Me against myself ..

Why do we hurt people we like the most ! I know I do .. and repent it later .. when the damage is done ..

Learning: never try to hard! If you dont make it you land down to hard !

Back to basics ..

... and back to knowing that I need to focus more .. imagine clicking on a wrong radio button on an online quiz ... imagine knowing what I am doing is right and ending up doing something wrong. Imagine scoring low after thinking that the quiz went of fine.

Work hard lazy bum .. the tiny voice inside me tells me ... go fish I say.

Tomorrow is another day and another quiz would come my way.
The quizzes I want to slay but still am not willing to pray.
Tomorrow is another day, today lets play !

I think I would retain my day job, I suck in poetry :)

Six Pins ...

Six down with fever .. wonder if the lord of KV is playing six pins .. and the Dubai solution to the fever problem .. an injection in your butt !

The experience continues to enrich me; good food (...yaa right!), quality sleep ( ...in my dreams!), bath water (...what was that smell again) and an excellent OB class ( ... need my anti-sleeping pills)

Lesson learnt - a sleep deprived brain refuses to acknowledge the smell of approx 2 years of chilling out ... hmmm .. or do we have a gold mine in hand .. a wonder room for Insomniacs .. get in the room, take a deep breath, inhale the bouquet of sensations, rest your head on the nearest available cushion/bag/body, close your eyes and bang you are asleep in no more than 20 seconds ... especially if there is a class running and you are "chilling out" to take a break.

Separate the men from the boys ...

One way uphill run from 12 noon onwards .... classes, quiz, group work and study till 1 a.m. and then it takes me exactly 30 seconds to lose myself in sleep from the instant I hit the bed.

Just the beginning, longer runs would separate the men from the boys ! and the wiser men would mix in their PRgiri (entry to my lexicon !), entertainment breaks and networking.

Post the display of the marks to junta this beginning to look like the rat race its supposed to be, would be more interesting when the relative ranking kicks in.

FA continues to be a pain in the ass. ME a bearable one.

Lessons learnt ..

1. Google Guru Zindabad ( ... flashback Newspaper quiz)
2. Two brains are better than one, multi brains are better than two ( .. MS Office)
3. Tolerance is sanity (... hair oil, smelly pickle, slamming doors)
4. 5 minutes can cost you 10 Dirhams (... especially in the mornings)
5. Sensex goes up and sensex goes down - you lose money !

Technology grows on you ..

Sushi at Yo Shushi ! .. another of the conveyor belts sushi bars .. finally found one in Dubai. Still have to figure out what it is about Jap food that makes me forget about the money that I might end up spending. But the Shushi didnt disappoint ... !

Barbeque, Beer and a Brazil world cup match .. the BBB combination didnt disappoint .. considering that I am in Dubai to study .. didnt disappoint at all !

Another biggie to end the day .. WLAN connectivity at the Villa's .. flashback to Mumbai 2003 with my broadband and I guess the late nights are back .. before my next technological hibernation.

Todays good deed for the day ; download DJ Sanj songs .. next in line an Ipod to store them.

Finally feels like a holiday ...

.. classes are on .. realize that I really need to study (40% in accounts being my wake up alarm !).

A combination of sleeping, classes, breaks, sharing food, cribs, canned drinks, heat, loo breaks, loss of concentration, sudden burst of mental activity and loads of laughter.

Realised that the biggest thing that I was missing on in my life was the laughter. How inane things can be so funny. The mix of "teri, teri, teri, teri ....." and "steffiiiiiiiii ... "

The ride back home I look forward to.

We got wet yesterday .. yes we all got wet .. call it group wetting .. :) .. see the pics !!

Heat and dust .. and my crappy cold !

Hot outside .. cold inside .. but crappy outside and crappy inside !! .. my cold has got worse .. I have a blocked nose too !!!! It just gets better and better !!

Big malls bigger wallets and a big entourage of wives that te sheiks have .. the eyes, the hands (the only things that you can see) proclaim loudly .. "I am beautiful ! and I know it ... you be damned"

Its like god being everywhere .. beautiful women everywhere .. so rightly conveyed by the comfort factor that a bro gave to his sis (or was he comforting himself .... hmm) coming to Dubai for the course "If its Dubai, no one would even give you a second glance" .. hmm .. I dont think so .. the inherent earthiness of the Indian woman is so much more special.

Sea change from having my own pad to sharing my room and the loo with 4 other guys .. including a kid who pees all over and misses the target all the time ... I gave it to him last night ... and got it right back in the morning .. my hair all over the loo .. Am I shedding :))

Dubai vs Mumbai .. Mumbai anyday !

A hostel in the middle of nowhere, Dirhams are actually called rupiyah here .. though they burn a hole in your pocket, 6 people in a room .. Calcutta Chummery days back again !!

The heat is killing. The driest heat that I have ever felt. Worse than that is the misplaced notion of a few kind individuals in the Villa's (that's what the hostel is .. work in progress) that if it aint chilling it aint a luxury !! Three nights and my system is upside down .. you get up in the morning and your nose, ears , mouth and your ar** is dry .. frigging dehydrating !! Inside you would die from the chill outside from the heat ! Welcome to Dubai !

The old boys network helps, got my titanium thinkpad, had home cooked food .. plus a couple of beers, sightseeing and cute little girl "pinni" .. and with her teddy bearish father .. Saurabh .. its good to have friends !! .. thank you god .. I am truly blessed.

Snow in Dubai .. imagine a ski run almost 500 mtrs in length inside off a mall !! Raw opulence .. naked gut wrenching opulence !!!

Last day at work

.. the last day actually seems like any other day .. the same old office, the same old collegues, the same old chairs and the same old coffee dispenser. The only difference being me not working :)

De-cluttered my life .. reduced my possessions .. off to a new adventure !!

It would all work out .. I guess !