Weekend with 3 Friends

3.2 cops and 5 NGOs for every 3000 Indians!!!.......Hmmmm — feeling surprised.

Whats in my plate?

Have you ever had a meal involving 8-10 dishes where you do not know and cannot make out the ingredients of even one dish? And all of them were non-veg dishes. Donno how many different types of creatures I just had.... thanks to the client team — feeling sick in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

Brrrrr!!!!

Less than 10 degrees in Hong Kong and this is supposed to be spring — feeling cold at Victoria Park, Hong Kong.

Ananya Goes Traditional

'These days'.....

• When I am in office, I feel like a - Sweeper - As I am invariably cleaning the mess created by others!!
• When I reach home, I feel like a - Truck Driver - As I need couple of drinks to be able to get sleep after a hard day!!!
• When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a - Prostitute - As I get ready to get screwed...again!!!

Juggling too many balls

Last few days have been crazy and.....mighty frustrating. Getting pulled into 5-6 different directions at a time and am unable to focus decently on any task-on-hand. This is not how I work and this is not what the tasks deserve. Am trying my best to set and manage expectations but......this is not that kind of place. People pay attention only when shit gets into the fan. 

It is frustrating also because of the management gyaan I have to bear with. No concrete and actionable solutions. Just 'do it' type of suggestions in motivational and crappy packaging. 

The other day one of the leaders (by designation and clearly not by actions) gave me a speech regarding how I should start thinking beyond research. Nothing wrong with that suggestion but it is just that it was uncalled for. I was taking a client through the research methodology mentioned in a proposal, which this same leader had written. He had proposed that we will do X number of interviews and will do secondary research etc. I was assigned the task to take the client through the proposal. I did not propose 'research' and he did. Yet, he had a problem with that. And he was talking about consulting when he has not worked in any consulting organization or on any strategy consulting project. He has spent his life organizing boxes in warehouses, smoking cigars paid by company corporate card and making the life of his team miserable. I am not in his team....I would have stabbed him by now.

And I am frustrated as I am unlearning (rather, compelled to unlearn) the good things that I have learned in my career so far. Juggling too many balls and few may drop. I will apply the most popular term in consulting and research and do the work on 'best-effort basis'.

Feeling tired, stressed and frustrated :(

FB Look Back Movie Sucks

I love being behind the camera. I love clicking pictures of people around me. I have more than thousand pics in my FB album but I am not there in most of them...and I am okay with that. 

Till....I saw my FB Look Back movie!!! It did bring back memories of some happy moments but it is not MY movie!!! In it, I am like the father who dies in the first few minutes of a Hindi movie %$#@

It happens only in India

Abu Salem married a girl on a train from Mumbai to Lucknow!!!! Policemen did not object. May be the honeymoon has been planned for the return journey. #KyaNaatakHai

Today's Learning: How Not to Manage a Crisis

If, by any chance, you want to learn how to create a crisis during a crisis management exercise, come to me. I will share my day with you. And I did not create that situation. If you know me well enough, you probably already guessed that.

To all those people, I just want to say that probably these are the reasons why even your most trusted generals have been making fun of you since Day 1.

Trip to A'Famosa Animal Safari (Melaka)

"However, XYZ said he/she has no proof to back his/her allegations"

Most news articles about AAP 'exposing' someone have this statement in common!!! :P

Chaar din ki zindagi thhi.....ab kal se office  feeling depressed

आखिर सोचने वाली बात है...

क्या अरविन्द केजरीवाल कुछ मीडिया वालों के साथ मिल कर अरुण जेटली को बदनाम करने कि कोशिश कर रहे हैं? क्या अरविन्द केजरीवाल मन-गढ़ंत कहानियां बना कर बिजली की कटौती और दरों में बढ़ौती की समस्यायों से लोगों का ध्यान हटाने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं?