Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Bored Meetings!

Its 8.15 am.U know the bus driver is not ur best frd around, to stand n wait till u put ur gloss on n get into the bus.He is not even ur jus-a-frd, to b considerate enough for u to eat ur breakfast.Wash the apple.Looks fresh maroon red n take to ur heels baby else u will miss the bus.Hair uncombed n wet .Not drippin wet but not dry..dupatta folded n on the right forearm.The handbag not closed.. the earphone of the ipod poppin out almost fallin off.The footwear half into the feet n the wrist watch in the other hand.Runnnnnn wow! In time made it into the bus.uff Daily morning it was the same story .I know i will have to get up n get ready a lil early .Probably 5 min to prevent that autorickshaw walah at the turn of the road from disappointment.Am sure my PT usha stunt on that road daily, must surely have made the autorickshaw wallah there dream of Indiaz next olympic medal in the 400 m category.Its positively gotta got to me who runs up that distance daily mornin.But no.. shall not do it.Its the confidence that yeah I will run to the bus hook r crook at 8.20 sharp;).Come on u can do it yeah u sure can.;)!hats off to my confidence;).crap.Jus lazy simple as that.No sooner do i start breathing in peace "clrr chit chit clrrrr.."radio mirchi (okei lemme try to give u an idea of how it sounds. "tan tandadan *pause* tan tadadan (okei chuck the BGM) ..raydio meeerchhi 98.3 yef yem.its hawwwawaat.."Damn it! it still rings in my ears.The cliched beats "its hawtttt...")starts off "raaa raaaa..." from one of the recent tamil movie hits.Practically confused if i have to scream my guts out n say "ok ok i have already cum whom r u callin still;)"(ra means cum)This is atleast tolerable than most of the zany tunes like "suppose-unnai-kadhaliche" Its simply is the best i have heard.. scores above all the others.Had laughed for a while when a frd of mine had translated it to english for me.Roughly equallin "suppose-that-i-love-u" i belive.It jus gets on ur nerves.The mornings r atleast better coz u sleep off in the bus as if the whole process of gettin up n gettin ready was an interlude to the sleep of the night.Get into the office ."beep"(access card) .U could possibly walk into the office without nythin(ahem ahem no pun intended;)) but not ur access card.bang!!!... dint realise that it dint swipe .Glad the glass door dint break n dint hurt urself badly either.... .Ahhhh stand in a side n wait with an awkward smile for a fellow worker to swipe n let u in n then imagine if u were to do a run like a matador chasing a bull.Run from near the stairs with ur head forward and yeah of course matrix OST playin in the background n banggggg break open the door n get in.Nay am civilised n well cultured so wont do nythin like that."Hey cum in! u forgot again..we had a meetin today.That presentation from X..hurry up we are already late." *sigh*Walk up to the conference room very aptly called Board(bored??!!) room."U r just in time.Take ur seat n go thru these".One huge document of about 25-30 pages.. am not aware of watshappeningaround."Jus take it n read thru.Fast guys we really need to do this stuff fast.ny clarifications r doubts plz feel free to ask me." the guy giving the prez said with a big smile almost pleadin *" now u will not ask me doubts right u lil girly u wont"*.I had half a mind of poppin up "yeah does this have 25 r 26 pages." But then civilised right.So leave it.There is a ppt put up.Dekhelia .I stare at it n pronounce it "dekh liya".My colleague snaps "kisko?;) r so fast u went thru the doc huh?"."Oh no i was tryin to read the name of the place put up there..."(Its a UK Sovereign Base Area.Dint have a clue this was a place till i googled.Was bad a geography neways.) No distractions please.Presentation starts...jdhfdosfhsdfjsd nddncsdlfvn fjdskfjf.Dint get it?well wat i got outta that presentation was equally intangible.Waste time on such frivolous stuff. It was such an unintelligibly utterly gutterly boring as hell talk.I jus cudnt help looking back again n again at Dekhelia.. i staretd runnin over all country names i knew that ended with "ia" lexicographically: algeria, albania,armenia,australia,austria,bolivia,bulgaria,cambodia, not bad u can think of more ..columbia,croatia,knew none from d of course apart from our very own dekhelia, ethiopia, estonia, euthnasia..chee thats jus another proof i was a pathetic at geography .Not that i was historically gr8 at economics.But biology wasnt that bad;) after all not atleast euthnasia. Then i started thinkin abt the discussion we were havin the previous night regarding how right it would be to legalise euthnasia.I thought it definitely made a better topic to b discussed in such beautiful conference rooms than trying to cook up some facade n lifelessly weary ads for ur company trying to entice people to join the rocking company of the century.Smile jus involuntarily curved on my face n he looked up..n smiled"..is somethin wrong? " *"well do u smile when somethin is wrong??ah do u? Tell me do u? "* i wanted to jus get up , hold him tight by his collar n start a fight with him jus then. Gawdd for heavenz sake r hellz sake r whosever wateverz sake get me outta this room fasttttttt.This meetin was a clear ludicrous task according to me.When u have tonnes n tonnes of work to be done ,u really dont want it right? Its not about the design of the project.Nor is it about the requirement clarifications. Hell its not even the"kaun banega bakra" blame-game retrospection meeting. It was an awful board meeting, which undoubtedly bored me to the coreeeee , for advertising for the company .crap..
"Dint have nythin to say? " Colleague asks as i walk outta the room."uhumm "i nod n smile thinkin to myself Sometimes the only way not to feel dumb is to b silent.How ironic!
"These meetings are sucha pain i swear " was the last sentence i heard from her as i walked back to my cabin. Pain="An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder."My dictionary sez.Now i was certainly bored by that meetin but wat had it done to her.. she said it was a pain==injury.. no she looked fine.. disease ..no no no disease stuff ..emotional disorder?????? mebbe.who knows:)No more such bored meetings puhhllleeaseee..

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