Well....nothing much to write abt yesterday......just that since teh days have started getting longer actually saw a bright sun yesterday evening at 7:00 pm....which was good.....feels weird to reach home in broad daylight...and its just gonna keep feeling weirder...as in June, the sun sets around 10 PM......:-)))

had a number of meetings today...so hv been caught up since morning....
hv some scheduled meetings for the afternoon as well......so that takes care of the whole day.....

spoke to mom and dad yesterday....mom had prepared fish....wooooooowwwww....how I am dying to eat mom ka bana hua fish......mouth is watering even writing abt it...:-)))
mom was telling abt aai.....sad state....but chonu told me today that she is better....
Kunj has booked a Indigo....some opulence....wish i was there to hv seen all these happenings....looks liek Kunj is planning to give competetion to Tata and Birla.....lookin at the amt she wd be spending......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....o the fortune of hvg money at ur disposal......

Have spent a lot of time.....thinking abt everything...happens consciously and subconsciously.....and there has been a lot of introspection....which is helping me a lot...I am so happy that I actually got this time without anyone being around and me getting all this time by myself.....This reiterates my belief that whatever happens happens for the best....If I wd hv been in Pune.....I wd never have got this time..
cd actually think abt my entire life like a series of pictures flashing before my mind......relations with mom, dad, sis....s, divs, everyone.....decison abt gettin married, marriage, first few months.....now when I am away from everyone that I care about, I can actually look at my feelings for everyone individually.....the importance for each person in my life.....

Have had this beautiful realisation before me...that teh best situation anyone can find oneself in is a ''helpless'' situation....cos thats when new emotions start materialising.....

Being away from Divs has made me realise that she is such an important part of my life....in Pune....when we were together I used to take her for granted....now when I am away....and from all the mails we share with each other everyday we have got to know so much abt each other which just wdnt hv been possible if we were together.....writing abt things tells u so much abt a person's line of thought, emotions etc etc......now when we get back together will see to it that I do not take her for granted..... writing to each other is so helpful at times.....

Weekend was good......this weekend was ''daylight saving weeken''....what taht means is in teh last weekend of March at 1 am on Sunday morning the Bigben time is chnaged to 2 am....so that means the 1 hr between 1 and 2 is nonexistent......dont ask me why they do teh tings they do...they just do it....so when u wake up on sunday at 7...it is actually 8..:-)))

well......nowonder the trains werea bit empty today....as people must hv fogotten abt this....:-))) anwyyas was good for me....cos' I got a place to perch myself and read my Metro....naaaaah nuthing grt in it today again......

ayesterday evening wasnt in teh mood......so didnt talk much when was at Saurabh's place....after a lot of discussion we finally decided tahtw e would be going to New Forest on 9th......will be just a one day trip...This is what its all about :

The "New Forest" is an English medieval deer hunting area created in 1079 by William the Conqueror - his "Nova Foresta". It is still largely in the possession of the Crown.

It is a nationally important environment of woodland pasture, heaths, bogs and the remains of 17th, 18th & 19th century coppices and timber plantations;

grazed by the ponies, cattle and pigs of the local "Commoners" - one of the "Rights" extracted from the Crown by the locals centuries ago, and guarded vigorously to this day;

the vestiges of the ancient Forest Law courts that controlled the local population and their animals (to ensure they did not interfere with the deer and its food) still administer the Forest.


We plan to take cycles once we reach there and take teh cycling path across the forest.....will be fun...though have not cycled in 15 yrs now...:-)))...so I dunno how thats gonna be.,....but still will try that....Have cancelled Wales as of now as the weather seems unpredictable....

hv picked up some good stuff from teh library....2 biographies...one Nureyev (one of teh greatest ballet dancers of our times)....and one abt a Chinese survivor.....Nureyev is very interesting.....his rise from a peasant family to become one of teh most renowned russian ballet dancers is something which fairy tales are made of.....

Forgot to write yesterday....anyways....it was not a very good day......had an argument with Vaishali.....abt the resource......was dreading telling Jean abt it.....but when I actually told him today....it was OK....also got 3 resumes today...so it was ok....now am prayin that one gets selected so that my troubles end ...:-)))

its friday...and the week just zipped off at top speed.Am planning to go to Wales on the 9th and 10th.....some hiking and stuff.....will be 6 of us...so will be fun....its a 4 day brk....so 2 days will be there and 2 days here....am looking fwd to ot...

nuthing significant happening ......work is on fine.....atleast on a day to day basis I have work for teh whole day...some meeting, some plans etc etc...but there is work...so I am ok....weather is changing for teh better.....
and as summer is approaching people are getting summery...and warmer.....everyone seems to be lighter...seriously the climatic conditions play such an important role in ur moods...right...

