Simply Me
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
...And thats what happened
2 days to my 7 month anniversary and I decided to type some thoughts.
So whats been happening since my last post....
20th December, 2011: The very very special day in my life. R and I got married. People have told us that the wedding day is something you never remember. You know what, you might prove those people wrong. The day rushes by and a million things are happening around you, but you might just remember everything that happened... the way he looked... the anxiety... the joy... each and every moment. That was how it was for me. I remember him, my family, friends ... all those special people who added to our special day.
With the Satyanarayan pooja on Thursday, we proceeded to Pune for our reception on 25th December. A week with amma and we were back.
The New Year marked our visit to Andaman and an idyllic week at Port Blair and Havelock. It is oh-so-beautiful there. Needless to say most of the other Make-my-trip travelers were couples and most of them were fellow honeymooners... The beaches, the sunsets... everything makes for wonderful memories.
I have to say I forgot to mention my interview call on 19th December (nah, not really, just didn't wanna start the post with that). A technical interview in December and an opening in April and now I am back to working with KPIT Cummins Infosystems limited. (No, I joined as a new joinee. Not a transfer. This is a different project. No the kind of work is different though its on the same platform. Yes, the timing is 9-6 unless the project entails calls in US timings. Its the same distance as before - 18 kms, but twice the commute time. Yes, I have a cab to office. Work from home is indeed an option when necessary and my manager is pretty good about it.)
In all this time, we have been to Pune almost every other month and also visited family. We are trying to (still) get to know each other better. We are still thanking the heavens and family for helping us meet.
In this time, my friend Varsha got married. Purni now has a six month old baby and I am waiting for Shrads to give me the news of my becoming a pacchi soon. Suchitra and Mukta now have kids. Priyanka (Pradhan) delivered a baby. Deeptiakka and Dinesh Bhavaji have baby Diya... It seems that when you are happy (touch wood) you get to hear great news everywhere.
So now, I have a new family in addition to my old one. Everyone is trying to get to know each other. You know the thing is, a family is just as big as the space in your heart ready to accept it.
I do have 5 followers and I really appreciate you. So I am going to definitely try to be alittle regular in my posts. Hope to see you again soon. I leave you behind with some photos.
Thats R in his wedding revelry... looking all dashing and handsome...
This is obviously me... Smiling for all its worth.
A beginning to many many pics together
So whats been happening since my last post....
20th December, 2011: The very very special day in my life. R and I got married. People have told us that the wedding day is something you never remember. You know what, you might prove those people wrong. The day rushes by and a million things are happening around you, but you might just remember everything that happened... the way he looked... the anxiety... the joy... each and every moment. That was how it was for me. I remember him, my family, friends ... all those special people who added to our special day.
With the Satyanarayan pooja on Thursday, we proceeded to Pune for our reception on 25th December. A week with amma and we were back.
The New Year marked our visit to Andaman and an idyllic week at Port Blair and Havelock. It is oh-so-beautiful there. Needless to say most of the other Make-my-trip travelers were couples and most of them were fellow honeymooners... The beaches, the sunsets... everything makes for wonderful memories.
I have to say I forgot to mention my interview call on 19th December (nah, not really, just didn't wanna start the post with that). A technical interview in December and an opening in April and now I am back to working with KPIT Cummins Infosystems limited. (No, I joined as a new joinee. Not a transfer. This is a different project. No the kind of work is different though its on the same platform. Yes, the timing is 9-6 unless the project entails calls in US timings. Its the same distance as before - 18 kms, but twice the commute time. Yes, I have a cab to office. Work from home is indeed an option when necessary and my manager is pretty good about it.)
In all this time, we have been to Pune almost every other month and also visited family. We are trying to (still) get to know each other better. We are still thanking the heavens and family for helping us meet.
In this time, my friend Varsha got married. Purni now has a six month old baby and I am waiting for Shrads to give me the news of my becoming a pacchi soon. Suchitra and Mukta now have kids. Priyanka (Pradhan) delivered a baby. Deeptiakka and Dinesh Bhavaji have baby Diya... It seems that when you are happy (touch wood) you get to hear great news everywhere.
So now, I have a new family in addition to my old one. Everyone is trying to get to know each other. You know the thing is, a family is just as big as the space in your heart ready to accept it.
