June 13th, Wed

Yesterday was as plain a day as one can imagine. The only respite was that after a long time I chatted with one of my old pals, Siddhu (I really like this picture of him on the right. It was taken at Vinay's wedding. I know happiness is a state of mind, but in reality there are other materialistic substances also that you can intake to achieve that smile. :-) We had loads of fun there.). It really took us down a memory lane and in reminiscent, we said, "Those were good OLD times."
That made me wonder for a while that why it is always, "good OLD times." I guess it's more to do with connecting the dots, as Steve jobs put it very succinctly in his commencement address to the Stanford Graduate Business School. The caveat is, you can never connect the dots in future. Its only possible for what has already gone by, the past.
Anyways, the morning half just flew by in meetings. I am really not sure if at all these meetings do any wonders, but the irony is that everyone feels that we need to. It becomes very hard for me to pass time. The kind of person I am, I don't like beating around the bush and that's what generally happens in a meeting.
Had a wonderful time in the cafeteria. I really dont like any cuisine that is served there. It won't be an exaggeration but I eat there just to live. But yesterday I had a feast of my colleagues' tiffins. God bless them all for the wonderful home cooked food they get to office everyday. Prashant seeing my misery gave me a big chunk of the sweet he had got for lunch. That was wonderful.
Yesterday I reached back home in time and hit the gym quite early. It felt good to work out for an hour and a half and in that time I think I spent more than half of it in just admiring my newly built modest muscles in the mirror. :-) What a fool!!!
Had a quick dinner as I had a t-con scheduled at 11 PM!!!! Yes, this usually happens. Again as I had expected this meeting was also inconclusive. Why doesn't the world listen to me!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL :-)
Was feeling a "bit" hungry again and so had half a dozen bananas before hitting the bed. :-)
and another day passes by.....

June 12th, Tue

Yesterday was quite an eventful day. I had a nice time with the team in the office. Had loads of fun with Manish, Prashant and Soumen. Spent a lot of time in convincing Prashant to come out this weekend. I really want to go on some adventure trip just for the weekend and since Prashant and gone along to Goa, I thought he fit the bill.
Anyways, in the afternoon, it was quite a chaos. Everyone was trying to find out where one of our colleague was. Our manager was looking out for him. It is my speculation that he was fired eventually. I haven't witnessed anything of this sort earlier and it was quite tough to empathize with that person, although he never told this to anyone. Being in a managerial position, there are few insider things that I come to know off and so know what happened in his case. Anyways, I wish him all the best and pray that he improves in the areas where he failed miserably. To top it all, I hope he finds a good mentor in life and not the kind he had here.
Later in the day I got caught in one urgent issue and spent few hours in that. Eventually I was able to reach home by 2000Hrs and immediately rushed to the gym. My share of surprises weren't over for the day. I met Suraj Miranda there. While I was studying engineering in Belgaum he was my neighbour. I was so glad to meet him after almost six years of no communication. We decided to come to gym regularly. It was nice to meet someone you have known after a long hiatus.
Later in the night, I called up my sis. It was nice talking to her. Basically, we bitched about relatives for a long time. :-) Sometimes that's fun too..
Anyways, before sleeping, I watched some TV. Ok.. I dont want to hide. :-) I was watching WWE :-) and was quite thrilled to see match between : on one side: Bobby Lashley and John Cena and on the other side, Samoa, Shane and Khali. :-) it was awesome fun..
Finally I gave up and surrendered to sleep.

June 11th - Monday

After coming back from vacation last monday, I am finding myself quite alone here in Bangalore. This is the same place that I used to like a lot earlier. The place is still the same, probably, something has changed in me over this period of time that I have been here. I used to love my solitude, but then when no one is around you, it is kind of tough to choose. This makes we wonder that the things that we normally choose consciously become so difficult to accept if they are forced upon us and we don't have a choice to make. This to me seems quite ironical. But then that's life and there are so many things to learn.
Vinay called up on last thursday and as usual we met on Friday evening for some drinks. I met three of his office colleagues too - Keyur, Srikanth, and Raghu. I guess I spoke a lot after a couple of drinks. I spent the night at their place. Saturday morning I wasn't feeling that good. There was nothing else to do, so I got two movies to watch on my laptop. Where Eagles Dare and Schindler's list. I don't know how I missed watching Schindler's list for such a long time. It is an awesome movie and very touchy. Spielberg does a brilliant job in bringing into life what happened with jews. I feel it will move even the mildest of emotional people.
By Sunday morning, I was feeling well as I had taken some tablets on saturday. I lazed around as usual for a long time before going out for breakfast. I ordered for lunch from US Pizza at 1600Hrs and brought "Bhagambhag" to watch. It wasn't that good movie at all and I had to look for other options like watching the final match of AfroAsia cup and in between the Roland Gross Final in which yet again Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer. Something was wrong in Roger's game. He wasn't his usual best and made too many unforced errors.
It's a fine Monday morning. A brand new day starts. I could not go to the gym. I think I should stick to the evening schedule. Will go to gym today evening. There are lots of things pending in office. Adios for now!