Back to Work :(

Vacation time is up…
Have to start working on my Thesis… It is such a pain.

The best days of this month

He is leaving today .. We had such a great time together… On the bike, discussing our future, boat ride in the lake..

We even celebrated our two year anniversary. We started our day by playing pinball and and scored highest ever scores. We discovered how to get extra balls using hyperspace bonus .. had a great lot of fun.. This was followed by a trip to Hakone gaming centre in Powai for a game of bowling .. I think it really was our day in gaming.. I scored quite a lot. with a strike and a spare. even though it was just the second time I tried my hand at bowling.

We spent some time at the Aarey road, with a quiet boat ride. It was very scenic with the ducks paddling around us, and lush green trees surrounding the lake. We had our usual masala doodh at the Aarey sarita.

The day was concluded with a romantic dinner at Fine Dine restaurant in Nirmal Lifestyles. The place really rocks. It had French windows with a nice view of the Mall. Plus, the seating arrangement ensured adequate privacy. The service and the food were excellent. The place is quite pricey, but it was a special occasion afterall

These two years of my life have been pretty special. Even though we have had a long distance relationship, we have really sailed though it. Our fights are never very serious, and whenever he comes back home, we pick up from where we left, its like we were never apart

The next few years are also going to be similar, in the sense, we will have to have a long distance relationship, but our bond is strong enough to sustain it. Moreover, we are, by now, quite used to this long distance thing.

Wishing us a great future together

~S

Apur Sansar

Just saw Satyajit Ray’s “Apur Sansar”.. What an amazing movie. The tale is so simple, but so beautifully told.

Apurva Roy and his new bride make such a cute pair. The casting is great. Especially Kajal, Apruva’s son. A must-watch movie.

Why don’t we see any such movies any more

Pics from Goa trip

A few of my favourite pictures, amongst those took from my digicam during my recent trip to Goa.

The above pic was taken from the private beach of Cidade de Goa.. After we bunked the last few lectures in the conference

and the last one..

Satyajit Ray

Just read a post from Desi Pundit about Satyajit Ray’s movies – ‘Apur Sansar’ and ‘Pathar Panchali’. And, since I am so lukkha, I downloaded these movies. Lets see how they turn out to be. Have heard a lot about Ray’s movies. Will post a review soon.

I wish it hadn’t happened

This was something I wrote a few days back, when I hadn’t started blogging. It is about me, P and one of my ex – very good friends C. She was my closest pal during my early engineering days, but she did something that made our relationship bitter for life.

Written on December 23rd 2007
Feeling absolutely depressed ( .. he is leaving for Ahd.. and i feel like crying, but i cant … coz I have promised him that ii wont.. see I am brave ..
Anyhow, I wont bore u with the usual love him-miss him stuff.  Just had my recent trip for the HiPC conference trip to Goa. It reminded me so much of the time we had spent in goa during the IV.. the bus journey, the cards, the talks…… everything..

It makes me miss him even more. Goa led me to so many memories; the times when we used to chat all day – all night long. I have bared my soul to him. He knows me better than myself. We talked arbit-random childhood incidents to deep secrets. Even stuff i wud be scared to say to anyone. My beliefs, my thoughts, things that scare me, my insecurities, my likes, my dislikes, what i feel about almost everything in the world. The list of stuff we talked in simply endless. I simply cant imagine we are approaching the 2 year mark. Its amazing how time flies when we look back.

It also reminded me of our favourite topic for chat. Miss C. I really don’t know what she had against me that she told me such lies against him. I met her today, tried to bury the hatchet, but somewhere in my heart it still pains. Something isn’t quite right. I guess it can’t be helped. I couldn’t help thinking that I did steal P from her. After all she was the one who used to interact more with him. She considered him as her best friend. Someday I come along and they started having fights . P assured me that the fights has started long time before I entered the picture. Her behavour with him used to be eccentric, leading to fights. Anyways, after P and I started getting closer, she started behaving weirdly. We hardly talked, even though we sat next to each other in class. Thankfully I had A(another very goof friend of mine) to support me during that time. She knew very well what i was going through and I confided a lot in her.

I just wanted to write about the relationship between the three of us; P , C and I. I still don’t know what i feel about her. The only explanation I have is that she really liked P, and i do not mean like a friend, but had probably not communicated it to him just assumed that he felt the same, since she was the girl he talked most too. Fortunately(for me) he did not feel the same. She could not handle the fact that he paid more attention to me, while ignoring her, around Goa time, she started hanging with R n S, since she didn’t have many other options to turn to.. A n D she did not prefer.. and anyways it was doubtful how much they would really support her against me. Her other good friend was P, who was now with me. This continued throught the semester, during which she tried to dissuade me as much as she could from hanging out with P, while she herself worrying all the time why P wasn’t on good terms with her.

Now that so much time has passed my anger(don’t have a better word for the feeling for her) has dimmed. She was a good friend before all this happened, so i want to be good friends with her … try to forget the things that happened between us, remember only the good times(big words, but i really mean them) anyways she wont be around here.. but Istill want to remember her as a good friend. I am not being any saint here, I do owe her a lot. She has also contributed to what i am today. She has been a very good friend for most part. I had a lot of fun with her the PJs, gossips, general fundae sessions.. will miss all those good times ..

Job??

So, we just had our placements last month and I got selected in a development firm in Banglore. Now, my dilemma is this: Should I try to get a position in a R&D firm or should I stick with my current offer. Let me give you some background first.

Since I have been a Mumbai-ite throughout my life, and also since P is going to be in Mumbai.. atleast for the next couple of years, was considering working in a firm only in this city. But alas, this city has so few job options, that I had to apply for companies elsewhere too. I got placed in in the first 3 days, in a reputed development firm(A) . I had never even thought that I could get such a good offer. It seemed too tempting to join this firm in banglore for a couple of years, before returning to Bombay.  My initial plan was to just sit for placements, applying to all the companies coming to campus, and get an offer. I could later apply off-campus to companies in Mumbai. But my offer is far too good from any offer I could get in Mumbai. The work seems pretty good too.  So, after thinking a lot, I finally came to a decision that I would be joining A, work for 1-2 years and then come back here.

Now, the other problem is that there are these research and development labs which are considered pretty “cool”. I dont know yet whether I would like to do a R&D job or a simple development job. Another firm (N) has shown interest in interviewing me for an R&D job, and I turned them down, saying that I am happy with my offer from A. The main reason for refusal, however is that there are absolutely no R&D firms in Mumbai, where I plan to live.  Did I do the correct thing by refusing them?? or should I have given it some more consideration?

Hello!

My first day blogging at wordpress… After two unsuccessful attempts to blogging at blogspot, I decided to try wordpress. I hope this blog lasts longer than its predecessors.

Let me introduce myself. I am S, a Post-grad student, at IITB. I have 6 months left to finish my degree, after which I plan to shift to Bangluru. Life as I know is going to undergo a major change. Apart from professional changes, there are things happening on the personal front too. I am getting engaged to my boyfriend of 2 years P in April. There are many issues that I need to think aloud about, and things that I am confused about. I decided to start blogging, so that I could put my thoughts clearly, and think rationally about the choices I have to make.