Why I Love Stress!

Not a professional regular but there are days when one has got nothing to do at all. That means simply sit idle and stare at the monitor screen. I hate whenever this happens. I always like to be loaded up with tasks. One after the other, tight deadlines, workload and victory after the mission is accomplished. Quick smoking breaks look necessary, not excuses getting out of the development facility. When one has a full hard work day, it feels great to get out and have some fun. I think a dead day like this makes it worse in the evening leading to depression which does not end till late night.

When have a full hard work day, one wishes to go home have dinner, take walk or watch a movie and go to a much deserved sleep.

When there is a dead day, one preys all day for the day to come to an end, go home, the boring vibes continue, have dinner, do not like the food due to laziness, do not go for a walk as not in the mood to talk or walk, nothing comes on TV, all movies are watched already, life seems meaningless and questions such as why am I living this life comes frequently and no sleep till 3 AM.

SO! This is why; I always like to have a full-on loaded stressful workday.

In Business

Hey! It looks like I missed the name of another movie I saw last weekend, it was ‘The Ugly Truth’. Got to see its trailer on some channel last night and I got to know the miss.

Here!

In office prepared the timeframe chart for implementation of the Internet Marketing and Optimization which I proposed in the meeting to the higher management. I think it is a good plan but to execute it, it will take dedicated resources and I doubt that we have any in spare. So all the kick in will start with management to decide if they are in for new recruitments.

Design team here is a bit worried as they think it is going to be them trained and groomed for SEO activities. I assured them but the doubt remains.

Ashu called in and said he is coming next week from Indore to Vadodara for an interview at my company. It is good and I think it will be for his betterment if he comes in.

Rest is fine!

Light and Darkness

I am requested to finish the content for a friend’s pet project’s website and I think this is a pretty interesting task as this project may go a long way and evolve in a potential software company with all the ground prepared with best of class technology.

I am certainly not going to name him or the project until it’s out there in fall next year but can tell you that its more than an idea. A well prepared and thought after business plan to just strike at a right time at the right place. We have been discussing this plan over a long time now and though I have enough workload at office to keep me from thinking anything else, but I just cannot admire the minute details of consideration.

Let’s hope this turns out well.

Out in the office, now as the basic activities are not so frequent, I can go ahead and prepare the milestone plan for the four websites as discussed in post presentation meeting early last week.

Priyanka calls me and says I miscalculated the number of subjects in my last post and she is examined for and its 9 in all and only one to go this Friday.

Some sad news also came this Saturday and I was so uncomfortable with those that I did not blog about them. A very close childhood friend of my father passed away last week. My father looked pretty upset about losing a friend of a life time.

As if this was not enough, he told me that our dog Jacky ran away from home at Sanawad almost a month ago and did not return till now.

I am just hoping that he returns soon. Everyone in the family is sad about this too.

Cannot write further… I am Feeling bad.

Weekend Movies

Weekend gone by was rainy at Indore. We stayed indoors and while I watched 6 movies and tried a hand on Farm Ville at Face Book, Priyanka was studying. She is done with 4 of her exam papers and only 2 more to go plus some viva and one internal. I still do not understand how the brilliant professors at DAVV schedule the exams.

Anyways, Movies I watched, 6 of them!

Here are the star ratings for a change from the regular writings that I do!

1. The Proposal – ***/5 – Always liked Sandra Bullock and Rayne Reynolds looked perfect for his role!

2. Dance Flick – */5 – Do not know why I still watch these idiotic movies, just waste of time.

3. Monsters Vs Aliens – **/5 nothing too exciting, no novelty.

4. 17 Again – ***/5 – Could have been better, but an Okay watch.

5. Imagine That! – ***/5 – Good acting, good concept. Eddie Murphy needs to get out of his all father roles and do something new.

And the best of the lot!

6. The Hangover – *****/5 – BOY! Mad! Crazy! Funny! Though the beginning reminded me of another movie which stared Cameroon Diaz as the bride-zilla but, in it all goes fun there after!

If you have not seen it yet, grab a copy from your local DVD parlor (or download via torrent) now!

