Bare essentials

A gas stove and utensils to cook, a mattress to sleep in, clothes, soap and water and...

... a laptop with internet access ;)

To and fro

The four hour journey to work and back and our system performance issues at work are becoming a pain now. I started working on the facebook plugin last weekend and it's just stuck at that. Hopefully there will be some respite next week.

Or probably not...

Consulting

Consulting is when four people are assigned to "Meet, Collaborate and Execute a Challenge Efficiently and Effectively" in a month; basically a job that can be mopped up by one person in two days.

The Untold Gandhi...

Smriti Irani (Bahu of Saas bhi kabhi bahu...) is all set to launch a TV serial depicting the untold story of Gandhi. So we will finally get to see:

• A good looking, uncannily fashionable Gandhi
• Evil British officers with devillish looking smiles
• British officers' wives with garish make-up and long bindis
• Gandhi having a car accident and losing his memory... to become Nehru for a while?
• Gandhi's Ba outliving him by several generations out of public demand

Yup, it's an untold story alright...

So much to live for...

* A career, which depends as much on whims of others as on my skills...
* A marriage, in which my wife lives far away from me and I can see her only once a month...
* A fat paycheck, which vanishes the moment the next month arrives...
* Wonderful mornings, which are either gone by the time I wake up or arrive after I've reached the perennial morning of my workplace
* A Wonderful city, which is burning itself to cinders over who is Marathi, Bhaiyya, Hindu, Muslim....
* A great country, which is pulling itself into the mud, under the pretext of going back to its roots....
* Children, who will grow under the influence of the malls, cartoon network and video games, for whom freedom means pocket money and going to malls alone, instead of playing in the open spaces and maidans...

So much to live for...