ब्लैक - बैंचर

It has been more than 10 months since I last wrote.  What can I say, life has thrown a lot of experiences at me. While I have caught some of them deftly, some others have hit me hard.  Personally, I am at peace. Most emotions seem sorted out, clarity of space both outside and within... However, living by myself for prolonged periods of time has rendered me slightly difficult to share living space with others. I always found solace in singularity. And living with loved ones at closed quarters after 11 years threw it all out of the window. I am yet to come to terms with it... Hope the closure comes soon.  Professionally, I have absorbed an ocean of knowledge in the past year. From a technical noob I have transformed into an assistant manager somehow. The journey, however brief, had its own share of bumps and potholes. An experience worth sharing was the personal interview I faced after applying for Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) at the Indian Inst

No offence to any person, region or cuisine! Its around noon.. People are working on ProE. Someone is talking on video conferencing. The volume is too loud for my taste.. And my desktop's showing the same bloody error message for the past 3 days! Installing ANSYS is a pain in the ass, voluntarily or involuntarily :-x Coimbatore is a place for those who like to slog, and slog only! If you dont get fed up of eating dosas and sambhar 3 times a day, you might surely get your head busted whenever you try to speak hindi or english and they wont understand a single word! When you have to walk 8kms to reach home just because you cant explain the name of the bus stop to the conductor, you know you are damned! Especially when you realise this at 9pm(lonely streets and no public transport) :-P This is what they call a paradigm shift, indeed.. For someone used to waking up at 10am, that too only for breakfast, getting up at 6 and making your own breakfast(after shaving, bathing etc.) is a