2010 - Year roundup

January 2010
Eleven months for my exam, and then two months till the results come. Two months, that’s sixty days of absolute unrestricted freedom. Now, that’ll be the time of my life. I’m going to forget all this work, studies, classes, tension and reflect back on the past few years, and just do everything my mind feels. I haven’t had much rest, or time to sit back and relax with my mind at ease, ever since I joined for my course, i.e, ever since my school days were over. I’ll put my whole mind to the exams right now, with absolutely no distractions, and make up for it during the two months. Yes, what glorious two months they’ll be! I just can’t wait!

April 2010
God, it’s getting shittier by the day. The portions seem never ending, and so do the dreadful stories associated with how tough the exams are, and how they keep getting tougher every time. Its been three months of studying, and godknowswhere I stand. Anyway, there are the two months after exams. If only there was a time traveller. Travel, yes, that’ll be something I should do after the exams. Just pack my bags, switch off my mobile, and zoom! Two weeks, that’s fourteen days out of the two months for travel. Random places, random people. It’s going to be surreal..! And there are still so much more for me to catch up on! Books that I’ve kept pending for reading, movies, hmm maybe I’ll learn something new too, lets see, some musical instrument. Oh I forgot. I’ve got to hit the gym. No six pack, no big dreams, lets see if anything good can be done with my body, at least to reduce the bulging belly! And I’ve got to update my long-ignored blog.

July 2010
Now life’s getting better. Yes, there is studies, and it’s getting heavier by the day, but nothing can dampen my mood now. The whole world seems to be with me, the chirping birds, the soothing wind, the lovely songs on TV, what, even my stupid mobile hasn’t troubled me for some time. Nothing can go wrong! Now, if only the exams were over!

October 2010
Everything’s strange. I’m happy, yet sad. I’m tensed, yet not tensed. What’s happening to me! Why am i feeling quirky! This isn’t going like how I wanted it to be. Maybe I’m just going through the exam tension phase. Maybe that’s gotten into my head so much that I can’t think straight. Yes, has to be that. Just wait for the exams to get over, and it’ll be alright. Oh yes, I have the two months with me. Strange, been some time since I even thought about the two months. Hmmm.

January 2011
It’s the second of the two months, and it’s about less than ten days when the two months time would be over. Now that I look back upon it, it’s gone not at all like how I’d planned it to go. God, 2010 was some year. It gave me fun, joy, sadness, and most of all, it gave me hopes. Only to break it at the end. What a roller-coaster of a year that was! I had promised myself of no distractions till the exams got over, and I wonder if I’ve kept the promise. If only I had, maybe I wouldn’t actually be feeling how I am right now. The exams weren’t great, and the two months haven’t been great either. I’ve done nearly nothing that I had planned to do. The travel plans were abandoned, I’ve not managed to read any book recently, there are no blog posts, and I still haven’t joined the gym.

Guess it takes more than two months to repair a broken heart.

-SRINIVAS 

WOMEN - EPISODE -2

With Jerry it has been an eventful life. She knows how to make it interesting. She always tells me, “baby we are a balanced couple, we romance at the right time and when it gets boring we fight it out to love each other more.” Very true. She is one of the most ‘sensible females ‘I have ever met. But still she is a ‘female’; that smaller part of the previously mentioned label makes her think, speak and behave ‘Non sense’ sometimes.

I have been talking all negative about women till now. But today being the second day of this very New Year I would like to be honest to you. Women are not that bad too, as I have been portraying them. Frankly I have learnt a lot from them. How and what?

For that I will start with Jerry. She is a self motivated and a highly determined girl. She never gives up on anything which she has started and she wants to complete. Her determination is so strong that solutions come finding her. I have an incident to mention here. This happened when Jerry and I were just good friends.  Jerry joined one of the personality development workshops in which I was a volunteer. My intentions were mean. I wanted to increase the number of participants when I asked her to join. She did it for me, just the faith in my words. There she was a part of a group, who were given a task to make money without any revenue in their hand. Believe me at the end of the task which lasted around 4 hours this group had 800 bucks with them. Jerry carried this group to glory. She inspired the rest with her determination and hard work. They got a few roses from a shop and requested the shopkeeper that they would pay him in sometime. She sold these roses to the rich people around for five times the actual cost. And the rest continued this. Here she was a leader. She inspired and guided the rest without any personal intentions. That’s selflessness. Today by taking an example out of her I do the same and I realize life gets better following her.

It doesn’t get over here. At all the steps I have fumbled she was there to support me and inspire me. For a man it’s his good lady who understands him completely and for me it’s my Jerry. A life without her would be a disaster.

Ms X my senior at office; though very mean, is an interesting person. She is full of energy. She is a kind of person who can get double the output from a person he/she can deliver. Even the laziest of lasses in office who under her, work really hard. Forget about the men under her. They just have horror tales to narrate about their office. I always wonder how she does that. Still no clues about it. I wish if I could do the same with Ms Y and Ms Z.

