ThoughtfulChaos

Aah. It’s my favourite day of the week again. Two days of waking up late, going to sleep late and just chilling out.

The past week has been very relaxing. We have got the air cooler repaired and have also successfully commissioned a matka (earthen pot). The air cooler does not cool the room, it is not that powerful, it just makes sure that the rooms don't get too hot, but in this terrible terrible heat even that does wonders.

The dinner problem still persists but I tried out a meal from a tiffin service yesterday and it was pretty good so maybe that will become my permanent source of dinner. I was on a fruit-centric diet for the past many days because now I am so bored with restaurant food that I just find it unpalatable. But now I am getting bored of fruits too... next what?

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Life is going on as usual. Nothing new to report. Week was somewhat hectic but not as hectic as the weeks preceding it. Most of my time was spent in reading and tweaking new proposals and also reading up some RFTs (Request for Tender). Nice and long weekend coming up (holiday on Monday!) so am just going to chill out, read a book and maybe come to office to catch up on some reading.

Delhi is getting hotter and hotter by the day. Our home is on the top floor and by the time we reach home in the evening it is damn hot. Everything is hot. My bed is hot, the water is hot, the walls are hot, the air is hot, everything is hot.

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All in all I had a nice and relaxed weekend, mostly spent reading or meeting/talking with old friends.

Saturday was spent in office, catching up on some personal reading. Karthik (my roommate) and I also went hunting for a digital camera in the famed Connaught Place area near our office. One thing I do not like about my current office location is that there no decent eating joints nearby. Sure you have your average office canteen or tea stall but no decent restaurants of coffee shops.

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Yawn. I am back from hibernation. More like a prolonged period of too much work and too much laziness. I am not going to resolve to blog regularly... I do that every time and then something happens that prevents me from blogging regularly and I am back to square 1.

Well lot of new things happening in my life. I am slowly getting accustomed to my new work profile. There is lot of work and lot of new things to learn but it is all very interesting so am not complaining much.

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I have been very busy lately and therefore blogging frequency has hit rock bottom. And unfortunately I will be very busy for at least the near future. However I will try to sneak in a short post now and then.

OK... here is the news in brief:

• Am very busy at work. Am swamped with a number of assignments... almost all of them interesting but require lot of reading and learning on my part.
• We (2 of my office colleagues and I) have shifted to a nice house in the even nicer Vasant Kunj area in South Delhi. We are almost settled except that we have to arrange for a stove and gas cylinder. Only drawback is that it is quite far from office.
• It takes a lot of time commute to office. At least 50 minutes 1 way, possibly more depending on traffic conditions. This is something very new for me because I have never ever lived very far away from my place of work/study. There is only 1 bus that passes through out area and traveling in it is not a very pleasant experience usually. Especially in the evenings when coming back bhoot of Schumacher gets into the driver and we get a roller coaster ride for free. Buses in Delhi are simply terrible when compared to Mumbai or Pune.
• Am missing family and friends. And chances of going home in the near future are quite bleak.
• I have changed my mobile number yet again. This time for good. And this time no monkey business so if you want to know my new mobile number drop me an email at varunvnair gmail com. For those you who know my office email address feel free to email me there too.
• Worked on a number of new things over the past 2 weeks. I am sure that I will be able to add a few more buzzwords to my resume in a few weeks time :-)

That’s all for now. Have to get back to work.