Its the 7th of January and am in a new location....my new office at BTM Layout.
The year started typically, fast asleep at Trivandrum, it was just another routine day, only the last digit in the year row had become 5 instead of 4. The marriage, I was visiting Trivandrum, went by quite inconsequentially. Of course it was an extremely meanigful day for the Bride and the Groom but for everybody else it was a day to gossip, criticise, loiter, act busy, eat drink and make merry.....at somebody's expense. On the 4th morning we had bundled into the car in a lot of befuddlement at a late hour of 6.30 am (our planned take off time wa 5.30 AM) and had a very leisurely drive back to Bangalore.
Bangalore was quite warm and Shyama's anxiety diminished considerably about a weather change triggering off another Bronchial attack on Gokul.
I was a little tense, this was primarily because I was taking up a new office at BTM Layout and was not sure of how the whole affair will play out . My new driver John would also join on Monday . Well there was a lot of uncertainties strewn around. Monday morning I skipped my Tennis and prepared for my first day at work in Bangalore. Rahukalam was at 7.30am-9am this meant that either I leave at 7.30 am or i go late after 9am. I succumbed to the ease of going late. John my new Driver came quite promptly at 8am. We started out by around 9.15 am. Bangalore's traffic was a nightmare we crawled, bullied through, stared blankly at long waits and finally after an agonising 2 hours I reached the office. It was a 20 kilometre ride fraught with all obstacles to slow you down.
Mr Dwarknath met us at the reception and took us to the work place. Of course I had seen this earlier and so was not a surprise to me at all. The cabin was bare had a table which had seen definitely better days and my Chair did have the forlorn look . One worn out hand rest kept slipping down, as the screw holding it together seemed to have disappeared. I settled down quiet fast as opening your laptop was the only sign of working and requirement. Tea was served which really was good, I enjoyed it and settled down to some serious e-mail exchanges. I was at work and the world....knew it. Time speedily went by. Accomplished quite a lot of work that afternoon and by about 1.30PM was famished. My lunch was with me and I quickly made justice to it.
By afternoon I left the place (I was officially on leave on Monday too) and reached home after stops at Crossword and ICICI. The next day too was quite uneventful and spent the whole day at the office. Today came to office on time , starting at 8.15 am brought me to the office at 9.30 am. I feel an 8 AM start would be even better. Drop Gokul enroute and move on to the office. That should be my target. One very satisfying feeling was when I completed the long pending SBI insurance and the FD deposits which was growing like an uncontrolled tumor in my thoughts. The only thing pending in my "things to do" list of yonder years is the transfer of PF.
Tennis has earnestly started and have even paid my monthly fee which is a good enough incentive to be at the courts. Have to gut my old faithful racquet. Not very happy with the tennis workout need to burn a lot more calories, maybe an evening gym session needs to be started to take out all that extra fat which has been accumulating.
The year started typically, fast asleep at Trivandrum, it was just another routine day, only the last digit in the year row had become 5 instead of 4. The marriage, I was visiting Trivandrum, went by quite inconsequentially. Of course it was an extremely meanigful day for the Bride and the Groom but for everybody else it was a day to gossip, criticise, loiter, act busy, eat drink and make merry.....at somebody's expense. On the 4th morning we had bundled into the car in a lot of befuddlement at a late hour of 6.30 am (our planned take off time wa 5.30 AM) and had a very leisurely drive back to Bangalore.
Bangalore was quite warm and Shyama's anxiety diminished considerably about a weather change triggering off another Bronchial attack on Gokul.
I was a little tense, this was primarily because I was taking up a new office at BTM Layout and was not sure of how the whole affair will play out . My new driver John would also join on Monday . Well there was a lot of uncertainties strewn around. Monday morning I skipped my Tennis and prepared for my first day at work in Bangalore. Rahukalam was at 7.30am-9am this meant that either I leave at 7.30 am or i go late after 9am. I succumbed to the ease of going late. John my new Driver came quite promptly at 8am. We started out by around 9.15 am. Bangalore's traffic was a nightmare we crawled, bullied through, stared blankly at long waits and finally after an agonising 2 hours I reached the office. It was a 20 kilometre ride fraught with all obstacles to slow you down.
Mr Dwarknath met us at the reception and took us to the work place. Of course I had seen this earlier and so was not a surprise to me at all. The cabin was bare had a table which had seen definitely better days and my Chair did have the forlorn look . One worn out hand rest kept slipping down, as the screw holding it together seemed to have disappeared. I settled down quiet fast as opening your laptop was the only sign of working and requirement. Tea was served which really was good, I enjoyed it and settled down to some serious e-mail exchanges. I was at work and the world....knew it. Time speedily went by. Accomplished quite a lot of work that afternoon and by about 1.30PM was famished. My lunch was with me and I quickly made justice to it.
By afternoon I left the place (I was officially on leave on Monday too) and reached home after stops at Crossword and ICICI. The next day too was quite uneventful and spent the whole day at the office. Today came to office on time , starting at 8.15 am brought me to the office at 9.30 am. I feel an 8 AM start would be even better. Drop Gokul enroute and move on to the office. That should be my target. One very satisfying feeling was when I completed the long pending SBI insurance and the FD deposits which was growing like an uncontrolled tumor in my thoughts. The only thing pending in my "things to do" list of yonder years is the transfer of PF.
Tennis has earnestly started and have even paid my monthly fee which is a good enough incentive to be at the courts. Have to gut my old faithful racquet. Not very happy with the tennis workout need to burn a lot more calories, maybe an evening gym session needs to be started to take out all that extra fat which has been accumulating.
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