The 2 week hiatus

And I am back after a 2 week hiatus! 2 packed weeks. Owing to the fact that varied stuff have happened in these 2 weeks, which are not really related to each other, this post will be more like a news bulletin, without a proper flow and pattern. Here goes.

MSRTC is weird and its functioning is at times a little difficult to understand. If you book your ticket and mention your pick-up point at say Point A, and then later decide to get up at Point X, there are a few things that could happen. If you are lucky and there is someone else getting up at Point X, then the bus will stop there. Or if there are empty seats in the bus, then it will stop too. But if neither of the above 2 cases hold, then you are screwed. It'll not stop and just zip by you (if your point A is Nerul and point X is Vashi Highway, then it will just take the flyover and screw you). That is exactly what happened to me on 12th October. If you look at it in a positive way, then it also pushed me to return to Pune on Monday morning, which I had been hesitating to to do so far. I can now actually enjoy my sundays and not worry about returning :)

Mom fell sick last weekend and she got really weak. She had the viral but the way it was going it was necessary that she saw a doctor. Dad was obviously against it. So had a mini-fight with him and finally took her to one. Lucky that she didn't have any malaria. I was a little scared that if it was then Dad would have had a terrible time managing everything alone. But the blood reports showed that Mom has very high sugar levels, possibly diabetes. So now that is one more thing to be careful about.

Dad has really impressed me with his skills. If you look at the way a Hindu man's life has been divided into 4 ashrams, my dad after being married to mom for 30 years has finally entered the Grihasta Ashram. :) He is actually doing a wonderful job of taking care of my Mom and the house. He has managed to empty the fridge by throwing out most of the things. The kitchen is so well organized now that it is pretty difficult for me to find anything there. I was more accustomed to my Mom's not so organized and yet a brilliantly successful kitchen. Its funny what love makes you do. I see my folks and it amazes me. I really do not understand their chemistry. Specially the way Dad feels about Mom. They are quarreling 24/7 over trivial things and yet he cannot stay away from her for more than 6 hours. I think I'll never understand these scorpions. Confuses me every bloody time.

Finally had my official induction at work. It was 2 days of presentations. Towards the end I just wanted to run away and get some work done. Got an overall view of what all is happening in the company. Has got a pretty impressive clientele and are involved in some good work.

Ganpati Visarjan is a huge thing in Pune. Traffic gets diverted, roads get blocked and the place is in total chaos! My roomies and I decided to do a little exploring and what we ended up doing was mostly eat :P and planned to buy a lot of things (didn't really buy anything :P). Went to Deccan, only to discover that the whole place was completely blocked and there were a million people there. We didn't even think about walking towards old pune, the Peth area. This is the place where all the action was but we decided to let it pass.

Well Life has been pretty action packed or I should rather say that, it has been trying to treat me good. I have realized that most things happen for a reason, decisions happen at the right moment, at times the granularity of our understanding is really coarse but the best part is you gain. Either what you want or a lesson. What you do with it is of course totally up to you. And then there are times when you have absolutely no idea about whats happening. Its not a good feeling when you have no control over your life's own script. Makes you feel vulnerable. You could fight against it and tire yourself out to slowly drown. Or flow along with it, learning to stay afloat, keep your eyes open and grab the first branch that comes along. Life has sort of become like that for me. Every time I fight to go against the flow, the current just sweeps me with it.

There isn't really much to complain about. In fact I really don't want to but there is one aspect which just refuses to sort itself out. I have tried and tried everything. Its like I am in a place which is positioned between a rock and a hard place. Things are getting so complicated that I can no longer see a solution to it. The truth is, I have no solution. I have thought of all the possibilities and every week seems to make the situation that more crazy. And I am still not strong enough to just shut it down.