 Hi, everyone. Welcome to this new interview series called Inside Oizong. We all know that the second wave of the COVID-19 has affected all of us, our daily lives and it's kind of really making life stressful because we all are again back to our work from home routine. So I thought of coming up with this idea and speak to some of my colleagues, try to know them, try to understand how they are tackling this and get some insights on daily lives and wanted to share this thing with all of you. So to start with, on our first episode, I have my colleague, Kinjal with me. Hi, Kinjal. Hi. So Kinjal here does, wait, why am I saying this? I have Kinjal with me. So I think Kinjal will better explain what she does at Oizong and then we'll take the conversation. What are you, Kinjal? Okay. Hi, everyone. I'm Kinjal here and I handle India sales at Oizong and it's been a wonderful time till now with Oizong because you all know just about the environment and the air quality and the climate change and everything. So I'm learning every day every so many other things regarding the environment and I'm now myself inculcating those things in my daily life to save the environment after joining with Oizong because before Oizong, I was not at all knowing about what is climate or what is environment. I was just like another citizen of India that's working on my own things. That's great. So Kinjal, before we start knowing about you, you just recovered from this COVID-19, right? So share some experience about how was the time and how did you manage everything? Okay, so firstly, I would say none of you should get infected with COVID because it was a very bad time and a person has to sit 14 hours, 14 days, whole day in a room, which is very difficult. Your mental health gets disturbed and everything. But to combat that, I had few things in my daily life that I used to read books. I had my yoga classes. I do prana. I was connecting with nature. So in a day for one or two hours, I used to go into my own terrace looking at the nature and just the random things whatever we do if you are isolated at one place. So that's how I was passing on my day because I am not a person who sticks to OTT platform. So I had to do some or the other things which helped me to pass on my day without watching any Netflix series. I think that that would have been really difficult to pass all that time. And you can see so much of the new spreading across the country, how we are all tackling. So tell me something like was it a little different this year than the previous year? We know how 2020 was for us and the lockdown and everything. So is there a difference that you're facing or you still feel that no, we are all trapped and we need to do something No, yeah, there is a little difference from the last year as last year people were less aware. So the amount of negativity and all outside was a little less because people were clueless of what is happening. But this time people knows whereabouts and people knows every every information about it. They are more prepared about this. Yeah, exactly. People are stocking up the injections. People are stocking up the medicines. So few yesterday I got to know that the market is having shortage of a medicine called as pediphy. So I was very much alarming that a Indian market is having a shortage of a medicine. So right now, so pediphy is a medicine which is required for you to recover from COVID. It's like, I don't know. It's one of the medicines they are using. But I think the social media is helping these days amazingly, right? Everyone is sharing all the information that can they have. And yeah, they do. But some are the another way, if some people are not too much active on Instagram or Facebook, then they won't find that thing is silly. So I think it's more about the all of us this time rather than last time. It's all about like, we are all very privileged to be at least handy for the information. And we have all these things which we can manage. Certainly. So anyway, moving the mode of the conversation and tell me something that you, you know, miss missed or rather you're missing right now that you wanted to do when everything was back to normal, something that you really missed to do. I miss going to office. I miss having the evening breaks with my colleagues because that was the time in a whole day where you relax, you'll go out have a short walk. So I'm very much privileged to have an office where I was having a free environment where people walk, people roam, people have fun and do each and everything. So I have come came through that environment. So I'm missing that environment a lot, a lot, a lot means truly a lot. So when I used to go to office, previously pre COVID times, I used to hear that why can't I have a work from job everyone can have. It's a privilege sitting at home. But no, now I feel that I want my office based back test. I want that back. It's nothing like that. And all that without the mask, right? Someday. Yeah, without. Okay, so in fifth month, personally, I would say that I don't have any issue with mask because mask can help you with the pollution also in India, people just sneeze or they just poke outside without knowing the appropriate places. So the mask would help you to protect from that all things also. So far with the mask, I don't have an issue. But yeah, in summer times, this mask is really difficult to wear and walk. So tell me something about what are your hobbies like