"Arrey Oh Samba..." That's not the dialogue from the movie Sholay but my mobile alarm ringing at 7.30am in the morning. 3 more snoozes and it calls out again "Arrey Oh Samba. Yeh Phone kab se baj raha hain". 7.45am read the panel on the mobile and that's the last minute I can be on bed. I head straight out to the hall and search for my most precious possession - my Dell D610. With eyes half closed I log in into outlook to check if there any bombs that have exploded during my sound sleep and to check the meetings that I have for the day. Then a round of checking personal mails -> Gmail and Orkut -> with more time on Orkut to check the updates in other's profiles(Proves that I am still Indian at heart - more worried about what is happening in others life).
After completing the morning ablutions and having a lovely breakfast prepared by my wife I set off in my Camry listening to my current favorite song - "Pappu can't Dance sala". As I cross the different signals I cast my eye on the various gas stations checking out the price, as this is the only thing that keeps changing during my 6 mile drive from home to office and back.
After connecting my Laptop to the network and answering the important mails I search for the my red and blue card(secureID) to log in into my own official mailbox(that's the 3rd time I am checking my mail for the day). Luckily this one is easy, as mostly it is just a couple of general mails and a few entertaining forwards. Now that 3rd mailbox is over, it is back to issues and tickets for the day with a couple of breaks used to update my self with the latest news in sports world especially Formula one.
Lunch, usually is a ride back home to have some rice and special south Indian curry prepared by my Wife. This is going to be just for a few more days as she is going to join a college for her studies and I would have to start bringing a lunch box. After the sumptuous lunch its 20 minutes on Card sharks(An old show but somehow I like this game very much) on GSN and then back to office.
Post lunch the initial 30-60 minutes is the hardest part of the day as my eyes long to sleep but being in office I can't and to pass over this period I usually depend on some chatting with my cubicle mate or just try to read some interesting articles. Meanwhile the tickets, meetings and issues do keep coming in and the most interesting part is how they come. There are days when you are longing for some ticket or issue to come-up and then there are days when you wish you had not come to office. The best past of meetings is usually the main agenda of the meeting is discussed only for a 40-50% of the duration of the meeting and remainder is spent in some intereseting anecdotes from the people in the meeting.
Evenings at home begins with some snacks and a game of cards with my wife, with me winning most of the days(She is going to go RED when she reads this :-)) and then it is Bingo-Lingo hour on GSN. After that a round of Virtual tennis on my Xbox where I try to up the ranking of my player - JAYUMON - who is currently at World rank 71.
My wife and I have 2 (web cam) meetings on either side of the dinner. The first with my in-laws and the second with my parents. Usually its the updates of the day from both sides(sorry if it sounds similar to conference calls :-). After that its time to do some exercise - lazy to run around so just do 2 rounds of walking around the Apartment complex. Then comes the offshore call(kind of rare these days) after which I call it a day. With a brief rewind of the happenings in the day in my mind I go to sleep waiting for the call - "Arrey oh Samba...Yeh Phone kab se baj raha hain"
