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Desk Doodles

christelle — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:18:00 +0000

This is the state of my desk Ya, I know, it looks more like a whiteboard …my secret pastime… Normally, I don’t take pictures – I don’t think they are great enough to be pictures – ‘coz most of they are scribbles so bad, the house keeping guys don’t miss a chance to clean my desk So, took a pic of this one by chance – sent it to a friend, and he liked it! So, here it is for all to see? Any comments?

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All About a Cubie

christelle — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:35:00 +0000

If you’ve worked for a while where I do, you’d be used to desk moves. You move within the team, you move to another team-same product, you can even move to a new team-new product. And when you move, your desk moves with you – computer, telephone, all your stuff ranging from teddies to post-its.
I had moved within the team a couple of times – and, of course, one of the first things you do is to look up your neighbours. In one such move, my desk was right in front of my manager. I moved wondering why. Before I could find the answer, I had to move again. This time, it was next to this bubbly, chirpy character in our team — in short, kinda my opposite. You can hear her in office – you just can’t hear me when am working! Add to this, I put on my headset without fail – so, even if I am not listening to anything, people around assume I am listening to something, and don’t disturb. And ya, I really needed a quiet environ to work.
And then, I moved! I was hoping I’d be able to work without complaining – and guess what? I was totally wrong about a few things. Yes, she remained loud and I remain quiet. But then, there are times when you bond with someone and you just can’t figure out why or how it happened… this was something like that. Soon, we were ganging up together – our fave pastime was Abhijeet Bashing… If you aren’t in Rock, you just don’t know what this means
We’d discuss about every little thing we could think of – and, I realized that I could work even with a boisterous cubie.
Soon, it was time to move again – this time, I moved out of the team. And before that, we enjoyed a great offsite – my last Rock offsite, a very memorable one.
And now, she’s moved too – a different workplace. I can’t walk by and leave notes anymore – well, now I do in Facebook, but then, I guess, my space has become a lot quieter…
That’s for you Indirap!

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Great Places To Work

christelle — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:35:11 +0000

You can view the Business World Survey here.

The Insights:

Insight 1: High employee engagement levels
Insight 2: Larger responsibilities with more flexibility
Insight 3: Love for fun
Insight 4: Effectiveness of profit sharing process
Insight 5: Loyalty does not translate to life long commitment
Insight 6: More credible actions from leaders expected

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Today’s Theme

christelle — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:48:52 +0000

You thank me
I thank you
Let’s thank each other
And be happy forever

Forever??

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My old-fashioned notebook

christelle — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:11:00 +0000

13.3.
It was there in my goody bag – spiral bound, logo at the bottom of every page – looking real neat. Ya, that’s the notebook am talking about. I got it the day I joined Google and it has been with me ever since…. I’ve written, scribbled, and loaded it with a bunch of papers – brochures, prints, write ups… in fact, there are so many papers, the notebook is double its size…it’s been with me to umpteen meetings, training sessions… it’s been with me each time I visited Chennai…each time I traveled some place…
Whenever I researched something online or heard about something I wanted to research….well, you know where you’d find them…

…and I lost it this morning…

I walked in with the notebook in hand because I didn’t want to forget what I wanted to do, walked into the café on my way up, and left my notebook there. It was about 2 hours before I realized what I’ve done, and I’ve been searching since then. Haven’t found it yet… been asking the security guards all day…no luck so far….

Will I ever see it again?

14.3

Yaayyyyyy…. I found it…

God only knows how much I’ve missed it!

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The Team Outing

christelle — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:35:00 +0000

On Friday evening I left home around 7pm and got the bus to central railway station. I reached the railway station around 8:15pm. Found some colleagues and then we went to the coach. We settled in and the train started off on time at 8:45pm. We were having a nice time of chatting and joking. There were a group of guys playing cards. But we girls went to sleep pretty early. But for some reason I couldn’t sleep. After some time I started feeling a bit chill, even though I had my sweater on and we had already switched the fans off. I didn’t sleep properly through the night and got up around 5am. Only after I got up I got to know that others also had a restless night. In addition to the chill night, our noisy coach didn’t help us in our sleep.
We reached Mettupalayam and got into our van which was to take us around for the next 2 days. We had a break on the way up at a roadside eatery and that was the first glimpse of the mountainside. From there we went to the resort to drop our luggage and have our breakfast. But when we went in, we found that the rooms were really chill. Nevertheless, we managed to freshen up and by the time we were having our breakfast it was past 11am. From there we went to the Pykara Lake. Though many of them went boating, I and 2 other friends decided to stay back. We were seated along the bank and taking snaps, or just chatting. We found the weather to be pretty warm, much against the warnings of mist and rain.
On our way back from the lake, we stopped at a falls. We had to walk down from the road to reach the falls. It was awesome, not in terms of height but in terms of the landscape. The stream was spread over a large area and we could walk around between pools of water. It was a good spot for photographs. From there we proceeded for a late lunch and we were having our lunch around 3pm. After lunch, we went to the rose garden. Though it wasn’t the season, there were plenty of roses in full bloom. Some of them were so big. But what I liked most was the plant with tiny red roses. It was so cute.
After that we stopped for a bit of shopping. Anyways, I didn’t do much of shopping but there were others who did a lot of shopping. We, myself and 2 more friends, just walked around a bit and whiled away our time. I got a jersey for myself and some chocolates for home. We also got the caps they were selling there for ten bucks. Then as we were walking back in search of our van, we came across a procession of Santa on his chariot and a tableau depicting the nativity scene. It was really a wonderful moment, to be standing there in the chill evening, and watching the colorful procession. Finally we stopped for dinner on our way back to the resort. Once we reached the resort it was so chill outside we went into our rooms and sought the warmth of the quilt. In spite of it all, the chillness was permeating and we spent another restless night.
We woke up at 6am with plans to be out by 7:30am, but our plans weren’t to come true. Early in the morning we couldn’t find hot water to freshen up, and thanks to the chill night the waster was freezing. Our fingers were turning numb when we checked the temperature of the running water. finally, we decided to wait for a while, by which time we got the hot water, freshened up, and were ready for another day of sight seeing. In spite of the chillness, I should say, I felt pretty fresh in the morning.
After a timely breakfast, we headed toward the Dotta Petta peak. Again it turned out to be a warm day and we had a nice time at the peak. By then, we had formed a gang of 4 and were having a lot of fun. On our way back from the peak, we stopped for a while and took some snaps by the side of the road.
From there we went to the Botanical Garden. It was another round of walking and taking snaps. By the time we came out it was around 2pm and we headed for lunch. After lunch, we thought it was time to head back to Mettupalayam. On the way, we were to visit a tea estate. That was a way off from the main road, but it was worth the travel. It was such a wonderful place, miles from any habitation, lush and clean. The backyard had beds of carrots, radish, lettuce, and other vegetables too.
By the time everyone got into the van it was 6pm and the driver was saying we would miss the train. He made it a little fast and we were just on time for the train. We had settled in and the fun wasn’t over yet. There was another round of jokes which went on till we finished our dinner and decided to catch some sleep. Thankfully, this time around we could sleep well, and we reached Chennai Central at 5:10am, Monday morning. Thereby came the end of this wonderful team outing.

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