September october

A general update on life.....

- A break from work and chennai since sept 22.

- Sept 16 - send my computer by courier to Kerala

- Landed in kerala on sept 23..Rains...mmm..so refreshing...2 days goofed away to glory..doing nothing..realisation dawns that i have to set out to tame the CAT..so pack my bags and push off to my grandparents' place..Comp not yet arrived

- 2 Hour bus journey-over potholes seperated by islands of TAR...leaky government bus...not so comfy seats..2 fat asses to my right on a seat for 3...sit on half an ass for half of the journey....Rains....and drinking a bottle of water before the journey was not such a good idea after all....Rains ...ouch....not comfortable at all.....end result...shoulder and neck pain..Courier guy causing a big pain in the ass...Comp not yet here

-prep starts off in earnest..no comp..no TV (my grandma chases me off from the TV room)..and my young cousin for some company...Rains...so good...go all the way to the GM of the courier company...verdict..Comp has been stolen....F#$K

- journey another 2 hours over smaller pieces of TAR ....a full blown sprained neck..doctor.. medications...allergic reactions...mouth ulcers...cant speak.... cant eat..only kanji vellam :-(

- 3 more days to go ...run out of dry clothes...Rains suck big time...Still cant eat..no power..so no studies :-)....MGR singing on my dad's transistor
"Nanmai undu nermai undu poru raja.."
"Neram varum kaalam varum poru raja.."
so uplifting.......

- Back in chennai....no rains all sticky...if only it rained in chennai...

P.S:- joined work...so nothing much else happening these days

What the organisation did to me..mmm..scary

It was just another normal sunday...until now that is...a meeting over coffee with a friend from college, Divya, after 2 years can be such a refreshing thing..yes..but it can also leave u reflecting on what u were and what u have become ..can be scary too, as you are slowly realise that you are becoming something that u never thought u will and yet not even aware of these changes creeping in.
We were meeting after a good 2 years after college, and as conversations with friends go, this one too got off without any intros. Being one between me and a girl, it was sans the obscenities that are a given in guy talk... How i had become chubbier (finally :-)) ..what others were upto..and when it is clubbed with the cup of filter coffee, it does manage to create that illusion of a carefree world..only just so..
We talked about how we missed college, how we never seemed to hate mondays as much then. How the only couple we had in class were faring, who were getting married...and the little bloopers that happened with her/ with me..
The conversation freewheeled..After college she had managed to stick on to academics for 2 more years , but as fate would have it, she was destined to join the same software company(no names here people) that i was working for..and now that she has joined, it was my turn to ingrain the corporate culture into her. ..and i launched my by now well-rehearsed, monotone on work, pressure, boss, politics, promotion, CAT etc..
Having spent a year in Bangalore (P.S:- engineers from kerala went to chennai or bangalore) with other friends, she was echoing similar feelings that they had too..and a simple incident about one of our friends, rung home the simple truth..people have changed and i have too..This friend has always had to suffer people wishing her Bday on fools day though she was born the day before..In keeping with tradition, divya and others did the same, only to be taken aback by a really angry and upset voice at the other end of the phone, who abruptly cut the call...and come to think of it, the voice at the other end was one of the most carelessly carefree souls while in college..Things returned to normalcy as they always do, but then ...as divya sighed at the end of that story....How people change..sigh
True..very true....i reflected as i looked into my coffee cup. Everyone now had their own pressures, priorities...and now that i think of it, i had begun to sense this change in others last december during our annual getto at blore...only that i had failed to realise that i had changed too..and how??
well..my irreverence to life in general has all but gone..i am worried about where i will be ten years from now...how i have begun to analyse everyone around me, even my friends...how i have lost contact with all but a few of my friends..citing work as the excuse :-((..How i have not completed a single game on my comp after leaving college..this from a person who can drive a 911 in reverse all the way around monte carlo in NFS...Heck, i cant even remember where i put the AoE 3 DVD that i bought..and as i write this blog, how seriously i have begun to take myself..shit that is bad!!!
Whoa!!..and the organisation managed to do this to me in a mere 2 years..I already feel like the french fries that u get at pizza hut...exactly similar to one another, undistinguishable :-(
and as i sit contemplating my rapidly deteriorating sunday afternoon, the "Gods must be crazy" DVD gleams from my DVD collection..maybe it is divine intervention telling me that i rather try and rescue my Sunday while i wait for Arsenal to kick some Man U ass...
People enjoy ur sunday, movie and football..lemme go check out how crazy the gods can get after all..or may be the gods are not crazy after all...what say people??

Super Super Sunday - Mighty gunners will prevail

Start spreading the news, we're playing today
We'll always be a part of it - Arsenal, Arsenal
These red and white shoes, are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it - through Arsenal
We always wake up in an Arsenal wonderland
And find we're king of the hill, top of the heap, A number one!

These second-rate teams, are melting away
They just ain't got the heart for it, at Arsenal
If we can win it there, we'll win it anywhere