Saturday, November 14, 2009

EYE, Me & Myself

5th November
7.30 A.M, Chennai

Today I woke up as usual in the morning to get ready for office. Went in the bathroom to brush my teeth but then, I was appalled by the sight which I generally used to see in movies.

"Holy shit,
Its swollen,
Oh MY God It has become black"
talking to myself like a soliloquist looking into the mirror.

I came out in horror. I was really scared .
"Is this a real one, can't be. It was in my dreams as far as I remember" thinking deeply.
I went back and saw it clearly. No... Its real.
Again going back into my thoughts...
"But how can it be possible. SALMAN KHAN did Hit me but that was in my dreams not in real...."

I started praying to God " God, please!! make my eye as good as before.. I promise I won't Kiss KATRINA KAIF again without Salman's permission neither in my dreams nor in real life if I ever happen to get a chance also .. never .. ever... I promise "

It started paining like anything now.
I tried waking up my room-mate. But as usual he was still sleeping.
Then, I again tried waking him up but this time harder. He woke up and was suddenly affrighted after seeing my face right in front of his.

"What the hell has happened to your eye"? asked my room-mate really in a state of shock.

"It's swollen and its hurting me a lot man"... trying to open my eye fully.

I showed my condition to all my house-mates and as expected all were horrified.

They started to make fun of me.

"He must have tried to hit on a girl who has a boyfriend I guess.. that's why this black eye" said one of my house mate and all started to laugh just to make the situation lighter.

Then, they asked me not to come to office like this and have my eye checked with a good doctor in city.

I took leave that day. I took rest in home. My eye condition worsened by afternoon. The swelling was more. I could hardly open my eye and water was continuously flowing out of my eye and on top of it i couldn't bare the pain anymore.
I was feeling as if something was eating my eye from inside.
I started having head-ache.
Trust me, this was a like a 3rd degree torture to me.

I took an appointment and consulted an eye specialist.
There was a pus formation in my eye it seems.
The reason for this is my Body Heat( Oh My God, I am so HOT)and change in climate.
He asked me to have lots of butter milk and gave me some pain-killers and tablets to gulp it down the throat.

I took the pain-killer and the tablets and rested .

After 2 days,

the whole pus came out and my eye came back to its normal shape.

Trust me guys... I have been through hell those 3days.
Seriously, after that suffering my happiness had no limits.
Now, I could empathize Gandhiji's feelings after freeing INDIA from British after going through so much of suffering...(lol.. weird comparison but still).

I went to office that day. All of my colleagues in fact friends came near my cubicle just to see my eye. They all surrounded my cubicle as if i am a circus clown doing a performance in the office.
Seeing them all of the other officers got suspicious and they also came to see me.

Even though it was crowded I liked it. Trust me guys, I was feeling great in fact.

To celebrate my happiness, we all went for the movie"Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani" that day even though it was raining heavily.

We all were completely drenched while we reached the theatre. We all were literally shivering while watching it but was worth it... Had a great adventure on the way of reaching theatre. Probably i would write about it in my next post.

But,in short I celebrated my happiness properly. Had fun.

In fact I have learnt 2 most important things from my suffering :

1. Have butter milk everyday to cool your body to fit yourselves into the Chennai Climate

2. Never ever hit on or flirt with a girl without knowing whether she has a boy-friend or an elder brother.
No...no... Not even in your dreams...
If then also you want to.. take their permission first............ :):)

Saturday, October 31, 2009

My 1st Flight Experience (actually 3rd)

Venue : My Uncle's House, New Delhi

Oh My God, its 8.30A.M and my Flight to Chennai is at 10A.M and it takes around 1Hr minimum to reach airport.
Me : Mamaji how are we gonna make it ? It's very late...

Mamaji : Tension nahi leneka... Main Hoon Na... Why have a fear when I am here!! We will Reach there by 9.30. Don't Worry.

Oh, God finally, reached Airport alive :)... Mamaji drove across so fast that even John Abraham would have felt ashamed of himself driving so slowly in 'DHOOM'. Definitely, John would have thought of taking driving classes from him.

What was he thinking ? He was Driving as if he is the Godfather of Michael Schumacher


This reminded me of Trinity carrying the Key Maker on her bike and wading through the traffic in Matrix. Certainly now I could empathize his feelings.


The only thing i was doing was Chanting all the God's Names present in this world so that at-least one would save me :)

He dropped me and left. I was little tensed and nervous as I was traveling by flight after a long long time. I remember last time I boarded a flight was in my 8th Standard from Bombay(Oops, its MUM+BAI now) to Baroda .

Adding my nervousness is that I forgot my Mobile in my Mama's house. Again trouble.

Went in. I went near the counter and stood in the queue. Then, I suddenly remembered that i have to have my luggage scanned . Scanned my luggage and came back to the counter.. It was almost 9.45.

Two People ahead of me. Time was running out.
To my horror, my name was being announced . It made me more tensed. I Took my ticket by 9.50.