As it was not enough, movie buff like me got into theater last night with usual suspects my boss – Mr. Apurva Shah and my room-mate, Anukul. The movie was a kind of edge-of-the-seat end-of-the-world don’t-blink-or-you-will-crash-on-Mount Everest.

Yes, you guessed it right, 2012!

It was a movie made for theaters. No doubt it was a house full affair for a Monday late night all English show in Vadodara Inox.

Work is going just fine and in command at the moment.

Rest later!

Office Party and Weekend Plans

What is this entire buzz about Farmville on Facebook. One of my friends asked my credentials to just play there and passed on so many messages. I am curious to know what it is all about. I cannot access it from office but surely will checkout from home tomorrow.

Home, as it comes, I’ll be travelling tonight to reach Indore by tomorrow morning and as of Vadodara, have finalized, paid and signed the agreement of rent with the owner of the house. I’ll be moving there on 1st next month.

People here are not too excited about the company’s official party which is to take place on 22nd November, because first of all it is on Sunday, two, Vadodara Marathon is in the morning and a concert is to take place in the evening.

I am not going to attend it because will prefer to be with my beloved then some sit-while-they-perform type show. No dance, no drinks… boring! (I am not sure if this even qualifies as a party)

Hungry now! Going to grab my bite and then will be heading for my place to collect some cloths and then go to the railway station.

Bye!

Wondering what to call this post!

In a long time, once again the blues have returned. I am just trying to cope with the feeling of sudden loneliness while people all around me. Is it normal to feel that way sometimes?

It feels like end of the world depression and alone going to face the doomsday.

It is not that I am afraid, just feeling so blue as if everything is meaningless and nothing can cheer me anymore.

As if Dementors are all around sucking the happiness from the world.

I know that I’ll be meeting Priyanka over the weekend and soon after that I’ll be moving her here. I’ll be meeting with my friends over the weekend and then there are some cool parties to happen in Amit’s wedding as well as a meeting with Priyank is due after he became a father to a baby boy last month.

I called him to check his weekend plans but it seems that he is preoccupied in some birthday party of his cousin, mind you one year old cousin of his. I am also invited as I am brother-in-law to that little girl, yea; she is my wife’s cousin too.

So this explains another point as I do have had my weekend planned already by someone else here.

Meanwhile, just changed my twitter background to Pune Memories, http://twitter.com/dushyantmk, please follow and let me know if you are there!

House, which I have almost finalized, comes without fans and lights, so need to look somewhere else. Crap! I sincerely do not feel doing all this stuff, I feel so dreadful doing all this god-knows-how activities. Another thing I hate doing is to look for a LPG cylinder for kitchen. I also need a moral support while visiting a barbershop. I hate it when one has to sit for half an hour on a chair doing nothing at all and even more when the barber talks to someone or takes a break to has tea or gets a call.

Complain mode due!

I went to a wedding in the launch hour. It was Deepak Nair, an old friend from Indore got married here in Vadodara, just wished him, had lunch and returned to work.

Kunal Pathak, another very good and old friend from my school days sent his wedding invitation via email. Funny, you can never get lost online! His wedding is going to take place a day before Amit Jain’s and Vishal Soni, another friend from school time sent his brother’s wedding invite (you guessed it right! Email again!)  And that is for next weekend. Hummm…!

I think it will be better if I call it a day and watch ‘I am Legend’ on HBO!

Ciao!

PS: Oh man, broker just called and will be going to see another house now.

Rains and Cities

The storm has run out of gas and now it is only rains we can expect here! Funny thing, it is quite cold and rainy out there. It is colder then I was expecting Vadodara to be any time soon.

I have got the tickets for this month’s weekend travel printed. There is much going on here. After this weekend, next is the annual event of the company will take place but I’ll not be there, as have to attend another function in Indore and next to that have to make sure Amit Jain gets married!

Home, as I said, is almost final and just has to see it one more time in day light and do the final agreements and stuff before I can move there.

These rains and cloudy weather has caused nostalgia all around. Yesterday I was thinking about Pune and friends, today it was all Indore, but dude, this time is also going to be a thing of past and one has to live in today to live every moment.

