Saturday, August 11, 2007

Demolition season

Sipping coffee provided by the office[old]boy (I am privileged to get a share of the special coffee he gets from the canteen kitchen for the boss), I watched the old canteen in our office complex being demolished. It is a very sturdy structure and has put up a stiff resistance to the months-long demolition, but now it is almost history.
Where will all this rubble go, I wonder. The city is full of old buildings giving way to new.
And builders have a strange fancy for English place names. So we have apartment complexes called Trafalgar, Victoria, Westminster and so on.
Vestiges of the colonial rule.

Sunday, 1.30 am IST: A long day at work, and I am dead tired now. The kids went off to sleep early, V said. Ash wouldnt have realised I'd be so late or else he'd have kept awake like he does whenever I dont reach before 11 p.m. That's when I know he cares for me - the rest of the time his Appa is all that matters to him.

2 comments:

Joyismygoal said...

I am sorry you have to worksuch long hours and on SAtdo you work a 5 0r 6 day week?

Ladybird said...

We have a 6-day week and a 6 1/2 hr workday, though we put in longer hours when required. Once in a while, we end up staying 12 hrs or longer, though we get an extra off to compensate!

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