Sometimes Updates are fun to Add

Here I am with yet another update, seems to me I am doing a lot of updates lately. Need to cut down on this and start increasing the productivity of our company.

And fun things apart, this was a week, which saw a lot of drama in my life. First as always was with my baby girl. She accidentally pulled a chair which her mother was seated on (just as she got up) and hit herself on the fore-head with the chair. This caused a big cut on her eyebrow and had to be stitched. See the facts of life, I didn't come under the stitching till I was 8 years old. Now, she is not even 4 years old, she underwent a stitch on her fore-head. Life is just like that. It is like all bad luck which had followed me and restricted me from having some serious fun has now started haunting my little kid.

From her birth, each and everyone who had seen her had mentioned how lovely her eyebrow was. Now, part of her eyebrow within the stitched wound won't grow. See how cruel it is for her at such a young age. Life is just like that. I have always felt, if I gain few feet, I always get dragged down a few feet below. But I have always felt, one hand willing to pull me up. God has never let me down. And I always will carry that hope along. I will also give that hope to my kid. Like I gave her, when she told me that God was not with her when she hit the table in the houseboat we were residing last weekend, I told her that God was with her, that's why she didn't get hit in her eye or any other part in the face. I asked her to pray to God to be always with her and make sure the next time she should not fumble, and even if she fumbles a bit, she should not get hit.

God is always with her and me, and I hope he continues to guide us into this dreadful, but interesting journey called Life. Its just funny that when you see persons taking a lot more risk in their life, but always getting away with it. And you, whenever try to get that small risk sneak in, get hit like a thud. Its just that taking such risks (physically) is not up to me or my family. It just haunts us forever. I just pray that let God also be with us and protect us from these risks and guide us to the destiny which he has kept us to fulfill.

That takes me to the next update, about last weekend which we spent with such fun and glory to God. Yes, God made me and my daughter think about him often (and first time together as father & child) during the last weekend. Fun in the sense we spent most of the time travelling, staying in a boathouse, and again travelling to Guruvayoor for my friend's wedding. It was total fun. It was my schoolmate's wedding, who I am friends with since Fourth grade. I went with my family (wife & daughter) along with my other relatively newly wed friends. We had a very great time in the houseboat. Got to know about each other a lot better, mainly the new add-ons to our friends circle. My wife was also new, as she hadn't spent much time with my friends before. Now that they are also married, we would have some more common ground in being total family friends.

About the boathouse, we rented a boathouse with 4 AC/Deluxe rooms, for four families of people for a day. The boat just travelled, roamed over the Alleppey lake and parked for lunch, dinner, night, breakfast etc.,. The on-board chef prepared us the meal as we requested. We even bought some local flavours (fish & prawns) for cooking and enjoyed our stay thoroughly.

Throughout our travel, from Chennai to Alleppey, Alleppey to Guruvayoor (via Thrissur), then back from Guruvayoor to Chennai (via Thrissur), we had a lot of fun, mainly the card games we played cannot be forgotten for a long time to come. Hopefully, everyone of my friends feel the same. And this trip also dawned in a new phase of our relationship with each other. Now a group of friends as boys are turning into family friends. A complex emotional relationship is about to build, and the start was as I would say should be the best in its class.

So more friends are getting married and they would definitely join this big group, one pair is already ready as they got married by this week. Another friend got engaged to his fiance the same day, so he is becoming a pair shortly. After all the marriages, our group of 8 will become a little bit bigger by the end of the year. We might have to get a bigger boathouse by next year if we need to spend a similar happy time.

On that happy note, I end this update, will be back for more, Ciao.....

Some days are pretty nostalgic

For most of our college mates, their journey through the special college life began today, 10th of July 1996.

For me, Yogi and few others the batch started on Aug 16 1996, I still soak with memories of all the happiness I felt on that very first day. It was a great feeling to see how an Engineering College will look like, which was not much different from the school we were used to.

The fact remains I didn't understand which class we were attending, when I entered the class and started listening. I asked the fellow nearby(who accompanied me in my bench) for which class this is. He told he didn't know. I thought it was Chemistry and started taking notes. I was asking most curious questions at the same person throughout the period, but he said didn't know or sometimes didn't answer. At times I thought this fellow is being a little cruel and doesn't like me taking place beside him.

At the end of the class (it was the fourth hour), we were breaking for lunch, I asked for notes on the subjects to the same fellow. He told he didn't have notes himself. Then I asked him his name and told him mine. His name is Yogi, my first friend at college and as I informed earlier into this write-up, he also joined the very same day. He and I became one of the best buddies through college and even now.

We joined Help hostel together, then shifted to a small house within reaching distance of the College. Again shifted rooms. Throughout this journey of College, we gathered more new friends to our room and group as we can say and lost a few, but something about this guy, I couldn't lose him enough. Or may be he couldn't lose me.

And finally when we departed away from College, he joined a separate office and I joined AdventNet. Still one of the few friends I kept in touch was Yogi. And then with time he joined AdventNet and worked with me in the same team. We still had great time as we did earlier. Time changed and I left AdventNet, but still I believe we are still in great touch as friends.

One tid-bit came along this weekday which made me write this piece. Yogi turned one more year old this week and his colleagues(few are my buddies too) over at AdventNet were mocking him as 30 years old (Poster pottu prabalapaduthittanga). When I called him to wish as usual, I heard this and immediately burst into laughter. Incidentally I am older than him and I haven't completed 30 yet (neither did he), but that wasn't a deterrent for his colleagues in teasing him.

This was one such moments that I wanted to record in my moments of joy and whole-hearted happiness, and this first day celeberation from our College day (10th July 1996), reminded me of those moments we spent together as friends, students, colleagues, roommates, etc.,

Gone are those days, when we were as happy as we can be, without any trouble, without any issues, without any single thing to worry about. Still we garner a hope to become the children we once were.

PS: Yogi is still single and he is one of the most eligible bachelors of our batch. Catch him before the time runs out.