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…but not really productive. There are days at work place when you start your day with not much on your plate; and surprisingly on a Monday. Today has been such a day for me. I did not have anything important to do and was well confident that I could leave the office at 6:00 PM, do some shopping for my friend’s birthday and go back home to catch up with some book.

It all went fine till 4:00 PM, until I got a call from one of the managers. He was inquiring about one of my peer colleague who had actually completed some job to the manager a week back. I said that my colleague was not in to office today and unfortunately not able to connect either via phone or e-mail. The manager wanted to complete some pending work which my colleague had left behind and said that he couldn’t understand what has been done, so thought I can take a shot at it. Since I had 2 hours more and since I knew the background of the work, I accepted. By the time I completed it was 7:00. Still I had hopes to catch up my shuttle at 7:30. Once I sent the revised document to the manager, he called up and wanted a walk through and there were lot of discussions, I had to walk him through the entire document and by the time I completed it, the time was almost 8:45 PM. He had suggested some changes and I knew it wouldn’t take not more than 10 minutes and I can still catch up the 9:30 shuttle.

A twist in the story….one more manager pinged me the communicator (or the office messenger) and asked, Palani do you have some time. I said I’m working on some numbers and shall get back to you later or tomorrow. He insisted that we talk by tonight. I said give me 10 minutes and I shall get back to you. Meantime I completed other work and closed it out. When I called this second person, he was on the way home and I had to wait for 20 more minutes until he reached home to give me a call. It went on till 10:30 PM and I had to then close my work for the day.

Little did I know that I would end up having such a long day… but was delighted to get back home and find two ice creams – one casatta and one chocolate in my refrigerator which my mom had saved for me.

By the way, I brought a cotton saree for my mom’s wedding day and 2 half sleeve shirts for my dad. And I also presented them a silver lamp with gold coating at the center. It looked marvellous. Morning my sister had sent a beautiful rose flower bouqaue  for my parent’s wedding. I’m pretty sure my parents would have been so glad to have kids like us, especially my sister.

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