These are to be captured before I forget them. There is still a lot of happiness around me and people are enjoying with me hanging around. I am still lively. :)
1. There were lots of funny moments around the colors Green and Yellow. - Yeah, that was with our green card holder, Malaysian Tamil Superstar, Pala. :)
2. The Taboo comedy - Rams and Naresh were in the same team and they have already played the game with the same set of cards. The person who has the card asks - "What do you find in the forest?". Rams replies "Treasure". Then somehow they came to "Plants", "Trees" and then "Animals". Since they said Animal, the guy said "This is an Animal. What is it?". A normal person would say "Lion", "Tiger" etc.. Rams very correctly says "Giraffe"
3. Playing Badminton was meant to be a good exercise. But the badminton we played was different. It is called "Sarojadevi Badminton". :P
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
2009 - a year to remember
2009 started in New York City. We watched the crystal ball fall on TV. I went around various famous places in New York with my cousin sister and her husband. It was a nice trip and thanks for the "Vengaya Vatthal kuzhambu". Then I came back and got myself a 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Wolfsburg Edition car. And after that I started traveling. There have been days when I have taken my car and driven just for the sake of driving with no place to go. When the fuel tank was close to empty, I used to re-fuel and return home.
We went for the skiing summit a few times, to the waterfalls, some hikes - all in my car. It was fun. I used to get tired and get a sound sleep. I used to go and play games like Poker, 5 cards/Uno, Taboo in my seniors' place. We played Squash in the weekends at the health club. We played Table Tennis in the late evenings. It was quite good. Inspite of all these efforts, I was not happy. There are a lot of reasons for it. I felt like going back to my home country.
There were so many happy days in 2009. I wish it continues this way. Ya, I am, on a whole, not so happy but it is ok with me. It happens and happiness will be mine soon. Some highlights of 2009 so far:
A trip to Alaska
This is like a dream trip for anyone. We went to Fairbanks. During our flight, we saw the Northern lights. The dance of light in the sky will just mesmerize you. Then we took a couple of AWD vehicles and I drove one(RAV4) most of the time. It was a great experience to drive there. We stayed in an isolated bungalow on top of a hill in the Cleary Summit, far away from the city lights. We saw the dancing bands on the sky that day. By that night, our mission of the trip was accomplished. But then we had planned a lot more for the next few days. We went to a small town called North Pole. Then we went to a vast open land of ice. There we went on a dog-sledding ride. Sledge dogs pull you on ice and then through the "Arctic"* trees. After dog-sledding it was Snowmobiling. This was the ultimate fun ride. We rode the snowmobile with full throttle - no traffic, no rules. We climbed sharp cliffs of ice with it. It was awesome.
The next few nights there were only faint displays of Aurora. It was not so great as on the first day. Then we went to the famous Denali national park. We hiked to the Horse-shoe lake, a frozen lake wearing snow-shoes. It was a great hike. The drive back from Denali to Fairbanks was an unforgettable one because of the snowstorm. Driving in the snowstorm with low visibility is not so easy. Then we went to Chena Hot Springs on the next day and we took bath in the open at -20 deg F. The water was at 70 deg F. It was an amazing experience. Then on the way back we spotted some wild animals. Overall, it was a great trip.
I will continue more on the next trips in my next posts. Now, leaving immediately to see Tulips for the 3rd time. I doubt if the people in the gardens would have seen Tulips longer than me. :)
We went for the skiing summit a few times, to the waterfalls, some hikes - all in my car. It was fun. I used to get tired and get a sound sleep. I used to go and play games like Poker, 5 cards/Uno, Taboo in my seniors' place. We played Squash in the weekends at the health club. We played Table Tennis in the late evenings. It was quite good. Inspite of all these efforts, I was not happy. There are a lot of reasons for it. I felt like going back to my home country.
