Goodbye :)

It´s been so long since I wrote anything here. It´s not that I don´t have anything to say. It´s just that this place no more seems the right place to say it. So, I´m not going to write here for now.

I will continue to write. I do still write... just elsewhere.

I love this space and in a way I´m sad to stop writing here. May be someday I´ll come back to it... then maybe I won´t. For now I´m putting it away into my treasure box of nostalgia where it can live on.

Thank you everyone that´s been here.

Beaches... here I come.

Bliss

I have no idea what time it is. I'm not wearing my watch. I don't know where my watch is.

I don't know the date or day of week. Haven't looked at a calender for long. Everyday is a Sunday. Hmm...no. Everyday is a Saturday with a Sunday ahead.

Where is my cellphone? I don't know and I don't care. I love that I don't need it.

The world can't reach me. But I can reach it whenever I want to.

No routine, no homework, no readings, no class preparations, no corrections, no stress, no dead-lines.

Just rest, laziness, getting pampered and lots of sleep.

Finally I'm on vacation.

Looking back

Nearly 2 years have gone by since I looked at the List.

I was curious how much I have done since then. A lot of what I had done before I have done over and over again. Like 8, 9, 13, 15, 19, 26, 31, 38, 41, 42, 53, 58, 59, 102, 127, 130, 138, 141, 146.

So what's new?

35, I've done on the Wii. 87 is done. 150 too.

The rest haven't happened and my thoughts on them are the same as 2 years back.

Some things I predict will happen are 80 (will probably happen soon) and 52.

Next destination

The rare pessimism of an optimist

Hoy es un día pensativo.

Dbske

A new beginning? A revival? Another try?

Whatever it may be, here you have it:

Dbske (pronounced db as in rib with a 'd' and ske as in ski, that is dbske as in dibski)

Why? I am not completely sure.

It was a long one hour 20 minutes.

Keeping in touch

It's strange, it's so hard to keep in touch inspite of technology. With email, messenger, Skype and falling ISD charges it shouldn't be so difficult. Do we know too many people? Are we really that busy? Life has other priorities? Too tired?

Well...

Realizing not keeping in touch is normal for most, I decided to try and keep in touch with my friends on their terms... Hmm, better said, what I understand as their terms.

So some I email once or twice a year. Others frequent social networking sites. Still others prefer Skype or a simple phonecall. Many ways, many options.

One thing is clear though, reciprocated or not I will keep in touch because I'm not willing to lose them.

I dread correcting papers. My conscience does not allow me to do a careless job. So I spend hours and hours with the papers.

This is certainly one case where absence will not make the heart grow fonder.

Consecuencias

Por vivir con la cabeza,
se me ha dañado el corazon.

¿Para siempre?

Life stands still, life goes on. All at the same moment.

Fools!

Life has much too many surprises...





...and yet we go out and look for more.

Backgrounds: Jan 2007 - Present

Present

Aug 2007

Jan 2007

Danger!

When you start reveling in past memories and are not creating any new ones, you're old. Wake up, get young, go do something. Now!

La felicidad... mis hermosas plantas

Yes, I found my camera. Happiness.

Wise words... unexpectedly

Thinking is for losers. - Bart Simpson

Some of my cherished friends

After more than 10 years I've found Hikari, Mila and Eine Fröhliche Familie again.

Nostalgia

Just feeling nostalgic about last year... my students, work, classes, my dear colleague-friends.

Can't believe a year has passed by and everything is so completely different in my life. So much extreme change.

And no, this is not a complaint. I'm just marvelling at it, that's all. Phew! That's why I love this world, this life. It takes me to the many unexpected places, gives me unexpected pleasures and of course all this flows into and amalgamates into my oceans of memories. And in the process culminates into me.





What an ego, ¿verdad?

We´ve been having the most amazing weather here at Austin (and hopefully this won´t jinx it!)

The other day it felt like I was back in Hyderabad during the monsoons. You know how before and after the rain there is a heaviness to the air and a cool breeze blowing? Hmm... heaven. Even the smell of monsoons was in the air.

And then day before yesterday I stepped out and I could smell the sea. I closed my eyes and all that was missing was the sound of the waves.

I wish I could capture it in and share it with you.

I don´t even know where my camera is to capture at least part of it :(

This is what I have from the past:






I miss Hyderabad.

I thought some things belonged to us, were special... sacred. Seems only I thought so. However this does not change a thing. For me it will always be ours, special and sacred and no one can ever take that away from me... not even you.

A touch sensitive desktop

I am so excited. This looks amazing. With a few changes or rather, adaptations to it I'll be ready for one. It's impressive.

Here is their website.

Here is the video on how it functions:

Go have a look. Click, click...




Thanks Adithya and Divesh and keep it up.

There are some little things that matter to me, that I get complete joy from and that are an inherent part of me. I've been them putting aside, ignoring them. In a way forgotten them.

I'm not myself without them.

Therefore to revive them and myself this week I will:

1. write something; and
2. go out and take random photos.

Happy new year!

It's a new year! And I'm ready to go :D

Goals for this semester:
- Do my work on time (no procrastination)
- Be at least a step ahead of my professors
- Be at least a step ahead of my students
- Be fearless with ideas and opinions
- Eat healthy (which means no more daily pasta, no snacking)
- Go to the gym and work out three times a week
- Be generous
- Be patient
- Be nice
- Keep smiling
and
- No cribbing, no complaining