Deepavali?! or just yet another holiday!!

It was tat time of the year yesterday. The time of joy. The festival of lights, the festival to celebrate the victory of good over evil. As a kid this was the day other than my birthday i would eagerly wait for (though both would come in so close that i would not be able to enjoy both fully).... I would run around the house, visit the relatives, burst crackers. wait the whole night to be the first to burst crackers in my street. Sneaking around to steal the confectionaries and sweets. The thrill of lighting the 100 walas and 1000 walas, the joy of wearing the new clothes, to check out the next door kids what he is wearing and try to better than him. That was the deepavali which we used to enjoy.

But, I haven't bought crackers for the last 3 years(though for logical reason in 2006, what abt the last 2 years), we did not make any sweets for the last 2 years and i slept the whole day yesterday, did not visit any of the relatives or friends, leave visiting, i did not even call any one to wish happy deepavali. Man, what has become of us, why are we moving away from this fesivities. why?!!!!


Deepavali has become something like just another national holiday. I can't understand. During the rest of the year, when someone asks why you work like this day and night (that is a saying, we don't even work half the time, they are pointing.), and we say, that to be happy and be together friends and family for the festive season and yet here i am, sleeping away most of the time, coughing and covering me under sweater feeling unwell. Why can't we enjoy this day like those days of yester years. why?!!!!!!

From Kandhanchavadi to Egmore - A Journey on the Fast Train

Had to go on a Client visit today, to an engineering company in Kandanchavadi. Nice office they had. It was pretty good. The surprise was the train journey back to office from there. The train path was laid as a part of the Flying Train Project (parakkum rail)... This was the first time, me travelling in the fast train after its extension till velachery. (The plan is to extend it till St Mount Station, where i reside) , I had previously travelled once from thirumailai to beach in it, that was during the testing stages of the project somewhere around 2002-03 period. It was extended to velachery some 6 months back.

The Journey was quite awesome, the high placed tracks, the wonderfull breeze, the superb stations, all were super.... I had taken some pictures during the travel, which i posted in picassa, you can find them here...

It bought back the memories of college days where we would travel back from tambaram to st thomas mount during the afternoons, in similar scenarios, except that the train would travel on land instead of high tracks..

somethings which happened. when offline.

Am posting from office!!! :(

Feb 3rd.

It's February. And my system is back, alive, super kool. It is that time of year, when my system breaks the hibernation of winter and starts to work properly again. It has been two months, since it had stopped to work properly. The same happened last year too, but again, why bother when it is working again. Hanh....

Meanwhile a lot of things happened in the last two months. Though system was there with me for a while in December, but in January, it was not the case. and a lot happened. Like Anitha's Sapadu poduthal, a new year, Citi Projects, me becoming permanent, again setting up the svn server (this time in windows), disconnecting from TATA Indicom Broadcom service Provider. now i have signed up with Airtel, but the connection is not up yet, and satish came back from qatar for holidays (or should i say leave).

All 3 Os's are running again, kewl. But i ain't finding time to sit in my computer to write to you, to my friends, to everyone. now i am going to write and save it my mobile and also in my system, so the next time i get access to a system with net, i'll try to post it.

It's late. will write again later 4 sure. Till then bye.


Feb 4th.


Ah! Traveling by bus. Wat a nice experience. I had missed it for a long time. Traveling in a bus, sitting by a window and enjoying, watching outside, at night. It is such a wonderful experience. It’s been a really long time since I had traveled by bus to any where. It was a really nice experience which brought back lot of old memories. The memories of traveling to college from Madipakkam to Camp Road, the days before Internet access. It was a really wonderful experience. I had a chance today and I grabbed it. I don’t know when I am gonna get this experience again!!...



Feb 6th.

Am gonna handle the next section of the proj for the Naragavangi.
Kewl isn't it.
it is a bit frightening,
what the fuck!!! why the hell are u afraid of challenges,
it is not challenges that i am afraid of, but the responsibility.
It is the challenges that are important, reposibilities will be filled up automatically.

Hmmm. Satish is leaving for qatar saturday morning 3 am. I the whole one month that he was here, i didn't visit his house, and i couldn't make time so as to he can visit mine. What the big hell am i working for. Now he will come back only after 2 years. till then again we will have to talk via phones and emalis and chats only.

Another big step towards death....

