The Last Home Coming

I just planned a 3330 kms of chiku-buku for 56 hours! (And I am only hoping it doesn’t turn to be 127 hours :) )

Lucknow-Moradabad-Delhi-Kota-Vadodara-Panvel-Magoan-Mangalore-Kozhikode-Shoranur.

And what’s the icing on the cake this time?

I will be along with a couple of works of fiction. Period.

I have learnt that travelling alone is a unique experience and can be very rewarding, personally. Advantages of travelling alone are plenty:

• It's easier to make friends with the other travellers. Yup, you got me. ;)
• You only have to please yourself. You are not concerned about a zillion other people and their safety and comfort
• Your time and budget. No excel sheets after the journey!
• Your travel will be far more flexible and you take decisions on the spur of the moment
• Opportunity for reflection and contemplation. This is no globe. This is required after two years of fast-paced b-school life :)

You might be thinking what an introverted moron I am. Yes, I am and always will be. And this doesn’t mean that next time you plan a trip you comfortably avoid me. I will bury you alive. :)

From the time I joined for my post-graduation I wanted to take a train from Lucknow to my native. And this is my last chance. I have heard that once you stay in a train for 2-3 days, even after you get out the hangover stays and you feel like you are shaking. :)
I have always loved travelling. That’s one reason why I had a great time during my summer internship. Memorable days!

And trains. You know how much I love them. And moreover this journey is going to be special. The final one after two years of so called academic rigour.

Honestly academic rigour is upto you. Its how much you want to do rather than someone imposing things on you. More about b-school system in another post possibly a month or two later. :)

P.S. I clicked these in my last journey on the Konkan rail-line. The next one should ideally have better ones :)

Drown

Whom will I tell all my sorrows?

I want to drown them.

Who can I ask all my doubts?

I am pestered by so many.

Where do I wash all my dirt?
For the sink is clogged.

Poor Manager

Finance Prof. says, "maximize shareholder's wealth"

Marketing Prof. says, "maximize customer satisfaction"

Human Resource Prof. says, "maximize employee satisfaction"

Operations Prof. says, "maximize firms efficiency"

When will a manager get to live his life?
He is always concerned about others.

When will he . . . ?

I need a copy of Atlas Shrugged!

Big time.

Blogging

Off late I have been reading quite a few blogs. This might be the reason - I feel that I should also blog frequently. Probably a collection of my wavering thoughts day in and day out. And ya, I do have enough time.
How come?
Dude my designation in my company is "Software Engineer"!
What more reason do you want me to give.
Ya, I do have work.
But I have no focus.
No single-pointedness in what I do.
Hope I find enough time to blog.

Have I Changed ?

Two years ago I was a very regular person. I used to keep my room clean and arranged. I seldom used to loose anything, or misplace anything. But off late I have changed a lot. I forget to do things before deadline. I misplace important things. There are all sorts of chits, paper slips, tickets lying over my table, my room is untidy, I wait for the deadlines to do things. Indeed my mind has become unkempt. There is waste paper lying all around the floor here. There is no regularity in my life anymore.
Oh, how I wish I was that old self once again. I am not a very successful person, of course, no one is indeed happy with his/her life other than the so called enlightened ones. But then those days I had a state of well being. Now I am not able to control me nor my mind.
Have I become lazy? Probably yes. If there is something that either I or someone else could have done, I make it sure that the other person does it and not me.
Am I running away from something? Or is it that I am just cribbing unnecessarily? Actually I am not that bad.
Everyone's life is nothing but a collection of ups and downs. So is mine. One bad thing about me, when I was at school, was that, I hated failure. I just could not stand me not winning. I always wanted to win and win only.
But now things have changed. I don't mind not winning, maybe because failing has become a habit for me now :) . Anyways I have been waiting for a change in my life, and when this change comes over I will make changes in the way I live. But even in this strategy I don't have much faith as there is always a fear that, if I wanted to change I need not wait for a opportune. I should change today and now. Yes now, right now.