Today is Sanjeev's last day...so he has invited all of us for a drink.....so at 5:15 will go there....
hvnt made any plans for the weekend.....since it came so soon....:-)))most probably will see a movie......and if teh weather gods bless me.....will go to central london.....generally to loiter.....dunno as of now.....

Its already wednesday....wow......can get set for another weekend...:-)))

Have a lot of work today...so its good....will keep me occupied....just recd a mail from Gayatri and have replied.....and I cd actually write the whole mail in German and I looked in to the dictionary just twice.....now thats an achievement....my sentence construction has surely improved and the practice is really helping me....by the time I go back...I want to be fluent in German....

was a bit frustrated yesterday...as none of these guys have a habit of replying to teh mails.....so ultimately, I just made a decision and informed them.....and now they do not have an option but to abide......serves them right...next time they won't take me for granted....:-)))...at times hv to be assertive even if it means irritating them...including their managers.....they hv got too used to a lackadaisical attitude.....and now hv to change that.....quiet an effort but will do it....:-)))

I have got hooked to yoga now.....its 45 mins in the morning and 45 mins in the evening....and my aches hv all disappeared......feeel so energetic......and the flexibility is also improving......so hv to continue.....and its a fact....that as and when u continue u keep improving...

now hv to rush for a meeting with Tony......so ciao later....

Today has been busy till now......went to the NHS and got the registration done....so now I can visit the doctor free of charge....some things are good in Europe....free medical advice is one of them....she did ask a few qs like do i smoke, drink etc etc.....and registered me....

have been in and out of meetings since morning....just got time to breathe...so thot of putting ina few lines.....I like busy days.....u dont realise....how the time just flies off and b4 u know it ur day is over.....

have to go to the bank in the afternoon.....they still require some copy of my work permit before they open an account....so hv to get that done....

Remember I was talking abt redaing other people's blogs.....I generally send across a mail when I like something...so had written to 2 of them....and they replied back saying that they didnt know someone was reading their lines....:-)))) u know these are the times when I can feel the power of the web......u read something.....u write a mail...send it to sumone whom u dont know sitting somewhere in the world....and u actually get a reply back....and teh communication begins...and u know another person in the world....coool aint it....

Ok now lunch time.....

Just came back from lunch....had Lamb rogan Josh today.....with rice and Cheesecake and custard.....

the weather has changed for teh better....was bright and sunny at 6:30 in the morning....next week we have to adjust our watches and make it 1 hour faster.....the days are gonna be longer.....by June the it will be twilight till 10 pm.....now tahts fabulous....isnt it.....

another monday.....weekend was good...saturday was spent in shopping for grocery, vegetables, milk etc.....then went to the library and spent a lot of time there....picked up some real nice books....am currently reading Ardashir Vakil's One day.....had heard a lot abt it....good and bad reviews....so when I saw it...just picked it up....

also picked up a good book on yoga.....explains all the details of the asanas.....seriously...when u practice it daily it reallly benefits u in various ways.....for one....ur pains and aches dissapear...ur posture improves.....and u feel energetic....and when all these things happen.....u feel grt and euphoric....now am talking like a yoga geek.....but seriously....hv planned to do it regularly for 45 mins.....hv been persisting for 2 weeks now....initilayy all muscles pain.....but then u know that thats cos none of them hv been stretched for years....its like 31 yrs...they lie dormant..and suddenly they are stretched......my muscles also resist change.....:-)))) hv started reading teh book ...its bya disciple of Krishnamurthy and Iyengar.....so has a combo of both...just realsied that Krishnamurthy is the more spiritual kind and Iyengar is more for Hatha Yoga....and he was the one who started yoga using props...like ropes, chairs etc....interesting read....

I am so happy I decided that I dont want the television.....else i wd hv been stuck to it...

yesterday went to teh National Gallery.....o my gawddddd.....it was an experience.....I actually say the paintings that I have read so much about....and that too standing 2 feet away.....I saw the Sunflowers-Van Gogh,Long Grass with butterflies - Van Gogh,Water Lily pond-Monet, Madonna of the Pinks--Raphael, The virgin of the rocks- Leonardo......o wow...it was an experience......I spent 5 hrs...but cd just see a few......there are hundreds more which I will see in the next coming weeks.....

