Now, since my first painting adventure is done and I am very proud owner of one board which is still by all kind of eye evaluations………………………………….. Critical, thoughtful, observant, passing, technical whichever type will still be rating the board as painting.
I was becoming adventurous……………………..may be that is something that I have been born with……………………….. it just has been practiced to critically mitigate risks after many years of IT harassment.
So…………………I actually went up to painting teacher and said why don’t we do another form of mural which requires us to use lime powder all over the board and has elements of texturing(don’t bother to analyze this it just meant little more tougher murals). And teacher smiled and said why don’t you tell me the picture you would want to convert into mural. I was impressed one board old student was actually thinking about what would be the image which should be put up on the new form of mural.
I must be good at some things and some talent definitely resides in some form.
And here me, as always I came up with brilliant idea since texture was the thing that would be highlighted in this form of mural I said let’s do sea beach or cluster of bamboo trees. Did you guys hear bamboo and you know it will be all greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen shades of green. Oh my God …………is it possible that my brain is captured by Angel…………? Angel rules the heart not the brain…………….I thought so.
After slip of tongue I was praying that somehow my painting teacher would say sea beach and I would be happy as I looooooooooove blue. Just blue everywhere in life.
But the Painting teacher and Angel both working in collaboration decided to choose the great bamboo concept. And I have no way of escape as I was the one who came with this great idea. How did I put the Kulhadi on my feet I don’t know but I did. And worst is yet to come there are 4 more people who want to do same theme so 5 of us doing Bamboo concept. I wanted to cry this is going to be really greeny crying.
Angel was just smiling see how I can trap you in your own blue world and convert it to green and everything I was the pioneer in it nobody to blame.
Again board started equally huge 3 feet by 4 feet. I don’t like these huge sizes at all………………… full of green. I was still praying that in this size of board may be we will have only one bamboo stick. No harm in creative thinking….
So all of us great 5 people again prepared the board and than I don’t have words to tell how I felt when I saw the final picture in paper which was going to be “muraled”. The whole 3 feet by 4 feet board had at least 5-6 bamboo trees full length and minimum of 30 bamboo leaves and ya of course 2 chirpy birds. What was this………………… was this forest of bamboo and why cant trees be yellow or red or brown or anything else but I don’t like green. We can have burnt forest also. I was sad and sick and even just the sight of bamboo picture made me feel very green.
And than I had another of my brilliant ideas…………………. one of my great flashes I went up to my painting teacher and said you know I really think instead of all bamboos can we just have some huts and like village scene. And she smiled very aware of my non liking to green and said “No”.
I am just so sad.
The next class came and with my own fingers I drew whole picture on the board and my heart cried.
And than started the project of doing mural. This time all the areas of image which was part of picture has to be textured with lime paste and knife smoothening, roughening it texturing building shapes whatever you say and I said ok let’s think about doing this part which I loved the mural part as there were no colors. Green would come later…………………
All the other people of my bamboo concept use to come in weekdays also and they were just way ahead of me even in mural part which I don’t like. I want to come first even in this………just the kid in me.
And than I think Angel was just passing by and she thought this girl is still working on this mural of green so just let make things little easier and than somehow all other members of bamboo concepts had some other important work and they disappeared……………………… So, I was only one on bamboo project and coming first. Coming first is very important whether you have competition or not is secondary in nature.
But as all good things come to end all mural part of texturing and making whatever shapes was done. Now was the time to color. To my horror teacher says let’s try oil and not acrylic which is different medium and of course I am the first time user of Oil. I was annoyed to think now we have green oil. But, no running away at all…………………………………………and my great teacher smiled and said can you tell me which shade of green is bamboo tree. Hatred poured out from my heart and I said I think all greens still are green and eventually since bamboo forest is on the board we will invariably put all green of world. What is there to choose………………..One thought which was logical.
She said ok so let’s start with base green…………………….ugly looking base green was first coat ……first shade on one of bamboo tree and than shades followed merging all shades of green and shading them with other shades of green. I never even once looked at whole painting with love and care just continued with strokes and brushes and shades of green. And each time my teacher use to stay I think green oil is your favorite……………….. your corrections have gone down like dipped and you are just gelling all greens together into new greens. I used to feel sick at heart and trust me never saw the whole painting……………………..just the though that I am making a green board was so bad. You all might wonder how can someone paint a whole board green and still not see the whole painting. But that is how much I Don’t LIKE GREEN.
