Saturday, June 23, 2012

Place or Person


Sometimes i wonder which is the overriding factor. The place a person lives in or the person's personality itself. This was an undoubted fact in my mind . The person of course. I mean the place is external isn't it. What u r from within is what u r. wherever u r no? Apparently i have been proved wrong. This whole move to Bangalore business has turned all i believed in upside down. Now I am willing to think a place makes a person.  A man is a collection of places he has lived in (quoting with all due credit to A.S.Byatt ).
Would the rich and famous be the same if they were to live elsewhere ?

On another note : Reading autobiographies is fun. I rarely have the urge to Know more about authors.
I can count the number of autobiographies i have read all my life. But something about the this title intrigued me and I gave in. Mainly because i remember thinking what do people think about when they run. Is it the joy of accomplishment that awaits at the finish line. Is it the scenery around. or ..? Secondly it was Mr. Murakami!!!! and lastly it was a small one. :) So i finished reading "what i talk about when i talk about running" and now I need to do that long run I have been putting off

Thursday, June 21, 2012

When it rains

When it rains it pours :) no its not raining in Bangalore yet.
All of a sudden everyone is friendly and happy. They are all nice to you. Everything is in order (or so it seems) and working. Its like a sudden clearing of a bottleneck.
Happy for now!

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Flexing it

My mind is highly inflexible at times. I had not noticed this. I am thinking its because of age/experience factor. Like its very difficult to impress me now.Its very rare that something or someone blows my mind away these days. This has probably reduced my tolerance to error. Prash says my expectations are too high! I cant understand how someone cannot send a Fax to a given number. That too a person who claims its his job? ridiculous no? and when I tell the fax-guy this, everyone else gives me a "let him go lady" look. Why does everyone around not complain about substandard service? Is being mediocre the new rage? did i miss the message somehow?
On another note, Bangalore is starting to seem tame-able. Of course what we had expected was very different. But what is life if not a lesson? I have come here to try something . I WILL TRY.Its not easy. But not impossible either. Nothing can take my strength away from me.
After a lot of brainstorming and discussing (cussing more i think!) changing the route to the destination so we dont get lost (to speak metaphorically) we are here.
I have started reading again. I mean up-till-dawn type  reading and its so much fun :)