My Dell Vostro

Never having been too reflective / pensive, watching the 'Boys in the striped Pyjamas' getting the gas chamber gave me nothing but a good night's sleep. The laptop hibernated for 12 hrs while i dozed in and out of a coma on my couch. My brother tried repeatedly to wake me, driven by the logic that he was, indeed, the reason I was in Kerala at the moment. he went off to lunch and locked me in at home. so it was with a horlicks power bar in one hand that i un hibernated the lappie, hoping to watch some more oscar winning mush. i picked up the crumbs of powerbar from between esacape and f1.

Dell hath no fury like a woman scorned - or so I thought. After 10 months of me 'carefully' eating crisps, candies and cake all over the keyboard and similar cases of abuse, the machine has called it quits. ciao. so long. words to that effect.

my laptop wouldnt boot

it is 4 in the morning and the reason i am still awake now is that the telephone support for dell coks off at 9pm. but u can get online chat support! But only from 0230hrs in the morning :| come on! if indian call centre employees can put in un earthly hours for americans, the philipino call centre employees shd do so for us indians! come on erra pereyra. it is only fair.

:P

waiting for the engineer to call

I've always been easily irritated.
I am currently listening to a rant by the hostel cleaning woman.
i swear. if she says the word Ganda one more time

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

what did lord krishna tell arjun/ do ur karma
he did not say.
do it,
and as u do it
irritate the crap out of kauravas by lecturing them

After working for a year in a global consulting firm, i felt i had been exposed to as much jargon as possible. As an entry level techie who was separated from the wall to wall carpet by just interns and security, i wouldnt say that i was an active user , but i have done my fair share of KT and followed the Process and attended ConCalls(just that! u call up ppl and fool them into thinkin u are listening).

My time was spent reading a lot of dilbert, walking down to the dhaba and queueing up at the cafeteria. But mostly I explored cutting edge SAP-APO concepts, wrote awesomely efficient extractors that sent all kinds of data to BW. (this is for my past and future employers)

So, back to the dilbert reading. I signed myself for a subscription (free of course, i am a mallu after all. and a Gelf one at that. which reminds me of why am the proud owner and user of a colgate 360 brush. there was this tube of paste free. note to self - tak about colgate 360). I hade a Dilbert screensaver : a searchlight that looked for office intelligence. I made references to the strips in my casual conversations. I began my day waiting for the strip to load. The strip became the highlight of my 2 - 11 day.

I used to look at the strips and say , OMG that is so totally what is happening to me right noww.

And now, 3 months into a Bschool , i am a changed woman. stripped of my naivite. i used to think i knew jargon.

Here are a few samples i picked up today . i plan to add the sarcasm later.

We do not make washing machines. We are not a manufacturing company. not an innovation company, not a technical company. We are a customer company.

വെറുതെ ഇരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ പലപ്പോളും ടോന്നരുണ്ടേ , എന്ടെന്കിലും എഴുതിയാലോ എന്നെ. കുറെ നേരം ഒരേ കസേരയില്‍ ചാഞ്ഞും ചെരിഞ്ഞും ഇരുന്നും കിടന്നും കഴിയുമ്പോള്‍, ആസനതിണ്ടേ അത്രേം തലയും വേദന ഇടുക്കും.

There are many things that make a complete man, A bath is just one of them.

I have decided to write, the many hours of boredom tht i experience when Kotler fails to amuse ..

I have now seen all the three seasons of howi met your mother, Twice! . . .i have also seen season 5 and 6 of friends, for the millionth thime. i can now recite dialogues back - wait 4 it -
wards

Today , a construction worker peed in front of my window. When my roomie made eye contact with the female worker, she got up, grinned and left. what the hell was she thinking. peeing in front of an open window. i could talk about the deplorable state of migrant labourers. or i could just be upset at having pee in my air.

of course we have dozens of dogs peeing there too...