Small little work in office

I created a parking auction site today in office. We have now decided to subsidize the bus service by way of making car owners pay for parking. the website looks something like this.

People are crying foul all day long cause no one likes to pay for a service which was free so far. :-)

I have no choice and and have resigned to the fact that I have to live more frugally now.

I am a bear

Without doubt, I am a bear. Meaning I like to slow things down. I hate rapid change and overnight millionaires. I hate people who become rich by way of not working but purely speculating or cheating. Also I respect people who believe in themselves and a wholesome way of life. Unfortunately today India is in no mood to listen to me.
This is the image of current India (EON Kharadi): fast, feverish, willing to sacrifice all values or ethics, street smart and only repecting money. I feel very very uncomfortable in this kind of environment. I like it when people yearn for more peace and mental challenge rather than money and growth at all costs. I dont know if I make sense at all.

The fake IPL player blog

This has been one of the most entertaining things I have seen lately. Someone has dreamt up this idea to impersonate a fake IPL player of the Kolkata team. Its caught on like wildfire.

fakeiplplayer.blogspot.com

All about the future

Since when have I come all about the future. There was a time when I was all about the present. And now I have become to well planned that I have no time to actually live today. When I was a child I did not even think about the next minutes simply because I did not know what time means anyways.When i was in college I expanded my horizons and started to think about the next few months when exams were coming up or when big football matches were happening.

After college I being a slow expander did not think about the future more than what I in 1 day in my new job. I did not see any future in that job. In fact I did not have the ability to see future anyways.

I quit 5 jobs; doing the 6th now. Now I have changed. I have woken up to the future. And that is very bad; not the future but the thought of the future. Because the future cannot be predicted still while its very much possible trying to speculate about it. I have woken up to worrying about the future. I always missed it in my life. And now I have it. And now that I have it, I dont want it anymore. I want to get rid of it.

everything is all about the future. Up above is a picture of a brooding girl.

This picture is taken on Helsinki airport, no no its Frankfurt next to a classic Piagio Vespa scooter. Look at my face. I have stopped living in the now. My face is always whats happening next. When will I write my book if I only speculate about when will I write my first book?

Stockholm in November 08

I was in Stockholm in November 08 from 1 to 15. This was the first time I was consulting Banking division on technical topics. the trip was uneventful and mostly work only. We were located at a place called Sollentuna aand the office was 15 minutes by taxi at a place called Kista.

अक्टूबर मधले लाइफ

सध्या काही ख़ास होत नसल्या मुले बोरे जालो आहे जरा। रेमिन्ड्स में ऑफ़ थिस फोटो फ्रॉम केरला ट्रिप. I am thinking of what to do next. Big time cross roads. पोट सुत्तला आहे आणि आयुष्य स्लो जाला आहे जरा। विचार करून करून पण दमलो आहे अता। वेटिंग फॉर व्हाट विल हप्पें नेक्स्ट।

Jönköping trip

Ashwin's colleague Anders graciously invited us to stay the weekend with his family in Jönköping. This was the first time we were going to stay with a Swedish family and I was really looking forward to it. We drove down Jönköping with Anders on Friday about 300 kms from Malmo. Its a small town, the 9th largest in Sweden with about 125,000 inhabitants, in the county of Småland which is charecterized by gently rolling hills topped with dense coniferous forests. The landscape is really stunning, so thickly wooded. Its a steep little town with pretty houses perched on the slopes of the hill around the lake Vättern. And what view from the house, man!!! Can't believe they wake up to that view every day !!


Anders and his wife, Camilla have 2 children Ellen and Jonathan, 2 cuties who were a lot of fun & quintessentially Swedish- blonde, blue eyed. Jonathan took a fancy to Ashwin and stuck to him all through the stay. I don't think its ever happened before :-). The family really went out of the way to entertain us, taking us out around the area, then to their summer house. Especially the ever enthusiastic Anders, a coffee lover. He even owns his own coffee machine and was churning out great cups of cappuchinos for us.








We, first visited Gränna, a town with traditional old houses and numerous candy factories which attracts a lot of tourists. Saturday is "candy day"for the children in Sweden, so the town was full of tourists, the old and the young variety alike!!





The summer house was very very charming, in a very picturesque setting - by a peaceful lake and in a thick forest of pine trees and nearly no one around. We both wished we had one. The Swedes really know how to live!








A traditional Swedish house or a summer house for that matter is always a red-painted cottage with white borders. Anders' was really well built, it had everything.







He also had a raft ! We sailed on the tranquil lake just before it started pouring. That ride with thick connifers lining the banks was so so peaceful.. and so still.. as if nothing was moving around us. It felt like some remote island when it was actually just 15 mins from the town.




Had a barbecue for dinner in all that rain- grilled salmon ! Went down well and fast with Ashwin, for sure !!