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sixty rupees only

My nine year came around Its five pm and she has come exactly before time as promised In the morning she got delayed she met us when we were leaving she said she can come back at five She is a stop gap arrangement helping us with household chores for past few days only the regular maid is on leave She sweeps, cleans utensils, wipes floor for couple of hours of hard work she charges sixty rupees only Before she left she wanted to wipe the floor too but my spouse let her leave It was Sunday evening when we want to be with our families she was serving out of her dedication and commitment How many of us can go to work at five pm on Sunday evening with no grumbling nor any complaints some characters are beyond comprehension beyond training beyond reason beyond remuneration I am inspired to complete my work now no matter what day or time despite lazy state of mind Are you?

Post coverage in Bangalore Mirror for househelp on android @ourhousehelp - 3

Photo is print media continues to inspire me to give a third in this series of posts. Hopefully trilogy end here. So lets get rolling. Mahesh kale , a college alumni left a message on linkedin.com . Harshal Gaikwad and Milind Deshpande have liked the blog post on Facebook. Priyank and Bhuvnendu have also liked the status on Facebook. Geeta ji who sits diagonally behind me. You don't notice when she comes, when she goes or when she is having her lunch. Her presence is quite. We share office space. The space is provided by elagaan.com . Navin at elagaan put out a notice in bangalore coffee club  and we took the opportunity. If you are nearby Arekera Mico Layout, Bangalore then do check out this place. There are few more seats left. But yesterday, she came over and whispered to me. "I saw your photo in paper. I told all my people. " "I reminded them that its the same person whose application I had described some days back. " Few days back I had give...

Post coverage in Bangalore Mirror for househelp on android @ourhousehelp - 2

The adoration continued for the second day. Who said appearance in newspaper is only for day? Aynur, Google Sales Manager, " Good and interesting presentation.  I will definitely promote this in SG". Shafeek,  Your idea is excellent and your efforts to make it multilingual and international is great". Check out his mobile apps on Symbian OS . Ravi kiran, former collegue and alumni friend (VNIT) called up in the evening and congratulated @ourhousehelp.  Avi, a Brigade School going kid, came over from nowhere when I was in children park with my youngest one.  "Uncle, Your photo had come in paper yesterday." "Yes" "Nice application" "Do you want to see it?" I showed him. He played for a few secs and his interest waned.  "You are mushkans father no?" "Yes"  "I will tell my mother about it." He patted me on my back. And he ran away to his parked cycle. Prime Jyothi , an ardent ph...

Post coverage in Bangalore Mirror for househelp on android @ourhousehelp

"I hid at different places, but everyone found me. They all were telling 'Your father photo came in newspaper today'. The words of 7 year old kid whose fathers photo came in newspaper courtesy @ ourhousehelp . She went to the furthest park and played there. Kids do not like too much attention, I guess. She was getting ready in the morning when the first call came from Bhavna. Sunil, her husband has seen the photo and wanted her to call us even though they knew we would be busy with packing kids to school. But sometimes happiness overflows and it showed. Its good to let it flow. Its infectious. The poor paper was lying outside till then. With the call the paper was brought in and we opened the page number 2 of Bangalore Mirror. The photo was indeed there. Never before did I hold Bangalore Mirror with so much regard. Janki called up and shared her happiness. Srinis father informed them in morning and she came to know from Srini. Reetesh, the meta guy from Vrce , work...