Party at Hadows Club

July 16th

we were informed by our management that we are having a training at hadows club from 11 a.m to 4 p.m on july 16th. It was a saturday and i felt little bored because long time since i worked on a weekend. To attent a training at a club hall on a saturday would make me dumb the whole day. When i enetered the club there was a buzz around, i could feel the party mood on my supervisor's eyes. He was not letting people know there was a party arranged. I even asked him whether the training is on communication, he smiled at me and said yes. It was 11.30 a.m and we were asked to go up, when we climed the steps one by one, we could sense something different going to happen. When we entered the hall there was a loud music played to invite us for the first year anniversary of gbc reference team. This is the team that i am working in. Everyone were suprised and felt happy, one the training is not happening, two there was food, cakes and choclates etc. I felt the whole show was arranged very well by my TL,BPA and another employee in the team. They did a fantastic job in getting things together. They have arranged for a event guy, he had lot of plans in his mind. He made us play lot of games which was kiddish but suited the place and mood of the people. I had lot of fun in the party, i acted a scene with my supervisor and danced for some time. I like to be a part of attraction and want to make people feel happy by some way. When they asked me to dance, without any hesitation i started dancing. Spare me i am not a good dancer but i am not a spoil sport, if i like to do something like dance or acting, i dont mind doing it in front of anybody. I thank god who made me strong in character year by year, i never use to be in the center of a crowd. I will either feel my heart beating faster or i will feel shy. Now i came over that and i dont mind being at the center of huge crowd and perform something. I understood one thing in life, what ever we do there will be a bunch of people to comment bad about it and say good things about it. I started to take the positives and try to convert my negatives to positives. I learn lot of things from seeing people, everyperson has something smart in him. It is the way we see it and understand. I had amazing fun, probably going for a party after a long time. It was a good break for me from work, my supervisor is very cool, he understands about the mental ability of the freshers and give them the right space to do things. One of my peer danced very well for a song from the latest movie, probably the best performance in the whole party. Everybody liked it very much, appreciated her for the performance. I personaly liked it very much, the party got over at 4.30 p.m, a little late than the regular schedule. I went to my house and shared my feelings about the whole thing with my mother and father and friends. It was a great weekend. Thanks to my team members and the management.

cheers
c.j

A happy outing with my family

july 17th i went for the longest drive in our car with my family. It was early in the morning when we started for the trip. It was a plan charted out by my mom. She had a list of temples to go, she thought i would not accompany them in this is because i have faith in god, but i am not a spiritual kid. When i gave my confirmation to my mom a day before the trip, she was very happy. We started at 7.30 a.m in the morning with fully loaded in our santro car. The car speeded its way to the highways, it was driven by my brother. We had our driver accopanying us, since it was the first time we are going out together in our own car. It was a rare thing to happen because one or the other will have some work and at the end we wont be going out. This time we were sure of the trip happening, small family with four in number. The car loaded with our family, we are big in size and hence the car was not fully sufficient. My brother and the driver took the front corridor of the car and at the back seat me,mom and dad parked our seats. It was tough for me to sit properly. we reached a temple somewhere in avadi, i saw a strange thing in the temple, there was a snake house inside the temple and we have to pray and go around it. It is very famous and very powerful statue, we started going around it, the statue was in the middle, when we reached that place the lady who was going before us started shaking her hands and body, we got scared and stepped back a little after few mins she started shakin it faster, a slight fear got into us and we got back a lot, but i was very curious in knowing what was happening, i went little near and watched her, she was dancing like a snake. I asked my driver about the incident, he said it will happen in villages where the power of the god inside a person will shoot up and they will start dancing, it was strange for me to see it happening because i have seen it in movies but for the first time i saw it live. It was for few mins and then the lady became alrite. We went to all the temples as per my mother's wish, we went through andhra border and the drive was excellent and pleasant. The whether treated us very well, we had lot of fun in the car while going from one temple to another. When we reached home it was around 4p.m, everbody were dead tired because travelling 177kms in a car on a single day will make anyone tiring. The credit should go to our driver who drove the car like a true professional. In highways the car did not go less than 100kms\hr. What a sideseeing we got, truely amazing to know about god's creation. We saw lot of sculptures, which made me amazed about the talent that the craftsman possess. what a gift these people have. How many people come to watch the sculptures they create. It was a wonderful funfilling trip. Gave a good break for me from work.

