Thus I reached Bangalore. I joined Blue Flame Internet Services Pvt. Ltd on August 1st 2005. Bangalore was my dream city that time. As soon as I got a job I accepted the offer and joined there. My boss’s name was Ashwin Iddya. He’s a real internet savvy. He only helped me to find a nice and peaceful accommodation. On the first day I was really tensed. That day was enough for me to feel that I reached in such a nice workplace. Harishkumar (we usually call him BP) taught me how to do PPC. I got nice friends like Binny, Madhu, Mahima, Ashok, Krithi, Mamta etc there. These people are still finding time to contact me through phone calls, mails and orkut. So sweet. In my 2.8 years life in BFI, I never saw Ashwin in an angry mood. He doesn’t know how to speak roughly or rudely. He was always so soft. He loves chocolates and coke. We used to keep bottles of coke and boxes of chocolates in fridge. He accepted our repeated request and turned to Appy Fizz instead of coke. He loves popes and rocks. I sometimes quarreled with him for keeping the music in full volume. He used to reduce the volume even if I After completing my 1st year there I asked him for my feedback. He told me “You have to change one thing” and stooped for a minute. I thought I made some mistake and starred at him. Suddenly he told me “try to enjoy loud music. Allow me to put music in sound volume”. There was chance to enjoy every small occasions. Many times I felt that he is a man who knows all the big things in this world and doesn’t have idea about the silly matters. If you see him gloomy, it is sure that the stock market is down and his shares have less value. Nothing else can make him blue. All the girls in my hostel were jealous in the privileges we are getting in our office. Weekly eat-out, tour in 6 months, movies, gift vouchers, bonuses…
Only because my husband -to-be was here in Chennai, I left my job there in Bangalore. All the people in Bangalore office tried to get a job for my husband there. But god’s plan was something else. He got a better job in Chennai itself and I also had to come over here. Still, whenever i get a call from my BFI, the first question they are asking is “when are you coming back?” In future, i won’t think that I will get such a happy working atmosphere. I thank Ashwin and all my team members there. And a special congratulation for Ashwin as he’s going to enter a new life on September 1st. This is your marriage gift in advance.
29 Jul
Last Sunday was my brother-in-law’s son’s (Joel) baptism. You know what baptism is? If you know just check whether what I have written here is right or not. If you don’t know what baptism is then read ahead.
Baptism is a Christian spiritual ceremony. This sacramental act turns one as a full member of the Church-Christian. Most Christians, for example Roman Catholics (we are Roman Catholics), Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, and Methodists are baptized as babies.
Baptism normally will happen anytime after 7 days of birth if there are no emergencies.
In New Testament we see, John the Baptist baptized for repentance, baptizing Jesus and many others. In apostolic era, baptism was usually by immersing or pouring water. The candidate had to stand in water and water to be poured over the upper part of the body. To replicate the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan, early days Christians choose rivers for performing baptisms.
According to Christian belief, all are successors of Adam & Eve and so born in sin. So during baptism time, we believe that our sins are washed off and we are born again in god. It is some what like a naming ceremony in Hindu culture. In Kerala, the first baby will get the name of his/her dad’s father’s/mother’s name and second baby will get his/her mom’s father’s/mother’s name. I am not 100% sure about this. In our family it’s like that. For catechism and church related purposes, we usually use this baptism name only.
As our Joel is my brother-in-law’s first baby, he has given the name of my father-in-law. He’s now 5 months old and was crying by seeing all the preparations and crowd. After the ceremony he got many gifts and there was a nice lunch for the invitees.
29 Jul
Currently where I am working is my third company. I am working in Search engine genie for the last 3 months. Here I would like to share my experience with my bosses.
My first office was Indlaw communications pvt ltd. I will tell you about my first interview experience here in another post. I was working with that company till I left Delhi. Mr. Joseph Pookkatt was my boss over there. He is a famous advocate in supreme court. I always wonder how a man from law background could think about a law resource online 10-15 years before. Now indlaw is one of the best law resource in world wide web. Evenif his parents are keralites, my boss born and bought up there in bangalore and then settled his work and living in delhi. He was not that much comfortable in takling in malayalam. He knows malayalam only because his baby sitter and car drivers were keralites. whenever I went to him, he used to speak to me in malayalam only. He might think that as I am a fresher and new to delhi, It would be difficult for me to speak in english or hindi. It has increased my confidence when spoke to him. I could approach him directly and tell him any difficulties. He allowed me halfday on saturdays to go to my study centre. Some times I asked him permission to go to church. Then he told me “If you will pray for our company then only i will send you”. I did so. I am very happy to see indlaw at the top of all law sites. I use to check their website and still receiving their newsletter. I got somany good friends over there. ut the extreme climate cheated me. Otherwise I was still working for indlaw. I don’t that noone before or after joined me got such a nice send off party and gift. I got a job in a new field and flew to IT city of India.
