Holiday Blues

The ‘mini’ vacation is over, back to work in Hyderabad.

Yesterday (Monday) was holiday for bank here in Hyderabad because of election to the local bodies or something. Anyways, all that mattered was I had 2 back-2-back ‘off’ days to negotiate. So, a last minute trip to Bangalore was arranged. I went to Bangalore on Saturday evening and came back today morning. It was way better than killing time in an empty hotel room.

Now the problem is that coming weekend also I have back-2-back holidays and this time I cant go to Bangalore too. Wondering what am gonna do with those 2 holidays!!

Shift

It has been more than a month. If you ask me the reason for my absence, the answer will be 'Travel'. But i know that it is not entirely true. Ever since i shut down Ledger and started cadiaries, i have lost a huge part of 'blogging' energy. I just dont feel like blogging. Those who have visited my malayalam blog or twitter feeds may say otherwise. Anyway, i want to change all that. You will feel the a Shift soon.

Since today's theme is shift, i am starting with the skin of this blog. You may have already noticed that the layout has been changed back to Minima. I have customised the template so as to add more columns. The customisation is an ongoing process and you may notice more changes in coming days.

September was also the month of Travel for me. Calicut, Tuticorin. Coimbatore, Kottayam etc. Thankfully, this time i was much nearer to home. It looks like October also is not going to be any different :)

Travel Diaries

Never before in my life i have been so disconnected from Net. During my articleship i had traveled. But where ever i went i always had access to Net. But now everything has changed. I have to search for a Net caffee these days. Once am back in Trichur, am taking a wireless connection!!

Travel was the buzz word for me in the last couple of weeks (and looks like its gonna stay that way in coming weeks too). One day i was at Salem, next day day at Bangalore only to return to Salem the day after. Now am in Erode and looks like tomorrow i will be in Thiruppur the 'Textile hub' of TN. All these travels gave me enough time to brainstorm and to develop ideas to blog about. You can expect those in near future (i.e once i resolve my connectivity problems)

So Untill we meet again in blogospehere, Adios!!

A week without Net

Bringing my laptop back from hibernation every morning to check my mail, scrapbook and blog stats is a daily routine for me. So it was not easy for me to spend a week in Mavelikkara, where a Net caffe is something that exist only in peoples' imagination. But somehow i managed to hold on.. i  survived. However a week without computer, a week without net did had its (positive) sideeffects.

I consider myself as a bookworm, atleast untill net became a part of my life i used to read alot. Thats exactly what i did during the one week of 'Disconection'. I managed to finish (almost) the biography - 'I too had a Dream'- of Dr Varghees Kurian, the man behind 'Operation Flood'. It was a good read.  It gives pretty detailed accounts of the difficulties he had to face (mainly from government officials) during the Initial stages of starting 'Amul' and later 'Operation Flood'. I recommend this book to anyone who are willing to read a book for a change!!

Ubuntu Adventures

May 1= May day= a Holiday. Something rare among lot of Working days!!!! Without further adieu i wish all a very happy May Day!

My last post, now at 13 days , has lost its shine:its time to add a new one to the collection. So what was keeping me away from blogging? Well, for starters i got a new job (my first, actually) in the Inspection & Vigilance Dept of The South Indian Bank Ltd. I joined on 22nd. Ubuntu was the other thing that kept me away from blogs. These days i spend more time exploring, learning and tweaking Ubuntu than browsing the net. More about those adventures later.I plan to do a series about that anyway. The third and the most powerful reason of 'em all is the good old fashion 'laziness'.

The third day of campus interview was another washout as BEL offered the job to some other guys. Well, LBW to BEL. It seems my position involves a lot of traveling, some things never change even when you change the employer!! It seems i will be away for the whole of next week too.

Now the following message is being displayed in public interest:
VOTE, If you have the Election ID card, if you don't....... Oh, even that thought scares me, may be because i didn't vote (For the first time since i got the 'sort of' ID card from Election Commission) this time as ICAI scheduled the Campus Interview right on Election day.