So I finally did go through November without venting out on the blog!

A lot has happened since my last post. But I'm not going in to all of it now 'cause it will just be useless rant which excites no one. That is if anyone is still stopping by here at all.

I have to admit, being on facebook has actually taken away the joy of writing here. I miss the bashing - oh wait, "flogging" I could deliver here. Not that I can't do the same on FB but when you have aunts, uncles their aunts and uncles all on your "friends" list you have to be that extra careful. I first thought it was a some sick joke that someone was playing on them by putting up profile of these really old people and then I realised it was them that were playing the sick joke on me! Anyway, I'm not about liking and commenting on everytime someone breaks wind and decides to put it up on FB. But yes, it has become a part of life where people can now successfully "Catch you bro" on FB. (Is my repetition of "FB" making me fit in yet?)

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Well, it's almost the end of they year. My ambition was to get a certain digit salary annually by the end of this year - I did not get it. I guess when you're stuck doing something, you may as well hope you get paid well! The work has been extremely hectic this year, just like it was last year and the year before! But in the current setup of things, I'm not complaining (just in case the boss reads this post).

About the year now - I think it's been a good year on the whole. Nothing bad happened, so it's good!! I can't wait for the next year now, where I hope a lot of things will fall into place and I will turn 30! Don't go imagining things now.

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Richard and Ruati finally got married! I say finally, 'cause only I can tell you the rollercoaster of a relationship it has been. Okay, actually even the two of them can tell you about it! Now that leaves me next. At the wedding, most people came up to me saying that my "path was cleared now" and "you're next" and blah! I had to constantly remind them of how we were celebrating the wedding and not the clearing of some "pathway"! For the older people who said "you're next", I can't wait to meet them at a funeral. Guess what I'm going to say to them! Anyway, It was a great celebration mostly because of all the alcohol involved! And yes "I'm next"!

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What else do you want me write about? :p

I almost forgot my blog!!

Blame it on facebook, where I'm quite "active" as most people say, I have almost forgotten that I have a blog! Not that I have much to say here or on the FB page, but then my usual obsession of not wanting to go through a month without posting comes in to action ever so often! And shit, I'd almost missed the deadline!

Like I said, I don't have much to say, which also usual means that I either do not know where to start or I'm too lazy to say it. This time it may be the latter.

Things I could write about though are

1. Richard getting married (Yes! Really!!)
2. How my non-married status will be the single greatest crime in the history of mankind (in about 28 days)
3. My trip to Manila (and how I will be one more b'day celebration away from anyone that cares)
4. ... And my usual "until now" rant...

But I'll keep that for later.

P.S. Manila is the capital of Phillipines, Manali is the world capital of WEED! I'm going to the former for WORK! The next person that confuses the two (I can't even understand how if you're IQ is above 10 can you do that) will receive a post dedicated to their stupidity. And I promise hyperbole like you've never seen it before!!

My Life..

Working projects is a funny place to be in. Over the last 3 years I have made many acquaintances and even more "enemies". I have days where I'm so free, that I think I can happily get married and have children and even take lessons for them - like my mom did, and then there are days where I don't have time to take a leak 'cause I have 8 hours of conference calls one after another. I can understand all accents from the UK, US and India (except of course, The Geordie) and I sometimes find it difficult to follow what Herbert says!  I meet expectations on most days, that I know I will not meet when it matters! I know while I try so hard, just because of the nature of my work, someone will always be left disappointed. No matter how hard I try or how hard I work. To me this is the life I live and I have chosen. I can now either let my self preservation instincts take over and take it all with pinch of salt or I can let the world and his wife make me feel terrible about my existence and then have nervous breakdown or worse may be have a heart attack or something. The choice I make is very obvious.

Timelines are not the happiest success criteria to have. But for someone who in general has an OCD when it comes to time, I'm in quite a happy place. Sadly, I have work with people who do not feel the same way. Some of them don't even make it to time for the happy hours (That's where somebody invented "Time is money")!! Most people don't understand that I as a project manager am fighting every minute to now make it worth while! Well, I'm tired of doing this now. I may have become a bad friend, a bad son, a bad brother and most of all a bad boyfriend. But above everything, I have also become a bad worker, because no one is satisfied and I'm attempting to fit 48 hours in 24 hours!! But yes, I am hanging in there all by myself and wondering when will everyone understand? I hope they will. I hope they find the time to think about it - if I can use my driving time to make several phone calls, people can use their TV time to think.

I don't hate my role, I don't hate my life. I just don't like my position.

