"2009 ..2009 ..you bloody bastard .. you are all set to kill me but mind it, I have been a fighter throughout my life and I would continue to present a fierce resistace."
Well , well , well .. I am not joking, 2009 has been the worst year of my entire life of 26 years.Every month has come up with a serious killer issue . I can write separately about every month and still I won't be able to jot down my thoughts. It has been and still is proving to be a year that demands patience.
To add to the list of ups and downs, I have fractured my left leg . I have broken one bone of my left leg and cracked the other.That bloody incident happened on July 11 2009. I will post my every emotion later but here are one line emotions(NOT EDITED) that I managed to capture on my mobile phone in the first 10 days.
July 11 : "Accident .. max hospital ...fortis.. pain"
July 12 :"my leg doesn't move ..more pain "
July 13 " No pain .. full anasthesia but once anasthesia fades away ..."
surgery time : 11am-1pm
July 14 : day after surgery "it hurts like hell .. no respite"
July 15 : " discharge date .. bloody physiotherapy "
July 17 : "extreme pain .. my leg is swelled up .. it's 4am and i am still waiting for pain to subside so that I may sleep ..ice packs don't always help"
July 20 :"plain dressing dirty blood comes out physio suggests exercise despite of pain when this ordeal would end the night was extremely heavy i woke up at 4am due to pain and heaviness in my leg was awake till 515 dont remember when i slept"
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Change is definitely good !!!
Yes, change has hit me... last fortnight , my work life took an unexpected turn when I was moved from the Analog group to the mixed signal group.To be on the frank side, I was extremely angry and confused at the transition because I was the only one to be moved out from the group.The usual things happened , the mangagement trying to explain me with their usual recession fundas and other stuff but I had no option; I had to accept and accept with a heavy heat.
At the end of 15 days , I am extremely happy at the turn of things. I am extremely relaxed now ; be it physically and menatlly. All of a sudden my pain of cervical spondilytis has vanished , almost magically.For the last one year the pain in my neck was almost unbearable with the medicines proving worthless and ineffective.Everybody including myself was perplexed , why this pain is taking so longer to subside .The doctor kept on asking me if I had any mental troubles ; I kept on declining because I never accepted that my hectic and sometimes inhuman worklife has some effect on me.Now, I have the results ; the pain that haunted me for long , putting a full stop to all my plans has sympathized with me.No more pain killers, no more sleeping pills ...yeah , I have reasons to be happy.
Another thing that has changed significantly is my involvement in extra curriculars. For long , people had accused me of having no interests in life be it movies , music or any games or sports .I can agree if they say sports but please don't comment on anything else.I need time for everything buddy ; time for myself but if I am constantly forced to come to office for 7 days a week working 8-10 hours a day , it is impossible to pursue a hobbby.May be you are thinking that I complain a lot , putting a blame on other people but ... anyways lets change the topic ; this is a debatable topic and will open up may grey areas of work ethics :)
Now the things have changed !!! I have started pursuing things that I have been thing for long ....French is the first thing , writing is second and the list continues .... I will keep u updated on the twists and turns in my life but now it's time to stop writing and go back to work !! [:)] ...
Finally , I am coming back to life !
At the end of 15 days , I am extremely happy at the turn of things. I am extremely relaxed now ; be it physically and menatlly. All of a sudden my pain of cervical spondilytis has vanished , almost magically.For the last one year the pain in my neck was almost unbearable with the medicines proving worthless and ineffective.Everybody including myself was perplexed , why this pain is taking so longer to subside .The doctor kept on asking me if I had any mental troubles ; I kept on declining because I never accepted that my hectic and sometimes inhuman worklife has some effect on me.Now, I have the results ; the pain that haunted me for long , putting a full stop to all my plans has sympathized with me.No more pain killers, no more sleeping pills ...yeah , I have reasons to be happy.
