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Interests: Doing anything that involves using my hands...sketching, writing letters, cooking, knitting, embroidery, arts and crafts; Photography; travelling, music, movies, watching tons of TV (I'm a TV whore), skating, shopping (esp for shoes), singing, food and SHOES!!!!
Expertise: I can whine incessantly about anything and everything under the sun even if it has no direct relation to me; I never know when to say the right thing; never miss an opportunity to waste immense amounts of time on doing useless and unproductive things like make mosquito bookmarks; am narcoleptic (I'm not complaining about that)!
Occupation: PR Consultant
Industry: Lifestyle & Entertainment
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
7/8/2004
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| Today was not such a bad day...everyday starts with my mind computing all the things I need to get done, before I'm even out of bed. Sometimes, I'll start running things in my head as I wait impatiently for the alarm to go off. Seems rather stupid to be lying awake waiting for the phone bell to go off, but I like to justify those few minutes of pretend sleep as well =)
If there is one thing I definitely am, is I'm anal about operations...I've not reached the workaholic stage yet, but as much as I hate waking up with work as my first thoughts, I can't help it. It gives me mental peace and then some, if I just deal with it right there and then. Its very stressful, especially Sunday evenings..and I can't wait to get into work and start checking things off my 'To Do" list. One part of me wishes I was in college, so I had the option to ditch classes; but another part of me can't wait to rush into the office. There is a weird sense of calm that takes over when I see my team, like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. Right around the time I stopped blogging, I was starting out my career at the bottom of the pile and absorbing everything around me. Nothing was too trivial if there was some learning I'd gain from doing it. Those days were chaotic and every moment was a significantly stressful moment. I always wondered how I my boss handled it all.
I have my own team today, with 4 pairs of precious, helping hands. Seeing the picture from where I am today, its definitely not as easy as 'delegating a task' to someone and monitoring it through to its end....more than anything, I'm always worried about making sure we're all still learning, seeing the worth of what we're doing and having fun at it. I have questioned my abilities to lead this team many times in the recent past, making me almost wanna quit. But stopping here would mean killing everything I've worked so hard for.
I'm so grateful for the team I have, we're a fun gang of girls - yes I'm counting Amit & CK in this category as well which I'll explain this later - we're more than colleagues and work loses its formal confines with them around. Its a very secure, comfortable feeling...
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| Wow, its about time I got over my shamelessness, pulled my head out of my ass and started blogging again....especially since I remember how much I enjoyed doing this!
Work is quite possibly the easiest and most convenient disguise for my massive laziness, but I've been here many a times between 2007 and now, staring blankly at my screen with so many things to write about and still wondering what the hell to do! Things have changed...works taken over my life, yes, and I'm not very proud of it...but the past couple of years has been the most amazing learning curve, in so many ways. I wanna kick myself right now for not chronicling it (admit it - we all love to go back and read our old posts and laugh at the silly things or marvel at our attempts to be all intellectual!). Part of the real truth for not giving this my all (apart from the aforementioned laziness) is that, I knew that blogging would mean thinking, rationalizing and dealing with current situations which I would've much rather happily shoved under the rug to be dealt with on a later day. Real mature, right?! Pathetic as that is, I think I'm ready to let that go and give this a real hard shot. Seriously. Like, my best shot, Facebook and Twitter still are first priority =) but I'm going to do this as diligently as I can.
Great! First post after a long time, and its become an emo rant...unintentionally of course!
On a more pointless note, I'm psyched that House Season 6 has finally begun. Haven't caught the first 2 hour pilot yet, but I will get around to it on the weekend...or sooner =). Hugh Laurie and Jesse Spencer - such opposites in so many ways, but so drool inducing its crazy!
PS: Xanga did some real good work with upgrading the site...it took a while to find my way around all the new applications!
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So you understand why I have and have had nothing remotely interesting to write about?!
But, hey...take a look at pictures instead......
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1027&l=3e46b&id=502876896
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| Dear Joanna,
Congratulations! You have successfully crossed the performance benchmark set for you as a member of the Perfect Relations Group. In appreciation of the job well done, we are happy to announce that with effect from today, you have been promoted to: Image Executive. You will also get a Salary hike of ....... which will reflect in your Salary with effect from December, 2006.
Do continue to keep up the good work and give us more such opportunities to reward and acknowledge your performance!
Regards,
Nishkal S. Vaidya, Senior Executive - HRM & OD
Perfect Relations
Wow!!!
It feels really good to be acknowledged & appreciated for all the hard work done in the past 6 months!
I’m extremely glad that I took Perfect Relations up on their offer because it has been such a great learning experience for me...and the support and training received from my colleagues has been overwhelming!
Thanks Amit!!!!
 
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