And than with minimum hurdle and least corrections I was done with getting the greenery of world on board and than best part making the birds arrived. They are suppose to be colored I can’t have green birds whatever happens in the world. I don’t want to know whether green bird exists or not.
I chose red, yellow and black my pretty colors and imagined n minutest details. How I am going to shade birds which part of 3 inch by 4 inch birds should be what color. You can see when you like something to how much detail you can dream about it. And than of course when I started painting my birds as all human beings know birds are not checker colored they have pretty sane patterns on their body so even if I choose colors of my choice I can only pattern them not chekker them. And my birds my cutie pies were ready. And than painting was ready and I was suppose to see the whole painting.
I wish I could see only my birds and not those 3 feet by 4 feet which was huge green bamboo forest. But the whole class came together to share my green affect with me and there were gasps and appreciation form all corner. My teacher said “Look at whole painting” and I was ashamed of myself any my no green behavior. So saw the whole green bamboo forest painting with my 2 cutie birds and it really looked like nice bamboo mural. Somehow it was just how it should be colors did not matter somehow the whole affect the whole painting mattered how each stroke, each color, each bird and each leaf was done mattered not that it was green.
Somehow this experience forced me to acknowledge that I still am not pakka ghada. I am malleable and ductile to my most basic instincts which made me feel very precious about myself………..really………………made me feel I can change all attributes that I have and make myself something which I am not today………………………….It just makes you believe there is rebirth and for that you don’t have to die ………………….just make murals
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
My mural taught me
Hey... I am again starting painting.......somehow it feels so much at home to be coloring and sketching as if this was my life. Though you all know I have very ordinary area of expertise which is IT domain and have been with it through the slows and bubbles for past 11 years.
First time I took to painting for no reason....did not know whether I had skill to do it or the patience or for that matter basic alignment/inclination towards playing with colors. Just took to it as was looking for alternatives to make life more meaningful. I have broken my life into weekly initiatives ....of course there are short term and long term goals but you know "term" and "short/long" are big variables which change because of everything possible in the world. So, wanted to have some initiatives which are less dependent on ever-changing world so chose weekly initiatives even if progress was slow as time allocated was less and that was painting.
Wanted to have better control on my life somehow.
But trust me derived benefits have been huge somehow I have left and right brain as people say and have different skill sets placed on both side so when one works overtime and is aligned towards short/long term goals other side requires more of weekly goals...................my brain thinking.
So this was trigger to start my painting .....and than the first hurdle to find a painting teacher who would be ready to teach an IT adult how to be with colors rather than strategies. My constraints - can attend classes only on weekends and teacher should be excelled in trying to make one pakka ghada somehow see colors. Miracle angel again appears found one though far off in Indiranagar and started classes every Saturday. As you would expect the IT mindset which has been only thing all around me for 11 years is over powering and somehow unconsciously I chose a huge board which I wanted to have murals and than acrylic colors. Board was huge like 3 feet by 4 feet. You can very well gauge that this was definitely again translating into short/long term initiative defeating the purpose of weekly objective. But than it is again me basically always trying to set high goals somehow......................
First few hurdles teacher told the huge board has to be prepared for murals which requires me coating it with lime paste 5 times and waiting it to dry and than rubbing it with sand paper to smoothen it. First accident, rubbed my fingers along with the lime paste while scrubbing with sand paper - realized focus and attention towards a different area is required. Lesson learnt seemingly easy and low grade tasks also have to be learnt with finesse to achieve bigger objectives.
Now board is ready than I was pretty gud drawing the pictures outline which I was suppose to mural. .............................was impressed with myself. After that mural project started and I learnt very hard way that I lack very basic skill of being patient. So, told the Angel this is why you got me here so, that I recognize and learn patience.
Trust me agonising 20 weeks just to finish the mural part.........which is yet not touched the brush. And infront of huge class of other art students had n corrections to be done on my mural. But Angel was watching and neither the painting teacher lost patience nor I found my ego which is really magical............especially in current day environment where these are emotions which are always on forefront( born to practice every time).
Than great day arrived teacher said OK go ahead these are brushes and colors. Start and now you can see there was huge amount of green to be painted and I don't like green at all other than in the plants - no green clothes, no green cars, no green walls. And here is where my pakka ghada brain came to the front informed my teacher I don't like green at all. She smiled and said start with other colors. So, I started though grumbling that why did teacher not tell me alternative of green. Again my skill of finding instant decisions - complete solutions rather than working on problem and resolving step by step. I don't know whether teacher was knowingly working on me to mellow down my sharp edges or was it Angel teaching me skills which are otherwise very difficult to practice in real life if you don't possess them or even difficult to acknowledge that we don't possess them. She would not have known me so well. Have been with her only for 20 weeks.