And finally there was a FB account

So I finally do have a facebook account. Most of you are already on my friends list in less than 24 hours, so you do know I'm not fooling around anymore. It's also very nice to know that 34 people have accepted my friend request and a another 14 want to be friends with me! On further investigation of "my profile" I found that my extremely shy girl friend has 225 friends on facebook!! That's 215 more than she has in real life!!! Not that I have a problem with it. Really baby! :)

So as one or two of you may have realised after looking at my extremely flattering pictures, that profile was created by Herbert and a lot of people have fallen for it, which means he will now be very happy with himself for the next 20 years! Herbert, by the way, maybe 21 years old, but let me tell you his shoe size is more than his IQ (shoe size - 10 1/2). And yet, he has managed to pull this off. Well, I have to say I'm quite flattered with all the "requests" I have been receiving, but I'm absolutely annoyed that the alerts are activated on my email and my freaking phone did not stop beeping for like 20 minutes (then it threw up blood and died!).

I did go into the account once to see what it is like to have a FB profile and really I could not be bothered that "Kenneth Dean is now friends with Suraj Kapoor" or that "Tushar M is having a long weekend" or all of that shit. The argument most people have had with me is that "you don't know what it's like". Okay, maybe not completely, maybe only 3%, maybe even lesser, but I'm just going to let Herbert talk to all the people in there for me! I will of course have seeded my spies in there to give me constant reports of what is going on. The first action from that is to get rid of those super awesome pictures of mine.

And yes.. happy "facebooking" with me! Vik, I don't know if you can, but maybe you should direct all those people on my friends list to this post! It'll be fun!!

P.S. That thing I wrote about Rami in the first para, I feel will get me into trouble, so the picture below should help. Yes, I know it's a good picture - that's why I put it up!

Not just good food..

I've had a major stomach upset for the last 2 days and have deprived my self of any solid food. So today when craving came knocking, I decided to order out from one of my favourite malvani cuisine restaurants (an important word to remember) and then I looked a little closer at the menu..

They could use the same menu if they decide to branch out as an escort service agency. Their "man" will be at your doorstep!!

P.S. "Mouth watering" - very tempting but I'll stick to the fish curry - thank you!

Stories from the last month..

So sit back.. get that beer.. 'cause this will be long (unless I get terribly bored halfway through, which is quite likely).

First, I completed a year in my company in May. It's hardly an achievement I know, but with the way I was feeling at one point, it is still something to be proud of. I have almost started believing in miracles!

I have been thinking about all the things I wanted to write and then I realised the effort it would require versus spending that time I could watch television or drink was just not worth writing an entire story. Sorry, I know I kind of built the "get your beer" scene in the beginning. But to be honest, the first two paras on this post were written about 3 days ago. So in a nutshell, I got bored and I don't really feel like saying so much any more.

Anyway, the trip to the UK (for work) was good. Interesting in a lot of ways - like traveling to 4 different places in 13 days, staying in London right next to St. Paul's Cathedral, where Charles and Diana got married, the queen celebrated her 80th B'day (yes, she really celebrated it) and most of all staying at the White Hart in Lincoln. If you really want to know why it was "most of all" click on the hyperlink. On the whole it was good.

I tried not to be "Indian" on my trip, but I was more than often hit by the Indian inside me. Example - I paid 167 pound to travel 2 hours (one way) by train to Stoke. That's how much it almost costs if i were to fly to Bangkok and back - TWICE!! Thankfully the company paid for it.

So here are some pictures.. taken from my Blackberry :)

St. Paul's from my hotel

The White Hart - Lincoln

The corridor and the door to my room at the White Hart

The Lincoln Cathedral  (where The Da Vinci Code was Shot) - This is the view from my room, notice the blind on top right.

And a tablet in the office I worked out of in London (I only noticed this on the last day)

And now the best part of being in London - two of my little nephews! I know how old I sound, but it's an awesome feeling when a little kid hugs you and says "I love you mamu"!!

That's Reeyan - the most handsome 4 year old I know, and he even has a great dressing sense (why else would he wear a Tee similar to mine)

And here's a little devil called Eric (almost Cartman). The 10 month old fought with me physically for my phone. He won when he stamped on my "you know what"! I will beat him next time!

P.S. I hope at some level I have made up for not writing for so long. If I haven't.. please go take a hike! :)

This is the best I could do right now.

Will be back soon!

Someone observed that I wrote more in March last year than I have this entire year (they even said, "let alone July last year"). Alright, so I have been very busy and lazy, which I have come to understand is a very deadly combination for your out-of-work life. But it's not like I have nothing to write about. In fact, I do have a whole load of stories to tell. But not now.. 'cause I'm in office and I do have a truck load of work to finish. But I promise it'll be sooner than later!

Just keep the faith.