Whats up?

Sorry for being away for so long . Before the month of april goes by let me update the happenings till now.


For starters I switched jobs…yes finally. I think everyone who has gone through my posts ( even one or 2 posts I guess) would know how satisfied :P I was. So this was a welcome change and I am really really happy (touchwood)

Suvi and I have also shifted to a new house. So the past few weeks was mostly packing/unpacking/getting a feel of the new office.With all this going on, I was hardly left with anytime to blog. Now I am more or less settled. So,hopefully this blog should see more of me in the coming days…

Till then ..take care and have fun!

The Balancing Side.

Continuing with the train of thoughts from my last post…..

Though we expect and hope for something better almost always, we do have this other side to us. The side which reminds us, that “things aren’t all that bad and we are doing just fine”. I call it the “balancing side”. Whenever things don’t quite swing in your way, you can hear this voice in your head which tells you a whole lot of things ( depending on the situation that is). Sometimes you may hear a “ You did not get great scores, but see you are among the top 6!!”  or a “ Its not that bad a job afterall, there are people who are in a worse off situation.” At other times it could be a “ You are far better off being single anyway!” and so on and so forth.

Life seriously has its own way of getting the message across. The message – “ Happiness is just a state of mind” .You don’t need material things to be happy and satisfied all the time. Makes sense?

Expectations from a lifetime!!

It seeps in at a tender age..I mean one's hopes and expectations.

As a child we wish for better( better than your cousin's or friend's) toys. A few years later marks replace toys, because you need to live up to your parents expectations and make it through a reputed institution ( nothing less will do). You grow up a little more and now you are wishing for a good university. Some years later it is a good job that you want. Fast forward your life a little more and now it is a better job that figures right at the top in your wish list.

Meanwhile you are also hoping to meet your dream soul mate, raise a brilliant kid and what not! Add more years  and then we want to own a decent house.Going forward you will need a bigger and a better house.

Then comes the time, when your kid is all grown up and you want him to get the best job in the world. Maybe after that, get him/her married to the best girl/guy on the planet. What after that?? Grandkids ofcourse!! What about retirement?? Definitely you are looking at a life of luxury after you retire. And then maybe just maybe some of us might even wish for a painless death, while you are sleeping preferrably. What then? Does it end there?

Questions I Ask.

When and Where?
Now or Then?
Why and How?
Stop and Bow!


What and Who?
This or Those?
Them and me?
Let me be!


These or that?
Whom and Why?
He or She?
It will be Me!

Deccan Chargers!!!

IPL3 has begun and I am supporting Deccan Chargers once again!! ( Frankly is there any other team worth supporting?? ;) ) Although they lost their first match, they’ve come right back and won the second one with a good margin. I hope they repeat their last years performance :D.


By the way, I was rooting for them in the first season of IPL as well. So, I am no fair weather friend or fan rather… Go Gilly Go!!!!

Any DC fans out there???

This and that..

I got a lappy way back in 2007, but its only been a mere handful number of times that I have used it. Seriously! Some engineer I am huh?? Frankly I have never been an extremely tech savvy person. I am not a net addict either. That also explains why I am so regular at blogging! But tell me after spending an insane amount of time in front of a pc at office, why should I come back and do that all over again, when I am not even being paid for it!

I am more of a chip from the old block. Give me a notebook and a pen and it feels like heaven ( Na..not even a type writer for me…..yes!! I am that old!) Throw me in a book store, (sometimes even a stationary store will do) and it feels like bliss :). Sometimes I think I was a librarian in my past birth, considering my love for books and being surrounded by them. Maybe the next season of ‘Raaz Pichle Janam Ka’ might have me confirming that.

Talking about books, I am currently reading ‘In cold blood’ by Truman Capote. I had seen the movie Capote earlier, but I think the book is more interesting. I know the movie wasn’t based on the book, so there can’t be any comparison. ‘Uncle Dynamite’ was the book I was reading before ‘In Cold Blood’. A typical Wodehouse story. I loved it ! I don’t think I can ever get tired of his books. I think I need to search for a decent library now, because the rate at which I am collecting books I shall soon run out of space :)

Where has all the goodwill gone?

I have been meaning to write this for a while now. Every time something or the other would come up and hence the delay. But today, at the cafeteria, while having lunch (alone ) and being on the receiving end for the umpteenth time ( read on for the details), I decided – This is it!!

I am not sure, if these things need to be taught at school/home or a person is just born with it. Well I am talking about things like:

• Greeting colleagues with a smile ( not with a stare/glare which I find is the usual case).
•  Respecting personal space: This also includes a person’s physical space because I find people bumping into each other/ pushing at cafeteria or any slightly crowded place. These are the times when I fail to understand the difference between humans and animals!
•  To continue with the animalistic behavior, I find shutting the door on someone’s face while entering your respective work place a very “in” thing these days. Keeping the door open for the person following you, doesn’t cost a thing, or does it?
•  Like I said earlier, in the cafeteria today, I was having lunch alone in a 4-seater table ( there aren’t any single seater ones) and in a minute’s time the other 3 chairs at the table disappear. All this because people assumed, that no one would be joining me for lunch and hence no one bothered to even ask if it is ok to take the chair. Very indecent!
• A library is a place where maintaining silence is of utmost priority. This is something which one knows since school. But I feel sometimes, my office mates somehow managed to skip school and college and directly landed here. Miraculous isn’t it??

