..... for an update. Ah well, it isn't as though anything overly interesting has been happening in my life that I need to update on a daily basis. Actually that’s true most of the times but the last 3 weeks have been crazy. Frankly, I don’t even remember where I had stopped but I shall just tell you all the things that I can recall.
For starters, I had been waiting to announce the exciting news about this new job for which I was interviewing with a NASDAQ listed product development company, where your chotu se S would have been the HR Director for the Asia-Pac region; with Japan, Singapore, China and India offices under her direct purview. How cool is that!! But…
The company in question took its own sweet time reverting back (after 6 grilling rounds of interview) with the offer. First, K (the HR Head) was traveling and then SD (honcho in India) was sick and blah blah and so they took almost 20 days to get back. By then, I had lost the enthusiam about the new job and also forgotten the reason why I was looking for a change in the first place. Plus for a host of other reasons, I refused the offer. Basically, I buckled under the pressure from my pointy-haired boss and R (our CEO) . Everyone knows the love-hate relation I share with Richard and also the fact that I cannot refuse him anything. So here I am, back to where I started.
AC, NG & RM were livid. They thought this was such a great opportunity to catapult my career to the next level. Imagine being Asia-Pac HR Director at the tender age of XX. But honestly, I am not really a career woman. I am more of a relationship person. The new job meant a lot of travel, leaving precious little time to spend with my family (and hence Ma was not very keen about the job either. Infact she didn’t even pray for me. I had a big fight with her on that) And I would have missed the friendship and fun I had with colleagues here in my current company. There was one positive outcome though. I got a BIG raise!
Then what else? I completed another year of existence on this planet on October 24. Spend the night partying crazily at Taika. I got so drunk that I had to be lugged back home. Woke up with a major hang-over. Stumbled till the mirror to find my face decorated with cake. BTW, there were 4 birthday cakes that night. Everyone was so excited about my b’day. Phone rang continuously and smses poured in the whole day but I was waiting for just one person to wish me. :o( He didn’t in person but did send me 2 e-cards. Tons of flowers, chocolates and presents along with a skirmish with AS (aka Hagar the Horrible) completed the day.
I have been so wrapped in myself and my misery of late that I failed to notice the effort and the pain everyone took to make my day extra special. Today as I reflect back, I feel extremely selfish. Thank you God for the wonderful friends and family you have given me! I know I complain perennially to / about you but I know deep inside that I am truly blessed.
There were so many presents; I just can't remember all of it... The best gifts weren't the material ones though. The ones I liked best were these -- the cake AC & RM sneaked into Taika, Rohit’s excited voice wishing me a very very happy birthday at the stroke of midnight, T’s bone-crushing hug, the way she and RT decorated my face with cake, PS phone call @ 2 am in the morning of the 24th to apologize for not wishing me happy birthday at the crack of midnight, Belly’s face when I opened her gifts, N's smile when she walked in to the house with the cake she made for me herself (it was dee..lish..ous, by the way!), the thought behind the Lillies sent by BP (he remembered that they were my favorite flowers), msg on the company board which said "Happy Birthday S", my brother's hug (he never hugs me otherwise), love in my ma’s eyes as woke me up with a hot cuppa chai, dad’s tender kiss on my forehead …… Can anyone ask for anything more?
For starters, I had been waiting to announce the exciting news about this new job for which I was interviewing with a NASDAQ listed product development company, where your chotu se S would have been the HR Director for the Asia-Pac region; with Japan, Singapore, China and India offices under her direct purview. How cool is that!! But…
The company in question took its own sweet time reverting back (after 6 grilling rounds of interview) with the offer. First, K (the HR Head) was traveling and then SD (honcho in India) was sick and blah blah and so they took almost 20 days to get back. By then, I had lost the enthusiam about the new job and also forgotten the reason why I was looking for a change in the first place. Plus for a host of other reasons, I refused the offer. Basically, I buckled under the pressure from my pointy-haired boss and R (our CEO) . Everyone knows the love-hate relation I share with Richard and also the fact that I cannot refuse him anything. So here I am, back to where I started.
AC, NG & RM were livid. They thought this was such a great opportunity to catapult my career to the next level. Imagine being Asia-Pac HR Director at the tender age of XX. But honestly, I am not really a career woman. I am more of a relationship person. The new job meant a lot of travel, leaving precious little time to spend with my family (and hence Ma was not very keen about the job either. Infact she didn’t even pray for me. I had a big fight with her on that) And I would have missed the friendship and fun I had with colleagues here in my current company. There was one positive outcome though. I got a BIG raise!
Then what else? I completed another year of existence on this planet on October 24. Spend the night partying crazily at Taika. I got so drunk that I had to be lugged back home. Woke up with a major hang-over. Stumbled till the mirror to find my face decorated with cake. BTW, there were 4 birthday cakes that night. Everyone was so excited about my b’day. Phone rang continuously and smses poured in the whole day but I was waiting for just one person to wish me. :o( He didn’t in person but did send me 2 e-cards. Tons of flowers, chocolates and presents along with a skirmish with AS (aka Hagar the Horrible) completed the day.
I have been so wrapped in myself and my misery of late that I failed to notice the effort and the pain everyone took to make my day extra special. Today as I reflect back, I feel extremely selfish. Thank you God for the wonderful friends and family you have given me! I know I complain perennially to / about you but I know deep inside that I am truly blessed.
There were so many presents; I just can't remember all of it... The best gifts weren't the material ones though. The ones I liked best were these -- the cake AC & RM sneaked into Taika, Rohit’s excited voice wishing me a very very happy birthday at the stroke of midnight, T’s bone-crushing hug, the way she and RT decorated my face with cake, PS phone call @ 2 am in the morning of the 24th to apologize for not wishing me happy birthday at the crack of midnight, Belly’s face when I opened her gifts, N's smile when she walked in to the house with the cake she made for me herself (it was dee..lish..ous, by the way!), the thought behind the Lillies sent by BP (he remembered that they were my favorite flowers), msg on the company board which said "Happy Birthday S", my brother's hug (he never hugs me otherwise), love in my ma’s eyes as woke me up with a hot cuppa chai, dad’s tender kiss on my forehead …… Can anyone ask for anything more?
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