Many more trips are around the corner
c.j

School life with my close friends

I am thankful to god for giving me smart friends in life. I have seen people having friends who will be with them for the sake of money and other facilities. The friends that i have are totally different. I have a friend, we were friends from the age of 8 and still going strong (touch wood). The amazing part of it was that we stayed in the same quarters and then joined the same school and same class, joined together in the same college and got our carrier started in the same office and in the same team, great feeling i have on him. One of the greatest person i can ever meet in my life. He knows to cook anything and everything and to my surprise what ever he cooks will taste awesome...yummyyyyy....i never thought we will join the same office and that to in the same team. He is one person to whom i have shared my feelings and the one whom i trust so much. We are a bunch of people staying close from school, there is a saying 'old is gold' and that is very true. I have not met any new friends who can be like what i have from school, they will do anything for me at any time. We are just very few in numbers, i always felt that, smaller the group stronger the relationship. When we were in school we use to go to beach everyday, beach became our second home. We had many friends in gals, all look great and very good in character except a few, that will always be there. In a group their should be mixture of people to make it a unique group. We also had people of different character, everyday evening there will be a place reserved for our group in the beach for us to spend some time chatting and playing with mud. That time was very nice because we were not bothered about our future and know nothing other than fun. When we entered 11th std, the real fun in our life started. The group got smaller because there were some brainy people who wanted to study more and get great marks, so they shifted themselves to stateboard. we were in CBSE and it was suppose to be tuff with regards to studies but nothing bothered me and my close friends to continue in the same school where we studied from the beginning. This was a period when we got little matured, my 11th and 12th grades in school was the best time in my life. I have never laughed so much in my life after that. Inspite of roaming with gals who were very very pretty we did not propose any gal..he he he...very decent by nature... there was a gift shop in besant nagar which gained lot of profit because of my group of friends, we use to by gifts for friend's birthday and present them. Those were memorable moments, we just had cycles for transporting us but still had the fun which we cant dream again. I just wanna add a special thing about the friend that was i talking at the beginning, he has amazing sense of humor, has the special ability of making anybody laugh at any time. The greatest gift that a person can have, addition to this he is very caring and understanding. We use to do all nonsense like all other school students, especially me and my close friend were very instrumental at lot of times in entertaining our class with the way we crack jokes. My sense of humor is not that bad, god gave me the gift of making people laugh. If we can make others happy what more you need in life. We both were bad at maths and our maths teacher use to have very hard time in making us pass in the exam. I will never forget my vice principle, he is a big guy with criminal eyes. Gods knows from where they got him, he hits everystudent, i can be proud to say that he has never hit me, probably because of my size.. he he..smart hunk.... We had 2 sections in our 11th and 12th grades and all the people like us, specially the gals. This made some guys feel jealous about us. I was a cricketer and with god's grace i achieved lot of things playing it. I use to be a little hero in school with sports, all the students knew me. When ever i walk in the corridor there will be atleast one junior asking something about me, this made me proud and i felt great. Thanks to my cricket coach who was like a friend to me. There were lot of events that happened in school which i never had the opportunity to write them at that time, but they will stay planted inside my heart. Inspite of having all the fun in school we came out successful in our 12th grade exams. Now our small group of people are getting matured and slowly but surely settling in life. We have started earning but still can't find the same happiness what we had in school. Even now when ever my group of friends meet, we chat about our school days and funny things that happened and keep laughing all the day. Anybody would like to be in our group is because what we know is to make other's happy. Friends would be very important in a person's life. A person can be judged by his friends, i am lucky in that part. I thank god for giving me such a wonderful life with lovely poeple around me.

Someday when the pages of my life ends i know my friends will be one of its beautiful chapters and if at all i get a chance to read it again i start from the first day i met them.

Hope my journey in life gives me the opportunity to meet wonderful people
C.J

At +HP a life of Glory

Oct 30th 2003 the day that turned my life

This was the day when i stepped my leg into the giant building called HP towers. It was a small replica of Twin towers in U.S(no major imagination) but there was no crash made with this building till now. I was very nervous because this was the first time i am getting into a big organization and ofcourse it was my first job. The main thing is i attended the interview with the gal that i loved. It made me very happy, gave me confidence that i can achieve things in life. My main aim was to get settle well in life, so that i can keep my loved one happy. The first person i met was Suresh, after a year he left the job. He is very nice guy, i like his patience and he is soft spoken. I attended the HP overview training which was taken by few of the managers working in HP and ofcourse the man behind the whole show Sriram(center head for the organisation).

This was my first job and it made me happy in a way that i started earning at young age. The painfull thing was i left my gal alone, she did not get the offer letter at the time when i got it. We use to meet everyday before i started working. She was missing me and i was missing her badly. There were lot of people inside the organization, which brought a slight fear in me because i have never faced this kind of situation in my life before. Me and suresh was put into a training called metamorphosis. The training took place in a five star hotel (Taj). We met lot of people and made new friends in life. I liked it very much and the trainer told me that i can be a good negotiator, this is because i negotiated and got chocolates for my team.

