The unexpected fall...wake up :)

This is a Sunday evening. I’ am typing this in my laptop placed on my table with ‘wake up sid’ movie vcd lying nearby which I finished watching just now. When I look at my ipod on my table I get a feeling that it’s trying to say to me ‘please remove all the old songs from me and update with some different set of songs’. My dear Ipod, I’ am thinking about it my friend, will wait for few more days for some good songs to be released and will add some English songs as well. Till then be happy with what you have :)
After my job change I had nothing much to write on till now. Everything is going on as expected and smoothly at work. But yesterday was different. Something unexpected happened which I’ am going to pen it down..I mean blog it down :).

I parked my two wheeler in the new Mantri mall at malleswaram yesterday morning, after enjoying a ride around. Met my friend Dinesh who was one among our ‘Mumbai ka dost’ gang. Had seen him last on nov 2008 when I left Mumbai. We roamed around the mall which it claims as one of the largest in Asia. We watched the movie ‘Shrek forever after’ in 3D. Movie was good enough to be rated atleast 4/5, a thumbs up from my side :)
While returning home in the evening, I dropped Dinesh at sampige road and I went ahead to do some shopping. At around 6 pm, I was done with my shopping and I was now racing towards home navigating the Bangalore traffic.
Just 10 minutes away from home it started raining heavily. I picked up some speed and all of a sudden came across a pathole dug but not closed properly. In a flash I applied brakes and tried to avoid this hole by turning the handle a bit. The result? No price for guessing..my gaadi skidded and fell on the road with a thud and the engine went silent. Immediately some people gathered around to help me and we all pulled the bike to the footpath though it was not that easy to move as its mudguard had got stuck and it was raining as well. Though I was saying to them that I was alright, I could see my hands and legs shivering and blood in my forearm and slipper.. but I did not get panicky, I was still calm and trying to think what has to be done next. While getting up from the road I shook my head with disappointment for what had just happened but soon realised that I was fortunate enough that I did not suffer any fractures and more importantly was not crushed or knocked down by the speeding vehicles coming behind. As the bike was not moving I had no other choice, I had to call my brother to pick me up..needless to say how much worried all at home were when they came to know about this.
I washed my wounds with tap water in a nearby apartment. I had few bruises in the right leg and hand with some soreness in my right shoulder, the side on which I fell. While I was waiting for my brother to come, a security person in that apartment gave me company till then. We were discussing about the accidents which usually happen at this spot and laughing about the incomplete work carried out by blore corporation which just digs up the roads at will and leave it as it is.
But it was a reminder for me that I should not take anything for granted, I'll continue to be content and satisfied with whatever I have with me, will try not to complain much in life..and I’ll be more careful in future with my driving :).

Yet another nostalgic leaf added to my eventful tree

Being at home in Bangalore, today I was watching ‘Travel India with Harsha Bhogle’ where he was interviewing a Buddhist monk in Bodhgaya, Bihar and what the monk has to say is our mind is just like a monkey..always wandering around..so if I just close my eyes and let my monkey mind wander around then so many faces and places of pune is flashing across my mind. Before I can concentrate on one face or place, one more pops up and I can hear few familiar but still vague voices.

I came out of pune on a maharashtra day i.e on may 1st. Travelling to airport in an rickshaw with all my luggage stuffed inside, the clouds which was planning to let out some rains out of its bucket anytime, I was missing some of my new friends who dared to spend some last moments with me in pune.
For a moment I was so amazed at my own mindset, this mindset of mine which wanted to spend few more time in pune now, was not the same 2 months back.

So here goes the flashback...
Date : 2nd feb 2010.
Place : Electronic city, Infosys campus. Bangalore
Travelling back to my home in a Volvo bus from Infosys campus on this sunny afternoon, I can easily visualise this moment even now. I was happy, excited and a relieved person. I bet, if I was alone there, then I would have danced around as well, but I’ am a person with some dignity you know hehe…so was able to control my emotions and behaved normal. Reason being, after a long patient wait for a job change and frustrations galore of many issues (which i'll discuss some other day may be :)), I had just got through Infosys. Now I knew, I can come back to Bangalore after 2 months and get to see some badly needed changes in my boring life.

A couple of days later, I came back to pune and resigned my job at Techm. Some of the events (both good and disturbing ones) which followed were something which I’ll always remember for a long time to come…

Though I don’t want to write up everything here..would like to share few good ones with you. One such event which I enjoyed the most was box cricket which was organised within our project and I realised that I am not a bad player at all or may be I was able to give my best shot on that day and my team won eventually :) ( please note: I can write a separate blog on box cricket as well :) ).
I met some of my good old friends and relatives in Mumbai and bid adieu to all.
I enjoyed an outing to Mumbai to watch an IPL match (you must have already read this blog :)).
Some of my friends and colleagues left the company and new friends came in to my life as well and some friendship bonded even better.
And guess what, I had become a sort of a broker showing around my flat for rent for some of the techm guys and gals (I had posted an ad in techm website) and yes I managed to get one (no brokerage for me though :))
I also realised that I love writing and was able to post so many writings thru blogs very frequently.
I attended one of my friends sister’s wedding. For me it was rare sight, a maharashtrian mulgi(girl) getting married to a tamilian payyan(boy)
And finally an unforgettable emotional farewells by my colleagues and friends wound up to a perfect ending.
.
.
.
.

So here I was, still in the autorickshaw travelling with a kind of hangover in my head. At this moment, the rain gods started sprinkling water from there bucket and before I could realize, it was raining heavily. I reached the airport and I could not escape from getting drenched while getting out my luggage and shifting it to a nearby trolley. Once I reached the shelter near the entrance, I just stood there for a couple of minutes looking at the rain and thinking that I have to move on to embrace yet another change in life when I was just beginning to like this place. This was not the same kind of feeling when I moved out of Mumbai..or when I moved out of UK..or when I moved out of Bangalore..yes I was missing all those places whenever I had to move out…but this time it was completely a different kind of feeling.

But I moved on pushing the trolley towards the security guy with a smile on my face to begin yet another journey......