There were so many happy days in 2009. I wish it continues this way. Ya, I am, on a whole, not so happy but it is ok with me. It happens and happiness will be mine soon. Some highlights of 2009 so far:
A trip to Alaska
This is like a dream trip for anyone. We went to Fairbanks. During our flight, we saw the Northern lights. The dance of light in the sky will just mesmerize you. Then we took a couple of AWD vehicles and I drove one(RAV4) most of the time. It was a great experience to drive there. We stayed in an isolated bungalow on top of a hill in the Cleary Summit, far away from the city lights. We saw the dancing bands on the sky that day. By that night, our mission of the trip was accomplished. But then we had planned a lot more for the next few days. We went to a small town called North Pole. Then we went to a vast open land of ice. There we went on a dog-sledding ride. Sledge dogs pull you on ice and then through the "Arctic"* trees. After dog-sledding it was Snowmobiling. This was the ultimate fun ride. We rode the snowmobile with full throttle - no traffic, no rules. We climbed sharp cliffs of ice with it. It was awesome.
The next few nights there were only faint displays of Aurora. It was not so great as on the first day. Then we went to the famous Denali national park. We hiked to the Horse-shoe lake, a frozen lake wearing snow-shoes. It was a great hike. The drive back from Denali to Fairbanks was an unforgettable one because of the snowstorm. Driving in the snowstorm with low visibility is not so easy. Then we went to Chena Hot Springs on the next day and we took bath in the open at -20 deg F. The water was at 70 deg F. It was an amazing experience. Then on the way back we spotted some wild animals. Overall, it was a great trip.
I will continue more on the next trips in my next posts. Now, leaving immediately to see Tulips for the 3rd time. I doubt if the people in the gardens would have seen Tulips longer than me. :)
Saturday, April 4, 2009
After a year at work
OK - WE ARE BACK TO NORMAL
The second year went really well. I worked better than the previous year. Took some responsibilities. Shipped something which I feel proud of even today. Tried and did successfully a Program Manager role. Decided to make a drastic career decision due to my condition personally. Completed a couple of years in the company in India and then I moved to the headquarters of the company.
There are so many events that have happened in the recent few years. I am not able to write everything. One interesting incident was this. I used to do some charity within my affordability. One day I decided to sponsor education to a child. There were so much of happiness everywhere around me. My family was scared. They thought that I adopted a child at 22 years and even before getting married. I had to explain them what I was doing and I have not gone to that level yet.
This second year there was lots of fun. Travelled quite so much. Vizag and Bapatla trips were really good ones to remember. Had been to a lot of nice hotels in the city. Left the country very consciously with no goal in mind. The only thing which I did not want to do was to enter the country which I hated to the core - but I did it!
So what is to be done in the new country - it is a new country - so see how it is. And the country is the United States of America. So I started travelling. My interests in travelling started with the Discovery Travel and Living channel. I used to watch all the shows there. Ian Wright is the luckiest guy according to me. But you see - I have my own limitations when it comes to traveling. I am a vegetarian and I do not know to swim.
So 2008 end - some key places which I went are:
1. Leavenworth, WA
2. Mount Rainier, WA
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. New York city, NY and Jersey city, NJ
And almost every weekend we were going to some place or other. I saw serious change in climate. Snow kept us at house arrest for a week. We had to work from home. We prepared ourselves for the snow storm which might lead to a power cut. We stacked wood and food. Luckily we had no power outage.
My new year 2009 was in New Jersey at my cousin's house. I told myself there is still a lot of bad to be cleansed out of me. I decided to be better. Ya I was really good. To some people, too much of good is nauseatic. I differ there. I would strive to be good. The Forrest Gump analogy @ Besant Nagar beach by my friend is something I can never forget.
But at the end - am I happy currently? Nope. I am confused and depressed. Will everything clear out and I will come out. Yes. :) By when? I dont care if it is tomorrow, next month, next year or next decade. I believe I will be clarified and cleansed before I die for sure.
2009 in a new post.
The second year went really well. I worked better than the previous year. Took some responsibilities. Shipped something which I feel proud of even today. Tried and did successfully a Program Manager role. Decided to make a drastic career decision due to my condition personally. Completed a couple of years in the company in India and then I moved to the headquarters of the company.
There are so many events that have happened in the recent few years. I am not able to write everything. One interesting incident was this. I used to do some charity within my affordability. One day I decided to sponsor education to a child. There were so much of happiness everywhere around me. My family was scared. They thought that I adopted a child at 22 years and even before getting married. I had to explain them what I was doing and I have not gone to that level yet.
