I'm done with 'em

Them be the pills!

My dentist says you get a 'C' from the dentist when you get an 'A' from rest of the world! Sounds to be true.

Not exactly A but quite busy managing random stuff.

We ignore minor things like health and general well being in favor of all the more important things in life like work goals and targets and don't indulge into unproductive things like recreation and fun. And then a worn out body demands attention by acting up and reminding you of its existence through some tell tale signs.

In last couple of weeks I have taken enough pills to kill almost every kind of pathogen known to mankind
and attended three different docs for the ammunition. :-)

So now my body is rewarding me for attention that it got by allowing me to workout after a whole ten days. Stretching those tendons after so many days was a great relief.

Hope to continue with the less important things in life while attending all the more important stuff :-)

-Take care.

Brain Stormed!

After a day bundled with meetings, there are still few more hours and few more tasks to go before my day ends. Few of these tasks include appending my knowledge with something that is worth putting into practice in my profession.

Learning something new is adventurous and ignites a childlike curiosity whenever something new unfolds in front of you and reveals a new world of possibilities that one gets empowered to explore and exploit. Or simply the sense of 'knowing' that you acquire when you learn something is equally amusing.

Reading just for sake of knowledge. So to say.

A learned wanderer has her own peculiar charm radiating out of her persona that infects everyone around them. Such a person moves about in life with a subtle sense of confidence that we can sense even when she is not communicating.

But how much can we storm our brains to learn? I start learning something, then something else, till I have learned enough then someone invents something new and the new standards are en-vogue. Now I need to learn that.

I always end up Recursing this Vortex of ever evolving world of knowledge. And I am not the only one facing this knowledge-deficit.

Like the core of a nebula where a new star is conceived and born every now and then, this unknown yet knowable world of knowledge keeps on presenting something worth brainstorming every now and then.


I just hope that an already stormed brain may take this additional brainstorming and still stay functional ;-)

Stop inventing guys!

Where have I been?

I have dared to show up back here after much self consolation that its human to err.

It generally takes less than quarter of an hour to share something with people who matter through this online medium. But still, having been away for more than a month I now conclude that what keeps us from indulging in something that we enjoy the most is the quest for something that is of more importance to persons other than yourself.

Or maybe because we tend to set others' expectations from ourselves so high that we are always in a state of competition with our poor self that God had decided that we be on this planet just to fulfill those. It seems that it has become all the more hard to 'just be yourself'.

If that is true with the majority of us, then I would say that right now I am paying the price of this by abandoning myself from some of the activities that I most enjoy. Blogging being one of them.

I hope to see you soon!
Good night

Long weekend spent sinfully

Yeah! Sinfully.
By the way, how sinful can a teetotaler- vegetarian get?

Not having anything to read, having not contributed to own or others' knowledge, not having worked for three days. That is sinful as far as my definition of the thing goes!

Not only food, I have been a sloth all these days only moving about to pick up the phone, take a shower, have meals and drink all the odd stuff believed to relieve you of the heat. Home-sweet-home as comfortable it always is. But the heat topped by sincere efforts of our PSWEB (Punjab State's Without-Electricity Board), makes one wish for the generator-fed office even on a weekend!


Did I tell you I drove all the way to Jalandhar from Chandigarh this weekend? And Back! That was the part that I actually enjoyed the most about this weekend. Now, pardon me mention my bike again after devoting a whole post to it earlier, but it rides well, and feels well planted on the road, that even after driving for 2.5 hrs non stop (twice), my back is as happy as it was before the start of the journey. My comfort only marred by the sleep deprivedness (is that a  real word?) effected by early rising to escape the heat of the day. I managed to set our at 6.20 each time and reaching the destination at around 8:45. Just before the Sun could rise enough to start biting into my skin. :-)

I hope this night will help me recharge enough to attend the two day-long meetings that are to commence tomorrow and day thence.

Well, hope you also had a nice weekend.
Take care.

-Akashdeep

Got a new ride!

With ride I mean a bike.

After lots of analysis and considerations and re-considerations about various pros and cons of various options available in the market, I decided to take a bit risky option guided by the excitement that this new bike seemed to promise.

Apart from a couple of things that a conservative buyer will really miss, this new entrant promises the best of both the worlds.

A month or so was spent in (over) analyzing the available options and weighing them each on the scale of freshness, power, reliability, personal taste, practicality and safely etc, it was a tie between the Suzuki GSX 150 R and the new Honda CB Unicorn Dazzler. Dazzler won due to it's fresh looks, aggressive styling, lots of advanced features, lower weight that definitely adds to performance, and age old reliability promised by the Unicorn engine. Not to mention the attention to details and workmanship.

So, assisted by a colleague who was more enthusiastic than me in getting the bike (such gestures only show how closely people relate to each other sometimes) off we went to the show room stealing a few hours from the office (legally!)

Only to find that there was a truckload of new arrivals waiting to be unloaded. After a little coercion, little convincing and some requests, the whole scene turned its attention towards us.

And after a couple of more hours of wait (that seemed longer at the time) I was finally able to start it to actually ride it off!

As of now its the second day and the Dazzler has managed to impress me with every thing it does right from the animation on the HUD when it is first turned on to the effortless sweeping past every odd thing on the road act.

Also got two queries at the traffic stops asking what bike it is? Not a surprise because it is launched just a couple of week ago and mine is first of the first lot! Great value for money isn't it? ;)

Finally, I thank the overseer for finding me worth bestowing this pleasure.

You are invited for a free ride anytime!
Good night