Arbeit Adelt - Work ennobles

A Quotidian Report
After various failed attempts of writing a decent blog yesterday, i thought of writing something about my day @ work. I know most of you would feel that its a very mundane thing to write, and by the time i finish writing this, many of the known readers might even be crying foul, nevertheless i have a right to freedom of expression and have chosen to exercise it.

My office starts at 0800 hours which is early by usual standards of work, and though we don't happen to have a login time per se, we are expected to be painstakingly punctual. Since we don't have a cubicle system we can circumvent the customary formalities of Greetings ( though wishing the big boss is implicit). the work environment here is extremely formal and over a period of time i have come to love the formalities that are conjoined with it. We don't address each other by first names its always with the Surname, i fail to recall when was the last time i referred to colleagues by their first names. Well and the dress code is of course formals only.
At the start of the day we have a small meeting and plan our day accordingly.

A prototypical day work consists of liaison with the the foreign cell and the vast bureaucratic machinery, followed by reading whats making news in India and abroad and summarizing the main articles, it also includes archiving and maintaining a chronological record of the articles of relevance. Things get a little boisterous when we have delegations visiting Bangalore. The organizing of the meetings and visits takes up most of the time. What i like about the work is, nothing is ever left to chance, its so meticulous that it might even be an exception to the Murphy's law.

We have a brief lunch hour at 1300 hrs, and after that work becomes more or less tranquil. I spend the rest of the day coordinating meetings with my colleagues and counterparts across different offices and departments and writing my share of emails for the day. And at 1500 hours i find myself already looking forward to an afternoon siesta :) !!! ( forgive my tautology here)

For those of you who envy me, trust me there is more to it than what meets the eye !

Note: i have decided to introduce a new feature in my Blog - writing a Sanskrit Quote at the end of the Blog ! For those readers who don't understand Sanskrit i have provided a translation :)
so the first thought for the day goes like this:

उद्यमेन ही सिध्यन्ति कार्यनी न मनोरथैह

न ही सुप्तस्य सिंहस्य प्रविशन्ति मुखे मृगाः

Translation: It is only through ceaseless efforts that one is able to achieve one’s aim and the aim is never achieved by wishful thinking. The perfect example is that of a tiger who never gets his feed while lazying in his den but has to make a kill.

Alles Liebe

Suyasha