Finally its a welcomed break

So I am back. Not that I wasnt here already. Its just that I was living the zombie life. Our team was handed a short project which ended yesterday.

So, the last few days were really weird, working till 10 in the night, drinking loads of coffee with bhujiya (thanks Manali), downloading ppts, cribbing, cursing our luck and the people who came up with the idea of working altogether.

Anyway, we are now done with our project, and the Rolls-Royce plc Deutschland people are here. We decided to throw a double party - one to welcome them, the other to celebrate our success. We had a party the next the day too. I have no idea of the reason for the party, but who needs a reason?

The week before was so damn hectic that I was forced to ask myself - Where is the pause button on this damn thing?

After the last telecon, we were sitting at Lavazza Coffee in Forum (for the unknown - its a shopping mall in Bangalore), wondering what to do with our free time. It happens when you are not used to having free time.

This is an excerpt of our convo -

Me: Kal kya activity hai?
Rahul: I think kal kuch nahi hai.
Manali: Kuch bhi.. there has to be something.
Rahul: No, I think its like...er.. like... a holiday.
me: Really? Can anyone confirm that.
Akshay: Yeah. We have the next two days free.
me: two days?
Manali: 48 hours man.

This has to be the defining moment of our lives.

So I got really pumped up and came with a to-do list-
Things to do in the next 48 hours-

1. Clean the desktop. I dont know why there are so many icons on my desktop.
2. Cut your nails. As in my nails.
3. Read the newspapers. I have been stacking the newspapers since the last 20 days. There is a lot to read.
4. Watch a bit of TV
5. Clean the room. (I have started to sound like my mom now!)
6. Yeah, sleep for 10 hours (atleast)
7. Read blogs. Its been ages since you have commented on peoples blogs. People hate you now.
8. Watch the movies and the sitcoms you have been downloading since the last one month.
7. Teach the Germans Hindi.

Okay, I know my Hindi isnt anything to write home about (write in hindi ofcourse). But it is anyday better than them.

Btw, the other day, we had this football match against the normal Rolls-Royce Stress team (I make them sound so low-profile.. he he he). Now since we had Europeans in our team, we kicked butt. For all you desh-bhakts, dont worry, the HR guys beat us in the next game. But seriously, how did HR beat us, I mean, isnt that batch supposed to be full of girls?

I did an analysis and realised that it was because of lack of co-ordination (ah! Genius!)

But seriously, its because of the language problem. For eg -
When Vikram says - Abbe le, ball le..Nicholas thinks - Lays? I will have salted.

It has come as a surprise, but subconciously we use a lot of hindi words while talking to the firangs - like- aacha, hai na, nahi, chalo etc etc. And not that we dont know english, there are people here who have a 99% in Annual Review but still make the same mistake while talking!

So thats all about the two days of timepass that we did. Want to write more but am short on time. How much can one do in 48 hours anyway? Anyway, its raining out here. And I gotta rush to enjoy it. Unlike Mumbai, rain here, stays for around 148 seconds and then makes the next appearance in 5 days. Off to get wet.

Au revoir!