a little this... a little that...

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as i walked through those familiar cubicles, the tagged employees, the pillars, the chairs, drank the insipid tea and munched on a couple of chapatis with a brown liquid for side-dish, i wondered if i missed it... if i had missed it... if you could actually miss something you'd never liked... well, to make things a tad clearer, i was at a interview sort of thing at a big blue company and even before i'd been 'test'ed, i had such a strong urge to run away as fast as i could from becoming one of 'them' again...

anyway, moving on to lighter issues... my head's in a clamp again... probably coz of all the excel programming i've been indulging in... how i wish i still had that 'Lord of the Rings- Return of the King' game on my laptop...  i had to delete it during my exams... i got stuck at at the penultimate level and couldnt finish... no tips on the internet... no cheat codes... nothing helped... finally, i had to delete it in order to get some closure...

swimming's going great... since it's february and most normal people prefer to not shiver in the chilly breeze at 9pm, the pool's sparsely populated... never more than a dozen swimmers... of varying shapes and sizes... from the skinny ones to the rhombus shaped ones... young ones still in school to the old ones with kids in schools... some come for a casual swim, while some seem to be here for a 'purpose'...
we've finished the float and kick... now with the hand movements thrown in, it almost feels like swimming... we just have the breathing to learn....
as i kick off the side of the pool, float a while and begin to kick and swim, i find the only place where i can get away from the worries of the day... seriously... your head's underwater, you've probably snorted in another quart of water into your brains through your nose because you wanted to make your breath last longer and took that last gulp of air too late...  your only worry is to not fill your lungs with chlorinated water and floating leaves...and thus you reach that blissful state...

and now i'm back... i call up a couple of aquarians and wish them their b'days... talk to a friend who's partying and ask him to save some cannabis for future use... for me... he refuses point blank... says he's not comfortable with indian jails, where he'll land if he's caught... hmmm... yehi teri dosti???

and now i curl up on my bed, with my feet up the wall(warning: not to be attempted by amateurs) and read a little of 'Dilbert Principle'... it's like pickle... you can only read a few pages of it at a time... must read something else... maybe that book on China i've 'borrowed' from J's sister...

so, that's it for now!!!