Sunday, March 21, 2010
1:40….
My usual routine goes like this…
Wake up at 2.45am study for couple of hours catch 6.27 train in the morning and travel 40 mins to work study all thro’ the 40mins journey and then leave work at 3.30pm after 40 mins travel back to home pick up my son from the day care at exactly 5.00pm take care of dinner menu and then will go to bed around 8.30pm.
One day as I was coming back home I was not in a mood to study just lost in my own little world watching out thro’ the window counting down the stations…huh…5 down and 6 more to go….
At one station an Indian women got into the train and sat next to me; we exchanged friendly smiles, I am really not good and comfortable in starting a conversation with strangers but ones started its hard for me to stop!! So people beware…. After couple of minutes she started a conversation, the normal stuffs like my name, work, family so on and so forth….Then slowly I started asking the questions back and came to know that she is a student studying hospitality course in some not so familiar uni somewhere in a remote place and she is working as a kitchen hand in an Indian restaurant, at one point her eyes filled with tears as she was telling me about her details….She was working as a teacher in India and said that everything is lost now and is very hard to survive here in Sydney and that her husband is not working and not getting much support from his end…poor lady I felt so bad by seeing tears in her eyes. Out of curiosity I asked her why she choose to come to Australia she said 1:40, I was bit puzzled and asked what she meant by that…she simply said 1 AU$ is 40 Indian rupees…I felt really weird …and asked she just came here simply for that reason and she quite frankly told me yeah… and entry to the country was easier as a student as she was telling this her stop came and she left. All my way home I was wondering what in the world was she thinking when she decided to come to AU just based on the exchange rates….Wishing to have a better life is not wrong but proper investigation makes it worth while. I truly hope and pray that she is managing her way out.
My usual routine goes like this…
Wake up at 2.45am study for couple of hours catch 6.27 train in the morning and travel 40 mins to work study all thro’ the 40mins journey and then leave work at 3.30pm after 40 mins travel back to home pick up my son from the day care at exactly 5.00pm take care of dinner menu and then will go to bed around 8.30pm.
One day as I was coming back home I was not in a mood to study just lost in my own little world watching out thro’ the window counting down the stations…huh…5 down and 6 more to go….
At one station an Indian women got into the train and sat next to me; we exchanged friendly smiles, I am really not good and comfortable in starting a conversation with strangers but ones started its hard for me to stop!! So people beware…. After couple of minutes she started a conversation, the normal stuffs like my name, work, family so on and so forth….Then slowly I started asking the questions back and came to know that she is a student studying hospitality course in some not so familiar uni somewhere in a remote place and she is working as a kitchen hand in an Indian restaurant, at one point her eyes filled with tears as she was telling me about her details….She was working as a teacher in India and said that everything is lost now and is very hard to survive here in Sydney and that her husband is not working and not getting much support from his end…poor lady I felt so bad by seeing tears in her eyes. Out of curiosity I asked her why she choose to come to Australia she said 1:40, I was bit puzzled and asked what she meant by that…she simply said 1 AU$ is 40 Indian rupees…I felt really weird …and asked she just came here simply for that reason and she quite frankly told me yeah… and entry to the country was easier as a student as she was telling this her stop came and she left. All my way home I was wondering what in the world was she thinking when she decided to come to AU just based on the exchange rates….Wishing to have a better life is not wrong but proper investigation makes it worth while. I truly hope and pray that she is managing her way out.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Innocence….
After a very long time I am back to the blog world…Even though I was really busy with family, work & studies I still had time to scribble something and had loads of topics as well, its just that I was bored to write for a while.
Anyway one of the incidents that I noticed last week made me write this blog, as I was passing by at work I came across the triage desk where two paramedics brought in a lady in a stretcher and a girl who might be 4yrs old had a doll clutched towards her and just stood close to the stretcher. It was bit disturbing for me to see a little girl at the triage all alone, the lady at the stretcher was in and out of consciousness that sight really worried me, anyway I was watching her not knowing what to do meanwhile a lady at the admission offered her a chair she calmly sat on the chair and when she saw me she showed me her doll, she did that same thing to the paramedic and the same thing to the admission lady… Also when the mother was hooked up to the ECG machine and whole bunch of wires she was sitting with her doll not knowing what was happening around her also she was not crying or being fussy when she saw strangers, she was in her own little world.
