En kelvi-kenna badhil?!

Endha site-ku ponalum, indha questionnaire dhan iruku! Ada kodumaiye, idhukellam eppadidhan porumai iruko-nu yosichindha ennai kodumai paduthitta Shree-nra drogi. Idhula senti vera, pls time spend pannu-ntu..grrr!! Shree sollitale-nradhukaga naanum indha kodumai anubavikaren (edho daily en life-la kodumai-ye nadakkadha madhiri)

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.
Ada iraiva, pakathula en notepad..adhula page no. potrupana enna? Seri start counting..yeah, page 18! Oops, ore oru vari dhan iruku! :( Adhuvum left hand-la naan kirukina "1+1+9"

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.& catch air?
Ans. no, hit the pillar right behind me :((

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Ans. Sat aniku crazy madhu-oda meesai aanalum manaivi

4. Without looking, guess what time it is?
Ans. Idhellam over-a therila? Erkaneve enda 6 aagala-nu iruku! 4:30 PM?

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
Ans. 4:11 PM

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Ans. keyboard tapping by my colleague..enya office-la vera enna ketkum? Idhukaga ears strain panni vera ketten! Adhuvum computer-na, well, at present I dont hear anything else :(

7.When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Ans. Lunch.

8.Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Ans. The same survey in all blogs, last in Veda's! Appodhan nyabagam vandhadhe Shree tag pannita-nu.

9.What are you wearing?
Ans. Formals pant and shirt.

10.When did you last laugh?
Ans. aama, idhai vera track panvanga vaa! probably 15 mins earlier? Yaaro dev team-la vittutu poran-tu oru cover circulate pannanga, and there was a paper along with it. Enkitta koduthavan sign your name and strike it off-nu sonnan, seri-nu naanum andha paper-la sign pannitu edhukuda strike panrom-nu yosichutte strike-um panten. I didnt know that developer, and I didnt know what was inside the cover (ulla coins sathama kettudhu), so namakum idhukum enna sambandham-nu yosichutte boss kitta adhai kodutha...card-a velila eduthu sign panniya-nu ketkaranga!! Aaha, ulla oru card iruka vishayame theriyadhe enaku!! He he...he he-nu vazhinjutte card-la sign pannen. So everyone laughed, not only me..

11.What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Ans. Fire action instructions, fire alarm, ippadi sila pala matters.

12.Seen anything weird lately?
Ans. Yeah, all blogs having the same questionnaire!

13.What do you think of this quiz?
Ans. Grrrr...grrrrrrrrrrr...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

14.What is the last film you saw?
Ans. Darna Zaroori hain...edho pei padamam, parthutu vandhen

15. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy?
Ans. a million dollar business and a 30,000dollar worth business strategist to run it and make more profit

16.Tell me something about you that I dunno
Ans. Shree, ennai pathi unaku enna theriyadhu?

17.If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?
Ans. Everyone should have a balanced life with no extremes of sorrow or happiness...veruthudum life.

18.Do u like to Dance
Ans. I like to, but would others like me to dance? ;)

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Ans. Abitha kuchalambal

20 Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Ans. Abitha kuchalamban?

21.Would you ever consider living abroad?
Ans. Ippo enna pannitirukenam?

22.What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
Ans. enma earth-a kodumai paduthinadhu pathalaya unaku? Un fellow bloggers ellam ulladhan irukanga..po po ;)

I tag..I tag...is there anyone who hasnt done this yet? Logic, ezhudareengala? Vishy, how about you? And ammu? Ajay, you gotta do this, ezhudhidu idhai. And then vsr, bala.g, krk and bindhu. And I will pick up from the comments too and add the list later. Yaam petra kodumai peruga ivvaiyagam he he..yaravadhu mudiyadhu soneenga..I will start spamming your blogs ;) with the same request.

Chiku buku chiku bukku railuu...

Indha nalla London managar-la trains odudhu-nu ellarkume theriyum, aana enna azhagula odum theriyuma? Everyday in some networks, there would be some delay, some engineering work...so eventually late-a varardhu normal-ana vishayam. And if you arrive on time, well, that's a bonus!

Naan ennoda 2.5 months tenure-la oru thadavai kooda on time vandhadhe kidayadhu en office-ku. Podha kuraiku ennoda nalla lead en time sheet naan parkareno illayo, avar correct-a vandhu naan eniku late-a vandhen, enniku off eduthen ellam track panni vandhu sollitu povar. Yet another aspect in my life here is that, I keep shifting residences..idhoda 4 idathula stay panniachu, just like my career, my residence also keeps changing. Ippodhan Sunday aniku I moved to the 4th place (oh yeah, and the next day my brother left for India).

Monday aniku I started for office - idhu pudhu idam illaya, so I didnt know the exact station and stuff and only knew the overall picture (en mobile eduthukka marandhutten, to ask others from same area). I had a meeting by 9:15, so I was kind of rushing. So station-lerndhu I took a train to London Bridge which was good, just 20 mins travel. Ippo London Bridge pathi yaravadhu periya expectations vachirundheenga-na marandhudunga, it is just like our normal bridge over Coovam.

London Bridge-la irangi I took the Northern Line to Moorgate, en office-la niraya per andha station-ladhan iranguvanga, so I thought I could go there. Train erittena, adutha stop vandhadhu..Bank. Normal-a naan previous edathulerndhu Central line eduthu varumpodhu my train passes through Bank, and it is the stop just before my stop. Aaha, Bank vandhuduche, namaku Central line edutha easy and familiar-achenu I got down.

