Category: General

Jerk….

usually refered to as something that you experience while on the road…
not the one which happens because of sudden acceleration or slowing down… not the one which happens because of pot-holes on the road…

but the one who meets u when you are driving…
the one who would change a lane without any signals…
the one who is proud of the fact that he is driving on the wrong side… and fast as well…
the one who is pround of the fact that no intersection would slow him down…
the one who is happy with entering a fast lane from a small street lane and surprise the ppl driving on that road…
the one who sees that that the ppl in front of him on a traffic-signal are moving but would still honk his horn as if there were evil spirits trying to catch him…
the one who is sure that he has to overtake from the left only…
the one who does not know the difference between high beams and low beams.. and makes sure that he is driving in the high beam only…

I salute you JERK !!! May God bless you…. and save yourself from me…coz if i manage to catch you sometime… you really need HIM to save your ass !!!

on second thoughts.. i decided to google the word… and here are a few interesting things that i found about the JERK…

A jerk is basically a person without insight. He is not necessarily a fool or a dope, because some extremely clever persons can be jerks. In fact, it has little to do with intelligence as we commonly think of it; it is, rather, a kind of subtle but persuasive aroma emanating from the inner part of the personality.

A jerk, then, is a man (or woman) who is utterly unable to see himself as he appears to others. He has no grace, he is tactless without meaning to be, his is a bore even to his best friends, he is an egotist without charm.

The slang term jerk meaning ‘a stupid person’ first appeared in 1919, according to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, and became popular in the 1930s, when it was glossed in the American Mercury as ‘eccentric fellow; fool’. It is a shortened form of jerkwater, which, in the 19th century, was a remote station where a locomotive had to “jerk” water from a water tower to fill its tender.

Jerk : An unpleasant, tiresome person: bore. Slang drip, dweeb, nerd, pill, poop.

Dunno how many of us saw it on TV yesterday… I did..

and i was disgusted with what happened… almost cried with anger… the way the policemen were beating up the workers @ Honda… merciless… takes away all my faith in that deparment… there were clips being shown over and over again as to how the Lathis of the policemen were being showered on hundreds of ppl…. disgusting… one big BLACK day in the history of Gurgaon and Haryana Police.. not to forget the pain that the people who were beaten up are going through… and their relatives who at time are struggling to find out where their loved ones are….

it all starting with the 4 workers being dismissed.. i have a few friends at HMSI, they were talking about some protests going on for the last month and a half… Honda has suffered major losses in that time period.. and after what happened yesterday.. i have serious doubts about how the things would get back to normal…

Shame on the Administration of Gurgaon, Shame on the Police Department of Gurgaon… Shame on those ppl who will generate some political mileage out of it instead of trying to improve the situation.

I am late in writing what happened… and why… thanks to my machine at home.. which chose to freeze just 2 minutes before i wanted to post the message… no no.. i was not writing online.. i had written everything in a notepad… and this time.. this did not work out… anyway… here i am again.. about my thoughts on the ODM Chapter-II

I was late… well that is not usual… i hate being late or waiting for ppl who are not on time… but time was just flying as i had a number of things on my agenda for saturday.. completing some work in office… then conduction a training and a refresher, and then fixing the rear speakers of my car.. and then getting a rear curtain in the car.. and then rushing to CCD, CP for the ODM-II… hehehe this looks funny.. lemme elaborate.. rushing to Cafe Coffee Day in Connaught Place for the Orkut Delhi Meet-II.

well i was a good 30 minutes late… and i had Aseem, Bhaskar, Deepak and Akshay waiting there…
Aseem, I have known for a while….
Bhaskar, I have met once in ODM-I.. we had the meeting on the 1-Apr-05
Deepak, was not a stranger thanks to the convos we had over our scrapbooks and the Delhi community in Orkut
Akshay, was the new kid on the block, a 3rd year Engineer Student from IIT Chennai.

