TSTW---Part III

April 25th Monday: So the new week began with me attending the first session of 'Risk Curriculum', which is an essential part of the training of the employees at American Express...however it isnt for summer interns coz u hav to b an employee for atleast 6 months to b allowed to sit for this...however my director was nice enuff to let me off from work for a day to attend this session at 'Uppals Orchid'...a semi-posh kinda hotel near the Airport...not that i didnt go to office after that.. i did!...like a very sincere employee!..god help me... :)
anyways the highlight of the Uppals orchid session was the decent lunch that they served and a chance to get out of office for sometime....also chatted up a bit with Sonal..a friend of Manpreets..who was one of the many Dschool ppl in amex...
made a mistake of sitting next to VG...an irritating iimb alumnus...who just went on passing stupid comments among his gang of even more irritating dschool females who seemed to b completely enamoured by him..is the IIM tag that much of an attractive charm??..i really wonder...later i went to office much against my wishes and did some well..."productive" work...
April 26th-April 29th: Again a mundane week...but the good thing was that my guide was pushing off on leav for the next week and he hardly came on friday!!..so i was a free bird for the last day of the week....and i used this godsend opportunity to rush of to Jodhpur...but had quite an adventure in reaching the Delhi Cantt railway station...the problem was that the train stops for only 3 mins..and we got stuck in the railway crossing rite outside the Mess..that crossing has been made to kill people out of frustration i feel...its forever closed!..that caused such a delay..and wat was worse was the fact that the driver didnt know the way to the station...so v got further delayed....but in the end all is well that ends well i say...i got to go home after a full 3 months!!!..never been away from home for sooo long...in college i was almost a pseudo dayscholar...wat with home being so close...but in iimb running of home is close to impossible...
so i was realllly thankful to my boss for taking leav like this...as a result of which i was able to bunk monday and got bak on tuesday...in the meantime i saw kaal...swam a bit..and enjoyed properly at home.. :)
3rd May Tuesday: I got bak to a deluge of questions from my fellow team mates abt where i was on monday..all of them enjoying the opportunity to take my case...but otherwise it was fun not having the boss arnd....just went on checking mail, orkut, ndtv.com etc. etc. ad infinitum the whole time...also got a chance of speaking to Anukriti...a former st stephens alumni...eco..rez..so lots in common basically...
5th May Thursday: i must write abt my thursday cab experience....actually the point is that on thursday the cab is different and the route has been fixed in such a crazy manner that i hav to travel the entire length and breadth of Dwarka..which is indeed quite a big place..to get to my place wen i can actually reach thr the earliest if the other cab members co-operate..but no...they want to follow the route set down by the roster just coz psychologically they feel one up on me that way....talk abt ppl!..one of these fellow cab mates is a female called sabina....adding an r wuld make it sabrina...but believe me she is not a friendly witch at all...if at all she is anything then she is a scheming shameless female...her standard practice in the cab is to keep it waiting for her after all the other cabs hav left...and then she will start talking incessantly on her cell phone so that v hav to suffer the gossip abt her in-laws through out the trip too....she will even go to the extent of calling her father in law a cad and a her mother in law a lazy slob..well..well...wat is the world coming to i ask...the result of all this is that by the time i reach my room in the mess i am so damn irritated by everything in life that i actually quarrel with my parents on the phone...but thankfully the effect of the AC in the room and the relatively prompt service out there helps calm me down as also does flipping the television to zoom television...whr u find either programs like page 3 or lifestyle or something of that sort playing...which in actuality r quite dumb programmes but for a tortured mind like mine they are succour to the soul...and i hav become quite attached to zoom tv after that...infact will b missing that channel at home...
anyways the rest of theweek passed in relative peace coz of the reason mentioned previously...and then the weekend was spent first writing out the BSF project with sudipta das...and also watched a movie with jolly called 'main aisa hi hoon'....it was quite a pathetic one waise but didnt hav any other option as we didnt get tickets for 'kya kool hain hum' which had also released the same friday...
May 8th-May 9th: boss got back so had to put up a pretence of work yet again..wat a pain bosses can b at times...it is a miracle how i survived the environment at amex... :)
one of the cabs had a major accident on tuesday...and the driver passed away...the 2 employees sitting in the cab had contrasting experiences...while the lady got badly injured...the guy survived without any scratches coz he was wearing a seatbelt..goes to show the importance of safety devices which v usually take for granted....
the next day, i.e May 11th Wednesday,..was supposed to b the town hall....i thot they wuld cancel it as a mark of mourning...but that didnot happen...infact we had a lavish dinner cum drinks party at the taj mansingh..which is the dhaula kuan one...i also had to go to college in the afternoon to get some certi work done...i had already met KRC in my last visit..it is always a pleasure to meet him..he is the one prof. who has made the most impact in my college life and i sometimes wonder wat St.Stephens wuld b like wen krc retires....but anyways i met shane again and returned his yearbook....he was leaving that day and hence was visibly excited...dunno wen i will get to see him again...he hasnt been mailing me of late also..wonder wats happened to him...
more abt the TOWNHALL and the remaining part of the hectic day in the next post...