May 03, 2007

Summers@Gurgaon

20th april:

So here I am back again…can’t quote my bizzyness as de reason for not scribbling here in last few days.. schedule isn’t very busy but I am trying making it as much busy as possible. I don’t want to laze around doing nothing or watching movies… I am fucking bored with de routine schedule from last one year so when I came to Maruti Udyog Ltd for my summer training I was pretty excited…few of my really good coll time frens r here in Gurgaon n Delhi…new place…old frens…a job to do…everything sounds perfect!!

But why the hell...things don’t fall on the right places… starting with my summer project.. project is quiet important for Maruti .. didn’t knew it when I got to know about the project in ma college… but enthu of whole of supply chain division towards the project says so.. when rest of my frens are not getting the basic information they needed from their project guides.. our project guide accompany us to all the places we need to visit…deciding objective n strategic planning took 4 days.. n now when we are all set to go… we are not getting the fucking data we need .. reason behind-responsibility to provide data doesn’t fall under duty of any of the division …n scm people don’t have data we require… have u ever seen office-office … I didn’t knew even pvt firms have such a culture… our project guide n another guy took us to the IT deptt… their reply “we have stopped providing such confidential(lol)data without the permission of authorities.”

When we went back with permission letter …they told us it will take few days…they were not sure of count.. may be 5 …may be 20..meeting with Vice President of spares was more of a comedy session …that 50+ somethin man was not even ready to listen to our guide …meeting went for 2 n half hours without any result…I am damn sure he didn’t even had any hint by the end of discussion that what data is required so urgently… but it’t not his fault…I’av always believed in there are people who are always satisfied n happy with conditions n then there are those who are not…there is no third category ….he falls under second category… he received atleast 15 calls during that 2n half hrs period…n after listenin to de replies to all of those calls in his monotonous tone I was sure he’s not gonna help us out…

One more thing which I am not sure whether to pen down or not is about a sweet Chipkali! I saw her in our induction session on very first day in Maruti.. ours was a batch of 31 trainees 4m different colleges.. NITIE, FMS, MDI, IMT, SCMHRD, IIFT.. I was not interested in talking to anyone .. it’s not like I had friends from my college there that’s why…but last few years has changed me a lot…if this would be 2-3 years b4.. then I would be sorting out good lookin gals on priority basis …lol…still remember those days when we had a list n a plan of action ready for every situation…though it never worked out for me…I mean all de gals I had crush on.. they never came to know bout my feelings…I somewhere lack in taking initiatives in this field.. I just don’t like listening NO.. I tried changin myself a lot but all in vain… all such relations I have been through started by mistake…through common frens…with someone n somewhere I never expected…but now I am enjoyin ma freedom!!

Introduction started n my poor memory was able to retain only one name by de end of tht intro session ..obviously hers … believe me that was not intentional! induction session was of 2 days .I came to know there only…. after induction few have to stay in the plant n others have to go to different corporate offices.. n next moment I was checking out what she has to do… by my good luck she has to stay in plant only but our offices were in different buildings.. first day passed ...no conversation… when I came back next day I knew I just had 8 hours …plant visit was scheduled for first two hours of my mission… n that was the best opportunity to start a conversation… there I noticed her dashing walking style!! Lol.. she walks like a lil gundi!! Leaving the minute details of my observation during that period …just telling u …I wasn’t able to say a hi!.. but god knows how…when she was bout to enter in the class I heard a voice…. you 4m …. College?? I noticed it was my voice only…man!! that was moment of pride…after 2 days (actually after 22 years) finally I said hi to someone I really wished to… thnx heavens ! she replied back to my question… then few formal interview types questions…name college project n all…I knew the answers b4 .. I wished to ask r u single? But dropped the idea… our conversation lasted 2 minutes for a max n we were back to the induction room…I thought to sit next to her…but it could be embarrassing ….what if she change her seat?? What if she didn’t liked it?? N few more possible what ifs took me back to de back bench where I used to sit 4m de very first day of my skool life.

‘ll complete the story later.. m already dozin off…

3rd may:

well…just returned back from cafĂ© coffee day..n its 3:30 am.. n I’av to be in my office by 8:45 am. Finally we got de data few days back n project is goin quiet fine. There’s a lot of work to be done tomorrow.. so again m not gonna complete de story…but telling u de latest development.. she has to complete rest of her project 4m Delhi corporate office…n I haven’t seen her since last one week ..we tlk once or twice a day thru ph.. as usual crush(sort of..) z over.. I got it after an hour of tlk…but she z sweet...


m really enjoyin this period n I hope it to not last soon… I don wanna go back to that MBA coll..

life here is just as I wished to it to be …frens, parties n all….’av joined a gym, now I drink liquor occasionally (once in a week or two), black coffee took beer’s place, though I still drag some 25 fags but this z de thing I would never wanna change, ‘av started reading again…n rite now m literally in love with Shantaram , ‘av finally put an end to few other stuffs which I don wanna discuss here…

When wish and fear are exactly the same
We call the dream a nightmare….
- Gregory David Roberts(Shantaram)