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No luck guys. Have been thinking about updating the blog regularly, but have been failing successfully everytime. I’m no poet, I’m no story teller, just a lazy sysadmin who is sometimes way lazier (specially when I work evening shifts ).

I am one of those self-confessed internet-addicts who stay online longer than necessary and blame ourselves for that. The worst thing about it is that it makes me stay up late in the night. And the general fucked up mood that you get into when you wake up at 11 ‘o’ clock instead of 7 ‘o’ clock eats away half of your productive day. So these days the first thing that I try to do after my dinner is to stay away from the laptop as much as I can. Its working so far.

( Its a tougher for me than an average internet over-user on account of my profession that requires me to be online on-duty.  I get offline on-duty, I get no pay. On top of that, facebook and youtube is sometimes more addictive than an addiction can get ).

FYI guys, there are two airports at Trivandrum. I wasn’t aware of that until today morning. My bad.  I waited for Deepak at the ‘new’ airport for about 30 minutes while the plane that he was on board was landing at the ‘old’ airport (which is about 5 kms away from where I was standing). It was a guy with an Airport ID card on his pocket told me about the ‘other airport’  when I told him that the plane that I’m waiting for is ‘missing’

Funny, the direction signboards (probably outdated) on the side on the highway didn’t really say anything about having two airports nearby and the locals tend to show the way only to the ‘new’ airport.  I asked ‘Airport, which way?’ , they said “That way, straight” - to the new airport.

I started my career as a call-center executive which is not a job as easy as most people think it is. I have an idea of what it is like to be on the other end of the line, so I am extra-ordinarily nice to whoever that is picking up the call  when I call a customer support number.  I even say  ‘Thanks for calling’ when someone calls me from Airtel or Reliance to tell me about their new offer or to tell me that my bill is overdue. But today was slightly an exception. I had called HDFC today to check on a particular transaction. The guy who answered was polite, but he kept on interrupting and started giving me answers as if he already knew what I am going to ask. I was a bit pissed. May be he was having a bad day at work or may be its my ego that played up, but one thing guys, if any of you guys reading this is a call-center employee, don’t act like you guys know what the customer is going to ask. It pisses them off. Be patient guys

While I took a short break from blogging, a few things happened which I missed blogging about. One of them is my new job and that I moved to Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. My 6th job in the last 5 years. Yes, I know, its not going to look very good on my Resume, but I have had solid reasons for job changes each time (except once). Out of us 5 in our team, 4 of us had worked together at one of my previous jobs which makes us a team of very compatible and comfortable team-members. By far, one of the best places I have worked at and the only place where I get to eat free unlimited number of cookies. Honestly looking forward to a good stay here

Summer has never been so hot in Kerala before. The thing I like about summer is that we don’t have to worry about getting caught in rain and that you can ride your bike in a T-shirt in the night without freezing yourself.

By the way, Thiruvananthapuram is a lot cooler than Kochi climate-wise and less cooler than Kochi otherwise.

I was telling my friend Rakesh this morning that the benefit of being a Traffic police is that, everyone in the town identifies you. They  are one of those few people we meet everyday almost at the same time at the same place, yet strangers. They are one of those very few people whom  every single person driving through a busy intersection looks at.  Their image gets ‘etched’ into your brain. I see  the  traffic police-woman at Kazhakkoottam Junction everyday on my way to work and I know I can identify her out of any crowd - ‘hey, she is that cop is see everyday’

Man, I miss watching the Godfather. Specially Part 2 and 3.  I used to have all the 3 parts on my Harddrive that I deleted for some silly reason.  They are amongst my most favourite movies.

Voted again. My 4th vote ever. I would like to re-iterate what I had said once about an  year back -  I don’t believe in Communism.  I believe communism is a good idea from a humanitarian point of view, but I also believe that it goes against one of the basic laws of Mother  nature - ‘ The Survival of the Fittest’ , and hence tooo impractical.

I have no idea why great men like Marx and Engels thought it would be a nice practical idea.

24th of October 2010, around 11.30 AM.

News Flash: One of my best friends Jessal just opened this Dental Clinic at Thoppumpady,  Kochi. This is his first clinic, but he is experienced, and a very honest doctor. So you guys can go there to get your gums and teeth fixed. Tell him you are my friend and ask for a discount :).

Congratulations man and I wish you all success.