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- <h1 class="p-name">A day well spent?</h1>
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- I wake up one morning reminiscing about the place my friend talked of the other day. This cafe in a tech park
- where one would relish…
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- <p name="197d" id="197d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3 graf--trailing">I wake up one morning
- reminiscing about the place my friend talked of the other day. This cafe in a tech park where one would
- relish working remotely. Most importantly, it was close to where I stay and beats the suffering from
- traffic. So, I got dressed up, packed my bag with laptop, charger, headphone, USB cable (to charge my
- phone’s battery if it dies) and a bottle of potable water. My mother was generous enough to cook me a
- delicious breakfast with Idli and Saambar (one that only mothers know how to make). After the relishing on
- this stable and filling food, I take out my car to head for this place in the hope of getting some work
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- <p name="5a43" id="5a43" class="graf graf--p graf--leading">After a fifteen minute drive through the
- dilapidated roads and frenzy, I reach the gates to be greeted by the security guard who asked me for my ID
- card. When I showed my driving license, I realized that he was asking for something different. Lowered my
- window glass and said that I had to go to a cafe inside (recollecting from my friend’s experience). For
- which he agreed and let me pass. Parked my car in the visitor parking area and started climbing a hill to
- reach the top where the cafe was located. To give you some perspective — this cafe is located in a tech
- park which is built on an encroached lake. The lake is non-existent, however the depths of it are still
- felt. Finally, after a bit of physical exercise I reach this cafe with it’s neon lights reflecting on the
- glass panes of the building. Took a while to settle in as there were no power plug points to charge my
- laptop. After finding one, I started checking my mail as usual only to realize that the internet bandwidth
- on my phone was snail paced. I could probably go to the loo and come back by the time the webpage could
- load. All this effort in vain. Without network there was no way I could work. Saddened, I reach out of the
- building to get some fresh air only to be struck by the sight of a food truck serving Chicken Biriyani. I
- said to myself, “At least, you could eat something you liked and head back home.” I checked the time on my
- phone to realize that it was barely noon. I somehow had to stall for some time to get the next quota of
- meal that my body deserves.</p>
- <p name="beab" id="beab" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">So, now instead of getting work done at the
- cafe, I had to pass time for the lunch. How productive of me! I started looking at people nearby walking
- from the cafeteria to their offices all dressed in a formal attire to impress their bosses and clients.
- Most of them seemed obese and in their mid twenties or thirties. Obesity is clearly an outcome of their
- sedentary lifestyle. I wondered, if I were one among them what horrors I might have to go through. A bit
- of this and a bit of that, I am quite the time killer as one imagination paces to another, I see that it’s
- noon. Hurray! It’s lunch time (tad early today).</p>
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- to complete and of course the most easy and desired one. I check the prices and find that it was modest
- considering the quantity they had been giving to others. Before that — I had to check other’s so as to be
- clear on how it looked and ascertain the number of chicken portions in it. Quite satisfied with my
- observations, I head to the food truck and ask for it. The server (not the internet one) took a leaved
- bowl (called <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Donne</em>) and filled it with the spicy rice first.
- Then, he filled it with few pieces of chicken, half sliced boiled egg and then some onions and lemon.
- Quite a craft. “He’s doing more productive work than me”, I said to myself. There’s only one thing left
- now and that any one can do — binge. I lost sense of time as I started eating. It was finished in no time.
- I felt contentment and walked towards the lounge to sit for sometime, to allow myself to relax for a while
- before I could head back home.</p>
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