Back to pavilion in another two days

So finally I will be back to pavilion very soon.
It has been a first trip to UK for me and I have mixed experiences during my assignment here.
This assignment has proved to be a little more challenging for me than other assignments I have completed at onsite. To start with I was sent on a role for which I wasn't 100% sure what my resposibilities are. Officially I have been assigned a role of 'transition manager' :). However after arriving at client's site it turned out to much more than that.
To add to the complexity of the things one of the key resources resigned and there you go, I am there in the focus of all managers. My role again changed and while earlier I was managing knowledge transition, now I found myself taking the tranition from the person who has resigned.
Then the real game started, daily 5/6 conference calls with offshore/onsite managers, team meetings, client meetings etc etc...and how the days passed by I don't know.
After doing all the firefights, I am atleast satisfied with what I have achieved here and moreover what I have learned here. Now I know how challenging a management job is ;).
Returning back to India is always a good feeling. Just waiting for the coming Saturday when I see myself flying on Emirates Airlines flight to Mumbai Via Dubai.

And the great political drama starts..................

The air has started becoming smoky as the elections are on the door step for the worlds biggest democarcy.
For the past couple of days, I have been reading headlines of a leading Indian newspaper and to no surprise it is full of alligations and counter alligations from leading parties.
One of the today's headline goes as "Death to Afzal with 100 days if voted to power".
Yesterday's headlines said "Congress accuses BJP of dicisive politics".

Looking at the 'bhashan baazi' of our so called learned politicians, it appears that the whole Sas-Bahu saga has started again, on a different platform though.

Question is that why the parties are not having a memorandum to address the most trivial issues of our country....it looks like talking about poverty,population, infrastructure etc has become outdated. Concentration seems to be once again on the 'hot n steamy' topics which has nothing to do with common man's daily issues.

The answer to this 'why' lies in the mentality of public. Simply people would try to sell only those goods which public would like to buy. A common man is so busy that he never thinks beyond his current personal issues, attension goes only when there is some news having 'mirch masala' and thats why our netaji gives mirch masala to our bholi janta.

A common man has to rise and tell these Netas that we want these things to happen, we want improvement in these areas; rather than Netas cooking something for us and telling us what they are offering.

Different place,different people, different life........

Lifestyle is a word which we often use to describe a way of living....a way with how you live in a social environment.... how you interact.... how you dress,entertain etc...basically ur lifestyle makes ur whole n soul identity.

I was thinking that how much an individual's lifestyle changes when he/she travels abroad...as I have travelled many times in the past couple of years, I have my own experiences ...
Initially when I reached US for the first time...I was trying to livein with my Indian lifestyle and I found it difficult to adjust....soon I learned to adjust and I found that within one-two months everything changed...my eating habits, my way of interaction with people (I sarted using 'thanks', 'sorry about that' etc :)),my style of working, even the time of going and coming back from office.
Being in India, I never gambled...but in US I gambled in Vagas for 20-25$, which ofcource I lost ;)

Now Im in UK and again I found that there are many things to get adjusted to; for example-- how to get going with the Gore log, who have there own reservations...goods and bads...
The amazing thing is that no matter howmuch my Lifestyle changes being abroad, it comes back to normal as soon as I land in India...

Life is full of experiences and changes...and is all about getting urself aligned to it to get the best out of it...