My Predictions about Serial Veera .. Kya Ratan ki phir se saadi hogi ?

My first review on TV serial ... 'Veera'

Although i am not the one who is very regular on watching this serial but after watching few episodes of Veera, i realized that the story is more or less inspired from the movie 'Roti' now.

This character, Nihaal chahu of Veera comes to the village 'Pritampura' from nowhere, no one knows anything about his background details. He present himself as the friend of the old sarpanch sampuran. He has been hiding something from everyone from the time he has arrived to this place. He is trying to be nice to Veera and family. Now that his reputation is almost built in everyone's eyes, he looks like he has been in guilt of something since a long time now. More he comes closer to the family, more he feels to run away or hide himself from everyone.

As far as i can have understand the story behind this is, "Sarpanch Sampuran meets this guy Nihaal  in the city when he leaves pritampura after everyone knows that he has been in an extramarital affair and his wife refuses to accept the fact that his husband can cheat on him. Now due to some reason, Sampuran and Nihaal gets into an argument or fight and Sampuran dies in police record. Nihaal is in guilt that because of him Sampuran dies so to get rid of his delinquency, he comes to pritampura to help his family. Definitely, after few episodes, sampuran's family will get to know about this fact and will estranged their relationship with him. Nihaal will have to face everyone's hatred in village and will have to work hard to make his reputation again."

Story will take a big turn here as i could see. Circumstances will articulate in such a way that Nihaal's marriage will be fixed with Widow Ratan, Sampuran's wife.

Later, I am not very confident about how the writer will turn the story when Nihaal's marriage with Ratan will about to happen, if Sampuran will come alive out of his grave and will return back to his home at last ? Lets wait and watch the serial ...:-)

How to get your party budget approved ?

Budget Approval for the official parties :-) ... quite challenging, at the same time interesting ...

We are done with our first demo today and received a lot of client appreciation. Management is quite happy with our work and efforts that we had put in to make this demo a success.

It's Fortunate or unfortunate, i am not sure though, that all management people are currently out from NCR region. Fortunate :-) obvious reasons .. no one is watching you working, sitting on your head, asking for status every 5 min. I don't want to make a wrong impression here, rather i would want to say that i have got really good supervisors who are flexible enough to make my life at peace. Definitely, I have a daily status call every morning that in my opinion is required also to have a checkpoint on the progress of the work and take necessary actions accordingly.

Now, why unfortunate, because we want a grand party but who is going to pay the bills ? My Manager asked me to wait until he returns to India after couple of weeks and assured that we will rock a good party. 

Wait for another 2 weeks ... difficult ... so finally we asked to approve a budget for a small party until he arrives to India... so the conversation, in fact, negotiation goes like this. Bhavna, Sumit, Sandeep, Nitish and Nitin are my team members (names changed to keep the privacy ... huh)

Bhavna - This is regarding the party Budget ... :-) approx bill will be around 1300...plz approve...:D
Deepali - uff 2000 bucks bhavna
Sumit - Dekh lo ... Baad mein badi waali nahi milegi
Nitin - this is regarding chotta party
Sumit - 1300 is fine
Nitin - 1200 will do
Deepali - :) even 1100, but we want big party
Bhavna - even 200 will do
Nitin - 200 mein kya khayenge bhavna :)
Deepali - cafeteria ka khana bhi isse mahanga hai
Bhavna - Mc'D Allo tikki burger...with office ki coffee(free that too from CCD machine)
Deepali - bhavna tum party ki hi baat kar rahi ho na  ;) 
Sumit - yeh to 100 rs ki party hai for all
Bhavna - We are low on budget,,,kya karein, ll have to compromise.
Sumit - I think Bhavna is going to pocket the rest of the amount.. Good going ;)
Nitin - aur mere pass 100 rs ka khane pe 1 ice tea and m'c aloo burger free ka couopn hain. will help
Deepali - thankfully she didnt say she ll bring one biscuit packet with office tea and save rest of the money
Bhavna - Will share it with you Sumit...no worries.:)
Sumit - Ok. lets keep it at 1500 Ok. With big party, :) U guys deserve it. Mera budget kahaan hai :(
Deepali - cool :) Budget of Rs 1500 is ok with us excluding Sumit & Sandeep :P
Sumit - Excluding sandeep its 1200 :) 300 per person :P
Bhavna - phir to 1300 pur hi finalize kar lena tha
Deepali - theek hai sandeep ke saath share kar lenge, 300 bucks, aloo tikki with coldrink and icecream
chalo ab kaam kar lete hain ... Done at 1200 ...

