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Fire Drill....

It was 3:30 on Wednesday afternoon when Peterson was playing a steady innings in 5th ODI against India at Cuttack, I was following ball by ball score on cricinfo.com suddenly there was some disturbance on speakers above my desk. We were sure it is about the fire drill, which everyone was aware of since morning. People had already made plans, what they are gonna do during that time...some were palnning for long tea/coffee break and most had plans to have early EOD from office. But unfortunately that was just the speaker check...the first failure of the drill. Later in 10 minutes we had proper announcement and siren announcing the evecuation of the office. The lady on the speaker was trying to sound like it was a panic situation, and she managed very well....she asked everyone just to leave the desks as it is and leave the office premises though staircase. As everyone was aware of the drill, they were pretty replaxed and were not at all understanding the criticalness of the situation/dri

Making Love Out of Nothing at All...

I was very excited about the 22nd feature of Double-O, planned for a show on the first day...being friday cudn't go for the first show at 10:00 AM but booked 2 tickets, for Anju and myself for 8:15 PM show. At office I was in full mood of enjoying BOND, picked her at 7:00 PM from her office and headed towards Ambience. I had planned for dinner before the movie but Gurgaon's traffic came in our way, managed to be at The Mall at 7:50 PM with no time left for dinner. While picking up advance booking tickets, I asked Anju, tried with whole day of work, to go and grab something to eat as there is not much time left and these PVR ppl will not allow us to take outside food. But she waited for me while I stood in the queue to collect the tickets. Finally managed to get the tickets at 5 minutes before the show with no time for dinner. We went for the show and I enjoyed it throughly, great chases, gadgets, suits, scotch and Vesper Martini. While deciding to go for QoS, I never realized t