Field Day...
I think I accomplished quite a lot today... Ironically, not in the office... In fact, I'm already back in Pathshala... Surprised? Read on...
Had a bad day today... In the morning at least... Woke up with a headache and was feeling very tired... There wasn't much to do in the studio because the gallery (where we were supposed to shoot the big items) was booked for another exhibition... It's more like a clothing sale... Very fancy clothes and dresses... Jess & I got a sneak preview... It's way expensive!
Something really funny happened at the Studio though... I was sitting in there waiting for the shoot to start... There are these two guys who are in charge of the products... Really nice people... What happened was... Once of them was on the phone... The other standing very close behind... The passage where they were, was rather small because of all the chairs and things lying around... Moin came in and walked between the two guys... The one who was behind stepped backwards, found no place to step on, and fell backwards on to one of the chairs. He nearly fell off the chair too! And it happened right in front of me! The guy and I couldn't stop laughing!! That was the only thing that made me stop feeling sad for a while...
You must be wondering why I wasn't working... I mean, I'd stopped being a slacker hadn't I?
There was some work to do... With regards to the projects that the Big Boss had talked to Jess & I about... The unpleasant thing is this other guy who is supposed to be working on these projects together with us... And believe me... I have a bone to pick with this person... He's been assigning Jess & I work to do when he doesn't know what the project is about... He never even read the proposals that the Big Boss emailed to the three of us... He gave us all the work that he was supposed to do, and continued with the report he's been working on for the last two months! After he gives us the work, he tells us we must get the work done quickly because there is a deadline.... Thanx a lot for being incompetent!
There's a lot more bad air about this guy but i'm going to stop here... I'm just going to say that since Jess & I were expected to work with him, our work morale has dipped to an all time low... At least, Jess & I can work on our own without his help... Not that he was any to begin with... I'm proud to say that I still did my work... Even if I was feeling miserable... Atiq's music helped... I categorically refused to work in the same room as that horrible man and went back to my familiar place... Publications... Atiq is such a nice guy... and the music he plays makes you happy too! Bryan Adams... Never appreciated his music until now...
Faced with that unpleasant working partner... And the horrible headache.. and the fact that there was little to be done in the studio and I had no laptop to do work on, I got really depressed... Again... Kept feeling miserable until Jess finally got me to go down for tea with her... (Tea sort of saved the day again)... We had tea... Then went out to the mini store just outside drik...(Drik property too..) First time I went there... I love it... It's really cute... We bought a butter cake... (Now that I mentioned it... It's in Drik's fridge... Oh well...) Then Jess said she wanted to buy stationery... I knew where the place is in theory... Siraj told me about it... So, armed with that little bit of knowledge about the place, Jess & I went to explore...
And we found the place! It's a shopping centre called Shankar Plaza. There isn't much there, but there are a few stationery shops.... And we found a cyber cafe with broadband connection! cost Tk25 per hour! And they open 7 days a week! You know what's the best part? There is this little clothing shop with very nice punjabis costing about Tk400 and Tk500... And the designs were really quite nice! Jess & I are so going back there to buy some clothes... I already saw an outfit I liked...
And if you think that's all the things we did today? You got another think coming... When we got back to the office, Jessica received a little receipt from the office... It was the parcel her family had sent her... Or at least, it was a little notification that her parcel had arrived... We had to go down all the way to the General Post Office in Motijheel(The economic centre of Dhaka) to pick it up... It's a half an hour journey by CNG or cab... If there is no traffic jam...And if we didn't go and get it in two days, it would get thrown out or get lost during the long holidays coming up this weekend...
So Jess, Shalini & I left work early to pick up the parcel... It took forever to get a cab... We couldn't even get one... We got a CNG instead... The trip there was quite ok... The journey was really half an hour... Jess & I tried to follow where we were... Using the outdated map in the lonely planet book... We gave up after a while... But the CNG driver knew the place well... And He got us to the place safely... The GPO was chaotic... It's a good thing we had asked Faruk for advice about the place beforehand and we managed to find the department quickly... The place looked a mess! And everyone was directing us everywhere else! Good grief! Thank goodness this man came along... He knew exactly what to do and helped Jess out... The whole procedure didn't take too long... and we were out of the GPO in about twenty minutes... Didn't even get asked for a bribe! Shalini said it was faster because we were foreigners...
The streets there were really really chaotic! The cars there were even more fierce and frightening than the ones on Mirpur Road... There were also a lot more beggars and they were more persistent than the ones we get here at Dhanmondi... There were plenty of street stalls selling nice shawls and clothes... But the place was so messy and plus Jess was carrying a parcel... We just wanted to get away as quickly as possible... It didn't seem too safe for the three of us to explore on our own... We found a cab on the street in the middle of a red light and hopped on back to Pathshala...
So that's why I'm here writing this blog... After that experience at the GPO... I think I'll know what to expect when my parcel from home arrives in two weeks... Right now, I actually want to go explore the shopping on Mirpur road again... (The Motijheel eperience made me appreciate the "peace & quiet" over here more)...And I want to see that Shankar Plaza shop again... But I think... I need to sleep... I don't really want to get another "Matha Batha" or headache tomorrow... I still have to work with that annoying guy... And I'm gonna need my wits and strength...
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