'Dr.Juby'.... 3 years and counting....

Last wednesday sep 26, it took me back to my hyd days... It was the 3rd anniversary of my phd viva... the day I was called Dr.Juby for the very first time...
It was and will always be the day I will b reminded of the pain I had to endure to get that title behind the name...
The sleepless nights.... insomniac days... frustrated, disappointed week-ends!!!
The many sacrifices, the many x'mas i missed at home.... the personal life i sacrificed... yeah, that was a lot of sacrifices... But in the end, it was all worth it.... not all but some atleast...
The day made me look back to my Phd days.... We joked on our Phd life... we fought, argued with our bossed... we managed the internal fights with among ourself.... Looking back, that was the best experience of my life... learned a lot of life lessons.... made a number of friends... connections... i have now people in every field, at my phone address book ready to help me in case of any professional requirement....
I am thankful for my phd life.... how it happened doesnt matter at all... because the result was amazing... 3 years since i finished my phd life... 2.5 years since i left hcu.... i have added new experiences in this time period as well... as years go on, the experiences will increase... meet new people, experience different work culture... May be i will become a different person altogether.... But i will always remember the beginning... The day i which set the base for who i am right now... The day i became 'dr.'.....

"Dont ever mistake my silence for ignorance or my kindness for weakness"

"Dont ever mistake my silence for ignorance or my kindness for weakness"

This quote is summing up my attitude these days.

I consider myself as a calm person most of the time. I don't like to jump around or be a show-off. Most of the time I like to live in my own world.

But what irritates me is when people mistake my calmness or silence for dumbness... Some people here, just had a first hand experience on what will happen if they irritate me...

I wont stand anyone irritating me in any way... Be nice, i will play nice... Don't ever try to sit on my head, because i can shake anyone off from my life...

May be i sound selfish... But i was selfless for too long, and it ended up with me at the receiving end... I don't want history like that repeat over and over... 

Time to be selfish.... and move on boldly with my life...

ALEPH - did i miss something!

Just finished reading this book... And how long I was reading that? Almost one and half years... Finally done with it...
I say 'done with it'... 'cos it was not an interesting book that grabbed all my attention and time... may be  its the translation. The flow was not there at all... and Paulo Coelho's plots are becoming boring and predictable... Nothing new in that book that is memorable to me...
But one thing interested me was the whole train journey... that might have been an experience for anyone taken it. It inspired me... to travel to mysterious places in the world... take a trip, take a pilgrimage, find yourself, get inspired....
I want to get into that train... meet some new, weird characters.... write stories on them....

To add, this is the fourth book in 3 months, i was not at all wowed at all... the real literary writings are disappearing.... new new writers on block, throwing in so much of their experience; that's good... but, the good english is missing... Everybody wants to make a name as writer... So they just focus on the content, never care abt the language at all... The fiction these days feels like blogs... I still believe, the good writers were the old days ones... Missing that style... 

Take a Breath... whenever you can....

Busy days!!! tight schedules....
Monday to friday, life just goes so fast, so mechanical.... Not even getting time to pause a bit, take a short break...
Mondays morning are becoming more and more like 'manic monday mornings'.... Friday evenings are welcomed with a cheer in air... Not at a good sign!!!
Life is changing so fast, finding hard to adjust to the ways....
Have to take care of my eyes first.... the eye muscles have weakened a lot due to time infront of the computer screen over the years... but not able to take breaks in between.... Works, deadlines rule the office...
Taking a break, catching a breath.... wait for that fraction of time inbetween for those... else, you will miss that for the day..... like what happened to me today.... by the time i reached home, i didnt have even abit of energy to stand up....
Its 9.30 and all i am thinking now is to wind up so that i can start early again tomorrow....
i need a break.... for that i have to wait for 3 more days!!!!!

Beautiful mornings... rainy evenings... humid nights...

Yes, that's what's right now here in Delhi.... Late monsoon is giving some rains once a while, leaving the rest of the time humidity in abundance... feel like summer never left....
Enjoying the beautiful mornings as usual... the pic i took this morning... the white dot in the middle is actually the moon... the advantages of getting up early in the morning and going for jogging...

Time just flew and its already September... May 27th, when i joined Wiley feels like yesterday.... completed 3 months as a consultant here.... Promoted to Project editor... Life is not bad....
One thing still left for me to do in delhi... have to roam around and take more snaps of Delhi.... when will i get time.... waiting... and waiting for the right time!!!!

Keeping some people away from you life can be good...

Many people usually criticise me that I am short tempered... that i react too much... that i dont have patience...
i agree half of it is true... the thing is; i dont have patience with people who irritate me too much... i cannot stand them... for me the right thing is to keep people like that away from my life...
I dont want to be stressed out because of some people.... who does everything to take away the peace from me... may be the number of friends will come down, but i cannot count someone who stresses me out as a friend....
Let me have some peace in my life... so anyone who cant give me that, just stay out of my life....