I do have 5 followers and I really appreciate you. So I am going to definitely try to be alittle regular in my posts. Hope to see you again soon. I leave you behind with some photos.
This is obviously me... Smiling for all its worth.
Sapthapadi
A beginning to many many pics together
A pic with family on both sides
Labels: A new day has come..., Aayi re aayi hai khushi..., Band Baajaa Baraat, Congratulations and celebrations, Yaadein reh jaati hain..., Zindagi ke safar
Saturday, March 20, 2010
I am overjoyed...
I seriously am overjoyed... I have got today (or should I say yesterday, its almost 1 in the morning...) something I have wanted for sooooooooooo long... For the first time after 2 and a half years, I became the Hero of the Week...
I understand 2 and a half years is along time to win this prestige, but that actually makes this sweeter... I have been jumping with joy and grinning since I got home...
Is it selfish and self-centred if I just keep talking about how I feel??? But the fact is, I just got something I have really aspired and craved for and it means a lot to me... probably more than any other recognition that I have received at work since a long time... This doesn't make all the other recognitions any less, its just that this is something more... much much more...
So here goes the e-mail...
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Subject: This Week's European Business User Support (EBUS) & IBUS Hero of the week is......
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D
P.S. As I was returning from work, I looked at the calendar and realised I have a week and a half rather than just 2 days as I had thought originally and you know what... I am going to make my resolution of the month come true...
Note to self: It has been a long time since I wrote Uday a list of 'First's since I went live in the process... Ensure that this e-mail is forwarded to him as well.
I understand 2 and a half years is along time to win this prestige, but that actually makes this sweeter... I have been jumping with joy and grinning since I got home...
Is it selfish and self-centred if I just keep talking about how I feel??? But the fact is, I just got something I have really aspired and craved for and it means a lot to me... probably more than any other recognition that I have received at work since a long time... This doesn't make all the other recognitions any less, its just that this is something more... much much more...
So here goes the e-mail...
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Subject: This Week's European Business User Support (EBUS) & IBUS Hero of the week is......
……..is Tejaswini Shenoy from IBUS EBUS BIP-ADMIN Team based in Pune.
Tejaswini has been a key player in the team and has demonstrated exceptional skills in managing AUTH queue at IBUS EBUS Team.
We received the following comments recently appreciating Tejaswini’s dedication and commitment:
***:
Tejaswini Shenoy is a technically competent, polite, kind and with great patience! Brilliantly she resolved our problem. I'm very satisfied from your support service.
xxx
xxx
Italy
***:-We received quick and reliable information on what to do. So far this case is closed cause we are looking forward to move on to XI 3.1. I was very pleased with the commitment and the accuracy of questions asked and solution provided. Thank you
***:-
Tejaswini Shenoy makes a really good job. It takes a long time to find a solution but it was a more a problem on xxx-domain-policy. She analyzed all the problems and at the end we found the exact solution what she suggested. The other problem was my calendar as it was overloaded. She was also very helpful behind all the requests we had for the problems.
Best Regards,
xxx
Senior Application Manager
This feedback truly reflects Tejaswini’s dedication & commitment on delivering the best to our customers. Experts like Tejaswini lead by example and, as we see from their comments above, customers are clearly delighted with the service offered.
Congratulations and great work Tejaswini!
Graham
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(Sorry for all the xxx... I think the NDA I signed does not allow me to mention the names of customers or customer contacts)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D
P.S. As I was returning from work, I looked at the calendar and realised I have a week and a half rather than just 2 days as I had thought originally and you know what... I am going to make my resolution of the month come true...
Note to self: It has been a long time since I wrote Uday a list of 'First's since I went live in the process... Ensure that this e-mail is forwarded to him as well.
Labels: Aayi re aayi hai khushi...
Monday, July 27, 2009
Happy Raksha Bandhan
You'd think that after what, 18 or so years, of writing to my brothers for Raksha Bandhan, I'd know what to write? But after the first line of 'Hope this letter finds you in the pink of health' as Savita Pacchi used to write to me, I sat there flicking the pen and racking my brain what to write... Asking them to visit, tying the rakhi thinking of me... what else... After 3 quite impersonal letters, it started to feel that I know so very little of my brothers... So I dredge my memory to try to remember something deep within to write something more personal... 