Still have two more security checks to go as I have a lap-top with me.
I was literally running around the whole of airport. People there must have by now recognized that I was the one whose name was being announced.

I passed my last security check and there was a final announcement for me.
I literally ran towards the gate to catch the bus. There was a bus specially for me to take me to the flight. I was feeling good. Special bus service for me. Trust me it feels good in fact great.

Alas, I came near the plane to board. I guess I was the last person to board and the feeling that the whole plane was waiting for me was putting me on cloud 9(don't know how many layers of cloud are there but still).

The moment I went in the plane all the passengers were looking at me as if I was an Alien-have come from different planet or as if I am a notorious criminal. I went in to find my seat and to my astonishment I got a seat between two beautiful ladies(6-7yrs elder to me I guess but its OK)

Wow, I couldn't have asked for more. All the hurdles which I have faced in the airport is worth it. It was like a dream come true.

I love you God... I love you very very much..

To my right was from Texas,US who came to India on business trip and to my left was from Chennai only.

Oh, I forgot to mention about the air-hostesses. Guys believe me they were pretty beautiful. I was feeling as if I was in Heaven surrounded by beautiful ladies.

I was in my own dreamland. The Texas lady and myself took the place of Shahrukh and Kajol and started singing a romantic song " Tujhe Dekha to ye jana sanam..." from 'Dilwale Dulhaniya le Jaayenge' and the beautiful air hostesses at the backround...

Then, suddenly coming out of my dreamland I asked her name and why was she in India?

She told her name and told me about her business trip.

Then what, BINGO.. our chat started. She asked me about my whereabouts.

Suddenly during the chat, our flight took a turn and I got frightened. I just held her hand and our eyes met.

I fell deeeeeeep into her eyes and started singing "Kuch Kuch Hota Hain" suddenly realising that I was day dreaming.

Then, she told me about her husband and her daughter(there goes my heart into the water,ruining my dreams).

Then, I maintained distance and we chatted the whole journey and Felt amazing.

I have become International now.

Finally our destination arrived. She took my e-mail Id and hugged me ( Again a song at the background). :)

I bid her adieu and took a Taxi and went to my Guest House.

This was the most memorable journey of my life I guess till date.

The next day was my joining date in the company. So took rest the whole day.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Kitchen Horror..

"I love u very much.Will do anything for u.. bring stars or moon whatever u say my dear"
Priyanka...
you are my Life..
we will cut an apple together with a Knife,
The truth is, u r far better than Katrina Kaif..
even I am a better fielder than Mohammad Kaif..
so tell me will u become my WIFE??? " proposed her with a Ring.(Wah Wah...)

Priyanka: "wake up Murthybabu"
I was puzzled.. what is she saying...

then suddenly water splashed on my face and i woke up...
It was my Mom- "wake up Murthybabu... its 11 A.M... By The Way Who is this Priyanka?"

Me: who Maaa... rubbing my eyes...

Mom : Priyanka!!! don't u remember? u were just proposing her... who is this girl?(looking suspiciously as if she is ready to eat me up)

Me : Maaa... its Priyanka Chopra the movie actress...

Mom : Seriously you are good for nothing... I wonder how did u get a job. Did u actually see your name in the selected student's list?(smiling)

My college was over finally after lot of fun and yeah struggle, u can say.. seriously everyone should agree that those were the best of days anyone can have in their lifetime.. golden days...

My date of joining the company was one and half month later...
My parents were pestering me to joining a gym and build up some body as I have become very thin after having such a delicious food in college mess for almost 4yrs which had no salt, no spice,Dal's and even sambhar contained mostly water and that too mineral water(the only savior). That's it. Trust me, the food used to be delicious :)

I agreed to go to the gym from the evening...
In the Mean time my Mother asked me to learn so called "COOKING"..

Me : Maaa Me and Cooking!!! No Way !!
You have given me birth to eat and flourish Maaa, not to cook... Did u forget!!

Mom : Shut up!! Talking too much huh.. look at Ankit.. He knows everything...And moreover my future Daughter-in-law would love me for having you taught COOKING..

Oh By the Way Ankit Srivastav is my best of friends -a tall, dark, handsome(?) guy and Intelligent(at least the GENT part is correct). I Hate him when my MOM belittles me and praises him.

Coming back to the kitchen scene..

I obliged and agreed to cut vegetables first. I took the knife in my hand to cut the vegetables but it looked as if I am ready to murder them in that posture.

All the vegetables to be cut were kept on the table.I had this feeling after seeing them that they were having a conversation within them " Is this the person who is gonna cut us today? Sounding pretty excited."

I started cutting the vegetables one by one..aloooo, tomato...etc..
At last came onion and cucumber.. I peeled of their outer cover first and then started cutting them into pieces when i heard onion Cursing me:

"What are you doing.. Are You cutting us or hurting us?
we know that you want to cut us and fry,
but i assure you the moment u cut me, I will make you cry.."

