2005 commentary…

I wrote this one in 2005 as a comment in a blog. So I guess I will use it as a post  :

http://sakshijuneja.com/blog/2005/10/28/the-old-idiot-box/

Was just watching Malgudi Days on POGO along with my friends. So all you Malgudi Fans start watching POGO! That set us talking about the good ol’ days of yore! I would like to add Mungeri Lal ke Haseen Sapne, Vikram aur Betal (which had our “Lord Rama” as Vikram!) and even before that Didi’s comedy Show, Spiderman and later the Science Quiz Programs along with Science Quest.
Those were really good ones. Of course Fauji, which launched King Shah Rukh!
Remember those days when DD would telecast regional language films and we could get to see all those “Award?” winning films?
DD also used to telecast really good movies late in the night whenever there was a film festival happenning anywhere!
How about Surabhi with the cheerful Renuka Sahane and the “big” man Siddharth Kak? This show also set a world record or something by receiving over 10 lakh answers for an episode I believe!
Thanks a lot for stirring up good cheerful nostalgia!
I miss those days!
Adios!

The Wait….

I am writing this on a completely different note from my previous post. Which was a crazy journey into what my muddled mind was thinking….the neurons firing (mis-firing?) simultaneously and forming crazy connections and as a resuly crazy results on the post!

Ever since the Americans bit us and made us bite the dust…I am referring to the loss of my team and jobs at my present “job”….(in quotes as it is alive till Feb 10th!)…I have been going through a multitude of emotions…ranging from …”Ok…I now can look at newer opportunities that may be better than what am in “…to plain downright sadness of losing a well formed team that I had spent 18-20 hours a day working for 1.5 years to shape and create!…It is like “Vennai thirandu varum podhu paanaiya udaikkaradu”…(The pot being broken at the time when the butter is about to form).

The feeling is akin to Anjelina Jolie’s character where she loses her son….I have lost my children! my team I mean!…ok me getting out of this now.

The repercussions have been the entire team who were hand picked and trained extensively coming out into the market enmasse!…Their worth is demonstrated by the fact that almost all of them were lappped up by the companies within 2 weeks of them coming out and for some even before they came out! I say almost as a colleague and I are still on the market waiting to be picked up!!!!

One common thing I have been experiencing now-a -days is the stereotypical questions that are asked by the HR and the recruiting agencies. In the past the salary was usually asked at the end of the initial call….now…the first question is , even before they ask if we are ready to move to a new job , “How much is your current CTC?”.

If the answer to that is on the higher side..the call is immediately terminated…”Oh ok…I will give you a call later sir”!!!! . The company’s name, the nature of the job are not even discussed after the intial block on the salary!…Is there a coonspiracy going on where the companies select some for the same post and pick the lowest paid indeference to their skills?…hmmm I think in my case it is!!!!

end of post for now…I will add more….

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OK, thats how my first blog starts (after a looooong gap)! WOrdpress gave me my first words, sentence and a start!….of course a “heading”….so that I could be “heading” the right way? WHich reminds me of something one of my friends used to ask when he was driving and looking for directions….I have to turn left , right?( BTW he never said I have to turn Left, left?….It would have given me a chance to say u left left? – got it?…if not you could contact me after taking a right and left …right?) ok…coming back….so I used to say…decide dude! still he would say the same thing!….so I am going to say…”heading” the correct way?….but it doesn’t sound quite right!…(there I go again!)….ok I can go on about this and make it a drag!….

One thing that stuck me while I was browsing the blogs of my friends is the word “Digress”….The Dictionary.com website  gives the following meaning …

digress  –verb (used without object)

So it is a verb used without object! so do the bloggers use it without any object? well I object to that!….ok now that I have digressed from what I started I can digress again to get to the right (correct?) path… Wanted to digress so I put in this little digression!

Oh….please do ask me why I chose MNA Puncheon!!!!…please please do!!!…anyway I cannot wait for the questions….’cos I might digress and turn left(ist?) …right?

Instead of MNA Log….which sounds archaic…I wanted something that will make you digress! So I chose puncheon!….it just means (again Dictionary.com… heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard. SO I thought…looks and sounds close enough to a log…so I chose this! anyway it is from a log that you get the  heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard! Right? (correct?)

A puncheon also means any of various pointed instruments; a punch…so you are requested to pull all your punches and pointed instruments…AWAY..from me! It also means a cask that can hold about 80 gallons…You are welcome to put me in that and roll me over the Niagra! I will have its measure (BTW thats also a meaning for that word!)

OK, coming back to my first post…now lets have a “here I digress moment”..imagine….we have come a full circle…I am referring to the word post!.. My grandfather who was an ardent letter writer (to all relatives and friends) used to say Internet is going to kill the art of writing and post will be obsolete!…but here we are posting away! If only he were to be here….he would have been a very active blogger! (Grandpa read this in heaven…hope you get the signals!!….of course he will ‘cos the satellites are so close by!) see..I digressed from the digress moment onto another digression? sounds really close to a depression?

So fiends (wanted to correct the spelling…but left it at that…’cos you will be fiends and not friends by now!) if you do happen to reach this sentence…it just means you have so much patience that you are rivalling Buddha!…you have so much time to kill that you will read this and try to kill me….you have digressed from what you were doing and have gone into a depression and thinking how to push me into one!!! (get it?….depression…depression? you are freee to ask me …I will be glad to explain!)

Oh I have to thank Archie who awarded me so that I could start posting!…see I am so good that she awarded me before I started! or may be so that I should not?…hmmm thats digressing! oh…a digress here…Archie asked me why I was sitting on the floor at Bhargavi’s place….and I said …Archie…I am a “Down to earth “, person…(Archie dont chew me out! we already chewed a lot that day!)

oh oh…I also have to thank Apar…(who I explain is short for “Beyond Par” – not the par in golf…par is just level…she is beyond level!…oh does it make her “unlevel”? I think not…Ill stop here…’too much digression!) who was after me to blog! (bpuncheon?)

ok….now am wondering how to go about making an award that wont put me in a ward! (oh! am good!)

Disclaimer :This post cannot be considered as a precursor to the ones I am planning to post!) BTW….I raise the question…we are all posting away…does it make us postpeople? (postmen/women)…or people of letters? Letter people?

POstpeople? hmmm…so post=after, after people what are we? souls?…but isnt that like, a soul is inside us? making us “before” people…ok,ill stop here…’cos am too deep for myself!

All the best folks…I really pity you! Does this post end abruptly? of course it does….so now…

Adios…(forever?)