Painting started some colors were nice to me gelled blended nicely. but the colors red/ black just refuse to blend with each other to my teacher satisfaction. Had to do redo it atleast 5-6 time. Patience was being tested somehow ego did not surface no giving up. Also, somehow was learning to be student who would be graded and evaluated by art teacher another human being. One more after thought some things merge easily into each other without us noticing others just stare at us until we bend infornt of them and work with them rather than work on them.
And than teacher said I think it looks great and I could not belive that it really looked gud but I trusted her judgement.
Now, the big problem of working with green she said ok if you don't like green find shades of green and now I had daunting task of finding shade of green which I would like. It is easier said than done as it is not mixing just colors but also to see how the colors look on board and must not forget this is my first board in my whole life.
Slowly really slowly spent one whole class of 3 hours to figure out shade of green which I thought I can tolerate and teacher said ok go ahead and paint. I painted it was not so annoying as I thought it would be to paint green and the board was nearing completing. Everything ready just the background was left. She had taught me if I don't like something I was responsible for finding alternative no running away at all or delegating the task to someone else.
I thought that should be easy just use the brush and manage 2 colors shading after all I have played with so many colors and painted and shaded so many things by now. But trust me whether it was the last part of jouney or whether it was the pre conceived notion that it is going to be easy by me as it was repetitive by nature was the final hurdle. Board was 3 feet by 4 feet and only half of it was painted with images in different colors and rest half was to be shaded in 2 colors. Literally had to grind my teeth and do it as brush square feet area is like 1 inch by 1 inch cannot take bottle of color and just spread had to go stroke by stroke. And of course corrections of strokes in monotonous back ground area where I have tried to be faster than my skill. And I thought I was extremely skilled.........phew.
Took almost 2 days which is like 6 hours to finish the background but it was done. Again I learnt life is full of challenges only for half; rest half is monotonous still have to walk through it in the perfect manner to complete the whole landscape and trust me this boring part requires the most corrections - so humilating.
And than the whole class stood around it and said I think this is the best painting that we have seen in long long time and coming from me who has never touched a board has been technically strong and creatively weak definitely calls for Pakoda party. And teacher's mom got all of us pakodas. I have never seen appreciation come in 6 months and yes it had taken me 6 months to finish my first board which right now holds center of attraction in my living area and won pakoda party.
The thing that go unnoticed with the boards are lessons of life which I practised and realized unconciously just doing a board.
First time I took to painting for no reason....did not know whether I had skill to do it or the patience or for that matter basic alignment/inclination towards playing with colors. Just took to it as was looking for alternatives to make life more meaningful. I have broken my life into weekly initiatives ....of course there are short term and long term goals but you know "term" and "short/long" are big variables which change because of everything possible in the world. So, wanted to have some initiatives which are less dependent on ever-changing world so chose weekly initiatives even if progress was slow as time allocated was less and that was painting.
Wanted to have better control on my life somehow.
But trust me derived benefits have been huge somehow I have left and right brain as people say and have different skill sets placed on both side so when one works overtime and is aligned towards short/long term goals other side requires more of weekly goals...................my brain thinking.
So this was trigger to start my painting .....and than the first hurdle to find a painting teacher who would be ready to teach an IT adult how to be with colors rather than strategies. My constraints - can attend classes only on weekends and teacher should be excelled in trying to make one pakka ghada somehow see colors. Miracle angel again appears found one though far off in Indiranagar and started classes every Saturday. As you would expect the IT mindset which has been only thing all around me for 11 years is over powering and somehow unconsciously I chose a huge board which I wanted to have murals and than acrylic colors. Board was huge like 3 feet by 4 feet. You can very well gauge that this was definitely again translating into short/long term initiative defeating the purpose of weekly objective. But than it is again me basically always trying to set high goals somehow......................
First few hurdles teacher told the huge board has to be prepared for murals which requires me coating it with lime paste 5 times and waiting it to dry and than rubbing it with sand paper to smoothen it. First accident, rubbed my fingers along with the lime paste while scrubbing with sand paper - realized focus and attention towards a different area is required. Lesson learnt seemingly easy and low grade tasks also have to be learnt with finesse to achieve bigger objectives.
