The end of a chapter...the start of another...
Today seems a day like never before. Its happy, sad, melancholic, nostalgic...yet so little and so much more all in one.
Its my last day at work today. A few minutes ago, I handed over all my official possessions and representative instruments to the HR dept. My drawer keys, my ID, health card, parking passes and visiting cards.
As far as this company is concerned, I am no more. I shall walk out today at 6 in the evening, with a small cardboard box in my hand containing my personal effects.
In my 35 months at this place, I am today nothing more than a card board box. A box 11 x 8 inches, less than 1 foot high.
I just remembered, my visiting cards too.
During my stay here, I have directly trained 3 superiors on the company, the product and service offerings and the way around this place. The 5 strong IAS team, which I trained has a weird look on their faces. They are happy, yet sad.
The CEO just dropped me an email in response to my 3 liner good-bye mail titled "Good Bye and Good Luck...". He wants me to see him before I leave. I'm happy he didn't try to stop me when i initially submitted my resignation. Lets see what's on his mind.
Tomorrow, Ill sleep in, rest for a day or so before I get back on my feet to take care of a few pending issues at home. I join the new place officially on Monday.
Till then, to all of you reading this,
All the best. I don't believe in good-byes
Other Rants...
Im leaving this place on 24 May, Wednesday, and I guess ill take 2 days of rest, before the weekend lands in and then I join my new workplace.
Im trying to kick start my photography too, primary targets being road objects that I prefer sharing on the Metblogs rather than my flickr.
In a while, Ill leave for the Goethe Institut to attend a movie screening and discussion. Hopefully looking forward to meeting some interesting people there.
Gotta pick up my new pair of specs today too, have had a headache for the past few days over my right eye.
What else? Beach farewell party on Sunday...YAAAY!!!
:D
Another one bites the dust...
Well, as obvious, someone else has decided to throw in the towel too. This time its a pretty senior person...
Whats weird is that we are hearding news of another one in the pipeline...but lets see what whappens about that...
Anyway, i spent most of my day cleaning out my outlook mailbox (there are several mail conversations i honestly cant ask IT to delete, and several that no one should know about either..:P). In general, however, my pc is hogged by my 2 replacements who are tring to make an ad look good.
My car-reconstucted is going smooth, thankfully and has a couple of minor issues that ill need to spnd a few hours with the mechanic for to get fixed, but nothing major.
Changing Faces, Changing Places
Time for a long over due blog post.
I resigned from my job last tuesday, May 9, 2006. How could I forget. The day marks and end to an assiciation with ABAMCO that stretches over almost three years since July 1, 2003.
There were no surprisesa at the higher management level, which is something im decently happy about. Im not about going behind peoples backs and getting things done. I informed them beforehand and it was just a matter of handing it in.
All's well that ends well I say....
What more...I was out to my first pitch meeting today.....which seemingly went well. When i got back to office, I found out two of my colleagues had resigned. I was sensing one resignation from Ambreen on the way and Aamir's was just around the corner. Not to brag but he actually asked for a copy of my resignation yesterday, which I of course had no issues in providing.
More stuff...may car has been keeping me on my toes lately after a complete clutch breakdown on saturday. I had it towed to a workshop..and when i realized the magnitude of work to just fix the clutch, I though id pretty well get almost a complete engine rebuild. It had a few leakages in the piston rings, which caused loss of power and a burning of fuel. Thankfully, that gone now and so is a lot of money.
Im trying to do something these days, I hardly have anything since Ive made it very clear to the management that its pointless for me to start off on any new assignments. It doesnt quite make sense to start something and then not be there to make sure things go right.
Well, im bored now.....so I now have to find something else to do or write about before I drown in my own semi-concious self that is very very sleepy!
Dedicated to mum...
For all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the wrong that you made right
For every dream you made come true
For all the love i found in you
I'll be forever thankful baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through through it all
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
You gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand i could touch the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no star was out of reach
You stood by me and i stood tall
I had your love i had it all
I'm grateful for each day you gave me
Maybe i don't know that much
But i know this much is true
I was blessed because i was loved by you
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
You were always there for me
The tender wind that carried me
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
You've been my inspiration
Through the lies you were the truth
My world is a better place because of you
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
You were my strength when i was weak
You were my voice when i couldn't speak
You were my eyes when i couldn't see
You saw the best there was in me
Lifted me up when i couldn't reach
You gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
I'm everything i am
Because you loved me
Celine Dion - From the soundtrack of Up, Close and Personal
Missing Aijaz
Have you ever heard that radio ad from Total when they talk about losing loved ones to road accidents? This is this particular one in which a guy talks about his fun loving friend, how he was always engrossed in studies and his friend used to tell him not to worry and enjoy life.
Every time i hear that ad, I miss Aijaz. I can so feel Aijaz around even today, saying "dont worry, lets have some fun". That was just him. We made fun of him, he never went silent.We drove him to stammering, (he stammered when hsiconfidence was shaken), but the guy had balls. He did everything and anything he wanted to.
Aijaz, you will forever be missed.
And stop checking out the jannat ki hoors!
Liberation at last....
While we in Pakistan celebrated World Press Freedom Day with the (controlled) liberation of Blogspot from the shackles of neo-idiotic-beauraucratic idiosyncracies, we were left with another point to ponder.
Will we ever have consistent power supplies that will allow us to blog in peace and read other suff in peace online??
Call me mad but this is a conspiracy theory against blogspot lovers!!!
Last night, as i sat down to work (and blog) after dinner, a wild series of power break dows started. Barely had I caight up with my friends on MSN (ooh, did I mention that my new MSN Live Beta is on a crashing spree and Im solely dependent on the old windows ka pre-intsalled component, Windows Messenger?) when the power went out.
It came back after 15 mins though, happily I turned on my PC, and within five more mins, the power konked out back again.
This time round, it was back in five mins....only this time, I was in bed.....on my way to dreamland....
Yes, the garmee doesnt really affect me, its just the inability to do anything that gets to me!!
aarrgghh!!!!
