"When I was young, I always found it
hard to write a letter. All the things that came to mind seemed too trivial to
be writing about. I would spend hours with a blank paper in front and the
fountain pen in hand, but still, couldn't put pen to paper. As I grew up, I
realized that the art of good letter writing is based on the concept that
nothing, in fact, is too small, nothing too tiny, to be written about."
We don't write letters these days. Instead,
we have shifted to e-mails, blogs and lots more impersonal ways of
communicating. However, the truth about writing remains unchanged. With these
thoughts, coupled with, a sudden urge to put myself back on the blog-map, I
will try to key together a few things that, at this
point of time, are on top of my mind.
As I pause and look back at the two years
that went by, there has been no life changing events, as people would call it.
Still, I got my first car, fell in love, lost a football match 9-0, resigned,
rejoined back, made new friends, lost touch with old ones, witnessed Ustad
Zakir Hussain playing live, gulped 5 lts of beer at one go, learned to make
rotis, all in this same period of two years. And while, each of them
individually might not have the potential to change a life, together they
surely do. And I have changed; and so
has the world around me. While some went abroad, a few shifted to IT and the
rest got married!
During the PG tenure, we have been through hundreds of group discussions, innumerable case studies, presentations that covered up almost all sectors, all industries, even to the extent of vinyl chappal (courtesy: Sumant Sharma). But never was I part of any discussion or presentation that had anything to do with mining! But still here I am, twenty-seven months and counting, working with India's biggest producer and exporter of iron-ore in the private sector. So, now I am a Power engg who has forgotten thermodynamics, a Marketing MBA who has forgotten the 4Ps and 7Cs and instead is now trying to understand what happens when we put a grizzly with larger mesh or how to track wheel-loaders through GPS!
About a year back, I happened to be on a road-trip to Karnataka (courtesy: Praveen, Tanuj and Indra). Two days holiday on a/c of Ganesh Chaturthi coupled with Sat-Sun made for a nice long weekend, and off we want in the shining black Vento. And the rest, as they say, is history! We devoured thirty-two eggs between four of us, stayed in cheap lodge, slept with bed-bugs, negotiated a fifteen km long pothole-filled, narrow, steep slope amidst heavy rains(and it was dark) with the amazing night at Om Beach as the fitting finale.
Now its time for me to go and watch the Rise of the Dark Knight and I would be damned if I miss this show! So, here's to good health and good life..Cheers!