Now, I do not hv too much knowledge abt paintings....however I was trying to understand why these paintings are so popular and heavily priced.....especially the Sunflowers......I just cannot understand.,......its a bright painting....but...somehow something was missing....there wre so many others which were exquisite.....The virgin of the Rocks was excellent.....the Lily pond also was beautiful......

whatever ......it was an experience.....and I enjoyed it thoroughly...

There is an El Greco week which will exhibit all his paintings...I saw a sample......believe me he was amazing......amazing doesnt come 1/10th of what he was....and it seems he was the inspiration for the later painters like Monet etc etc.....

the gallery was sellinga book...which contained all the paintings with their history...will be buying that soon....its a must hv.....

I cd just go on and on.....but now i hv to get back to work.....so will get back to u later....ok....

Looks like am getting an accent…..and looks like its only when I am talking to someone British…so I guess its ok….with our guys its the same…..wow…..I knew I was adaptable……but just realised I am so adaptable….now that’s enuf of self appreciation…..but I am impressed…..with myself…..

Have made a resolution that however bored I am.....will tell myself I ain't bored.....am planning to be positive as next week's resolution....i can already see it working.....

I have really got stuck to the blog sites......have been surfing the web for bolg sites and have found some realllly hilarious ones.......and they keep me in splits.....i keep hunting for them like as if there is gonna be a BLOG Removal law gonna be passed tomorrow......:-))))....yeah redaing abt other people's lives is reallly interesting actuallly......u can relate to normal people.....so u identify......and then u start looking at ur own life as a series of anecdotes.....:-)))

nowadays.....exercising has become sucha part of my life(not that it was not, but getting myself up at 5:30 am in the morning was a mammoth task and a lot of times had to tell myself that sleep is good for me.....so ended up in bed sleeping till 7)....but here I actually sleep off at 10:30....get up at 6:30.....do yoga for 30 mins.....and believe me that helps me get rid of all the pains that I groan abt.....my neck used to pain...and my back...and now.....its all just gone......tahts motivation to continue....

and bang at 5:30 am in teh gym(hvg it in the office helps alot)....again not hvg a social life helps a bit more....cos then i do not hv to keep looking athe watch.....so its 1 hr of exercising.....and hv also started using teh traed mill.....which is really good to get these tyres off.....then twice a week its steam and sauna.......oh...whata life....pure indulgence...:-))))but yeah at teh end of the day I am still so much alive.....and this helps me maitain my head....and be cheerful...now aint that nice.....hvga smilin face....in between british grimaces...:-)))))

just came back from a 1 hour lunch......went to Trevi today ....its teh bar that we have at Unilever where everyone goes to chill out on Fridays.....so after 2 weeks went there today....had 2 glasses of Australian wine....u know thats the first thing I do when I get a wine bottle....look at the make.....actually I have still not got used to the bitter taste of wine.....have not yet tried white wine.....only the red wines....I still prefer Port wine..since its sweet......maybe the taste will grow on me....

so had wine and chicken(it was deep fried........which i do not like) but came with salads...so was good.....after hvg the wine started feeling tipsy....so had to have a strong Latte....and now me feels in no mood to work.....:-)))))

wow.....am happpy today.,......just looked at my appraisal comments and boy was I thrilled......10 projects all rated excellent.....now I better get a goooooood raise else I am gonna throw a fit......

Both Anita and Vaishali have given me excellent feedback......feeel like ''singin in teh rain''......:-)))))...and my face (if u cd see it) looks like the cat who has just swallowed the canary...:-)))))

Today the weather was terrible....terrible wd be an understatement....it was actually stormy.....and the gale was horrible.....cd actually pick me up and throw me away if I wd hv persisted on the street. I actually ran to the station.....on one occasion, I was pushed back so strongly by teh wind that I had to sit down for a few seconds.....

