Tidel Tales

This post has been delayed like anything; I mean I wrote it long back but now had shamelessly asked my frnd to post it owing to the work pressure I have in office!!!!

Just a Foreword: The 7th of May 2008 is very significant to me. It was the day when I got into the work place of my project after the 2 week long training at Siruseri. My work spot was Tidel Park which meant that all comforts of travelling in the company bus are withdrawn and I am back to MTC (Or PTC) buses after a long gap of ten months since college.

The day began as usual and I started off at 7 in the morning. I reached office puffing and panting as I had to walk a long distance from Thiruvanmiyur to Tidel Park. Now I would say this entire place is crazy. I just couldn’t figure out which lift leads to which floor; this I say because I boarded the lift and desperately kept pressing the button to the fourth floor not knowing that it won’t land up there. A well dressed (read: tall, good looking, jeans clad) girl looked at me as if I were from some other planet and educated me regarding lift usage. As a result I went all the way up to the 12th floor and then back again to the ground floor!!!!

Finally I managed to get into Cognizant premises in the fourth floor and after hours of waiting I was assigned a seat. After settling down I looked around. It was way too congested. I mean it was too difficult to imagine some 200 people having tea/coffee, playing chess/carrom, having lunch all in the same place which is barely the size of a kitchen. And the surprising thing is that they managed all this with such ease and élan. I think I bumped into atleast 5 people that day (One being a good looking guy who appeared dazed and totally shocked due to the sudden collision!!!!!)

Once I finished up with lunch I looked around for a wash area. I noticed some guys going for it and hence decided to follow them. A couple of guys went in and I blindly went behind them. Once inside I noticed guys all around me. I innocently wondered why on earth girls here would not want to wash their hands. Just then, to my great embarrassment I found out that I had ventured into the Men’s Toilet!!!!! I rushed out of the place as fast as I could wondering why the hell do people in this place have to wash their hands in rest rooms??? Can’t they have a wash Basin?? Atleast one???
Post lunch I immersed myself into work (which means I read blogs, forward mails and also a work related document sent by a team member) and at 6 I ventured out to start off my long distance journey back home. Now came another difficulty, I didn’t have a clue about the location where I was sitting (the entire place is a maze) and therefore moving out was to be done carefully analyzing the geography of the place. Somehow I walked through and eventually landed up in the car park area. I assumed a guy to be the watchman (he wore a similar dress) and asked him the exit way which he promptly explained with a smiling face. Only after asking did I realize that he wore the tag of a MNC and was supposed to be a senior officer or something. Oops!! Thank God he didn’t say anything rude. Then I painstakingly walked all around the building and heaved a sigh of relief only on seeing the roads. Freedom at last!! I thought to myself.

At last reached home and slept like a dead duck that night. Ouch!!! The first day at work was too tiring and confusing.

Now that it is more than a week since I am put up here I think I am getting used to the geography of it and can manage well without outside help. Hope I would learn to love this place as there are quite a wide variety of foods available here (though very costly!!!) and also noticed that there is a bookshop out there in the first floor.

So Tidel Park......... here I come to Rock U!!!!!!!!!!