Guess what this sweet girl told me yesterday when I asked her what animal she would like to be reborn as in her next life? The PEACOCK! Whao, so we were already on to something on the theme of the 'National Bird of India' at almost the beginning of the show and I seized the opportunity for the peacock dance. It was more of a tribal Naga dance actually in the end! Till next time.
Mittwoch, Juni 18
The peacock is famous!
Sagnik, Operator, Calcutta
Guess what this sweet girl told me yesterday when I asked her what animal she would like to be reborn as in her next life? The PEACOCK! Whao, so we were already on to something on the theme of the 'National Bird of India' at almost the beginning of the show and I seized the opportunity for the peacock dance. It was more of a tribal Naga dance actually in the end! Till next time.
Guess what this sweet girl told me yesterday when I asked her what animal she would like to be reborn as in her next life? The PEACOCK! Whao, so we were already on to something on the theme of the 'National Bird of India' at almost the beginning of the show and I seized the opportunity for the peacock dance. It was more of a tribal Naga dance actually in the end! Till next time.
Sonntag, Juni 8
Dicky, Operator, Kolkata
hello everyone...
last evening i was doing the theater with karen....a girl from brussels....she is herself a caller in brussels in acall center. when i showed her thru the camera my call center environment she was surprised to see a real big office look....because her own workplace has a window thru which one can look at the landscape......i think she is real happy to find that the nature of work that is so familiar to her could act as a thematic backdrop for a theater....
dicky....
Donnerstag, Mai 22
Priyanka's shows: 20th May 2008
Priyanka, Operator, Calcutta
All three of my shows on the 20th were in Brussels. My first guest has been to India about a dozen times or more, and as she pointed out to me, has seen more of my country than I have. She has been a "would-be" anthropologist all her life, she says, in that she has been travelling and observing different cultures all her life. She visits India to relax, sometimes, but mostly to study banjara embroidery (an art, she says, has been removed from their traidtional styles to suit tourist tastes over the last few decades). She does not exactly believe in rebirth -- a strong element of "banjara"-themed Bollywood films of the '70s -- but believes in other Indian exports. Like yoga, which she practises everyday. And in return, I told her that my family and me "believed" in homeopathy. She identifies with such human connections as our phone conversation, she says; and she should know. She is currently in a relationship that I thought was amazing, having met an Belgian emigrant to "the end of the world" in India a few years back, and been in a relationship with him since, despite him going east from India and her going west at the end of their vacation. She thinks the rise in petrol prices will make frequent flying between their two countries impossible, and just for her sake, I hope we find a source of alternative fuel soon.
My next two guests both had the same first name, although one was from Spain and the other from Italy. If I was a romance-novel writer, I told one of them, I could have had a book deal from the situation, what with the tendency of such writers to make their heroes tall, dark, handsome and Italian. Or Spanish (or Greek, but never mind that). The Italian gentleman, it turns out, works just one step away from a call-centre, being the tech-support guy their call-centre delivers the customers' complaints to. His Spanish namesake -- a slightly "suspicious" (his word, not mine) but very interesting nonetheless -- documentary film maker had also worked at a call centre... for a day. He left at the end of the first day, uncomfortable with prying into people's financial details and medical histories for a living. He did speak to an old gentleman who lived near his hometown on that one day on the job, and was invited to the man's pig-slaughter party for the weekend too, but that "momentary connection" did not endear the profession to him. He did think, however, that the show created several such special moments between strangers, and often, fifty minutes is not enough to explore this strange international relationship to the full.
All three of my shows on the 20th were in Brussels. My first guest has been to India about a dozen times or more, and as she pointed out to me, has seen more of my country than I have. She has been a "would-be" anthropologist all her life, she says, in that she has been travelling and observing different cultures all her life. She visits India to relax, sometimes, but mostly to study banjara embroidery (an art, she says, has been removed from their traidtional styles to suit tourist tastes over the last few decades). She does not exactly believe in rebirth -- a strong element of "banjara"-themed Bollywood films of the '70s -- but believes in other Indian exports. Like yoga, which she practises everyday. And in return, I told her that my family and me "believed" in homeopathy. She identifies with such human connections as our phone conversation, she says; and she should know. She is currently in a relationship that I thought was amazing, having met an Belgian emigrant to "the end of the world" in India a few years back, and been in a relationship with him since, despite him going east from India and her going west at the end of their vacation. She thinks the rise in petrol prices will make frequent flying between their two countries impossible, and just for her sake, I hope we find a source of alternative fuel soon.
My next two guests both had the same first name, although one was from Spain and the other from Italy. If I was a romance-novel writer, I told one of them, I could have had a book deal from the situation, what with the tendency of such writers to make their heroes tall, dark, handsome and Italian. Or Spanish (or Greek, but never mind that). The Italian gentleman, it turns out, works just one step away from a call-centre, being the tech-support guy their call-centre delivers the customers' complaints to. His Spanish namesake -- a slightly "suspicious" (his word, not mine) but very interesting nonetheless -- documentary film maker had also worked at a call centre... for a day. He left at the end of the first day, uncomfortable with prying into people's financial details and medical histories for a living. He did speak to an old gentleman who lived near his hometown on that one day on the job, and was invited to the man's pig-slaughter party for the weekend too, but that "momentary connection" did not endear the profession to him. He did think, however, that the show created several such special moments between strangers, and often, fifty minutes is not enough to explore this strange international relationship to the full.
