Relationships

Relationships are based only on trust. There is no other basis for any relationship. You can ruin anything but you cannot break the trust of a person! And there is nothing else to a relationship :|

Just when you thought.....

Doma and Ajja and megs came home with amma today and the one thing that made me feel the nicest was "I am very happy that you both have taken your parents' consent and gonje ahead. It speaks a lot about the maturity you have" :))))))

Just when I thought it could not get better, it just got better :)

Determination

Whats the source for determination? How do you get it for many many things that you want to do all at once?

I need to know right now! Can someone tell me?

Carnatic

Thanks to the free bandwidth that I have, I have now more classical recording s of TNK than I ever did before and it is only improving the state of mind that I am in, the more I listen to it :), especially since the cow and shorty have decided to make my life complicated :)

Am so glad that the forefathers invented music. I think it is time I learnt it too.

And yes, HBD Mobile P :P

Of how I would have lived it if I was not all that I don’t want to be

This is the theme I think that will make me famous :)

What an idea sirjee!

P.S. Since the pic desire is gone, so is the mandatory pic per post rule :)

Warm Fuzzy feeling

Being with someone you love, laughing without a care in the world, feeling the warm wind in the your face when you walk along the sea, someone hugging you when you have a bad day and really need a tight hug at the end of it, all produce the feeling best described when you eat this :)

Source: http://www.bennisonscakes.com/images/tortes/chocmousse.jpg

I call it the "warm fuzzy feeling" :)

Kick

Paisa and aazadi, to be able to do what you want to do is the most important thing in life! Ultimately, it is only this and nothing else that will let you be happy, for happiness is simply doing what you want to do when you want to do it and this is my only motivation in life :)

I think I am getting there, a few years and I will I guess be "happy" and this feeling is a kick, a major kick!

Amen!

Picture courtesy: http://gurugilbert.com/wp-content/happiness.jpg

Pomish

I made a pomish and I intend to keep it :)

How to live life

Well I am back :)

And it seems like I want to be chatty again and continue the randomness that I so prone to.

And suddenly now I want to use a lot of images.

At this moment this is how I feel, Like the damn bird in the freaking photo next to this line.

I am flying, sometimes high, sometimes low, but largely I am in my own space. There is little that seems to be coming in the horizon, I have my interactions with others, people I love, people I hate, people I have to talk with to earn my bread, but I am a little in my own freaking world; no connections only. It is like something went dormant, I don't seem to care or worry about anything too much these days. Nothing matters too much and I know that whatever are the problems that may come across me, I know that given enough time and effort and more importantly guts and character, things will be at least OK.

But the file has given me freedom! A sense of not being attached to so many things that I used to be normally attached to. It is not like I am not attached, but somehow it is a different kind of attachment where the only reason for being attached is to have a good time in life. The feeling started a while ago but has steadily grown stronger. The underlying logic is that at every stage, every moment the only thing I want to do is be happy; Not much I must say.

I know the above post is not very coherent, that is because the thoughts are as muddled in my head. I don't know if what I am doing is right, but from now on, the way I am going to behave is going to be based on only one principle:

"There are certain things that you have to do; there is not much choice after that. Beyond that, the only way you can have a life is to do what you want to do at every point in time! The difference in how much of your life you live is simply a direct negative function of the number of things that you have to do, due to the choices that you make in life."

that long silence

Sometimes there is a peace and tranquility in your life that you don't want to disturb it by even talking. As I settle into a nice routine of work, weight loss and spending time with people I love, there is this tranquility and I don't want to say anything for a while more :)

the forth of joolai

There was the stupid team outing! Some silly resort, the sillier team members, the crowds from eight other companies, the drunker brawl between us and a second company and then going back to office to do some work that happy venkatan had asked me to do made the day rather drab. Vicky (short for victorious god of the heavens) was sleepy having stayed up in office till 3 in the morning. I just wanted to drop him off and hit the gym to burn the gulab jamoons and ice cream I had eaten. But life had slightly different things in store and aint I glad that life had slightly different plans for me.

