Its been a while since i last wrote on this blog. A lot has happened since then. For starters, my sis and jiju were here in Gurgaon and we scourged the nooks and corners of Delhi and Agra like 'sight-seeing' was going out of fashion :) Anyways, it was also the first time i got to see the 'Taj Mahal' and the 'Akshardham Temple'. Saying that, I was stunned, is an understatement. With the Taj Mahal, I had already heard so much, that frankly I thought it had to be really special to amaze me. But it did and for totally different reasons. The Akshardham Temple took the amazement level to a different height altogether. I remember going to Disneyland in California and being stunned by the boat ride they have there, and, thinking when can we have such unbelievable stuff in India. Boy! The boat ride at Akshardham is much better than the Disneyland one and add mythology and history to it, and you have something that goes beyond the entertainment - something far more meaningful. And for those whom I bet will complain, I am not comparing the Akshardham Temple with Disneyland, but only the fact that both have this 'Prepare to be amazed' feeling about them. Anyways, I plan to write about both - the Taj Mahal and the Akshardham Temple once i have the pictures :)
We also went to Dilli Haat, CP and Chandni Chowk taking the famous Delhi metro and took pit-stops at Paranthewaali Gaali and Karims (gorged on the killingly delicious Jehangiri chicken and Mutton Burra). All in all, we had a heck of a time.
Another thing worth mentioning that happened during the interim duration was that I cleared the Patent Agent Exam. So now i am Registered Patent Agent with the Govt. of India. Frankly, i will avoid the details of how important it is to clear this exam for an Intellectual Property professional. But it is quite important and hence the mention on the blog :) Infact i tried to crack a lame ass comment about it saying "I joined IPL without the moolah". IPL ofcourse stands for the Intellectual-property Professionals League (I know it is humor at its' lowest). Moolah or not, i am celebrating :)
And finally, the main course - time for dispensing some gyan. Of late, I have been thinking about my future, career and such. And that thought process without fail gets me worried. Below is the thought sequence verbatim (I mean - thought to word instead of word to word :)
We also went to Dilli Haat, CP and Chandni Chowk taking the famous Delhi metro and took pit-stops at Paranthewaali Gaali and Karims (gorged on the killingly delicious Jehangiri chicken and Mutton Burra). All in all, we had a heck of a time.
Another thing worth mentioning that happened during the interim duration was that I cleared the Patent Agent Exam. So now i am Registered Patent Agent with the Govt. of India. Frankly, i will avoid the details of how important it is to clear this exam for an Intellectual Property professional. But it is quite important and hence the mention on the blog :) Infact i tried to crack a lame ass comment about it saying "I joined IPL without the moolah". IPL ofcourse stands for the Intellectual-property Professionals League (I know it is humor at its' lowest). Moolah or not, i am celebrating :)
And finally, the main course - time for dispensing some gyan. Of late, I have been thinking about my future, career and such. And that thought process without fail gets me worried. Below is the thought sequence verbatim (I mean - thought to word instead of word to word :)
I am not too sure, what has got into me. For last few years, i have started feeling uncomfortable in my own skin. I am sure others go through this as well. Somehow, i have always found a reason to be worried about. Something like - my default state is 'creases on my forehead'. My predicament is like an excited atom, which might leave its lower energy level orbit to go into a higher orbit (excited state) momentarily only to return to my low energy level state (even my examples reek off my engineering background...yuck!)
I think one of the most over rated phrases you'll ever come across is 'I want to leave my mark' or 'I have only one life and I want to make it count'. Bullshit. Ofcourse you would want to make it count, but who the hell is counting. Most of us want to remembered long after we are gone. Well who cares after we are gone anyways. And what good has ever come out making the world remember our name. I just tried to remember one famous name that most across the world would remember. The first name that came to my mind is Albert Einstein (Gandhi was a close second). I bet both Gandhi and Einstein did not endeavor to be remembered. They just did what naturally came to them and got remembered in the process. But is that good enough. I mean imagine you are Einstein for a second. And you have just propounded your theory of relativity to the world. What then to poor ol' Einstein? Nothing, Nada, Zilch.
Frankly, i think i'll pass. I don't want to be remembered for anything. I don't want to leave my mark. I am convinced it is a futile exercise. What i want to do instead is to drift and be aware of where my life takes me. I bet it is going to be more enjoyable than killin' myself over leaving my mark.
Some thought sequence that..... ain't it.. i will leave u to mull over your own future... cheers.
