First Day In The Mumbai Office

Monday, June 19, 2006

This morning, I woke up at 8.00 am IST (Unusual for someone who always sleeps till 10.00 am or later. But, remember the time difference!). All ready for my first day of work in Mumbai. I had breakfast at the cafe: cornflakes with warm milk, toast, scrambled eggs, and a round potato thing. (Can't imagine having the same thing for the next 3 months.)

After breakfast, our driver brought us to the office. The journey took about 45 minutes. I must say I thought I was prepared for Indian traffic but apparently I wasn't prepared enough. The traffic reminded me of the junction in NTU some friends nicknamed 'Who dares win'. Indeed, who dares win in India. Whoever doesn't will reach their destination only in the evening.

Disney India office is really big and bustling with activity. There is no moment of quiet just like the traffic which I can hear from the fourth floor office. The day started with the usual introductions and orientation and waiting for my lap top.

Lunch was ordered in by Brian. We had pasta which was ok but really filling. There was a short promo meeting with the Singapore team afterwhich we sat in for the Vision training. Charlotte was going through planning schedules so we left halfway to work on our logs.

We were supposed to go through some things with the new Indian schedulers but they just didn't want to sit down with us. They kept saying they want to give us time to do our logs and stuff. More like excuses to go home early or avoid talking to us. Well, all the better. We got more time to go our logs. Only of course I wasn't doing my log but writing this blog entry. Hah...which means I have to get back to work now otherwise I won't have time to finish my log...