Mes Secrets Inconnus

Atlast I recovered enough to make a trip to Mysore. According to the initial plan i was supposed to be back in Bangalore tomorrow, but as you might have already guessed, for me or atleast with me, when planning is involved the implementation gets a hit :-)

Wifey prepared some spicy hot fish fries and prawns curry along with some fried rice for lunch. I had this royal lunch before embarking on the drive to Mysore. We left home @ around 3.30 pm and after a brief stop for fueling the car and some hot piping chai at Mandya, I reached Mysore @ 5.30 pm. The drive was excellent and my little one did not make any  noise and was all attention watching her dad overtake all the vehicles on the state highway. I am sure she must be wondering that she does have a fantastic driver dad :-)

Once i reached Mysore, we were determined to celebrate the new years eve in style. I hopped in along with my brother in law and picked up a bottle of exquisite wine - California wine. I was all high to try the drink and well this was my first time. But unfortunately , alcohol/wine does not go well with me. Just unscrewed the cork and the smell of the drink made me go high. You can guess what happened next.  I quitely had my dinner and watched my father in lieu and brothers in lieu  gulp the drink :-(

Well nothing gained, but lost the last bottle of wine from the previous year :-)

Happy new year !!!!

I am recuperating, i think god has heard me and trying to be considerate with me. Hopefully i can still plan for something.Looks like my 6 days are flushed now. The only good thing is I had my little one with me :-)

I think i will allow some creativity. You can guess my day. Oh god!!! I have become an open book for every one now. God pls put a stop for this....

My fears are beginning to take shape, nothing much its just the repeat of Day 3 :-(

Almost the same as Day 2, except that there was a change in the movie that we watched and the place we went to hog. I am beginning to wonder will rest of my vacation end up being "ditto" , i hope not :-(

Another lazy day for me. Did not do much, just hung around in the house playing with the little one and caught up with a couple of movies.

In the evening went around with wifey to a few places mainly for eating chats and other stuff.

Well the vacations have begun. As per plan, i was supposed to travel to Mysore and meet wifey and kid there. Then for the next few days, we would go around Mysore sight seeing and exploring new places. Alas it looks like a distant dream now. And to to top it, I have a bloody sore throat that I can;t even talk.

So i have no other choice than watch movies on my Kick ass TV ( aka - SONY BRAVIA , FULL HD , 40 inch ). So turned in the channel and had an option to watch a nice foreign movie - Kilometer Zero in NDTV lumiere . This was a tragic Iraqi movie which had made it to Cannes. It's about a tragedy that befalls the kurds of Iraq in the form of genocide unleashed by Saddam Hussein.

The hero of the film want's to escape Iraq and move into Europe, but can;t do so because his wife is unwilling to leave her ailing father. Left with no choice he joins army to fight a war against Iran. His chance to escape comes when one of his mates is killed in the war and the task of handing over his mates dead body to their family is given to him.

Being in the Middle east for sometime i was able to relate a few aspects of this movie which made it interesting.  The highlight of the movie being - Kilometer Zero -  is a good point to begin a journey from because you can then only go forward

After i started the day with this nice movie, i rounded it off with another legendary movie - Laurence of Arabia.  It's a neat film and highly recommended if you have any interest in world domination during the World war 1 phase :-)

Vacations starting tomorrow and i am down with viral fever, can you believe it ? My worst fear has come true. I am not sure how long will i need to be down like this. Bad...Everyone is disappointed. But what the heck, such things don't really tell and come. And even if they did, they don;t leave as desired. I am still on antibiotics...

This is something that I abhor. Vacation is nearing and i am falling more and more sick. My cold -cough combo is adding more free stuff. I now have body pain and fever. I am not sure if my vacations is gonna go as per plan.

Its a bad thing to fall sick during vacations. I really don;t want to end myself sleeping all day. errr.. if its' a working day then its ok, i can apply for sick leave and utilize it.

Any ways just been to my doctor and he has advised me to take steam for every couple of hours and some antibiotics, since i faked that i had an important presentation to make in office. I wonder how long it will be before the doc realizes that every time I go to him I always fake the urgency to recuperate :-)

I am pretty much thrilled with an upcoming vacation. If you add the customer given paid holidays with the weekends and additional leaves, i will end up with 11 days of complete vacation. All for the good things that we did in our project. I have planned a couple of things for this and we are looking forward for this.

But somehow, something deep down tells me its going to be plain "spend all days @ home". Let me see what happens.

And before that we have to slog our asses out to meet the deadline :-(

Been collecting this for quite some time now. I have carefully categorized it for my reference. Maybe useful sometime.

It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like. You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most important ones. What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you.
You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.

Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute,you are insecure and then the next, secure.

You laugh and cry with the greatest force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused. Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.

You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you're doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person. You want to settle down for good because now all of a sudden that becomes top priority. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.You begin to think a companion for life is better than a hundred in the shack and for once you would not mind standing tall for that special someone which otherwise you had never thought of until now.You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a decision. You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!

It's called Quarter life crisis!!!!