Board Room..!!

Today was a special day.I don't know for me or not, but being in the Technology Group, I must say it was important for "us" !We had a meeting with the MD, Tata Steel !I realized the importance when I saw everyone sitting on chair 20 minutes before time,well dressed. Even my chief was sort of rehearsing his presentation, whispering the contents to himself. Anyways, it wasn't sufficient for making me feel tensed as I was among people who were going to just sit and listen. This was a board room meeting cum Video Conference with three more Tata Steel offices. All of us were told to either put the cell phones off or at least on 'silent' mode.
The fun started here. I am suffering from a little cough and cold since two days. I very quickly realized that I was going to cough out throughout the board room meeting. As soon as MD arrived, the proceedings started.It began with people greeting him in different ways possible. I too had a unique one !I loudly coughed out in a welcoming way to attract everyone's attention!And the welcome continued on behalf of at least a dozen of other persons hoping they would get a chance to make their voices audible!! As the meeting proceeded, it got worse and I stared varying the inter-arrival time of cough-outs and their volume by trying to suppress...
Now, the only hope left for me was the hot drink that was supposed to be served. I said 'drink' because at different times and venues, it is different!! Sometimes tea, coffee (conventional), sometimes lemon tea, sometimes tea without sugar and milk etc etc. Anyway, for me it acts as a straight forward cough reliever, so I was holding tight looking at the door for it. My eyes lit up when the tray first entered the door, followed by its carrier. But alas, he started serving form the other end. Moreover, it was only the half lot. The second lot was to come later!!! I almost gave up and started coughing constantly, grinning to all those who were looking at me with various expressions: pity, anger and some patronizingly too (who were feeling proud for coughing out 'relatively' less).
What was being noticed by most of them was that I was matching the frequency of MD's interruptions in the presentation. We both were opening our mouth at the same time, and obviously, I was the one with greater volume..he he...So, we all took down his suggestions as:
"Please understand...uhhu uhhu....that we need to be more...uhhu uhhu....and ....uhhhhhuuuu unnhuuu.." Hope that's enough description, because the drink finally arrived for me and I swallowed it in fraction of a second. The taste is not to be remembered anyway, but the meeting ended well. Hoping to attend another soon...

Safety Violation..!!

Yesterday was an embarrassing day for me. Just to give an idea, in the works area of Tata Steel, safety is a very very serious issue. There is a separate 'code of conduct' written on safety; lot of work done to categorize unsafe acts, unsafe conditions etc. Whatever it may appear while reading, it really commands respect and attention in terms of the positivity, the people as a team show here. They may reflect the negative motivation aspect also at times, but the risk of violation is too costly to be taken..!
Our office is about 8 km from Bistupur (name of an area) Entry Gate inside the Works. We prefer another gate (National Material Laboratory Gate) to enter which leaves just about 1.5 km distance to be traversed inside the company. This not only makes us feel secure of unknown violations but also shields us from the the <=35 km/hour speed constraint for a considerable fraction of total distance we travel.
In the evening yesterday, I saw a mail lying in Inbox which was saying congrats to my colleague (cc to a lot of friends). I asked him what was it for, as my colleague had already left for a 10 day leave. He told me that our photograph was on Intranet..! He was caught violating safety rules not because of speed violation (the most common one) but for not tying his helmet's chin clip..!!Sitting on the back seat, I too was captured in the picture..
I recieved a heavy dose from my chief with not a word of sympathy in it but throughout asking for my commitment to not repeat it again, as if he had done the crime. I too was really feeling very bad about it.. I too was equally responsible for the unsafe "act "we" had displayed..

We..

I found it best to call my blog "We". I thought for a long time as usual and finally arrived (unusually) at a very appropriate word . 'I' have always believed, in fact 'we' all to certain extent believe that we are a team. Alone there is no existence for anyone of us. We all represent by our name and deeds, a large mob of people who directly or indirectly have molded us into what we are. This influence varies in proportion to the time we spend with someone. In childhood family plays the role, then friends start arriving and after some age it is anyway difficult to visualize the culprit at all..!!
It is also possible that at a particular state of mind, we behave identical to someone or a group of people who have made a deep influence on our personality. It may also happen that we don't notice this at all. It is in a way correct when people impose our wrong doings on our family members or curse our 'bad' company. More or less, they all share the responsibility!
By all this 'I' just want to convey that being no exception, 'I' too influence and get influenced by 'my' friends, family and all the people around 'me'. Nobody, living socially (or unsocially) can be an exception ! All the living beings wherever they are deserve 'my' respect. They have helped 'me' survive till today, and they will help 'me' survive tomorrow. Every living thing reflects a purely natural soul and the role it plays in the balancing the universe cannot be neglected. It is crucial..
I think it is justified that if we replace all the "I", "my" etc. with "we", "our" accordingly everywhere, it makes no difference..

Vande Mataram..

As usual, I didn't expect this will start like this...sitting on a chair with a laptop at 2:00 a.m. in the balcony of my new house in Tatanagar on 3rd floor. The blue yellow flames (rising to about 2 feet ) out of chimneys from the Tata Steel plant are visible...the sky full of starts and mild breeze is making me feel very calm and quiet..

A lot of changes have occurred...the transition from a student to an employee has just taken place, yet another phase...only difference is that my special songs running in the background and my memory stock are still the same, upgraded and revised at regular intervals. My mind right now is running along infinite directions at a time, which is making it difficult for me to write what I want to. Anyways, hope I will learn with time.I need to learn it.

I have always believed that I should not get into documenting my experiences. Rather they must be revised frequently. I generally am busy remembering the time I have spent with my friends, family and music and sports. This I feel is the root cause of my absent mindedness. I have always been scared getting out of this subconscious state of my mind. That keeps me away from outside world and its pros and cons. The worry is that this absent mindedness of mine is now slowly disappearing....
Now also, I am not realizing what I am writing.. hope tomorrow morning I understand..