So me and Vicky ended up talking for over three and a half hours about life, God, destiny, the Gita, his life, my life and a whole bunch of other things. He is a fine chap, and it was awesome to listen to him talk about what he has been through in life and more importantly what he has learned from that and how he applies that in his everyday life and life in general.

I cannot express what I felt after speaking to him, it is something so personal that it can only be felt. But the biggest things are that I feel i have found a friend and something has increased my resolve to study the SrimadBhagvadGita.

Thanks Vicky!

And yes in remembrance of this lovely evening I post one of your favourite words (Thanks Rudyard Kipling for this)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

the gardener ajji

Nice Saturday morning, cloudy day and i met the baays in Jayanagar, put coffee and came back and continued the saga of "keep off the grass". Karan Bajaj, ex-IIMB's book, lot of which I could relate to.

Then an ajji came home, an old withered up woman, chewing arecanut all the time. All skin and bone. She probably was good looking, may be even beautiful, when she was younger. But constant poverty, a harsh life and the never ending struggle to make ends meet had made her age, brought on so many wrinkles and removed the glow from her. The mother of five daughters, she offered to clean up the garden, which had grown till my waist, all for hundred and seventy rupees, a meal and probably a saree amma was willing to dispose off.

And she did this backbreaking work for some 4-5 hours. I ended up helping a bit, and within ten minutes I was sweating profusely. But she plodded on, told me men should not touch brooms and how I should not tell the girl I marry I help around as she will then not do anything. Wow! And finally in her own stylish way she said Byeee and wandered off.

But she left me thinking. For all that I say I know how comfortable I am and understand that people do not have money, something changed that Saturday. This old woman still worked so hard, sheer cold brutal manual labour, I dream of retiring at 35! And she still has the spirit left in her. She might not have the money or the luxury or the comfort. She is old and still works and has probably bought 5 new sarees in her whole lifetime. But she has the spirit. The spirit of that soul, life could not break and that is really the greatness of the soul; the spirit never breaks. You burden it, you give the maximum trouble possible, but it still floats up and gives you the chances ot laugh, like this old lady did when she said her byeee! God bless her, may be he has, because in spite of the troubles he gave her and not me, she did not seem particularly sadder than me.

P.S. I love you

MONKEY: its monday and u are at office
:P

MONKEY: A nice run after a long time ..... Feels goooood!!!
Another monkey: i am still not in office :P

MONKEY: in due time
Another monkey: :P

MONKEY: P.S. I love you
MONKEY: P.S. I love you ... the movie :-P
MONKEY: thanx da

Another monkey: :P
MONKEY: i aint so hopless anymore eh?
:P

Another monkey: i always loved you, you never got it :P
MONKEY: i think i did
but then
:P

Another monkey: :P
:P
MONKEY: hehe :)

Passion

There must be something, something that I badly want to do! Where the hell has it gone? Where where where! What happened to all that ambition, passion, everything else? Is this what an engineering and MBA course has done to me?

There must be something! I have to have to find it :|

Fee'long'ing

We stretched and the muscles ached. They cringed for being together and normal and sensible again. But the pain is sweet, it makes being together so much better and if we did not strectch we would have never realized the sweetness of longing. For there is a sweet so sweet, it makes longing worth it.

And I am glad, we both like longing, so much!

I just hope what we long for is worth it :)

Amen!

Friends, fun and frolic

It is so much fun when bitchy baby and unkills and I get together. The mood is light, the talk is fun and baby always comes up with something poly. Ha ha. It is so much fun that it takes everything else off your mind. I guess that is what friends are for! No wonder I love them so much and want to meet them so much! Love you guys!

Washing away

As the cyclones swept through his life, he kept wondering what will remain and finally he figured that amongst all that he had, only 2 remained, and remained forever.


He hopes that the 2 will never, never change for he loves them too much.

Selling Out

I keep saying people sold out for money, careers and all that.


Sometimes I wonder if I sold out for happiness and peace :)

They just dont heal

Someone called today. This someone had once inspired a post by me earlier in this blog.

