The Squeeze is worth the juice

I will start from where I had finished, Miss A _ _ _ _ _

For next few days, I tried my best to figure out her name. Whenever I heard Vivek mention her mention, I never got it and I really don’t know what he used to call her, by some nickname may be. Nevertheless, I did try to find out her name, typing similar sounding name in Outlook and pressing CTRL+K only to find “no results found”. I also tried to have a cursory glance at dangling employee-ID card of hers (come on guys many of you might have done that), but again to no avail. 

One fine day, my efforts did yield some result and I figured out her surname, it was a Parsi sounding surname to the likes of “Daruwala” or “Batliwala”. I thought "wow" a Parsi girl that is a definitely a good start, quickly typed that name in Outlook and pressed CTRL+K. Fortunately Cognizant have only two people with that surname one male other female and Bingo! Here was her name in front of my eyes,

It read Miss A _ _ _ _ _   _ _ _ _ _ wala. It felt like a sweet discovery. 

For those who are anticipating the name. That is not going to happen. For the readability sake I am going to mention her as “You –Know-Who”.

Fast forward to few days>>

“People say that you need a bridge to connect two people…but there are certain cases wherein  two people connect when the bridge is gone”

That is exactly what happened with me and “You-Know-Who”. Vivek went to Mumbai and two of my Tamil team mates don’t speak/understand hindi much, hence she was effectively left with no choice but me for somebody to talk in hindi. My home “CEEBROS” played its sweet part as I came to understand that she lives in the same apartment. What more, in an unexpected turn of events my two tamil team mates also got transferred to other location and left only two of us at the Lunch table. 

So, on the first lunch table with her, to get the conversation started I asked where she hails from? She replied with more than I asked for. In her typically Punjabi -cum- Bihari accent, she retorted that she is from Hyderabad and quickly added that she did her graduation from Mumbai. I was quietly pleased that I do have something in common with her after having done my post-grad in Mumbai and worked in Hyderabad for around 4 yrs. Very quickly, I realized wow what a great company this “Hyderabadi” girl is and quietly thanked god that after all something worthwhile did happen in Chennai. May be… just may be “the squeeze is worth the juice”.

And to the "juice counter" is where we headed for. There we talked about some stuffs, cribbed about Chennai and as expected she had a much higher possession of words in our conversation. We parted after the lunch and I quickly went back and added her in the office-communicator, just to find out that she has a middle name starting with letter “A” too. It would take me some days to find out what this “A” stood for. 

We went back from office in the bus shuttle to CEEBROS and fixed up when to catch the bus to office tomorrow. This set the pace for what was about to be called “four FAADU days”.