Lost and Found

Well, I lost my mobile....and I found it also!!!! :)

Here's the story -

It was just another day at office. While coming back by the office cab, like other days, I signed the papers, got down from the cab and headed for the lift in my apartment. But unlike other days I was having an uncanny feeling that something was missing and yes, I was correct....I left my mobile in the cab.

The next few hours were quite important. I had called the transport department to complain and since I was not carrying my mobile anymore I had to get all numbers from the internet. I kept calling at my mobile and finally the security guy in the cab answered the call. He was also at a loss as what to do with my swanky mobile phone. I instructed him to deposit the mobile phone to the help desk in my office. Which he did. And thus I collected my mobile from the office help desk the next day after confirming my employee identification number and my name.

The best thing about the entire episode was that I had left my mobile in the office cab. The office cabs, the drivers and the security persons who travel in those cabs are tracked and monitored centrally. That's the reason that my cab driver and the security guy were not confident enough to steal it.

Anyway, but a lesson is learnt. I have been using a mobile phone for last five years now. This mobile that I am using currently is the most stylish among all the sets I have used. I always used to imagine how I will react to such a situation. I used to think I would panic big time and make a lot of hue and cry causing much problem to myself and people around me. But actually, I was quite calm while handling the entire situation. May be loss of anything doesn’t affect me much, anymore!

Breathing tables and chairs

Of late, I have been meeting breathing tables and chairs. Yes they breathe, they talk, they walk and even they work…they smoke, they drink alcohol….but they are just tables and chairs….

Why?

Well, if you tell a chair or a table ‘Hi, how are doing?’ will it reply back? No.

Just like that they also never reply…..they don’t even recognize if someone is saying them a ‘Hi’ even though they can see that.

But quite interestingly they are very warm and nice people when they are with their superiors!

Pronounciation mystery

There are some words is English, which are pronounced very differently from how they appear by the so called ultra urban people. I never could understand why they do so. And also there seems to be a competition of 'how appropriate' they pronounce it.

For example 'genre'. It's not pronounced as 'jenr' as it looks but is pronounced as 'jonar'. You get some more brownie points if you pronounce it as 'jownar' and even more if 'jownare'....

Another such word is 'envelope'...as per my Nokia X5 dictionary, it is pronounced as it looks but people are keen to pronounce it as 'ownvolope'.....I can’t understand why....

There is a new addition of a very simple word in this list...it's ‘iron’....I always knew that it's pronounced as 'airon'....but in the TV commercials I see people saying it 'aiorn'....another mystery again...

Punctality is a quality if.......

You will be appreciated for your punctuality if you are Aishwarya Rai or Amitabh Bachchan. Much will be talked and written about your quality of being punctual.

But if you are a normal regular person, then forget about being appreciated for that, don’t even expect people to turn up on time.

Though I have been facing the problem of being punctual since my school-college days, I can’t change my basic nature. I value my time and I value other’s time also. So I never go anywhere late except for some exceptional cases.

But people seem to be not bothered about anything but themselves and their own comfort. They are not bothered at all if someone is waiting for them somewhere. But just for some irresponsible people I can’t change my nature. I still go everywhere on time.

Language is a problem

It was a regular day at office. It was a regular lunch at office with my friends. And yes it was the South Indian thali that I had ordered that day also. But just the earlier day I had found a hair in the curd rice bowl. So that day I decided to tell the people at counter about this.

So I told them in English 'I found hair in curd rice bowl yesterday. Please be careful about your food.'

The guy at the counter looked blank at me and got another curd rice bowl for me! Now it was my turn to be at loss!

Then I told him in Hindi that I didn’t want to have another curd rice bowl but that there was hair in the curd rice bowl the day before.

Then he took away the curd rice bowl and got another curd rice bowl for me! Me and my friends started laughing out loud by that time. Then I started to explain him showing my own hair and indicating towards the curd rice bowl....but that was also of no help. He still looked blank and at a loss.

Finally I had to give up as the people at the counter don't understand anything but Kannada!

Bring My Blood

Someone told me the story of Mr X. Mr X works in a company and he had sour relation with his manager. So sour that the manager stopped everyone from giving him work. Frustrated Mr X goes up to manager’s room and shouts at him saying ‘I’ll bring my blood for you tomorrow’.

When I had heard this story I didn’t understand what Mr X was saying and why he was saying so. But now I understand that very well. Now I also want to say the same. But not to my manager or to anyone in my office but to some people I know.

Films are not real

Neither their characters.

But not always. There are people in real life also who are like film characters. But those characters don’t live a life of film.

My reference point is Jab We Met. I was watching it this weekend. Yes, again :)

Girls like Geet do exist in this world. But no Aditya is there for them. They only land up with Angshumans to realize that their dreams never come true!