I'M BACK. Back after an year. But back from what? Back from spending the life of a hermit in the himalayas? Back from spending an year working for the destitute all around the world? Back from spending an year in the hospital after imitating the Thumbs up ad stunts done by Akshay kumar? Back from spending an year locked inside my room to find the solution to 'what happened before Big bang'?
Oh no. I am back from none of those. If there is anything I can say I am back from, then it would be trying to make my life in IT a bit more interesting than the "life of a corpse living in a graveyard." Well.. the following things are the best that happened with me in the last one year but the last thing beats the crap out of everything.
Sometime around July last year I went on a "Moonlight trek". Basically it was supposed to be a 5-6 hours trek on the mountains in Sinhagad, Pune on a Full moon night. Athletically, I have an high opinion of myself For eg. I can somehow picturize myself running continuously for an hour or so but in reality I dont think I can do it for even 5 min at a stretch. Similarly I thought the trek would be a piece of cake for me but it turned out to be a 'night'-mare. The trek started at 7 pm. I was half dead by 9 pm. Once into the mountains there was no turning back and there was no possibility of calling a helicopter. There were 11 mountains in series and the last one had a tower with a red blinking light on top of it. We had to go up and down all the mountain and had to reach that tower (exactly the way Frodo Baggins had to reach the eyeball of fire). The tower somehow looked so close and I kept hoping for the trek to get over in another hour. I just ended up hoping and cursing and climbing and falling and climbing and hoping again for the next 9.5 hours. The trek ended at 630 am next day. There was not an inch in my body which did not ache and it was so bad that I had to resort to illegal drugs to get rid of the pain.
3 months later after another trek, I went down with severe jaundice and I was hospitalized for the first time in my life. I was excited for exactly 3 hours after which it started getting boring as hell. Hospitals should install Wifi so that patients can access internet from their beds while the intravenous drips irritates the crap out of them. Anyway Jaundice made me realize how tough it is to stay at home jobless. I wasnt jobless obviously but I had to skip office for around 2 months and I totally hated staying at home.
Things have been eventful on the office front for the past few months. I finally got Production defects, first time in 3 years, that too with a bang. Four of them in a week all from the same project. I am now so well versed with that program that everyone in my team thinks of me the moment they come across that program. Despite that, they offered me London onsite.
And finally the last and the probably the best thing I did in last 3 years is refusing London onsite and quitting my job on a monday morning. YAY!!
Sometime around July last year I went on a "Moonlight trek". Basically it was supposed to be a 5-6 hours trek on the mountains in Sinhagad, Pune on a Full moon night. Athletically, I have an high opinion of myself For eg. I can somehow picturize myself running continuously for an hour or so but in reality I dont think I can do it for even 5 min at a stretch. Similarly I thought the trek would be a piece of cake for me but it turned out to be a 'night'-mare. The trek started at 7 pm. I was half dead by 9 pm. Once into the mountains there was no turning back and there was no possibility of calling a helicopter. There were 11 mountains in series and the last one had a tower with a red blinking light on top of it. We had to go up and down all the mountain and had to reach that tower (exactly the way Frodo Baggins had to reach the eyeball of fire). The tower somehow looked so close and I kept hoping for the trek to get over in another hour. I just ended up hoping and cursing and climbing and falling and climbing and hoping again for the next 9.5 hours. The trek ended at 630 am next day. There was not an inch in my body which did not ache and it was so bad that I had to resort to illegal drugs to get rid of the pain.
3 months later after another trek, I went down with severe jaundice and I was hospitalized for the first time in my life. I was excited for exactly 3 hours after which it started getting boring as hell. Hospitals should install Wifi so that patients can access internet from their beds while the intravenous drips irritates the crap out of them. Anyway Jaundice made me realize how tough it is to stay at home jobless. I wasnt jobless obviously but I had to skip office for around 2 months and I totally hated staying at home.
Things have been eventful on the office front for the past few months. I finally got Production defects, first time in 3 years, that too with a bang. Four of them in a week all from the same project. I am now so well versed with that program that everyone in my team thinks of me the moment they come across that program. Despite that, they offered me London onsite.
And finally the last and the probably the best thing I did in last 3 years is refusing London onsite and quitting my job on a monday morning. YAY!!
