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Jan 20, 2015
Been a while...
It's been a long time since I made, what has become, an annual post on this blog.Why do so many a blogger start at least one post with a similar implication. BrainSqueeze for another moment.
The change in work environment has made learning new tricks for this old dog inevitable. New people, new processes, new thinking. My inherent need to classify and categorize events, people, things has put me again in a situation where sizing up the environment with questions has got me very busy.
The number of interactions may not have changed, however physically proximity to the people involved in the interaction has changed drastically. Loads of people in different locations spread across the geography on the right side of conventional map - ASIA and PACIFIC.A picture would be in order at this point.
The change in work environment has made learning new tricks for this old dog inevitable. New people, new processes, new thinking. My inherent need to classify and categorize events, people, things has put me again in a situation where sizing up the environment with questions has got me very busy.
The number of interactions may not have changed, however physically proximity to the people involved in the interaction has changed drastically. Loads of people in different locations spread across the geography on the right side of conventional map - ASIA and PACIFIC.A picture would be in order at this point.
Making sure you're not stepping on any one's toes is a big part of this new environment. Hopefully, being at the receiving end of this situation will not happen. As the days progress and months pass by every interaction is reduced to mere emails that must be worded in such as way that the message is not only put across but is read with equal diligence. Short and to the point are at this time 'relative' terms. Some mails need to be 3 paragraph long with 5 sentences in each paragraph. While others are the regular 'FYI' types.
Hang on! is this heading anywhere?
I guess not... THE END
May 1, 2013
May 21, 2012
I FIXED IT !
We got an analogue BEN10 watch for EJ couple of months ago.
Needless to say it stopped working a little after it lost it's novelty for him
[which was about a week ;)] On recent inquiry, he was forced to look for it and
reported it bust. So I declared it be FIXED instead of a purchasing a new one. After
the local clocksmith diagnosed it as a case of dead power cell [even before
opening it K] the
argument against me was the cost of repairing versus purchasing a new one. Cost
of power cell $1 [Rs.40] Much opposed by all family members, I GOT IT FIXED.
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| The fixed Ben10 wristwatch |
After
a couple of hours we realized only the seconds hand was moving and the watch
may end up showing the correct time only twice a day. On the way back home, I stopped at the same
clocksmith and demonstrated the problem. “Uska ‘movement’ change karna padega,
saab”, once again without even removing the panel at the back of the watch L. The “movement” cost $2 [Rs.80] and entailed replacing the
whole small machine inside !!!! Yet, again after a token debate with family, I FIXED
IT. Total cost of FIXING $3 ; original
cost of watch $2.5, which when added up is not far from the cost of the current
demand of a Chelsea/Drogba watch - $7. [Football being the “flavor of the month”]
Through this experience JC observed silently and my “zidd” [Indian
equivalent of something in between perseverance and stubbornness] bore fruition
now that he’s started interjecting in between most conversations - “we kin oviously
get a new one, but lets try en fix it, toh!?!”
PS – note its ‘oviously’ not ‘obviously’ ;)
Jan 2, 2012
May 21, 2011
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