When people move out of livejournal/ blogging, I have always thought they found something better to do which kept them busy.  I always believe there would be no such day, where I would dis-associate myself from the LJ world. LJ is a sort of relationship I build with myself, relationship I create and build with people I meet here, and a kind of virtual diary where I pour out myself here which is neither strictly private nor something  where I want everything I say to be heard. Though there is no classification on what I ramble here, I can share thoughts about some things here, which I might either want to just share here or know your opinion about. I really dont know how to define this relationship with myself and my blog-world.

Every time I login to the internet, the first thing I access is my Gmail followed by livejournal on an adjacent tab. I do not know how life would be without logging into LJ. I have been quite passive in my posting and commenting for some days now, not bcos I have nothing to share, just that life got clogged with too many things together, new activities, which I couldnt handle well myself. I was too stressed to handle things myself, and though I knew solutions myself, I was really experimenting with them.

At work, I was nominated to be one of the 6 people put together to organize a Day-Out event for 200 people. We had 2 months to begin with the plan. What followed was nothing but pure chaos as some people were intelligent enough to step back and some people found this as an opportunity to step in and dominate others while doing minimum work.  There were still some people, who were successful enough to maintain a High-Z state, not bothered about whats going around. Well, I did nothing but slog and run around stitching together broken links. Work suffered a lot during this time period, but since one is part of the core team working towards the event, nobody really complains.

At the end I have my own pending work piled up, innovations yet to be put into existing work, new work sitting on my desk, bills waiting to be cleared up, and the worst of it, my personal satisfaction of the event execution being a poor 5.5 on 10. Every thing has a good lesson learned in the end, so I wouldnt complain about the whole thing, as my awareness on Transport, DJ/MC, Gifts, Prizes, Audio/Video, Snacks, Resorts/beverages etc have improved quite a lot since then. Next time, I deal with similar people, I would learn to be more assertive rather than wait and watch the fun / hope for things to improve on its own.

Now back to work, Excel Sheets and Bills replaced with Grey linux terminals !

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• 17:00 Reached Bangalore safely. Now the celebration begins. #

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It's Binga time - Brett Lee is possibly my most favorite cricketer of all time, and since it's his thirty third birthday today, I'm celebrating with a mega picspam. :)




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A few expired films, some good. Revived camera, renewed interests. Happy and lazy me, happy pictures. A spanking old but new aliyan. Alls well with the world.


Amma. Everything, and a little more.


A photograph more than half a century old, but not in focus here. My uncle, younger to my father, sits in the middle with my grandparents. A stabilizer with a singularly strong will refuses to give up on it's companion of many years; a switchboard and fan regulator that have forgotten how it felt to be touched.


Where nothing is in focus, as so often in life. Must be all the beer. Windsor pub, Bangalore


Wife showing off her new body piercing. You rock girl :)


Sister straddling frames, as in life. Soon a dear friend's wife.


An old old temple, once very high up on a hill, but queerly not so high now to my near 30 self. Calm, silent and never ceasing to grip you into a time and space intensely personal and spiritual. Whats the with gods and cameras anyway?

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Guess I'm going to have to alter my default icon soon :( I hope Kimi announces what he's doing next year sooner rather than later!