I thought I had gotten over it, that I had pushed the pain away, and cleansed my soul of the hurt to be a free-er individual. I dread the further encounters. One part of me says I am so glad it is still important and that the relationship matters and that the old ties are renewed. But I know that the niceties and fun and laughter is not permanent, it will disappear as though it never was. And it leaves me hurting, fuming, broken (well may be not, broken is a strong word) and sore all over again and just when I am about to heal, the call and the meeting happens again.

I know I should expect less, but that does not happen. Some things are just fixed, they really can’t be changed. It just won’t be the same if you change what the person is to you. It is different, to put the person in a new role in your life, even if you know that the current role was not meant to be. It is not a position or a responsibility in a company right, it is about emotion, about people and the way you feel for them.

I have tried and God knows I have tried to heal, but no avail. The hurt just does not go. I guess they sometimes just don’t heal :(

'Mad'rid

There is no particular reason why this post is inspired and it was just one of those days when somethings just enter your mind and refuse to go away.

I remember walking down the streets of Madrid and I saw this picture perfect couple. And they were breaking up. The girl walked off and it chilled me to the bone when I saw the pain on the guy's face. May God not give anyone such pain!

Scary

As usual I was driving home through Koramangala. The traffic was heavy and I wanted to get home as soon as possible, it had been a long tiring day. So had been the immortal Scorpio guy's day. It was a sharp turn and I "nugged". And his mammoth machine scratched my little baby.

But you see it is just a car, so I drove off, without even wanting to wait. But he kept following me, and ensured finally that I parked. I got off apologized and he took my license number phone number and name and told me he will take care of me.

Yeah it was partly my fault as well, but I honked and he did not hear it. I even apologized and offered to pay for the damages. But what scares me is the fact that he was so angry. There is so much angst and hatred and frustration that it shows up this way, you flare up for so many small things. It is not only dangerous to the person, but also to people around him/ her.

It comes from bad lifestyle, excessive work, estranged relationships and what not! But it is scary where we are headed as a society if such anger can be provoked, for such simple reasons. After all, it is just a car that got scratched!

Ambition

I lost it in the middle and was sort of settling into a life without one when all of a sudden i find that it is in something so material :)

Yeah, 203 it is :)

Effort - Result syndrome!

Too much work are happening! But the results are not proportionate.

I have been busy like mad for a like a long time now, may be 3-4 weeks. I have been on two trips, one to a nice JLR resort and the other to the ever lovely Ooty.

And I got my new chevy Spark! Nice and red and lovely. And that unknown RJ from Radio Single told me I should call my car Minisha! Bah! Whattay name for such a nice car! It is a nice handling beauty and I just hope the mileage improves. And now that I can plug in my music player and have some of my most favouritest music on cds. So now full hip-hop drives only through the city. Btw, the beauty drives well even at 140 :) and that is something I just love!

There there, there I drift again.

After some 4 weeks of sustained effort on all fronts, I got very fidgety last weekend. So much that I became quiet and all! And disturbed and got into my shell where I appear like I am happy and mad, but inside is like the churning of the violent sea hitting hard on a rocky cliff in Norway :)

And then the long walk with VeeDee happened! Walking around Jayanagar, eating hasarebele masala and peanut masala, drinking kaapi in daily bread but more importantly walking around for 2 hours and clearing up your head helped. Patience dawned again and may be, for greater gains, it takes more time and even greater patience.

P.S. Blasting muzzy is so much fun!

It is such a lovely day

Awesome day it is :)
Skipped the gym for my body was so sore and I did not go.
Then I called pranks and kajus and had such a ball talking
And then I listened to some awesome songs on radio
And I dont believe that there are so many nice kannada songs :)
So work is going on :)

and you can see the general upbeat mood with all the smileys

Stuff

It was a brilliant weekend in Ooty. Lovely weather, nice car, decent roads, no urgency and lovely company. The drive was awesome and the rain and mist made it beautiful. The food rocked as did the hill station as well as the chocolates, of which I have so much, so drop in home if you want some of the 9 types of chocolates that I bought.

