Back To Work
Thursday, 27. November 2008, 15:27:51
Work
Well today was my 4th day working at Explocity. It's a publishing house which regularly puts out magazines in 6 states across India and a city guide book (with listings of hotels, bars, etc) for each of those cities and also New York City and Dubai. They also have a website for these places where these events are updated on a daily basis.
I'm working as a copy editor at Explocity in Bangalore city. The people I work with are superb, I'm surrounded by 5 women who do a lot of the work and help me to understand whats happening and how to get the work done since this is the first time I'm working as a copy editor.
My boss was kind enough to allow me a shot at writing the Edit (a short one page article about travelling, that appears on the front of the city guides) on my first day. I wrote about a funny thing that happened to me while I was in the US. He loved it and wanted to put it on the magazine for December... but the big boss thought they should go with something more festive this month. So my Edit will probably feature on the 2nd edition in the month of January! I'll be sure to post it up here once its gets published!
Anyway Explocity is hosting an event along with Kingfisher it's called The Explocity Festival Of Jazz and Blues (Thats the blog thats was just started up). I have been responsible for writing the Event information thats will be on City Info (The city guide magazine in Bangalore) and I had to write a longer editorial about the bands performing at the festival for the magazine 080.
Problems
Well my problems seem really small compared to those faced by the people of Bombay which started last night and seem to be continuing into today too. The bomb blasts have really rocked not only one of India's premier city but also the rest of the country. It's times like these that make me wonder how people manage to just wake up and go back to work and act like nothing has really happened. I also wonder what the hell our government is doing? How could they let this happen when not a few months ago Bangalore, Delhi and other cities were affected by serial bomb blasts? What the hell is our Anti Terrorist Task Force doing? Don't we have any way to stop these blasts and attacks on our soil?
Hope
This has nothing to do with the bomb blasts but it was just something that happened about 10 minutes ago. There's a pharmacy which is about a 5 minute walk from my house. I have been there about twice in the last 3 months that I have been living at my own place in Bangalore. So I get there and ask for my some tablets and an inhaler (I have Asthma), the bill comes out to 217 and I only have 200 Rupees and don't have my wallet. I tell the dude I'll come back tomorrow for the inhaler but he says no... Take them both and you can return the money when you come next time. So there I am standing shocked and I ask him how he knows I'll come back he says he doesn't know for sure but he's hoping I'll come back and pay him. It's things like this that allow me to still have hope for not just this city but the rest of this world.
Peace and Love...
Well today was my 4th day working at Explocity. It's a publishing house which regularly puts out magazines in 6 states across India and a city guide book (with listings of hotels, bars, etc) for each of those cities and also New York City and Dubai. They also have a website for these places where these events are updated on a daily basis.
I'm working as a copy editor at Explocity in Bangalore city. The people I work with are superb, I'm surrounded by 5 women who do a lot of the work and help me to understand whats happening and how to get the work done since this is the first time I'm working as a copy editor.
My boss was kind enough to allow me a shot at writing the Edit (a short one page article about travelling, that appears on the front of the city guides) on my first day. I wrote about a funny thing that happened to me while I was in the US. He loved it and wanted to put it on the magazine for December... but the big boss thought they should go with something more festive this month. So my Edit will probably feature on the 2nd edition in the month of January! I'll be sure to post it up here once its gets published!
Anyway Explocity is hosting an event along with Kingfisher it's called The Explocity Festival Of Jazz and Blues (Thats the blog thats was just started up). I have been responsible for writing the Event information thats will be on City Info (The city guide magazine in Bangalore) and I had to write a longer editorial about the bands performing at the festival for the magazine 080.
Problems
Well my problems seem really small compared to those faced by the people of Bombay which started last night and seem to be continuing into today too. The bomb blasts have really rocked not only one of India's premier city but also the rest of the country. It's times like these that make me wonder how people manage to just wake up and go back to work and act like nothing has really happened. I also wonder what the hell our government is doing? How could they let this happen when not a few months ago Bangalore, Delhi and other cities were affected by serial bomb blasts? What the hell is our Anti Terrorist Task Force doing? Don't we have any way to stop these blasts and attacks on our soil?
Hope
This has nothing to do with the bomb blasts but it was just something that happened about 10 minutes ago. There's a pharmacy which is about a 5 minute walk from my house. I have been there about twice in the last 3 months that I have been living at my own place in Bangalore. So I get there and ask for my some tablets and an inhaler (I have Asthma), the bill comes out to 217 and I only have 200 Rupees and don't have my wallet. I tell the dude I'll come back tomorrow for the inhaler but he says no... Take them both and you can return the money when you come next time. So there I am standing shocked and I ask him how he knows I'll come back he says he doesn't know for sure but he's hoping I'll come back and pay him. It's things like this that allow me to still have hope for not just this city but the rest of this world.
Peace and Love...
WIDGETIZE