Pune days were fantastic and it shows from my blogs whenever I go through older posts. Indore life was not too much documented as I was not getting enough of motivation to write and 360 was almost dead then.

As the outcome of the presentation I have to submit a time frame deadline structure to the management for execution approval. I am waiting and counting the tasks in hand so that whenever we get a green light it can be moved without interruption.

I think we have done quite well on the one site we have in hand and a compilation of 4 website is certainly going to be exciting. I know it is not that easy, but who said life will be a cake walk?

‘She has got no money, her clothes are kinda funny and her life’s a mystery… Oh but… Love grows, where my Rosemary goes and nobody knows, like me’ – Edison Lighthouse

Vadodara! Work, Life and Social Life

Oh! In the rush of post presentation butterflies, I forgot to mention that this weekend I went to Narmadiya Samaj Gujrat’s meeting which was held in circuit house Vadodara and was surprised to see so many ND fellows there.

Also as this was the first weekend and I had to attend many meetings here in office, i did not get a chance to visit Indore.

Now counting days for Friday to come!

I think I have found the house where I’ll be moving next month or may be 15th this month. It is a beautiful tenement and I am sure my family is going to love it.

Rest later!

Dushyant Gives a Big Presentation

As the day comes to an end, here is something to make a lot of comes. Today I gave a big presentation on Internet Marketing activities for company and associated sites to the CEO, VP and Managing Heads. It took a week to prepare and was shot down by my manager this morning so I had to do it again all day.

I think it turned out well and I was able to project the message I was trying to put across the management.

As the next steps are invited, it makes sense to me that a milestone chart from here onwards is in the direction of the team formation for Internet Marketing. My CEO offered 4 websites for these initial activities and asked us to propose the plan for each.

My boss feels that in the presentation, I was a bit on the tech side, but as I can assure you that this meeting was primarily planned as a tech session to the marketing team and turned out a board presentation, it was the mindset which might have affected it, but anyways, point taken.

Another issue that he sighted in my presentation was my fluency. He says you not even breathe and speak in an uninterrupted flow. Blame that to butterflies.

But as he puts in the good words, it was all well in the end and now I am waiting for the next inputs from management on this so it can be moved in to practical implementation.

Crap! My mind is still not out of those thoughts… I hope it went well.

Dushyant says,

By: Dushyant Kanungo

My Journey back to Vadodara from Indore this Sunday night was not fun. The compartment I was in was filled with people for one family travelling together for wedding to the bride’s place. They have almost 50 out of 72 berths in the train and many of them were on RAC trying to fit in. A lot of kids were crying and ladies singing and shouting at each other.

It was a mess of a situation. And when I got some sleep, one of the administrators of the whole party woke me up saying our station has come while it was still 5 AM. Train reached Vadodara at 6:30 in the morning and I was dead tired of the journey.

Anyways, reached office and wrote the piece posted right before this one for one of the company blog and SEO activities, promised them to put it on my blog with a back link. Rest of the day went fine. Finally I have managed to initiate the search engine activities at my company which actually were outsourced to some other company. I consider this as a decisive moment in my career as if it all turns well; the credit will be mine or else will be termed as an experiment failed.

Priyanka went to attend her first examination paper today for the last semester of MBA and as she puts it, it was alright. I bet my cow on it that she’ll get at least 70 in this paper; why girls always so insecure about results? She sometimes reminds me of Miss Hermione Granger, without Hermione’s nagging about studies stuff and pushing Harry and Ron around.

Now talk about girls, my favorite niece Isha, 9, is on her maiden school tour to Rajasthan and that too for 7 days, no less! I am sure that the whole family will be in for stories and more stories for next 2 months when she returns. I believe that this tour will definitely make her learn many things about family, friends, life and self.

Friends! Amit Jain! He is getting married! Yes, Amit is getting married on 29^th November and I am going. This is really an important moment as every one of us sharing the J-55 LIG room at Ashu’s backyard will be married then. I wonder who is going to be married next. Ashu, Nikhil or Taklu? I cannot remember anyone next in that line.

Anyways, a lot is going on around.

Priyanka and I have decided to move to Vadodara in December after she finishes her exams in Indore and I am planning to look out for a room this weekend.

Rest later!