Internet can be abuzz with the
memes of people behaving/feeling on different days of week while going to
office. Monday as horrible, Tuesday as sluggish and so on and on. Amidst all
this, some fool has given this post of “Outing to office”. Idiot must have been
working with government organization..hunhh….
Well, this idiot is working with
private organization only :).
You will never detest going to office if you are in my office. In fact you look
forward to it.
And yes I am not saying this
because I am some workaholic or I love my work (which off course I do) or
something like that. That is simply because the location. Who won’t like to go
to office if your office is somewhere in between hills. Hills which have become
very dense due to rain and if you look closely you can spot one or two small
waterfalls also. Isn’t the same we wish when we go to some hill station… ‘Only
if my office is here, I can work continuously’, ‘Only if I have a home here and
my office allows me to work from home. I can be more productive’. Me and my
colleagues in office joke about taking a selfie and post in team whatsApp group
with caption “Working from Lonavala”.
And…wait wait…don’t just imagine
the hills, best part is yet to come. Icing on the cake would be if there is the
best of street foods just outside of your office. You wish it and you get it
with the super quality. Idly, vada, sambar, coconut chutney, at least 15 types
of Dosa, Uttapam, best quality of chai and filtered coffee, maggi, Kanda Poha,
missal pav, corn masala chat, Juice, shake, pani poori and what not. All hot
and fresh. Aahhh….India will be far less India if devoid of street foods. And now
you are free to imagine :)
I am writing this post just after
having this feast in breakfast. When I started from my desk, I was suspicious
whether to go outside or go to office canteen as it’s raining quite heavily in
Pune. It’s been 7 days now and it’s raining almost continuously. So I started from
desk thinking if I go outside and there is no one, stall vendors will think I
am crazy who has come outside in this rain. When I reached reception, I got the
office umbrella from someone who himself was coming from outside. This gives me
courage :)
Once out of office gate, I got to
see the dedication of people. Even in this rain there was the sea of umbrellas.
Every stall there has some sort of covered area alongside it with proper
benches and stools. People were enjoying the breakfast as in any usual day.
What you come to know from this ???....that office canteen food is so poor in
quality that even in rain people prefer to come outside. And off course not to
forget there is tough competition among vendors also. Earlier there was only 1
Dosa vendor, now there are two and Dosa quality is super since the 2nd
one has arrived. So you see market forces :P
So I had hot ‘Loni sponj Dosa’ (after
so long) with tea. Now coming to the tea, this is the best tea I get here. Only
on few occasions in my life till now, I had the tea of similar taste/quality.
One such occasion what I can remember was when we were on our road trip from
Pune to Kanpur and stopped for tea in a road side Dhaba. FYI, Dhabas in North
India is famous for their tea, food and lassi. And despite of being a tea lover
myself and having the ability and training of making good quality tea, I’ll not
put myself anywhere near this vendor outside my office. Simply superb. And this
gives the kick start to my day here in office. All set for work.
So while returning to desk, I was
so content that I decided of going outside and was so eager to pour all of my
happiness and satisfaction in this post before breakfast hangover goes off my
head. Here goes the pictures.
