So got back the next day(like we had a choice)...n waited n waited…n finally got invited to the throne room!! The Head honcho granted us an audience (deeply honored thank you very much!) of about 5 minutes. He is a very nice guy who intro’d us to our bosses and told us that we'll be with ABC for 2 months (thank god!). Our bosses came…one Mr. Cricketer who was R's boss and Mr. Pattani who was mine. They said their Hi s n hellos and enquired about our background and we went back to the game…u guessed right, they asked us to wait. We couldn't care really…it was the time of innocence…we believed that things would be hunky dory, we had stars in our eyes…like little kids in a candy store…ok, who am I kidding…we knew better than that. Mr. Pattani came in and briefed me about a project that involved extensive market research (Oh NO!!) but lady luck (??) was on my side n turns out he briefed me on the wrong project. Then Cricketer came in…I think he's really nice…R would beg to differ though. He asked us to wait outside. Outside that room that is…so we were back to the game but in a different location. They have these really uncomfortable couches places right in everyone's path so any person who walks by will definitely stare at you …u get used to it after a while!

That's when we came across our fortune in print…BRUNCH!! Never heard of a magazine like that…it's like the cheapest page 3 you can come across. Has stupid articles that aren't worth a minute's thought, but I read each and every one of 'em…ugh!!! Later, much later…my boss called me n intro'd me to his assistant who briefed me on what I'd me doin the 2 months and actually made me believe I'll have work!! Poor ol’ gullible me,I volunteered to start the very next day.Now to answer the question you have on your minds.
What is your project??

Well…NOTHING!! I had to co-ordinate (read- make calls n get insulted) with another company and get some work done. To cut a long and tedious story short, it wasn’t a walk in the park, and the phone calls just about sum up the work I had to do.

Mr. X who I was in contact with and I had reached a compromise…albeit non-verbal. The hatred was mutual and we took to addressing each other only when required to (in front of our bosses) and our “good mornings” were addressed to the walls behind each other. Those were the days I could enjoy some peace and quiet! Our meetings weren’t accentuated by not so subtle insults.

On the positive side, I made a great friend, a summer intern working on same brand.
That is to say he didn’t have much to do either (No discrimination). We spent most of our time looking into each others laptops and talking a lot and loudly at that ;)

Soon we were given some work, asked to make a presentation and once that was done it were back to twiddling our thumbs and reading numerous e-books!

It soon grew to be brain numbing. That’s when I started to write about my golden days at ABC. I finished the Dan Brown e-books you see ;)

One fine day my boss tells me …thanks for all your ideas …you can submit a report which we will assure you be a BIBLE (????) around here!! I was like…hello?? You think m 2 years old that ill actually believe what ever you say. He must have seen the incredulous expression on my face…so he asked me whether I wanted to say anything

Sure I did…
I had the worse 2 months here
I was prolly gonna get a D (fail grade) thanks to him
I was considering a career change
If I took one more step there i' d scream n bring the roof down

But on the other side
I have read lotta e-books
Made a good friend
Learnt that patience is indeed a virtue

I had much more running in my head. I chickened and said "nothing, thank you!!"

:(

Ok…this sums up my very active, action filled days during the summer of 2007!
I hear they want a report now…what do I report I wonder???

I wrote this mail to my friends a few months ago, after my summer internship. Now that I have decided to blog, I couldn’t think of any other post that I would like to put up! May sound tragic…but is the perfect example for ‘All’s well that ends well’!!

Disclaimer – This post is purely (yeah rite!) fictitious and any resemblance to any persons living or dead is (not) purely coincidental!

I must admit I was starry eyed when it came to my summer project. I was hoping to make the best of the three months, working in an ad agency which has been a long cherished dream. Well, they aren’t dreams for nothing, I got placed in an FMCG which, my seniors having had the privilege of working for, warned me against. I was not going to be put off, I wore my rose colored glasses and decided I would change my fate and so I went ahead. I took comfort in the fact that R (my classmate) was to join me in my endeavors. Partners in crime…what more could I ask for??

Gosh!!! I can still vividly remember the first day R and I walked into the office. I was gung ho about the building and how sexy it looks (boy do I regret my words now!). We walked into the ABC office and so the game began. By game I don't mean scrabble or monopoly (sigh! wish it was), just plain and simple waiting, so much so that I felt like I was back at my dentist’s office, at least the environment there was less intimidating and had nice music... * wink *

R and I were pretending to be intellectuals (fine, fine only I was pretending) whose day doesn’t begin until after perusing the newspaper, frankly I gave up!! I mean, how long can u act like the oil prices having gone up a quarter of a cent is soooooooo huge and earth shattering?? I'm grouchy about this coz ABC subscribes only to Bline and a magazine called brunch which is the worst of its kind .I speak with conviction having read each and every one of them while waiting for my boss to acknowledge my presence.

Anyways, after waiting for a zillion hours a guy from admin takes us to the inner sanctuary. He leads us to a table that looks like the ones you have at ice cream parlors, It’ s elevated has glass walls and dim lighting. A very romantic setting!!! R was prolly thinking y her??? Well, ditto!! The icing on the cake was the soft music they play at lunch which is totally unrecognizable which hasn't changed till date. The admin guy saw the oh-so-bored look on our faces and decided to give us magazines to read...not the kind one would imagine for sure but the sustainability report which was well…YAWN!! It was as good as reading a macro text (Me n Economics do not gel, understatement actually). I gave up all pretense of reading it halfway but R decided to read the whole thing in case they were testing our patience…As IF!!

I knew we'd be wallpaper there (I was proved right eventually). So we waited n waited n waited...n finally got our proximity cards that we put to very good use by going out for lunch (ever resourceful!!) we come back only to be asked to come the next day.


We pranced out of the room in a manner which was far from professional and headed back home to do nothing…Well,what’s new in that?