you were mentioning like you wanted to go to you're not into the OTT thing you spend time on terrace. And I know that you are into fitness. What is that's one of your hobbies or whatever the other things that we don't know about you. Okay, so my hobby is basically walking out staying put. So I try to stay fit. But sometimes my attention draws into elsewhere or something happens. But yeah, I really like going to new places, exploring places, exploring things on internet. So as I'm not a OTT person, people like a OTT platform person. So I have to stay with my laptop or phone and explore new things in my own phone only just to inculcate new things. So I'm more into fashion. I want to explore fashion platforms, want to learn new fashion tricks and tactics coming out. So I'm a person like that. That's great. That's good to know. But we all can take some help from you in the future. So tell me something that what, as you said correctly, that you were not anywhere related to a quality environment. And now you're working in this domain. So something that you have learned about this as a problem. And you know the Indian market very well, you have been dealing with the clients here and you understood the problem. So something that you have noticed that you have learned over the period of time and you want to share that okay, this is particularly that you know, you did not know and now, you know, this is something that is grave and we all should take a note of it. Yeah, so coming to our exam, I got to know about the pollution level, like CO2 level, CO level, ozone level, PM2.5, PM10, I am sure everyone might not know about that. So PM2.5 and PM10 are the dust particulate matter PM. So I just got to know about those things, the why how this thing is coming into the environment, which are the sources of that, where we can work out and decrease such things. So these are all few short basic things which every other should know that how the CO2 level rises in the environment, how the ozone level rises, what all things affect these things to come at a spike. So we all should know about it. And do you educate others in your family, in your friends? Yeah, I do. I do. I do have to join you. I have started that thing because I am into a company which deals with environment and being a business development executive at that company, I would love to talk with people on that and educate them on that. That's great. That's great. It's very nice to you know, know that you have learned so much and you're still spreading that message. So tell me one thing that I wanted to ask and I'm going to ask this a lot to others also. So if not doing this, what would you be doing right now like in terms of profession in terms of something like in terms of anything that is that you're passionate about? So I would have either joined the event management company or might have made up my own one with an entrepreneur because I love designing for events. I love doing the stuff related to events. So I'm much more interested in that part more. Yeah, that's great. Or either I would have killed my camera shy attitude and started blogging. This is a good step to that, right? This is one good first step. Hopefully, yes, we will see all those things that are coming in the future. So, can you tell me something that you want to share as a message to the youngsters or somebody who you do not understand the quality or anything that you have as a woman you are leading with an example of, you know, getting into the sales profile and leading us into the market. What would you have a message for anyone you want? We would like to see. So for youngsters, I would have a message that please, please work on your surroundings for environment, grow more trees. Just stop making environment or dirty place. You can see that right now the real estate is booming. So trees are getting cut due to the same. So, so youngsters are the one who can raise this voice and take it to everyone. So stop doing that. Just have a clean environment, keep your environment clean, work for the environment. Water more trees. If you are not growing, then water more trees. And that's all I would say about that's that's great. That's a great message to people who are listening to this, spread the message. And one last question. So, who's your favorite colleague at Hoizong? Who do you think that is the best colleague that you find that time to spend time with or discuss things with? So my own mentor, Samar Pithgar. Because we I feel that so firstly, when I joined Hoizong, I haven't talked with him yet much. But with this pandemic, hitting, we were all working through homes and everything. So it was a great talking with him on call. And just I found that we had somewhere the same level of interest in everything about the things and all. So it was great. Okay, I'll be asking him and seeing that what he responds to. Hopefully, it should come from beyond him. So thank you so much, Kenjal. This was really fun. And I'm looking forward to talk to a lot of other colleagues. So guys, this was Kenjal from Hoizong. She spent time from schedule and we have been having a nice discussion about what goes on inside Hoizong. So if you want to, you know, know more about how our colleagues are doing and what they want to do, please follow us and keep subscribing to our channel. And we are going to come up with a series of other talks like this. So this is from me. Thank you so much. See you again. Thank you.