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Writing in bed

Jan 31, 2009 Thinking out aloud Leave a comment

For a very long time, I wanted to buy a laptop. Time after time, I kept putting it off because I really didn’t need it. I had a PC at home and one at office and since I didn’t usually get work home, I reasoned I didn’t need one. A USB flash drive was sufficient to ferry the data. Another reason was that I never traveled with work.

But lately I’d started feeling an acute need for a notebook. The big reason was that I was getting more and more involved in internet marketing and felt the need for a PC everywhere I went. I have also become more focused on writing a book and while I could write on paper, I’m more comfortable doing it on a computer.

So here I am, with my newly purchased Dell Studio notebook, sitting comfortably in my bed with a warm blanket covering me and a slightly warm laptop on my lap, writing away.

This is something I could easily get used to. Wake up early and then before I got out from bed, tapping away a part of a book for about an hour, doze off for a while, wake up and write a bit more - my blogs, emails etc - all from my bed. Ah, the perks of a 9-5-job-free life!

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Back from Switzerland

Oct 7, 2008 What's Going On Leave a comment

After a wonderful 13-day trip to Switzerland, we are back in India. We visited Zurich, Lausanne, Lucerne, Interlaken, Chur and Grindelwald. All the cities had their own flavor and its hard to choose a favorite but if I had to pick a place, it would be Grindelwald because that’s probably the most beautiful place I’ve ever visited. It’s the sort of place I could stay forever and never tire of the beauty.

There are so many things I would love to share about the place but writing them all down would make this a humongous post. That’ll probably be a great topic for a podcast [Yes, I'm planning to start putting up podcasts along with regular posts]

The trip was part-work and part-vacation but now it’s back to full time work. And that means hard work. Those 13 days helped me unwind and allowed me to think about where and how my life is headed. Now it’s time to implement all those things.

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The Sleeper Awakes

Sep 7, 2008 What's Going On Leave a comment

I’ve been gone a very long time from my blog. It’s not that I’ve been too busy to post - it’s just that I didn’t feel a strong enough urge to write and so didn’t.

Now, though, I’ve decided that urge or not - I’m going to write on this blog on a regular basis. There’ll be personal stuff, there’ll be professional stuff, there’ll be random musings.

So how often should you visit this blog? I’d say once or twice a week should suffice, if you’re a friend interested in knowing what I’ve been up to.

You could check on a daily basis if you’re a die hard fan but I doubt there’ll be daily posts.

On a side note, I’ve changed the look of my site. The theme comes from a designer I quite like, Jai Verma. You can download this theme or others from his site at BlogohBlog.

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Song Update

Feb 28, 2008 What's Going On 1 Comment

The song will be a bit delayed. The friend I’m working with had to change jobs and his current job in a call center leaves him very little time for even his family so we haven’t been able to meet for a long time now.

But his job situation should stabilize soon. He’s looking for a job as a music teacher in a good school so I hope that will work out soon.

If anyone reading this knows someone who might know of such a job opening (music teacher), please contact me through the comments section. He doesn’t have a music degree but is an amazing musician. He can sing, play the piano, guitar, drums, keyboard and maybe some other instruments that I’m not aware of.

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Old friends

Feb 6, 2008 Music Leave a comment

I was going through YouTube sometime back, looking for videos of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel (Simon & Garfunkel are my all-time fave duos).

Came across this great song which, very surprisingly, I hadn’t heard before. It’s a really, really beautiful number that goes out to all my friends - past and present. (It’s from their famous “Concert in Central Park”)

Just want to let you all know that true friendships never die. And if we’ve lost touch - for whatever reason - I’m sure someday somewhere we’ll meet again.

Here’s to old friends!

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