Sonntag, Mai 18
Earlier shows: 13th April
Operator Priyanka, Kolkata
My first call of the show was in Mannheim with a 29 year old "travelling" engineer (in that he shifted to Brazil, to Berlin, to Mannheim) who laughs easily and often, but refuses to be a gentleman and dance -- or sing -- when a lady asks him to. Oh well, one can't have everything. He's quite surprised to hear one of India's major exports is engineers, incidentally. He confesses he never thought of it that way.
He thinks "not giving Berlin a chance" was his biggest mistake that he can remember -- he moved there from Brazil, and the difference put him off so much he refused to adapt to the new lifestyle, choosing instead to make himself miserable for a year before moving to Mannheim. He wishes to retire by 40 and then spend time travelling, preferably sailing some of the way. I advised him to fall irrationally in love with someone from a little-visited country, shift to said country, have a messy break-up in a few years, come home to get over the trauma, and get a book deal and movie-rights out of the experience. This, in fact, is what happened to a Bengali woman who fell in love with an Afghan gentleman and moved to Taliban-era Afghanistan. Martin seems rather sold to the idea.
When he closes his eyes to my rather tuneless singing, he sees himself in a hookkah-bar with middle-eastern belly-dancers. This makes him a 5C in Descon employee categories, which is "Better Luck Elsewhere". He did not, I am afraid, find it the least disappointing.
My first call of the show was in Mannheim with a 29 year old "travelling" engineer (in that he shifted to Brazil, to Berlin, to Mannheim) who laughs easily and often, but refuses to be a gentleman and dance -- or sing -- when a lady asks him to. Oh well, one can't have everything. He's quite surprised to hear one of India's major exports is engineers, incidentally. He confesses he never thought of it that way.
He thinks "not giving Berlin a chance" was his biggest mistake that he can remember -- he moved there from Brazil, and the difference put him off so much he refused to adapt to the new lifestyle, choosing instead to make himself miserable for a year before moving to Mannheim. He wishes to retire by 40 and then spend time travelling, preferably sailing some of the way. I advised him to fall irrationally in love with someone from a little-visited country, shift to said country, have a messy break-up in a few years, come home to get over the trauma, and get a book deal and movie-rights out of the experience. This, in fact, is what happened to a Bengali woman who fell in love with an Afghan gentleman and moved to Taliban-era Afghanistan. Martin seems rather sold to the idea.
When he closes his eyes to my rather tuneless singing, he sees himself in a hookkah-bar with middle-eastern belly-dancers. This makes him a 5C in Descon employee categories, which is "Better Luck Elsewhere". He did not, I am afraid, find it the least disappointing.
Samstag, Mai 17
Luvy Duvy Helsinki!!
Christopher, Operator, Kolkata
Well Check This One Out!!
one of my guests from helsinki have something very interesting to say... "Well you call-center people in india phone up us stupid finnish people and and then ask us our age hoping that young guys or gals out here will fall in love with u guys & gals online and then meet up one day and expect to get married? Right?
one of my guests from helsinki have something very interesting to say... "Well you call-center people in india phone up us stupid finnish people and and then ask us our age hoping that young guys or gals out here will fall in love with u guys & gals online and then meet up one day and expect to get married? Right?
i bursted out laughing!! cos that was the most hilarious thing i could have possibly expected someone to say to me especially when im already BOOKED!!!
Freitag, Mai 16
9TH MAY PSCHO-TRIPPIN
Christopher, Operator, Kolkata
okies the person was 44 yrs old though he looked very young. the funny thing about this guy is that he dint believe when i told him i wasnt a psychologist. he said "u know chris, i dont know whether your reading a script or making this whole thing up by yourself, but your very very good... I'm sure you're a psychologist... and if u say you are not, then psychology is your destiny!!"
i was completely amazed because i did take up basic psychology when i was in 10th standard an i even told him that i did so, but the only thing is im not a psychologist. anyways he was fascinated with the call and how everything was so well synced from one topic to another.
TRUST ME PEOPLE, ITS FUN PLAYING AROUND WITH A PERSON'S MIND!!
okies the person was 44 yrs old though he looked very young. the funny thing about this guy is that he dint believe when i told him i wasnt a psychologist. he said "u know chris, i dont know whether your reading a script or making this whole thing up by yourself, but your very very good... I'm sure you're a psychologist... and if u say you are not, then psychology is your destiny!!"
i was completely amazed because i did take up basic psychology when i was in 10th standard an i even told him that i did so, but the only thing is im not a psychologist. anyways he was fascinated with the call and how everything was so well synced from one topic to another.
TRUST ME PEOPLE, ITS FUN PLAYING AROUND WITH A PERSON'S MIND!!
call in Zuerich
Amritendrani, Operator, Kolkata
hallo!!
hallo!!
just the other day i was taking a call in Zuerich when i happened to meet this interesting lady.... she told me she is a Sanskrit teacher in Zuerich....in an instant i started feelin an "indian connection" with her...
further in the conversation, she told me the exact german translation of my name, which was actually unknown to me!!!
i was glad to know that i could be called an "unsterbliche herrscherin" in german!! i was extremely elated and surprised as i never ever wondered that a german lady, sitting 10,000 miles away from me could actually read my name, decipher its meanin, and do the translation in german in no time and let me know the same!!!!
i was extremely impressed........
further in the conversation, she told me the exact german translation of my name, which was actually unknown to me!!!
i was glad to know that i could be called an "unsterbliche herrscherin" in german!! i was extremely elated and surprised as i never ever wondered that a german lady, sitting 10,000 miles away from me could actually read my name, decipher its meanin, and do the translation in german in no time and let me know the same!!!!
i was extremely impressed........
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