Myself and few passersby looked at each other and gave each other comforting smiles.......as each one of us was feeling the same.....

reached the station and completed my daily routine...picked up Metro....and boarded my train....today am feeling very comfy in my jeans and tshirt...first time that i wore this attire to work.....normally i am in crisp formals.....though everyone here is in casuals...still i prefer formals during the week......today since it is a friday and i had expected the weather to be good......decided to wear....this....

looks liek the weekend is gonna be wet......still will go to teh gallery on sunday...tomorrow will visit Whitgift (now u will ask what is Whitgift.....its a huge shopping mall.....and its beautiful on the weekends.....its got sale of old books...its got singers singing outside for teh whole day....basically a very festive atmosphere which gets u in teh mood)....will go to Boots and get Chonu some creams and stuff.....

Was browsing thro' the blog sites and found some nice and interesting reads.....not that I read each one meticulously.....however there is one belonging to a bengali dame living in France, which I liked....so am reading it.....she writes pretty well...will leave hera note at the end saying that I liked her blog....

Had work today....so did not realise how the day just passed off and its already the end of the day....

Unfortunately the work that was supposed to have occupied me for days has been completed in a day.....so again will have to get in the nagging mode and nag Tony for more work.....but will do that on Monday....

Just came back from my walk.....had sir fried chicken and vegetables with Cantonese sweet and sour sauce.....and a raisin pie and custard.....the pie was so sweet that had to leave it halfway.....

was slightly chilly again today....the area is flooded with tourists....season has begun....the trains will also start getting crowded now.....when u walk u can hear a cacophony of sounds.....actually its a number of different languages being talked at the the same time....just name the language and u can hear it.....

met Jackie at lunch again.....and I have promised to invite her home for dinner....she likes Indian food......now u must be wondering who is Jackie....she is this huge Afro-British woman.....who is fun....great at her job..but always smiling....very unlike the brits...

Already Thursday....just a week for the weekend....had organic milk in the morning....pretty good....fat content a wee bit higher....but thats ok....

asked Tony to give me some work as I have finished what I had been assigned....as usual...he gave me some vague possibilities of work.....so looks liek I have to find work for myself...tahts teh only alternative....
got myself a meeting with Jackie.....she picks up teh phone.....and says ''I will not talk to u...as u are too young.....and i will talk to people who are older....''......hahhahahhahahahhah.....she is always flirting and joking....a real nice lady.....she saw me yesterday and commented on my haircut....saying ''You are looking like a lad....now''hahahhahahahhahah......

had another meeting at 10....however if I wd not have accepted Jackie's meeting she would not have met at all.....so will skip that one.....and attend this one......
after that it iwll be nagging time again with Tony...he is gonna bet so frustrated with me....that for all u know he will send me back....:-)))

its 5:20.....everyones already on their way out....the exodus begins around 4:30 pm....
will now visit the gym and then take a shower and take the 6:49 to Croydon....

yesterday had my weekly telephone call home.....hada great time chatting with mom and basically gossipping about all the happening in Pune.....its so funny...when i was in Pune, never used to have the time to talk with mom and dad...and now I can actually hv a non stop conversation with them.....mom was telling abt the impending wedding in April...which will put the Tatas and Birlas to shame...:-))))....atleast in terms of Gold...laughed a lot...
mom is really missing us.....yeah...they are so used to me and chonu being at home....and now suddenly its empty....thnak god she is working else...she wd hv been real depressed....consoled her that its just a qs of a couple of years (i.e if the client likes me here , else will go back soon....u never know....)....

felt nice after the conversation.....

Just heard yesterday, that we will be moving to a new location from Blackfriars to Walton on Thames......came as a surprise ...and I cannot say yet whether it is a pleasant one or an unpleasant one.....since i do not know anything about Walton.

It seems its a good place.....except that it is situated on teh outskirts of London....so travelling may be a bit of a problem. However it has all the facilities which we have here...like canteen and most important gym.....so its ok...else I wd hv to look out for a gym outside the office and that wd hv been really expensive....

time for lunch now......basically not lunch...feast.,...:-)))

Went for my daily walk after the satisfying daily lunch.....looking at the spread that we have everyday I realise that its not a wonder that half the British population are obese :-)

have taken an oath that 2 days will only have salads....but cannot resist the desserts.....today had a sinful piece of cheesecake and like that was not enuf calories...also hada gallon of custard...:-)))...wow now thats what i call dessert....

after having satiated myself....have to take some precautions to avoid growing tyres ...so teh brisk walk along the Thames....normally i take all precautions to cover myself up due the chilly winds that keep blowing and today was pleasantly surprised when I went out...we actually had a clear blue sky....and the sun was out...woooooooooooowwwww.....now thats a reason for celebration in London..where it is generally all gloomy....is it a surprise that maximum numbers of anti depressants are sold in England....

today it was fun walking ...crossed the river using the millenieum bridge (one of the tons of bridges across the thames...built to usher in the new millenieum)....and walked in front of the Tate modern hall (have to visit this gallery sometime....maybe when Divya comes to visit)
was really pleasant and I really hope that this heralds the arrival of spring......its only after coming here that I realise the improtance of simple things like sunlight.....i actually used to curse sunlight in pune.....cos it was scorching...and here I pray for a sunny day.....serves me right to take things for granted....

