The drudgeries of life
Monday, May 17, 2010
Somewhere I belong...
Mystic river
I have always fancied taking long walks.
And when it comes to Subroto Park, the 'longer than long' walks are simply a pleasure :)
Plus the nice songs on the radio! What more?
The icing on the cake is that sojourn atop the bridge at the starting of the Gurgaon expressway *sighs*
Simply love that feeling of standing up above the crazy night traffic, observing the brilliant lights running hither and thither in the darkness, making a dash for a finish line that doesn't exist...
Watching the traffic disappear under my feet, it felt as if I were a race marshal signalling the end of the race!
The longer I stared at the hundreds of beacons streaming towards me, the more mesmerized I was!
Was rooted to my spot for quite a while, thinking nothing yet smiling...
Life is so much like driving in the traffic... when you're stuck in a jam, all you want to do is get free and floor the accelerator... as soon as you escape the jam and find a free road, you race as if your life depended on it, only to get stuck in the next jam oh-so-quickly... you cuss and swear not to repeat this mistake, to enjoy the traffic-free stretch in the road the next time round... but your patience runs out by the time you escape the jam... and it goes on and on...
A vicious circle called life :)
It's funny how I admire this mayhem from my perch, yet I loathe it when I'm involved in it! Double standards to the core :)
Very long and interesting working days ahead! Hope I'm kept away from these parts for a while...
Cheers!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Cool-edge!
The end is near... I can feel it!
This phase of life is about to conclude... weird how I'm getting signals from all directions :s
I'm kinda scared that I'm going to end up in Hyderabad... or in Bangalore...
Oh well! Depressing damn Saturday :(
Had such an awesome time with Bhanja, Mathur and Rishabh... though I missed the gang heaps :|
Rishabh dude, nothing can beat our 1-on-1 Q3 matches... save for the clan arena matches including Manjy and Aonu ;)
Just got feedback from the guys that I'm way too senti... and that it's not gonna help me! Shucks! It's like a disease... :s
Feeling totally disoriented right now, don't know why... sometimes excess bakar acts like a reality check...
Hope Sunday is a stress-buster!!
Friday, April 09, 2010
tp
It has been ages since something like this has happened: my having ample time for myself!!
That said, I sure hope the placement process speeds up a bit... fairy tales are not supposed to last anyway :p
Apart from doing the things that I love doing like chatting, social networking, blogging, playing the guitar, working out, reading, sleeping, eating, roaming around et al, I've been spending lots of time re-reading my old diary entries, chat archives, fb messages, and blog posts (a thing someone did of late in record time, a remarkable feat undoubtedly! :) )
Shucks! I look at my archived posts and can't help wondering about how simple life used to be back then... it's almost as if the complexities in life increase in proportion to one's age :(
Seriously, ignorance has got to be bliss!!
Anyway, I realized how huge my old posts used to be, how unstilted I used to be in my approach to typing out my feelings, how I didn't care a damn for what others thought (this last point still applies :D)... it's scary actually!
Reading line after line, I sometimes doubt whether it was the same Steve who had at one point in time published these posts...
Loved two posts in particular...
This one, published when I was on the brink of leaving DA-IICT for entering the corporate world, almost 4 years ago...
And this one, a random tag also published at around the same time... went LOL reading my response to the tag :P
Chris Martin singing "Oh! Take me back to the start..." on the laptop encapsulates the gist of my current feelings...
Take me back to the time when I had not a care in the world beyond the school homework or the impending exams;
when I was ignorant about scourges such as violence, terrorism, caste, religion, politics, dogma, tradition, etc.;
when I was oblivious to my being different from almost all of my friends (in terms of background, upbringing, culture, mindset), and it didn't feel like a curse...
What's preventing these brainy scientists from inventing a time machine anyway?! :P
Will continue this rambling later... cioa!
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Timepass
In the past week, I found lots of time for myself... feels good to be doing what I liked for a change!
Been blogging a lot. Facebook too. Old addictions resurface.
Isn't it fun to chat via messages and mails rather than by using Gtalk, YM et al? In the former, it's fun waiting in anticipation for the other person to reply.
Or maybe excess (ab)use of Gtalk has led to it being tagged "boring"...
Miss gymming, yet I'm not complaining... will start in a week or two!
Till then it's the blanket, the novels, hot tea or hot chocolate, music... and a few lectures :P
The foggy blanket that's been shrouding the campus of late combined with the severe cold makes walking around the campus at night such a pleasure...
Yesterday, I and 2 friends walked to and fro RDC (a roundtrip of 4+ kms)... the streets looked amazing, especially after a power cut!
I even tried getting lost in the foggy field, and what a feeling it was :)
Weekend starts tomorrow... going to meet a few DA-IICT chums at Connaught Place! Simply love that place!
Trimester 6, the last installment starts on Sunday... damn it's all gonna end very soon :(
Just received Mom-made rose cookies :) Totally yummy!
Happy weekend!
Labels: addictions, long walks, Rambling, Random, reunion, winter
