Random musings

One of the biggest problems when you start working is that your expenses go up and you have no clue where all the money is going away. You have a thousand things to take care of including the pending bills, the loan repayment, telephone bills, investments if financial year is coming to a close and so on and so forth. One thing i can say with reasonable amount of confidence is that i am perhaps one of the worst tax planners that you would find in the country. When i joined the company i did not declare any of my investments and as a results the TDS for me was one of the highest in the batch and consequently the take home was the lowest in the MT batch. To top all that i suddenly realised that I went on a spree of saving company money at my own expense. So today the company owes me close to 50 grands of money. On top of all that I had a credit card bill of close to 32 grands (All official expenses for those of you who think I have left my miserly way of life). And on top of that i had to...

Dear All, March 19, When there is long period of inactivity on the mail front i get a few mails once in a while asking me to write again. And then i get up and resolve to do something about it. And then one fine day like today you get to read all that you are reading right now. Usually a mail like this starts on a rather apologetic note on how sorry I am and so on and so forth. Guess lemme do something different. Rather let me talk about Mr Wu. Or lemme take a while before i bring up the topic. Lemme first talk about what i am doing and then I will move on to the more juicier things in life ;) For all those who are ignorant about my present whereabouts the news is that I am still with coke and presently in the Bottling Corporate Office. My current designation is Assistant Manager Special Projects. My role is something called market execution and essentially it involves activities focused on our customers ie the Retailers. To draw an anology Lays Racks are always placed outside the outl...