Driving past the beats

Don't mix your personal and professional lives- Its one of the most cliche'd lines that you'll most definitely get both at work and at home - But why on earth would anybody say that??? I cannot but do that- Hell, if my mind is all mixed up with the anxiety of some news from home or clogged up with some yesteryear fight then i just cannot seem to concentrate on work. I barely get anything done and fret about it much (well much much )later. Likewise if i have some work left unfinished, I think about it even while i drive/ride... at times i drive home almost about 7 kms without even realising that I was driving!! so watchout for arch on busy days B'lore roadies ;)
PS: Ive also learnt the art of rash driving at Blore. learn it unless u really want to start right after an early breakfast and get to work just in time for lunch!

PSS : On a completely different note, to people new to Bangalore/Hyderabad/Chennai i found >This site rather useful..

The other end of the trip - B'lore beats

Bangalore, late mornings, early swim, traffic + dust storms, the santro , helmet, no cooking, my darling nephew , new friends(not to forget friends made whilst stuck in traffic), Skittles, slashing rains, 730, essays, WWE, Coffee with Karan, standing on the seat and blowing the candles to my birthday cake with the hosts dancing around the table, sans phone, the Railway station, a lost jacket, a series of great cricket matches... Shantaram...Inspired !!

Despite the changed realities, i yearn to be back at chennai, to sleep in my room, to be able to be with my gparents who always greet me and treat me like I just got back from the USA, to be able to meet people whom I've known for something of a lifetime...

The corniest of things to say .. home sweet home ...Nothing beats being there.

Power Packing!!

Dinner at cascade, lunch at beverly, getting caught by the cops -the citi centre, 'life in a metro' ,'achu enda amma', mayajaal, metro shoes, kanchipuram, my kitchen, dosa at woodlands drive in, Arun ice cream, coffee day, Ocean's Thirteen, Evam's python hyssteria, Driving to work, the beach, Oracle corp, pizza hut, Citibank on the roof, mehendi party, but...... to top it all....

SHIVAJIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!

enna...summa adhiridu la ???!!!!!

My shadows ..

I keep coming across days when i regret so much about the past. I shouldn't but i wish i had that one month , that one day to change some decision, to have had a conversation, to have spent more time .. i keep collecting days and none seem to outweigh the days i wish i had back.

Visual whoaaaa!!

I bumped into this when i was surfing yesterday.. strange that it did describe me pretty well...try it out!

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arch who?

my hand trembles when i hold the pen . ive forgotten to write . i stay longer hours at work - forgotten my social life . i barely listen to my music - ive almost given up reading- i dont do the crossies on the bus ride- i get so tired by the night that i dont dream anymore- ive lost touch with my soul - i just dont think i am arch anymore.

and sometimes its not such a bad thing....

my comfort zone

Its a chill friday- Not really an eventful day- nothing much to do at work either,(well its the friday evening indolence, but u dont have to know that!! )I sat back with a cup of tea in hand thinking of the last month- Meeting up with my best friends who'd come down for their 'holiday in india'- happiness, a tinge of excitement, a dash of lost memories, most of all, cartloads of fear - worrying if i'd ever think the way they did anymore, worrying if i'd gel into their new found American life- were we really just a table apart? New friends, relationships, jobs, lifestyle-growing up in general -I had my fears- but then again moving ahead of squabbles, people and attitudes - despite years of separation and disconnect- i realised that somethings never change. Walked back in , tea still in hand, a silly grin accompanied.