There was a guy in school named Subroto Giri, who, we all agreed, was the world's most accident prone person. All the world's ill luck would strike him first before affecting others. We sympathized with him, though we couldn't help occasionally taking a dig at the poor guy. I guess Murphy's law of averages has finally caught up with me. It's now my turn to be the butt of the jokes of my acquaintances. I went to HDFC Bank to sort 2 issues. One was sorted, the other had to wait. It was during my trudge back to my office that I made the mistake of putting my left hand into a hip pocket. Unknown to me, a bee had conveniently lodged itself there. No sooner had I made the intrusion than the bee stung me! My thumb, to be more precise. It felt like my thumb had been amputated. I did the obvious and withdrew my hand with a jerk, not knowing what had hit me. Getting a semblance of what had just happened, I realized to my consternation that the sucker could still be 'in...
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I'm disgusted with the way things are turning up here. My patience has been tried.
By the way, the posts I had to remove were work-related. I mentioned that my boss resigned and that our appraisal system is now "in a state of disarray", and our corporate marketing people didn't like that too much. I had no idea the corporate marketing people were even reading my blog. Anyway, it made me realize you never know who's reading it.
And yes, I do like classical. Chopin and Shostakovich are my favourites. Of course, Beethoven is great too. Thanks for the link!
I was feeling terribly depressed @ work...and that's when ur comment surfaced and lightened me up!
Ya, you never know who reads ur blog...and I've faced problems similar to yours. I guess we're learning to be more conservative when it comes to blogging.
I love Chopin! His first 3 ballades are so beautiful! Shostakovich...well, I was listening to one of his compositions only a couple of days ago and was really impressed.