The usual round of introductions followed… and then we decided to pool in some moolah to avoid any confusions about who’s spending what… and how… so Deepak became the Munshiji… and we handed over the money to him…

had not eaten anything since morning and enjoyed my favorite Iced Eskimo there.. with a veg sandwhich… with the rest of the gang enjoying wat they wanted… Aseem here told a nice small story about how he got confused with the various flavours of Hot Coffee when he came there the first time… hehehe.. even i enhanced my knowledge about what is Mochachino and what is Cappachino there… for me it still remains hot coffee….

and then came in Bharti maidam… with Rahul… the only chick.. oops.. girl to join the meet… and brought with her.. yes yes!! along with Rahul.. a lot of smiles and giggles…

Met Bharti for the second time…. she is a nice chirpy gal.. with lotsa laughs… and Rahul… welll he looked like a calm composed guy… and later i found out that he was an MBA and looking forward to joining the Army… i am sure he is going to be a good Army man… God bless…

the conversations more or less revolved around fotos and cameras in CCD as we had three cams… ok 4… hehehe.. Aseem also had his Nokia 6600 which has a fairly decent camera… and the rest of them were with Bhaskar ( a fuji, finepix.. good small point and shoot digicam), Deepak ( an advanced, 5 mp Panasonic Digicam, which i btw found a li’il difficult to use… i really need manuals before i can use such gadgets… i do not think i took any good fotos from that cam… though Deepak was really good with them) and then my conventional Canon 3000v SLR ( I am really comfy using this.. i feel it gives me more flexibility then any digicam, i might be wrong.. but then… thats what i feel)…

ok back to the ODM-II… Bharti and Rahul had to leave… they had to pick someone up i guess.. and we 5 also decided to move to someplace which was quieter then CCD… and what could have been better then Pragati Maidan… wide open roads, greenery, and peace… all was available there… spent sometime there… looking at my Valley of Flowers trip… clicking some pictures… and managing 6 passes of Euphoria.. yes.. the band was to play there… some conference arranged by an insti called Pie Education… for engineering aspirants.. however.. we did not go there… time constraints..

and moved to CP again… and this time to Cafe 100… inner circle.. had some more fotos taken… and some convos about Delhi being the rape capital of india.. to how media gets the mileage outta these things.. and why some Political Parties were now realising that Aishwarya Rai is their sister and they will take Salman to the jail coz he mistreated their sister…

well… we ate and drank.. and then decided to call it a day… actually a wonderful day… Aseem and Deepak moved towards his car.. Bhaskar and Akshay went ahead to take the Metro.. and i took out my car to reach home… what a day it had been… loved it… and this is how the ODM Chapter-II came to an end….

lets see when do we have another ODM… the chapter-III… lets see where… and when..

I have a friend… =>i am sure you also have a lot of them…

she is in love( no not with me.. i am a pure third party here.. not involved in the mess)…=>i am sure you friends also love someone or the other…

the guy she loves does not reciprocate… =>i am sure you know what that feels like…

the guy she loves is a very good friend… takes care of her.. likes to talk to her… spend time with her.. but when she confessed her love to him he told her that he could not love her… ( could not… what does that mean)… and that he was feeling guilty for not being able to reciprocate and that he just could not think of a relationship for sometime..( very valid points…) he wants to think about his career at this time ( he should do that… its important).. and that he could not get married for the next 4 years ( ok.. so that timeline is set too!!) => i am sure this sounds like something you have heard or seen or witnessed or felt sometime or the other…

now coming to the issue we have been discussing for the past couple of days… she wants to get out of the feeling of love for him.. but is not able to… i asked her what is she doing to get away from the feeling.. here is what she told me..
prashant, i think about not messaging him.. but i end up SMSing…
prashant, i think about not talking to him.. but i end up TALKing…
prashant, i think about not thinking about what he did.. why he did…but i end up THINKing…

my response… my dear, every sentence that you said ends with a verb related to him only… so invariably you are doing what you are running away from… and to really avoid this… start thinking about things which end up differently… like…
i think about reading books…
i think about watching TV…
i think about walking…
i think about learning guitar…

i feel that none of these things are related to anyone outside her ownself.. its about her… and would stay about her…

why do ppl get so irrational when they think they love someone… ( include me here, the prashant about 1.5 years back… madly hooked to a girl, used to be like this…) I will talk about this sometime later… things which we do in love… and how concern becomes pestering… how questions become lack of privacy and independence…

getting back to what i started the post with….do you think i gave her the right opinion…. why do u think someone would not like the person who likes him or her.. and if (s)he does not.. then what can the other person do… after being rejected !!!

exactly 12233 kms after I got the car.. i had my first flat tyre today…. even the tyre had to choose a day like today for rest… all mud around the tyre.. and now after i changed with the Spare… i have my entire Boot Space in mud.. and the Brand new tyre all soiled too …. will wash that tyre before I put it back in the car !!!!

