I am back!!!

After a brief hiatus of a month following internships i am back for good.. Enjoying the time out at home and immediately after getting back to college, finally i find the time to look back into my imprisoned mind and unleash some writing once again..

The weather here has been awesome and the incessant downpours just makes you fall in love all over again.. By far, the most romantic place one can be in at any point of his lifetime and it is ironic that i happen to be here during my study years.. But who said we are here only to study.. Break the rules if there were any.. Rewrite them as per your needs..

As i type i am getting irritated by this word correction that google is throwing up and underlining in red even all the correct words.. Either my settings have changed if its only my problem or else the word correction software of Google has gone for a toss.. Whatever it is, the crux of this blog is that i am back and i hope more will follow this blog..

Getting a high!!

Its the start of the weekend and there is nothing more greater than getting on a high and chatting/playing or doing anything until that subsides.. The entire time that you are on a high, just keeps you floating and you have that happy feeling that everything is great.. It also makes you be yourself sans any consideration for the limits posed by the outside world.. You become chatty, become an extrovert and seem to hit on conversations on anything.. It literally makes you gregarious..

Exactly the same kind of feeling that i have explained here, that makes so many alcoholics become addicted to it.. Every time i pass a wine shop or bar, i see hordes of people lined up outside buying alcohol to get that high and forget their hardships for those few hours.. I have been against this and will always be.. I enjoy being on a high.. But that doesnt make me an addict.. I know my limits.. I know when to stop drinking and beyond which, i would lose consciousness or will be only doing gibberish talk.. So even though i drink, i do it socially.. A term that corporates have started to use to justify their drinking habits..

But anything consumed beyond a point becomes poison and that is what even alcohol does to you.. Your life slowly erodes away in front of you until you finally drop dead.. The point i am trying to make is simple, you want to get a high, good enuf.. But know when to stop and always remember.. You are the one consuming alcohol and dont ever let the alcohol consume you..

My first omelet!!

Yesterday, i made my first omelet, the way i wanted to.. Not that i haven't made omelets before in my life.. But yesterday, i kinda felt tat it was the perfect one.. The one which you had always longed for.. I always loved the way my Dad made omelets for me.. He uses onions, tomatoes and chillies and makes them really fluffy.. I have been wanting to make such a one for a long time.. Yesterday i got that opportunity..

For any successful event, there needs to be an audience who would say that it was good giving you the impression that it was indeed a grand success.. So with both of us really hungry, i proposed the idea that we have omelets.. So i went about cutting the tomatoes and chillies and crying with the onions.. Finally when the ingredients were ready, battered them up and made a huge omelet.. Err.. a small problem, we didnt have a ladle big enuf to flip the omelet.. So i had to use the knife and broke it into many pieces.. In the end it turned out just the way i wanted it to.. N M was there giving me his praises for the omelet.. How happy I am.. Now I too have joined the league of single male cooks..

Last week!!

Finally, i see the beginning of the end.. I have come to the last week of my internships and can already smell the aromas of dosas and sambars which i have missed so badly.. More than that, its Chennai that i am looking forward to.. Many told me that internship is a period of learning that i need to put maximum use to.. I tried that, for starters, staying late and trying to read up all things about finance and my company.. For the first week my mentor had to urge me to leave.. Then second week onwards, i was a new leaf.. No more nudging from my mentor to leave.. I was on my way out before he even knew..

So what happened? Somewhere down the line, i lost interest.. Maybe it could be the not so challenging work that had been given to me.. I guess i was expecting too much but something let me down.. During this post-mortem of the last month or so that i have been as an intern, i find only one thing.. My knowledge of finance has improved.. But was it because of the intern or something else.. True, that i learned a lot during my internship period..

But the fact is where did that learning come, if it was not from my intern work.. Since i was staying with people who happened to be the ultimate fin geeks, something got rubbed onto me, i guess.. I started reading on the fin books at home.. Even the non-fiction books about fin.. I have never enjoyed non-fictions but now, i was nuts about such books chronicling the dooms of the financial world.. Something sparked in me and i have been going on a song here.. It has made me register for an exam which before the internship, i was dead sure against writing.. So its all happening.. I just hope i am able to maintain the frenzy that i am in now.. Lets see what the fin geek in me has got for itself..

