As Anshul pointed out recently, life here is quite eventful. Past week or two has been full of interesting events. Most notably the get together of friends and the incidents that followed. The trips to Nandi hills and Tirupati were exciting and kept up with the tradition of last minute planning. Corporate life is chaotic as well, but so far so good.

Very soon, we all will be mature and morose enough not to act dumb or randomly. Let us take this opportunity to do some crazy things that we’ll remember forever. 🙂

I feel sad at times to look back on things to realize what all we could do before and cannot now.

1. We could bunk classes, we can’t bunk office.
2. We could hang out with friends, we can’t any longer.
3. We could chat with friends on the phone almost daily, now once a week feels frequent.
4. We could get the bikes and hit the road, pick buddies from their homes and go on trips. Now we need to plan months in advance.
5. We could say/do dumb things all day, now we better get our act together (we are professionals).
6. We could blow up all pocket money on food/drinks in one shot, now we better save to ensure sustenance till end of month.
7. We could go on college fests, take part in contests. But now, we just have meetings to attend in office.
8. We could go to movies (even if 1 hour later than the start) any time, any day we wanted to. Now we have to wait for the weekends, and might still not have company of enough good friends.

Life has become more serious than ever before. 2.5 years into the professional life, I feel things are going to get further downhill from now. The fun days are behind us. Period.

I used to play this with my grandmother who had taught me these verses. We had a great time when I was small. She also taught me some cool origami tricks, will try to remember them.

Ikiri mikiri cham chikiri,
Chamé kaata mojumdar,
Dé élo damodar,
Damodarér handi kudi,
Taité boshé chaal kudi,
Chaal kudithé holo béla,
Bhaat khabiaai jamaai shaala,
Bhaaté podlo maachi,
Kodal diyé chanchi,
Kodal holo bonta,
Kankshiyalér maata!

How to:
The kids sit in a circle and place their hands in the centre with fingers spread out. The song is sung with great gusto and one kid touches every finger in turn, progressing in a clockwise direction. The finger that gets touched when the last word of the song is sung is tucked under the hand it belongs to and the game goes on, with the song being sung anew. A kid who “loses” all his fingers is out of the game. The last kid standing (sitting, rather) wins!

Yesterday, had fruitful “business” discussions with Mitali, Pavanesh and Vivek. It seems the plans seem fit and ready to be proceeded with. Yes, “business” stuff!

After a year of disappearance from normal life, I have changed and been rendered unfit to be described in one or two words — words like “techie”, “nerd”, “geek”, etc. Pretty much the opposite. I’ve started taking travel more seriously, writing micro/macro blog posts more often, reading “non-tech” stuff with more passion, and of course, utilizing my intellect more on the lines of entrepreneurship.

Recent trips to Mysore, Mekedatu and Kalyani was part of a series of one big eye-opener: travel is fun. Playing around with a GPS is even more interesting! Looking forward to taking up more trips, more GPS traces, more fun and less (but productive) work. Hoping to bring this blog and my fellow bloggers back to life (Anshul, Akriti, Mitali, Anshima ma’m: are you reading?)