Now board is ready than I was pretty gud drawing the pictures outline which I was suppose to mural. .............................was impressed with myself. After that mural project started and I learnt very hard way that I lack very basic skill of being patient. So, told the Angel this is why you got me here so, that I recognize and learn patience.
Trust me agonising 20 weeks just to finish the mural part.........which is yet not touched the brush. And infront of huge class of other art students had n corrections to be done on my mural. But Angel was watching and neither the painting teacher lost patience nor I found my ego which is really magical............especially in current day environment where these are emotions which are always on forefront( born to practice every time).
Than great day arrived teacher said OK go ahead these are brushes and colors. Start and now you can see there was huge amount of green to be painted and I don't like green at all other than in the plants - no green clothes, no green cars, no green walls. And here is where my pakka ghada brain came to the front informed my teacher I don't like green at all. She smiled and said start with other colors. So, I started though grumbling that why did teacher not tell me alternative of green. Again my skill of finding instant decisions - complete solutions rather than working on problem and resolving step by step. I don't know whether teacher was knowingly working on me to mellow down my sharp edges or was it Angel teaching me skills which are otherwise very difficult to practice in real life if you don't possess them or even difficult to acknowledge that we don't possess them. She would not have known me so well. Have been with her only for 20 weeks.
Painting started some colors were nice to me gelled blended nicely. but the colors red/ black just refuse to blend with each other to my teacher satisfaction. Had to do redo it atleast 5-6 time. Patience was being tested somehow ego did not surface no giving up. Also, somehow was learning to be student who would be graded and evaluated by art teacher another human being. One more after thought some things merge easily into each other without us noticing others just stare at us until we bend infornt of them and work with them rather than work on them.
And than teacher said I think it looks great and I could not belive that it really looked gud but I trusted her judgement.
Now, the big problem of working with green she said ok if you don't like green find shades of green and now I had daunting task of finding shade of green which I would like. It is easier said than done as it is not mixing just colors but also to see how the colors look on board and must not forget this is my first board in my whole life.
Slowly really slowly spent one whole class of 3 hours to figure out shade of green which I thought I can tolerate and teacher said ok go ahead and paint. I painted it was not so annoying as I thought it would be to paint green and the board was nearing completing. Everything ready just the background was left. She had taught me if I don't like something I was responsible for finding alternative no running away at all or delegating the task to someone else.
I thought that should be easy just use the brush and manage 2 colors shading after all I have played with so many colors and painted and shaded so many things by now. But trust me whether it was the last part of jouney or whether it was the pre conceived notion that it is going to be easy by me as it was repetitive by nature was the final hurdle. Board was 3 feet by 4 feet and only half of it was painted with images in different colors and rest half was to be shaded in 2 colors. Literally had to grind my teeth and do it as brush square feet area is like 1 inch by 1 inch cannot take bottle of color and just spread had to go stroke by stroke. And of course corrections of strokes in monotonous back ground area where I have tried to be faster than my skill. And I thought I was extremely skilled.........phew.
Took almost 2 days which is like 6 hours to finish the background but it was done. Again I learnt life is full of challenges only for half; rest half is monotonous still have to walk through it in the perfect manner to complete the whole landscape and trust me this boring part requires the most corrections - so humilating.
And than the whole class stood around it and said I think this is the best painting that we have seen in long long time and coming from me who has never touched a board has been technically strong and creatively weak definitely calls for Pakoda party. And teacher's mom got all of us pakodas. I have never seen appreciation come in 6 months and yes it had taken me 6 months to finish my first board which right now holds center of attraction in my living area and won pakoda party.
The thing that go unnoticed with the boards are lessons of life which I practised and realized unconciously just doing a board.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Magical Appearances
kal i reached home late and the moment I set foot there was chaos. Somehow everything was in rocking sleepy boat lulling slowly before I arrived.
So how it all begun was I set foot and D was there saying A lost his pencil box the whole thing I really was very skeptical about this as A does not have track record of losing things.
Anyways I said I will find it and before I could keep my purse down there was next news that one of books is not available which was suppose to have dictation today (Of course it was teacher who was at fault as she just does not bother to worry whether book was sent or not but just says dictation is on next day) and I was perplexed how come in one evening everything just disappears.
Why in one single house nobody looks for things but just announces them to me.
Anyways started looking for pencil box and the first spot that I looked which was very obvious to see is in school bag there was pencil box and I asked why nobody saw there.And reply was we thought it would be empty and how can anyone say whether pencil box is empty without opening it and no answer.................... than I opened it and everything was there......so my temper flared from that point and suddenly in minutes the book that had disapperaed again re appearead all by itself and 8:30 in night dictation practise started. Wonder am I so magical just by appearance that things start working and making themselves visible just knowing that I am anyways going to make them appear.
