The Monkey in me..

The reason why I call myself a "Monkey" is because I am an unorganized and a confused idiot. In Melbourne, without the cushion of the "Planning" and "thinking" that my parents provided me back home, I have been ruthlessly exposed. There have been many instances when i failed to take the medicine on time, skipped breakfast or lunch and what not. One of my friends here is the opposite of what I am . I have the feeling that he will cease to exist one day if he doesn't plan for it the day before.

That's about the unorganized part of it. Confused?? The moment I hear this word.. I tend to blush. Blush because I am too confused about girls. ( and of course about a lot of other things.). I am confused about my career too. I don't think I should be doing what I am doing currently because that's not my strength and there is some thing else that I much better at. I can only blame myself for exploring the options I feel I am good at.:(

Well, the main reason for calling myself a monkey is that I wanted a good title for these Melbourne posts. Given the similarities between me and the monkey and the spellings of a "tail" and a "tale" I decided to go ahead it with this title. I do feel that it can be bettered. But till I do that, I will play the monkey.

My mid-night Orkutting, Gtalking , blogging means that I tend to fall asleep at other times in the day . This can happen sometime after lunch or during a long journey. And I do let my snore do it's bit while I am sleep.

Random bits .. It's all over sooo soon!

Tomorrow is my last day at the Melbourne office. The 6 weeks spent here have been good although it would have been much better if there was less work. I have a biiiig list of to-do things tomorrow...Meet people, take snaps, take photos of all the interesting places on my way from hotel to office. The original plan was to spread all these activities over a period of one week but now only one day is left. I am a one-day specialist ( and a baad finisher) and had anticipated this scenario. Hmmm... however I would not like to miss anything especially the photos here. I also intend to take snaps of my room here. Mom and Dad would be pretty excited when they see those.

And finally how difficult is it to find gifts for junta back home? I haven't even completed half of my shopping for them. But I found that I enjoy the activity a lot. I don't quite have the time tomorrow to do the looong shopping so got to one quick final round near the Soveneir market. And my Boss couldn't give me "a single" day off . I am still not sure whether to postpone some part of the shopping to Kaula Lumpur.But knowing myself, I wouldn't like to take any chances.

Aha.. this writing looks like proper dairy stuff. So the story down under has suddenly moved to the final page from the first. Yeah... I don't quite like the monotonous order.. A blog should be hyperlinked just like our thoughts are. A moment here and the next in the other end of the world.

The Preview

12:30 Am AEST. It is mid night but I am there in front my Laptop Gtalking, gmailing and orkutting. That's me as jobless as ever.Nothing much has changed in that aspect. Perhaps I havent changed much in the last 6 months , it was just that the circumstances made me spend more time in the office and do something that turned out to be called as "work" . At the end of it all, I am still the same old irresponsible brat all set to come back home after 1 and half at this Bindaaaaaaaaaas place called Melbourne.

Sometimes I do feel some things have changed . Now that's Me...my typical confused self.A few months ago, not too long ago I had this idea of blogging about my feelings when I chided a pretty female in my office who happened to be my first junior at the work place. I haven't had a chance to blog since then so I have a zillion of my feelings stacked up in my heart and many things have changed since then. ( I might contradict this again). I never imagined that I would work for such a long period in the Technical domain. Neither did I have this thought of playing the role of TL.( I am still not sure if it stands for a Tech Lead or a Team Lead). It all started with that project when one of my Managers decided to end my 2 year honeymoon and made me work. Silly me ( or smart me ) !!! I have had the tendency of taking up the responsibility and giving my best to complete it when assigned a task. Best shot meant staying for 18-24 hrs in the office continously ( the bloody damn Night out included). I was never smart at work but I usually made sure that I hung around till everything went fine. After a few days, this hanging around habit of mine was given the name "commitment" and I was soon crowned as a TL to in charge of a team of 2 ( me and the pretty junior lass ) that would soon be a team of 4.

The crown turned out to full of thorns. It was a struggle and has been a struggle since then. Life was no more Eat sleep and enjoy. Instead it was Document, Code and Deliver. I am not the technically passionate person so I wasn't sound neither technically nor functionally. But I had the fight it out attitude ( euphemism for "hanging around" attitude) that helped me deliver my tasks even if I was a couple of days late. Anyways I "had to" since I was the one responsible for doing that. I was hoping that I would take a few days off from work in Decemeber to attend my friend's wedding . I really didn't want to miss Maddy's wedding. But fate always finds a way of making a fool of me. There was an onsite poistion available in the project and I was all set to travel to Melbourne. ( and miss the wedding). I was excited that I would be travelling abroad for the first time and responsibility of the role had me all fired up. So that is how this trip happened. I intend to blog all those interesting things that have happened in the last one month. Will I ? I am after all such a lazy bum. Hmmm... but I also happen to be an Optimist to the core. Moral of the story: Wait and see.