Finally, we had good time while enjoying our small budget team party at CCD and Subway.

See our conversation to have fun in the heavy workload time. To smile, it pays nothing while it takes lot of effort in being serious at work. 

Learn to be crazy at times and Enjoy !!!

Sizzle Dazzle Brownie, Cafe Coffee Day

     Sizzling hot gooey choco brownie served with vanilla ice cream and choco sauce. 

Rating - 4.5 out of 5, Price -  122

To celebrate the success of the client demo today, we went to cafe coffee day outlet in our campus. each one of us made a different order. 

To my surprise, my colleagues order were delivered on time, even after place being so crowded. For my sizzle dazzle brownie, attendant has already told me that it will take around 10 min. But, even after 20 min, i was still waiting. 

Suddenly, a smoky fragrance spread in the place, initially i thought that they have burnt the brownie while making this hot in the oven. I crossed checked with them that this smoky fragrance is not coming because the dish i ordered is burnt. They assured me that nothing like this has happened.

On the contrary, i was amazed to see what was served on my table. A sizzler brownie with hot chocolate sauce and Vanilla ice cream. Although i am not a very big chocolate fan types girl but still chocolate sizzler was something interesting and new to me. Chocolate was almost boiling with lot of bubbles in it. Attendant specifically asked me to wait for some time before i actually start eating this.

But aisi dish try karne ke liye aur wait ? I took one spoon of chocolate and tried to cold it down by blowing some air from my mouth and finally tasted it. Al thought it was still hot enough to burn my tongue slightly. but it was quite yummy, dark chocolate with brownie and vanilla ice cream.

People like me who are very calorie conscious might not try this again and again, but for people who love chocolate and ice cream, it is one of the rare and best available option in cafe coffee day :-)

Why i want to lose my ID card ?

Mandatory for all the IT guys ... huh ...
Every organization has the norm of displaying the ID card properly and you should carry this card with you within the office premises.

Thinking ... what new i am trying to tell here ... :-)
I always used to hide the front side of my first id badge and used to display the back side of it (where company address was mentioned).

My sitting location was on the seventh floor and cafeteria was on the ground floor. I was going to my desk after having lunch through lift. Someone in the lift noticed my ID badge that i am displaying it from the back side. He asked me the reason. Thankfully, he didn't understand that i was not displaying the back of my card but hiding the front part.

The guy was also going to the seventh floor and lift was stopping on every floor so i had enough time to explain him the reason.

I started telling him a story and it goes something like this: "I am using the lift everyday several times in a day. People might notice me and try to approach me. If i start displaying my ID card then people will easily get my name and the employee number. They will search my information on the employee portal and will get other details like my seat location, project etc. I don't want to be so easily approachable to anyone. That is the reason that i am displaying my card from the back side."

The Guy smiled and said "nice". I was smiling more. Kiyu ? Obvious reasons, that guy believed my story and smiled back at me. Thinking how innocent, probably how stupid i am. I was smiling more because i made up a story on spot (in our language, at run time :-) ) and it was told so well that there was not a slightest hint of making it up. It was looking like i have rehearsed it several times before. I was smiling on my imaginations and creativity than smiling on him. Impressed with me ... hehe

I can understand your anxiety now to know the real reason, why i used to hide from the front. I will not keep it more with me now. Reason is very simple, i was not photographed well for my ID card. Whenever i used to see my picture on the card, it felt like i am staring at myself.

Isko fade karne ke liye kya kya nahi kiya ? Dhoya, nichoda, sukhaya, but this photograph on the card was still intact, so i started displaying it from back.

Finally, after couple of years, it faded and i applied for a new card. Luckily i have always got a nice click afterwards !!!