So how it all begun was I set foot and D was there saying A lost his pencil box the whole thing I really was very skeptical about this as A does not have track record of losing things.
Anyways I said I will find it and before I could keep my purse down there was next news that one of books is not available which was suppose to have dictation today (Of course it was teacher who was at fault as she just does not bother to worry whether book was sent or not but just says dictation is on next day) and I was perplexed how come in one evening everything just disappears.
Why in one single house nobody looks for things but just announces them to me.
Anyways started looking for pencil box and the first spot that I looked which was very obvious to see is in school bag there was pencil box and I asked why nobody saw there.And reply was we thought it would be empty and how can anyone say whether pencil box is empty without opening it and no answer.................... than I opened it and everything was there......so my temper flared from that point and suddenly in minutes the book that had disapperaed again re appearead all by itself and 8:30 in night dictation practise started. Wonder am I so magical just by appearance that things start working and making themselves visible just knowing that I am anyways going to make them appear.
Will Angel appear again.....
I have been deliberating for more than a month now whether I should look for job change or not. I know timing is right as all appraisials are closed and sizeable percentage of IT community would be doing the same. the vicious cycle would have begun of rottaion of people between companies people quitting at one place and joining another and so on.
Things just not going on for me not ok at all too much of what's happening kind of atmosphere rather than working towrads generating some value building something out of life. No constructive activity rather everything going on only in know the world fashion.
Just living in this world makes a person contemplate every step so much before taking it no wonder when the step is taken it looks like mammoth task achieved even though it must be just the step taken for a long road to be walked on.
Need an angel just to solvea problem which I am only contemplating....assessing...thinking...judging my next steps.
Things just not going on for me not ok at all too much of what's happening kind of atmosphere rather than working towrads generating some value building something out of life. No constructive activity rather everything going on only in know the world fashion.
Just living in this world makes a person contemplate every step so much before taking it no wonder when the step is taken it looks like mammoth task achieved even though it must be just the step taken for a long road to be walked on.
Need an angel just to solvea problem which I am only contemplating....assessing...thinking...judging my next steps.
Angel - Scam Tie up
I had got chalan from sub registrar office some weeks back that we had not paid our registration as per valuation. Builder lawyer who was the guy who was responsible for all this valuation and how much we should pay said that he will bribe the sub registrar and it seems out of 150 people who were given this notice 40-50 people went ahead with bribe concept.
Now, for some background I am not sure how can onwer be held for paying registration money at undervalued rates as none of owners are so knowledgeable to find out how much i land valuation and than go thorugh complicated maths to come to this figure and even if they did why would sub registrar agree to this while accepting the money while doing registration. But anyways all this is logical thinking which is not anywhere related to world of reality.
For once I thought I am not going to bribe let sub registrar come back and tell this much was less and than we will decide what to do.As this looked more like one time solution. Now this was me being the fire sign ready to take the risk.
Yesterday, my angel again appeared and I read on yahoo group news that this was scam from sub registrar's office and sub registrar has been suspended.
I dont know why I worry so much to look for solution, do practicality checks between reality versus logic and process when everything just happens for a reason which in this case was for me to learn the workings of sub registrar's office.
Now, for some background I am not sure how can onwer be held for paying registration money at undervalued rates as none of owners are so knowledgeable to find out how much i land valuation and than go thorugh complicated maths to come to this figure and even if they did why would sub registrar agree to this while accepting the money while doing registration. But anyways all this is logical thinking which is not anywhere related to world of reality.
For once I thought I am not going to bribe let sub registrar come back and tell this much was less and than we will decide what to do.As this looked more like one time solution. Now this was me being the fire sign ready to take the risk.
Yesterday, my angel again appeared and I read on yahoo group news that this was scam from sub registrar's office and sub registrar has been suspended.
I dont know why I worry so much to look for solution, do practicality checks between reality versus logic and process when everything just happens for a reason which in this case was for me to learn the workings of sub registrar's office.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Tie up between Angels- PIO card
I had applied for my son's PIO card on 1 May 2008 as his visa expires Sept end. We were planning vacation to KL, Malaysia and Bali and I realised we needed my son to have his PIO card ASAP as vacation was being planned for 2 Oct onwards.