But all this is ok, and I would have enjoyed it anyways, even if I was alone. What then made it so nice?

The only thing that made it so special is that it brought back so many feelings and committments that were pushed to the back of our minds. I, actually, we realized that the friends from college are still as important, if not more, at this point in time. We need each other, if not for anything else, just say "I love you for what you are and I will be around if you need me." Just a confirmation of the fact that we can be liked, that we are nice people, and that there is someone who is just a call away.

Some of us in the group are in love and will be married sooner or later. But we still need these friends, the good old friends from engineering days who will always be there, like us for whatever we are and will become.

In this trip, we realized this and this one thing, makes the whole trip so so worth it.

Keep in touch people, for nothing else in the world, not all the money, cars houses or holidays will take us through a rough patch in life, or even more simply, make us feel like the most special people in the world.

P.S. I wish this was a post in a physical diary, the ink would have smudged. Che che!

mulldall

Sent at 5:04 PM on Wednesday
Me: loosu
what ya doing?
VEEDEE: why man?

Me: sumne
VEEDEE: nothing da

Me: karma
same here
VEEDEE: super
and am hungry as well

Me: sooper
go eat
Sent at 5:08 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: no i will wait till 6
:)

Me: why?
muhurta naa?
Sent at 5:08 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: he he.. more hungryness is good
:)

Me: gawd!!
whattay englees
VEEDEE: ass ip year anglich ij vely gowd

Me: myadness
VEEDEE: shule ij

Me: bad ba
d
VEEDEE: yakke?

Me: dont voverdo eet
VEEDEE: en is?

Me: good lord!
Sent at 5:10 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: illa pa
gowd lword it is
clock the spelling i say

Me: clock?
VEEDEE: watch da

Me: eet eej spalling
karma kanda
Sent at 5:12 PM on Wednesday
VEEDEE: maidness eet eej

Me: ur a maid?
VEEDEE: kelsadavluness
:)
lei
thu what is the chat da

Me: whats that kelasa thing!
VEEDEE: kelsadavlu- ness
maid-ness
:)
che

Me: gawd
VEEDEE: lets learn new language...

Me: madness
VEEDEE: we are killing all languages

Me: not happening
keeling baby keeling
VEEDEE: see

Me: and eet eej longwage
simpsimply u says arbit stuffs
VEEDEE: type madod kastha
:)

Me: harbit hactually
kastha?
thats weird
kashta is better

VEEDEE: halbit hactually

Me: ha ha ja
ha LOLLOLLOL
VEEDEE: LOTFL
:)

Me: LOTFL only :)
soopal zoke
VEEDEE: huchs we arse
:)

Me: madness
ares is ok
arse is bad bad word
we are then clazy bums!
VEEDEE: who says
clajy btw

Me: clayjee
VEEDEE: bombs!!
hahhahahahahha

Me: is betters
boms
bombs is bad
VEEDEE: bongs?

Me: boms is good
thats a synonym
VEEDEE: he he
lei we need to see doc
else we speak like this and we are sclewed

Me: i nose
VEEDEE: himesh reshammiya
:)

Me: leshmmiya kaNo
VEEDEE: LOL
we dont call animals names child
reshammiya

Me: okie dokie
VEEDEE: thu poda
lets talk in kannada
english is bad

Me: onkey donkey
sari heLu
VEEDEE: in mele inda

Me: sari
VEEDEE: illa andre obsession agute idu

Me: taavu heLodu hechha? naavu keLodu heccha
VEEDEE: nam bhaSe bari 2 akshara agute man

Me: what?
VEEDEE: saar film dialogue hodi bedi :)

Me: hoDedu aaytalla
VEEDEE: nam language

Me: longwage
uddasambaLa
VEEDEE: mangluru kannada sari ide maraya
enchina savi idu

Me: illa maarey eLedu eLedu maataadtaare
VEEDEE: :P
kudlan elada?

