Smile and Wave !!

After a very successful Industrial Expo and accolades coming in from all quarters, it was time for the entire team to unwind. Somewhere during the period prior to the expo I had become a part of the team, sort of accepted, either that or the guys were just being nice to me or may be there is some other vested interest that I have not yet imagined. Whatever the reason, I was invited to join the team on a week end holiday. I must confess to planting the seed for the holiday. All I did was suggest to my colleagues that since the expo is done with and very little to do immediately, that we take his opportunity and the available weekend to check out Dehradun’s first and only multiplex. The guys were not too interested as no good movies were on. It dawned on them that they hadn’t taken their families together for an outing in a while and so it was decided that a weekend overnight trip was due. After much deliberations as to the appropriate choice for the holiday, Asan Barrage was decided. ...

To fully understand the scope and the scale at which this expo was being organised, I need to describe some stuff in detail. At the risk of boring the reader or sounding extremely egoistic, I might delve into details here and there, but will try to stay on track…. Our team in Dehradun consisted of 3 officers, a senior director and a peon. There would have been 4 of us officers, but as I mentioned before one of us had left us in Feb 2011. To help out with the more menial tasks like correspondence and telephonic confirmations, we had also hired 3 temporary staff. One of them, a girl, had been on the team since Sept 2010. Two of the boys were students of MBA programs. These 3 people were the team which was corresponding with all the invitees, sending mass mails and calling up those who had been mailed. These poor devils were making about 100-150 calls a day. The girl from the trio was also looking after the Exhibitor contact list, generating the database for mass mailings and also ge...

In continuation of my previous post, I am describing here the events that all added up to the Industrial Expo 2011. It may not make exciting reading, but as an experience, I want it to be documented. While the government with whom the expo was to be partnered decided to pull out, we were busy weighing our options. In defense of the govt. they could not help but withdraw. The code of conduct was in place and the election commission had not given the go ahead. Nobody expected the expo 2011 to be considered as violating the code of conduct as it was a strictly B2B show of industries, no consumer stuff included. It was only due to a letter by the local administration of Haridwar (to whom we had applied for permission)that we thought of getting endorsement from the election commission.  There were 2 options available to us; one, go on with the expo as planned without the participation of the govt and two, postpone the event to a later date after the elections in Haridwar so that t...

A long time since my last post. Been kind of busy. Our office was organising a one of a kind, first time ever B2B show. Ok, for the record, B2B stands for Business to Business and not some geeky acronym off the net. This show was christened "Industrial Expo 2011" and slated for 29, 30 and 31 March 2011. What is it with my organisation and weekends. I mean weekends are supposed to be off, but we rarely get them off. Almost all events, programmes, meetings, conferences, seminars etc have to be organised and scheduled for a weekend. Nonetheless, I wasn't much of a part of it, since the preparations were on since September 2010 and i only joined in November 2010. besides I had taken a whole month off and joined only on 19 Jan 2011. As a result, I was kinda uninvolved in any of the aspects of the expo. i felt guilty though and tried to help out my team in whatever way I could, doing odd jobs, and working on the menial tasks of data entry, correspondence, telephonic follo...

A post I had written offline.. got saved and shunted into an obscure folder during the last re-installation of Windows, suddenly discovered 5 mins ago and therein posted albeit out of turn (and date) to its rightful place. Feels good to blog again! :) After a considerably long gestation period, my appointment to CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) finally came through on the 18th of September 2010. It was a fine birthday present although rather surprising, as I had given up all hopes of the opportunity materializing. I was told initially that my offer letter would be dispatched on the 20th, but it again took almost 10 days. I finally received the scanned copy on the 30th of September and on the 1st of October I resigned. The manager was initially quite taken aback. he felt I was quitting because of him. Our relationship hasn't exactly been cordial since he joined up. But that is besides the point. I had taken a leave of absence on 30th  September  2010, to sit down a...

Once more I was acutely reminded of the fact that I am a very lucky person and life has been good to me in general. It seems my decision to exit from the employ of my previous employer was a very prudent and timely decision. The phrase in the nick of time has been excellently demonstrated in my case. I recently changed jobs, exited from a very good albeit unsatisfactory job with an NGO. With all due respect to the institution, I felt there wsa nothing more I could have contributed, plus some aspects of the work culture led me to exit the organisation barely one year after I had joined. Not to mention the fact that I was made an offer by another organisation which I could not possibly refuse, otherwise I would still be at Shimla. I left the previous job with some reservations and definitely some regrets. It was kinda fun to work with the NGO, but I had to advance my career. But thats besides the point. I have still maintained healthy relations with my colleagues and am in regular ...

I must be psychologically disturbed. A blog post turns out unsatisfactory and I delete it and another one which was in draft... And I feel irritable that the blog post was not very enjoyable. I feel irritated at myself, can't put the feeling in words, almost angry. feel like throwing something at something else and having one of it shatter... such strong emotional response to a failed blog post? I need therapy!