Inside the mind and heart of Venkatesh Sridhar

Well, I am now 23. Damn, time just seems to fly and I seem to be getting old, not just agewise but on the mental aspect of myself. It’s my first birthday in a ‘corporate’ setting. Thankfully, there are no balloons or the decorative paper put over my work desk signifying that it’s my birthday. I do not know why but I am still uncomfortable being in the limelight. I guess I will improve with age, after all I need to get used to the same soon.

But, I guess I got the best birthday gift from my boss J Kalyanaraman, when he finally told me the roles and responsibilities. I am now going to be part of the M&A team, I will be rolling out the Internal Branding strategy. So, it’s a more general management kinda role which is what I prefer. I do not want to be stuck in a department and doing a routine thing.

The Senior Management Trainee program in HCL has been a mixed bag so far but it deserves a blog, that I will write about it soon (ya I know, I have not been blogging but birthday resolution is that I will constantly update my blog).

This is the 3rd consecutive year that I have not celebrated my birthday in Mumbai. I miss my best friends Sandy, Giri and Amru. (btw, the fuckers havent called or smsed till now … grrrrrrrr, but they are still my best friends :D). You know it is damn tough to celebrate your birthday alone and emotionally leaves you distraught as a birthday is damn special, a day which is your day and your’s alone. You are the sole star on that day and when you have to celebrated it alone it hurts more. Now, that’s about my life in Noida about which I will blog about later.

P.S: While, I was typing out the blog, the entire office came to know it is my birthday and the reception called and asked me what kind of cake do you want? I have ordered an eggless black forest cake to be neutral towards veggies and non veggies. It is going to be tough preventing the cake from being splattered all over my face and hair. Damn, I should have gone with an egg cake atleast my hair would have got some well deserved and needed conditioning .