This is one of those days I am working from home. Most days I invariably end up working all day long, sometime into the night. But there are some days when I either dont have much work or it is something which does not need immediate attention. I hate to admit that , even at my workplace, I work on the "rocket principle"(Engg grads are very well acquainted with this word :-))
which , well, speaking in the true sense does not make me a very "efficient" employee. Anyway, I am not here to discuss my workplace efficiency .
So, well , till about sometime back , I has my eyes fixed on my ;laptop screen and was feverishly typing (coding). Just then when i took a moment's break, my eyes just wandered to my bookshelf . I felt a pang of sandness looking at them . All of them screaming out loud to come and immerse oneself in their big, beautiful magical world . Every time I look at them , its like there is some unexplainable force that draws me to them like a magnet . A month ago or so , I had been to Blossom's bookhouse , one of my favorite bookshops in Bangalore in Church Street, I had picked a lot of books(I usually end up buying a whole bunch of them whenever I am there , whether I have time to read them in the immediate future or not ). I have had time to just read two of them over the last couple of months .
The rest of them are there waiting to be picked up : The list of these include
1.Lord Of The Flies - William Golding (Currently reading)
2.The Girl Who played With Fire -- Stieg Larson (I throughly enjoyed reading its prequel The Girl With A Dragon Tatoo )
3. A House For Mr.Biswas -- V.S.Naipaul
4. The God Delusion --- Richard Dawkins
5. The Historian---Elizabeth Kostova
6. Ulysses --- James Joyce
7. Fight Club --- Chuck Palahnuik (I am looking forward to reading this)
8. Shantaram --- Gregory Roberts
9. The Savage Detectives --- Roberto Bolano
10. Anna Karenina ---- Leo Tolstoy
11.Comrades --- Robert Service ( Reading in parts)
12. The Trial --- Franz Kafka
13. The Sound And The Fury -- William Faulkner
14. Catch 22 --- Joseph Keller ( I started reading this , but somehow did not go father than 20 pages )
15. The hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
16. Cold Moon - Jeffery Daver
17. Simple truth - David Baldacci
18. Split Second - David Baldacci
19. The Catcher in the Rye --- J.D Salinger
20. Couple of Agatha Christie
Hmmm... well and I am eagerly waiting to grab my hands on
1. Lord Of The Rings --- J.R.R Tolkien (The tru ebooklovers out there would gasp in disbelief !!! I know , I somehow never read it to date)
2. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
3. The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown (I am not one of those Brown maniacs , but I am just interested )
4. Her Fearful Symmetry ---Audrey Niffeneger ( I must say I loved her last book , The Time Traveller's Wife)
And most important of all
5. Lolita --- Vladimir Nabokov (I have been trying in vain to get a copy of this book :( )
Well, I dont know when would I get the time to read them , but I sure miss those days where I pick up the book and be a silent observer of a totally different world out there.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Just another post
I havent blogged in quite a while. It was partly due to the schedule I have had over the past few months which has actually made me optimise the amount of time I spend in front of my laptop. Which is quite the reason why I have not been watching as many movies/series on the laptop. :).. I didnt blog even when FEDERER WON BACK TO BACK FRENCH AND WIMBLEDON title!!!!!! That actually speaks volumes in itself about the fact that I have preferred to stay back in the real world than let myslef get absorbed in this virtual world of internet.
My overworked mind needed some rest and it was the time for the body to take over. Overworked, I say not only because of the work load in the office, but in general, the mad rush of the routine day -to -day life sort of, had(still has, i guess) created a perpetual restlessness in my mind that the usual weekend routine of "eat sleep and rest" didnt seem to wash off.
Thats when i decided I need to get away . Simply leave everything behind and get away . I had, I guess, a year back, had registered in the Bangalore Mountaineering Club (bmc) online, As a result of which, my inbox was always spammed with countless number of people sharing their trek/trip experience, and a lot of mails on the upcoming events , which s when i came across the trip to Mullyangiri-baba budangiri and Kemmangundi . I had long wanted to visit these places and had bugged my uncle , who is a trekking enthusiast, innumerable times. It never did materialise and when bmc organised this trip, I made up my mind to go for it. Asked my friends, some of whom readily agreed .
In the recent past, there had been times, that plans were made, and I had to drop out of it due to one reason or the other. But this time I decided to go for it, no matter what .
For a change, I wanted my body to rule my mind and not the other way round. My eyes craved to savor a sight which was not mad traffic or the ugly concrete jungle. My lungs longed for some fresh air . My legs wanted to wander about just on plain grass. Which is what I found in there on the last weekend when I went on trek . Some sanity restored :). And like the famous saying , "Miles to go before I sleep........"
This post is not a travellogue, hence I wouldt not go into the details of the trek. which probably is up next in the list of blogs . Next weekend I am going to Sagar for Ganesh Chaturthi . I plan to just wander out in the beetel plantations and go around in the village with no absolute purpose. Sit on the verandah chatting with my cousins and aunt and see the sun setting down on the beautiful village side. These two years of professional life has made me value and appreciate the beauty and simplicity of the life in the rural, which in the past I have always taken for granted.
My overworked mind needed some rest and it was the time for the body to take over. Overworked, I say not only because of the work load in the office, but in general, the mad rush of the routine day -to -day life sort of, had(still has, i guess) created a perpetual restlessness in my mind that the usual weekend routine of "eat sleep and rest" didnt seem to wash off.
Thats when i decided I need to get away . Simply leave everything behind and get away . I had, I guess, a year back, had registered in the Bangalore Mountaineering Club (bmc) online, As a result of which, my inbox was always spammed with countless number of people sharing their trek/trip experience, and a lot of mails on the upcoming events , which s when i came across the trip to Mullyangiri-baba budangiri and Kemmangundi . I had long wanted to visit these places and had bugged my uncle , who is a trekking enthusiast, innumerable times. It never did materialise and when bmc organised this trip, I made up my mind to go for it. Asked my friends, some of whom readily agreed .
In the recent past, there had been times, that plans were made, and I had to drop out of it due to one reason or the other. But this time I decided to go for it, no matter what .
For a change, I wanted my body to rule my mind and not the other way round. My eyes craved to savor a sight which was not mad traffic or the ugly concrete jungle. My lungs longed for some fresh air . My legs wanted to wander about just on plain grass. Which is what I found in there on the last weekend when I went on trek . Some sanity restored :). And like the famous saying , "Miles to go before I sleep........"
This post is not a travellogue, hence I wouldt not go into the details of the trek. which probably is up next in the list of blogs . Next weekend I am going to Sagar for Ganesh Chaturthi . I plan to just wander out in the beetel plantations and go around in the village with no absolute purpose. Sit on the verandah chatting with my cousins and aunt and see the sun setting down on the beautiful village side. These two years of professional life has made me value and appreciate the beauty and simplicity of the life in the rural, which in the past I have always taken for granted.
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