Permanent ????

Till four months ago, there were just two meaningful purposes i was serving while i was in office. First thing was to educate the people who share my cabin about good music and the second to update them with the cricket scores. I got more famous for the latter as people from each and every corner made it a point to visit my workstation to check out the score. For reasons i till date fail to understand, these guys never keep their cricbuzz.com page open despite being the ones who need a ball by ball update of the score.
On the match days, as soon as i enter my block, i used to be greeted with these words... " match shuru hogaya ?? ". If there is a delay due to weather or something, its worse.... The same questions keep coming on over a loop!
The other day i was busy reading some cricinfo site and following the India Vs Sri Lanka match. Pathan hit a maximum and I shouted "pathan hits a six!! " with all excitement and turned around to look for Phani(the dude at the neighbouring workstation), but instead to my shock i found my Project Manager standing right infront of me holding a paper in his left hand and offering his right hand to me. I was about to go MAD!!...but he said "Congratulations". I was totally zapped!!!....(*.. is he trying to be funnny/sarcastic ??? *). But he wasnt kidding... he said, " You have been made a permanent employee, all the best" and handed over my confirmation letter. For a moment, i went blank and then gathered my composure and said a half hearted thank you. The i felt.. i guess i am paid for entertaining people!!!

You can't take my spirit!

woke up in the morning... late as usual. But today Karthick and I were very determined to cook. How much ever time it takes, I give a damn. I should have food at home today before going to work!!!. To make things easy, Karthick ran to get ready made pastas( you jus require to boil them in water). But fate struck in the middle of boiling as the gas ran out. Karthick couldn't hide his disappointment on tasting the half boiled pastas.

we looked around to find resources, but only managed to find a cigerratte lighter. We were like, whatever comes our way, we give a damn. we will finish what we started up!!! I was holding the pan in my hand while karthick got down on his knees lighting the pan with the lighter. As i was holding the pan, i prayed he was just lighting the pan!!( thank god Aswin wasnt around, he would have captured the moment in his cam and uploaded it in his blogs with his creative captions!).

As fate would strike, the gas in the lighter ran out too and the pasta was still tasting like bubble gum. we were thinking of candles, but couldnt find them. Matchbox......?... couldnt find enough sticks on it. Finally Karthick suggested, we use the electric immersion heater to get the pan heated. So, he turned the heater on and waited for the copper filament to turn red hot. Once it was red hot, he placed the pan on Filament. then we realized, the water in the pan wasnt enough, we were too lazy to reach for the water can and ended up reaching for the immediate thing available ,which was a bottle of wine!! On top of that, he wanted to add a bit of peach snapps, but I disagreed to it, as Karthick has a bad history when it comes to mixing things with wine! ( His nick names should give you an idea : Kudikaran a.k.a. Quarter Karthick)

Yes... the cooking was over. We were proud of ourselves for the accomplishment. Whatever happend we never let the fate take away our spirits. But the spirits didnt last when we had to eat what we cooked. Afterall we were determined only to cook!