Kolkata

I have started adoring Kolkata more than anything since the past 7 days or so and it’s nice to be back here, to the long-known-busy-city of my dreams. Responsibilities and the management of work seem be slowly settling into a groove. This is quite an experience to deal with a bunch of people, who will quote prices for one particular job, trying to bypass the one beside, in their work-plan. A strategic approach has been adopted; else the frequent interaction with the “competitors” might be taken as a bias.

This is the first time in my life, where we are requesting someone to ask questions to whom we need to find a response: D. Just to quote a bidder “Boss, We don’t have a query...is that okay?!” It’s sometimes disheartening as well when you get to know that someone is not interested to get on with the proceedings. Then comes:- the marketing strategies.

Anyway, not going into the details, 2 very important dates in this huge sequence of events have incidentally landed on the Valentine’s Day and mera Janamdin: P respectively. Amazing... My first birthday outside Kolkata. Feels quite different. Feels quite maladroit!! Yet Job hay bhai Job!!

My colleague has been unavailable since the last couple of days which is the clear indication that he is planning to “give in” and is looking forward towards a (un) happy settled life :P . Less than a week to hell.. and he is enjoying every part of it. Go Matey Go :P

17/1/2011- Feeing Sleepy

Yeah...Writing after a long time.Last Friday, we guided a local officer to a remote office at Chimpu Valley, so you can well comprehend that we people possess such a wonderful ability to adjust to the toughest of conditions, the inconsistency of weather, the horrible-st of food and the weirdest of people with their amazing tongue-twister like accent. All eyes on the first phase of our project which might lead us to arguably, the coldest part of the country viz Tawang. It might have been a great idea to have taken a chopper from Guwahati to the snow-capped mountains, but the recent heli-disaster of the Indian Army may just come in the way of the aspiration of such unique experience. Meanwhile, there’s been an interesting addition to our E-governance team in form of Manas, who’s never short of words or expression. Furthermore, our interaction with a Bengali Officer at the Planning department is worth a go in this blog. A single event should be enough in this direction. On the first day of our interaction, the guy says “Can I get a job in PwC?!”...LMAO!! He even forced us to call his son, back in Kolkata, just to make us listen to his Caller Tune. Amazing Grace.

Well what we are learning from this project is how to purposefully delay or hasten a process, how to address people by the false recognition termed as “Sir” and how to say a tactical NO rather than a comprehensive YES.

The weather here, ummm, very unpredictable, just like a kid, its mood fluctuates in seconds. It rained quite a bit yesterday while today was very windy and cold ,considering the fact that 2 days ago, we had returned the set of blankets to the reception . I was just trying to figure out the almost-invisible range of mountains through the window, when it suddenly grew so dark that it seemed like the Sun was confused with the sense of A.M. and P.M. Anyway, in a cliché, life here is very dull and not at all happening. We need some spice and maybe the trip to Tawang is the ideal choice now. Lets see...!! Signing off for today.....