[Week2].Summary
Considering general summary to be applicable the following were things seen, heard or done otherwise.
The week begins with with me discovering my id number was invalid at the office gate.
When i had to fill in my 1st time sheet, i reach out to anbalagan an he says tht he will have to talk to raju abt wat i have been doing, but actually i havent done anything, an thts wat scares me.
Raju has gone on leave and Rajan will be taking care of me now. my dad came to the office on the 3rd day of the week an:
dad(d): an how is vibhav doing
anbalagam(a): well actually i dont know wat he is doing, he is doing something
d: hmm .. give him some work
a: yes yes .. he is doing something .. why dont u show the site, show him the piles
d(happily): hmm .. yes i should show him around the site, before the piles get covered
a(thoughtfully): yes it will be something to see, as we were taught abt piles in college but never had seen wat r they
d: yes yes .. i came to know tht u had also done ur post grad from iit kanpur
i dint go to the site tht week, but came to know anbalagan was a matka (iit lingo for post grad, not very respectful)
The 1st dat was simply so frustrating, tht i had to start this blog to get some of it out, then went to anbalagam and asked to name which software to start studing else i will end up doing nothinghere as all work is done on software, he agreed told me to start doing STAAD, an i was quite happy. i knew raju would never had let me start a software without clearing the basics, basically i took advantage of his absence.
rest of the week went doing staad (minorly) and going thru the episdoe wise summaries of Smallville (majorly) season 3 and 4. just to make sure i dont miss anything in these episodes i was reading them through some 5 resources.
my initial comp did not have staad, but had the advantage tht neither raju nor anbalagan nor brian, cud see wat was on my comp screen, but i had to change comp and lost the advantge
Week over, no major events this week 
[Week(1)].Summary
Considering general summary to be applicable the following were things seen, heard or done otherwise.
having landing in dubai the previous night at 1 am having slept at 3 my day1 was pretty sleepy.i happened to have dozed off a couple of times, but ppl around werent concernered.
once awake i soon realised tht the structures dept was female dominated i.e no.of females > no.of males, to be precise indian aunty dominated.
Went to anbalagam to ask him a wat to do, and he hands me to my first supervisor Raju. Now raju starts asking me some basic questions, and sees my face go blank as i speak some arbit made up random stuff. compared to all my blaabber all he said was, plz be precise if u dont know anything plz say so, i know u havent even graduated but tell me wat all u know. he told me to go study and draw some bending moment diagrams an keep studing. And tht was all i did tht week. Asking ppl for notes, looking for ebooks, i started learnig wat i believe was taught to me in my 2nd or probably 1st year.
getting used to dressing formally wasnt as easy as i expected it to be.
all week long i just gtalked my whole time, got lots of tv series episodes from iitb and practically did nothing, but wenever some1 passed i acted as if i were deep in thought an was solving one of the worlds biggest structural mysteries, doing bending moment diagrams which were scattered over my desk. soon i realised nobody actually cared an started taking things even more lightly, even started dozing off in bright daylight. but 1 fine morning i was caught sleeping by anbalagan, after tht even in the most drowsiet of moments i dint sleep. i realised if i dont learn anything abt civil or structures from this internship, i still might learn the most important thing i needed i.e sleep control.
The most happening event in this week occured on the last day of the week which also happenend to be the last day of the working month. Brian comes in with avinash(director of mep dept halcrow dubai) and gives a speech which included things like sorry(many times), have to let u go, no work, thanku for working til the last moment. basically it was a senti speech for all those ppl who were getting fired (actualy none of the ppl who were getting fired were present for the speech), he ends the speech by saying thanku and every1 have a donut. evry1 got up, took a donut, an went back to wotking as if nothing happened.later in the afti the ppl leaving came said their goodbyes to ppl in the office, an ppl still continued as if nothing is happenning. one of the ppl fired was a female named Charmi who also happened to be the 1st person i met at halcrow, seeing these ppl leave i felt tht life is pretty tough.
although i was taken back by the firing/speech/donut incident i was pretty happy tht the week was over 
(Basic + Work + Lunch + Net).Summary
a general day at my intern consist of me waking up and going to the halcrow office, and coming back without doing much worthwhile.
