twistedm1nd

2012 and the years ahead

2011-12-26T01:26:00.000-08:00

tw believes that the year ahead is significant for those who believe in Mayans.
In 2012 , tw believes will be no different from the 2011 ( except for an increment on the last digit). he also wishes to see some sort of a percentile increment on his paycheck also. however wishes are for those who believe in Santa Clause. The only clause that tw wants in this year the escape clause that would allow him to slack at work :)

year gone by

2011-12-08T00:13:00.000-08:00

tw wonders how the year went by, where all he did was worked and worked even more.
he adds that if he were dog tired in Jan 2011 , he's vouch that the year gone by was like tugging a 10 tonne sledge being dog tired!!

Anyway as this years almost at its fag end tw hopes that the year ahead will be a great one ( sarcastically !).

All the years preceding this tw has felt like an ass chasing the carrot strung up ahead of him. This year was more doglike ( dog's not an anagram for god :) )

2011-01-21T20:24:00.000-08:00

tw's so dog tired , and we're just in the midst of Jan ...

Gossip

2011-01-11T22:56:00.000-08:00

tw just over heard some lass atwork tell her co-worker that her hubby gets 30000000 p.a. She then goes on to complain that he goes on to hand all his money to her father in law who in turn invests it in land.
She is quick to add that she saves her salary unlike her husband who gives it away.

lol @ work conversations

week of death

2010-12-20T10:17:00.000-08:00

... and the week started off with nothing working the way tw wanted it to.

2010-12-19T09:17:00.000-08:00

"they only advertise what they cant sell."

she said, after watching the same ad being repeated numerous times on TV

the lost quarter

2010-12-19T09:01:00.000-08:00

tw wishes that he has a remote like that Adam Sandbag guy in the movie Click. (he's pretty sure that he can act a tad better than that guy but that's a whole different write up to write about)

tw@work has completed 3 months on some project he was assigned to work on. The only problem is most of the work was paperwork, not exactly work. estimation, review , re-work.

usually people do not m1nd doing such work, as its not really classified as work, plus its a ticket to allow them to explain the work to the "powers-that-be", who review it and provide additional rework, ad infinitum.

The project has not yet started, the "powers-that-be" haven't yet decided.

tw, has to live with a chip on his shoulder of his m1nd, Mr. conscience who claims that work can only be measured if someone can actually use it, or have some use for it.

tw really wishes that he can have the last 3-4 months of his life back.

Growth

2010-10-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

At work , one can either flourish in(on/under?) the Management Tree or perish on the Engineering stub.

Blast from the past

2010-09-29T11:31:00.000-07:00

Tw pulled this our of one of his older emails , its probably soon after graduation. The Uni sent him a courier with the graduation certificate. He sent out an email to bunch of people. Hmm he must have been ecstatic

Old friends and new
To those who care that's y'all few
I am now a graduate
Just another reason to celebrate
I raise a toast to salute each of you

Subspecies Doers

2010-08-10T12:39:00.001-07:00

In the land of over achievers the underachiever never makes the cut. Maybe the expectations that we set for ourselves are always a few notches high. We know what we are capable of, but the only one who can see it in us is ourselves. In a world where one has lofty dreams and high aspirations but are fueled by low inspiration. We run races with no clear end in sight. Living from one day to the next while the future is darker than staring down a pond on an overcast day.

We are not dreamers with our head in the clouds, we are not thinkers who cant see the present. We are lowly doers, who work to allow the dreamers, thinkers and leaders to bask in the ever fleeting moment of success.

We conform, we see the cracks, and we understand the very matrix that binds us. We scream silently of wanting to be free, but we can never comprehend the completeness of being completely free. The whole concept of complete freedom sounds unfathomable. We rely on order and rationale to govern our very fabric of society. The liberation of not being bounded, weighted or blurred by the trivialities of life is something that we cannot grasp within the limited structure of our mind.

We live like mechanical beasts shepherded by invisible rules and guidelines.

