Random Thoughts at work

I want to chuck my job and travel through Japan with a backpack I want to go back to Chandigarh and see the new house I want to have paranthas with home made butter I want to go to my favourite cafe;sit cross legged on their comfy sofas and eat cheesecake with coffee while I read a good bookI am fed up of working with unprofessional people and want to tell them soI am tired of motivating others when I don’t feel too motivated myself I want to ask some people if they have ever heard of the terms "Schedule management" and "Contingency Planning" ?Its not such a good day at work people...

Friends, Shopping and Rajma Chawal

I’ve been meeting a lot of old friends lately. Met A last weekend in Yokohama and yesterday met S. She was in shizuoka for a week which is quite a distance from Tokyo and I had almost despaired of meeting her, but the great pal that she is she delayed her flight to Sunday so she cld spend Saturday with me.We had the most glorious time. We shopped till we dropped and talked about how life had treated us since we met last. The weather gods were kind - for a change the day was cloudy so we spent most of it walking ard Tokyo and by 6 in the evening we were just about ready to collapse.S is a pure veg and not the kind who drink - so I couldn't take...

The company of Friends

What do you do when a dear friend calls to say he will be in town soon and will meet you ? You hop skip and jump around the room like a five year old and start counting the days till he comes. Meanwhile you call your mother, his mother and a hundred people in between pestering them to tell you his exact schedule. And when he does land in Tokyo you call him a thousand times a day when he is in very important meetings with very important people demanding to know when he will meet you. And when you do meet,the feeling is like coming home. The best thing that can happen to you when you are in an alien city suffering from the blues is to meet someone...