Stress and the city

I have hit the peak. Complete misery has taken over the system..choking me. All the stress I’ve been taking over the past two months have now culminated..what with the appraisals happening at work and the exam in less than a month. The Hong Kong trip too is proving to be this major pain, because so [...]

Bye for now..

There is an orphanage right next to my apartment, now this is a big bungalow that houses girl children who have been orphaned or belong to very poor families that can’t afford to keep these girls..brings back memories of The Kite Runner, but the impression I got is that the girls are reasonably happy..as happy [...]

What I’ve been upto

Working
Studying (or rather trying to)
Working
err..did I say working?
Having headaches
Trying to grab 10 minutes with my parents / grandma
Watching cricket (Oh I went and watched a match live)
And that means no time to blog…its going to be like this for another month at least. Got a couple of must write posts and a tag to complete…Life [...]

Sigh!

What I would mostly like to do now is:
- Chuck the laptop and the five assignments that are looming
- Tear up those nasty CFA material looking crisp and untouched on my side table
- Throw away worries of ratings, bonuses, promotions into the air
- Ditch all my cares and worries
- Get rid of that mild incessant headache
…and float [...]

Crazy little thing called life…and love

I nearly died when I was a six month old baby.
I was supposed to move to Zambia as a five year old, visas were done, the packing had begun..then my dad fell ill and came back to India because of lack of medical facilites which caused my parents to rethink our plans.
We moved from Madras [...]

100 Not out!

Can you believe I’ve made it to a hundred posts!?? This little tentative step that I started out late in September of 2007 has now grown into a fairly big obsession for me. I’ve loved the journey so far…it is so cathartic sometimes to just pour your heart out when words fail you conversationally.
Blogs and [...]

To do or not to do

After much dilly dallying I have now decided to apply for B schools this year. My options are incredibly limited as I am looking out for a one year programme (as if one year isnt bad enough). I am still not able to articulate the reasons for my wanting to do an MBA…I know that [...]

Saint Gobain moment

KT and I are the perfect brand ambassadors now for Saint Gobain.
 Rewind to the early part of 2005, I was in the office and walked straight into the glass doors. You know those cartoons where someone takes a fall and they have these little birds flying around their heads….I could actually understand that particular depiction [...]

Meltdown?

First this then this.
 From the looks of it, this is not going to be just another recession..it is going to be a rather huge melt down..sounds scary. And the decoupling theory looks like a fine joke. I wonder what the implications for me are…next year the bonuses will take a huge beating, people might just [...]

Matilda

Have no idea why but was suddenly reminded about a poem that I had read while at school…I didnt even remember the poet’s name..just the first two lines, then did a google search and was really thrilled to find it! I used to really annoy my mom my deliberately reciting it in that sing song manner [...]