blog 12.11.10

So much has happened since my last blog that I can keep writing on! One habit that I’ve have picked up from nowhere is putting an exclamatory (!) mark after each sentence or even a phrase or a word, weather its on facebook or twitter! Deal with it! Ok..now I am dragging it just for the heck of it.

Do you ever or let’s say have you ever ‘imagined’ how will you die? Well I have and I must confess...have cried over it and that too more than one time. Sometimes it actually feels good imagining it but only if I have died a ‘good’ death like saving a million other lives..or at least one other life. What makes me feel good are its after-effects. The kind of death I hate/would hate is dying in some idiotic accident...and ending up as a small news-item in the left-hand corner of a newspaper the next day. Oh that would suck big time! Death has to grand.

But no seriously...think about it. I mean am sure you must’ve given it a thought at least once and if not, do it! Do these things - Try to help others, try feeding the hungry whenever you can, buy a lesser costly dress and if you can, sponsor a child’s education..may be your maid’s child. The point is do a random act of kindness. It’s a good thing. Although I’ve not done all of the things above for more reasons than one but I shall..whenever I can. People WILL then remember YOU always. But I am being pragmatic here. I normally do not ‘preach’ things I don’t do/can’t do myself. Enough of philosophy.

Anyways, I’ve been thinking what I want ideally. I want a lifetime connection of Worldspace (yes..i still miss it) or lets say unlimited supply of good music, language or genre does not matter at all. It just has to be nice..plain..neat music! By the way, Coke Studio is God. All I keep listening to off late is music from Coke Studio only. Pity, we dont not have *anything* like it. Also, while we are at it..somebody please please bring the 1970’s rock music back or take me there. You know this may sound weird but I visualise this a lot – live the life as depicted in Dire Straits’ song ‘Heavy Fuel’. That song just gets onto me every time I listen to it..which I do almost 3 times everyday! And while we are at *this* one of my another wishes is to live a ‘HIMYM’ life. For the uninitiated, it stands for ‘How I met your mother’. It is a..oh crap..google it! Awesome I find *that* life. Ya well..whatever!

Life as I live it, like most of you is a tough cookie to break or eat or dip. And that’s why ‘we wish’. I wish it was not so, I wish I had taken that job, I wish I had not insulted him, I wish I had helped that old man cross the road a while back, I wish my toes were not disfigured, I wish I had started working out years back, I wish I had asked her/him out for a date, I wish he /she was not my friend, etc. etc. I can relate to only the ‘toes’ one, all others are not related to me..or do they!?! *my toes are really disfigured* primarily because I’ve had minor surgeries done on both my toes. But that’s a different story altogether.

Dedicating Cat Stevens' 'Here comes my baby' to all who worry a lot (count me in). Though it has NO inspiring lyrics..its just a happy-go-lucky number.

Also, I shall try to blog regularly now. I do have a few unpublished blogs..which shall remain so atleast for some time to come.

Music. Peace.

..and then I blog again!

After a long hiatus from ‘this’ blog (well..actually the reason was you see I am getting paid for writing another blog, a rather serious one – read:boring;) I thought lets get back to this one. Last few months have been exciting. Purely from professional point of view and personally as well actually! Just in September, when I thought to resign from my job then..it took me four months to FINALLY put in my papers and man..was it fun(ny)! I decided to quit and in what I would not call ‘a weird co-incident’ my boss asked me the same day whether I was planning to leave? And he asked it to me out of nowhere. Never before he had asked me this but that day was special. And I thought, either this makes my job very easy OR very tough. FTW..i thought, lets choose ‘easy’. He sat with me for 3 hours ‘counseling’ me that I was making a wrong career movie. He’d kill me for this now but, in my head at that point of time, I was thinking of the 10 days ‘leisure’ leave that was going to start from the very next day! We ended our meeting. He thought he had won the battle. I let him think so. Two days later, called him to up to say “I have decided..I am leaving”. Spent my next 8 days having a good time and then the next one month after that..er..hmm..lets say working. I have realized the ‘notice period’ teaches you a lot. Shows the true colour of a boss. Boss, I am not saying anything..good or bad. So please don’t assume anything. Am listening to Danzig right now..so all kind of devil thoughts are coming to my head. Control. Control.

New place..New colleagues (some old..quite literally) so far so good.

Personally, many friends have gone places in search of good money..good life. The ones wo are here have their own set of things. One buys cars like Gillette Mach 3. Every 2 months. One is getting fatter by the day..not months. Hope he does something. Another one’s engagement got annulled in the courtship period. Good for him though. One left his plush job to start something on his own and boy he did! Another one got a cool jump financially. One left banking and joined advertising, taking a severe pay-cut! How ironic. One is always unhappy in the foreign lands, which I’ll never be able to understand why. Another one is content in a faraway part of the country which frankly speaking seems as faraway as North pole. One got married but is living away from his wife, for career reasons. One left a plush job here to go to a first world country which was severely affected by The Recession. Now he works in a grocery store. Things people do to make a career and earn monies. Another one is moving from one country to another, literally, I don’t know in search of what. I’ll assume – good career. Building a career has taken so much importance. Life ke pressure, I tell you.
Another important transition has been from people going from bachelorhood to getting married to having kids!

And where do I stand in all this? Well, I have had my share of hardships in every way possible..or may be not. I’ve learnt to enjoy each small happiness. To never miss anything big or small. I completely believe that life is a game of averages. Good-Bad will always be finally equal. If something bad has happened, good is just round the corner (love this strange phrase: ‘round the corner’) Karma my friend, believe in it. Keep smiling and never look down upon anybody.

As for me, in more materialistic terms, Finally I’ve a well-paying-satisfying job (hungry for more though;) Lovely partner. Brother a rock-star, literally. Mom’s awesome food. Good friends, all of the above plus many more. May God continue in helping me power to get: More books to read. More DVDs to watch. More tweeting to do. More beer to drink. More music to listen to. So much to do..so little..blah blah…