Vacation week of partying, enjoyment and work tension!!

Finally, the dreaded moment has arrived - visit to my in-laws and that too for a marriage. After adopting a self imposed ban to large social gatherings, this is the worst nightmare coming true. Anyways being away from work means that I'm always mentally with my colleagues fighting it out, which will also lead to the tension. But I hope the vacation does refresh me.....And its about time I got a break! My body needs it, though my mind will refuse to rest :(

Promotion to God from lesser mortal!!!

In the current setup in India, I feel as though I've been promoted to being a god after being a lesser mortal all the time!! The reason you ask - at office I've upgraded myself to a P IV 2.8 GHz 1 GB ram machine (I was managing with P III 750 MHz 512 MB ram) and at home I've got a new system, P IV 2.8 GHz 512 MB ram CD R/W-DVD combo (I was struggling with a Pentium 450 MHz 64 MB ram with a faulty CD drive). And compared to most friends, I atleast enjoy the speed of computing if not the mobility of computing. And on a personal front, the Diwali was a blast!! I spent the first day spending a lot of money on stuff I would never have thought of buying and then ended the night with bursting plenty of crackers (sadly contributing a lot to environmental pollution on the pretext of my first Diwali after marriage) at my friends place. On the second day I was at Neetu's place for a fabulous lunch and I realized that the family there was quite the type I enjoy being with - not much fuss, very open on matters, an opportunity where both couples talk without reservations (otherwise generally interactions happen between the same genders or between the people who are friends, without care for the spouses - something I'm terribly uncomfortable with) and a son who makes everyone run around to get his way!! I came back at night to burst my share of crackers with them and it was a thrill seeing Aryan (their son) enjoy the lights and sounds. He's only closing up to 2 years in age. What a Diwali it was!! I was extremely happy and thrilled to enjoy this diwali in a looong time!! And hey, I must add that Payal was dressed in a sari on both days and she was really beautiful!! On Saturday I was at office since morning and managed to do a little bit of installations for my project. But sometimes I wonder why am I so committed to work when I go out of the way to do things. On Sunday I played quite a bit of tennis though I my service is now giving me a problem. And then I saw King Arthur - a movie that I enjoyed totally. It was definitely worth the money and I can see it many more times too, though I liked The 13th Warrior better. So my long weekend was totally fun and now I have the power to compete with the better crowd in the world of computing - any takers??

A long weekend, booze party and tennis rounds later.......

Well a cushion to last weeks extremely disappointing week - long weekend away from office, loads of booze with friends and best of 3 set match with a friend which I won 2-0. Not that I like what happened last weekend, but I've overcome it by resigning myself to be the 'scum' of the batch. Maybe my expertise lies in being a student and getting to learn stuff and take exams on them. But when it comes to career, I am a miserable failure. Who else would stagnate at a position after completing an MBA, seeing their juniors at a rank above them? Well, now I've accepted and have decided to move ahead with whatever has to come. Can't afford to waste too much time on this silly reason. True, I may have to scale down my dreams; but hey, that not something new. But then there is a catch - all this is if my good friend (actually my project manager) does not succeed to find his way around the system. He has been trying to cheer me up and will try for me and I do hope he succeeds. Thanks a lot da!! Till then I shall try and enjoy the treats of colleagues who have been promoted.

And then coming back to other things in life - I'm going to get a chance to play around with a Sun Solaris box. And I have to get my home plan approved and then the back breaking work of scouting for a loan, getting the estimates in place and get my house to look good too. All that I need to do before I leave for my vacation towards the end of this month. I need to get a new book to read and also a new bag (cause the zipper on my favorite blue one, which I had for over 7 years, conked out). Life is getting tougher and tiring, wonder how I will survive this day and any day in future!!