ThoughtfulChaos

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost is one of my all time favourite poems. Its simple, short and I find its last paragraph inspiring.

Couple of years back a friend of mine at DA-IICT had recited to me the Hindi version of this poem, actually the Hindi translation of the last paragraph. The translation was very beautiful. It was not completely accurate (I think), but quite elegant. Even though it used some uncommon Hindi words it was light and it was something I was wont to mumbling again and again. I am not very good at Hindi (my 10th Std. Hindi marks more than ample proof of that) but something in this particular translation appealed to me very much.

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Earlier today there was an announcement in my office requesting employees not to come to office tomorrow. I found the announcement very odd because this was the first time ever I was hearing something like this. My office is always open. You can come in any time any day of the week. I often work odd hours and I often work on holidays. In fact I had some things on my to-do list that I wanted to sort out tomorrow and had planned to come to office for a few hours at least.

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RAMBLE ALERT! You have been warned.

Yaaawn. There is a problem with middle-of-the-week holidays. Somehow my mind interprets the holiday as being Saturday and goes about accordingly planning things for the non-existent Saturday and the following-equally-non-existent Sunday. Except that what follows Wednesday is really a Thursday and on Thursday I have to go to office.

I haven't blogged about anything personal for some while. In fact now the main page of my blog seems like a running commentary of the sordid IIPM saga. I have been following the controversy from the beginning and things are quietening down now. Is is probably the lull before the storm since NDTV is rumoured to air a program about it tomorrow. Unfortunately I won't be able to watch the program as I don't have access to a TV :-(

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True, isn't it? :-)

Yeah. Thats right. Monsoons induce lethargy in me like nothing else can. With the exception of good old homemade food. Sigh.

I always look forwards to the monsoons. I am born and brought up in Ahmedabad. Ahmedabad is very hot in summer and dusty almost throughout the year. A combo that makes you yearn for rains. So every year I eagerly look forward to the rains and am very happy when they finally come.

However rains have a very unwelcome side effect in me. They make me more lazy and gently persuade me NOT to work. And in fact till last year that was what I used to do. Not work that is. I could afford/manage to coz I was just a measly student. Now I am employed. And I have to work (at least a little) everyday monsoons or not. :-(

It is times like these that I miss my home and college like anything. At home I would simply curl up with a good book, Mom would brew some coffee for me and I would spend days doing nothing. No constructive work as far as possible. That was my motto. If I was at college I would get some Espresso from the canteen, go and sit in front of the computer and surf, surf and surf. Or go to the library and read.

Nowadays when I get up in the morning I don't feel like going to office. In fact I don't feel like getting up at all. I feel like a slug who has no aim in life except to just while away the time doing nothing (reminds me of Garfield). I am not a morning person. I can stay awake as long as I want but getting up early in the morning takes a lot of effort and willpower. Add to it the dark and dank mornings that greet me nowadays when I wake up and I am even more discouraged to get up. Seeing some sun in the morning makes it easier for me to get up. Yawn. Even thinking about it is making me more sleepy.

Chalo... thats enough rambling for a day. I am damn hungry and am waiting for my roomie Abhishek to wrap up his work so that we can go home and get something to eat.

P.S I can almost hear my friend Pallavi ask me "What about lectures? You always fall asleep during leatures!" Well... thats very true. Lectures also make me very sleepy as my classmates (DA-IICTians) very well know :-) but that deserves a blog entry all of its own...