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Assumptions

christelle — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:36:37 +0000

Headset on? Listening to music

Eyes closed? Sleeping

Meeting? Busy

Slim? Weak

G? Loadsa money

SLR? Great photos

Analytics? Complicated

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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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The Three Wishes

christelle — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:33:00 +0000

1. to be able to switch identities – ie, to be able to move arnd without worrying abt the baggage am carrying (am not talking abt my backpack!)

2. to be able to stay still – in my mind – and enjoy every moment as it comes

3. the strength to trust ppl i should trust, the courage to move away from ppl i shouldnt, and the wisdom to knw the difference

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Then And Now!

christelle — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:06:00 +0000

Have you ever revisited your old emails? old posts? old letters? old diary entries?

Basically, something you had written long so long ago…. At times, I stumble across these…. given the fact, that I save everything (The only time I’ve deleted all emails from someone is when I’d rather not remember that correspondence… and I do that very rarely) … this happens almost everytime i search for something or the other…

Today, I stumbled across a couple of emails in Yahoo…. and I am still wondering who I was talking about in those emails….feels kinda funny to read those emails…I dont knw about whom…. but I know this person was really important to me at that time… and all that i use to refer to him in all those emails is ‘he’!! Not very helpful…right?

So, that is how life is….life goes on…. people walk in and out…and I sit here wondering who had walked in that long ago…

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Time and rejection….

christelle — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:48:00 +0000

There was this soul on earth living within a cheerful lad. And even as everyone said he was so handsome and cheerful, his soul wasnt happy. No matter how much he tried, he could not lift his soul to a cheerful state. Even when he managed to be happy from within it lasted just for a little while before someone came along and bruised his soul.
Then one day, came a friend who tried to help him out. He refused to speak his heart out saying he didn’t want to depend on anyone. But she was patient and had her way. He got to speak about his worries, his troubles, and every little thing. And so, the days went by….his soul was getting happier and he was happy too.
One day, as usual, his soul was pondering over something…something that made him feel agitated and so he called his friend. But she was too busy this time and told him he should not be expecting her to be able to talk 24 hours a day….and so, the soul came back bruised and battered….struggling to trust again…struggling with that something that was agitating…and so he was…back to square one.
On that fateful day, he made a decision that he would not depend on anyone else…and his soul too decided not too open up and share the thoughts within, with anyone else….
so, the days went by…gloomy and gray for him and his soul. It was indeed quite painful for him to get over his friend and her untimely rejection…well, is there a timely rejection???

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Me and My Defense Attorney

christelle — Fri, 26 May 2006 07:19:00 +0000

Sounds great, huh? Really it’s nothing great…am talking about me and myself! Oh ya, at times i do feel like my own defense attorney. Many a time, I have to really defend myself – say regarding the way I am, the way I do things, what I do, how I live and so on…
Finding myself quite often in the minority doesn’t help! Take for example, something as simple as calling home can make people raise eyebrows. Now I don’t call home everyday. I call only when I need to. A simple thing as this puzzles many. Why? Because you are expected to stay in touch with your folks each and every day – or at least that is the norm.
I have the same issue with my choice of entertainment – any day I would choose a book over a movie and the internet (includes blogging, info search, mail, chat, etc) over the TV. As a result of which I can count the number of movies I have watched over the past few years and the same goes for the number of hours I have spent in front of the television. This again is quite incomprehensible to quite a lot of people.
And how can I forget the oft repeated question of late – “how can you stay all alone?” These days many of my pals wonder how on earth am I staying alone – the questions range from concerns about boredom to queries about managing on my own, things like how do I manage, what do I do over the weekend and so on…mystifies a many. And when I say I like it this way, the responses vary from simple shrugs to concerned queries.
Well, a girl staying on her own isn’t commonplace yet – but what’s wrong? Am sure there isn’t anything strange in it. Just because it isn’t the well-trodden path doesn’t mean something’s wrong.
I would say all these happen because people find it hard to accept something that moves away from the general trend. General perception is that something’s wrong and it should be reasoned out!!! I’ve had a number of friends who have tried to reason out things – all the while refusing to see the other side of the coin.
Thankfully, or rather quite fortunately, I have found a few people like me – like the proverbial drops in the ocean….

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Is it?

christelle — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:20:00 +0000

Is it possible to inspire people around you without any inspiration within? Yes, it is

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