New Sense

Strap yourself for another of Haas’ insane weekends…
Saturday: Spent the morning in the search of Tattoo parlors all over Bangalore… Had lunch with friends, with I had not spent time in a very long time. Had one of the funniest conversations about “searching for bridegrooms” and all the craziness the process constitutes… Spent the evening and had dinner with my misfit buddies… One of the misfitters Saurabh was celebrating his 18th birthday so it was one crazy night

Sunday: This was supposed to be my day of relaxation… so much for plans Spent the morning upgrading my desktop to the latest Kubuntu… Most things worked out of the box but the display is still killing me Had lunch with buddies at this cool resturant “La Casa’… Lunch was again spiced up with the conversation, we were on mission to extract a sizable amount of ‘interesting’ information from a friend. That paved way for some of the most funny and crazily formed questions Stopped on the way back home to meet a friend who was leaving back to the US after her short visit

Its hard to explain the pain when you fail and you know deep down that you could have put in a better effort and avoided that… and then your team mates walk up to you and say that they were sorry… I guess a few fingers pointed at your incompetence at that time would have hurt you much lesser than knowing deep down that you were partially responsible and also knowing that your teammates believed knew that you gave your best…
Its probably fair that you lost sleep over it for a night and came back the next day with the determination, not to stand up to others expectations but to your own…

Sometimes certain lines just get stuck in your head and start playing in a loop… I wonder why that happens?

Anyway, I was moments away from my presentation yesterday… feeling all nervous and all, trying to remind myself all the lines and all I could think of was these amazing lines from the song: Main Jahaan Rahoon from Namastey London, Lyrics by the brilliant Javed Akthar and sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Kehne Ko Saath Apane Ek Duniya Chalti Hai
Per Chhupke Is Dil Mein Tanhaayi Palti Hai
Bas Yaad Saath Hai
Teri Yaad Saaath Hai

Listen to the song

Its not hard to tell when someone is good at something… but its only when they are in their element and running against unfathomable odds that you can truly see what geniuses are made of.

I recently had the honor of watching a genius at work and his imagination, ability to innovate and attitude was simply humbling… Now I know the difference of being good and being great

Last week was just crazy… Everything under the sun happened in and around me… Lets see if can keep this post short….

* Mom and Dad are out of town for about 12 days(since last monday) and I am home alone. This is the first time ever that I have been home alone for a such a long time…
* To add to the fun I had something on monday evening for dinner and ended up terribly sick on tuesday morning. I could not retain anything I ate and was weak as hell… Coupled with being home alone it leads to a lot of scary situations coming to your mind (Even thought of a nice headline where I my body would be found a week later )
* Took Tue off from office and nursed myself back to health… That was a first ever! I have never missed my mom so much in my life but I am happy I went thru that…
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