The one advantage of a long break from blogging is that you can get away with a title that is irrelevant to the content of the blog :D
A lot happened since my last blog. Chronologically skipping the painful parts is a good enough structure to ramble with some amount of coherence.
When, a day before the last exam, you come to know that there is going to be a state level strike the day u are supposed to leave for home after 6 months what do you do? Well rationally most ppl start discussing arrangements, but as a batch we decided we should party one day earlier! Invigilator walked into the exam hall to find “Give me some sunshine” being played on the system and ppl singing and dancing along – all this before the exam! :D (Now take that CBSE, who cancelled class X exams due to pressure on students!)Of all ironies the bandh got cancelled and we left on the day initially planned cos the vehicles we arranged for the previous day got cancelled too! :O
After a nightout followed by an eventful journey – home! By God, it felt like i was never away at all. You know how you promise to all the ppl that you will meet when you come home? Of the 16 out of 20 days i spent in Chennai, I kept around 30% of the promises (10% of them official)! In contrast my Bangalore trip was unbelievably productive! Much like Blitzkreig, I planned to meet 18 ppl in 2 days and met 26 ppl and came back. Ops ppl might say it was scheduled below capacity, but i say to them – as Elsevier says the hallmark of quality is to exceed high expectations! :P (showing off I’m majoring in operations by googling the quote) Mom’s cooking, pampering and pampered by my dog, catching up movies and series my bro had downloaded and bugging dad with some stray eco concept – life seemed so awesome!
One high point of my mostly placid holidays was my visit to my old office. You know how you expect things to have changed totally and u find, much like the mega serials, nothing much actually has happened over the 6 months. Reactions varying from “Don’t tell me you’re back!!” to “Good to have you back”, oblivious to the fact that I had a visitor tag were ignorable given the high point was my old team’s warm welcome. One Kodak moment – spoiled only by Joe hitting me on the head for calling her old :P But in this changing world, it was a pleasant thought to know some ppl do not change (although it is just 6 months- touchwood).
Back to college, reality’s beckoning, its the same drill. 1/3rd manager, you get used to the pressure and staring at stuff you have no clue what it is all about and then finally coming up with a few generic statements as solutions. Levels of reasoning are becoming more and more inventive.( Why take this cost? Cos nothing in this world is free!!)
Oh ya, went on the David Scott trail! 30 people on 16kms of trek through scenic locales, mountains, streams and PGP09 rocked as usual. All trekking enthusiasts should try this once. Not for the difficulty (Gokharna was by far more tough), but you get all kind of trails. The ‘pristine village’ on the top of the hills floored us when we realised these ppl communicate in flawless English! Someone from the batch asked whats so great about walking in the sun, panting like a dog, when u know you could as well have taken a car or for that matter slept late. I guess we do it for the sense of achievement, the 5 seconds you get when u see the speeding ambassador with the drive spitting out of the window after 3.5 hours of trek!
Oh and out of sync i forgot to do my new year ritual of doing a performance appraisal of the last year. 2009 wasn’t so bad given the influx of new people, new place and a visit home. I guess I have to do it in detail with the designated person :) Hopefully 2010 is a good year for all.
Now that I have filled in about my period of absence, I can move on knowing the past is safely chronicled. Someone told me in a not so polite manner sometime back why I can’t stop making statements with multiple meanings. Since it was followed by certain anatomical references, I chose to ignore. Maybe they had a point :D