So there are Sohan anna and Vijendra who got married since the last Raksha Bandhan... Aniruddha whose thread ceremony happened this year... Gauthan and Gaurav and Sohan anna were my first brothers I tied rakhis to on Raksha Bandhan personally and that was last year... And Kiran, the shy guy, I met after very many years at his brother's, Vijendra's wedding...
As 'fun' as it is to write letters, the only person I write to is ajju and that too was long ago... After asking amma, SMSing Nishanth to give me an idea from a guy's point of view what they expect when their sisters write to them, what it seemed is when you write, write from your heart... like I write this blog... not because someone need read it and but knowing you made an effort putting down on paper or an HTTP page what you felt... what you know and what you'd like to know...
So this post is dedicated to my brothers, who as it happens don't know the existence of my blog... Wishing them all the best and all my love and hoping that next year might be easier... that I would stay better in touch with them... Happy Rakshabandhan
Labels: Aayi re aayi hai khushi..., Ik sawaal ka sawaal hai...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
In threes...
Gotta say... everyone has been following our manager's footsteps... we were all quite surprised when Dada came after a day's leave with sweets and photos showing his engagement...
Rashi followed suit when she came from her 10 day leave rings adorning the third fingers of both her hands... We were surprised of course, but then so were she and her fiance when what was supposed to be a 'ladki aur family se milne ka program' turned to be an engagement ceremony when his granny suddenly brought out a ring for him to put on her finger... no pics were taken.. it was a total surprise... Well we got to eat loads of sweets... Thats for sure
Today when everyone gathered around Imran's desk... I was just starting to wonder what had happened when somebody asked to look at the mail he had sent... He was engaged... A 5 day 'weekend' had turned out to be a joyous engagement... again a 'ladki dekhne ka program' turned into a surprise engagement... now though he had told me about this girl they had been looking for him, it definitely was a surprise... needless to say, everyone has been hazing him all day... 'Haan ab to kaam mein mann nahi lagta...' The guy who rushes to catch his cab everyday was out 10 minutes early today only for us to find him later glued to his cell 'Ahem ahem...' I said...
Well they say, good news come in threes... so here were the three sahi news at work... lets see what happens next...
P.S. If Bhavi is to be believed, her design team is also seeing people getting engaged and people going on a 4 day break and returning after 10 days... And with Bhavi herself recently married and Ganesh to be married soon, I guess weddings are in the air...
Rashi followed suit when she came from her 10 day leave rings adorning the third fingers of both her hands... We were surprised of course, but then so were she and her fiance when what was supposed to be a 'ladki aur family se milne ka program' turned to be an engagement ceremony when his granny suddenly brought out a ring for him to put on her finger... no pics were taken.. it was a total surprise... Well we got to eat loads of sweets... Thats for sure
Today when everyone gathered around Imran's desk... I was just starting to wonder what had happened when somebody asked to look at the mail he had sent... He was engaged... A 5 day 'weekend' had turned out to be a joyous engagement... again a 'ladki dekhne ka program' turned into a surprise engagement... now though he had told me about this girl they had been looking for him, it definitely was a surprise... needless to say, everyone has been hazing him all day... 'Haan ab to kaam mein mann nahi lagta...' The guy who rushes to catch his cab everyday was out 10 minutes early today only for us to find him later glued to his cell 'Ahem ahem...' I said...
Well they say, good news come in threes... so here were the three sahi news at work... lets see what happens next...
P.S. If Bhavi is to be believed, her design team is also seeing people getting engaged and people going on a 4 day break and returning after 10 days... And with Bhavi herself recently married and Ganesh to be married soon, I guess weddings are in the air...
Masti...
I called up Rashi today morning to wish her on her birthday... actually to find out whether she had a fast today or not... I had planned to take her a cake today... kisi ka to birthday birthday ke din celebrate ho... Got her a yummy looking chocolate cake from Monginis (I swear by the chocolate cake of monginis...)
