Wednesday, December 19, 2007

I wanted to...

The title would probably convey a message that it should include my wishlist. But no, it's not. It is including the things I wanted to do in life and where I ended up landing.

On the money straight away.

I wanted to do ECE, but I did EEE.
I wanted to go to USA, but I went to Sweden.
I wanted to do MBA, but I did MS.
I wanted to work in Bangalore, but I am working in Noida.
I wanted to work in Audio Codecs, but I began working in Video codecs.
I wanted to work in Video codecs, but I was put into middle layer.
I wanted to work in middle layer, but I am now put into application layer.

WTF ! What next ? That's so far the missed list, not the wished list.

I had been changing my domain constantly and unwillingly most of the times. A rather optimistic person would say, "You are cool man. You are taking life as it comes". I am not saying beep. Good thing with frequent shifting is: You get a chance to finger in unexplored territory. Bad thing is: Your exploration would only be short-lived coz you are not pursuing the territory as you wished. I hope I don't end up being a jack of all trades, master of none. Jackass is not a bad word either.

So that skit hang over in our employee meet is not over yet. My die-hard fans ( I presume two or three would be there in this world irrespective of the gender ) can find the videos here - Part1 and Part2 in youtube. I've also added the same links in the 'Employee meet' post. Clarity would not be so good. Videos are pretty much in compressed format. So I would be happy if you can understand what we were trying to say. Basic knowledge of Hindi would be required. For your information, that bloke with long locks is me. Yes, it's me. I've changed, yes! May be you can close your mouth now? I am still open for brickbats or bouquets for my performance. I owe that I would be back to my school boy looks next year. Don't know what the public outcry would be like. Just as you need guts to grow long locks, one also needs guts to get rid of those locks which you dearly maintained for close to couple of years. My heart aches when I go for the hair cut.

Last week I saw a Hindi movie called, Dus Kahaniyan ( translated to English means, 10 stories). I don't have words to express it. While I was coming out of the theater I had seen a stray dog, jumping freakishly, running around itself trying to catch it's own tail, attempting to catch mosquitoes in the air etc in that cold night. No joke. I had no idea why it was doing so. Finally I found an answer and I captured the plight of her which was very similar to ours. May be she had also seen the movie. This is what (click what) you feel (click feel) like doing after watching the movie. Tear your hair apart. Perhaps, faithful animal dog, is always right.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wanted to....say sorry buddy.I was laughing when i read your missed list.
I have such misses too.I think most of people have this missed wish list but you
seem to be very consistent with it.May be that is destiny.
Wish that your wishlist will be fullfiled from now on or else try fooling with wrong wishlist in your mind in reverse manner.

Every friday there are many useless movies releasing and luckily you happened to see one more.why dont you write a blog on such movies? can be funny.

Well done on your skit Rock.So who are your die hard fans.ladies or gents?

Anonymous said...

B Optimistic.What is your next Wanted wish?
So girls must be swooning on you after that show.Good Hair style ala Aparachit.

Rock said...

Tara,

That's ok, dont have to be sorry. Yeah, we all do have bigger missed lists than wished lists.

Writing blogs/reviews entirely on movies I think is not all that exciting. Thanks for dropping by and the feedback on skit.

I have die-hard fans? Surely couple of straight males. About females, one never gets to know that, though I'm sure of my fan base existence there as well.


Rina,

If I have next wish? If you are destined to get something, you'd get that even if you haven't wished it for. Philosophical touch, yes. Destiny decides.

If girls are swooning over me? Never really a ladies man from school days. Thanks for your compliment.


And my thanks to one commenter ( with names like Solmon Raj, Anirvesh and probably his/her next name, Vicharita) who is supporting me, day in and day out with a positive feedback. One diehard fan there.

Anonymous said...

Yes your right,we all have bigger missed lists than wished lists.

couple of straight males and surely few females as well.I can see your being modest.

Anonymous said...

Rock,
Vow that's good philosophy.
your welcome for the compliment Mister.
Looks like you have some fan club.Tc

Anonymous said...

Sometimes when things don't turn out your way, they fall under 2 categories which i can name them as - 'step-up compromise' n 'step-down compromise' . May sound a li'l unnecessarily technical, but i didnt find any other suitable title.
'step-up compromise' when the outcome / result / any happening exceeds one's expectations and 'step-down' the vice versa ie falling short of one's expectaions.
Try categorising ur wish list based on this. To your surpise, it might be for your good :-)
ps : i don't mean to claim that 'all that happens, happens for good'. I dont believe in tht either.

cheers,
Rovaan

Rock said...

Don't know what to say lol. Thanks Rovaan.