people....

I'm back on the circuit!

You can consider this as my second innings.I will make every effort to post on this blog and will not disappear like i did earlier.

Back in june 2006, i had lots of avenues to pour out my thoughts,views,broodings and now that i dont enjoy the luxury of so many avenues,i'm back to the internet,which i feel is the best place to express myself.

Ppl, i'm working now(yes...i'm employed.....the world is a wierd place ...it has work for ppl like me also),in a US based software services firm,so needless to say that i have a pretty screwed up life.

Transformation from college life to work life can be very traumatic and i've gone through just that.Holidays shrink(from 7 a week to 2 a week...sometimes even they have to be sacrificed).Suddenly you are answerable to someone unlike in college.You are stripped of the free incoming/outgoing facility you had in college and instead you are tied to a swipe card(initially it looked cool to go around with the card around your neck...but after realising its purpose..things change!!).

You are deserted.

Thanks to these software firms,all your friends you used to hang out with are either sent to some other cities, or are sent onsite or are made to work in shifts. With some friends shifting base to the US to pursue Masters and the left out few busy with work, your life is a lotal mess.

With no one around,suddenly you have all the time in the world (specially on weekends),unlike in college when time just used to fly off.

If you are a socially fucked up guy like me,without a girl friend,you'll find it all the more difficult to adjust.

With all your cousins in the US,you being the only one to break the protocol of pursuing Masters in US after engineering,naturally your family feels that you are the proverbial black sheep.This adding to the already fucked up life,trust me its miserable.At one point you doubt whether you have turned into the OUTLAW that you are imagined to be.

I tried many things like rock music, crime movies, novels, self help books, jogging, sit-coms, anims, table tennis, wikipedia, non-veg(as a result my waistline reached all time high), but could'nt find solace.

Then turned to spirituality,visited a few temples,spent time in front of the Puja room,visited ISKCON centre and attended Gita discourses,sported a tilakam on my forehead.I started feeling better and as a result made a plan to visit the abode of Lord Sri Venkateshawara in tirupathi.

Visited tirupathi, went up the hill on foot, had my head shaved.And its after a rejuventing trek in horsley hills that i calmed down.

"The window of oppurtunity is growing smaller by the day",this dialogue from ROAD TRIP applies to me also(ohh common...not in the way as it is used in the film..just using the analogy),because the window of oppurtunity to strike an intellectual conversation is growing smaller by the day,what with friends going away in search of greener pastures.

So this, friends, is precisely the reason for my return to the blogosphere.