In our personal lives….

•  How many times have we thanked the shop keeper after making a purchase? If you by any chance think you don’t have to thank anyone since you are paying, then God help.
• I have seen people forgetting to thank passersby after taking directions.

To tell you how negative the world around us has become, let me narrate to you something that happened just the other day.My husband and I had gone to a crowded market place and the only parking space available was blocked by a two wheeler. The owner of the two wheeler was sitting on his bike and apparently waiting for someone. Suvi gestured at him to move his bike a little to make way for our car, which the blessed soul actually did. After conveniently parking our car when the two of us walked up to the dude and thanked him he looked shocked for a whole minute and then finally broke into a wide grin.  I think he was initially expecting us to shout at him or something. Can you imagine??!

Ahh……there is more to this madness but I am sure you’ve got the picture by now. I am really not sure where the problem lies. Don’t we have the time or is it the inclination that is missing? Look at the bigger picture, if you cant make the person next to you happy then forget about elevating the poor and the downtrodden!

Back in Hyd!

Yes! I am finally back. Back to a lot of things, one of which happens to be my office.

It was a mixed feeling meeting people at office after so long. In a way I thought, nothing had really changed, but then in some other way, everything had! Funny!


Most of my good old friends are gone. The new ones are busy. Makes me feel really weird. Imagine having lunch alone in a crowded cafeteria or sipping tea all by yourself in some Godforsaken corner at office. But, I am not complaining. I am sure its just a phase and happier times are just around the corner. I can sense it .


Hyderabad by the way has changed a bit over the past year. There are new flyovers, wider roads, brand new roads and now that I come to think of it a brand new CM! Just goes to show change is constant.


So this pretty much sums up all that I have been upto the past couple of weeks. Hopefully I shall be able to blog more frequently now. So cya soon!

The idiotic part of 3 idiots!!

This post is mainly for all the engineers out there, actually anyone who has been to a school/college will identify.

 I am sure most of you, must have watched the movie "3 idiots". So here is the part that I could not digest - the character played by Aamir Khan ( Rancho??) topping the class!! Impossible!! With the kind of education system that we have, which encourages rote learning it should have been the famous Chatur Ramalingam all the way!!!! I mean I do appreciate the line of thinking in the movie, but its far from reality...don't you think ?? Well I know most of the Hindi movies are that way...but still!!!

The rest of the movie was quite good though, except the last 10 mins I suppose, where the delivery with the help of a vacuum cleaner was a bit too much again. "Hindi movies" as they say!:D

I am still an optimist!

As you all might have known by now, 2009 was a hellish year for me. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Take my job for starters. Things went horribly out of hand. My career right now, is sooooo off track. I have no clue where I am heading to.

And whats with this human nature, I ask. Oh! someone please tell me! Tell me why is that when I want to be happy for my friends (who have hit jackpots in their professional lives) I feel this tinge (more than a mere tinge actually) of sadness. Am I jealous? That is the last thing I want to be!

I come across these inspirational articles in the paper/magazines every now and then. They talk about being postive and basically bring in positiviy in everything around you. Will someone please give me a practical demo? I mean how do you do it ? and how much can you do it? There is a limit to everything I suppose.

As I said earlier "Everything that could go wrong....". Well that "Everything" includes my health also. I fell very very ill. Pretty bad I must say. I am back to normal now (hopefully) after months of painful suffering. The worst part of it was to see people close to me having a hard time, all thanks to me!

I wonder, if I can now safely say that all that happened was a thing of the past. But anyway, taking a cue from those above mentioned articles I do want to believe that every dark cloud does have a silver lining. So right now I am just waiting for my stars to align and a miracle to happen. The miracle I am talking about is getting into my dream job! Now is it too much of positivity to bring in? ( or is it just wishful thinking??) I am an optimist after all!!

Happy New Year!

A very Happy New Year to all my readers ! May this year bring you everything that you have wished for :D

I was quite busy, the past few days. New years was fun. Relatives had come over and we all had a nice family lunch together. Called up a few old friends. Reconnected with college friends. College life feels like a thing from the ancient past! So much has happened in between...and soooooooooo much happened to me last year :|

2009 will definitely not go down as one of the great years in my life. But yes...as they all say..I have indeed, learnt a lot more from this single year than all the other years of my life put together.

I do not have any new year resolutions for 2010 as such..but yea..I do want to write more. Did you guys make any resolutions this year? Let me know. Will be back soon :)