Busy Busy

Been really busy. My 10 month old is taking most of my time away. Time just flies watching all her antics. Wifey is on a traveling job now. Monday to Thursday. Just visited my blog because of an anonymous user who decided to write a spam comment on one of my posts. It was all about sex which I promptly deleted and thought.. ok let me write a post as well.. and thats it.
darn.. gotta go to a meeting now.

All Good Things...

...come to an end. An excellent week is coming to an end. I got to stay at home all week. Work from home. No travelling. Needless to say my wife was very happy and so was I. I'm getting ready yet again for my travel routine.
Moving has a lot of pros and cons. You move away from friends but get to make new friends. But there is this initial period where you don't know anyone. And its kinda uncomfortable, since my wife's staying alone for the whole week while I roam around.But thanfully for us, we got to meet another couple(G & A) who moved in recently, through a common friend K. We found we had similar interests and hit it off from day 1. We found out how we equally dislike this common friend. He is so dislikable. He loves to poke his nose into others business and totally indiscreet. He can't take a hint and gets on my nerves all the time. We have fun talking about him and trashing him. More about him later.
Me and my wife enjoy animation movies and make it a point take a trip to the Movies to watch the new ones.At home we generally like to watch the popular cartoons like Tom and Jerry and anything by disney and laugh like silly. They are like that too. It was amazing since most of our other friends make fun of us saying we watch cartoons like kids.
This week, after a long time, I got to do something I used to love. I was crazy about Video games. I still am. Since I was at home this week, and we had moved to CA, I dusted up my GTA San Andreas which is based on the West coast and played to my hearts content. I drove like mad, ran over rival gang members, looted, robbed, beat up drug dealers, knifed, shot and killed rival gang members with gay abondon. Ah.. it was bliss!! To top it all, I found out our new friends, er atleast the guy G is totally into games himself. We had so much to discuss about each of the different games, swap CDs, hints etc. And our wives got something to crib about and complain to each other.
I can say life is getting better. Things look good. I hope soon I will be able to settle down here or somewhere else with a non-travel job.

Warm Up

You have a blog. You have lot of time on your hands. But you've absolutely nothing to write about. Life goes on serenely and nothing happens at all. Day in, Day out.

Then one day everything changes. Lots of things are happening simultaneously. You are way over your head in it. Decisions to be taken on the financial, professional and personal front all at the same time. Big move from down south to out west, yet flying in and out every weekend..

I have a hundred different things to write about but not one single spare second. The worst part was I didn't have time to visit all the blogs I used to read everyday. Ferrari, Curious, Gayathri, Gawker, SK, Kodumai , tysonice and so many more.
And then Curious gave me a "wake up call". And that is the reason for this "warm up" post. I hope to post more frequently from now onwards.

Ice Ice Baby

I opened the door. It was beautiful. The whole world was white. The leaf-less tree limbs covered with crystals of ice through out the sunlight in all directions. It was all shiny. I took a single step. whoooooosh!! screeech!! $%^%$*%*. I failed to notice that the ground was covered with a layer of hard shiny ice. Thankfully I regained my balance and averted a painful collision between my backside and the hard pavement. I stood there afraid to move. Slowly tried to take a step and again I lost balance. After thrashing about wildly and doing various types of snazzy dance moves, (I really dont know how many of those indian families in the nearby apartments watched my performance that day) I managed to place my feet in ankle deep snow. The cold promptly started seeping through my shoes, socks, skin, tissue and upto my bone. Anyway I managed to plod throught the snow upto my car, which was ofcourse encrusted in a box of shiny ice. I held on firmly to the nearby vehicles took out my weapons, broke the ice and brushed them away. I must've looked like a primitive cave-man.I literally skidded and skated my way to the airport, praying all the while that I shouldn't end up like the poor sods sitting pretty in the ditches with their big SUVs waiting for help to arrive. I hate those big SUV types, with all the extra fittings, who think they are invincible in any type of weather conditions. Ultimately they end up in ditches because of this, sometimes taking other poor sods, like me, with them. To cap it all, it started raining and visibility became very poor.
After all this I obviously did miss my flight and ended up paying a penalty to get the next available flight home. Texas!! home sweet home!! Well, atleast for now.

endhrichiten.. varaen..

I'm gonna start blogging again.. err ippo thaan start panna poren.. full swing la.. India la irundha varaikum lot of work.. now kinda ok.. so beware bloggers!! here i come..

Happy Independence Day!!

Wish you all a very Happy Independence Day!!

My Best Friends Wedding... @ Aruppukottai

R, one of my good friends in college, got married last week... minus one from the dwindling list of bachelors in our group...

Well we, whoever is left in chennai, rather India, decided to attend the wedding...

N booked the tickets and me, N, P and Ra boarded the bus to Aruppukottai...

We reached there early morning, quickly freshened up and rushed off to the marriage hall...

The marriage and reception were over by 10:30..

and we didn't know wat to do the rest of the day...

We said our good byes to R and left the hall and started on our tour of the small town of aruppukottai.. in the hot sun (veyil). missed the first day, first show of veyil so decided to watch the matinee instead at the Ilayarani theatre... We had a lot of time to kill till 7 PM to take the bus back to chennai!!.. spent some time on a tea kadai bench, drank an impossibly oversized elani each...

Then by luck we found a browsing center.. whiling away time checking mail.. went to a restaurant and had lunch.. came back to the theatre and watched the movie..

Then back to the bus stop..

On the whole, it was fun to spend the day with college friends, sharing the same old camaraderie which never diminished after all these years!!

Test Blog

Sending a test blog post from my email id to see if I can post it this way..
blogger.com is blocked in office.. so trying out alternatives...

My first post

Hey ppl,
After much deliberation ... I've decided to let myself into the crazy world of blogging...
I seriously donno why i'm doing this.. but still here I am...
Watch this space for more interesting stuff..