Its all about the money

Sometimes I wonder that everyone really only cares about the money and only works for the money.

When I was in school completing my engineering ... all I really cared about was getting an interesting job ... and work is some field of interest.
Unfortunately somewhere down the line people forget about their basic principles and just get into work just for the money.

I am currently working in something that I really love ... I can spend hours and hours together doing what I do... and what really drives me is the quality of work,responsiblity that I have. Additionally I have always been getting recognized for my hard work. For me Money is the last thing that really comes to my mind when I think about my job. I know I earn enough to have a good life and that’s what I care about. So when I see people in my workplace only cribbing about Money ... I think and wonder what happened to that basic love of the job that everybody had ... about why me , my coworkers became engineers. The problem I have seen is in this cat and mouse fight (read: cat = employer and mouse = money), nobody is ever going to be happy. Today if somebody makes 3 lakhs ... leaves a job and gets 5 ... he is still going to think about where the next 8 lakh offer is going to come from.

My question is where does it all end? And how much money do you need to get satisfied? I guess I'll never know the answer to that one

Vacation Days ..

Vacation days are always the worst ... aren't they ? You plan and plan for weeks together for just a couple day's off and what do you get ? - Nothing in return ... some crap room in a crap location somewhere.

Currently I am on a 5 day vacation starting today right upto the 2nd of May... the only plans I have is ... well no plans. The whole week I basically slog my ass in office , do a lot of planning ... so why spend another few vacation days and once again plan things that never really work out.

Today I have "planned" ;) to do the following (In no particular order) :

1) Sleep
2) Gym and then Swim
3) Watch a lot of movies
4) Browse the internet
5) Play GTA : San Andreas
6) Sleep
7) Eat
8) and of course more sleep ...

Of course I have this slight inclination to just go through my office emails .... but I have decided that I might read them but not respond to them !!

Adios ppl ... while I try to find my inner self in these 5 days (Well one day is almost over doing nothing ) !!

East or West India is the best !!

I was just going through Orkut recently and I kinda realised that everyone that I know or my friends know is in the US of A. I wonder what has gone wrong with the country which is driving these guys out of their own country.

I personally know a lot of people who have gone to the states for gaining higher education. I guess thats just an excuse for immigrating to US. I pity these guys as three generations down the line, there won't be any amit's, rahul's, jayesh's .... instead they will be Andy, Ray and Jay !! This migration is not only a brain drain ... but more importantly it is a culture drain. I infact see this happening in the third generation americans of India origin.

I have stayed outside India for 15 years of my life and I have realised that there is no place in the world better for an indian that india. Yes there is heat, dust, pollution, overpopulation, power cuts ... but then again you get this feeling of one-ness. I have gone to the US on company work ... and I realised that you are very dependent on the system to get things done. Everything works like a mechanical machine... one screw falls loose ... and there is chaos (Like 911, terrorism). India is more like a computer (perhaps a neural network). It is a very adaptive place.

I compared going to america as going to a fancy restaurant. You enjoy it when you go there, you enjoy the time you have there , but at the end of the meal ... you have to pay a hefty price and of course there is nothing like having food at your home.

The India today is a lot better than the India 15 years back. Things have changed for the better. The salaries are much better. In fact the kind of lifestyle that I enjoy is something I am sure I wouldn't have enjoyed in the US. I have a house ... a lovely garden ... a car ... a beautiful wife ... my family ... domestic help to clean my car, my lawn, my utensils, my home and to top it off all ... I can afford a lot of luxuries (such as eating out daily if I want ... going for a lovely vacation ... wathching the latest hollywood movies in my home theater system). So I don't think I have sacrificed anything by not going to the US/Uk or anywhere for that matter.

I guess I have rambled on about this topic... but I really feel strongly about this topic.
Am I patriotic ? Well I am ... and I feel proud to be an Indian.

Damn ... is it hot in here or what ?

Today was by far the most fuc#$** horrible day. It was so damn hot ... that I could hardly move out of the house.. All I can see is sweat ...

It was 39 degrees in Pune today. I wonder how the people who live on the streets survive. Here I am who sleeps in an air-conditioned room, drives an air-conditioned car ... my office is air-conditioned... and yet I still complain about the heat.

Speaking of heat ... I went to Thane on Friday morning and boy was it hot there. I reached there in 1hour and 55 minutes (which was a new record for me). The average speed that I travelled at was 100 kmph. While coming back I reached in 2 hours. ( It was an awesome trip... went to mumbai and was back at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon).

Yesterday was a good day --- first time that I had cheap fish in Pune ... by cheap I mean 20 bucks for a bangda fish and 30 bucks for surmai ( Can't get that price even in Mumbai).

Life's like that ...

Yes ... another tuesday... another manic one ...

Ok enough with this manic crap ... so let me think how my day began...

For one .. my wife's gone to her mom's ... so it was great ;) . Didn't feel like getting up in the morning (with the new a/c fitted, I just can't do it).

So wake up at 8... decide its time to go to office... get cleaned up... and look outside the window and its another fucking hot day...

Check my car ... and again the damn birds shat on the car ... its getting ridiculous day by day. But its ok .. Shit happens and it happens to the best of them.

In the afternoon, decided to go out for Lunch (one of my colleagues last day today). Had an excellent meal at Malacca Spice (Highly recommended place). Then had few calls to attend in the evening (The usual daily meetings) and finally came back home. What a crap day !!

I wish life was much better. .. but life's like that. I wish tomorrow is another boring,hot,shitty,crappy,long,fucked up, pathetic day. But hey ..... life's like that !!