29-June-2008- Somewhere in North Cal.
Rarest of rare photo where we both are laughing in a same frame

buahahahaha

Today, I bunked office for couple of hours to play tennis B-)

Now the feeling of coming back has started to sink in. But still when some friends or relatives ask “ab kab aaogey” makes thing little tough.

Anyway, part of life. Chalta hai.
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First 2 days at court were miserable, I lost on both days, plus buggers (my friends) misplaced my racket, so I had to play with some stupid racket.

Also I’m a bad loser. But yesterday normalcy restored and I won both sets with ease, and also I got my beautiful blue racket back.
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It’s been ages since I had my 1-to-1 with my boss, and I really want to talk to him about couple of issues that have been bothering me and have started to affect my personal life as well. Though nothing major but still I feel like making him aware about how I feel about certain things. No worries, will handle it.
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Today morning again I got late coz of Ana – Dechy game, it was a fantastic duel that lasted some 3 and half hours, though in end Ana won but she lost some respect as she disputed one of the points won by Dechy at a crucial stage and convinced umpire to go for a “RE”.
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These days my brother-in-law is with us, he is here to explore possibilities with some universities for his MS, and he has this amazing quality of killing lyrics ,of any song without even realizing it. Yes any song, he cannot sing a line correctly, wait a line is too big for him; he can’t sing even two words correctly. I don’t know how he manages to bring weird words in between…for example yesterday he was singing “Khoon Chala” from RDB as “Khoon jala” and other day it was “Dheere jalna” from Paheli as “Dheere chalna” .
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Its better to say nothing about ongoing Asia Cup.
Boss, yeh kya mazzak ho raha hai, Hongkong, UAE ko kyu bula liya, B’desh kaafi nahi tha kya.

I'm back, I'm back, I'm back..imagine that with echo effects just like any of K' serials.

Man, its tough, I mean real tough to even think about work after 40 days break at home, though I worked for almost 100 hrs from home, but this feeling of sitting in office surrounded/hounded by boss and colleagues is a different thing altogether.

B'day was strange as expected , till 4 in evening we were busy doing shopping (buying gift for wifey, (shouldn't it be other way round; lets leave that for some other day) ), and we had to leave for airport at 9pm, so did packing in record 1 hour (although later on did lots of reshuffling of stuff)
Whole journey was uneventful, and that was a good thing.

Now, each n everyone is asking about my trip and all, and I'm tired of talking the same thing again and again.

Last year 28 days past like 2 days, and this time 40 days vacation flew past like 40 minutes, and now after spending 2 hrs in office I feel as if I never left this place.

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Yesterday, Turkey's win over Czech Republic was fantastic, somehow I had that feeling that they'll win, they looked very determined in second half specially their captain, and also world's best goalkeeper choose a wrong day to go off colour.

Customary Post

2007

2006

2005


aayee hayaat aaye
kazaa le chali chale...
apni khushi na aaye
naa apni khushi chale...

These days I’m leading a life of a retired person. It sounds fun but in reality it is not.
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Well, its not TOTAL vacation time, I’ve to complete 120hrs (at least), initially I tried to keep track but not anymore. Though its not lots of work but thoughts of doing hazaar things weighs down one.

Recently read a perfect definition of a lazy – “Someone who is always wanting to do something and end up doing nothing”
Good, they didn’t put my snap next to it.

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Its 1-0 Aussies, as I write this, WI's resistance ended by a bad call in the end.

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Next 1 week is going to be lot more hectic, lots of traveling is on cards.

When I disclosed to my friends here that I’ll be going to India in May, they all collectively gave those ‘are you mad’ kind of look. They suggested in nice manner that May won’t be the good time to be in Delhi, and it’s much nicer in Feb or March.

Only thing, I can say to them is I’ve spent my whole life in Delhi, and I’m fully aware of each and every day of season there, forget about any particular month. I know its going to very hot, it will tough to adjust from 40 degrees Fahrenheit to 40 degrees Celsius but so what.

They are right in their opinion, but when thoughts of going home cross my mind, every other thing becomes trivial, so what if its going to hot, so what if we won’t be able to visit Jaipur as we planned after watching Jodha Akbar. So what.

And now as flying date is approaching, kaam utna hi badhta ja raha hai, jitna ki mera kaam na kar ney ka mann.

Mann bhi badi ajeeb cheez hoti hai.

Only low point of whole planning is that, I’ll be flying back from India on my birthday. Just imagine it’s your birthday, and you are busy with last minute packing, and in evening leave home.

That excitement of going home led to this blunder.

jlt

Hamid Manzil, Rampur Raza Library.

If you have slightest of interest in calligraphy, old and rare manuscripts then this is a must visit place. And for new manuscrypts , this is the place.

One distinct feature of this building is it's architecture, all 4 floors of surrounding minarets have 4 different styles.

Although I don’t have any such interest, but in Feb last year, we stopped there on our way to “Golu Devta Temple”, Almora.

Ahh, now don’t ask me, why suddenly after more than a year I’m talking about this, coz’ even I don’t know :-)

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My very-short-attention span and multi-tasking disorder is hitting new lows. Be at work, or at home, I find myself juggling between at least 3-4 things. For example, while eating lunch/dinner, there should be something to read, old new paper, new news paper or any damn printed material, TV should be on, and when that becomes boring, TV goes on mute, I switch on some music and that’s also the time to make/take some calls.

Now I’m bored.

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Bas 5 din 6 raatein aur and phir I N D I A.