Guest... why did you come?
It is always nice to have guests at our place on weekends, get togethers as we believe that presence of others make a difference. When I recently saw the trailors of upcoming Hindi movie - "Athithi tum kab jaaoge?", I got reminded of some occassions where I had felt - why I invited certain people? It is sheerly their behaviours at that time which made me think like that but not having any hatred towards them. Sometimes certain people come to a get together but behave as if they had come for watching certain TV program alone, or having glued to the mobile making the rest's presence not mattered. So this post is about a couple of incidents where I felt when this guest will go?
Hai Guys... It had been a while I had updated my blogs and not that I had abondened it. Change of residence to Bangalore proved as deterrent to blogging. An unusual worktime (UK Shift) that disturbs a lot with my creative evenings is the major reason, which is further compounded by a serious creative block. This block is the reason why my blog oflate is becoming like a personal diary. It had been sometime I had read the books I bought with love from the Chennai Book Fair. Also I seriously miss travelling because of the on going wood work at home. So I was catching up with the missed out movies like a maniac on weekends - 2 per night (Kandein Kadhalai, Unnai Pol Oruvan, Nadodigal, Ishqiya) so life is quite erratic and I hope that it will take sometime for me to get settled to this timings.
This weekend was a bitter sweet one as I went all the way to Chennai on 23rd just to bid good bye to Vijay who was leaving to Melbourne on the next day and came back that same night as our house warming ceremony was planned for 25th. Now you understood why I meant this weekend as bitter sweet. Call it co-incidence or irony, I left Chennai by the time Vijay had reached Chennai. So whenever possible we met each other on weekends. Last weekend I went to Chennai to attend his father's 'Bheemaratha Shanthi' but couldn't make it to the venue due to fever with the fear of transmitting it to others in a get together like that. Coming to sweeter part of the weekend, after a long time we had our cousins, nieces and nephews assembled at our Bangalore residence for the house warming function on Sunday. Expectedly the function went on very well with loads of fun, noise, laughter and finally we had settled down in Bangalore. It is still to sink in me that I had finally become a resident of Bangalore. I would love share both the bitter & sweet memories with you all through this post.
Atlast the stage had been set for Bangalore for the forthcoming drama episodes in my life. Today I reported to my new office in Bangalore. May be because this is my third IT job in 3 years, there is not much of excitement or getting carried over by the introduction Powerpoint presentations shown in the induction sessions. The new place, new job and new people... creates a sense of anxiety. The coming days are a litmus test for me as I have learnt in experience that it is the early image that stays forever in the working place. On the personal front, I am missing Aadhi very much and looking forward for the 25th Jan 2010, on which we have planned to move to our new flat. After all, atleast for me, life is all about changes and coping with them. Funnily the Bangalore starts and ends with that single Domlur road for me... It is here I stayed during my POC developing stint with SAP, I did POS training at Dexler, where Akila had lived and came to pick/pack her, now it is in the end of this road I had bought my new flat and I have been put up for 2 weeks guest house accomodation.... Everything is happening in the same road that I can't think beyond that for Bangalore. - {oshits} reads.
It was a dream come true - Vijay visited our home with his family atlast. For past 7 months, ever since we had hit on through gtalk chats, we had been looking forward to meet each other's family. Like I had said, at this juncture of life, I am looking forward for friends who can take the friendships to family levels and Vijay met my expectations completely. I visited his house twice, he liberally introduced me to his parents, uncles, aunts and when when I took him to our home, he got along well with my mother. Today when he said that he is coming down with Meera and kids, I was bit apprehensive how the evening was going to be because I know Vijay for months but am a complete stranger to Meera and kids. But they surprised me with moving in as if they had been to their relations' home. Summing up - this affair and evening are there to remember. Some of the sweet moments we had shared are here for you guys.
It was quite surprisingly shocking to catch up 
Last evening while I was surfing the channels I stumbled upon this song after a very long time in DD Malayalam. I don't remember when I saw that song last but I had started singing it along as if I had been singing it for years. That song evoked a lot of memories of the past where the life seemed to be simple and beautiful. I got so nostalgic that I almost felt choked towards the end of the song. The song which took me back in the time machine rekindling all the sweet memories, the song which I am waxing eloquent is - "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara..." which used to be aired in DD frequently. It was an unofficial national anthem of that times.
It is official atlast... My life is witnessing a new phase in terms of employer and the place of residence. I am starting my new year 2010 with a new employer and in new city and that too in my new house. Today I had become a proud owner of a flat in Bangalore where I am going to start my new phase of life with. Ofcourse it is my mother who heavily subsidised, my dream of owning a flat, by lending me a huge amount towards the downpayment and the rest is being covered with the bank loan. It is a great feeling while registering the new property and it can't be described in words. Searching for the property and getting into the nitty gritties were a new experience for me. Especially when so many good things happen in quick succession I feel like these things happening to somebody else. Ananya used to make fun of me - "புது வேலை... புது வீடு... புது பாப்பா (ஆதித்யா)... கலக்குறே மகேஷ்!!!" reprising a paint advertisement.. கலக்கலைன்னாலும்... கொஞ்சம் கலங்கி தான் இருக்கேன்... மாற்றம் எப்படி இருக்குமோன்னு...!!!