As soon as I reached (Rashi wasn't in yet), I informed everyone it was Rashi's birthday... Vaibhav came up with the 'brilliant' idea not to wish her at all until everyone gathered to celebrate her party... The poor girl waited expectantly for atleast one of her colleagues to wish her or for me to tell everyone else... sorry no can do... Finally at 4:30 she could bear it no longer... she pretty much announced to everyone in the team that it was her birthday and asked them to wish her... the poor thing was really offended I guess... Now, our team is nothing if not sneaky... everyone pretended not to believe her... Even our 'ek bhi baat pet mein nahi rehti types' manager, Dada, pretended to look up her birthday on Intra before wishing her.
Off we went for our break at 5:15. I had already tipped off the rest of the team to join us at 5:30. Anjali, Rashi and I always take our break together. But when Pallavi and Poonam also joined us upstairs, the penny finally began to drop... And when everyone came upstairs... everything started to fall in place...
Ofcourse, when a girl ANNOUNCES her birthday, she deserves to have her cake and eat it too... she had more chocolate on her face today than she had color on Holi when Vaibhav had smuggled colors to our office...
Well gotta say.. kabhi kabhi surprise party dene mein mazaa aata hai...
Happy Birthday Rashi... May all your wishes and dreams come true... keep smiling...
As soon as I reached (Rashi wasn't in yet), I informed everyone it was Rashi's birthday... Vaibhav came up with the 'brilliant' idea not to wish her at all until everyone gathered to celebrate her party... The poor girl waited expectantly for atleast one of her colleagues to wish her or for me to tell everyone else... sorry no can do... Finally at 4:30 she could bear it no longer... she pretty much announced to everyone in the team that it was her birthday and asked them to wish her... the poor thing was really offended I guess... Now, our team is nothing if not sneaky... everyone pretended not to believe her... Even our 'ek bhi baat pet mein nahi rehti types' manager, Dada, pretended to look up her birthday on Intra before wishing her.
Off we went for our break at 5:15. I had already tipped off the rest of the team to join us at 5:30. Anjali, Rashi and I always take our break together. But when Pallavi and Poonam also joined us upstairs, the penny finally began to drop... And when everyone came upstairs... everything started to fall in place...
Ofcourse, when a girl ANNOUNCES her birthday, she deserves to have her cake and eat it too... she had more chocolate on her face today than she had color on Holi when Vaibhav had smuggled colors to our office...
Well gotta say.. kabhi kabhi surprise party dene mein mazaa aata hai...
Happy Birthday Rashi... May all your wishes and dreams come true... keep smiling...
Labels: Aayi re aayi hai khushi..., Hum bhi agar bacche hote..., Its a hap hap happy birthday...
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Today...
When I decided to write this post I was confused which way to take this... but guess I am gonna write about today rather than memories of Mc Donalds... So here goes...
At office our team is quite silent... not much masti goes on... On the other hand the design team was always known to raise hell with their constant chatter and laughter and plans... so yesterday I had decided our team was gonna plan something different... So lets start with something small... I decided to start a chain of messages saying that today, Friday, we would have a colour theme... We would all vote for a color and all of us would wear the color or be punished. Of course punishments wouldn't be the regular TREEEEEEEEEEEEEAT... Punishments were to be utterly wacky like mimicking some actor or singing a song... whichever one was worse at... Now I shan't write about the 80-90 mails(no kidding... Rajesh counted... Wish I knew how he had the patience) that we kept replying to all to or the immense amount of laughter and giggling; but we finally decided to wear green... So Friday 14th March would be green day... Our manager, Dada as we call him, was most opposed to green since he didn't have a green shirt... But then we had just served him an ultimatum about the color without asking for his opinion... so kya karte woh bechare?
Today woke up bright and green at office in our corner of the world with shades running from bright green worn by Dada (he actually bought a new shirt) to a dark algae green not to mention the controversial sea green and grayish green and yellowish green (or should I say greenish grey and greenish yellow? Never mind)...
We had a surprise visit from our Operations manager to announce prizes for the last month... And a huge surprise in the form of a team bonding activity at 4:30 p.m. in the cafeteria recreation room... The game was simple (or was it?) 3 teams each with 8 people... each team were given 7 pieces of cardboard... Each team had to form a link of people and step on the cardboard to cross the acid river... the catch? Of course one cardboard less than the number of people... and the first piece of cardboard was never to be moved... that meant aadmi 8 aur cardboard 6... kaafi naa-insaafi thi, kyon? Our team came in last, but never mind we had fun.