I Will tell that story tomorrow.
28 Jul
2 days before my hubby’s shoulder was paining. He has minor shoulder pain from the morning and when he did push-ups during his exercise, it increased and he couldn’t move his left hand. We went to a famous hospital near by. Actually we wanted to go to the gastroenterologist as my husband has disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and we believed that the pain is because of that only. But while the time we reached the hospital he was not available. So someone referred us to the chief medical consultant. We felt very comfortable that the doctor is a keralite and his first and last name contain names of saints. by the time we reached the consultation room, his assistant told doctor had gone for rounds and would come within 20-30 minutes.
We started to wait. 9.30, 10.00, 10.30 time went on. Then the assistant told doctor had gone to a meeting and coming directly from there. At last he came. My husband had this same problem before and so we went with recent ECG and prescription lists from other doctor. He was not even ready to hear anything. He told us to tell about that particular day’s problem. We told that. Then he wrote for 5 types blood test (including thyroid and cholesterol), urine test, ECG, X-ray and lungs tests. We did all those things and they told us to come in the afternoon to collect the reports. We didn’t get any medicines. Evening we went and collected all the reports and gone to the doctor again. He checked all papers and told everything normal, you can go. I lost my temper. Still I asked him politely-”Sir, both of us took leave today only because his shoulder is paining and still now we didn’t get any medicine. He can’t move his left hand now also”. Suddenly he took prescription pad and gave such a lengthy list. Some medicines for 15 days, some for 30 days and 1 tablet for 3 months. If everything seems normal, why did he prescribe all those medicine? He wrote medicines of a particular company and told us to buy that only. Out of 7, 6 types of medicines we got from the pharmacy. For one medicine we went to minimum 5 medical shops. Pharmacists told they would give us same medicine from another companies. Yesterday my hubby went with some other reports to the doctor. That time he was not there in the hospital where we went previously and was working in another hospital. He went there, met the doctor and got the same medicine from that pharmacy. I told my husband “You can do any exercise; but no push -ups. Today’s push -up cost us nearly 4000″
Yes, that doctor is loyal to the hospital where he works and to the medicine company who gives him costly rewards. But to the patients?????
24 Jul
If something wrong happens in the morning, the whole day will be spoiled. You know what happened this morning? Yesterday night itself I have planned to prepare “steam cake (puttu)” for breakfast. Puttu and Pazham (steam cake & banana) is very nice combination for breakfast. I slept till 6.30 because I was sure that this dish won’t take much time. I measured rice powder and mix it with jeera and water. My whole calculations went wrong. The powder became a paste. By seeing this, my hubby came for my help. He put some rava and coconut. Then we planned to make pan cake out of that. As the powder was fried, it got stick on my frying pan. But I was not ready to fail. I used that dough to make something like iddly. Luckily my premier cooker didn’t cheat me. It came out. As it was hard; still tasty. Our doubt was what to call that dish. My hubby usually packs the breakfast item for lunch. So if his colleagues ask him, he has to tell them a name. My husband suggested many names and I liked one “pagal appam”. Really this thing made me mad in the morning. Thus that naming ceremony got over. In a hurry I made rice and subji (vegetable curry) for lunch. These types of experiences are common and obvious when you have to handle many roles together. There is no internet in the office now. My boss is firing Airtel people. He’s telling about turn over and loses. Very nice to hear that. 
Byee
17 Jul
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I am Jinu Sunil Manalody from the southern metropolitan city. What else to say about me? I am very loving, caring, helping,…? No no. That’s not nice to say like that here na? This is what others have to say about me. Ok? Simply I am a fun loving, dreaming and to an extend a lazy girl (at 26 also girl is a girl only na?). I don’t like to change what I have told once.
I love cooking and dreaming. I cook south- Indian, north-Indian, Chinese, continental, Italian and Thai dishes. Don’t ask whether I really know all these. I just told I cook all these. Even if my Chinese schezwan fried rice tastes like sambar rice, I will call it schezwan fried rice fried rice only. I have the copyright for that.
I like to watch comedy movies and sometimes serious topics too. But no parallel movies. I don’t know why people are responding so late in such movies. I love melodies. Language doesn’t matter.
Getting bored? I feel its enuf for today. see uuuuuuuu
16 Jul