This second year there was lots of fun. Travelled quite so much. Vizag and Bapatla trips were really good ones to remember. Had been to a lot of nice hotels in the city. Left the country very consciously with no goal in mind. The only thing which I did not want to do was to enter the country which I hated to the core - but I did it!
So what is to be done in the new country - it is a new country - so see how it is. And the country is the United States of America. So I started travelling. My interests in travelling started with the Discovery Travel and Living channel. I used to watch all the shows there. Ian Wright is the luckiest guy according to me. But you see - I have my own limitations when it comes to traveling. I am a vegetarian and I do not know to swim.
So 2008 end - some key places which I went are:
1. Leavenworth, WA
2. Mount Rainier, WA
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. New York city, NY and Jersey city, NJ
And almost every weekend we were going to some place or other. I saw serious change in climate. Snow kept us at house arrest for a week. We had to work from home. We prepared ourselves for the snow storm which might lead to a power cut. We stacked wood and food. Luckily we had no power outage.
My new year 2009 was in New Jersey at my cousin's house. I told myself there is still a lot of bad to be cleansed out of me. I decided to be better. Ya I was really good. To some people, too much of good is nauseatic. I differ there. I would strive to be good. The Forrest Gump analogy @ Besant Nagar beach by my friend is something I can never forget.
But at the end - am I happy currently? Nope. I am confused and depressed. Will everything clear out and I will come out. Yes. :) By when? I dont care if it is tomorrow, next month, next year or next decade. I believe I will be clarified and cleansed before I die for sure.
2009 in a new post.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
After a year into work
CAUTION - SAD STORIES AHEAD IN THIS POST - BORING STUFF
I have then successfully completed a year in the company. The rollercoaster ride began to change into something not so easy. Personally I faced quite a significant downfall. That is something I could never come out of was my thought. It was really hard. My mind was not at all with me. I had never seen a failure till then. Not even a small one. The scale of this was quite hard to digest. I decided to make myself better. An idle brain is a devil's workshop - thoughts ran across all evils. I kept myself under control. I moved on.
Ok ok. There is no prize for guessing - it was my first love failure. :) Afterall, to me it was my love. For many it was some simple crush. Whatever it was - I moved on. I am neither happy to have escaped from it nor I pity myself to have been ditched. To what I did was very conscious and I wanted the other person to be happy. Some people do not accept love as they do not have a place for it. :)
Then my second love failure. :) Ya. It was real quick. After all, I was a boy. But it took me ~6 months. So many things happened, so many advices. But I am me. I took my own path. I tried not to reveal these stories to many (people told me it would hurt). I told the stories to whom I thought can help me come out easily. Some told me write it out and bring down your burden. :) May be I am doing it.
I personally do not have any kind of negatives on those people. Obviously I had loved them since I thought they were nice people. My parents were fully supportive of my decisions and I was so much in sync with their thoughts that I did not make any decision which they might not like.
Let us leave the next year for now and complete the second story. Yes. The second story was not so simple as the first one. The girl realized something out of the blue moon and got back to me. I do not want to reason out why. Well, it is a girl's mind. Her parents came to my house and asked for my horoscope. I was quite young for a boy to get married. My parents had not even written my horoscope then. We being an orthodox family, followed the standard process of getting it written from the family astrologer in the neighboring state. There was considerable delay and the girl's family could not wait.
The girl's parents decided to go with some other alliance for the girl. It was so simple for them. I was super-cool on that phone call. My mother was a bit shocked. My dad was worried about me. Oh! I just am a way too normal person - I need no super-girl. I consoled myself. Ya, believe me - she was the best girl I have ever known. But again both of us knew nothing about each other. I am still missing something here. I loved two lovely girls. I do not know anything about them. I thought this is how love is - to love immaterial of what the other person is. I have got lots to write. Those are all psychology, philosophy and not related to the blog Prasad R M. :) And the horoscope came a couple of weeks after the girl got engaged. Me and my dad laughed at each other. What else can we do?
