friends first

Its been quite few days I have written something in this space ,its because of a new group of friends I have got here. Two are my room mates ,one my team mate and another my school mate.We meet on almost all nights after work chat till 12 o clock in the night and then crash. So I m not finding quality time to spend here. Anyways i m planning to blog atleast once a week lets see how it goes!

Congrats Arvind Adiga

It feels great to know one more Indian -Arvind Adiga has bagged the booker prize this time.



I think it was two months back I saw this book 'White Tiger' in our office coffee shop,I started reading the book ,never felt to keep the book back on shelf.At a stretch read more than 100 pages.It took two more visits to the coffee shop to finish that book. Coming back to the story it was about a simple Indian justifying whatever he does. It throws a new picture on Indian reality ,sarcastic at many places.I would recommend it read it if you come accross.

Feels good personally that I read this book before it got selected for booker prize :)

Life's decisions

An old pond!
A frog jumps in-
Cllickkkk (The sound of water.)

This is a Japanese Haiku.What it means(or what I understood) is that the time we live in earth compared with age of the universe is nothing but the time taken by the frog to jump into the water.Say a matter of few seconds. When I think little deep,it is insignificant amount of time we live our life on earth. And why there is lot of clashes struggle stress making our life too complex.We literally forget to enjoy the moments we spend here and always worry about something else. Why do we need to live a life where we are struggling to make each day pass by.

Am I trying to be philosophical, may be I was trying to. Why the above questions were raised by me , just because I want to make my life happy and peaceful? Most of the times when I start a conversation with my friends ,they talk about their problems in life and complexities arising out of it.Why go to to my friends my alter ego always scolds me you are wasting your time,you shouldn't have done that,you are becoming worthless,if you continue be like this no one will respect you.This sometimes leads to frustration,anger and you start to hate being you.If we reach this state life becomes miserable.But I never allow my alter ego to dictate terms over me.Its my life and I make my decisions. Yea some decisions might be wrong have hurt my parents,friends and I have felt bad for them.But we cant reverse things in life.

I have started to write about life on earth and took it my decisions ,yea few decisions make or break our life.Should we allow others to make these decisions for us.I don't know whether I would allow others to make decisions for me but I wont interfere in others decisions.Sometimes it goes to such an extent that I stop my conversation with him until the person is clear with his decision.Whew people may call this escapism,yea what a person will do when has to take care of his book load of his problems :) .But it doesn't mean I care for them.

What point I m making here by writing this??? I don't know just another piece of junk added to blog :) .

Late to bed Late to rise...

For the past 1 month I am going to office late in noon and come back late night. In many ways I like this life style as it gives lots of free time in the morning where in which I planned to do something useful but eventually will do nothing.

There are lots of the advantage of going to office in noon shift(2-10)
--->can get up anytime you want
--->no morning blues
--->Direct lunch(that too with my own delicious recipes)
--->lesser time in office

what all I miss
--->eventual evenings
--->my night reading
--->blogging

Weekend :book read:SSC movie:JK

Almost all weekends I plan something to do rather than counting crows around our house.This weekend read a book by Robin Sharma The Saint, The Surfer, and the CEO. I think I had enough of reading these kinds personality development books.Plot is too similar a person who has been depressed,low in confidence,family in trouble,searching the real meaning for life,gets a chance to meet three people in life gets inspired,back to high levels confidence.Yea it changed the life of that person but it didnt inspire me nor change my way of life. Maybe I should put a small break for reading these kinds of books at least for an year or so.
Yesterday evening we went for a movie Jeyam kondan, one good thing about going for a movie in Cochin is,it just costs you 40Rs,so we dont mind however worse the movie is.Another good thing going for a movie with friends is whatever trash they show you on screen,some funny comments here and there will never make you forget the feel you are watching the movie.I wasnt surprised to see house full on a Sunday evening but for a movie which wasnt much hit in Tamil Nadu.As far as story there nothing to say same old masala movie,wont recommend unless you have some good company to watch along with.

Lehman Files for Bankruptcy; Merrill Is Sold

Getting a job in investment bank is a dream for most of the people who pursue MBA. It was shocking to read the news on Monday morning with the above title.Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch two pillars of wall street collapsed in matter of few days. Its estimated around 30000 people will lose their job directly or indirectly.
This is also bad news for Indian IT sector as both firms has outsourced most of their back office operations to them.
Since I follow the all business news and as I work in for a BFS client this news became a matter of concern.I was thinking about the hype to get a job in investment bank and in the end of day you were being thrown out just because of few bad decisions made by the management of the company.I have heard stories from my friends who used to slog 12 to 16 hours a day working for investment banks ,now I wonder is it really worth enough to do that job.
Lets wait and see the restructuring of Financial companies and the corresponding impact felt around the globe!

Onam once again

I m celerating third consecutive Onam at Cochin ,each year has been an unique experience. From the begining of this week festive mood was felt around.Tuesday we had Pookolam competition one of my favourties this year our team ended as one of the
top three teams.The pookolam below was done by our team.