Tuesday, April 20, 2010
not everyone will come into your life ready-made, but there’s a difference between dusting off a diamond and fighting a battle you’re never going to win.
How and when do you decided that its dusting off and polishing the diamond or fighting a battle. Even the diamond would need lots of work before been able to command its right worth. Guess it comes down to the person who has the diamond in their hand and their patience to fight the uphill battle (as in all relationships) and their ability to convert the raw stone into its true potential.
Wished Bob Ripple a Happy BirthDay another the American casualties cause of the jobs going off to Indians. He is been thru a lot sticking by his wife thru thick and thin. Staying by her side to take care of her illiness, when he could have just said, too much work, I can't handle this anymore, I can get a better deal with another women,,,,etc WEll people make choices and that reveals their strength of character. And Bob has my earned my respect for that.
Just got back after taking Vikram to the Clinic for the drug test before his work starts Tomorrow.
Cheers.... just have to focus on the movers and coordinating with them for now and I am all set to go to Van and for a long bye bye...
AGain no movement at the Fry Wagnor end. Sent mail to Nicole, who said that she is no longer handling and its Ivanna thats going to handle stuff with my move from Canada.
Called up Katie again around 1:33 no pick up, then got her @2:15 and she said that she is waiting for the response from the Coordinator at the vancouver office.
waiting for Ajit to get back to me after his talk with Sangeeta regarding my dates of travel to Vancouver. Stone walled in all directions. not able to book the tickets. Patience is in control, but frustration is building up.
Feeling sleepy and trying to keep my eyes awake, with nothing much to do. As i am still waiting on the mgr to approve my access the Data base. Should I start looking for a new job !!????
Also compounding the frustration is the feeling of not having contributed to any productive work and effort. And not having done or not having the scope of doing something productive. (for now).
Blogging seems to be a great way to let out my frustrations and not really talking with anyone, but its like talking with my own imaginary best friend...
after 5pm Hoping to go with Vikram on a dry run to alen town. So that he can go on his own tomorrow morning.
3:30 got call/missed call from Katy of Williamson movers of Vancouver. She was told to take an onsite estimation. The after letting her know of my situation, she asked me to talk to Katie Alvey of Fry-wagnor... called up Katie,, who was giggling and acting all funny. Ask her to please get back to Kathy of Williamson about telephonic estimations.
After a series of running around and calling back and forth, Katy of Willamson gives me a move date of 3rd or 4th.
Get back to ajit regarding the flight date approval. Atlast around 6 he says go ahead and book the tickets,, the flight I wanted to take ended up costing more by $300... ahhh sudden change in prices.. then had to research again on orbits and got a flight via toronto Air-canada and return via seattle, US Airways.... not a big fan of Air canada after hearing lots of bad things about them.
Get call from Vikram regarding taking a print out and needing to fax his agreement form to his employers(middle companies and recrutiers) he has 4 to 5 layers of middle men. And in the end he is just about making min. wages. So sad a state of people taking advantage of situations and other peoples dire needs. Just the hope that things will improve is whats keeping people from India here, the hope that things will improve one day for the better gives us the strength and will to continue and put up with all kinds of ill treatment and crap thrown at up by middle men/brokers and others.
The sadder part is that all these middle men are again Indians who are out there exploiting their own country men for their short term financial gains.
Well get back home around 7, go to the office center at the apartment comples take print outs, come back to my office and send out the fax to his companies and also scanned images.
Then head off to Alen town, 30 mile drive, with 2 dollar toll each way. kind of difficult to manage financially when one is just earning basic min wages. of about $14/hr.
So the move to the new apartment room to share with 3 others , which would cost him just $300 plus util and expenses is much better and its just about 1.5 miles from his work. Walk able.
Meet the owners/leaser who were sub-leasing. Couple from Orrisa who spoke Telegu with two cute girls. They were moving away and wanted to sub lease instead of break the lease they thought of renting it out to Indians and move over to their new place.
maybe I should look at that.
Return back exhausted.
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