Tmrw I would be out of delhi for a good nine days… the plan is to go to Joshimath and then decide where I can do from there.. depending on the weather…

Looking forward to see a lot of

• Rain
• Clouds
• Hills
• Snow
• Flowers
• Lakes

May Gob be with me…

a week and a half to go before i get out of here… next friday is when my first of its kinds trip begins.. and i am really really looking forward to it… i have always read about the valley of flowers.. and i know that there is a place called AULI where you can find snow 12 months in an year.. and i have heard that Badrinath and Rudraprayag are beautiful places to be in… and now is the time when i am going there to be a part of that magical atmosphere…

i am really excited about it…

going from Delhi to Rishikesh to Joshimath to Govindghat to Ghangeria to Valley of Flowers to Gangheria to Hemkund Sahib to Gangheria to Badrinath to Joshimath to Auli to Joshimath to Tapovan to Joshimath to Rishikesh to Delhi…

phew… 8th July to 17th… Nine Days of bLi SS !!!

p.s. any thoughts and suggestions.. more then welcome….

how does it feel to have a lot inside you… and a deep desire and need to take it out… and not being able to find anyone to speak about it… i dunno whats happening to me these days… i seem to angry with everything around me… my ma my pa my friends who are not there… my days.. my evenings… bless me God for i need these days to pass by me….

if anyone would ask me what happened.. there probably would not be any answer to tat question.. coz i myself do not know… just another one of those days i guess.. where you feel that the world is just not right…. am thinking too much… too much…

on a lighter note… saw two movies.. ok three in two days… Batman Begins on saturday night… Parineeta today… liked both the movies…. worth watching for everyone who has not done that yet…

loved one song of Parineeta.. just loved it… Pihu Bole… beautiful…

Well…. i remember this activity with the name ego surf…
what you do is that you type your name in the Google Search bar… and then click on search.. and see what comes up…

to my surprise and delight.. the first three results were from my blog when i searched for prashant bhardwaj…. Go ahead… try it out yourself… but do not blame me for the results *colonD* (stole this term from Tushar’s Dictionary)

🙂 why this smile…welll this is my first post from my home machine.. yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i bought a new computer… something that i have been thinking of for over an year now… and my favorite brand (don’t ask me why) AMD is in my house…

i have a AMD 2400 XP machine with a 80 GB HDD and 512 MB of ram with a 333 mhz FSB… this babe is working like a rocket right now… compare it to the last one that i had… hehehe… 530 mhz celeron processor with a 64mb ram chip… now thats what you call a jump… world record of sorts… is it?

I am happy 🙂

Ma circle is getting better….
which circle… friends’ circle… why is it getting betta’… well here is why…

2001 : I knew ppl who were struggling hard to get a job, who were still not sure of how life is going to treat them and they were annoyed, frustrated with the kinda market we had… a pack of strugglers.. ppl who did not want to give up and had the guts and sprit to move ahead and fight the present for a better future… even i was struggling to get a place somewhere in the industry… IT did not like me.. BPO did.. and i joined it..

2003 : had made a lot of new friends in the last two years… and had seen them grow along from agents to L2 techs and team leaders.. and the ones who were with me in my masters… got jobs.. some good.. some ok sorts.. but still carried on… i was also moving ahead…. though not vertically but was maturing as a professional…

2005: another two years of hard work and play together… moved from being an Technical support associate in Wipro spectramind to a Team leader in Hughes to a Process Architect with IBM. my friends… the new and the old… moved up and ahead too…

Waquar, Ashish Saxena, Rupak , Sunil, Ashutosh, everyone is doing well.. they are from my PG batch of 2001
Waquar with HFCL.. and married too 🙂
Ashish Saxena.. finally where he wanted to be… in the core Telco work with Wipro banglore…
Sunil and Rupak with Agilent technologies…
Ashu with Motorola… he recently bought a flat for himself in Pune… good news !!!

