Going Nowhere

(continued from the previous post dated July 28, '06)
She went on a spiritual trip and came back rejuvenated. Even I got
(a) mobile, albeit in a different sense, but the outages in contacts
grew progressively longer.


ash - Was nice seeing you after so long. I'm back with all the
benevolence. The trip was good. no hitches thank god. Altho Iraq
is totally devasted, the great places of worship is mobbed with
Iranians who are now free to enter Iraq after decades of repression
under the regime of Saddam. The crowd at the shrines is over-
whelming. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converge on the
Karbala and Najaf shrines, to pay homage to the revered heroes of
the Shia Moslim faith. Once in there, one can hardly tell the place is
war hit. I feel so complete after this visit you know. Another good
part that added joy with the spiritual highs was being able to spend
most time with my parents. Parting was moanful but glad to be back
cos a home is where your heart is even though you may have been
millions of miles away. How have you been? Are you enjoying the
chills of winter? Its lousy out here. Today is below zero degree
almost minus 8 or so and worst of all its snowing... Took me forever
to get to work. Am in a bit of constraint owing to the packed
schedule and a bundle of pending work. So, am keeping away from
msn fr a while. But pls keep up your mails. It always feels good to
see you in my mailbox.



kband - You must be still ducking under the pile of accumulated
workload, trying ur utmost to tackle the cob-web and making
desperate attempts to steer clear of the net prowlers! Hope u are
in the best of health and taking good care of urself to beat the
adversaries :-)
Y'day on the occasion of our anniversary, my wife gifted me a
mobile handset. Its the latest Nokia model launched in the market
and loaded with features. Its just what i wanted, including its
weight, colour, everything...probably the lady is finally learning
(or resigning!) to my obnoxious tastes. She has tried everything
earlier to make me or my style conform to the trends doing the
rounds, but invariably been frustrated. This time she has picked
up the perfect item, not too snazzy or expensive, to help me get
rid of my bulky companion (with extremely poor audibilty, u may
have noticed) which masqueraded as my cellphone :-0 Now even
I'm proud to be a part of the new mobile revolution sweeping
across our part of the globe. Prices are crashing, new items and
services are being offered everyday, hot ringtones are getting
downloaded before u could gasp in excitement - its what
everybody, from the lisping toddlers to the toothless milkman
seems to be talking about!!! My father, who once seemed
befuddled by the speed of innovative communication, is steadily
coming to terms with CDMA, GSM, WLL, SMS........
When do i hear a buzz from u?



ash - Congrats on the big day. Im glad you have yourself the
newest cell phone. Your story reminded me of nandu showing off
his new mobile, taking pictures and impressing his girlfriend in this
week's Jassi Jaise Koi nahin...episodes, wonder if you catch that one.
It seems today everyone has one cellphone. This rapidly growing
trend has many people exasperated, yet seems to have redeeming
qualities to justify its need. You be careful of your bills though, dont
let it soar meteorically. What did you gift your lady ?Ive been totally
terrible off late. Lotta things happening around me. Started with
mom in law's brain surgery..She had a brain hemorrhage 2 weeks
ago. Although her recovery is ok, she has to be at the re-hab center
for couple weeks until she gets ambulatory. Our schedules have
been a bit tight, hubby has deadlines to meet during this tax period
at the same time spend a good chunk of time with his mom. Next,
my work's keeping me tied as well. Suddenly the team decided to go
live with the production of our new site end of feb so that gives me
very less time for my page conversions. I have had a hellish week so
far. Fever seems to be an eternal companion. My throat is been ever
so pricky. So what if my blood pressure keeps getting lower all the
time? So what if my heart beat resembles a fast-beating drum all the
time? But to hell with sickness. So what if I am not 100%, my spirit
is unaffected…I am happy! Yes, I am. Yeeew haawww! And last but
not the least, the weather is playing games on us. We are hit by snow
storms almost every week. One pile of snow is not cleared and we
are dumped with another shower. HE is only testing our patience
with shoveling and bad commute I guess..son is doing good. He is
ready to go to skool next month. Im gettin anxious abt that. This
phase will pass too..Okay before I leave, let me say a tiny prayer :
God, thanks for making me quirky, it keeps me afloat. And that’s
all I need to be anyway. :)


(to be continued)