To top it all the new member of our team was expected to give a party... We all coaxed and bullied him into giving a party at McDs that had opened a few months ago right in front of our office building... Now the entire team couldn't go at once... so five of us went ahead... Rashi, Vaibhav, Arun, Sundeep (the new guy... who by the way joined as a senior engineer) and yours truly... We went directly to level 1 of the McD building... Rashi and I immediately started playing with a balloon... And after coming back up after ordering, we all started playing balloon tennis... 5 of us and 3 balloons... now have no idea what gave Vaibhav the idea but he decided that all of us should target Rashi... Wham wham wham.. balloons flying at Rashi from all angles... Thank God we were the only ones upstairs... or we might have had to pay for lost customers with all the noise that we made... The rest of the team put up an appearance after half an hour which meant only 15 minutes for the cab to leave... Heaven knows how everyone finished their burgers and finger chips and cokes... Off we ran to catch our cabs before they left lest we'd have to wait till 12:00 a.m. for the next set of cabs.
Back home at 11:45 I called Shailesh to wish him.. hopefully the last to wish him and at midnight called up Rajesh to wish him on HIS birthday... And here I am at 1:00 a.m. writing this blog..
Say... shouldn't this post be called yesterday?
At office our team is quite silent... not much masti goes on... On the other hand the design team was always known to raise hell with their constant chatter and laughter and plans... so yesterday I had decided our team was gonna plan something different... So lets start with something small... I decided to start a chain of messages saying that today, Friday, we would have a colour theme... We would all vote for a color and all of us would wear the color or be punished. Of course punishments wouldn't be the regular TREEEEEEEEEEEEEAT... Punishments were to be utterly wacky like mimicking some actor or singing a song... whichever one was worse at... Now I shan't write about the 80-90 mails(no kidding... Rajesh counted... Wish I knew how he had the patience) that we kept replying to all to or the immense amount of laughter and giggling; but we finally decided to wear green... So Friday 14th March would be green day... Our manager, Dada as we call him, was most opposed to green since he didn't have a green shirt... But then we had just served him an ultimatum about the color without asking for his opinion... so kya karte woh bechare?
Today woke up bright and green at office in our corner of the world with shades running from bright green worn by Dada (he actually bought a new shirt) to a dark algae green not to mention the controversial sea green and grayish green and yellowish green (or should I say greenish grey and greenish yellow? Never mind)...
We had a surprise visit from our Operations manager to announce prizes for the last month... And a huge surprise in the form of a team bonding activity at 4:30 p.m. in the cafeteria recreation room... The game was simple (or was it?) 3 teams each with 8 people... each team were given 7 pieces of cardboard... Each team had to form a link of people and step on the cardboard to cross the acid river... the catch? Of course one cardboard less than the number of people... and the first piece of cardboard was never to be moved... that meant aadmi 8 aur cardboard 6... kaafi naa-insaafi thi, kyon? Our team came in last, but never mind we had fun.
To top it all the new member of our team was expected to give a party... We all coaxed and bullied him into giving a party at McDs that had opened a few months ago right in front of our office building... Now the entire team couldn't go at once... so five of us went ahead... Rashi, Vaibhav, Arun, Sundeep (the new guy... who by the way joined as a senior engineer) and yours truly... We went directly to level 1 of the McD building... Rashi and I immediately started playing with a balloon... And after coming back up after ordering, we all started playing balloon tennis... 5 of us and 3 balloons... now have no idea what gave Vaibhav the idea but he decided that all of us should target Rashi... Wham wham wham.. balloons flying at Rashi from all angles... Thank God we were the only ones upstairs... or we might have had to pay for lost customers with all the noise that we made... The rest of the team put up an appearance after half an hour which meant only 15 minutes for the cab to leave... Heaven knows how everyone finished their burgers and finger chips and cokes... Off we ran to catch our cabs before they left lest we'd have to wait till 12:00 a.m. for the next set of cabs.
Back home at 11:45 I called Shailesh to wish him.. hopefully the last to wish him and at midnight called up Rajesh to wish him on HIS birthday... And here I am at 1:00 a.m. writing this blog..
Say... shouldn't this post be called yesterday?
Labels: Aayi re aayi hai khushi...