I am so bored.....work here is sucha drag...especially since I am not used to just sitting in one place....the brits are so slow and lackadaisical....gawddddddddddd...i cd actually scream .....things which can be done in 1 hr....they will take 1 month to do.....its terrible..

had one meeting in the morning...that was cancelled....now hv another one in teh afternoon...hopefully that happens...else i am gonna shout blue murder......

Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.........workwise Pune is so fulfilling.....but if u look at quality of life...yeah london is better....cos u can spend more time....in doing things other than work....

another Tuesday.....got up at 6:30....did some yoga...took a bath...had some breakfast(2 slices of whole meal bread(something different as compared to the normal brown bread I keep having), 1 glass milk a banana and an orange.....must start buying organic stuff ...the normal stuff that u get in these supermarkets are so tasteless....yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.....

took the 7:53 to Bedford today....its direct to Blackfriars...so no changing at Victoria....didnt get a Metro to read today..so had to stick to Tennessee williams....

nuthing much happened as yet....will know as the day progresses....

Atlast I have accomplished my desire of becoming a blogger......aaah...what a heady feeling....have heard so much abt blogging and now I too am a part of it....

I created this to record all my ''mixperiences''(mixed experiences) in the Queens land.Well....where do I start from? Ok....yesterday went to Greenwich...had studied abt teh Greenwich mean line in geography in school....but had never thot then that I wd be actually standing on that line one day.Greenwich is a quaint town(actually was a village in the pre war days, however now has got converted in to a town). It still has a victorian feel to it which I really liked.Took the Docklands Light Rail from Lewisham to Greenwich Cutty Sark. Now u must be wondering what is Docklands Light Rail...well...its another train service which is operated by remote control....believe that...we sit ina train which doesnt hv a driver....wow....only teh brits cd think of something like that....there are these miniature cameras which show the exact location to some central station which locates the control centre.Well I wonder what wd happen if the train suddenly develops a mind of its own and travels off to France....:-))))...Well it didnt travel to France unfortunately....so got down at Cutty Sark station.I began nagging Sourabh as to what is Cutty Sark and he didnt say anything.....and as soon as we came out of teh station....Lo...in front of my eyes was this huge ship...yeah the ship was Cutty Sark...pretty nicely preserved.

Checked out teh ship and then went in to the Greenwich market....wow....the smell of freshly ground VanillaCoffee.....ooooooooooooooo...whata smell man.....was out of this world....unfortunately the guy was only selling beans and not coffee....moved to the next stall...which had yummmy olives in all weird combinations of oils.....moved ahead....a woman selling chopsticks.....a man selling head caps....supposedly hand knitted in the Himalayas...why wd anyone wanna sit and handknit caps in teh himalays...well....looked thro all the stalls and then moved out to the obervatory which has the Mean line.....the place is beautifu......was windy and wet....and i didnt hva cap (which i regretted) as the cold wind targetted my ear and now i hv a earache....
anyways....went up the hill and saw the eman line.....naaaah...the line wasnt very mean....:-))) silly joke eh....
was beautiful view from up there.....spent some time there.....and then decided that I wd come there in summer...as the place wd be beautiful in summer....

came down.....the hill...and as usual felt hungry...saurabh suggested a Noodle joint ...yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmyyy...Chinese after long....and this place...was cooooooooooooooooool......such cheap food...and still good quality..and boy was it crowded....settled down there...and ordered...carrot juice and rice and duck......ummmmmmmmmmmmm......duck was good....but kept getting visions of a live duck.....the texture was slightly chewy....chicken is much softer.....but good.....after lunch time for a coffee.....so went to starbucks and had LATTE....
After that caught teh train and back home.....was agood day except that if I hada cap it wd hv been better......wd hv avoided the earache,......

my first post......yahooooooooooooooo....my blog is ready....i am a blogger.....:-)))