So...things have been happening

Well, not really. Things have been pretty much the same since my last post - work, home, sleep and work again. Not to say I'm a workaholic - it's just that I don't have much else to do. Well, that's not exactly true either, but I'm being a bit lazy about working on something I thought up during my trip to Ooty.

Another thing in the motions is Ayush and mines' trip to KL. It's our mother's 50'th birthday on the coming Sunday, so we both reach there on Saturday morning (there were no convenient flights reaching KL on Sunday morning). Sshhh about that though - it's supposed to be a surprise. So, anyways, we reach there on Saturday and will hopefully go out somewhere (papa's supposed to be planning something). Then family (my sister with 2 of her 3 kinds, and my aunt) arrive, rather un-fortuitously on Wednesday. That's a whole other story that I'd rather not get into.

So, this whole trip thing has got me excited (what's new right??). But what's odd is that the source (well on an existential level anyways) of this happiness is different than usual. Usually, I'm just happy about getting away from wherever I am. Getting a break from the status quo - the daily routine. But this time around, I'm actually happy about being and meeting with my folks and my brother. That to me is very abnormal - these things have never really excited me, made me look forward to the events with great anticipation, as I am doing now. I guess my co-worker Ravi put it best - we realise that we derive pleasure from sources we didn't know existed, as we grow older.

Anyways, that's for this post - not much to talk about - but there you have it.

Pardonnez moi for the interruption

So, excuse me for the absence. I don't have internet at home (anymore) and since that was where most blogging was done, things have been slow here. Hopefully this should be remedied soon (I've been told I'll get my connection sometime this week).

The trip was REAL fun. We ended up going to Ooty and even though the first night was a wash (we ended up getting ripped off for INR 3000 for a room that would otherwise not have fetched INR 500 - freaking peak season time), the rest of the days were awesome. We ended up driving through some of the best roads (views wise) I have driven on - walked through tea gardens, lived on a step hill overlooking a valley et al. Real fun.

The highlight of the trip was that I got an idea to work on something - which has been in action since I have returned - and could might be the reason why blogging has been slow too.

Anyways, hopefully once I get a connection at home, things will return back to normal. In the meantime, some pics from the trip (the ones taken from my phone) are available here.