shopping desi style

  

missed ..

..another birthday party.

( Rohit Sah, Lokesh Shah & Anurag Jagati)

Hey guys .. heard that you had a great SEM get-together in Bangalore with Udit and Anshul joining in ...

  

loki or ..

Was meant to be 'Happy Birthday Loki' .. but seems Jaggu played a game ;o)


  

lonely road

  

temple at night

  

wembley park - tube station

  

Across the road

Brent Town Hall..
  

solitary tree -

  

our house -

-Ground-floor on left

  

rare sunny day

  

Tea

  

mrinal da

  

wembley area

  

evening

London evenings with streaks fron planes

  

canary wharf

In the heart of the Financial Hub of London
  

week-end

Best thing about a week-end.. morning tea and bandwidth (if paro is not chatting away)

  

johri saheb with family

  

weekly shopping - ASDA

Room-mates

  

Temple - late evening

  

temple

Swami-Narayan temple London

  

ISB

Bush at ISB -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060303-3.html

btw I noticed that my photo still appears at the ISB web-site
http://isb.edu/pgp/curriculum/curriculum.html

being patriotic

Manisha says -
Little India: "I have never felt so Patriotic in my life as i have felt over the past one year in the US."

Reminds me of my 'American Literature' profressor, 'Mack P' at iit. He has spent a number of yrs in US - phD & teaching and had returned to India. his trade mark dress - khaddar and chappals. He used to say there are 2 kinds of indians in US - one who change their accent within 2 weeks of landing there and others who become even more traditionists than Indians living in India.

I landed in London on 25th of Jan and went home late night tired. Wanted to get to bed so that the next day I could go to work in time. I was amazed to see that all my friends were wide awake. Reason - all of them had taken the following day off. 'We have made it a rule that we do not work on 26th Jan & 15th Aug' They had been following this since last 3 years.
All laughed at me for going to work on 26th Jan.

Now thats being patriotic.

Incidentially, I had a better Diwali in London as compared to chennai.

on material things

Had a serious discussion with path today morning, with me eating the leftover khichdi from last night ( after a long time cooked my favourite food khichdi for dinner yesterday)

Parth says that I am the most non-materialisitc person he has seen in his life. That I can live on anything, stay anywhere and have almost no requirements in life.. (except roti, kapda makkan and bandwidth) and have got nothing to do with Branded stuff.. example of buying both my non-branded shoes from Asda rather than from nike, rebook etc etc.

I am still reflecting on this..

What he says is probably correct - I dont aspire to own a big house, have no fascination for cars or mobile handsets and certainly dont want a plasma tv.
not that i have anything against anyne who aspires these things

now let me list down the things that I cannot live without -

1-Tea (prefreably TajMahal and strong)
2-Bike - cant imagin not roaming around generally on a bike (one thing that i miss in london)
3-gmail and blogspot ;o)
4- mobile phone - need to talk to my friends for an hour
5- books - loads of them

... WIP (work in progress)

on material things

Had a serious discussion with path today morning, with me eating the leftover khichdi from last night ( after a long time cooked my favourite food khichdi for dinner yesterday)

Parth says that I am the most non-materialisitc person he has seen in his life. That I can live on anything, stay anywhere and have almost no requirements in life.. (except roti, kapda makkan and bandwidth) and have got nothing to do with Branded stuff.. example of buying both my non-branded shoes from Asda rather than from nike, rebook etc etc.

I am still reflecting on this..

What he says is probably correct - I dont aspire to own a big house, have no fascination for cars or mobile handsets and certainly dont want a plasma tv.
not that i have anything against anyne who aspires these things

now let me list down the things that I cannot live without -

1-Tea (prefreably TajMahal and strong)
2-Bike - cant imagin not roaming around generally on a bike (one thing that i miss in london)
3-gmail and blogspot ;o)
4- mobile phone - need to talk to my friends for an hour
5- books - loads of them

... WIP (work in progress)

jumping ships

Lokesh Shah says -

"Maybe you are just confused with misplaced priorities.
Or maybe you just lack the courage to do what you really like to do."

Rajeev says -

"Dude tell me one thing if you didnt want a career why did you sepnd so much on your education and get tied yourself down??? "


I would say lack of courage has been the main issue. Thinking back I can count lots of instances when I could have changed my life or I know exactly what I wanted but never had the courage to take the leap for it. Even though I tend to think of myself as non-conventional person with some weird notions of life and society my resume reads like a strictly career orineted ambitious person who will fit the role of the new yankee youth of India.

1 - Was clear from school days that I do not want to be a enginner, yet worked hard to get into a engg college and then for the next 4 years kept on exploring what next.

1.1 - Wanted to take up economics at Stephen's yet took admission in Physics again from a plain practical consideration.

2 - Was clear that software jobs are crappy and I do not want to waste my life sitting in front of a computer, yet took the software job, strictly because of the money it offered as compared to the other jobs in NGO's that I was thinking about

3 - Took a posting in Pune as compared to Bombay because thought of Joining FTII pune after 2 years. (wanted to become a cinematographer) Could never quit my job for it

4 - Did not want to spend a fortune in doing a MBA yet did it out of some vague considerations at that point of time and landed up in a high-end call-center ;o)

The only case when I jumped was for the start-up ProductDossier to fulfill the desire of being a part of a start-up and get a entreprenurial flavour



Inspite of all this I still have hope that someday I will be able to do what I really want. Question is that even if I have figured it out, will I have the courage to jump the ship.

< Thats why my ideals have been people who jumped ship (medha patkar etc) rather than Jack Welsh kind of people >

rdb

RDB::

hua yaaki abhi abhi ..
ki aaga hai
mujhne hai kahi

jo ghumshuda sa khwaab tha
wo mila gaya
wo khil gaya ....

namon nisha rahe na rahe
ye karva rahe na hahe ......


Again reminnds me of of what Kittu da said - nobody on his/her death bed ever said - Wish I had spent more time in office ..

bring from india

I ask my friends -what should i get for u when i come from india

response -

1) Loads of sutte - classic milds & Gold flake (costs 10 times in UK )

2) OLD MONK ( as many as u can get )

ya i guess Old Monk rules the heart and soul

job satisfaction

So Finally found a person who is extremly satified with what he is doing. And who else but vaibhav sinha.


Manas please note this

update on life

5.82 lakh INR of education loan pending

4yr 10 months to go before I quit corporate job and head back home.


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In this regard KD has always been an inspiration for me who made me realize that it is not necessary that to retire we should work till 55 yrs.

KD is also in a league of his own - an IIM-A grad yet planning out for an unconventional career move of teahcing in a school a couple of years down the line.

Yes KD like u i also work hard in my job and perform well though I do not have a intrest or ambition in making a big career in corporate world..

havent been able to resolve this contradiction - If i plan to quit this career, then y do i take my work so seriously and fight to execute the project successfully .. I have missed some of my friends marrige (Jatin Luthra, Akshay) and other festivals

was it worth it ????

open-minded

completed this while taking a break from work (not out of peer pressure)

You Are 72% Open Minded

You are a very open minded person, but you're also well grounded. Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints. But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line. You're open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself.

How Open Minded Are You?