My experience with settling down in UK on this new assignment has confirmed the fact yet again. Its not a Company that takes care of its employees, its the Employees in that Company who do that !
As a manager it is MY resonsibility to ensure that my subordinates are made comfortable to work in a new environment. It is MY responsibility to provide them with the minimum requirements of food & shelter until they are capable of finding their own way around. And if I believe that it is the company's responsibility to do that, then I just dont completely understand my job requirements !
This is one of those work-cultures where a debate of whether it should be pushed Bottom-Up OR Top-Down does not exist. It definitely has to be driven from the top.

When I had kissed her for the first time, I was not sure I had done that out of love. And yet the urge to kiss her lovely lips was more than just a physical reaction to a moment that had filled me with admiration and a kind of attraction that fills you with a different sense of awe. Her innocent face lay limp in my arms.. her eyes closed, expecting heaven to unfold and deliver her to the man of her dreams. There was a sign of passion briddled behind her innocent smile and an intent to resist only so that she did not have to make the first move... No, this was not a dream. I was there... part of that moment witnessing the first time I realized just how beautiful she was... A bloom of pulchritude that can be witnessed only when a woman is completely defenseless and vulnerable to anything that could happen next. And as she drew near, my eyes closed to the blistful feeling of our lips final embrace. Time stopped still and the world muted its sounds to an enchanted silence. A silence where I could hear only my heartbeat.

When I kissed her for the first time, I am not sure I had done that out of love. But I am sure glad I did kiss her. For now I know what it means to be in love.

I can get up in the morning without snoozing my alarm
I can smile and greet the new day
I can iron my clothes and wear them crisp
I can help an old lady along the way

I can be nice and say "Thank You" for every little thing
I can flatter and flirtatiously flirt
I can be polite and listen to wot everyone says
I can say sorry to people I hurt

I can help and be helful to people I know
and be good to every passer by
I know I can, I really know I can
But the question finally is, Will I?

Its been about a month since I came in to Poole, UK. A nice town with the sea closeby, it does bring me back the faint memories of the european granduer. But it also amazes me to know the amount of things we have picked up from our rulers !

Anyway, I finally found time to venture out into the Quay with my camera. Not a good day for photography, but managed to get these shots.


This is a shot of the water splashing over a bench. It was a rather windy evening and it usually is not so violent out here.


And this is an attempt to take the harbour view. Wud have been much better on another evening (with an orange sky)