Today I completed 1 year with the new job and in Delhi also. I joined here on 16-Oct-2006. I remember, had attended a friend’s marriage in Chandigarh on 15th Oct, then left for Delhi at midnight and reached here by morning. Then quickly got ready for office and reached there, well within time to join :) At that time, I had not much idea about Delhi, one of the metro (& so complex) cities in India. ...
It has been long time since I posted something. So thought about writing something at least. Posting requires time & concentration. My office days are just too busy and tiring. Monday to Friday is like leaving at 8:30 and coming back at 8:30 & moreover travelling in Delhi is just too much. Both the times (while going & coming back) you are stuck in heavy traffic and can’t do anything other than sweating and waiting :( Its not very good to do all this stuff in office so only saturday sundays are the days to handle all this, taking rest, going for some outing and watching some movie (if there is some good release, like this time it was Shootout at Lokhandwala). It was so good in Chandigarh where my office was 10 mins (if the only light that came my way was Red, otherwise just 8 mins) away from my home and almost same while coming back in the evening. Here it takes more than an hour to reach office (that too sweating and tired) and even more while coming back. So you are hardly left with any energy to do something productive. Just trying to adjust to this atmosphere and start doing something useful daily :) ...
Today when I reached office and opened my mail there was one forwarded mail having subject something like “scary don’t open it, if you have a weak heart”. Well, I opened it and had just scrolled down a little, and came to know that these were the photographs of some girl, who committed suicide in some mall in Bangalore, by jumping from 13th floor. I couldn’t scroll down, even after 2nd photo. It was so horrible, perhaps, her head bashed against the floor and you know, it ………Well, don’t know how much trouble she was in, who had to take such a drastic step. Too bad on his part who composed this mail. This is no fun. ...
I used to fancy becoming an Engineer, when I was in 8th standard. That `day dream` came true when in June 2000, I took admission in Computer Engineering in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. In our first year, we were not allotted hostels due to lesser number of rooms being available for first year students. So we had to look accommodation outside. In mid of first year, we got a room in the hostel and moved there. This was for the first time that I was having the experience of hostel life (one should at least once enjoy hostel life, as they say). Those were the best times. Our room was popularly known as dharamshalawhere in the evening there will be some things happening for sure: cards, music and tea & samosa. Everybody who wanted to enjoy all this would come to our room :) ...
Had heard a lot about Delhi. Things like Delhi meri jaan & Delhi dil walon ki. I was well settled in the city beautiful, Chandigarh (Mohali to be exact). But as Mr Fate had drawn the map I changed my job and landed up in Delhi. Along with above things had also heard about the life style of Delhi. It is very fast, hell lot of traffic, you have to be very attentive and all. But as they say you can’t enjoy heaven until unless you die yourself and have a trip ;) ...
Weekend is a highly respected term in my industry. After screwing his head for 5 days (I didn’t mention in what ;) ) everybody waits for a weekend as it is the time to relax, to enjoy, to sleep, to meet friends and to do a hell lot of things out of which more than 1/2 get postponed to next week with a hope “will see next week”. Last week was real good as Monday was a holiday due to X Mas. I had to leave for home by Firday Night train. One of my friend[A] had got a flight from Pune to Delhi which was expected to be here by 4:30 or so. So by thursday evening everything was planned that we will be meeting at Bus Stand. As generally when you plan in advance things never comes on the track, something similar happened here also. Flight was late by 2 hours and it reached by 7 or so. Now coming from Airport to Bus Stand itself takes 1 1/2 hours or so. Even my train was late by an hour from its right time (that is 2030 hrs). ...
Writing blog for the first time…everybody writing blog..so I also thought about sharing something from my small life…It is about watching live show of my favourite Gurdas Maan…I was in Chandigarh for almost a year…Gurdas Maan was coming to Chandigarh to perform live…we collected the passes for the show but these were for the last seats from where you could not enjoy much…anyways we reached there in time…total of 5….2 in one group and we 3 in another group…the duo who reached first managed to get something better in adjusted themselves in VIP section…so it was pretty cool to watch your favourite star from there…so we were left…but didnt loose heart and kept on trying…in the end…by hook or crook..got something…VVIP passes…the other duo called us to come….but then we said that “we are sitting in VVIP section….n you can enjoy”….that was watching my most favourite star from so close…. ...