If I was an unethical or immoral person I don’t think I’d see the point of giving it back. But unfortunately you know how I am about honesty and sincerity.

Dominic, unfortunately, continues to persist with that Polish buffoon. She is now the official assistant for the entire Dufresne group. Unbearably incompetent. In the beginning everyone used to get pissed with her. But now we just email her or tell her random things to do just to see what happens. Yesterday evening Menander gave her 35 sheets of paper. Only the first and last ones had material. The rest were blank. He asked her to take a double sided copy of the whole thing. All of us were 100% sure that she would Xerox the blank sheets as well.

But there is just no way to guess what Valentina will do. This morning she came back and gave Menander a receipt and went away. She has couriered the entire book to someone in the Dubai office.

There is no point in asking why. Valentina is like that.

Back to work.

8 May 2007

9.37 a.m.

In office. No time to go into details.

EMERGENCY: RAHUL GUPTA!!!!!!!!!

Going to kill myself this evening. Will write if I can. But I doubt it. Will probably jump in front of an underground train.

11.11 p.m.

I don’t know how to begin. I don’t know what to say. I don’t know how the fuck this could have happened.

The 7th guy who came from New York is a vice-president called … RAHUL ‘Global Leader In Being Chutiya’ GUPTA.

When he walked into the office this morning I thought I was imagining this because of lack of sleep and bad food. (Mostly late night pizza delivery these days.)

But then Dominic introduced him to everyone. And I had made no mistake.

How can I ever forget his arrogant walk, fake accent, overly gelled hair, too much tightness in suit, and unnecessarily expensive accessories such as belt and watch. As expected he was wearing a Rolex today.