Friday, October 10, 2008

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

Thursday, October 02, 2008

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.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

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