Friday, October 24, 2008

My new office


I had been a week in my new office ... an hour of drive and incremental sleep in the bus.

The morning coffee (made by someone else) ... new faces all around (mostly European - Dubai is after all a foreign country) and an amazing view of the polluted skyline from my seat on the 31st floor - focus and you can penetrate the SO2 and CO2 cloud to have a glimpse of the sea as well; I was happy.

There was a 'garden' that I used to go past every morning ... surprisingly they (someone in my office) had restricted the entry by glass casings - morons.
It was only after a week that some told me that there is a tiger in my office ... and am not referring to myself.
I realized that they (someone in my office) have housed a tiger .. and another tiger ... or maybe a tigress in the garden.
I went past their abode for a week and did not even notice them ... yet again I realized that the cosmopolitan culture has made people so self centered that no one cares who stays near you.
I suddenly felt so lonely ... even the tiger is not alone in Dubai.
To be continued ....