A Break from work?

Phew! I succesfully managed to elude from blogging for another 2 month plus period! But today, quite surprisingly, I managed to take a break from work and did some good work. I listened to some good old music early in the morning, did some orkutting, posted some pics, and now, attempting to put on a blog entry!
Life is fun. Especially since yesterday, when Mishy, Sus and myself drenched ourself forcefully and completely from head to toe, in the heavy rain shower that caught us by surprise when we were cruising back on our bike. Getting wet was something that I had started to hate after joining the IT jungle! Maturity makes you lose the innocence that you once possessed when you were young. But yesterday dragged me back into those nostaligic lanes, where life was much more than taking wierd decisions that change the way things run across the globe.
And I was happy we didnt take the car!

Blink Blink

So today is a new day! and i log on to blogger.com after a period of around 2 months! Hail Robin! Well, today I happen to be home alone, with my better half and my quarter half long away. And i am terribly bored. Watched a good movie on HBO, after years! But i fell lonely. Ahem! reminds me of my bachelor hood days! When the introvert in me would open a book or switch on my comp and remain undisturbed for hours. Wow! was that really me? Now I am like dying to talk to someone! oh ya! i think i would call up some of my old frinds and catch up with them. Its been really a long long time since i have kept in touch. so i think thats a good idea.

and the good news is that i will be on the blog more frequently. Thats because i am supposed to be travelling to Chennai and Bangalore and Hyderabad in the next one month! phew! thats a lot of travelling i guess! and that means a lot of lonely times.. a lot of bloggy days!:)

gee!
stay tuned mister nobody!

The Wonder Years

After a long gap, Robbie decides to do some blogging. To warm up, he opens up Crissie’s blog, which he really appreciates a lot, and realizes that for a real long time, he hasn’t been reading blogs either. And then he starts pondering how his life is messed up completely. He desperately tries to find a way out, but with all strings attached he cannot make a wrong move. He knows it would spell disaster not to himself, but to those who love him the most. So, with a heavy heart, he decides to stay in the messy world and carry on. To lighten up himself, he decides to write a blog.


Voila! There you are. Here I am. My alter ego must have stated about my situation. Har har :)

Okie Dokie, here I blog!
Well, I got some spare time today and I was going to Crissie’s blogs. I admire the way she writes and expresses herself. While reading one of her articles, I noticed that she had written about “The Wonder Years” I was so very happy to read about this show that aired on Star World when I was in 8th or 9th, (if I remember well). It was a show that I really loved watching. In many ways, I would fancy myself as the lost and confused teenager – Kevin Arnold - the main character of the show. Now its been more than ten years since and I suddenly found myself immersing into a nostalgic track. Thank you Crissie for reminding me of the wonder years!

Now just like a drug addict needs his dose of “bad” medicine, I needed to refresh myself. So I open up google and type in “The Wonder Years” and it spurts out thousands of web references. I fancy the ones written on Wikipedia (Online Encyclopedia) and I quickly open up the link. And I go through the entire life cycle of the show in a quick glance. I also happen to browse through a few snaps of Kevin, Winnie and Paul. Boy oh Boy, it was so good to go back to those memory lanes.

I could see myself getting ready for my English classes, without leaving my eyes off the TV set for a single moment. My friend’s grandpa used to teach us English in his leisure hours. And all my literary skills are dedicated to this gentleman. Since these classes were not an obligation, for courtesy sake, I could not afford to miss them. I would have around 10 minutes to cycle down 2 and a half kilometers if I were to watch the entire episode. And I remember myself rushing down on my BSA SLR everyday on top speed. Such was my dedication to this series of the wonder show.

In short, "The Wonder Years" is about the life of a young american teenager in the late sixtees. The show runs through his teenage life, depicting instances of his childhood and how it affected him and how it moulded his character. He had a girlfriend named Winnie Cooper. His best friend was a nerd named Paul. Kevin also had an elder brother and an elder sister. Wayne - Kevin's elder brother used to pester him and Paul a lot. The story revolves around the lives of these characters. I do not want to write here about the entire episodes in brief. You can get that from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_Years I just went through the entire collection.

Whatever it is, I remember the final episode, and I remember how I almost cried because I knew I could not watch it any more from the next day.

