19 Decemember 2005
Well , there i was standing outside my apartment,in the cold, at 4.00am waiting for an indica to take me to a place i never wanted to go.................
4.00am ticked away to 4.30am and i was already half frozen. My mobile was ringing again.....
(shit i need to change this ring tone ....). It was the cab driver
Memsab kahan pe ho aap(mam where are u??)
Using my broken hindi i make him understand where im standing and after 15 minutes he picks me up.
And to my surprise i had a co-traveller.
It was another person from my company who was going to bombay and he was actually doing a favour by dropping me in bombay....(too much for those great talks by my director about taking care of everything).
I have always heard that the mumbai pune route is very scenic and a must see. Since my onward was in the night i couldnt get to see anything. Not that this time i was looking forward to it..............
It was preety chilling and the car was cozy.We travelled in silence.
But despite my mood i seemed to enjoy the scenic beauty, believe me it is beautiful-- very beautiful.
And there are tunnels which were carved out of those hills and driving through them was a very refreshing feel.I was enjoying the journey not realising what awaited me.
7:30 am - Honk....honk....... now comes the reality, have reached mumbai and what better sign than the traffic jam.
Checked into the guest house freshened up and was on my way to meet my manager.
9:30am enterd the same old Economic industrial zone.....nothing much had change(what am i expecting? that the place turn clean and non dusty?....mmmm next to impossible ).
I meet up with my manager, he briefs me on my job profile and asks a team member to give me a more detailed information.....15 minutes later- he hands me a CV ... jus read this and be familiar with the profile.
The CV read NIRMALA DAS.
why would in need to be familiar with this profile??? whats happening here?
I asked to talk to the manager, he promtly replies. Im sorry, but this was the CV that we had forwarded to our client and we want you to continue with this name, But i assure you that we will change it in a month or so??
Oh ! my god what was happening to my life. Now im not even the person who iam. What will i do? Many many docs were given to me and my team mate rupesh to study. Then we realized we had a client interview that evening.
My first glance at the CV. PeopleSoft sysadmin 4 yrs exp ...
What ??? Oh no im new to this field ... i dont know anything how was i going to pose a 4yrs exp.....
God why are u playing these games with me ??
We had the call, my coordinator was smart enough to not let me talk and handle the client. Atlast, it was over.
It was 10:30 Pm i returned to the guesthouse .But the questions just kept ringing in my mind and haunting me.
Why was i brought here? jus because they nedded a girl?
why should i be some one else?
now anything i do wont matter cause im not myself anymore?
Why is this happening to me?
I jus looked at the celing it was blank and so was what was ahead of me.........
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