"increment" weekend!!!!

The D-Day is here. What a Friday it was. It is increment season all around and so it is in my company. Since last 2 weeks or so, there have been "lay-offs" from my company. They are actually reuqest resignations by all low performers..the lowest in their bands, not all but some percentage, which I am not aware of. Although funny, but I had this strange feeling grip me in those last 2 weeks that am I on the line too???!!!! I know my past performace was more than good and even in 2007 it has not been bad. It may not have been to the mark as would be execpected from my deisgnation, still it wasnt less than average by any means. Initially I didn't sound the tension to anyone but that I talked about it to Kruti and Devendra and both rubbished my thoughts. The fact that it was a client visit here and my boss was extremely busy, made matters worse. He had not time to take feedbacks and I was getting tensed. Finally Friday noon we started getting news that the increment letters were being released. Initial news came from another BU to which Devendra belongs..the news weren't encouraging though. We all knew that the increments were not going to be too good this time, but didnt know how bad. My letter didn't come. On my way home in the bus, I got a call from Chhaps that Keyur had got a 30% increment. I was happy for him. 1 year into the job and this is a good achievement. Upon reaching home, I started getting restless. My letter was not appearing. A collegue called and told me that she had got an increment of just 5k. Devendra also got similar hike...Devendra was senior to me and bhairavi joined with me.... I got really tensed...Kruti kept encouraging me. Then at @ 9pm I saw my letter...increment of 8500/-..about 15% hike....good considering the industry situation and considering that others in my band weren't getting too good hikes either....so was happy. Went out with Kruti at 2330hrs for a drive...was happy so had to celebrate. We went around for sometime and got a masala paav packed. Then also got a alu-mutter sandwich packed for kruti from her favourite Purohit. Went to sleep around 2am. Saturday morning I had booked tickets for Mere Baap Pehle Aap movie at Red Lounge in Cinemax. What a pain the movie was. How can they call it a comedy. It was plain waste of time and money. We were so huingry as had eaten nothing at all. Kruti was weak so decided to go to Grand Bhagwati for buffet lunch. I like buffets as it has a lot of salads and I can take whatever I want. I usually want to avoid punjabi and I can do that in buffets. We enjoyed th buffet and then went home and slept like pigs for 2-3 hours till Pranav called..thankfully...India was going to lose to Pakistan in the Final in Bangladesh and anywas I was not interested anyways. Sunday was an ok day. Got up late at 9am and then wathced TV. Had biryani for lunch and it was really good. In the evening we decided to attend a Khadayta function. It was a Nadia Khadayta function and PRavinfua was actively involved, so didnt want to disappoint him. He was instrumental in publishing a directory of Nadiad Khadayta people living in Amdavad. Its a good descriptive directory. Food was ok...anywas didnt want to have much outside food. Went to bed around 1030pm as Monday se routine starts......