Within the teeming million of doers, lie select elite. Doers dreaming to be thinkers and leaders held down by the very rules they conform to. They understand the limitations of flexibility of freedom and have floating thoughts firmly rooted in the grounds of reality.

Unknown and nameless they exist, yearning for a few meagre scraps of appreciation from a thankless system

stickered !

2010-02-23T19:21:00.000-08:00

The security personnel @ work decided to decorate tw's new 2 wheeler with a corporate sticker :| He argued that they could have achieved the same result buy placing the oversized blemish on the headlight (while he thinking , worry about the cops later ). However, one is always at the loosing end when against corporate bureaucratic policies and procedures.

Bummer !

The vehicle is not even a week old. The ugly looking red/gold vehicle sticker stands out like a sore rash on a flawless face.

Random having thoughts of Cindy Crawford , with an over sized "THS" [anagram] bumper sticker instead of her mole .... Enrique Iglesias would have the bumper sticker on for a while and then get it removed surgically once he becomes famous.

Search is your greatest enemy

2009-11-25T20:46:00.000-08:00

Tw just did a quick google search on a guy with whom he is supposed to be interacting with 1/2 way across the globe. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that the reporting mngr used to be a project trainee under this guy almost a decade ago.
Now who would have thought that :)

Well tw just has this smug feeling that google is ones greatest enemy after all, if you love your privacy that is.

none

2009-11-08T20:32:00.000-08:00

As darkness falls, sleepless at night
Wandering mind, searching for light
The dancing shadows soothes the burdened mind
Hopeless, awaiting the next days grind

Right now !

2009-10-29T01:46:00.000-07:00

at 2:15 pm tw really wishes he were at home reading Alan Moores watchmen, and then watching the watchmen movie.

back with a bang

2009-10-21T02:20:00.000-07:00

Quick update , tw's job hopped again. he now adds a company called "YwOwnHell" ( I couldn't have made it easier :P )

Probably he'd soon become one of those job squatters for life in YwOwnHell, with his very own 'bandicoot for life poster.

blah @ work

2009-03-02T22:25:00.000-08:00

Its a familiar sinking feeling when managers being their statements with ' You know the situation outside .....' and then add statements like

'.. in this industry ( IT ) you are expected to out in more than 8 hours of work"
"... you ( contractors) are expected to be loaded more than 100% ( in MS Project)
"... is anyone not having enough work to do ..."

Jobs

2009-02-03T21:00:00.000-08:00

There's no such thing such as a perfect job. Well anyway here's tw's job hopping time line ..
ALN
Efile
BAB
Creditt Shitte
BAB
MiniGeCap
Curent loaned out by MiniGeCap to PH.

PH is the one with the tag line fabricate ( .... or something synonymous to it )

The perfect job in your inbox

2008-07-28T03:23:00.000-07:00

When you peel away the veneers of junk,
Shove aside the unnecessary clutter
To finally reveal a red rose,
Which beckons you to pluck, smell and feel it,
Only to wither touch.

2008-06-09T21:56:00.000-07:00

mind numbing choices made
prancing around life’s vicious parade
reason defying logic
events surrounding are tragic

human wrath mingled with bloodied remains
slaughtered life’s deaths decadence
shattered bottles, scattered lie
dancing around as the victims die

T and S .

2008-05-11T21:00:00.000-07:00

Mr Twisted M1nd and Mrs Simple M1nd :)

life!

2008-04-21T22:42:00.000-07:00

all of me, happy as can be

wondering where life let me to dry

sucking on lemons

parched for water

i stare up at an blue empty sky.

Conspiracy

2008-04-10T22:21:00.000-07:00

Tw hypotheses that the IIMs knew about the OBC reservation judgment, and hence decided to hike up their fees in advance. Doing so after the judgment would have sparked another political controversy.

Heading forward

2008-04-10T21:56:00.000-07:00

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

I'm not sure on how to address this issue. I'm sure the judgment passed by the SC regarding the reservation will be dissected analyzed, examined , reanalyzed and probably even narcoanalyzed.

