Hi,
Soon planning to be back to blogging with lots of interesting posts, so need all those wishes and encouragement.
Soon planning to be back to blogging with lots of interesting posts, so need all those wishes and encouragement.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Working on Sunday!
How does it feel to get up at 6:00 a.m on Sunday..that too when you know that you are not going to a beautiful hill top for trekking but to office to support a release deployment! never experienced ?? ask me...feels horrible.
It is difficult to convince oneself to get up from the bed and get ready at 6 on a Sunday when you feel like staying close to your warm bedding but in the end who cares a damn you are convinced or not and so you get up.
One difficulty I feel being in Spain is sleeping on Friday and Saturday nights.Bilbao does not seem to be Bilbao on these nights. The serenity of the place disappears into the thick clouds of fun and frolic.People enjoy their freedom from the prison of daily boredom by getting into a real jovial mood.The common sight of lonely and silent streets is taken upon by chirpy and enthusiastic crowd.People drink , eat , meet friends and make merry.You often hear a gang of boys shouting on the road and since I am really sensitive to noise while sleeping , I hardly sleep and wish that I could understand Spanish..atleast I could get what these guys were saying and enjoy.
Spain also makes me realise the power of communication.Not knowing Spanish, it is very difficult to communicate with local community here. Today morning when I took the taxi, all I spoke to the taxi driver was..Hola! Buen Dias (hello, good day) and then I was blank at what he asked and he was blank at what I told.I handed him the address (the best way when you have to commute by taxi is write down the address on a piece of paper and hand it to the taxi driver) and all the way I just followed the sign boards that yes he was taking me in the right direction.People are honest here so you do not have the fear of getting robbed if you are new to the place, the prospect of which are really high in mera Bharat!.Telling the cab driver to go to right or left was like solving a puzzle which Einstein developed in his time and could not solve.But then I reached safely.Lucky me.
After all day of head banging with the laptop we had a successful deployment so no regrets for coming to office on a weekend and all that ends well is well.Back to my apartment watched the movie 13B, nice suspense movie.I have seen a good Hindi movie after quite some time.The earlier picks Delhi 6, Dhoondte reh jaoge just did not click.
So after a great Sunday and a great weekend I am off to sleep now as tomorrow begins another week where I will keep playing with bits and bytes.Ciao then!
It is difficult to convince oneself to get up from the bed and get ready at 6 on a Sunday when you feel like staying close to your warm bedding but in the end who cares a damn you are convinced or not and so you get up.
One difficulty I feel being in Spain is sleeping on Friday and Saturday nights.Bilbao does not seem to be Bilbao on these nights. The serenity of the place disappears into the thick clouds of fun and frolic.People enjoy their freedom from the prison of daily boredom by getting into a real jovial mood.The common sight of lonely and silent streets is taken upon by chirpy and enthusiastic crowd.People drink , eat , meet friends and make merry.You often hear a gang of boys shouting on the road and since I am really sensitive to noise while sleeping , I hardly sleep and wish that I could understand Spanish..atleast I could get what these guys were saying and enjoy.
Spain also makes me realise the power of communication.Not knowing Spanish, it is very difficult to communicate with local community here. Today morning when I took the taxi, all I spoke to the taxi driver was..Hola! Buen Dias (hello, good day) and then I was blank at what he asked and he was blank at what I told.I handed him the address (the best way when you have to commute by taxi is write down the address on a piece of paper and hand it to the taxi driver) and all the way I just followed the sign boards that yes he was taking me in the right direction.People are honest here so you do not have the fear of getting robbed if you are new to the place, the prospect of which are really high in mera Bharat!.Telling the cab driver to go to right or left was like solving a puzzle which Einstein developed in his time and could not solve.But then I reached safely.Lucky me.
After all day of head banging with the laptop we had a successful deployment so no regrets for coming to office on a weekend and all that ends well is well.Back to my apartment watched the movie 13B, nice suspense movie.I have seen a good Hindi movie after quite some time.The earlier picks Delhi 6, Dhoondte reh jaoge just did not click.
So after a great Sunday and a great weekend I am off to sleep now as tomorrow begins another week where I will keep playing with bits and bytes.Ciao then!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Back from the Dead
Have been thinking of getting back to this for so long, but probably today is the auspicious day...oh did I say auspicious..the date is 13th and some people do not consider that date a very good.
But for me yes it is a big day as have been away from this great love of mine (would call it second as of date, the first one is my husband now..sorry blogworld!) for quite some time. Thought of coming back to it many a times but somehow..could not make it but now I am back and hope back with a bang...People that means you ought to read my crap every time I write it so that I keep writing.
Life has come a long way...Right from Banasthali where writing blogs used to be a passion (a competition for some ofcourse) to Joining in Calcutta and then struggling to keep up with the pace of life...Moving down to Pune , getting married .Living quite a settled life for 2 years and then gearing up again to move to Noida and yet again coming to Spain.
I am in Spain for past one month and so far it has been so good.It has been a different experience all together, but yes one thing I would say my first onsite oppurtunity to U.S had excited me more and made me feel more happy than this one.I often end up in comparing things here to the ones in U.S , which should not be done as it develops a little not so good feeling for the place . But yes the experience is one of itself.The place is amazingly beautiful, the climate is awesome and the people are really energetic.
Now since this is the first post after so long, won't bug you people long.Probably I hope to post on a regular basis from tomorrow so "people interested" can keep watching for this space. Adios ( now that is called European effect).
But for me yes it is a big day as have been away from this great love of mine (would call it second as of date, the first one is my husband now..sorry blogworld!) for quite some time. Thought of coming back to it many a times but somehow..could not make it but now I am back and hope back with a bang...People that means you ought to read my crap every time I write it so that I keep writing.
Life has come a long way...Right from Banasthali where writing blogs used to be a passion (a competition for some ofcourse) to Joining in Calcutta and then struggling to keep up with the pace of life...Moving down to Pune , getting married .Living quite a settled life for 2 years and then gearing up again to move to Noida and yet again coming to Spain.
I am in Spain for past one month and so far it has been so good.It has been a different experience all together, but yes one thing I would say my first onsite oppurtunity to U.S had excited me more and made me feel more happy than this one.I often end up in comparing things here to the ones in U.S , which should not be done as it develops a little not so good feeling for the place . But yes the experience is one of itself.The place is amazingly beautiful, the climate is awesome and the people are really energetic.
Now since this is the first post after so long, won't bug you people long.Probably I hope to post on a regular basis from tomorrow so "people interested" can keep watching for this space. Adios ( now that is called European effect).
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