On 9th July 2010 I will complete nine months in Canada. While I was in high school I never thought that I would travel different places after growing up. Canada is one of the places in the world which has beautiful summers. Also there are some beautiful places here. Day time temperatures in summer never exceed 22*C to 25*C and at night doesn’t fall below 10*C. People living in equatorial region will feel 10*C as cold. But any person who survives the worst and coldest winters of Canada which falls down to -50*C will not feel 10*C as too cold. But at the same time it has the most severe winters which stay consistently at -25*C to -30*C through 70% to 75% of the winter days. I personally do not like cold weather. In Poornima bungalow (back in India) I always used to ask my room mate to switch off the fans or close the windows at night in winters. But now they will laugh and pull my leg after reading all this. The city of Edmonton where I stay is closer to North Pole so the days are longer in summers and nights are longer in winters. To be precise in summers the sun rises at 3.00 am to 3.30 am and sets by 10.30 pm to 11.00 pm. same is the case with night time in winters. In winters sun rises by 9.30 am to 10.00 am and sets by 3.30 pm to 4.00 pm.
In a couple of weeks I am scheduled to go further north almost exactly on North Pole. To let you know more on North Pole the sun doesn’t set in summers and in winters the sun never rises. Even though I never liked cold weather I came here to see a completely different place, have a different work experience and all in all will cherish this work experience. But for all this I had to stay away from all the people I want to be with. Still having four more months to go I have started feeling homesick already. First four – five months I didn’t feel too lonely and infuriated even though I was alone that time. Why is this happening now even though there are two more guys staying with me since past four months?
I have had some wonderful days and some adorable working experience here. I met many people and made quiet a few good friends. Actually all the people whom I worked with were forty years or older. Working with these guys was memorable as they were very helpful, humble and down to earth. Spending some time with them, sharing out thoughts and our experience made me learn a lot. Learn from their experience, their way of working and their professionalism. I also had to do most part of my superior’s job like managing and coordinating the site work which was my site manager’s job. I was expecting myself to perform in field and my site manager would manage all the pressure coming from management of customer. This was not the case as I had to do most of it. Of course this helped me improve my personal and professional skills. But when you see people around you, it hurts to know what I am getting in return for all that I am doing proficiently. I have also worked with some guys who are extremely talented and are honest, while others who I feel are either dumb or idiots or dumb – idiots and at the same time not honest at all.
I worked with both Indians and non-Indians and I hoped the talent and honesty from Indians and expected the dumbness or idiotic behavior from others. But usually you never get what you expect. Same happened with me. Guys accompanying me were more irritating or infuriating because of their lack of presence of mind and their behavior. As I said initially I never felt homesick but started feeling now in last three months. I felt once the new guys come from India to accompany me that would help me. I didn’t expect any kind of professional or technical help from them. Only I expected was them to be absolutely normal. I expect any person to use their common sense no matter how talented they are. Ok some times due to some reason one doesn’t recognize some things. But this should not happen one after one after one after the other. Initially I thought I would have some one to talk and spend some time. But now I feel it was good that I was alone. I was happier then.
Being in same company I met this guy from south part of India here in Canada. We were in different branch locations though. I am from Mumbai while he is from Chennai. I hoped that he would know Hindi our national language. But as I said you don’t get what you expect. He didn’t know Hindi. Then I thought I’ll teach him being here in for another six months together. First week he pissed me off when he told me the reason why he didn’t know Hindi and why he doesn’t even want to learn the national language. We argued about why Hindi was not included in the curriculum of all the schools in south India. His argument was on the point that if this was done the state would loose its own religion and culture. And this would happen by just learning Hindi the national language as per him. I asked for an explanation but he didn’t have one. I just didn’t understand why one would hate learning national language and how this would eradicate its own culture. That day he was speaking lots about his religion and culture. I guess that was the beginning of infuriation within me. Just the next week while we were on site and went for dinner I got to know that he doesn’t believe in God, religion or caste and follows only Buddhism. Hell I hammered him with his entire speech of loosing his culture and religion by learning Hindi. If he didn’t believe in culture how could he say that he looses culture because of Hindi? Ufff…
That was just the beginning. On site I had assigned him some work for half a day and expected him to let me know once he’s done. He started in the morning and by the end of the day I asked him why the work is not done. He said he finished four hours back but was simply sitting there as there was no other work assigned. Dammnn… There after I assigned him work enough for two – three days. Another simple technical common sense, to check the flow with a flow sensor in the pipe the pump in associated line needs to be running. He was checking the flow without running the pumps and reported bad flow sensors. In the house where we stay there is a drier for drying the clothes after washing. It has only two knobs, one for setting the time and other for starting the drier. I couldn’t believe one can be so dumb for not understanding that by pressing the start button the drier would start. He just put the clothes in and was waiting for the drier to start. I had to teach him driving because of my great seniors who sent him to site without learning driving. Also our even great Indian driving authorities who gave him license without knowing driving. The biggest mistake that I did was to accept assisting him in learning driving. Hereafter I am not going take responsibility to teach anything to anyone irrespective of my job profile. This is nothing, if I write all the acts of foolishness done by him I‘ll have to write a book instead of blog. All these days the level of irritation has went on increasing and has now reached saturation.