I have then successfully completed a year in the company. The rollercoaster ride began to change into something not so easy. Personally I faced quite a significant downfall. That is something I could never come out of was my thought. It was really hard. My mind was not at all with me. I had never seen a failure till then. Not even a small one. The scale of this was quite hard to digest. I decided to make myself better. An idle brain is a devil's workshop - thoughts ran across all evils. I kept myself under control. I moved on.
Ok ok. There is no prize for guessing - it was my first love failure. :) Afterall, to me it was my love. For many it was some simple crush. Whatever it was - I moved on. I am neither happy to have escaped from it nor I pity myself to have been ditched. To what I did was very conscious and I wanted the other person to be happy. Some people do not accept love as they do not have a place for it. :)
Then my second love failure. :) Ya. It was real quick. After all, I was a boy. But it took me ~6 months. So many things happened, so many advices. But I am me. I took my own path. I tried not to reveal these stories to many (people told me it would hurt). I told the stories to whom I thought can help me come out easily. Some told me write it out and bring down your burden. :) May be I am doing it.
I personally do not have any kind of negatives on those people. Obviously I had loved them since I thought they were nice people. My parents were fully supportive of my decisions and I was so much in sync with their thoughts that I did not make any decision which they might not like.
Let us leave the next year for now and complete the second story. Yes. The second story was not so simple as the first one. The girl realized something out of the blue moon and got back to me. I do not want to reason out why. Well, it is a girl's mind. Her parents came to my house and asked for my horoscope. I was quite young for a boy to get married. My parents had not even written my horoscope then. We being an orthodox family, followed the standard process of getting it written from the family astrologer in the neighboring state. There was considerable delay and the girl's family could not wait.
The girl's parents decided to go with some other alliance for the girl. It was so simple for them. I was super-cool on that phone call. My mother was a bit shocked. My dad was worried about me. Oh! I just am a way too normal person - I need no super-girl. I consoled myself. Ya, believe me - she was the best girl I have ever known. But again both of us knew nothing about each other. I am still missing something here. I loved two lovely girls. I do not know anything about them. I thought this is how love is - to love immaterial of what the other person is. I have got lots to write. Those are all psychology, philosophy and not related to the blog Prasad R M. :) And the horoscope came a couple of weeks after the girl got engaged. Me and my dad laughed at each other. What else can we do?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, December 9, 2007
It is still life at a Campus!!
So what is the campus like and how is the life after entering the campus? Awesome! The campus has all sorts of facilities - Cafeterias serving all sorts of food, tennis court, gymnasiums, basketball court, volley ball court, football field cum cricket ground and a nice cubicle for working. We shifted our residence from the posh bungalow to a residential apartment near our campus. This apartment is also quite a calm one. This has a lot of apartments around 200 in number. Lots of young kids playing around, it is always great fun to be in such a place.
So in the campus, I started playing Pool and I have developed a lot on that game. Table tennis - OK, I was taught by my senior and I can play a normal game. My team-mate and I used to play Tennis quite regularly in the evening and we used to really play a damn slow game. I improved really drastically that I started serving with greater consistency. In the beginning I have hit the ball outside the court to the car-parking area. I have to improve a lot in this game. One of my other team mates, who is a good player of Tennis avoids playing with me as I would spoil his game.
And then came cricket hungama. We had some really serious players. They just played serious cricket and victory was in their mind always. Cricket hungama is organized as a team-building activity. But matches were played with supporters who just not only support their teams but sledge the opponents. I always used to wonder how such comments passed against the opponents were acceptable under the company policy. More irritating than that is when the fellow players of the same team shout to hit every ball. They cannot even bear a defence played. Whoever hits the tennis ball harder and with consistency sought themselves a place in the team. But overall it was a great experience playing with people with different thoughts. Some played really great cricket, some played smart cricket, some played a mind game, some were authoritative and some really were blackmarks to this gentleman game. Ya I too found a position in my team. And our team ended up winners for the second consecutive year.
Our team was really growing so fast. We have a nice person as the Director. We had good team outings to resorts, movies, bowling alleys, karting and of course five star hotels for food. :) We really worked hard and played harder. Our college seniors and friends also had an outing to a resort. And I came to know a lot of people when we screened a skit on stage for the Annual Party. Party - Ya. Again some famous singer or music band, DJ nite, Disco dancing on the floor and our colleagues' performances and nice food. After joining the company, till date I have enacted in 3 skits - 2 comedy skits in 2 annual parties and another a really serious skit with some message for the first year giving campaign.
