On-site laments

Whenever I hear people going to US, UK, Canada or some damn place outside India regarding their on-site assignment, it bugs me off. Every one in the Indian software industry knows, the on-site assignment opportunity is just a lucky affair, due to number of reasons. I don't want to pour my heart on them (did enough pouring with my friends).

Now, people (friends) have found new way of informing about their trip. They forgot the age-old telephone to mails, chat and newly Orkut updates! Thanks to Orkut, now people get updated when their pals change their profiles. Now, on-site ppl just update the country and city fields and the mass broadcast to friends happens. Take a look at the following pic. The top portion of the image is a mail and the bottom ones are Orkut profile updates!

Nothing beats having to see places, where most of us plan ten times before deciding, at the expense of employer. Few of my friends told me thats a pleasure to go, except when your are fumed by your official work! It doesn't need genius of a mind to guess the correctness of above fact. But when a person is lamenting as I do, and then if that person get mails like below ones from his so called US returned friends, it #&%@# you out of life.

A snapshot of Inbox

P.S.:

To those people whose names are included in the images: Enjoy your stay and keep sending whatever you want to. :)

The burglary - the feminine touch

It was 29th August, evening 7 pm. Me and my friend returning to our rented cum shared (by four people) house in Bangalore. We were the first to arrive from work. We could see bedroom light bulb switched on from the road. My friend was in all form of mood to rip one of our another living mates for not switching off the light when he last left the house. The light bulb was all burning for the whole day.

When I reached for the lock of the main door of our house, I could sense something odd. The main lock pad was covered with a plastic cover. I removed it and searched for the lock, only to find the lock missing!!! In fact, lock hook was broken half. Me and my friend got shocked at the very moment. The Initial thought of burglar still inside the house with some country side weapon (thought inspired by many tamil movies) instilled chill in our spines but we dismissed it since the padlock is locked from outside. Next we rushed inside to find out what all missing. We could see the burglar had tried his/her hand on everything available in the bedroom shelves and left things untouched in the living room.



* The quality of the pics are not good.


The rest of our two living mates came and checked their belongings. The things went missing left us amusing. Few things were stolen and few very valuable things were left intact! Three things were stolen - a gold coin, Nokia 1100 phone & Sony digital camera. The gold coin was in a box along with couple of silver coins. But the silver coins were left as they were. Along with the silver coins, a Sony Ericsson phone (high end model), couple of unused Gold credit cards, pen drive, TV, passports, packaged computer devices and a brand new pair of Reebok shoes left untouched by the burglar!

We are happy rather than grieving about this burglary since, if things like credit cards, passports were stolen it would had put us in big trouble, since some of us are to travel to US in few months time. The thief had very good snack filled burglary, cos the plastic bag I mentioned, was filled with remains of Pistachios, which were brought by one of our friends from US to have them as side dish in Friday nights boozing. Unlucky dude!

We were affected by the incident to such an extent that we started to crack jokes like this.

The thief must be a woman cos the stolen things and their intentions behind are:

1. Camera - Might be this female thief is an aspiring model.

2. Mobile Phone - According to an unknown survey, the average hours spent on phone by women are greater than men. You might ask men also spend equal amount of time on other end. But what I meant is the time spent talking on the phone! So this female burglar had her own obvious reasons to have mobile phone (and that too Nokia 1100 and not the higher end model of Sony Ericsson).

3. Gold coin - No explanation needed.