Erangi suthi parkaren, platform-la central line indication-e kanom!! Seri padi eri parpom-nu eri ponen, partha Monument station-nu potruku!! Aaha, eppoda Bank station Monument station-a marichu-ntu kozhambitte suthi partha District and Circle lines dhan anga nikkumam! Hayoo, ennada idhu-nu frantic-a edhir platform partha, there was a board saying Central line. Seri-nu platform cross pannen...panna udane, the arrow indicated the stairs going dpwn. Seri ok-ntu padi iranginen, irangina vandhudum-nu. Irangina udane, left indication irundhudhu..ok fair enough, left-la thirumbina platform poliruku-nu thirumbina...the indication said go straight.

Ok, kona dhooram dhan-nu nera pona..there were stairs going up, so I climbed the stairs. Appovum platform kanom..innoru board said go straight..and there was yet another set of stairs, and the board said climb the stairs!! idhe madhiri 7 thadavai I had to go straight and take stairs up and down :( For every staircase reached, I was losing my energy and kadaiseela I was almost staggering! By now I had missed the Northern line which would have reached Moorgate in one minute, a circle line that would have reached in 5 minutes, and when I saw the arrival board, it said the next train is due in 6 minutes!! Ada kodumaiye, idhuka naama ivalo kashta pattom-nu time partha...it was already 9:30! Breakfast missed, meeting missed, train also missed!!!

Office reach pannumpodhu mani was 9:50 AM, and the kodumai didnt stop there, I opened my calendar only to see that the meeting was only next week!!

(Seri seri ok Bala.G, enna enna line inga pogudhu-na - Central, Piccadilly, Hammersmith & City, Northern, Jubilee, District, Circle, Bakerloo...idhuku mela edho 2-3 iruku. But dont ask me where these lines go, these lines cover the whole of London. Circle line mattum, as its name depicts, goes round and round covering specific areas..so thoongina kooda you can still go to the place you want sitting in the same train. I dont want to cover the stations, that would be too much, but what I was mentioning was that "Bank" is just before my usual stop Liverpool St via Central line, and unfortunately it is just before my new stop Moorgate too via Northern line. Adhanala kuzhambi poi naan irangitten. Avalodhan...ippovavadhu edhavadhu vilangudha?)

Ethamayya etham unaku romba..

Sila pala varam munnadi I had posted that I had an interview with the client illaya..adhoda results enaku oruvazhiya indha varam dhan therinjudhu, 2 days ago. Idhu romba over dhan, irundhalum they were interviewing other canditates too and finally arrived at a conclusion that I and another person can get into the role (mathavanga evalo kevalama pannirupanga-nu yosichu parkaren ;))

Idhula enna kodumai-na, I never knew I was selected. No one told me that I had been taken in, matha means (adhavadhu en peers/discussions) vazhiyadhan enake theriyudhu naan selected-nu! Oru canditate vandharu, avarai kootikittu en desk-ku vandhu "She is Usha, she is moving into so and so role" appadi-nu solranga...and enake appodhan theriyudhu 'oho naama ippadi vera oru group-ku porom'-ne!! Idhellam over-a therila? Move panna pora enake therilayam, evano oruthan interview-ku varan, avankitta ennai pathi solranga!!

But there is one good thing, enaku en current boss kitterndhu vidudhalai vidudhalai vidudhalai!!! This guy oru kind of maniac-nu vachikongalen, avar panradhudhan correct, mathavanga enna pannalum adhu thappu and doesnt come up to his standards appadi-nra unnadhamana kolgai-oda vazharar indha manushan! For example, this guy was blaming the documentation given by another team, seridhan ivar super-a ezhuduvar poliruku (he said no one comes up to his standards!) appadinu ninaicha...ivar document-la conclusion second heading-a iruku! Idhu varaikum I havent seen a single doc with conclusion right ahead of other sections, have you?

Innoru instance-la he wanted me to give a doc on some plan, naanum poruppa complete doc koduthen..idhe ennoda keezha irukavanga enkitta indha madhiri kodutha I'd appreciate it or tell them softly that they need not have taken pains to give a complete doc. Indha aal ennada-na "may I know why you gave a complete doc?"-nran! Seri ok, namakudhan thalaivar pathi theriyume, so I said that is the template I normally use, (venam-na vitren, next time full-a tharamatten) appadinten. Ippo ungakitta indha madhiri yaravadhu full doc koduthutanga but you dont want it, eppadi react panveenga? To say the least, what anyone would say is "You need not have taken the trouble, ivalo ellam naan kekkala", that's it and that too once, right? Indha aalu, inspite of me telling him the reason once, kept on telling me about 3-4 times he did not need the entire doc in such a reproachful way, that I wasnt sure if I had committed some major mistake!!

Indha madhiri niraya instances-la romba kaduppagi, I had almost gone to a completely discouraged mode of mentality, when this news came! So jolly!! Inimel indha aal kidayadhu! Moreover, I dont have to work under a single person anymore, multiple bosses disorder-nalum, atleast I dont have to put up with a single person for a long time!! Hurrah!

Annan varuvan kadhai solluvan...

En anna has come to london to visit me for a week...so one week jooot!!! Adhuku nadula kodumai nadandha will be here, illana next week!

Meanwhile, he is writing his experiences on the trip to London on his blogspot (adiyen idea). Andha blog visit panni ennai encourage pannina madhiri make him feel welcome to the blogspace too :)

Memoirs of Badri