Me : Wah Wah.. praising its poetry,then suddenly realizing that I am Hallucinating .

"Done with cutting" I felt but I could again hear some voices from the plates.
It was as if onion and cucumber were making fun of me in front of others by saying "This guy is good for nothing. Can't even undress us properly ".

I was done with the cutting part and went for cooking them under my mom's guidance.

To my horror, food was pretty tasty... The road side dog was eating properly.. It had a Delicious lunch today.

Seriously I suck at Cooking.. Not my cup of tea...

I am only good in eating not making. My whole vacation was over by just eating and sleeping.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Journey to the corporate life

College Interview 14 feb 2009...
Venue : National Institute Of Technology,Warangal

I was waiting for my turn for interview fully tensed after going through the stringent selection procedure of written test and GD....A damn "DO or DIE" situation for me... Around half an hour left for my turn... my heart was pumping rigorously, knees were shaking hard guess what, place a glass full of curd over it, you can have easily have instant LASSI. I was literally frustrated waiting for long and getting rejected in some... More so when some of ur close friends are placed and u r left behind...

Moreover adding to my misery, it was a valentine day... everyone were out there enjoying their dates with their girls and here i was having a date with the company ... believe me it sucks man...

The 3rd candidate has come out... I was fifth... I was asking everyone what are they asking about in the interview... All of them had a common question "what constructive thing did u do in your 4yrs coll life??"

I was lost in that question... "Did i do anything constructive in these 4yrs"... except studies i did everything especially food stuff .. almost covered the whole of Warangal and Hyderabad restaurants... tried everything even if its bizarre ... accompanying me in my whole crime scene throughout was Gururaj (now in US)... epecially if there was a buffet system ,we used to starve ourselves the whole day and hog like pigs in the evening like we have never seen food in our whole lives...fully utilising whatever we have spent..actually more than that... finally there was a time when restaurants used to have a buffet system but was not applicable to us( actually lil exaggerated)...

My turn for the interview came....
Went in and greeted with a firm handshake( the only thing learnt from my profs that it shows your confidence level)... But his was a knuckle crunching one... (ouch... i guess that's why people used to say to have a great body man... now i understand...) but i don't mind as long as they gimme a job in their company...

Interviewer : " Tell us about yourselves?"
Typical question asked by any interviewer..
Me : Sir, I am G.S.Narsimha Murthy, Metallurgical & Materials Engg....
Did my schooling from so and so... then came straight away to a point to impress them about my leadership and team building activities citing examples which was very much exaggerated as usual done by any individuals to get a job by hook or by crook...believe me...

Interviewer: "tell us about your hobbies?"

After hearing this i was in my own thoughts... do i have a particular hobby?? ohh yeah i do ...

Books(kinda allergic), playing T.T(lost to an 8th standard student) ,Lawn Tennis(hit a sixer in that),Listening Music(all dogs bark the same), Photography(though haven't taken any pic), Playing Guitar(stopped after breaking the strings of my friends guitar after playing for the first time whose price i am still paying him in EMI's..)
No No way... i am not gonna say that...

Me : I told the answer which is mostly expected by the interview and which impresses them... something constructive... there i score a point....

Then for almost half an hour they went on with the technical stuff which i am not gonna write here and evade u from reading my blog....

Finally at the end of the interview they asked me something which puzzled me.

Interviewer : So finally Murthy.. do u have a girl friend( as today was a valentine day)?

I was in my thoughts... yup I do... no wait..was she my girlfriend?.We dated for over a sem I guess... certainly it was more than friendship but I guess less than love... don't know what was that... Perhaps if I would have put a serious effort we would have been a couple... wow.. me with one of the most beautiful girls of the campus. Anyways never mind,she deserved a far better guy than me(and she got it).

Me : coming out of my dreams,gave a typical answer.
With a smile on my face ... No Sir. I don't... trying to become as innocent as possible.
Interviewer : why?

Me : (faking at its peak) basically I am lil shy sir with girls... from childhood I was totally into boys stuff... gaming always... so never thought or saw any girl with those feelings.(Weird reason)( oh my God!!!I have become a glib liar)

I am sure they did figure out that I was lying... never underestimate your interviewer.. they have also been through this stage...

My interview was finally over.... came out in relief...

The results came out at 6 in the evening... I was one of the candidates who was selected in the company... i was very happy... my date with company was successful... now i also have a girlfriend(the Company)..:)

ohh By The Way,I forgot to mention my company name isn't it. I have got my dream company which deals with oil and gas which i always used to dream of, not because of the field but because the amount of money involved in it.
I called up my parents to feel the shimmer in their eyes which I wanted to see for a long long time but never got a chance...

This day is the most memorable day of my life... will never forget....

That night we had a boozing party and i for the first time in my life drank properly and was totally drunk only to wake up next morning finding myself lying on the floor of my hostel terrace along with others....

thank you everyone.
Will soon catch u all up in my next post...