Me: what?
VEEDEE: kudlu man
kuldu elada?

Me: hair raising
VEEDEE: most definately
this is

Me: now go
tolags
i need to does wowrks
VEEDEE: you too
madi

Me: sure :)
madi alvo maadi
madi is pure and orthodox
VEEDEE: altha madko belu
*beku

Me: okay saar
now to be goings
VEEDEE: jasti aaitu
bye
tata
:)

The rice fields of my life

It is always a pleasure to talk with the rice fields in my life, and there is always this comforting feeling that I can say anything and it will just be absorbed and not emitted anywhere. So cool na? I met the rice field yesterday and had this gala time, and as usual ended up spending more time than I thought I would! But who ever complained about feeling all nice and happy after such long talks!

That incredible sense of pride

As seniors, we have our favourites. We mentor them, keep track of them, feel happy for them when they do well but the strongest feeling is when they don't do what they should be, when they give up what they have stood so much for which in the first place made them your favourite. You have that deep sense of erosion of something very strong, something that you felt that you could hold onto, for often these things are things that you have sworn by.

There have been some people like that whom I believe I have had an influence on. And more than anything, I want to see them grow into beautiful people, people others would look upto, would appreciate and tell their kids "See, this is how you must become" and more importantly, I want to see them ending up as people who stand for certain things like judgment, freewill, fairness and hardwork.

There has been one such Lad I like to believe I have influenced to stand for the right things. And he has done well for himself. I warned him when he was getting into B-School about what he was getting into. And he went there and cracked it, he got the biggest bestest thing that anyone there would want. Something like this is heady and can shake the very foundation that you stand on and I was getting worried that this was happening. People change and that’s good, what’s worrisome is when the core changes. That’s what scares the hell out of me.

I was getting the hell scared out of me. It was this strong feeling of despair that my lad was losing what gave him is greatest strength, shaken by the lies of the corporate world and opinions of myopic peers.

But I spoke to him today, for a long time, after long. And he has turned out to be such a nice lovely lad, the same boy I knew, but much clearer, much stronger and much more confident. And he can see through the same lies and opinions that have made many a man stumble. And today I feel this incredible sense of pride that he has turned out the way he has, and all I can say is "I am so proud of you, my Lad!"

mulldall

Mes and the un"kills" veedee can be tlied for mulldall aaf the Eeenlees and kanra longwages :)
The atlocities we commit aan them combined with the mode of spich of the tlading community from Andhra is just hilalious mulldall :)

Excelpts floym one aaf the thoujand convelzations:
veedee: allo saar, hen maadtaa hidila?
me: henilla kanLa, teefee voDitaa ideeni, what you doing, chil!
veedee: baas told off me to do off some wolk, i said off poda, i cant do wolk and all :D
me: sooper, i have no wolk whatsoevel at all, so maaring teefee
veedee: unkills then do off my layjoomays
me: wokays unkills, not nows, will does latels (and the haaroplabe makes noise and i say) kingfishel flight is haaring unkills, what a luccus it makes, i say

:D
and the lambling continues fol a laang time :)

Tripping through life

The more I trip in life, the higher the high I hit.
Looking forward to many more such tripping experiences :D

The fine line

It is weird but we all go through this! Atleast I think we all do and I definitely do!

And that is this eternal question of whether " I am doing too much of too few or too little of too many."

And the question has no one right answer!

It is a constant turmoil that haunts me all the time and causes me to sometime discontinue things that I was so passionate about before, things that I stood very strongly for. But today I find myself not so keen and don’t do it at all.

This is a complex dynamic decision based on current and future commitments, current time availability, the constantly changing priorities, ad hoc work that comes up, boredom with existing things that you have been doing and so on.

And this question will like a non-linear optimization align how much time and effort spent on how many number of things in line with the above stated parameters. To make it more complex, all you need to add is the whims and fancies of the person that you are.