Another thing that has changed significantly is my involvement in extra curriculars. For long , people had accused me of having no interests in life be it movies , music or any games or sports .I can agree if they say sports but please don't comment on anything else.I need time for everything buddy ; time for myself but if I am constantly forced to come to office for 7 days a week working 8-10 hours a day , it is impossible to pursue a hobbby.May be you are thinking that I complain a lot , putting a blame on other people but ... anyways lets change the topic ; this is a debatable topic and will open up may grey areas of work ethics :)
Now the things have changed !!! I have started pursuing things that I have been thing for long ....French is the first thing , writing is second and the list continues .... I will keep u updated on the twists and turns in my life but now it's time to stop writing and go back to work !! [:)] ...
Finally , I am coming back to life !
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Trek to Dzongri....
"Every dark cloud has a silver lining.". I can' t remember when I first read this idiom . It was lying in some dark corner of my brain , unexperienced and unused but this year , recession provided me the necessary impetus to unravel the mystery of this idiom.
As the dark clouds of Recession loomed over the economy and everybody was fighting to survive in the storm of jobcuts , I got a much needed "forced" break for a week to rejuvenate myself.I wasn't able to classify these leaves as a boon or a bane as it was a week of LEAVE without PAY .
Due to some undisclosed reasons , I decided to take these leaves as a boon and travel to some unexplored parts of North-east India where I could find some new culture to see , some new food to eat and obviously some new places to visit.
I got the company of Mithlesh , Raghav and Gaurav on this adventure trip and our group of "four wise men" departed to explore Sikkim. We decided to trek to Goecha La but once again the dark clouds, this time that of weather loomed over us and curtailed our 7 day trek to 4 and restricted us to Dzongri only.
Oh ! Oh! Oh! hold on... the clouds had a silver lining too....For long I had dreaded to trek in snow but this time I trekked for hours in snow. God !! that was fantastic...Can you feel it?....white balls of snow falling from sky...the temperature dipping....the trek geting lost in snow.....the WHITE vegetation welcoming us.....no traces of any human for iles.....the low levels of oxygen making us uncomfortable....if I had to survive I had to go to base of Dzongri ....the meeting place of man and nature.......I told myself once agin ....Come on buddy....just do it...you can't quit after coming so far...and then the fat man decided to trudge ahead in snow.....silently admiring the beauty of nature.....
It snowed and snowed and snowed. It was the toughest and the longest night of my entire life. With the invisible sun setting at barely 3 in the afternoon , the bad weather forced us to pack ourselves in our sleeping bags hoping to see one another the next morning. The relentless icy winds threatened to blow our trekkers hut. Mithlesh's frustation was evident when he woke up at 11 in the night and almost
screamed " Abhi 11 hi baje hain , subah kab hogi".
But "subah hui mamu " but sincerely , I haven't seen such a muggy morning in my entire life. It started to snow again at 8 in the so called morning. Once again , I ran out of luck when I needed it the most ;the view of the snow clad peaks were obstructed by snowfall ; I could literally see the mighty peaks bidding us adieu from behind the clouds and snow. Unfortunately, the weather had won the game.
I have no regrets to come back from Dzongri because i lived some of the finest moments of my entire life.Probably , i am looking forward to forced leave in second quarter.
As the dark clouds of Recession loomed over the economy and everybody was fighting to survive in the storm of jobcuts , I got a much needed "forced" break for a week to rejuvenate myself.I wasn't able to classify these leaves as a boon or a bane as it was a week of LEAVE without PAY .
Due to some undisclosed reasons , I decided to take these leaves as a boon and travel to some unexplored parts of North-east India where I could find some new culture to see , some new food to eat and obviously some new places to visit.
I got the company of Mithlesh , Raghav and Gaurav on this adventure trip and our group of "four wise men" departed to explore Sikkim. We decided to trek to Goecha La but once again the dark clouds, this time that of weather loomed over us and curtailed our 7 day trek to 4 and restricted us to Dzongri only.
Oh ! Oh! Oh! hold on... the clouds had a silver lining too....For long I had dreaded to trek in snow but this time I trekked for hours in snow. God !! that was fantastic...Can you feel it?....white balls of snow falling from sky...the temperature dipping....the trek geting lost in snow.....the WHITE vegetation welcoming us.....no traces of any human for iles.....the low levels of oxygen making us uncomfortable....if I had to survive I had to go to base of Dzongri ....the meeting place of man and nature.......I told myself once agin ....Come on buddy....just do it...you can't quit after coming so far...and then the fat man decided to trudge ahead in snow.....silently admiring the beauty of nature.....