1) a total of 54% reservations for SCs , STs and OBCs is not adequate. We need to provide them with at least 90% reservation so that we call pull them out of their backward status. The remaining 10% ( or lesser ) must be forced to leave the country to seek employment elsewhere so that we can a similar reservation policy in the employment sector.

2) 90% reservation needs to be provided in the parliament for this particular new breed , to ensure that our country is further heralded and can some point in time in the future be tagged with a backward country tag. Our vision as a nation should be to ensure that the country is among the most backward nations in the 3rd world group.

3) Inclusion of the creamy layer. How can we forget about those guys who's parents / grandparents/ or some one in their gene pool were backward. We need to include them. Once backward always backward.

4) Tax brackets should also be modified, so that BCs , Scs and STs , should only have to pay about 10% tax. NRIs would then be subjected to tax.

5) These new breed of freeloaders ( and their successive generations) must be provided with a BPL ( below poverty line ) card, irrespective of their income level. Based on the analogy that if you are backward then you are poor.Subsequently, only backward people are poor.

The return

2008-04-08T22:25:00.000-07:00

tw after a long thought decided to return to BAB.

The hunt.

2008-03-19T00:08:00.000-07:00

It had to start again didn't it, wonders tw. Those series of annoying questions. People asking him "on the job/real life" questions that tw knows that he'd never probably ever use.

The whole point of evaluating ones capabilities in a span of 2 minutes [ as they say , you are charged, judged and convicted within 2 minutes of initiating any conversation, so how can this be any different ] is inane

It doesn't matter how good or bad one is ,its all about one-up-manship. How the questioners pit their inane question asking skills against an individual opponent. Their words as though carrying an added weight of superiority , just because they are the ones asking the questions. Tw for one doesn't know the answer to everything. He never claims to do and he probably will never, ever will have the answers to everything. However, he does know how and where to find an answer, as and when the situation arises, provided he has the necessary tools.

Another hunting season begins.....

2008-03-18T23:58:00.000-07:00

Sung to the tune of Drowning pool - Bodies.

Here we go... Here we go... Here we go

One - another interview
Two - T'is not workin for me
Three - another interview
Four - T'is not workin for me

One - Do! you have any more questions
Two - Do! you have any more questions
Three - Can! you stop asking me questions

Now

Let the conversations roll,
Let the conversations roll.
Let the conversations roll,

arghhhhhhhh [ screaming in pain ]

Let the conversations roll,
Let the conversations roll.
Let the conversations roll,.

Push me again
This is not the end

the journey.

2008-03-09T01:16:00.000-08:00

tw's resurfaced in wannabe Bangalore city , pune. after a battle royal with the house owner ,agent , job agency and god knows whom else, tw's finally moved away from s'pore to pune. well he's still in creditt shitte. as the french would say , c'est la vie , la vie est merde, or something like that.

LONG story with a lotta updates, that would be posted as soon as tw have regular iNet access. tw's not ded yet , just a lotta drafts saved in his personal blog . lol.

New year new post!

2008-01-20T01:39:00.000-08:00

Tw guessed that it was time for a new start. So with a new green ( fresh?) outlook towards his staggeringly boring life , he decided to start afresh ( with a happy ewwwww ear song ).

The only thing that has gotten worse is the noise, near to where tw stays. Annoying SingTel adverts that scream louder than the open air movie in Little India.

Tw wonders if the ever need a weather station in S’pore.

“…. and today’s weather forecast, as always is , bright, sunny and humid in the afternoon, with a touch of heavy rain at about 4 pm , followed by a pleasant moderately humid evening”

The TV/radio stations need to record that only once, and then re-run the tape every day.

New 'ear

2008-01-20T01:28:00.000-08:00

Happy new 'ear to old friends and new,
Time to pull out the address book,
with e-cards, our friendship, we seek to renew

Happy right 'ear , and a happy left 'one too
Its ok to wish in the corridors and cubicles
but stop wishing, when we meet in the loo