I don’t have the experience and power to manage these kind of people. This is the reason that since last four months I’ve started feeling homesick. When I was alone the only problem was loneliness. But now loneliness has replaced irritation, frustration and sometimes anger. The customer has appreciated my work and wants me to be here for another year. But I will stay here till I complete next assigned project. So I am expecting to return in four months of time from now. Good thing is he won’t be working with me on my projects. So I hope to stay away from all the things or manage the things causing me infuriation and try and have more adorable experiences here in Canada.
God bless you all!!! And me too!!!!! ;)
:):):)
In a couple of weeks I am scheduled to go further north almost exactly on North Pole. To let you know more on North Pole the sun doesn’t set in summers and in winters the sun never rises. Even though I never liked cold weather I came here to see a completely different place, have a different work experience and all in all will cherish this work experience. But for all this I had to stay away from all the people I want to be with. Still having four more months to go I have started feeling homesick already. First four – five months I didn’t feel too lonely and infuriated even though I was alone that time. Why is this happening now even though there are two more guys staying with me since past four months?
I have had some wonderful days and some adorable working experience here. I met many people and made quiet a few good friends. Actually all the people whom I worked with were forty years or older. Working with these guys was memorable as they were very helpful, humble and down to earth. Spending some time with them, sharing out thoughts and our experience made me learn a lot. Learn from their experience, their way of working and their professionalism. I also had to do most part of my superior’s job like managing and coordinating the site work which was my site manager’s job. I was expecting myself to perform in field and my site manager would manage all the pressure coming from management of customer. This was not the case as I had to do most of it. Of course this helped me improve my personal and professional skills. But when you see people around you, it hurts to know what I am getting in return for all that I am doing proficiently. I have also worked with some guys who are extremely talented and are honest, while others who I feel are either dumb or idiots or dumb – idiots and at the same time not honest at all.
I worked with both Indians and non-Indians and I hoped the talent and honesty from Indians and expected the dumbness or idiotic behavior from others. But usually you never get what you expect. Same happened with me. Guys accompanying me were more irritating or infuriating because of their lack of presence of mind and their behavior. As I said initially I never felt homesick but started feeling now in last three months. I felt once the new guys come from India to accompany me that would help me. I didn’t expect any kind of professional or technical help from them. Only I expected was them to be absolutely normal. I expect any person to use their common sense no matter how talented they are. Ok some times due to some reason one doesn’t recognize some things. But this should not happen one after one after one after the other. Initially I thought I would have some one to talk and spend some time. But now I feel it was good that I was alone. I was happier then.
Being in same company I met this guy from south part of India here in Canada. We were in different branch locations though. I am from Mumbai while he is from Chennai. I hoped that he would know Hindi our national language. But as I said you don’t get what you expect. He didn’t know Hindi. Then I thought I’ll teach him being here in for another six months together. First week he pissed me off when he told me the reason why he didn’t know Hindi and why he doesn’t even want to learn the national language. We argued about why Hindi was not included in the curriculum of all the schools in south India. His argument was on the point that if this was done the state would loose its own religion and culture. And this would happen by just learning Hindi the national language as per him. I asked for an explanation but he didn’t have one. I just didn’t understand why one would hate learning national language and how this would eradicate its own culture. That day he was speaking lots about his religion and culture. I guess that was the beginning of infuriation within me. Just the next week while we were on site and went for dinner I got to know that he doesn’t believe in God, religion or caste and follows only Buddhism. Hell I hammered him with his entire speech of loosing his culture and religion by learning Hindi. If he didn’t believe in culture how could he say that he looses culture because of Hindi? Ufff…
That was just the beginning. On site I had assigned him some work for half a day and expected him to let me know once he’s done. He started in the morning and by the end of the day I asked him why the work is not done. He said he finished four hours back but was simply sitting there as there was no other work assigned. Dammnn… There after I assigned him work enough for two – three days. Another simple technical common sense, to check the flow with a flow sensor in the pipe the pump in associated line needs to be running. He was checking the flow without running the pumps and reported bad flow sensors. In the house where we stay there is a drier for drying the clothes after washing. It has only two knobs, one for setting the time and other for starting the drier. I couldn’t believe one can be so dumb for not understanding that by pressing the start button the drier would start. He just put the clothes in and was waiting for the drier to start. I had to teach him driving because of my great seniors who sent him to site without learning driving. Also our even great Indian driving authorities who gave him license without knowing driving. The biggest mistake that I did was to accept assisting him in learning driving. Hereafter I am not going take responsibility to teach anything to anyone irrespective of my job profile. This is nothing, if I write all the acts of foolishness done by him I‘ll have to write a book instead of blog. All these days the level of irritation has went on increasing and has now reached saturation.
I don’t have the experience and power to manage these kind of people. This is the reason that since last four months I’ve started feeling homesick. When I was alone the only problem was loneliness. But now loneliness has replaced irritation, frustration and sometimes anger. The customer has appreciated my work and wants me to be here for another year. But I will stay here till I complete next assigned project. So I am expecting to return in four months of time from now. Good thing is he won’t be working with me on my projects. So I hope to stay away from all the things or manage the things causing me infuriation and try and have more adorable experiences here in Canada.
God bless you all!!! And me too!!!!! ;)
:):):)