See it is so complex that you don’t know what is right and what is wrong! And for someone to judge you at this point and say you are lazy, or you don’t have your priorities right and all that is not correct. Like I was telling P today, never judge a person wearing you shoes, I used to do it, today I don’t, I would have lost out on a lot of very good friends of mine if I had continued to be so judgmental. I am still opinionated but I don’t judge people so harshly anymore and I am so much more open.

Also, I am open to change, much more than ever before and I can understand if people's priorities change. When priorities change, the " I am doing too much of too few or too little of too many" question pops up and you change things you are doing. Don't judge someone as wrong when this change happens for this change was bound to happen and it did, whether you like it or not.

A thousand flirts!

There are a thousand of them,
they come close to me,
they talk to me
and remind me how beautiful life can be

In all hues and colours they come
and in rhythms and beats
i love many of them
i flirt, through the day

Dabbling between various kinds,
at home, in office and while i move around
some dance in sync and drive me wild
so much, that I get drunk on them

But only some stay
and whisper in my ear all night
and play with me through the night

And in the middle of the night,
when i rest in peaceful slumber
they leave as quietly as they entered my mind
and slip away in the dead of the night

Very few remain, all through the night
to arouse me in the morning
and these, lovely ones, make it to the list on the right :)

The life I want to lead :)

So nice it is,

Had a fairly useful week, personal, professional, private yada yada yada
And I did not skip the gym any weekday
Had four meetings yesterday with friends and PBPs. Sooper it was. And yes I realized that the moonlight is cool and sunlight is warm :)
And that the company's measurement criteria along with the world's most valued brand is a sooper combination, anytime :)

And today is Sunday, lazy day, happy mind, happy people,
amma cooking special stuff for the family friends while I make the phone calls to all concerned, read of human bondage, listen to "Sunday songs" on the newly refurbished comp, appa reads the newspaper and watches India lose to Australia, I wait for the lovely lunch, the lovelier siesta and the eggy evening at N's place with Sw and Meg.

It is that nice lazy sunday that is so needed to soothe the nerves, relax the mind and make you feel all nice and yellow like below

It is the life that I so want to live :)

Inspiration

It is often said that you become like the company you keep :)
And I so realized it today.

There was this senior guy from an allied practice at work who came and spoke. And man-o-man I am so bowled over. Energy, passion, intelligence and sharpness. After being partner in a very reputed consulting firm for a long time, the man goes and becomes executive advisor to the college drop out who sells computers and then sets up entire operations in a South East Asian country and now sells computers here. Too much I say, the guy is tremendous.

But what matters more to me is that after so long someone was able to get me thinking again, about what it is that I am doing in my life, why I am becoming one of those dull energyless boring creatures. I am constantly fighting the complacence that is building in, but today's talk was the kick that I needed the most and if not anything else, the raw passion and urge to do what I want to do is back again :)

Thanks a ton, Kingan Happyan! Thanks so much!

Somethings make you day

I got this yesterday and I felt nice
9:59 AM Cashew: UNCLE!!!!
:D
I missing yous!!!
:D
you are zee peppercorn of ze zuppa of ze life
10:00 AM no zing wizout ze peppercorn :(

People are all that matter

I met A's girl A for coffee today.
Sitting under Barista's orange chatri and sipping cold coffee, alternately watching the fountain and the planes that land from up close, I realized again that all we need is a simple life with the amount of amount to sustain a life style you want. She agrees with what I think. She said all I want is a simple life, there is no meaning to the madness of working. It is pointless to work, beinig away from people you want, from the life you want, all just for money, which is never earned but only spent.

There was sadness in the beautiful girl's eyes. She simple misses A too much. Papa ya, 6 years they have been off together and now A wants to make money out of a job that he was interested in and now bored of. They need to be together. I can't see them not be together. Their being together makes all the madness in their world worth it! Aye A, find that bengaluru jaab no? whatsay?

Whats the problem with long hair?

