hello lina thanks for warm welcome. sweety how r u, ny ways u r right in Jb ke shaadi 😉
hello cupidlicious,
thanks for the coment and warm welcome.
For u both here goes the next update :
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Part:2
I tell you what after your seeing session, there came another one! The guy met me just like you. same preparations and lol but this time I was experienced in handling everything right from makeup, dressing, politely replying questions, everything.. But I didn't like that guy. He was mere an inch bigger, leaner than me in height and weight. This time also, I got rejected by them. Today for me, groom seeing session is a very common thing. I do everything with a flick of finger so; here I can say that I need all your good luck wishes in finding a good life partner with whom i can build a perfect home.
And for you, all the best to you in your search for perfect life partner.
Bye Bye.
P.S: Though I am very much confident in cracking these screening tests, can you suggest me as my first examiner where I need to improve, to pass in this stupid test.
P.P.S: I apologize if I hurt your sentiments anywhere in between. This elaborate experience letter was just for fun to reminisce our past experiences!
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1 year later-the email sent or two years since the meeting.
Oh my gowd!! Bani...What r u doing here? Asked Sonali bewildered standing inside one of the posh malls of Mumbai.
Well doing some shopping, she pointed to the bags in her hands .What about u? Replied Banu plainly.
I am with my boy friend .U Came alone??She said with a hint of arrogance.
Yeah as Priya is not having week off today! Hello! Banu greeted Sonali's boyfriend with a sweet smile.
Hi!
Ok lemme go..Saying so Banu disappeared into the crowd.
Banu was called Bani by all her friends, it all started with that serial Kasamh se, she fell in love with. Jai and Bani the two leads of the serial, her madness was such that she changed her name from Banu Dixit to Bani dixit, she would always dream about the JB of KS serial she would often enact herself as Bani everyone, her parents were worried about her obsession of Bani, Banu would say that she was dixit by birth and became Bani after KS took birth. Her college mates would pull her leg asking about Jai Walia which she would say would soon enter her life. Even her office colleagues came to know about her obsession to BD, JW, KS and to the song
tuje dekh dekh sona , tuje dekh kar hain jagna ...
Banu Dixit..Too simple to describe. Her ambitions were high but her concentration wavering... Her efforts minimal in carrying tasks but when she streamlined her energies to reach a particular goal she sure to win... Confident she was in certain topics of debate like democracy, Government of India... She loved to talk but held inhibitions on things like makeup, up to date knowledge on technology or trends on beauty.. Believed in natural beauty.
Her dressing sense was poor; her hair style is standard making a pony of her long curly yet soft hair. She could be described simpleton in today's language compared to a girl working in private reputed Software industry... That is where she is... Not in development but in support...
Coming out of her home Mt Abu she was posted to Mumbai. It took her considerable amount of time to get adjusted to its fast life, missing home terribly...In the first few weeks of her visit to Mumbai she literally ran back to mt.abu to her home to her mother to her sister to her father to her family. She was not able to cope with the pressure of learning new work and adjusting to new life in Mumbai but had to take up the challenge only because her father was going to retire soon and her parents were finding it difficult to search a groom for her as even in today's society girl needs to be more beautiful and come with bags full of money.. The demands would decrease if the girl is having job and earning a living... With all these aspects working positively for her she left MT. Abu to join the software firm which had recruited her two years back. This was the job she earned through campus placement in her college and soon forgot about her achievement while her parents boasted about it to one and all. In this era, earning a job for them was still challenging... It was only for this job, she had channelized all her efforts to reach success to prove her teachers that she is not that dumb... she remembered how her teacher once insulted her saying it's not easy to get job and only Sandeep would earn it... Though Sandeep the brilliant student and teacher's pet earned it, she did prove her point and stood in the class as a lone girl to achieve it in that point of time.
Her life in Mumbai was through hardships first to say finding accommodation was very difficult and knowing the threats about security she was quiet skeptical mingling with people. Initially putting up in hostel then making friends with a girl who belonged to rural Punjab, also joined the same company like her through campus selection. Her name is Priya.
Banu and Priya soon shifted to a rented accommodation having two rooms and kitchen, semi furnished to meet their daily requirements. Banu's life was challenging at the start.. Her office... she was shocked to see the hi fi culture in office for e.g.: how the guys and gals mingled with each other how they without any hint of embarrassment addressed babes, used words like F***,bitch, bas****, assh***,s***w. How they unabashedly spoke about their girl friends and boyfriends. How they flaunted their new things.. Their knowledge on technology showing supremacy in everything down mining her every time, back biting others... She was more so affected seeing people having cigarettes and alcohol like tea and snacks. The girls competed with boys in the same.. Going to pubs dancing to the tune...Gals sharing same room with guys i.e. living in relationship... All she heard in newspapers until now but now she got to see them with open eyes. These people threw money like waste paper. she was too scared to mingle with them, she withdrew from all only later after a month or two that she came to know there were batches of people who were in different world while few others who still hold moral values and stood to ground.