Who doesn’t have stories to tell about his mom? I call her mummy. Mummy has always been besides me like a friend, to correct me, to listen to all what I said, to inspire me, to dress me up, to make me climb up in life and to what I’m today it is all her hard work. If I’m writing today, it’s because of her. She was my first source of encouragement.[Jerry surely helped me in restarting the long lost hobby]. She is one who can do anything for me and my happiness. It is so unconditional. I always think where she gets all this energy from. I cannot imagine pumping out so much of energy unconditionally. She can fight with the whole world for me. Alone! I have learnt to fight for right from her. I have learnt to love from her. I have learnt to be a human from her. When I’m in pain I just think how much my mother would have suffered giving me birth and then my pain would go off. I guess I’m getting very sentimental. But I think all would have similar stories about their mothers.

So girls thanks for being around because it is you who completes us (guys).

Tom

WOMEN - EPISODE -1

Hey guys…and yeah gals of course. Well I have been reading this blog regularly… and its been great… the owner herself is doing a great job. So something came to my mind. And I think I should put it up to all of you.

This is Tom. Hi to all… This one is going to be interesting because its simply on the most interesting thing god has created…… Women. This would be a long one. So I have requested the blog owner to put it up in Episodes.

Interesting for guys, because they just love to look at them and definitely do more which I don’t want to describe here. But I’m sure they don’t like to carry them along too much. I know it’s a pain guys. I myself have been into this many a times and each one of them unbearable in one or the other way. They are very diverse creatures but with a similar function. For gals… they always want to know what the other one is up to. When god created them he made them beautiful but forgot to give them an operational brain. So to cover it up he created guys, with brains and definitely good looks. So that way Adam was created after Eve.

That’s history. Today these creatures have become more dangerous. Now they have started operating brains. To destroy men… How???

I’m going to tell you how it happened to me.

I will start with a few at my office. That’s one place I would like to avoid women. Office would have been so peaceful without them. When at work it’s really worship for me, and in between this worship the Satan can spoil it all. The nature of my work does not allow a lot of them at my office. For that I just thank god.

This one is a senior of mine. Ms X. She is supposedly an engineer, but when she is on visit to my area of work she becomes an outspoken, irritating critic of my work. Doesn’t she have anything else to do in this world? Man, office is for working, not for screwing up somebody else’s work. She calls it “Time Pass”. So when she gets bored she comes out of her cocoon and breaches the territorial zone to my work place. How selfish? I don’t know when I’m going to manhandle her. Yeah. I know, I know, I’m a gentleman. My gentleness is stretching too much on this. But she is intelligent enough, to stop it just below the threshold I would reach. Then she smiles at me… and she would say, “Now I feel refreshed, time for some work”… and she would happily walk away. All this easily takes an hour out of my schedule, half an hour listening to her nasty comments and the rest to come back to senses.

One would think how can a junior colleague trouble you? Females wherever, whenever and however are troublesome. So I have two under me. Ms Y and Ms Z. Though they are different in many ways, but they have one thing in common; they can talk on and on and on and on. But they don’t talk constructive. It is gossip all the time. They both have such shrieking voices, that eardrums  around can rupture easily. The worst part is they would be doing this at some corner of the office when I would be loaded with files and technical stuff around me. They are never there around as a working hand. And if I get to see them and ask for the reason for their absence from the place, they were supposed to be at, they would just keep their gob shut. If I raise my voice losing my patience, I would virtually see the NCW (National Commission of Women) placards around me.

There is another thing about Ms Z. She is a manipulator. Do guys fight for girls? History speaks for this statement. From the battle of troy to the fight between my senior colleague (a guy) and me, this has always happened. This fight… I would call it argument was not for domination but was cue to manipulation. One day Ms Z was late to office for which there was no record. So I thought I would keep a track of all under me through an attendance register. On this Ms Z walked to my senior and cribbed royally that she was not getting the freedom to work as she wants. He then came to me and blasted me, which continued ahead as an argument and had to stop because we were drained out. A few days later, on booze, we both guys realized that the argument was worthless and manipulated.

Where do I go from here? Back home. Oh my god. How can I forget the most important one in my life, my girlfriend Jerry. I call her Jerry because I’m Tom. She is a 24 hour helpline. If I want an adventure, I just have to dial her number. Even at my office the adventure is available for me through this helpline number. But Jerry is also intelligent like others. She would just give a small pill to me at office because she knows that I would forget it in my work. It would be waiting for me back home. After a tiring day’s work when I would be thinking of some relaxation… yoga or a game of squash… the phone would ring, for which you I never say no to. If I somehow miss it then, even god can’t save me. It would take at least a three hour apology speech to get her back to normal. This speech mostly becomes a debate, one sided, the motion would be against me from Jerry’s side. Ok now what if I wouldn’t have missed the call. Then it would start romantic, but in between I might crack a silly joke, and then that’s it. Further the above mentioned procedure stands. This time the difference is I would have missed my game or yoga. All this is happening when she is around 2500 kms away from me. I just can’t imagine if the distance was to reduce.

Anyways I can go on and on about this special lady in my life. So I would continue in next episode. Now wait for the next one, because girls I think you would like to know more about yourself and guys this would be an eye opener for you.

-TOM