Bang-a-Lore

Sitting in front of computer with nothing else to do, started scribbling my thoughts and with that came the realization that i have not written an article since shifted base to Bangalore. Man have i been that busy! No its just the procrastination habit that i have become so habitual of in my new found independent life. In the short time here ,pampered with new found freedom, and all the money at my disposal, really have spoilt myself. The self-disciplined Himanshu is somewhere in the background. I have changed.

First for Bangalore . It has been fantastic. Awesome weather, friends, work . Life has been on a fast lanes. And i thought life was fast in Delhi. It has been 3 months and 12 days and looks like it was yesterday only that we were in our guest houses enjoying the first days in bangalore.

Away from our family, we are exposed to the term “family of friends”. May be this is the reason i have not felt much of “home-sickness”. All the “social gathering”, just spending “vella” time doing “bakar” have now started to make more sense to me than mere “time waste”. In Delhi to me just a Birthday wish on facebook was “enough” for the social protocol.  Now i got up to visit friends home in night at 12 to give surprise on his birthday. You dont need to cut off yourself from the world in your pursuit of excellence. A friend of mine once advised me to take “Life more like Test Cricket, you dont need to score runs on every ball, rather be there on the field. Runs will come automatically ”

I have been lucky to have understanding friends, esp. my flat mates, who have to bear up with my restricted food choices at meals. Thank you all.

“With more power comes more responsibility”. With the power to shape our life our way, the quotes significance is brought to helm. The “freedom” teaches you to be more responsible. It gives you the punishment first and then the lesson. Ask my stomach, in numerous time who had to remain empty in morning as i could not get up early to open the door for the cook.Or forgetting to close kitchen’s tap and finding the house being flooded in the evening(not to mention the agonizing work to be done to drain out all the water). You get to be realize many things which you take for granted with family. Mom and Sister used to say that i am quite irresponsible. Hope you don’t find me the same person when i come to Delhi (or may be they will – i like to get pampered :D)

May be my reason for not writing before was to give myself time to adjust to new corporate life and then gauge how it has been.Trying to adjust to the “Corporate Culture”, every day at office has been a new learning experience. To me Oracle has been a great place to work - good opportunities, flexi timings, understanding manager and awesome teammates. First day with my team, and i knew it would be fun to work with. Anshul, Sahaj are more of friends and mentor  than colleagues.  My team has been very supportive of me, even when they had lot of work , and i kept on bugging them with my “noob” questions. Not only work, Sahaj have been good mentor in TT too :) .

This has been a long post. Life here has shown so many experiences, it was hard to think what all to write and what not. Just scribbled the thoughts as they came to mind.

Ending the post now . Have to get ready to go out to some fest :)