Her job profile was not too attractive..Being in support industry working in shifts doing monotonous work.. It was this time she realized the value of money and life. People did everything to earn few rupees.. To give up sleep at night... Pickup calls all through the work hours, to talk to customer sweetly even if the other side he may be abusing you... She got to know the practicality of life.. She was happy with the fact that her company took extra care for the female employees by providing cab facility with guard during the late night pick up and drop. Initially she was too happy about it thinking it saved time and lot of effort enjoying the journey in AC to reach office only later she understood that it was this facility which took her to the prison of labor for 10 hours during any scheduled shift and if you are provided with laptop means you lost your privacy to company being senior resource to take up any issue and resolve it any time even when u eat, sleep, go to personal tour u need to carry it, need to be available on call even when u are in toilet, irony of her job profile!!!!
Her enthusiasm to life deceased as time passed seeing that her fellow countrymen celebrated all Indian festivals, Independence Day, republic day being at home while she and her fellow employees would slog in office. Worst day was Diwali. They would get holidays not on India calendar but that of other countries that they support... Her project being US, it was US timings and US Calendar if there was some birthday of MR.XYZ in US and declared holiday then she would also be enjoying it in INDIA. Precisely, live US Life in India.
Priya her roommate's project supported for an Arab company and she would have weekends Thursday and Friday while Bani's on sat and Sunday they would never hardly get an hour to spend with each other hence the medium came...Phone which is her best friend in helping her get in contact with anyone..
She was too scared to be working in her own group, only girl with 5 guys, they were pretty smart in leaving her on bay to do the monitoring of the alerts and go for smoke for hours and come back and snub saying they do all the work. These were the guys who would question her the moment she was late by few minutes in getting back from breaks but yes Banu was patient with them till some time after which she started answering back to put them to their place.. To make them realize her importance, she took leave .A leave of 5 working days to go back home and visit her family. In this time, it became quite difficult for them to handle her piece of work and warned her of consequence if she took long leaves next time. Banu didn't say much than smile as she knew that the company had given some rights for its employees and she could execute it if necessary... Complain to management for torture...Though it was but not physical but mental...
Banu got a shock of her life reading the newspaper, the black bold headlines spoke in volumes about the NEW CEO of her company...i.e. the company in which she is working presently...JAYESH... Her Jai was not just JAYESH but Surya Jayesh WADIA, the emperor of huge industrial empire and now the boss of her company too.
Reading the letter the first thought she got was the letter... The letter she drafted and sent him...She hated herself now to the core for that silly letter she wrote after the proposal was withdrawn... How she penned her emotions and sent it to him.
It was this same company which Surya Jayesh Wadia...had taken over; the business deal signed the company sold... He became the owner...
Surya Jayesh Wadia was not new to business. Wadia's belonged to the elite class of oldest reputed business families in the country... They were from the time of independence...Spearheading the country's financial and industrial development...
Surya Jayesh Wadia's mother was in search of a suitable alliance for her nephew. Jayesh was born and brought up in Mumbai, completing his graduation in much reputed Ruparel college then going to Harvard University to pursue his management degree then coming back to work as an ordinary employee in the same Walia industry for 5 years to have first hand practical knowledge.Surya Jayesh Wadia's name was disguised to Jayesh till now as he didn't want his family's background hinder him in making friends with his employees. Jayesh, during his 5 year career as an employee met Mr.Rajat Dixit .. He, too on the payroll of Wadia industry.
Mr.Dixit was a nice gentleman working hard to earn his living, laborious he was, loving and caring to his family, loyal to his company. It was during banu's third and final year of graduation when Rajat put forth the alliance of Banu to Jayesh's Mom who was staying with Jayesh in his exile. Mom was beaming happy and excited to meet this girl and if she would suite to her standards and her munna's tastes. She would be her bahu...Jai couldn't say No to his mom and went along to make a visit to Rajat's house.
He rejected her out rightly though not in a mean way. He met her that day and asked her many questions but some where he was unsure of her, she was too young and impractical to play his wife role. He no doubt liked her hence when she sent that orkut request, he accepted it but clearing the air by saying he was not interested anything but friendship.
