#My1stPaycheck

I know I haven’t been writing from a long time sorry for that but I was stuck in a SHIT load of work, make it Horse Shit if u want. Its 27^th Jan 2012, new year has begun. Though I believe Mayans and their predictions about the end of the world.  Believe me its gonna happen.

Coming back to my daily life, on 13^th Jan I got my 1^st paycheck. Happy as a dog in water. After 10 years of School, 2 years of High school, 4 years of Grad School and 2 years of Post Grad school, here I am holding my 1^st Paycheck.

Many asked me what was the one thing u did from ur 1^st paycheck. Well I am an foodie so I bought food (Tandoori Chicken to be precise). It was a true satisfaction. Nothing tastes better than the food bought with your own money.

It’s almost end of the 1^st month,  next month its gonna be AWE wait for it… if I say candy whats the word u gonna say ‘gimme SOME’ AWESOME. The reason being me going on a RAIL trip to Delhi, to meet 2 hell of a Assholes. Oh people call them my best friends but I prefer the other word.

It’s been almost 2 months I have seen them. I know its risky and expensive but u knew wad they say ‘If u gotta do it, do it’. So far my life’s good, many reasons for that, nice job, nice people and the most important #My1stPaycheck.

#MyCakeTime

You know sometimes you feel like you have nothing to do. Like at work, No work at all. So how would you spend your time..  I spend my time surfing the net. You get a lot of things on net. That day I found a simple recipe to make jello shots, and I am gonna try them tomorrow.

Coming back to our story for today, The other day was as out T.P would say “bery bery” lucky for me. No special reason but I got cake. Well as our quarterly meeting the M.D  of our company ends d meeting by cutting a cake and man that cake was sweet. The interesting part was that I saw our manager (Jocelyn) for the 1^st time since I joined Tomtom. Jocelyn is a good guy reminds me of Marshall from How I Met Your Mother while doing stand-up. He mentioned cake like a 30 times in an hr.   Well the story doesn’t end here, as we got off the cake I went back to my desk to check more sites as I didn’t have any work and I pretty much think that my colleague Topo as we call her, jinxed my lucky day. I got a call from my boss and she handed me a task, not only that I had to finish the task by the end of the day i.e within 2 hrs. FuCK IT.

The next week same thing happened,  It was cake time coz of chirstmas and when I came back another task. Damn it. Somebody is jinxing my day. Well this weekend is gonna be awesome, my friend from “Nokia L&C” is back for a while, we name him KITCHEN KUMAR for some confidential reasons. Well that was #MyCakeTime.

#MyTraining

Just a little recap: I am a new Intern at an MNC where we make and provide support to navigation devices.

Last week we had our training (we: Me n the Girls). Everything was going awesome. We were getting to know about our organization, learning new stuff etc etc etc. You see at the time of training you just think of one thing "When will be the next break". Ok that's not what you think, see its all about being able to know and learn and use the stuff learn. And did we get that opportunity: "NO". So I was busy thinking about the next break "Ah the love of my life my Coffee Machine".

Anyways the training was mandatory so we forcibly had to focus on what trainer was speaking. Most of the the I just heard "Blah blah data" repeatedly, ya we have to deal with a lot of data. Well after the post lunch session we had our coffee break. So we went to enjoy some jokes, and all the shit, I mostly enjoy my coffee and just pretend to listen.

Break's over we went to our conference room 'Ajanta' you know the fancy conference rooms. As I entered, there he was, sitting right there. With no expressions at all. Scary as hell, if I was left alone I would actually pee in my pants. Who was he; our boss. You see generally we except our bosses to be scary but not shit scary. This was shit scary. As I entered he fired a question just like a cowboy would fire a weapon in a gunfight. "Why did the coffee break so long?" That's not the grammatical error, it was his language. You might think its funny then, but trust me its not. As he fired me the question I was ready with my answer, you must know I am pretty good at excuses so I answered "We have to find our coffee mugs." Luckily we were given our personal coffee mugs earlier that day.

As we sat down he fired another question BOOM "What have you learned so far?" I answered "Sir, today we learnt about...." he stopped me before completing my sentence. "I asked you a specific question, when you work with me be specific and listen carefully to what I say." It was an horrifying scene. I felt like somebody had released a tiger from the zoo and I want to run but I can't coz I am tied to a chair right in front of the tiger. I apologized and we continued. That session lasted for an hour. We all were shit scared for that hour so as he left we just looked at each other and vowed for a 5 minute silence. He was like a marine, no mercy kinda guy.

After the session he called us to his booth and handed over a GPS device and asked us to find 'Mutha Towers'. BOOM, "Do you know where is Mutha Tower?" He asked. Well as any sane person would have said no to him even if he knew the answer. But I wasn't sane, I had to answer yes, coz I am good with addresses, I have been living here since a very long time, so you are prone to know the addresses. "Yes" I said. "Then what's the point of taking the GPS device, go find Krishna Restaurant" he blasted. Everyone present there stared at me as if I was a E.T from the movie. But when they started laughing I felt like E.T doing a rap song. But then I realized, I have made a huge mistake by telling him the right answer. Damn it was embarrassing. Anyways I don't care for what people think about me. So we moved on to do the task. It took us an hour to come back. Hell it was tiring.

At last the day was over, so was the week everyone was looking for the weekend ahead. Well that was #MyTraining.

Lunch is on us

After 4 years of graduation and 2 years of post graduation here I am, "My dream job" (sort of). I woke up early on my 1st day (don't wanna miss that). As I entered the amazing 'Binarius' building (who the hell named the building) I knew that my new life has begun. I didn't had any experience so I didn't know any office ethics apart from smiling and saying 'hello' to everyone (even the men who clean the toilets). I wore my best clothes that day as I had decided to be 'the man' in the office and not a college nerd. We were called in the conference room. Yes 'we', well let me take you back a few weeks.

"Tomtom list is out" Navendu (our honorable professor) said. There were only a few students present in the classroom. I was about to shit in my pants coz if I didn't get this placement offer I was dead (murdered brutally by "LIFE"). I was scared to death as Navendu announced the names. "Shweta, Yogita, Debashree, Tapaleena", I said to myself "FUCK me" repeatedly, "Rishikesh"... Wooohooo I jumped right there and hugged my best friend "Pallav" aka Ezio aka my brother from another mother. Don't worry will tell about him later. And that's how I got selected in Tomtom along with 4 "ladies". 

Back to day 1. We were called in the conference room called "Taj Mahal". ya I know its weird but Tomtom being a navigation company they have to play such crap games to allure everyone. So we were 4 ladies and a guy. Just for passing the time the HR informed us about the company and blah blah blah. It was lunch time, we were very excited. You should know we were informed earlier that the company will be sponsoring us the lunch. We were hoping for some awesome action like Barbeque Nation or Malaka Spice but the 'World leading navigation company' left us with delivered 'pijja' from pizza hut. LAME.

Any ways we were some what enjoying our pizza, ice tea and brownie, suddenly my eyes saw this amazing machine which I couldn't believe. A Cafe Coffee Day Machine in the cafeteria. My heart pounded like a rabbit grabbing a carrot. All my worries went off. I even forgot about the pizza.

Thus my 1st day in the new life ended happily. The days of my life has just begun.