This is my life

Another long weekend. Another three days of nothingness. Three days spent at home. Well, not really. I am almost finished with a story of mine. Another in the burden series. I should post the link here soon.Makes me wonder somtimes about the true meaning of holidays. A weekly holiday is fine but do we need so many wasted days? National holidays, regional holidays and more holidays.Laid my hands on a rare tribute to Pink Floyd.

Loneliness is perhaps mankind’s worst fear and the best kept secret. Every single one of us fears being left alone. But at the same time we are careful never to divulge that fear. But loneliness always catches up. Every once in a while the feeling of being alone in a planet full of people creeps up on everyone of us. Today is just one of those days and the victim is just me. I have been having the jitters about being alone with no one to help me or support me. I have been trying so hard to feel positive, to think about how life can be better. But this fear it somehow always catches up. ...

Mr.President of the United States famously decared last week about his intentions of taxing organizations which sent their jobs to India, that famous outsourcing hub. Mr. Obama hoped the fear of excess taxation should get the organizations to employ more locals and thus increase jobs and eventually his popularity. What the honorable president missed out is perhaps the irony of his statements. Had he been to India and visited the any one campus of any one IT company, he would have understood the folly of his statements.During my one and only visit to the US, I came across a very interesting phenomenon. ...

Paulo coelho once had mentioned that God communicates with us through certain events. Though it seemed improbable then, I have been more than convinced now. God not only speaks but shows the way through certain signs or events. All that man has to do is to interpret them.Have you ever felt that some days nothing seems to happen right? Well that's God's sign to take it easy. Stop fighting to change your luck that day and relax. Thats what I have learnt over the years.Today is one such day.Ever since I woke up (which again was involuntary), I have been having this feeling that today is simply not ...

How should a job be? Should it be satisfying or just a hig paying one will do?i have some collegues who say any job will do, it just has to be high paying. Job satisfaction for them is the moolah they rake at the end of the month. Succes for them is decided by how much rating they are able to mop up and subsequently the amount of money.Personally, however I feel that money is too materialistic. What actually matters is working on something you like, where you tend to grow and grow satisfactorily. What use is a job which makes you lament every second you spend working on it? What use is a job which ...

Wife is out with her friends and I have no one to pinch me about the generous quantities of fat around my stomach. And to top the ecstasy, A TV channel is broadcasting the biggest action movie of 2009. What else can a man ask for? Stuffing the mouth with a handful of grapes, a pakoda and another handful of rice crispies is perhaps a feat I havent attempted to achieve for a long time. The result is something that only a patron of junk food can understand. And of course he has to be an action movie buff.I had planned to sit down and write a lot today evening but I guess, I have to give it up for ...

Its that time of the week when you decide to unwind. It's Sunday. But the worst part about Sunday is it tends to slip away in a hurry. Its already 6 hours past waking up and here I am without having achived much throughout the day. It will slip by and leave me with Monday. Monday with work and tension and meetings and hell.Priya is going out to meet some of her friends in the evening. I really wanted to watch Sherlock Holmes but laziness got the better of me in the morning. I already got jibed by Priya about it but then its Sunday. What else are you supposed to do on a Sunday?Tragedy struck today ...

I have a new place now. Maybe a better place as well but how cool it is is something yet to be seen. The desk had to be cleaned up today morning. There's no phone yet but I know I will survive.I still can't make sense of a lot of things but then again, I should be able to make it. Life has become restricted now with websense playing the villian and blocking out most of the sites. No nice chics around either. Just a window covered by drapes.Actually there is a nice one on the floor but she sits so far away. Not sure how I am gonna start of a conversation.The markets are falling again. I was so ...

Oh yes folks,it was another long weekend. 3 days of absolute bliss. The first day was spent on rectifying some of my old blog code and watching some movies.Priya decided to invade the computer in the evening and I was left with no choice but to watch TV which I did for about 3 hours until priya finished Rocket Singh. The loved the movie too. The movie is absolutely fantastic but is simply not made for the average Indian viewer. No hot songs in the rain and no rapes. How the hell is the movie going to work at the box office.The most fruitful day turned out to be Saturday. For one I was able to ...

I started writing because I had this terrible urge to do something with myself. I started with constant content and then moved on to Helium. By then I was bitten by the revenue bug and I was soon posting on associated content and hubpages.I then started a blog and integrated it with Google Adsense. Soon I was doing research on how to earn money more than actually concentrating on my writing. What started out as a hobby had soon morphed into greed. The purity of writing had soon been replaced by the deadly sin.I was wondering today about how much time we spend trying to get Google to our webpage,get ...

God had been in a very benevolent mood this year. Two long holidays in subsequent weeks. I had so many plans but two days are already down and I am not sure how much I will be able to achive in one single day.However,heres the recap of the days gone by.Asheem Chakravarty's passing away inspired me to load Indian Ocean again in Winamp and have been listening to them all day. The band is something else-guitar tones blended with folk tones and table beats evolves into some kind of a devine sound. A life's worth of money can easily be swapped for the pleasure of listening to that one mind blowing ...

When I first saw her, I really was not sure whether I liked her. It was a typical arranged marriage scenario where I was supposed to meet this girl and decide whether I liked her. All this in just about an hour.Something I did like about her. Her bubbliness. She seemed to be the yang I had been missing. All my bitterness seemed to dissovle when I was with her. Though I didnt find her hot, I was immediately floored.The initial days after marriage were the toughest. I had to adjust to being with a normal human being. All my life,I had been a part of the freaks and enjoyed it. I had enjoyed ear splitting ...

Everyone seems to be making the most of the X'mas season. No one's being seen. And one of the rare occurances when you have a long weekend. Not that I have any special plans. I might just sit at home and write.I need to write more and get more comments. People seem to visit my blog on smartphones and simply leave. I am not sure where I am going wrong. Is it something with the way I write? Or is it that people are too much used to reading huge reviews.Work seems to be never ending. Back to work then.

When I had started this blog,I had promised to write a post everyday and being the human that I am, I conviniently forgot. I have not been uptodate and my apologies to anyone who has been following my life here.The past few days have been extermely busy,thanks to a very inefficient train service,the impending long weekends and a delicate health. But nothing very interesting happening here.We have shifted and the new place has a very generous air conditioning. Every morning I look for a shirt that is thick enough to keep me through the morning. And just today,the morning paper reported that 40% ...

The day started ok. Except I was unwilling to get out of bed. What kind of a life is this. By the time Friday comes, there is not a drop of energy left. I have one more day to go before I will be able to recharge.There seemed nothing wrong with the day, until I reached Bhandup station. The train refused to move. Another train incident. I think its wise to start a practice of checking the news before I leave home. But the real fun was the stopping of the trains. I had a strong intution to get out of the train at Ghatkopar and get on a fast train. But I stayed put. And the result? The fast trains ...