Even when I went back after 30 minutes she was playing all by herself sitting next to her mother waiting for her father. That childish innocence…
After a very long time I am back to the blog world…Even though I was really busy with family, work & studies I still had time to scribble something and had loads of topics as well, its just that I was bored to write for a while.
Anyway one of the incidents that I noticed last week made me write this blog, as I was passing by at work I came across the triage desk where two paramedics brought in a lady in a stretcher and a girl who might be 4yrs old had a doll clutched towards her and just stood close to the stretcher. It was bit disturbing for me to see a little girl at the triage all alone, the lady at the stretcher was in and out of consciousness that sight really worried me, anyway I was watching her not knowing what to do meanwhile a lady at the admission offered her a chair she calmly sat on the chair and when she saw me she showed me her doll, she did that same thing to the paramedic and the same thing to the admission lady… Also when the mother was hooked up to the ECG machine and whole bunch of wires she was sitting with her doll not knowing what was happening around her also she was not crying or being fussy when she saw strangers, she was in her own little world.
Even when I went back after 30 minutes she was playing all by herself sitting next to her mother waiting for her father. That childish innocence…
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Recession Recession ...
Everybody by now will be aware of the world recession , if some one had a tummy upset its b’coz of recession if some one fainted then its because of recession, where ever you go what ever happens its all b’coz of recession. During the APEC summit the so called developed country leaders did say that “India & China are the 2 countries that have to pull the world from recession”, Wow what a lovely sentence to hear, is in it? Not US, UK or AU its up to India & china… what else to say other than “Every dog has its day”.
Everybody by now will be aware of the world recession , if some one had a tummy upset its b’coz of recession if some one fainted then its because of recession, where ever you go what ever happens its all b’coz of recession. During the APEC summit the so called developed country leaders did say that “India & China are the 2 countries that have to pull the world from recession”, Wow what a lovely sentence to hear, is in it? Not US, UK or AU its up to India & china… what else to say other than “Every dog has its day”.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Awareness:
When I was coming from work the other day from central coast I passed a note that the council have left for the drivers, it really fascinated me , It’s stuck in my mind; It was different from rest of the think ponds,it goes like this…
"Welcome careful drivers we have 2 cemeteries but no hospitals”
Brotherhood:
This happened around 4 months ago around the time I joined this job, had to go to a place called “Bathurst” which is around 157Kms from my place, a remote region for decommissioning servers; had been there a week ago for auditing. On that particular day of decommissioning around 6pm I was supposed to meet 2 of my co-workers at that customer place, I was the team lead for the day so had more responsibilities, around 6.05pm got into the facility was waiting for the drive tape people from a different organization to come and then the courier people who are supposed to take the decommissioned servers to Sydney. Except us all the other people were late, reached around 7.00pm. The servers had to be shut and routed so it took around 8.30pm to finish and then around 9.00pm w e started to remove the servers and the courier people were packing it accordingly around 10.00pm we finished our work and was on our way, one of my team member had to go to work early next morning so he left first now its just us we went to a service station and each of us bought some snacks and got into our cars and left, it was dark and at times it was so scary but the other co-worker was behind me all along until a point where we had to go 2 different ways my house was just 10Kms from that point, even though he could have gone leaving me behind he choose to stay behind and be there, to be more precise I don’t even know that person very well but the way he took care of me was so overwhelming, the very next morning when I went to work I thanked him for his brotherhood.
Is this what called as humanity/thoughtfulness/mankind…? Looking out for someone no matter whether they are strangers or friends. Indeed it was an act of benevolence.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
--- Eric Hoffer
This happened around 4 months ago around the time I joined this job, had to go to a place called “Bathurst” which is around 157Kms from my place, a remote region for decommissioning servers; had been there a week ago for auditing. On that particular day of decommissioning around 6pm I was supposed to meet 2 of my co-workers at that customer place, I was the team lead for the day so had more responsibilities, around 6.05pm got into the facility was waiting for the drive tape people from a different organization to come and then the courier people who are supposed to take the decommissioned servers to Sydney. Except us all the other people were late, reached around 7.00pm. The servers had to be shut and routed so it took around 8.30pm to finish and then around 9.00pm w e started to remove the servers and the courier people were packing it accordingly around 10.00pm we finished our work and was on our way, one of my team member had to go to work early next morning so he left first now its just us we went to a service station and each of us bought some snacks and got into our cars and left, it was dark and at times it was so scary but the other co-worker was behind me all along until a point where we had to go 2 different ways my house was just 10Kms from that point, even though he could have gone leaving me behind he choose to stay behind and be there, to be more precise I don’t even know that person very well but the way he took care of me was so overwhelming, the very next morning when I went to work I thanked him for his brotherhood.
