I was too tired yesterday, feeling low, very slight headache. Lets get over this. Lets see how was i today.
Got up feeling good this morning. Don't know why? I think it was because, it wasn't raining. Well got fresh and went to office. I skipped my breakfast today, quite unusual though. I am serious about my breakfast. OK, here is something which i wanted to mention. Yesterday I went to a book review gathering. It was part of the library week going on in my office. It was quite interesting though. The book under discussion was "FISH". It seems that there are total four books written after the success of first book.
Well, I have seen this book on the shelf of my office library, but never cared(rather dared) about opening this book. It's some kind of inspirational book. You know these inspirational books, they always tell you what to do and what not to do. As if you already NOT have enough people to do that. But I guess it must be pretty good, as everybody were singing Christmas carols about this book. This book was about a lady who was stuck in a office space which is called toxic dump, as nobody liked each other, nobody talked to each other, no work was being done(getting done) out of the office. Basically the office was full of morons, as will I say. She didn't know what to do as she had no other choice other than to stick through this job as she was going through some hard financial situation. She was assigned as the manager there.
One fine day as she was taking her lunch walk(This story is based in San Francisco), She happen to pass through the fish market which is smelly, not clean(compared to an office space), full of noise and what not. Basically not a real fun place to work. But there she found out that all the people working there(selling fish) are full of energy and joy. They are tossing fish around, shouting, laughing, playing jocks with colleagues. She was really amused by the amount of energy at such a place.
Well she happen to catch one of the guy who sells fish there asks him the inspiration behind the same and the guy tell her four points of work/life, which is all this book is about. Attitude(of course good one) about what you do, make your work fun, know your neighbour(at work in this case) and the fourth one, I am sorry, I forgot.
Well this sounds interesting to me, but i think i will read all these four books one day. I just need to muster some courage.
During discussion, one of the colleague brought out a nice story which has really happened. Last year when the whole Mumbai was in(under) water due to heavy rains, there was a TCS customer(a client) from America or Europe not sure, but he was on a business trip to india and since he was the customer of TCS, he was given utmost respect and honour as TCS does for every of its customer. Well on his way back, he was being driven in a TCS car to airport and the car gor stuck in water. The TCS driver was so committed that he called his wife and asked her to make some parathas and bring it to him as the customer was hungry. His wife made some parathas, packed them and walked all the way in water for around 7 kms to deliver paratha. When contacted by TCS guys, he said don't worry i will make him reach airport safely over my life. He took care of him whole night and left him at the airport safley. I am sure all the plans were grounded for many days.
Not sure what makes people go such lenghts as part of their job. I am not sure if it was just the situations which change people how they react or did he love his job so much that he was totally committed. Well the story was good and inspiring.
I did bring up some points in this discussion. I honestly told that i haven't read the book and they were totally fine with it. I mentioned that here people don't smile when they look at each other which everybody conformed, but when they all know then why don't they do it? Why?
Well today i happen to do some serious work at office and sent very important mails. Now stop laughing. I do, do important work. Came back home late in the evening after passing through "Reliance fresh". Picked up some vegetables. Came home made a nice dinner while watching "Conair" Nicolas cage movie. Oh common you all have seen that movie. Finished my dinner than called Ranjan. He has safely reach back to Boston.
Well its 12:35 in the morning and tomorrow I will be going to pondicherry. I won't have access to Internet till Monday so my next blog will be on Monday night only. Probably i will upload lots of pictures. Have to get up early in the morning and pack some cloths for two day vacation on the beaches of the Former French colony.
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Rajesh Choubey 11/23/2007, 12:13 AM
Got up feeling good this morning. Don't know why? I think it was because, it wasn't raining. Well got fresh and went to office. I skipped my breakfast today, quite unusual though. I am serious about my breakfast. OK, here is something which i wanted to mention. Yesterday I went to a book review gathering. It was part of the library week going on in my office. It was quite interesting though. The book under discussion was "FISH". It seems that there are total four books written after the success of first book.
Well, I have seen this book on the shelf of my office library, but never cared(rather dared) about opening this book. It's some kind of inspirational book. You know these inspirational books, they always tell you what to do and what not to do. As if you already NOT have enough people to do that. But I guess it must be pretty good, as everybody were singing Christmas carols about this book. This book was about a lady who was stuck in a office space which is called toxic dump, as nobody liked each other, nobody talked to each other, no work was being done(getting done) out of the office. Basically the office was full of morons, as will I say. She didn't know what to do as she had no other choice other than to stick through this job as she was going through some hard financial situation. She was assigned as the manager there.
One fine day as she was taking her lunch walk(This story is based in San Francisco), She happen to pass through the fish market which is smelly, not clean(compared to an office space), full of noise and what not. Basically not a real fun place to work. But there she found out that all the people working there(selling fish) are full of energy and joy. They are tossing fish around, shouting, laughing, playing jocks with colleagues. She was really amused by the amount of energy at such a place.
Well she happen to catch one of the guy who sells fish there asks him the inspiration behind the same and the guy tell her four points of work/life, which is all this book is about. Attitude(of course good one) about what you do, make your work fun, know your neighbour(at work in this case) and the fourth one, I am sorry, I forgot.
Well this sounds interesting to me, but i think i will read all these four books one day. I just need to muster some courage.
During discussion, one of the colleague brought out a nice story which has really happened. Last year when the whole Mumbai was in(under) water due to heavy rains, there was a TCS customer(a client) from America or Europe not sure, but he was on a business trip to india and since he was the customer of TCS, he was given utmost respect and honour as TCS does for every of its customer. Well on his way back, he was being driven in a TCS car to airport and the car gor stuck in water. The TCS driver was so committed that he called his wife and asked her to make some parathas and bring it to him as the customer was hungry. His wife made some parathas, packed them and walked all the way in water for around 7 kms to deliver paratha. When contacted by TCS guys, he said don't worry i will make him reach airport safely over my life. He took care of him whole night and left him at the airport safley. I am sure all the plans were grounded for many days.
Not sure what makes people go such lenghts as part of their job. I am not sure if it was just the situations which change people how they react or did he love his job so much that he was totally committed. Well the story was good and inspiring.
I did bring up some points in this discussion. I honestly told that i haven't read the book and they were totally fine with it. I mentioned that here people don't smile when they look at each other which everybody conformed, but when they all know then why don't they do it? Why?
Well today i happen to do some serious work at office and sent very important mails. Now stop laughing. I do, do important work. Came back home late in the evening after passing through "Reliance fresh". Picked up some vegetables. Came home made a nice dinner while watching "Conair" Nicolas cage movie. Oh common you all have seen that movie. Finished my dinner than called Ranjan. He has safely reach back to Boston.
Well its 12:35 in the morning and tomorrow I will be going to pondicherry. I won't have access to Internet till Monday so my next blog will be on Monday night only. Probably i will upload lots of pictures. Have to get up early in the morning and pack some cloths for two day vacation on the beaches of the Former French colony.
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Rajesh Choubey 11/23/2007, 12:13 AM
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