I am growing my hair long, I want a pony tail.
I have received numerous threats, comments pleads to cut it, from "Yuck it looks horrible, cuuuuuuuuut it" to "Please kaNo putta, haircuttige hogu", from "Yappa, saaku ninna avataara, hogI cut maadsu koodalnaa" to amma pleading with me to cut my lovely locks :)

But the best was when Unmarried Assamese concoction said "I am not meeting you with long hair, as a principle I don't meet guys with long hair"

What karma! We are not seeing each other, I am not going to a party as her date and I am not meeting a prospective groom for her such that she may be judged by the friends and may be embaressed. But nahi, madam is not happy with my long hair. By principle, she wont meet me :)

I am smart too, I told her "I don't by principle meet fat girls (she said she has crossed her own limits)" :D

Somethings never change - Thank God

I met an old friend yesterday, we spent 2 terms of a dreadful course together and it would have not been as much fun, if not for him.

I met him, he is this hot shot i-banker now, but he is still the same. Wears the same stupid clothes and comes and eats at restaurants, nice classy ones, in stupid bathroom slippers and bermudas. And yesterday I was expecting him to do that and he did just that.

The talk was as peaceful and nice as ever. Guess somethings never change and I am glad that they don't.

The rebirth of love

Somewhere I was losing interest in my love for 6 longs years.

I was a little troubled by the fact that I was losing the passion I felt for 6 long years, very satisfying years. I was not in touch, work was getting in the way and there were other things on my mind that seemed more attractive to me. And we drifted.

But something happened in Yamini, the overnight festival at IIMB. Listening to RaviKiran play chitraveena at dawn and lending a hand to the organisers brought the old feeling rushing back, the thrill of organising a concert, the beauty of classical music and what it can do to you. (yada yada yada)

I guess the love is back again :)

Settling In

Finally I found the time to post!

Not that I have been busy with work, but I have some or the other work that has been keeping me busy.So the delay.

Well update time now! Some of the things that have happened:

1. Work: I am settling into my new job. It is a nice relaxed place, people seem friendly and warm and they are giving me time to settle in, not that they have too much of a choice, I am quite useless till they train me. Till then I try and make the 8 hours I spend at work more useful, by doing litle things here and there, trying to understand the work that we do and somehow be prepared for the load of work that will hit me once I am trained and ready to go. Some of these guys are really nice and have helped me in feeling nice here. The best part is they don't bother you too much and are not fussed about how you work, where you work from or when you work. And the 12-10, 8 hours in this period, suits me just fine. Makes life a lot simpler. Hope I settle in and stay here for a long time.

2. Lifestyle: The main benefit of the timings is that I hit the gym 5 days a week, all weekdays. I pamper myself the rest of the two :). And will travel most weekends, so I don't mind at all. The gymming is doing me good, hope to shed 10 kilos of the flab in 6 months, ambitious but do-able but only if I watch what I eat. The eating part I am trying to do, but chocolate and sugar continue to tempt me and make the losing plan a little difficult. But so far so good. All the treadmill running is making me feel better and I see the stamina for running building. It is 2 weeks now, and I must say I have done well for myself. Don't intend to miss the 5 times a week deadline. And the stuff I have learnt in the gym is:

· Patience: It does not show easily. It takes commitment and sustained effort for 6 months to reach. Something I call consolidation, a powerful process that shows results over time. Coming from a generation that wants everything instantly, this is a powerful learning, something that will keep me going in the low times, the bad times.

· Power of exercise: Though it is something that people all over the world have been going on and on about, I am feeling it for the first time. I am alert, energitic, need only 6-7 hours of sleep and I think faster. All because I spend that 50 minutes in the gym and when I do that I dont think of hurrying it, cutting short or think of other things. All I do is exercise and I have never felt this good :)

3. Future: All is well with everyone, friends, romans and countrymen. People are happy I find time for them and I am happy about that. I have a couple of things planned which I am working on:

• Business Plan: Both the parties have been active, roadblocks have been many and the decision is yet to be made. But the only decision that has been made is that something has to be done.
• Weight: I need to have a flat tummy, whatever it takes (IBN ishtyle), ideally in 8 months (around my birthday)
• Invest: Save and invest money.
• Book: The large picture is in place. I want to drill one level deeper now :)

Seems like, a year more and it will be a new me

All the best to me :)

Cheers!