Is this what called as humanity/thoughtfulness/mankind…? Looking out for someone no matter whether they are strangers or friends. Indeed it was an act of benevolence.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
--- Eric Hoffer
Work Daemons:
Today was quite a big day at work….offfff, and will remember this day for ever. In my 1.5 yrs of career never had a day like this… Today I felt the real pressure of a support engineer’s work…
The day started as normal but bit earlier than ever had to go to a place called “Charlestown” (Customer site) which is 160km from my place have to be there by 7am so started around 4.30am from home the drive was so fabulous n-joyed the silence, the nature … After 2hrs of journey reached there around 6.30am, in the midst of nature watching forgot to refuel my car, there goes the alarm had to find a service station, toyed with my navman (GPS Navigator) for a while and got one station with was 500m from where I was standing; lucky me refueled and back in time to work. Now starts my bad timing, one can say that way; one by one every other computer stuff goes down starts from UPS then goes the Server1 then server 2 so on so forth, this is the first time ever such disaster occurred, called my superior they were puzzled, alone at customer site I was stuck and the “drivers team” who usually manage these equipments were helping me thro’ phone. Some how got one server up and running and eventually everything started to work then came the 2nd attack there goes the 3rd server and subsequent systems… finally around 12.30pm with the help of drivers team everything was up and running smooth, from morning 7.00am to noon I was running as if I had fire under my feet… luckily the site manager was very patient, friendly and helpfull. At the end of this drama I was so tired and drained just wanted to be home, then remembered that I didn’t eat or drink anything since morning and started to hunt for some veggie food…
Today was quite a big day at work….offfff, and will remember this day for ever. In my 1.5 yrs of career never had a day like this… Today I felt the real pressure of a support engineer’s work…
The day started as normal but bit earlier than ever had to go to a place called “Charlestown” (Customer site) which is 160km from my place have to be there by 7am so started around 4.30am from home the drive was so fabulous n-joyed the silence, the nature … After 2hrs of journey reached there around 6.30am, in the midst of nature watching forgot to refuel my car, there goes the alarm had to find a service station, toyed with my navman (GPS Navigator) for a while and got one station with was 500m from where I was standing; lucky me refueled and back in time to work. Now starts my bad timing, one can say that way; one by one every other computer stuff goes down starts from UPS then goes the Server1 then server 2 so on so forth, this is the first time ever such disaster occurred, called my superior they were puzzled, alone at customer site I was stuck and the “drivers team” who usually manage these equipments were helping me thro’ phone. Some how got one server up and running and eventually everything started to work then came the 2nd attack there goes the 3rd server and subsequent systems… finally around 12.30pm with the help of drivers team everything was up and running smooth, from morning 7.00am to noon I was running as if I had fire under my feet… luckily the site manager was very patient, friendly and helpfull. At the end of this drama I was so tired and drained just wanted to be home, then remembered that I didn’t eat or drink anything since morning and started to hunt for some veggie food…
Monday, November 3, 2008
Forget it...
Sunday, one of the boring days of the week, nothing interesting to watch in TV, so was just browsing the channels, suddenly came across one of the programs that I like to watch “20 to 1” which lists 20 good or bad movies/action movies/ singers/ actors…. And some famous faces comment on it, so this weeks episode counts down 20 modern movies that put bums on seats around the world, from big budget action films to unforgettable romances, so at number 8 it was “Men in Black” they showed a scene where a doctor finds an “Alien” and says that “this is an alien which your government tries to hide” suddenly Tommy Lee Jones one of the action heroes in the film quickly wore his dark glass like his partner Will Smith and took out an equipment which looked like a torch and flashed it towards the doctor, it was a tool to erase memory… boom, she forgot everything… so I started to think what would people do if they really get an equipment like that?? Asked my husband he simply said “I’ll do nothing” an answer which I thought that I’ll get, so next asked my friends and my team people at work and all gave me different answer then I thought now it is my turn to think what I’ll do?? Hmm… unlike others I won't waste that equipment on others instead I thought I’ll use it on myself, ha ha ha… it sounds selfish though but according to me it would be one of the wisest decision I would take in my life, but unfortunately I don’t have that luxury, hope to have it one day.
