So long....

Hello all. It's been a long time since we met. I'm not a very regular person around here. 'Other' things kept me away from posting on the blog for more than six months now. This might result in an extra-long write up. I'm not sure.

Well, to begin with, finally in June 2008, my mother's wishes came true. I had to get out of home. :P She always wanted me to learn to be a bit more independent. (a gross understatement :D) My extremely parasitic life, if I may, ended rather abruptly when I had to move to a whole new city with a whole new set of opportunities. It was exciting. Every bit of it has been exciting till today.

Almost none of the 800+ strong batch of people who joined the company on the 16th of June, 2008 had the faintest idea of what to expect. Of course, we were excited beyond the normal limits. The infrastructure wasn't helping much either. Every part of it, was either the biggest, or the best in the world. :D

I can't really remember much of what happened for a period of about two and a half months except for a classroom and a room back at the hostel. That was the training phase. And yeah, I remember one more thing. No no.. i don't.. or may be I do.. some friends were snatched away from me.. or I think so.. anyway.. nothing worth remembering or cherishing during that time period.

Finally the day of parting came. And then it went. It was just another day for everyone else. Not for me. I took it in the worst way possible. It was inevitable. We all had to move on.

I had been a dreamer all my life. I still am. I always believed that dreams do come true when you truly believe, that they would someday, come true. The path shows itself. It was a lot of hard work to get to the place where I am today. Nope, it wasn't easy. Suffered some pretty bad setbacks.

Looks like it's the time when all those hardships are bearing fruit. I'm moving to France (to work) in about 10 - 15 days from now. I'll be there for a long time. The saying in Hindi 'Kuch paane ke liye kuch khona padta hai' holds too true in my case right now. Sometimes I wonder, if it's the right thing to do, going abroad. Leaving everything behind. Family, friends, the city.. everything that is close to your heart. Obviously, it is very painful. The very thought pricks.

But looking at the brighter side, I get to visit the fashion capital of the world! I get to visit the Swiss Alps and the rest of Europe... the only thing missing is a Senorita. :D

So, ladies and gentlemen, I guess this will be my last post before leaving. Wishing you all the very best in life! May success follow you wherever you go and whatever you pursue!

Cheers!

The earth belongs to them too.

Hi guys! Its been a real lean patch (excitement-wise) for the past couple of months. Most of the people from my batch would almost immediately agree with this. We were so keyed up about working on a ‘real project’. Turns out its no big deal (not for me). So, I’ve been trying very hard to find excuses to avoid traveling across the city everyday for the work. Don’t blame me. Its only natural!

So, I cut myself some slack and took a couple of days off work. I had planned to blow ‘em off by pretending I was living on the other side of the globe. Only, I couldn’t. Courtesy: my friends. I’m not complaining though. They proposed that we do something together, for, we rarely meet. Brilliant! I thought. A trip to the Zoo Park! It excites me to the same hyper-active state as it did a decade ago. Oh! And by the way. Did I mention that I was retiring by 50 and working in a wildlife sanctuary? Kanha, Kaziranga. Wherever.

Shot this picture in the zoo park

If money wasn’t required to lead a proper life in our ‘society’ and any job would still be considered a job, I’d rather be caressing lion cubs with a couple of chimps on my shoulders than sit in front of a stupid computer and type my way to glory! Call me nuts and I’ll not contradict you. I promise.

The other day, there was a news article about a rhinoceros. It’s horn was chopped off and the poor rhino was left to bleed to death. What a horrendous act of cruelty! The horn of a rhino is made up of hair (yes, hair) and it is considered to be of great commercial value. But placing money before life? Hmm... Interesting. Imagine our arms being priceless and people just come and chop ‘em off to get a couple of hundreds of dollars. Wouldn’t that be great!

One might say its all big talk and no one does anything about it anyways. Well, I do my bit. Like, for example, the other day I saved a chameleon from being squashed under a truck’s tyre. Only last week people wanted to kill a small snake in my college. I didn’t allow them to do that of course. I shooed it away into the nearby bushes. Its a great feeling. Believe me.

Okay. Enough with animal obsession! Now some non-animal news. My best friend Karthik (more popularly known as Bruce) is done with his GATE exam today. It was so boring for the past couple of months with him preparing day and night and I was left with no company. He says he’s done well. So everyone happies. It pains me to even think that its not long before we will go our own ways. So, the remaining days of B.Tech are going to be one of most precious and treasured memories of our lives (for each one of us, I'm sure). But it also feels good to be finally independent!! Ha!

Right then! Looking forward to good times. Cheers!

Lets make the well known adage ‘LIVE AND LET LIVE’, a policy of our day to day lives.