Phew! I dont know whether I made sense :S

Anyways, stay tuned! :)

A new resolution

Phew!! its been almost a month since I blogged!
sorry for the long break... was in and out of town throughout.
Well, I have decided to be good and share information on my blog. I work for an IT giant in India and have been around for some 6 years in the industry. Its taken me far, and I have been through thick and thin. All these years, I have learnt a lot. I would like to use the knowledge that i have gained so that it can be of use to others.

So, Stay tuned

Last sunday I was writing on coming to Bangalore
And voila!! here I am, waiting for getting home! Its been 5 awful days and 5 awful nights. i miss my family a lot, and thats onereason why i am looking forward for this flight. well, know what. had a nice time in ECC. I will tell u the fun part. Well, i got this ECC room mate who was a fresher at my company. He thought of me as a fresher too!! Awww kick my looks! He was quite friendly with me initially and then in a conversation, he casually asked.... "So, when did you join Infy?" And i answered, well, around some 5 and half years ago! His eyes gorged out, his jaws dropped. It looked as if I had blurted out some curse. He froze for a moment and then within 5 minutes he left the room in the pretext of meeting his friend... and alas!!! i didnt see him ever! Gosh! is 5 years of exp such bad? or am i too old in the industry? i started pondering and well, err, I dont know what to say! maybe i would have behaved the same way had i been his shoes!
hi hi.. u never know right!

when you are new at work, u are just fresh and you dont know much of the policies or the hierarchies. I knew new guys who were quite over smart, and i also knew kids who were crybabies. well, i dnt know which category he belonged to, but he made it a point to enter the room only after i sleep, and that is around 12 or 1 in the night. and he would keep sleeping till i move out of the rom.... aaaaaaaah!!! its a pity watching the Indian Premier League all alone!!!

Grrrrr. why did i screw it up! hmm, anyways thats life isnt it?

btw, i also had a good time, hanging around in the campus and doing some bird watching! Errr.. dont you dare take it in another sense. I meant real "birds" and not anything else. When i was in college friends used to freak out in well known junctions and would spend hours bird watching. in those days, bird meant lass!
Reminds me of a popular kid song that Mishy loves to listen over and over again!!!


Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hatAnd called it macaroni.
Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy.

Father and I went down to camp Along with Captain Gooding
And there we saw the men and boys As thick as hasty pudding.
Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the stepAnd with the girls be handy

There was Captain Washington Upon a slapping stallion
A-giving orders to his menI guess there was a million.
Yankee Doodle, keep it upYankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the stepAnd with the girls be handy.

Voila!!!

I hate my company's policy. It doesnt allow me to blog in public. And thats left me somewhat crippled. Think about going to a cyber cafe just to check you personal mails!!Duh.. makes me sick. But thats what I just did today. Am terribly bored. Experimented with a real horrible film - Pranayakalam (A typical mall art film) and it nearly drove me crazy!

Didnt wanna take no risks today so thought about checking out the Infy campus. Stopped working quite early, say around four and then started loitering around the significant campus. Build to lure, as they say.. Boy oh Boy I was lost in the magnanimous constructions hand picked by none other than our own mentor Mister N R N. And aaaaaaaah! now i realize why we get such low incentives!

Fountains and glass blocks everywhere. This indeed is not the ground I walked upon some three years ago.. Boy, it has changed, and changed such a lot! But one thing that I pitied about myself is that there were no more of my friends in this so called mega life company! There was not a single face i recognized as i walked through my old buildings and the good ol food courts.

My! :( It made me nostalgic... to walk alone... on the land one trodden along with my sweetheart! My oh My!!! its gonna make me cry. I avoid getting too much sentimental and rush off to the Microsoft products store in one of the Infy Malls. I couldnt find anything that would fit my little pocket, so i get out of the place as soon as i could.

And there! back to pangs of lonliness... i decided to get out of campus and explore the surroundings... and then i chanced upon this cafe! so here i am... typing out a blog when i know for sure no one would be reading this! :) hi hi hi.. thats the game called life!

ciayo!
gotcha go... this place is lousy and stinky too.... and over crowded. God i think i got claustrophobia...R..u..n .. for your livesssssssssssss

Waiting at the Trivandrum Airport to catch the Bangalore Flight is not something that I fancy. Especially when that accounts to leaving my wife and little daughter back at home alone. I am a family man and I always like it that way. Work helps me provide bread and butter to my family, but each day, each night.... it is just my family that makes me live each day. I have always given second preference to my work. Just because it doesnt help me be happy.

Anyways, i know how my next week is going to be. Sad and lonely :(
Booooooh :(