 

Hmmm,....  yet another un event full year passes.  Nothing great happened, except i switched 3 jobs this year.  i lost some, and i found some who i had lost.

and here i am taking another big step towards death, and yet some people will celebrate this.  (OK this is my point of view, so no arguments please.  I am not in a mood to argue)

So will atleast something happen this year?  Will something happen today (like 2003) to make it memorable?  Will atleast something interesting, adventurous happen this year?  Atleast, will it rain today, as it usually did on my birthday when i was a kid (till i was in middle of college(2003))?

Well, only time can answer.  and since time won't answer so very quickly, we'll (i'll) wait, for the answers.  Till then, go out, enjoy your life to the max, coz, one more step has been taken towards death, and final glory........

The past 2 weeks

Man, it was tough...
Rules... i hate them...

Well the past 2 weeks saw me becoming a good part of the project that i was alloted with... (actually i was alloted to it and not the other way around...)

it also saw the 60th Independence day, and there was nothing special in me.... I just did not even care. i was working my heart out, trying to make everything work. i came home only at 1 pm...

India won a damn test series again england after some eons i suppose... They are gonna surrender the one day series... sachin cracked a 99 yesterday. it must have been heart breaking, any one who gets out at 99 will be heart broken, but wat to do azhar got out at 199.....

Well, i was asked to learn the entire upto which aravind had done. and i was asked to develop the file management, and billing sections. it was fun.. yes i should say so.. i just worked my heart out, i would say. it was challenging and entertaining....


we flew to Bangalore, with the slightest hope that our demo is gonna work, and i was saying to myself, Murphy's second law ( i would say s0)

smile, tomorrow will be worse....

but still everything went fine..., the project worked, everything about future was planned, selvi left, and i was stranded in the same place, from where i came back running, without the slightest idea how i was gonna proceed......

But still considering everything that happened in the last 15 days or so. it was good, fun, and i don't know what else to say....

going to the church on a sunday morning with selvi, (instead of sleeping), walking the length of MG Road, working on apple i'Mac (wow!!!, i never thought that i would even get a chance to touch it, leave touching i thought i would never see it in flesh and blood other than in pics, and here i was working on it, browsing on it, hacking on it, bug fixing on it, configuring it)

well Chidambaram's and G3's bday passed, i wished them, I tried to meet up with some of my friends, but see i am sitting here in chennai, writing this...

i think i just ran over selvi with certain comments of mine, and that sure would have hurt. if i had, i wish to say sorry.... but i would never have the courage to say that... or if i say so, there won't be any fans for my fun... It is just for fun, i never mean to hurt anyone...

well, i took some pics, some sneaky as usual.... will upload them to picassa, u all can comment on it...

and know what!, most of this blog was composed with my Rokr E6, except those that depicts today's events...., it was edited so as to appear that i typed the whole thing in a single sitting, moving text from here and there and changing the tenses, and stuff.....

I saw, major payne, Blade, and many other films, even munna bhaii.. i should never forget to mention that.. it was really hilarious though i was seeing it,....... i don't know how many times i have seen it...

they say the client place wants everyone in formals, i have been wearing from the beginning of my life, i wish to wear jeans, but one half of me says follow the rules, and the other says

"Rules are made to be Broken"

and i did follow both my halfs......

i wish i could finish of the entire thing soon and run back to chennai... we'll see, how long it will take.... Got to fly back, to banaglore on monday morning again .... I don't why, but i hate that city... Bangalore S U C K S .....

the traffic nightmares, the mess they call food, (i am not talking about the food that we ate), still somewhere down the heart, i like this place, but that doesn't mean bangalore rocx, it still sucks, big time....


I don't know what, even after all these happened in my life, like how Tanaka Yukio, a.k.a Koyuku, the main protagonist of BECK (Mongolian Chop Squad) would say,

"It was a normal life, a very normal boring life"

I wish the second line too comes true in my life...

"Until the day, i met him"

where are you Ryuske?........................................

Most Wanted (ticket less travelling)

 

Have you ever traveled in a public transport without proper tickets.  I did it.  I traveled without tickets in the local trains for the past 2 days, and i did not realize it till today morning when i had to travel to office by train instead of going with my dad in his two wheeler.

This is not the first time that i am traveling without tickets.   Back in college days, me and my friends had traveled so a lot in trains without tickets.  But now it is different, back then we were branded students and we had the college id cards which had more power than one can imagine, if properly used...  But now i do not belong to any educational institution.  Now i am a professional, a software professional, any black marks are sure to play spoil sport some time in future...