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Jayesh sat in his cabin with his laptop and his managers detailing the total no. of projects handled by the company which he bought now. The strongholds of the company in world geography, the most profitable projects, the least profit margined project, the most expensive project bla bla... the most stabilized projects ... various categories..
Jayesh wanted a formal introduction with all project managers and there teams .It was arranged. Daily he would at least address 4 projects. He was growing tired seeing the amount of work piled up and losing interest as well. Until this particular project meeting was organized.
The project being Readers Digest the publications company of US .Its entire team and the project manager settled in the meeting room with Jayesh coming inside ,all greeted him warmly, the lights off, the project manager started the presentation on the big HDMI screen providing the statistics, the best works done by his project members highlighting the team work. When a knock on the door disturbed the meeting, all heads turned to see the only open area from where light was penetrating, a lady in red and black salwar kameez, and her curly hair open reaching shoulders, her sea green eyes showing confusion, scariness and apology. She walked in slowly her head bowed to occupy one of the seats on the round table conference. As she settled, beads of perspiration from her forehead travelled towards south to her neck. She cleared her face with tissue paper making noise opening the handbag; all eyes looked at her keenly while Jayesh was just staring at this beauty. Her mobile rang loudly, muttering apology she quickly cut the call.
You are late to the meeting lady! Jayesh made a statement.
My cab was late. stuck in traffic!! She replied softly looking directly onto his eyes.
The presentation soon changed to the recent trip pics of the project where all were in merry then the screen changed to the appreciation letter given by the client satisfied by their activities from time to time. There was a picture where an English Man posed with the lady dressed in black pinstriped both holding a smile handing a memento.
Jayesh looked at the photo keenly asking "Who the lady is?"
Banu stood up unsure, with a small smile, he asked, "your good name Lady?"
Banu replied softly BANU while the colleagues murmured together loudly Bani..
What is this? Is your name Banu or Bani??? Asked Jayesh in confusion. Only to let him know about her deep love for Kasamhse. The entire group of people laughed joined by Jayesh .A pink hue formed on her cheeks as she settled down muttering 100 abuses to Jayesh for making her awkward and the colleagues who joked on her.
Great job Ms. Bani!!! He emphasized on her name. Banu just gave a short and stiff smile.
As the presentation done, there was some meeting with the key resources. Bani stood along with the 9 more members. Jayesh came and shook hands with them one by one. It was Banu's turn she didn't want to shake her hand but when Jayesh put forward his hand she extended hers' their hands met for brief second. That minute a tremor ran through her body she got a feel of her crushed love. She smiled faintly as goose bumps formed on her hands and warmth filled her heart. She looked up at the man to see him indulged with others in chat.
He doesn't have any feelings for me!! Oh come on Banu, he is not the one u met he is someone else. He may not even remember u...As her mind subsided her heart's feelings. She took break from the meeting.
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Jayesh too tired of all the meetings desperately needed a break. He walked out of his cabin to the cafeteria silently. There he stood taking a glance of the cafeteria. There were few stalls selling food, the coffee vending machine in one corner and the microwave oven on the other corner with table tennis game arranged in the side .The plasma high definition television arranged at one of the walls playing music channel. The cafeteria was calm with little people here and there sipping and having food. He made a coffee for himself and looked for a seat when he saw her sitting alone with a tea cup and watching the song playing. He walked towards her direction and put the cup on the table. she was lost somewhere, the sudden tick of the cup waking her up. She looked aside to see the blue eyes on her. She gave a small smile.
Can I join? He asked softly.
She nodded her head. Her heart was thumping more. She was scared now calling names of all gods; if he would break the topic of her letter what would she answer!!
Jayesh watched her silently understanding tiny movements of her.
Gathering courage she said Congratulations Mr. WADIA!
Isn't u too late in wishing me! He asked Nevertheless Thanks. MS. Bani
I am not Bani but Banu! She corrected but he didn't hear or acted like one.
"How r your parents?" he asked
"How do I know?" she questioned back.
He gazed at her; she took a sip of tea and replied plainly "it's been months I made a visit back home to see my parents."
"I think u have a phone to communicate." He stated
"Yeah but all that is spoken on phone isn't always true!!" she smiled then said" My parents are doing good" finally answering the questions.
She stood up from her seat as she finished her tea, "i need to go."
"It was nice meeting you Bani. Convey my regards to your parents!!"
You bull!! She thought in her mind. "Oh Sure Mr. WADIA convey my regards as well to ur mother."
He pondered on her statement for a second, "Jayesh My name Bani!!!"
"Ohhh !!!Is that so Mr. SURYA JAYESH WADIA!!!!" She exclaimed
"Bani I ..." he was to tell her something but his phone buzzed.