Sunday, one of the boring days of the week, nothing interesting to watch in TV, so was just browsing the channels, suddenly came across one of the programs that I like to watch “20 to 1” which lists 20 good or bad movies/action movies/ singers/ actors…. And some famous faces comment on it, so this weeks episode counts down 20 modern movies that put bums on seats around the world, from big budget action films to unforgettable romances, so at number 8 it was “Men in Black” they showed a scene where a doctor finds an “Alien” and says that “this is an alien which your government tries to hide” suddenly Tommy Lee Jones one of the action heroes in the film quickly wore his dark glass like his partner Will Smith and took out an equipment which looked like a torch and flashed it towards the doctor, it was a tool to erase memory… boom, she forgot everything… so I started to think what would people do if they really get an equipment like that?? Asked my husband he simply said “I’ll do nothing” an answer which I thought that I’ll get, so next asked my friends and my team people at work and all gave me different answer then I thought now it is my turn to think what I’ll do?? Hmm… unlike others I won't waste that equipment on others instead I thought I’ll use it on myself, ha ha ha… it sounds selfish though but according to me it would be one of the wisest decision I would take in my life, but unfortunately I don’t have that luxury, hope to have it one day.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Family Outing...
Offf… finally reached India after 14 long hours of journey, was very tired and quite excited to be in the country and to see the family…rested for a day trying to get rid of jet lag but no luck; but slept well, ate my mom-in laws yummy food. My father-in law & Mom-in law were quite excited to see their only grand son… by next day my sis-in law and my nieces arrived to spent the weekend with us… all were quite excited to see each other and had a lovely day, around noon I came up with an idea of family outing to the beach and dinning out, thought that all the 3 kids (my son and my 2 nieces) would enjoy playing around… As usual my father-in law didn’t come so the rest of the family started the trip to Marina beach after almost 2hrs of journey reached the beach parked the car and started to walk, would have walked around 10 minutes and suddenly saw a crowd running away from the sea we thought hmm its nice to see the grown-ups playing around… but to be more precise they were not playing around they were running from the rain it was too late before we realized it, it was pouring heavily for 30 minutes with wild winds blowing we were just running around no where to shelter-in fully wet from top to bottom the children were crying & shivering… and finally found a tree to stand underneath, by then my husband found the car without a second thought got in went to my sis-in laws place changed picked my brother-in law and we all went out to eat and finally reached home, we keep on talking about the trip and had a hearty laugh… this is one family outing that we would never forget in our life, it didn't turn out the way we thought it would, but still we n-joyed it.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
May Fair....
May is an auspicious month for me and my husband…We share a same B’date its May 6th and our wedding day is on May 2nd… We are keen in n-joying our special day rather than n-joying some festive day…As usual May this year, first came our wedding day we went out shopping had lunch and dinner outside…the day was silent and went well…then came our birthday My good Lord gracious I made a big feast with 10 curries and then came a surprise from my adopted mother she surprised us in the evening with a cake and she spent the whole evening with us and blessed us…We all n-joyed it and had a luvely time together… I just have one wish to make “I wish to have this happiness and love always in our life”.
May is an auspicious month for me and my husband…We share a same B’date its May 6th and our wedding day is on May 2nd… We are keen in n-joying our special day rather than n-joying some festive day…As usual May this year, first came our wedding day we went out shopping had lunch and dinner outside…the day was silent and went well…then came our birthday My good Lord gracious I made a big feast with 10 curries and then came a surprise from my adopted mother she surprised us in the evening with a cake and she spent the whole evening with us and blessed us…We all n-joyed it and had a luvely time together… I just have one wish to make “I wish to have this happiness and love always in our life”.
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