Loneliness...

Note: Reposting this from my Infosys internal blog, so there are chances you might have read already :)

Anjali was at her nervous best. Its half past midnight, still no signs of sleep in her eyes. Weather outside was gloomy and so was her mindset. Her relation with Suraj is just over two years but that doesn’t say any story about the relationship they share. Now he means 'Everything' in her life; the one who taught her the essence of life, the one who always makes her smile, the one who makes her feel great whenever he's around. But thoughts of 'what's gonna happen tomorrow' made her tensed. The day she most feared would eventually arrive.

Sun smiled from east, Anjali’s face somewhat clear now. I should not cry; never in front of Suraj; that would seriously affect him, she made up her mind. Anjali and Suraj were standing in front of a gigantic steel gate. Suraj was nostalgic, tears trickled down his cheeks. Anjali controlling her hard to look normal. A respectable, well built man in khaki's appeared in front of Suraj and soon he would take possession of Suraj. Anjali could not control her tears now, she never felt lonely all these years, but not now. She felt all alone without his company. "Take him to Pre-KG 'B' " Headmistress instructed the watchman. Yet another kid's first day at school.Yet another way to fool people, happy fools day :)

The end of a looong year and a beautiful decade

2010 has been a really long and rigorous year with a mix of everything. The first half of the year was dominated by tours, trips, parties and get togethers while the later part was abysmally skewed towards reaching for professional and career goals. On a whole, an year to remember for sure where i did so many things which i never did before.

Now that 2010 is a thing of the past and so is the decade 200x. There is a tinge of sadness in the fact they will be confined to memories and history books from now on. Needless to say it was a very important decade in my life which saw my transition from a school boy to an engineering grad and then to a software engineer at Infosys technologies. It wasn't so smooth a sail but then it wasn't too daunting either. Personally, Sis getting married, birth of my nephew, college life, dad's retirement, sis's family emigrating to UK were the few notables of the past decade. Professionally its been an enriching experience with infy for the past 27 odd months in terms of learning, experience and exposure.

Let me thank each one of you who made this decade eventful, rewarding and beautiful for me and really sorry if i had been so mean to any of you guys. I hope the new decade will be a happy decade for each one of us, Happy New year 2011 :)

A blog after a long long time :)

"Change is the only permanent thing in this world", some person remarked famously (or rather i guess so); for sure i dont remember who it is nor in any mood to google it at around 12.45 am, but yes, CHANGE is invariably everything in our lives. Incidentally the last three posts in this blog were posted when I was going through a big change or when i was hoping for a change or when I was working towards a BIG change.

It's quite amazing(actually puzzling) to see how life changes drastically and it does even before you come in terms with it. A lot of people come and go out of your life, friends become mere acquaintances while acquaintances become friends, your interests, passions, mindset, attitude and everything gets manipulated to some extent some where on the way. As the new breed comes in bringing with them newer mindsets, a new plethora of thoughts and personalities and even as it augurs good hope you are still cuddled in the dark void of change. There comes a point in time when you wanna scream who the hell switched off the lights at the end of the tunnel and you slowly realize Sun has already risen past horizon; as the mist of dreams and fantasies clears itself and unravels the stark contrast of ground reality you are already too late for the bus. It's then the mad rush starts... and i can proudly (phew!) say i'm in the midst of one such race to realize my short term goals which directly maps to my long term vision of my life. With very tight timelines i dont know how successful i'll be or how long it would take to taste a bit of success...but all i know is somewhere down the line I'll be...Ofcourse I'm not the one to relent :) No clues when i'd post next, as of now signing off.