It snowed and snowed and snowed. It was the toughest and the longest night of my entire life. With the invisible sun setting at barely 3 in the afternoon , the bad weather forced us to pack ourselves in our sleeping bags hoping to see one another the next morning. The relentless icy winds threatened to blow our trekkers hut. Mithlesh's frustation was evident when he woke up at 11 in the night and almost
screamed " Abhi 11 hi baje hain , subah kab hogi".
But "subah hui mamu " but sincerely , I haven't seen such a muggy morning in my entire life. It started to snow again at 8 in the so called morning. Once again , I ran out of luck when I needed it the most ;the view of the snow clad peaks were obstructed by snowfall ; I could literally see the mighty peaks bidding us adieu from behind the clouds and snow. Unfortunately, the weather had won the game.
I have no regrets to come back from Dzongri because i lived some of the finest moments of my entire life.Probably , i am looking forward to forced leave in second quarter.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The language that is called French
Yes, after aeons I have started learning french. For a long time , I was thinking of learning French but given the hectic nature of my job or probably my time mismanagement, I couldn't pursue it. Recession, yes recession ,came as a saviour. The work load decreased and my working days reduced from six-seven to 5 days a week and there was no requirement of slogging till 7 or eight in evening. Yes and yes , I was alive yet again.I heard life calling me.....
I enrolled myself at the Alliance Francaise de Delhi last month (march 2009) for pursuing A1 level course in French. Initially, I was very sckeptical about the Institue as the method of communication and teaching is French with no English allowed there .The teachers would reply in French even if you question in English but being the the most authentic and popular place for learning french, I decided to go ahead with it.
The first two weeks were quite eventful.For the first time in my life, I empathized with nursery children who start learning English.I can now confess that it is a difficult task to learn a new language. As one has poor vocabulary in beginning,it is almost impossible to decipher what is being asked. The only answers that one has are oui madame ( yes mam ) and non madame ( no mam ).To compound one's problems , French has masculine and feminine form of adjectives as well as articles , so the problems of using correct verbs with correct gender of adjectives and articles is a bit tricky , atleast for beginners .As a result , funny instances arise in classes.
Ha ha ha ....but don't laugh on anybody as you may land in same position the next time but honestly it feels great to be in nursey again; to relive your life.
Almost five weeks have passed ( in which I bunked two weeks for a trek) and I can say that I am not absolutely zero in French now , I can atleast figure out the parts of speech in French. Yeah....it's better to understand the sentence than to reproduce sounds like monkeys. I have a test on 10May for A1 level ...lets see what happens ....
I enrolled myself at the Alliance Francaise de Delhi last month (march 2009) for pursuing A1 level course in French. Initially, I was very sckeptical about the Institue as the method of communication and teaching is French with no English allowed there .The teachers would reply in French even if you question in English but being the the most authentic and popular place for learning french, I decided to go ahead with it.
The first two weeks were quite eventful.For the first time in my life, I empathized with nursery children who start learning English.I can now confess that it is a difficult task to learn a new language. As one has poor vocabulary in beginning,it is almost impossible to decipher what is being asked. The only answers that one has are oui madame ( yes mam ) and non madame ( no mam ).To compound one's problems , French has masculine and feminine form of adjectives as well as articles , so the problems of using correct verbs with correct gender of adjectives and articles is a bit tricky , atleast for beginners .As a result , funny instances arise in classes.
Ha ha ha ....but don't laugh on anybody as you may land in same position the next time but honestly it feels great to be in nursey again; to relive your life.
Almost five weeks have passed ( in which I bunked two weeks for a trek) and I can say that I am not absolutely zero in French now , I can atleast figure out the parts of speech in French. Yeah....it's better to understand the sentence than to reproduce sounds like monkeys. I have a test on 10May for A1 level ...lets see what happens ....
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