And the time starts now….

Yay Yay Yay …..

My leave of absence has started as I write – taking 9 weeks off from work and spending time with family should do a world of good for all of us.

I have been thinking about the time off for a while. Life has been a mad rush .. high school à college à masters in the US à getting that first job à switching jobs after with a weekend break, man that’s crazy. So taking this time off helps firstly to slow down the pace, re-charge and think about things. 

The trigger to do it now was personal, getting my parents setup in Chennai in a manner that will help them make the regular US trips is definitely priority one. Secondly, it lets me work with my dad on our business ventures and help to ramp it up and learn the way things work in India. Thirdly, hoping to do some travel within India, go see interesting places and have unique experiences in this trip. It is also a wonderful opportunity to catch up with some old buddies and know things that they are upto.

If you have any recommendations on things I should do, I am all ears, after all I do have 9 weeks J

Welcome to India

I am in the Shamshabad airport, sitting in the gate ready to board the flight. The atmosphere is kickass, the airport is top-notch world class with the ambience on par with any airport in the world.

The announcement to board the flight happens … there is a mad rush of people flocking to the gate. Then slowly the line builds both in the X and Y axis. The bus picks up the folks and gets us close to the aircraft, everyone wants to rush out as-if the airplane has space for 20 ppl only. I find my seat, take the set of magazines bought from the airport stall, leave them on the seat and take a minute to attend to nature’s call.

I return and the magazines are gone. The airhostess tries asking the cleaning staff, looks around and the magazines are GONE. Not sure if one of my co-passengers happily picked it up.

That was when my inner voice came on and said “Welcome to India” J

slinging from HYD

It is about 11.14 PM now, as sunday comes to an end, my wife is fast asleep. But my night has a longer end.. the NFL games begun and I am watching them from the sling player on the laptop. the sling setup is pretty cool and the streaming video is decent – worth keeping awake.

So if you have an India trip during the NFL season, stop freakin start slingin