A day in the life of me

I wonder why anywone would want to read this post. I mean who in their sane mind would they even care what I do on a daily basis and most importantly, why would the same sane person would ever want to be like Me?

Tough question to answer. Moreover, one will have to question if this question even has a plausible answer. Cos if the person who answers why would probably be insane and in that case one will have to discount the answer and the person who is sane would not answer at all. So there you go.. i just discovered a question that doesnt have a reasonably rational answer. But in any case, i guess i will have to write about a day in the life of me. But that brings me to the next question.. life.. what is life.. if you are leading a whatever you can call it like me, then one would begin to wonder why i exist. Nah, it is not that terribly bad, but its just that since i got back from india, all i have been doing is get up, go to work, get back and hit the bed, try to sleep, get up, walk about (you can read more of this in the previous post) and then try to sleep again until sleep hits me just because it had gone tired of letting me chase it.

I had one of the most lousiest days i can. A visit to the data center that had to take 1 hour took 4 hours and although the servers did not crash (touch wood!!!) , if it did it would have been the zenith of my day.. What is a director e-learning solutions as mentioned in my company's website doing in a data center? Well that my friends is what you do when you are in a startup.. you do everything from checking on servers to checking on clients.. Well when i am in a better mood will write about the day in the life of a director e-learning solutions..

Insomnia and Somnambulism

There is a very thin line between Insomnia and Somnambulism, yes that is if u ignore the fact that both have the latin root somnos in it. the thin line is walking. I mean, can anyone distinguish between when someone walks when he is suffering from insomnia and someone who is actually sleep walking? I am at present suffering from streaks of insomnia and end up pacing my house and the balcony and sometimes it does feel like you are sleep walking, walking around with no purpose watsoever. the difference is not quite apparent to me but that might be because although i think i have all the senses up and ready, since i am sleep walking or walking with no sleep.. i have not enough power in my already nimble brain to figure out what is what. whatever it be, i need some sleep.. is it something i can buy with my mastercard?

Of Sanias and Fatwas

If i were the ruling authority in India, the first thing i would do is issue a fatwa against Hypocrites who have issued fatwa against Sania, the hypocrites who have been protesting in Tamil Nadu about a statement from the actress Kushboo who had talked about the need to be aware of aids, especiallty with raising pre marital sex in Tamil nadu.

I mean, where were these hypocrites when Zeenat Aman came baring everything in Qurbani. She was a muslim wasnt she? Or where were these hypocrites when Mumtaz, who is also a muslim danced around Dev Anand and Rajesh Khanna. I can list a number of muslim actresses who do what they call item numbers in bollywood movies and in tamil and telugu movies. These same buggers would be watching these movies drooling away to glory and when it comes to one Sania Mirza ranked 31st in WTA playing her game, they cant afford to see her in her tennis attire.

Moral policing is slowly becoming a birth right to a number of these relegious and political institutions. The constitution guarantees our fundamental rights and it is our fundamental right to do what we want and dress the way we dress, and party when we want to party. It is an individual's right as long as it doesnt infringe on anyone's rights. Today, in chennai, all bars close at 12:00, fair enough if its being a nuisance to the public, but its unfair and unust if it is not. There was a 30 minute article on a local TV about the new Disco culture. And the next day, some hypocrites were raising a hue and cry over the discos and the fact that some girls were drinking and smoking. Who are they to decide if someone can dance, smoke or drink. India cries foul over Moral policing in Afghanistan, and the muslim countries. I guess India should shut up and clean its own house first before it can shout foul to its neighbours.

The governement..i am beginning to wonder if that by itself is a synonym for hypocricy.

There and back again...

Been neglecting this space for a while now. Have tons to write about and not enough time to get into the details at the moment. Tell you what, my life isnt that interesting as it used to be so why dont i just leave snippets of wisdom here.

1. Decided to go home for Diwali and had converted my long outstanding miles in US Airways to a free Singapore Airlines round tip ticket from Madras. As my luck would have it, just as i was getting ready to travel, one of the gods of the hindu Mythology, i guess it is Varuna, decided that i had not workshipped him enough and hence sent in a cyclone to madras. Ended up spending a bit on the telephones to check if the chennai airport is all open and in the end the apart from some intermitent turbulence on the flight there was no problem.
2. The real problem happenned after i landed in Chennai. All trains leaving Chennai to Vijaywada, which is a small town by the banks of river Krishna and that lays in between Hyderabad (200km), Vishakapatinum (400Km) and Chennai (400km) were cancelled cos about 1/2 km of tracks including abridge had been washed away by the cyclone. As i sat there calling airlines to book a ticket to hyderabad and take the train on to vijayawada, i learnt that there was a train crash on the link between Vijayawada and Hyderabad killing 300 people. may they rest in peace. And the Vishakapatinum airport was flooded as well which left me with one option and that was to take a bus or a car from chennai. But apparently couple of rivers between chennai and Vijayawada was overflowing on the highway as well. So there i was stuck halfway.. And then my dad decided to drive down to Chennai and pick me up as soon as the flood recede and he landed the same day.
3. Driving from Chennai to Vijaywada was an eye opener for me. The indian infrastructure had changed tremondously. although there are still improvements needed, the highways are awesome. can you imagine driving 400 kms in 6 hours in India. 8 years back it would have been as unthinkable as me dancing with Aishwarya Rai in a bollywood movie. Although the latter still remains unthinkable, the former has become a reality.
4. For all those eligible bachelors over there, never dream of going home on a long vacation when your parents have started looking for a bride. Although they are trying to do you good, it is a very awkward situation to be in looking at like 10 resumes and doing a selection..its really awkward, but anyway, i somehow escaped getting hitched this time citing one reason or the other and now am back in singapore as single as ever but a couple of pounds extra thanks to mom's food.
5. Saw tons of tamil movies that i had not seen for ages. One movie that really impressed me was this movie called Autograph. Awesome it was and i swear it did make me relive a few of my own memories.

Anyways, as you can see, apart from teh 10 days break that i too between oct 28 and Nov 7th and the one week i spent in the Delhi office before returning to singapore on nov 12th, my life has been as mediocre as it can get apart from this incident where i had to break into my own bedroom.

I seriously need to get a hold on myself and start doing something other than get up, work, eat, work, eat, go back home, play xbox, watch tv and go to sleep. oh yeah, got to watch the new harry potter..