here i slog 9 hours(to complete 45 hours in 5 days) everyday basically doing nothing.generally 8am to 5pm ast (arabian standard time).
except for the coffee which is served 3 times a day, everthing here seems to have been built to put me to sleep (kehte hai ki agar sachai dil sai kisi cheez ko chaho toh puri kaynaat usse tumse milane mein lag jaati hai – Om Shanti Om). i feel so sleep deprived, that now i even started having dreams of sleeping i.e i dreamt ‘ i had gone to the bathroom an slept’ just to be awoken by anbalagam standing beside my desk.
i am unable to understand anything given to me, the level at which they tlk(beams, columns, bracing, profiling, plans, stad, cad) is alien to me. raju already knows i know nothing but soon enuf he wud discover i am the dumbest person breathing in this office. i stay here as though i dont exist, i prefer tht just to keep my idiocrity within bounds of my semi cubicle.
the lunch hour is between 1-2pm, but it generally seems i am the only one who cares abt lunch. the ppl here work so dedicatedly, it seems in my complete 8 weeks i wudnt even be able todo half of wat they do in a day. this might even be due to the fear of being fired, they have already fired a whole lot of ppl 2 times. i still dont get it, they dont have work thts why they have to fire these ppl, and the remaining ones just keep increasing their output due to fear of being fired, its like they themselves are the cause of they themselves being fired (mind the language).
whole day long i keep gtalking, and asking fiends in iitb to keep sending me various tv series an stuff to download while at office as these ppl have have a really really fast connection even though it is routed thru uk. all things tht a person accesses on the net can be tracked at the office. just to avoid any issues with the tv series an stuff i ask my friends to rename the files as structures.avi or beams.avi or something civiliar (=civil+similar).
talking abt their net connection, these ppl are maniacs, just to keep a chk on everything tht a person can or cannot access they route their net connections thru the uk headquaters. they have their own list of sites tht r blocked like youtube and various tp sites. wen accesing youtube a message says ‘CONTENT RESTRICTED – The category of Music has been blocked by your System Administrator’. as we all know every cloud has a silver lining, since our connection is routed through uk it doesnt follow the proxy rules for the uae i.e many sites tht are blocked by the uae govt can be accessed at office, the most major site being Orkut (althought i dont use orkut alot but the idea of it being totally blocked does trouble somewht).
this covers my general day, i liked the thought of combining some amt of boolean into the title, hope it works out for u too
Terminologies
everything cited below is in accordance to wat i have seen or heard on or before 3/5/09
Halcrow (Yolles) – the europe based company whr i am doing my internship for 8 weeks as per my iitb curriculum which has commenced on 27/4/09. this also happens to be the place where my dad works, luckily, he works on site, while i come to office. the best thing about this office is how it has been made. the piece of land on which they have the office had been given to them by some sheikh along time ago aftr they built the al-makhtoum bridgewith a clause tht they cannot sell this land or build any kind of structure on it.so these ppl made an awesome office just by joining portacabins. i feel it is structural landmark it itself. it basically reminds me of paf (performing arts festival, iitb – refer wiki) constructions.
Anbalagam – the assistant director of the structures dept at halcrow yolles
Raju – my supervisor who has recently cleared some high ranking exam
Rajan – my supervisor in case raju isnt thr an he will be mostly be mentoring me for my week 2
Time Sheet – a page on which u account for all activities done during the week which include the various projects u have worked on, the number of standard hours worked, excess hours, and similar entities. i came to know tht even the MD of the company is required to fill in a time sheet every week. They have this week number entry in which u have to fill in the week of the year, for which i have calendar in front of my desk.
Brian – the director of the structures dept at halcrow yolles, who i have seen only once out of his cabin if he ever comes to the office
Jim – the english guy sitting in front of me. i still am unable to figure out wat he does
F.Receptionist – the filapino receptionist whose card i have used sometimes to enter the office premises
Nitin – the person whose desk i have occupied
Mailroom – whr halcrow collects its mail
N.C. - the person in the cubicle to my right, who not only works alot but talks alot too. He feels (therotically) that he is the most idealistic person ever born. He passes various comments to the this indian aunty who sits opposite to her all day long on all the topics, people, things. He doesnt even spare the aunty to whom he is passing the comments.
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