We had tracked visa documents with fedex and they had reached the address mentioned on home ministry(foreign)website. But to my shock I found out yesterday that this office has been shifted to new address long time back and they have not updated the address on official website. Now this was trigger to 50 phone calls minimum to Delhi.
Obviously the address mentioned on the official website does not have phone no. so first discovery was to find phone no. of old building as I had no clue where new office was. Luckily I found phone no. of old office bldg but 2 floors up(googled it out).
First angel was sitting there who got mellowed with my voice and told in lunch time he will go to the 1 floor and let me know their phone no. So, at 2:30 I got 1 floor number called them up found office has moved to new location called Jaisalmer Road in Delhi.
Second angel - somehow he knew the no. of new office.,Jaisalmer Road office. But when I asked about my fedex and that was delivered to old office address as we did not have new address. He said that he feels fedex guy would have figured out by himself change of address just based on who the package was suppose to be delivered and delivered it to new address which I found difficult to believe.
Still I was hell bent to get to the end of this so, called the new ofc number. I am sure each one of the people who picked my call would be so bugged by my persistent ringing that they would have picked up.As they would have known I am not going to stop ringing at all.That is what amounted to 50 calls.
Finally, third angel appeared - someone picked up and said shaab has gone for meeting but again he asked which country is my son citizen of and than gave me one more number where US citizens PIO cards get handled. And than of course the next no. ringing project continued. By this time I had started to believe there is angel only I need to make him listen to me.
So, to strengthen my belief Fourth angel appeared again and than he said what's name of the person I told my son's name and he said oh we have got his documents. I said really............................. so fedex was damn good does all this extra work done for free of figuring new address based on who the package was suppose to be delivered - who says community does not work it does in strange ways.
Little flicker to my hope happened the fourth angel said madam there is no light so call after 1 hour and I will tell u status as when you can expect the PIO card would be done. So, waited patiently for again an hour and started dialing again after1 hour. Again angel had to be forced to listen to me as I persistently continued with ringings. He did appear and said PIO card will be ready by 31 July 2008 and if it does not arrive call back.
I had accomplished a seemingly impoosible task just by google and my abiity to continuously listen to the landline harsh ring tones.
So, hopefully 31 July 2008 would be another angel and ring tone day but I would accomplish this as there is angel at the end of each tunnel.
We had tracked visa documents with fedex and they had reached the address mentioned on home ministry(foreign)website. But to my shock I found out yesterday that this office has been shifted to new address long time back and they have not updated the address on official website. Now this was trigger to 50 phone calls minimum to Delhi.
Obviously the address mentioned on the official website does not have phone no. so first discovery was to find phone no. of old building as I had no clue where new office was. Luckily I found phone no. of old office bldg but 2 floors up(googled it out).
First angel was sitting there who got mellowed with my voice and told in lunch time he will go to the 1 floor and let me know their phone no. So, at 2:30 I got 1 floor number called them up found office has moved to new location called Jaisalmer Road in Delhi.
Second angel - somehow he knew the no. of new office.,Jaisalmer Road office. But when I asked about my fedex and that was delivered to old office address as we did not have new address. He said that he feels fedex guy would have figured out by himself change of address just based on who the package was suppose to be delivered and delivered it to new address which I found difficult to believe.
Still I was hell bent to get to the end of this so, called the new ofc number. I am sure each one of the people who picked my call would be so bugged by my persistent ringing that they would have picked up.As they would have known I am not going to stop ringing at all.That is what amounted to 50 calls.
Finally, third angel appeared - someone picked up and said shaab has gone for meeting but again he asked which country is my son citizen of and than gave me one more number where US citizens PIO cards get handled. And than of course the next no. ringing project continued. By this time I had started to believe there is angel only I need to make him listen to me.
So, to strengthen my belief Fourth angel appeared again and than he said what's name of the person I told my son's name and he said oh we have got his documents. I said really............................. so fedex was damn good does all this extra work done for free of figuring new address based on who the package was suppose to be delivered - who says community does not work it does in strange ways.
Little flicker to my hope happened the fourth angel said madam there is no light so call after 1 hour and I will tell u status as when you can expect the PIO card would be done. So, waited patiently for again an hour and started dialing again after1 hour. Again angel had to be forced to listen to me as I persistently continued with ringings. He did appear and said PIO card will be ready by 31 July 2008 and if it does not arrive call back.
I had accomplished a seemingly impoosible task just by google and my abiity to continuously listen to the landline harsh ring tones.
So, hopefully 31 July 2008 would be another angel and ring tone day but I would accomplish this as there is angel at the end of each tunnel.
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