I still remember the days when Me, Waquar, Ashish and Ashu were trying to get some companies to do a campus interviews in 2001.. what a tough time that was..

am missing out on some names here coz i am not sure where they are doing what… i guess sheetal and priyanka are in b’lore as well…
Ashraf is in Europe, Gaurav is in UK too…
and Pradeep Duggal… he joined the Indian Army in the third sem of our PG… and we have not been in regular contact since…

Jassi, Dipayan, Maya, Mansi, Aditya, Ashish, Batra.. all of them from my spectra group…
Jassi now a Group Lead in Spectra,
Dipayan a team lead in Daksh,
Maya and Mansi doing well their respective research firms,
Batra still with Wipro Banglore… he joined it after we worked together for about an year in spectra…
Adi with Microland as an assistant manager…
Ashish with his own business in digital printing.. and happily married to his long time gurlfriend Deepti, infact he still prefers calling her his girlfriend then wife…

some names that i still remember and have no clue about what they are doing..
Amit, Nash or Navneet ( i guess he is with Oracle these days), Gagan ( i used to call her Gabbar :), Dipankar, Bruce aka Vikram, Joshua, and lots of them more…

Coming to Hughes now.. a place where I think i learnt the most out of all the places i have been…
bad boss good boss bad management good management appraisal hikes work culture magicians escalations emulator green belt six sigma love hate growth

there is so much that happened there

mine was the first batch to take voice in Hughes.. and i was the ONE who took the first ever voice call which came to Hughes BPO.. actually technically it should have been Aditya Anand.. but that idiot dropped the first call.. hehehe.. so its me now 🙂 and for some reason.. Jadoo ( our intranet site in Hughes had Manish Jain’s name and foto for his historical moment) aaaaaaargh.. anyway… first batch for voice.. lotsa things to do.. all of us from the BPO background.. and also knew the opportunity that was there… me and narang were fortunate enough to realise it with Nishant who was a Team lead then… and started working on the idea… helped us a lot and it was not long before we guys were recognised and were handling teams on our own.. Team Leaders to say !!! hughes is another story to write actually.. some other time may be.. that is not the intent of this post actually…

so from ppl who were taking calls for 8 hours a day and more at times…we moved to being team leaders, assistant managers, and managers and program managers…

Me Aro Sanjit Arun Sudip Sunil Shaji Hati Jai moved from being agents to Team Leads
Narang moved from being an agent to a Team lead to an Asst. Manager to a Program Manager now…
Nishant amit now are managers from a move from Team Leaders to Asst. Team Leaders…
Vikas Naveen asst managers from being agents to Team Leads and to the current post…
Somu from a Team Lead to an Asst Manager to Business Development for HSS or FSS…

i think i have missed out on a few names here too.. but then what the heck.. remembering so many ppl and so many names 14 months after leaving the company is a good deal 🙂 so ppl whoz names are not here.. do not mind… just lemme know you are missing…

and my friends from my locality.. from the net also deserve a mention here…
Pawan aka tiger… IIM Indore.. eh…
Neha the scientist Issar 🙂 in Paris trying to figure out why don’t mosquitos have malaria…
Gaurav Japan Srivastava.. the Japani fotographer.. who still remains the same fella for me even though we were not talking for over 4 years… my teacher in fotography too..
And the person who is the reason why I wrote this post.. Bharti… how did that happen.. well i do not know… she is now an Architect from the School of Planning and Architecture.. and was very very tensed before her jury.. and i was kinda concerned too.. but as expected she is thru… done with her jury.. and a happy architect now 🙂 with a lot of time with herself.. we discussed something in detail about dreams which i might post sometime later….

was talking to her yesterday.. and thought of all the ppl i know who are success stories in themselves… ppl who have fought the present and crossed the hurdles that came in their way… and are where they are today…

I am proud of all of my friends whether you see their name here or not….

Good going everyone… Keep walking…