Its now more than a week since I joined the new company and I still have two months of training left.
But in just one week, my life has changed a lot.
My old office was quite centrally located on Infantry Road which is just 4 km from my home and one could easily walk to Cunningham Road, Commercial Street and MG Road from there. My new office is in Whitefield, completely outside the city. There is nowhere to go from there. There are big office campuses there and nothing else.
Also, since my home is far from my office, I need to take the office shuttle. The shuttle comes to my stop at 7.15 am in the morning which means I have to get up at 5.30 am. Tragic! I even had to run half the distance yesterday (I woke up late) with people on the road looking at me all funny.
Anyhow, the first day I went to catch the office shuttle, I saw something completely new. A world I never knew existed. There were only buses and cabs belonging to software companies on the road apart from a few private vehicles. And there were atleast 20 people waiting for their respective buses/cabs. It was surprising.
I’ve almost got used to the new routine and all the commuting somehow makes me feel more like a part of Bangalore’s IT brigade.
Update: Forgot to add a funny incident. One evening I was sitting in the bus as were 4-5 other people. The driver came in and held up a book which said, “Know Your Limits”. Within a second, it was clear that he had found it in the bus and wanted to return it to the owner but I wondered how funny it would have been if he had actually bought it and wanted everyone to read it and then stay within their limits. Maybe its one of those things where you have to be there for it to be funny bcos it was really funny and I couldn’t control my laughter, which I finally had to bcos there were other people there (who I don’t speak to) and they would have assumed that I’m nuts.
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great!!!
one thing is confirmed… u r pakka akanksha’s frnd…. that lazy gal also gets up late….
u didnt tell anything abt ur colleagues, hope u wil tel abt tem..
IT brigade was good :-p
Welcome to the group of early office goers pal.
I even had to run half the distance yesterday (I woke up late) with people on the road looking at me all funny.
Do not worry abt that it happenes daily to people, if u wanna avoid that get up early
Hope u were not the one whom i saw running (like 100m race) the other day to catch the bus. And hey if u do not want to run call ur colleuge to stop the bus and wait
you could always try to find a colleague who drives out to work and get a ride with them…
oh, thats right, you dont like asking people for rides… you also dont like manaquins
[i remember odd things]
a) u didnt tell me u hav put up a post
b) ask smbdy to giv u call just 5 mins before they reach ur stop.. thats what i do .. hence no running involved generally
c) i cant imagine u runnign u look a lil too proper proper to run ha ha
@preeti: he gets up earlier than me… he he for him getting up kate is gettin up at 8 for me gettin up late is 12 o clock ;D
i meant late not kate ha ha fruedian slip i think
@All: Please read the update post.
@preeti: Hey 5:35 can’t be called late!
I dont know too many people yet. Once I do, I’ll write about them as well
@abhinav:
//Hope u were not the one whom i saw running (like 100m race) the other day to catch the bus.
Depends…where did u see this race take place?
The problem is that there’s only one guy in the bus at my stop and if he doesn’t coem then I’m the first
@becky: Ha ha…I see u havent forgotten abt my oddities
Bangalore’s traffice is so bad that people prefer taking the bus so I’m not sure too many people around my place go to work by car.
@akanksha:
a)Sorry. Forgot!
b)There’s only one guy who boards the bus before me and that too jsut 2 mins before me.
c)Even I can’t imagine that. I must have looked funny. Atleast I wasn’t wearing formals
well my pickup is @ k’mangla
neways why do not u try cab dirvers phone and yea the update is really funny
@abhinav: Okay, then it wasn’t me
Driver’s phone number? I didnt take it bcos I am addicted to risk n i feel if i have his number, i’ll have to use it daily
//the update is really funny
Thanks
damn, 5:30 is too early!
I m new to blogging.. Ur blog is too good..I couldnt stop laughing abt the “Know ur limits” book..
@freeze: It is too early
@raghu: Hey, Raghu!
Thanks n Welcome!
write smthing yaar.. bahut bore ho rahi hoon.. plus main kuchh nahin likh pa rahi hoon tum to kuchh likho!!
Part of Bangalore IT’s brigade. That sounds good, even if that requires getting up at 5.30 am
@akanksha: I will, I will. I wrote half a post and saved it as a draft but haven’t completed it yet
@greensatya: Hmm, it is pretty good. Such a delayed response?
its been awhile! miss hearing from ya
@becky: I know
Expect a post real soon
i put up a post already..kuch likho nahin to…
nahin to kuch nahin main koi aur blog padh lungi
dude waiting for ur post.