Now this one's got to be a patience tester...If you go all the way till the end then do put in your name or probably a pseudo name(of late any ways I have spent a lot of time guessing secret names!!!) ... Why I think it would be long before I have even started it, well first up I am writing this in my style which is starting of with an empty mind and then just ambling along the train of thoughts and a second reason is I have not troubled the storage servers of Google for quite some time
My train journey back home actually brought back some memories...and I realised how only a few things have changed since the first train journey (of which I have any significant rememberance). For the starters, a train journey was the best way to see the diversity of India. Take for example the diverse landscape thats on display outside or the diverse menu in dabbas of passengers or the different breakfast and lunch menus available at the stations. So much so that the size of samosas and the filling inside also change from state to state. And I guess it still the same. Families still travel with their lunch,dinners and snacks packed. The young ones still feel that the food from the peddler is always better and tastier and the wise (read the elderly) always feel that the peddled food is not clean and healthy...I did feel that way quite often..but in this journey I did miss the regular dose of tamrind rice for lunch, curd rice for dinner, a very generous serving of sweet which would invariably be gajar ka halwa. All that packed neatly and separately with a spoon each. Hmm anyways, other things like guys doing their excercise by travelling from one end of the train to the other(keeping fit is always important), the eunch demanding his/her hafta of Rs 10, the chai wala... all essentially the same. But some things do change. I saw a person who had opened his laptop and was watching a movie, the railway pantry serving soup besides tea coffee. Even the number of people buying bottled water has also increased and the age of the big Milton flasks seem to be slowly but steadily getting over.
Anyways in the vacation I did realise that decision making is probably the toughest job and no wonder the C*Os get paid so hefty. You have to make the call on some assumptions. And if the assumptions go wrong then there would be umpteen people at your ear sounding the cliche horn of "ASSUMPTIONS MAKE AN ASS OF YOU AND ME". And the best part of the decision making process is we always try to pass the responsibility to others at the earliest. Liked a quote which a pal had on his gtalk status...it read something like "There are no right or wrong decisions. We take one and then spend time to prove it right"
Come to think of it, the little status message in Gmail are wonderful things. As I was leaving home I just set the message to say I was off on vacation and lo probably who ever would be concerned about my absence from net would know it!!! I guess Google has been excellent in putting in these small features into GMAIL and others that it handles.
And a new form of Bhangra is the Volvo dance. Now a foreigner got into the crowded volvo,and as the conductor asked him for ticket he learnt the bhangra step of raising one hand then the other and then falling back a little and this continued in a loop. But I also noticed that the conductor gave a bit more respect to Mr Bhangra.
Anyways would leave anyone reading the post with an interesting article I read on IBNLIVE.
I would feel its a cheating on your spouse if you dont dedicate your full range of emotions to your spouse. I dont know what you think. I found it interesting because I feel it could happen with anyone who works in office for 8-12 hours.
Anyways lets have an abrupt end to this train journey as TIMETOBED station is here.
Luv
Prani