Beads of sweat!!

I hate to go to office for one major reason.. Travelling in the heat in the morning that makes you sweat like a pig.. By the time you reach office your deodorant which is supposedly to keep you fresh is fully worn out and all that remains is stink from your sweat.. Seeing ads about deodorants that keep you fresh for 24hrs is total crap.. Wonder if they can sustain even half an hour morning travel in Mumbai local..

As i canter through the local trains and then onto an auto every morning, the humidity takes its toll.. Little beads of sweat form all over your body till whatever place you can feel.. And then the sweat army marches on flowing all over.. You just feel like ripping your clothes apart and getting into a pool of cold water keeping the sun away.. But unfortunately this is no filmy dream sequence.. You have to reach office and hence gotto survive this sweat slaughter..

Once you reach office, the first whiff of air conditioned air that blows on you feels like heaven.. It definitely feels like transcending between two worlds.. Leaving the hot, sweaty place and going into the cool, dreamy realms.. And then your work starts.. Whether you love your work or not, i am sure if you are an office-goer travelling by buses and locals, you are definitely gonna be hating your travel all the more..

Pangs of guilt!!

The hardest time in a relationship is when you break up and have to move on.. Nothing is more cruel than that.. In spite of you breaking up for a multitude of reasons, the fact that you once had a memorable relationship with that person still lies.. There definitely would have been lots of ups and downs in a relationship.. In fact that is what relationships are made of.. The small skirmishes, arguments that turn into a full fledged fight between the two and in the end when you realise that all of them started because of matters that didnt are so insignificant that it makes you look stupid.. These are the moments that make a relationship feel heavenly..

The feeling that there really is a person for you with whom you share things, reason it out and spend time together are the cornerstones of relationships.. No relationship would survive if you dont give it the time and patience that it requires to fester itself into a healthy one.. So all it takes is perseverance and the will to hold on to that person whom you know make up your life..

But as they say everything that has a beginning has an end too.. There are many moments in a relationship when you hold onto it so tight that you dont know what your partner is upto or do not care if even the other person doesnt love you anymore.. All that starts to matter is the relationship and the comfort that you get from it that you become blind to these relationship breaking facts.. But when it doesnt look as good as it is supposed to be, its always better to let it go. That is the best for the both of you irrespective of the feelings that may still cling onto you.. True that little pangs of guilt might linger in your heart when you think of those wonderful moments that you shared.. But that is always better than the realisation that you are together but have lost the love for each other..

Hard Rock Cafe!!

If you are a party animal and in Mumbai, then this is one place you shouldnt miss for anything.. I am not a social animal but am definitely a social drinker.. So after hearing a lot about this place and looking at its lineage, i jumped once my friends suggested that we go there for the weekend.. And so it was decided that we would go on saturday..

After meeting up in Dadar, we headed towards HRC.. The first thing that hit you once you entered it was its huge space, dim lighting and the posh crowd that thronged the place.. Since we made a late reservation, we had to wait at the bar, but thanks to us reaching there very early that we saw lots of empty seats and occupied them.. Then the same got assigned to us.. Thus we were 12 of us fitted into a sofa that could hold only 7..

I ordered the favourite here, the long island iced tea.. and my friends ordered purple haze, berrylicious for themselves.. The fudge sundae is a must here.. They serve it in a huge bowl that can serve 4 easily and the price is just the same as the drinks.. The chicken kebabs were also awesome side kick for the drinks..

As you slowly sip the iced tea and listen to the beats being played, the volume just kept on rising and as you are getting a high, the volume and your thumping heart all concoct into a wonderful experience like never before.. Since this is my first time in an actual metro pub, i was blown away by the hard rock cafe experience.. It was getting crazier as it went into the night.. An experience i wouldnt forget for a long time..