almost as quickly as they are made. I could have spent some time talking about my resolutions too, only if I had made any. I did not make any resolutions because I don’t believe in changing myself on one particular day of the year. I’d rather be myself and enjoy my life.It is a different thing that I cannot keep such resolutions even if I had made some.

So what is the matter with me? For sure, it is got to be ''January Blues''.