Last Day!

Today is the last day in my firm.
Am leaving for what will be a better life! Hopefully!

I would have completely happly with my life if not for somethings that happened.
1. They want me to finish what I am doing here. So I need to work more on this report I have been banging my head against. Phew!
2. 3 people told me they will miss me throughly and that I should not go! Feels awesome. The fact that my presence will be missed and that I made someone's life pleasant through the last 8 months.
3. An unexpected person told me he really wants to keep in touch!

I guess it is all about the reinforcement of the fact that we are wanted, that we are nice people. I guess at the core, we are all the same.

And I definitely want to make it clear that my happiness of leaving is not marring my sorrow of leaving the lovely friends I have made here!

I will miss Delhi withs its Pranks, Kajus and Unkil! Here's a toast to some of the nicest people I have known.

Dilli meri jaan

I suddenly love Delhi! Just when I want to leave it.

I am smitten by Delhi's winters. Incredibly charming! Yeah it gets cold once in a while, but what the hell, that is a small price to pay for the following:

1. The essentailly European Khan Market with its lovely eateries. (Choko la and Khan Chacha)
2. Walking around CP, gol, gol, gol and staring at the multitude of people.
3. The obscenely rich GK-I market. I love the smell of money.
4. All the food in Def Col market, and all the times me and the "Sudanese freind" of mine spent there
5. The hustle of Lajpat Nagar market
6. The narrow streets of Chandni Chowk doling out hot hot paranthas and jalebis - the paranthas rock, but old jalebi joint sucks
7. India Gate - anytime of the day, any day. It's such a lovely sight
8. Wide roads and bad traffic sense
9. Rajpath and looking down Raisina hill to look at India Gate, at night
10. Sharavana Bhavan's Ghee Poli and 14 mini sambhar idly (never loved south indian food so much)
11. AIIMS flyover (I always feel I am not in India)
12. The whole of Lutyen's Delhi and just the thrill of feeling "Wow! This place rocks dude" everytime you drive by Shanti Path or Pandara Road or Ashoka Road or Archbishop Markois Marg (;) Kaaaaaaajuuuuulll will love me for this)

Movies Galore!

Sooper weekend!
As have been many in the recent past! Many many movies and some awesome ones!
The list is as follows:
1. Khoya khoya chand - a visual treat and yeah soha is pretty, pretty, pretty
2. Manorama 6 feet under - starting problem, but nice movie
3. American Beauty - Brilliant
4. Anger Management - Outrageous
5. Dumb and Dumber - DUMB, DUMB, DUMB...
6. Taare Zameen Par - Brilliant

That is in the last two weeks! Am happy now :))

Pile of Shit 2

Btw,
Since I got sick of the pile of shit, I moved

Based at home from Mid Jan, my moods will hopefully be better!

Proud that I made the shift!

Bomande to wear crown to hide baldness in pseudo fashion show!

It continues to make me ROTFL (Roll On The Floor Laughing). Silly Boi that it is. People need to grow up sometime.

It claims to walk the ramp for its company new year bash! Very proudly it was telling me "I will walk in fashion show, fashion show". I thought "Wah! Not bad for the balding stallion! Fatso is going to show his tummy off and provide comic relief.” The way it spoke I assumed Arjun Rampal 2 is going to enthrall Bangaloreans.

I forgot that the thing is a smart-ass prankster.

Yesterday it told me “Costume doesn't fit me”. I asked what costume. It said, "King's dress.” Then it dawned on dumbo me that the thing is going to participate in a fancy dress! Wah! Passing it off as a fashion show! Now I can imagine people walking on stage in embarrassing clothes, and this one to hide his balding head with a crown. No wonder it was given the king's role. Can't sue dress company for hair loss.

But seriously, it is this childish charm that makes Bomande so dear to me!
All the best for your ramp, Boi. Do well.

And remember, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown!