1. Recession is the buzz word, even the sabzi wala uses it.
2. I have stopped going to movies every week.
3. I am in the process of changing my Airtel plan, to a cheaper one.
4. I wash my clothes myself.
5. I use the bus, instead of auto-rickshaw.
6. Number of visits to pubs reduced to 1 in a month.
7. I am always on the look out fro free offers.
8. I use Skype and G-talk for short conversations.
9. No more shopping sprees.
10. Posting frequency has increased, to increase Adsense revenue.
For the last 5 days, I have been going to office regularly. And I stay there for quite unusual number of hours, around 6-8 hours. But don’t worry, “I am still on BENCH”. Yet again, I have learnt some management 
They think :
“When a resource is on bench doing nothing, keep them busy by putting them on training”.
Well, training is fine. We gain knowledge, we become more competent. That, I would say, is required in today’s scenario. We should keep ourselves updated. And, most importantly, the managers think, that the resource is “BUSY”, and they are satisfied. But the training on which I have been put on for the last 5 days, I have not gained anything, neither I have learnt new things. Because, this is the 3rd time that we have been put on the same training.
And being a developer, it’s just so torturous to be put on a training on “Testing”. To top it all, the trainers are just world-class here. They don’t even skip a single ‘char’ from the slides. Wow, what an eye for a tester! They read out each and every ‘char’ from the slides, loud and clear, and they sometimes do re-testing too, and regressing testing as well.
After 5 days of training, I can appear for an interview for a post of a “Tester”, that’s for sure, but I really don’t have a clue as to why “THIS” training and why “ME”.
Perhaps, those colleagues from the testing team were also on bench, and their manager, just like our manager, wanted to keep their resources busy.
And by the way, I hate myself being addressed as a resource. If I had the power, I would re-write all the management books, and ask the managers to call us as employees at-least, and not a “resource”.
My 2008 plans were pretty straight-forward. 
Don’t ask me about my future plans. It’s not that I don’t have any. Well, to be frank, I have lots. But the only problem that I can foresee at this point of time, is that I have so much to do, but so less time. I am on bench for the last 8 months, but I consider these 8 months as the busiest days of my life. I will tell you how.
1. I have to go to office daily, well, everyone does. But I go to office daily, twice – in the morning to swipe-in and again in the evening to swipe-out.
2. Since I am not in office most of the time, I have to search for a good restaurant to have my lunch. My search hasn’t ended yet.
3. It was in college, when I used to take afternoon naps. For the past 8 months, it has become a habit again. At-least 1 hour of afternoon sleep has become necessary for my body.
4. I have been working with my Laptop a lot, so that thing takes up the rest of my mornings.
5. And in the evenings I am busy again.
6. For dinner, its time for “Dinner Search”. There are no good places to eat near my house. And I don’t have a bike. I hate travelling in auto-rickshaws.
So, this is how I have been keeping busy. I don’t get bored. But at times, I wish that I were into some project and keep myself busy in some other way. And this recession has sucked up all the new jobs that I would have been interested in.
Oh, I forgot to mention one more thing. Last month, my laptop crashed. It took me 2 whole days to get it back to its own self. It has already crashed 4 times. Hahaha… What a way to keep oneself busy. I am desperately waiting for a significant change in my life, and it better come soon. Else, this post could be copy-pasted with some minor changes again. Keep watching!!!!
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