But why am i afraid!....... i wasn't caught. right!  But still, i couldn't stop feeling guilty today morning.   I went to the station renewed my train pass and then i traveled to office by train, for the 3rd time.  I only travel back home from office by train...

But back in the days when i was in north, it was different. i have seen people travel without tickets as though it was their birth right.  but will pay and get tickets when using a transport system like auto or manual rickshaws.  though they would cost a lot than the buses and trains where they refuse to buy tickets.

I have even heard of incidents when a guy shot the Ticket Checker with his gun, coz he fined him for traveling without tickets.  I've heard from some of my colleagues, when i was in agra, who was a bihari saying that they don't buy tickets for traveling in a public carrier, like trains and buses. 

Even the parents of Lalu Prasad Yadav, the great railway minister who changed the railway industry which was about to be shut down, into a number one profit producer in less than a year, without making any changes to the system, traveled without tickets to Delhi from Patna( this is the capital of Bihar ) and shamelessly asked why the hell should i buy a ticket to travel in a public transport....

I would not complain against such a behavior of the Indian common man, for it had been in his nature to do such things, but i would blame the government or some other control which could have made this habit disappear, but didn't...  How come everyone traveling in the metro buy a ticket.  It is nearly impossible to travel ticketless in a metro.  But i know how to. (that was the first thing that i found when i landed in delhi in April 2006...)

Well all said, i would not mind traveling ticketless in a bus service in either here or in Delhi.  For if you want me to pay for your service, make sure you do the service in a proper way.  why the hell should i pay u, when the height of the bus is not even higher than me.  so when i stand and travel i have to bend down and have a pain in my neck and shoulders.  even if the bus has empty seats i cannot sit, for there is no enough leg space for me to sit comfortably, leave comfortably, atleast i should be able to sit right!...  And how do the authorities expect me to pay for a ticket with such a service.  But still i pay and travel....

So what is the solution to the problem?...  well, i don't have any idea.  I don't have a damn idea what can be done, coz what ever suggestion i give you with respect to me will not hold good for a guy who is just 5 feet high.    Ask that guy how it is to travel in a train he will start complaining like me for everything is high there...  see the difference.. so someone ought to find a solution.

we the tall people may belong to a minority.  and yes we also have the financial ability and also the skills to own and drive a motor bike or a car, and yes i do have one at home.  yet i don't wanna use them to add one more vehicle to the ever increasing traffic population.  why not use the public transportation, which will save the country a few rupees on the oil purchase cost, which in turn will become energy saved. and also lowering of pollution.  I wish i could drive to office, but i won't.  I wish, atleast i could go to office in a cycle, my parents won't allow.  Now what can i do, other than rely on public transport.  But should i buy a ticket next time?......

Will u marry me?.....

 

Yesterday, Viji called.  nothing special or something just the usual trash talk. during the course of our talking the topic shifted to family, boyfriends, girl friends, marriage,.....  suddenly she asked, "unakku yeppada kalyanam" (when is your marriage?).  Funny, it had been nearly 5 years (it was in 2002) since this question was first asked to me, and i am still saying the same answer.  yes i said the same answer, though she is the third one among my college mates to whom i have said this answer. 

wanna know what the answer was?

I will marry the girl, who comes to me and says "I Love U! will you marry me?"

so am still waiting.  anybody out there?!!!!!!

Picking up my dad...

 

Today i was woken up early in the morning, by my dad's call.  He called me up to ask me to come to station to pick him up.  It was as early as 6(see it is early morning these days) in the morning. i got up and left half heartedly leaving the sleep.  But i did reach the spot earlier, much earlier, i shot a couple of pics.  But as i was waiting there i was taken back in memory of the school days when i used to get up early go to tuition, going to cricket camp, or just that ncc practise, or whatever it was,  it was fun, i am missing all of em these days, waking up daily around 6:30, getting ready running to office.  It is not that fun though.  the sky was beautiful, the trees swaying to the gentle breeze, the hazzy sunlight, half dark, half light, the coffee, everything that time was beautiful..  i seem to be missing everything these days.  But still why i'm not ready to getting up early.  why all these beautiful sights are not thrilling me to get up.  or is there something  else overwhelming that this  which is preventing me from waking up...?