And my first year in the industry was really great and I can call it a Success!! 22 years - It was a real roller coaster ride and I really started facing challenges, failures, shame, different people. Ya, It was really hard to digest failures, shame and was difficult to understand and digest people. But it is going to be part of the life. I feel it is just one-third gone by. Two-thirds to come. Should I be the same old Prasad? Yes - I answer to myself. Never be scared of anything or anyone. I felt I was changing and I did not like myself. It was hell to get me under my brain. I have taken a different path in my life and career now. And I strongly believe now that it is for good only. I did not want to change but Prasad is not a great strong-willed guy as he thinks of himself. He is really very soft, immatured, naive and pretends to be very bold and strong for others. But it has been almost six years since my cheeks saw tears for myself. I have felt like crying aloud and NO I AM NOT GOING TO.
I believe everyone is able to see the change in the blogging style with this post. I am really sorry. I hope to be back fully with my next post. Readers do not be curious and do not start asking me what happened. I will certainly write. There is nothing to hide. I am not a person who has a fear of shame in sharing my failures, nor I have a fear of failures. It just is going to take sometime to write though. Keep reading. Think of it as my hold on my readers.
So in the campus, I started playing Pool and I have developed a lot on that game. Table tennis - OK, I was taught by my senior and I can play a normal game. My team-mate and I used to play Tennis quite regularly in the evening and we used to really play a damn slow game. I improved really drastically that I started serving with greater consistency. In the beginning I have hit the ball outside the court to the car-parking area. I have to improve a lot in this game. One of my other team mates, who is a good player of Tennis avoids playing with me as I would spoil his game.
And then came cricket hungama. We had some really serious players. They just played serious cricket and victory was in their mind always. Cricket hungama is organized as a team-building activity. But matches were played with supporters who just not only support their teams but sledge the opponents. I always used to wonder how such comments passed against the opponents were acceptable under the company policy. More irritating than that is when the fellow players of the same team shout to hit every ball. They cannot even bear a defence played. Whoever hits the tennis ball harder and with consistency sought themselves a place in the team. But overall it was a great experience playing with people with different thoughts. Some played really great cricket, some played smart cricket, some played a mind game, some were authoritative and some really were blackmarks to this gentleman game. Ya I too found a position in my team. And our team ended up winners for the second consecutive year.
Our team was really growing so fast. We have a nice person as the Director. We had good team outings to resorts, movies, bowling alleys, karting and of course five star hotels for food. :) We really worked hard and played harder. Our college seniors and friends also had an outing to a resort. And I came to know a lot of people when we screened a skit on stage for the Annual Party. Party - Ya. Again some famous singer or music band, DJ nite, Disco dancing on the floor and our colleagues' performances and nice food. After joining the company, till date I have enacted in 3 skits - 2 comedy skits in 2 annual parties and another a really serious skit with some message for the first year giving campaign.
And my first year in the industry was really great and I can call it a Success!! 22 years - It was a real roller coaster ride and I really started facing challenges, failures, shame, different people. Ya, It was really hard to digest failures, shame and was difficult to understand and digest people. But it is going to be part of the life. I feel it is just one-third gone by. Two-thirds to come. Should I be the same old Prasad? Yes - I answer to myself. Never be scared of anything or anyone. I felt I was changing and I did not like myself. It was hell to get me under my brain. I have taken a different path in my life and career now. And I strongly believe now that it is for good only. I did not want to change but Prasad is not a great strong-willed guy as he thinks of himself. He is really very soft, immatured, naive and pretends to be very bold and strong for others. But it has been almost six years since my cheeks saw tears for myself. I have felt like crying aloud and NO I AM NOT GOING TO.
I believe everyone is able to see the change in the blogging style with this post. I am really sorry. I hope to be back fully with my next post. Readers do not be curious and do not start asking me what happened. I will certainly write. There is nothing to hide. I am not a person who has a fear of shame in sharing my failures, nor I have a fear of failures. It just is going to take sometime to write though. Keep reading. Think of it as my hold on my readers.
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