Recently there was a mail for collecting Deewali gifts from Mail room in our company. We got mail around 4:45PM and general shuttle service to drop employees across Bangalore starts at 5:30PM that means there was a long queue in front of mail room to collect gift boxes. In fact I was expecting the long queue. I joined queue around 5:05PM because I work in 5th floor and mail room located at 3rd floor. Two of my colleague joined with me as well but one of us has to pick up shuttle hence she thought it might get delayed hence left and decided to collect gift box on Monday. I stay nearby, and use my own car to come to commute. It was a long queue and some people are getting restless to reach at the counter to collect gifts. But some other people directly goes to the counter and collect the boxes though it was a long queue and still there are people in queue who has to pick up shuttle. I really felt bad and I just asked the people distributing gifts not to entertain these tailgaters and everybody has to be in queue to collect gift boxes. Irrespective of that still some employees directly go to the counter and collect it. This reminded me traffic jam in Bangalore. I can say only private cars and heavy vehicles follow the queue system and autos, two wheelers directly at the front of the traffic. I generally think these auto-drives might not have senses to follow the traffic rules or nobody told them to do that. Unfortunately the incident happened inside my office changed the perception that maybe this is what expected and you should not get surprised to get all tailgaters in front of queue irrespective of whether its a office with highly educated peoples or traffic with all autos and commercial vehicles.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Queue system in India
Recently there was a mail for collecting Deewali gifts from Mail room in our company. We got mail around 4:45PM and general shuttle service to drop employees across Bangalore starts at 5:30PM that means there was a long queue in front of mail room to collect gift boxes. In fact I was expecting the long queue. I joined queue around 5:05PM because I work in 5th floor and mail room located at 3rd floor. Two of my colleague joined with me as well but one of us has to pick up shuttle hence she thought it might get delayed hence left and decided to collect gift box on Monday. I stay nearby, and use my own car to come to commute. It was a long queue and some people are getting restless to reach at the counter to collect gifts. But some other people directly goes to the counter and collect the boxes though it was a long queue and still there are people in queue who has to pick up shuttle. I really felt bad and I just asked the people distributing gifts not to entertain these tailgaters and everybody has to be in queue to collect gift boxes. Irrespective of that still some employees directly go to the counter and collect it. This reminded me traffic jam in Bangalore. I can say only private cars and heavy vehicles follow the queue system and autos, two wheelers directly at the front of the traffic. I generally think these auto-drives might not have senses to follow the traffic rules or nobody told them to do that. Unfortunately the incident happened inside my office changed the perception that maybe this is what expected and you should not get surprised to get all tailgaters in front of queue irrespective of whether its a office with highly educated peoples or traffic with all autos and commercial vehicles.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Ganapati Bappa Morya
Yesterday was Ganesh Chaturthi. It is one of the famous Hindu festival. It is celebrated all over world, mostly in India. It was a holiday for us, all most all private and public offices are closed. I was in Bangalore this year, Oriya community organized ganesh puja at Kala Mandir, New thippasandra. The overall arrangement was really good. Some of the members of the Puja Committee are my classmates namely Bibhu, other names I have forgotten. I attended the puja this time @ Kalamandir, I reached there with my family around 11:30AM, the homa was just ing. I sat there till puja got over and by 12:30 the pushpanjali was over. Most importantly the puja committee has organized free lunch, prasad. The food was really good, it was typical oriya cuisine. I loved the food, my wife too. In Bangalore getting Oriya food in really difficult unless some oriya people invite you for lunch. Though I am bengali but my forefathers stayed in Orissa so I am kinda half oriya and half bengali and at home I also speak some mix of oriya and Bengali. But I love Oriya cuisine than Bengali food. My wife loves Bengali sweets. But I love Oriya sweets like RasMalai which is prepared from Paneer and sweet milk. The taste is really awesome. My overall experience was really good. Except, the puja committee members serving the food @ KalaMandir did not serve the second time :). Thats expected as there was huge rush and I assumed the committee was not expecting so many devotees and to serve all, they have stopped second time serving that means whatever you get first time in your lunch, have to be satisfied. I would request Puja Committee to be bit flexible next year. Otherwise overall good.
We were back from Puja around 2:30PM. My father did not join with us because he was taking care of Jackie, the male Labrador. We have to bring some food from hotel.
In the evening, I went to attend AOL(Art Of Living) Satsang @ Leenaji's house. There was lots of people. One of the devotee has brought some sweet. It was quite tasty.
Overall this Ganesh Puja was really good.
We were back from Puja around 2:30PM. My father did not join with us because he was taking care of Jackie, the male Labrador. We have to bring some food from hotel.
In the evening, I went to attend AOL(Art Of Living) Satsang @ Leenaji's house. There was lots of people. One of the devotee has brought some sweet. It was quite tasty.
Overall this Ganesh Puja was really good.
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