There were few competitions held and my team finished second. After attending the training we were asked to meet HR for the allocation of Team's that we have to work in. We were a bunch of 20 members and from that i was the only person been moved to a different team. I felt bad, hard to take it because i was separated from them. The initial training brought us close and within a week we have to separate was real pain. I took it in the right sense. Nov is the month i stepped into a team called amendments in HP. I got introduced to the manager (sethu krish),who was sweet to me at the beginning. They gave me a place to sit and a comp to browse(he he).
The entire team will be having fun since most of the people are freshers from college like me and i liked it, but when i get up from my place everyone will keep quite. This made me feel lonely, i was trying to find out the reason. Two days went by and i thought the reason is because they must have thought me as TL , i went to the manager and asked him to introduce me to the team which they did not do it at the beginning. My manager came and introduced me to the team and i saw a big sigh of relief in their eyes, after the introduction they started speaking to me. The best team that i can ever work with.

People were very caring like, balaji,nanda,anupama,anuradha.santhoshi,sassirekha,vidisha the list is big and i will never forget them in my life. My process is suppose to be the most complicated process in Gebc-chennai. Though i worked in a complicated process, we still had lot of fun within the team. We use to go out at 12 in midnight to icecream shops and hotels. I dont think anyother company would give so much liberty to employees. I was working in night shift and my timings is 9 p.m-6 a.m. Anywere i go for work i am sure these people will always be there in my memories. World is very small and life is very short if at all i get an opportunity to work with them where ever i go i will cherish all the moments (too much of an asking). I worked in amendments for a year and a half and now i have been moved to a different team called world wide reference group. Hoping that the new journey would bring happiness and success in my life.

Waiting for my new journey to begin..
C.J

Tragedy that struck in my life

Feb 3rd 2004

This was the day when god made me realise what is the difference between life and death. This is the day when i realized the gap is very minimum. It was around 7.30p.m in the night i was getting ready for my work which is suppose to start at 10.p.m in the night. It might be wired to know that i have started well ahead for my work. My everyday routine is to sleep in the morning till evening and then when my mom comes from work i use to spend some nice time with her sharing the happenings in work place and leave for my work. I was very happy to start early because of the fact that i was suppose to have dinner with my Gal friend in one of the hotels near our work place. Fortunately or unfortunately we both work in the same organization. The day went on fine, before leaving to work i was cracking jokes with my mom and we both were bursting out in laughter. I was suppose to meet my gal at 8.00 p.m outside the office. It was very rare for us to meet because she was in day shift and i was a night bird. I was waiting for this opportunity for a long time,. At the time when i was about to start, my brothers friend called (almaz) came in to the house with biriyani in her hands. Like all youngsters i am crazy about it, but at that time nothing struck me other than the meeting that i have with my gal. Almaz was very particular in asking me to have some before i start from my house because she felt i might not eat the biriyani once i leave my house. I don't know why she felt that way but she was rite in all means. I did not turn up to my house for the next 2 months. I was about to start at 7.30 p.m , since i had biriyani it got a little late on me. I started at 7.45 p.m and i had 15 mins to reach a distance of 14kms in chennai traffic. Even schumacher will end up breaking his body if he even dreams of it. I was mad enough to think i can do it and started my bike thundering in 70-80kms\hr in the traffic. To be true i still don't remember how my accident occurred. When i opened my eyes i saw people around me in big tension, their eyes were all on me. I was not able to move my body it just made me feel i have been locked in a cage. I was rushed to the operating theater where for the first time in my life i cried for getting hurt. I saw my gal friend in tears which made me feel the real pain. The best thing was that my office mates was so helpful, they rushed to the hospital immediately after knowing about the accident. The doctor gave me anesthesia but that did not help in any way. I got my senses and when i opened my eyes i saw the terrifying thing of my life, my right hand had a deep cut which was almost like a hole which made me know how the inner flesh looks like. I could see a team of talented doctors trying to Make things happen. One of the doctor was actually removing the glass pieces that got struck into my left and right thigh. I was rushed into the scanning room, i never knew what happened but the next day morning i heard my friends saying that i shouted at peak of my voice in pain. I was curious enough to know what happened so i called one of the doctor and asked him, he said i was shouting because they were trying to take x-ray of my broken leg. The irony of the incident was, the same day when i was working out in the gym i heard a sad news. One of my school junior was struggling for life in the malar hospital, i felt very bad for him and wanted to meet him badly. The next day morning when i opened my eyes i came to know that i was lying next to him on a different bed. Never in my life i wished to meet him the way i did. Doctor's told me that my survival from this accident was just because of the good things you and your parents have done in life. I was so desperate to know how my accident occurred. It is really strange that i still can't recollect what happened on that day, all i know was i broke myself into pieces. One man who saw the incident narrated it to me, after hearing that i felt horrified. He was very particular in saying that it took 2 mins for them to find me after collision with the car. The impact was so huge that i broke the car front glass with my head and flew away.

