Hard working hours, hectic work schedules, meeting client's demands, sacrificing weekly off's, meeting project dead lines.. is all what u will come across in the life of a typical IT professional. Myself religiously being the part of the same story.. Everybody around is complaining !!
Who are we all complaining to ?? Are our sad stories being heard ?? Is anybody there to solve our issues ?? Well no one.. the management does not bother.. all they want is get ur ass fucked, give ur 200 %, be a dedicated resource ("Asset" to the company is what they term), take ur pay and get lost.. If u donn wanna do the company's way.. well many guys are there outside following ur ass who want's the job badly !! Frustating it is.. Isn't it ?? Well i was too fckd up and applied for a leave of 14 days.. Wanted a break badly.. Finally after much tamasha-jhol, my leave got approved and i was flying with no wings !!
The journey to kolkata from pune was by train. Some how i got my reservation fixed at the 11th hour though i prepared myself for a no-sleep 36 hour journey, but thanks to the ticket collector, he offered me a seat without taking a penny.. See, truly said : "people are of two types.. good people who do good work and bad people who do bad evil work" excerpt from the bollywood muvie "My name is kkkkkkkkkkhan" :-) there are few good men still available. More importantly i was offered the seat with a group of engineers.. software guys.. donn know how the TC recognizes people by their look, seems he clubbed me effortlessely with those bunch of geeks ! Well when we all started talking and introducing our selves, i came to know that im no where.. they have been in this field from 5-8 Years and still going strong !! I asked myself.. Yaar mummy i mean bahu kya khilata hain.. 8 years still going strong, having high ambitions, reach for the skies and all that !! Im fucking bored with my 18 months journey and wanna quit right away.. Well i really kept mum by then i learned about thier highly skilled profiles and straight away went to my bed listening to my all time fav tracks.. Happy and so peaceful my mind was realising the fact that im in leave and no work and no office calls !!
Well, reaching Howrah station at around 4:30 in the morning, the sky looked so beautiful, the cold breeze from the banks of river Ganges passing away touching my lazy-tired bones felt great u know.. i then realised.. im home, this is my city.. Good Morning kolkata.. get up for a busy day coming up for you !! While standing in the long queue for prepaid taxi, found several taxi-wallas interrupting trying their heart & soul to make all of them standing in the line believe that they will offer no delay and take directly to the destination with same prices as offered by the prepaid booth. "Dada.. cholun.. Prepaid taxi r bhara diya ee jaben.. cholun.. addh ghonta nosto hobe line e dariye.. cholun... !!" Well, no takers.. No body believed them.. Poor Souls :-(
Seeing the Ganges flowing effortlessely, gracefully as ever filled my bones with strength.. I attempted to pull my camera out of my sack but realised later that the battery pack was on the other bag kept at the back (dikki).. poor soul i was !!
Proper plans are never executed atleast not with me.. I have planned that i shall not waste my vacation by lazying around, sleeping.. Well all that happened with me is just laze laze until 2 days passed away. I was looking at my work mails and every minute, i was replicating to see whether any new mail is received. May be i was missing work. What the hell, the same thing which i used to hate a week ago has turned into my interest and quest again. I kept pinging all my colleagues to know what was happening in and around the office.. Dumb ass i was.. Well, can't help.. Phenomenal Men huh !! I then realised that all i need to do is just shut down my laptop, shut down my lotus notes, insert the batteries in the cam and get out. This was only materializable after much external force n words from two of my frnds. Still it took me one more day to actually implement all those wise sayings !!
Called up a school mate, met him and called up another common frnd of ours and all three of us decided to meet and go sum where.. I was really enthusiastic about good shots i will get travelling to few places i already noted down which was provided to me by two photography lovers, well three psychatic photography lovers :-) At the end of the day i found that i was successfully able to fool myself.. Now don't curse me.. All we visited were Java Green ~ Hookas, Princeton Pub ~ Whisky, played Night Cricket in a ground, went to one of my frnd's flat, drank wine, hooka 2nd time, chocolate liquors, holy adda !! When it was 6 in the morning, all three of us decided to take a nap and soon wake up so that we can go for my shots and so called city trip. Well our morning broke at 12 in the day.. I decided to come back to home (sister's place), take bath, change and then meet again. Well it did not materialise, the day was almost over. Never mind, i completed my last night's limited sleep in the benefit !
The next morning i decided any how i should go out and take few shots. Called up that frnd and we planned to go to Belurmath.. We met and we hired a taxi for Dakhineshwar. Went there, waited till evening for the sunset only to get 2 to three good shots. I was really dissapointed again with myself. The day was over. I planned to go to Babu ghat and Kumar tuli too the same day but could not.
Days went so fast, i hardly found time for my shots, my sister, jiju and Om !! It all lies with you.. Time management is an essencity which needs to be handled with elegance and devotion. Me being such a dumb ass lost preety good sunny hot days in my city.. the city of joy.. the city of kolkata.. I can now only hate myself and regret. Well i also realised that im no one without the company of my near and dear ones.. im a real bore with out them.. missed my frnds in and out of the city ! Will definately put sumthing in black & white about this lively, lovely city and the people.. the juvenile hearts here soon..
Well i have my last day here in this city.. Will leave for Delhi 16th morning. Let's see what i can get out in this day.. Signing out for now.. Gud night !
Lots of Love,
Subhro