She was about to leave when the song played in the background...
Tuje dekh dekh sona...
Tuje dekh tar hain jagna...
Banu stopped, her footsteps turning back to look at the screen when her eyes met his....
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Banu twisted and twirled on the bed remembering the coincidence of the meeting and the song in the background, she could forget the sweet smile on his lips. Oh god i am falling for him!! How can I? I am no match to him! He is above the standard! Instead of getting angry on him for hiding his true identity to my parents I am falling for him and his charm... god please save me from this heart break plss... thank god he didn't say a word about the letter. He already rejected u Banu how come u fall for him!! And how dare he call me Bani!! But y I am not posing stiff resistance to him when he says Bani... Oh y I love him calling me that.. Oh my god!! That stupid song!! Y did it play at that moment only!!! I hate u!! I hate myself!!! arghhh
She opened her laptop logging in, she went into orkut, now she wanted to delete him from friends list but it would be awkward if he comes to know! Why r u scared Bani what is the wrong from past two years he been in ur friend list what will be the wrong done to u now!! Then she wanted to delete her account but that meant she would lose all her friends from childhood to now that much of her life just for one person and that too un harmful one... She satisfied herself by changing the profile pic to a red rose.
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Seeing the profile pic changing in his friends list from banu's pic to that of red rose, Jayesh smiled to self "oh great she is still in love!!Pity that girl. Ohh Bani!!!ur name is truly melodious like the chocolate truffles!" He thought as his friends chatted with him continuously while he simultaneously worked on Excel sheets.
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Her eyes were red due to inadequate sleep, the thoughts of Jayesh invading her sleep, she woke all night with a novel and tea cups to distract herself. In the morning her manager called up about an long lasting technical issue now that issue was not getting resolved when another issue interlinked arose putting the entire network of servers was down, work came to stand still. All the teams were inn complete shock and banu's team was responsible, one of the members did some error bringing the network down. The Call was opened .All managers involved from the CEO of the Readers Digest project to the global director to the managerial hierarchy to her. She started tracing the problem; in fact her entire team started doing it dividing themselves into team to crack the issue. The time clock was clicking 24 hours crossed means their company shall pay huge amount to Readers Digest. All the managers were shouting at each other instead of working on the issue.
The matter came to Jayesh's notice; he took the notice of the issue, asking for the detailed report. The problem was finally found, now it was their duty to resolve the issue. Started typing resignation letter furiously .
Banu was losing her patience answering patiently to the same questions by the 100 managers on her head while working solution. Jayesh called up in loud speaker he said:
"What an inefficient team you are handling Manager? No one capable of resolving the issue?" When he shouted on the conference call.
"Will u stop insulting us Mr.Wadia? Instead of making it easy for us to work, u r making it extremely difficult with all the reports u wants every half an hour "she breathed anger spitting her tone.
"How dare u speak like that to Mr.Wadia" her manager intervened questioning her,
"To hell with u and your manager!! I m putting my papers now" saying so she pressed enter button on her laptop and disconnected the phone call.
The issue was resolved with that enter button and everything normal. All breathed safe while Banu typed resignation letter furiously and sent it through email. Her manager if happy about the issue resolving he was shocked to see the resignation letter and then he was scared to face Mr.Wadia After his employee insulted him.
Jayesh called up Banu's manager to office. He went like puppy stood in front sweating like anything, Banu was also called in.
So Miss Dixit! What would u say? Jayesh asked seriously
Nothing! She raised her shoulders.
Are you sure!! He looked at the resignation letter she had sent.
Yes! What I said is matter of fact! Instead of letting us work all u people were bully fighting blaming each other. This is not the way to work. I want to leave. Kindly acknowledge my resignation.
ohh ! Is that so! Let's change it from now! Today onwards u shall be the coordinator between me and the technical team issues in any project of the company. You would be the one updating me making analysis reports on the issues and present me.
Bani took a sharp intake of breath .she felt as if her neck was tightened...
Oh my god I wanted to get out of his company and now, I am very much part of it and that to directly under him, come on Banu do something to get out of this shit!! She thought...
I don't accept it!! I got better offer letter outside. I m bored being part of same company from long time. She smiled genuinely. Jai raised his eyebrow looking at her
hmm. Okay whatever your offer is!!U will be paid double of it here and as for now I think your new role will make it interesting... Now do u have any regrets or questions?
She was shocked to hear that. Her offer was twofold of her current salary and now she would get four fold of the salary. What a deal!!! Banu bent her head. She was caught now. There was no way they would be leaving her. God!!! She prayed please save me.
Edited by lovelyyrose - 15 years ago