My Hospital Life

Doctor's where very particular in saying that i am lucky in life because i broke my femur bone and if the damage has reached my knee then it would have taken a year for me to start my normal walk. I had a surgery on my left leg and they kept a rod and tightened it with the help of a screw. The next day i underwent a plastic surgery on my right forearm along with a skin grafting on my right heal. A part of skin from my left thigh was taken as a compensation for my right heal. I was on the bed with lot of pain and with only one thing in my mind, whether i will start walking again. There was a plaster stuck on my left shoulder and when i tried moving my hand i found something strange happening inside, i asked the doctor who came for my regular checkup to remove the plaster. He removed the plaster and asked me to bring my body up with the help of my hands, i found that my left shoulder collar bone was moving zigzag. The doctor saw it and immediately told me to undergo a surgery, without knowing the surgery, i nodded my head. The next day the surgery was scheduled at 3.30 p.m, i should not eat for 3hrs before the operation and after the operation. One of doctor's assistant came inside my room and briefed about the operation, slight fear got into me because they are going to put a screw on my shoulder to set it rite. I was mentally ready for the operation, i was taken smoothly into the operation theater by some attenders, the doctors were finding it difficult to find a nerve to insert blood into me. That is the time i came to know the blood content in my body have reduced. Believe me the doctor searched for veins on my leg and finally she got one and the blood started getting into my body, i thank the person who gave the blood for my survival. I went into the operation theater, i have seen in films how a operation theater would be. I did not get an opportunity to see the operation theater in my first surgery is because i was unconscious until i woke up in my room and knew a rod has been fixed on my right thigh. This time i got the opportunity, there were 5 doctors surrounding me, a big light straight in front of my face. The doctors gave me anesthesia and i lost my senses. The sad thing is, the power went off and the doctors were not able to finish the operation on time. I got my senses back when the doctors were on the final stages, i could see bunch of doctors surrounding me and few doctors shouting to lift my hand and keep it close to my body, my left hand was streched by them to perform the operation. when a person lifted my hand from that place i felt the pain which should not be felt by anyone in their life. My parents were happy that the surgery was over, i was unable to speak a word because there was no food given for 6 hrs. I felt a pain which was totally unbearable, i could see my mom believing in me to speak to her. I tried my level best to speak to her but words were getting stuck in my throat. I felt the pain and i don't want my mom to know about it, but tears came running down my eyes and my mom just lost her mind and said i am not leaving this place and she stayed there to take care of me. I still remember that she did not eat anything on that day. I thanked god for giving me such wonderful parents.

Good things that happened when i was in hospital

I will never forget my gal friend because she made my life bright almost everyday by coming and meeting me. I know that she will get pampered with lot of questions by her parents for meeting me everyday, but she made it somehow. I liked her so much, the moment i see her it will make me feel happy flying in cloud no9. It was so unfortunate for me to be born on feb14th when i cant spend the birthday with my love. I felt very bad for it because that was our first valentines day after we started loving. Now i don't have her next to me, when my birthday comes i feel about the day when she came to the hospital and made my day beautiful. What i went through is pain mixed with happiness. I realized that nobody can help us like what our friends will do. My friends took care of everything from payment of my hospital bill to claiming the insurance. I felt that day, everyone should have a special person in life for them to share what they feel. I will never forget her in my life. I will never hate her in my life. we had lot of problems and i told her lot of things, but i know inside my heart she holds a important place.

Family support

My parents had a fear that whether i can walk again. Femur bone is suppose to be the important bone in the body and that helps a human being walk properly. I do not have words to express my feelings for my father, without him i am nothing. I was in such a bad shape, i cannot move from my bed. I have to do the bathroom activities from the place where i was, my father use to bath me and clean my waste and help me being neat everyday. I don't know how to repay the gratitude but for sure i cannot forget him in my life. The care that my mom and brother showed was overwhelming. My mom is always the main pillar of my family,without her i would have lost my confidence. My mom got hurt on her left leg when she tried to give food to me. I was undergoing lot emotional pain which i cannot write it down cos it is something deep inside my heart.

Now i am doing fine and i have to undergo another operation to remove my rod and screw that is there inside my body. I am happy and i will never forget my 22nd birthday and the people who were instrumental in making my life happy.

By
C.J