In March '07 my email ID was officially inducted into the soon to be "WAH of fame". Little did I know I was stepping into a spam ring. Talk about being invited to exercise my right as an Asha volunteer, writing long-winded, unstructured, pointless, serious (amusing to others) emails! I wasted no time. Oh! Did I mention long?... ok...
By April I had also graduated to telephony and e-chat (including gtalk status bar). There wasn't one mode of communication that this team did not abuse! But that's when the thunderbolts started striking...
Infectious energy, sing-song voices, thoughtful words, myriad accents, profound ideas, strength of conviction, depth of knowledge, spark of spontaneity, silly giggles, rigor of perfectionists, conceptual flexibility, expanse of creativity, humor or lack thereof and stoic silence... I am blown away that this set of individuals instinctively inched towards an unknown (at that time and apparently even now) common goal before sprinting to the finish line (16 coffees and all)...
Yes. I profess true love.
I am in love with a bunch of people I have never set my eyes on (ok... I have seen some pictures...). Perhaps I should have titled my entry - 'Blind Love' instead... because the last thing this crew was is visionless.
I know... I know... so far it's all been a spiel about adult labor, blog about the theme will follow soon.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Visionless Amity
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2 comments:
You forgot to mention that you're the honorary holder of the title MISS-SPAM-A-LOT. :-)
But seriously, this and the other posts capture the energy of the team very well.
Awesome piece. Let me proceed to figure out who's who in this list! Or maybe it is best left to each reader's imagination. It has been an awesome few months, and the spamalot's continuous emails have continued to make it all shine.
Let me fulfill the statement from the last paragraph and blog about the theme. Here's a link to a story from 2005 carried by BBC on child labor in the sari weaving industries in India.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4183600.stm
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