7 Habits of...

These last few months have been dull, boring, monotonous and lonely... But I have tried my best not to get into a self-patronising mode (wow, now that’s a new jargon... hmmm). I have restarted an old hobby (blogging)... Started reading a couple of books I have wanted to read for like ‘God knows how long’. And I am catching up on some nice movies I may have missed out time and again.. I even made a trip to New York yesterday and got punch drunk due to the vibrancy of the city... (Now what were you thinking when you read punch drunk, mhum?)

Despite all this I am still feeling bored... I guess it’s due to the lack of likeminded Company. There are plenty of colleagues around, but none with whom I relate to (Wavelength suthamaa illa!, REALLY.. I am not too choosy either). I have tried desperately to strike interesting conversations with the new Indian guys I have met here... But I am really NOT that much into enlightening discussions on whether 'Pokkiri' or 'Villu' features the better Vadivelu comedy; Ergo I have resorted keeping to myself for most of my time here.. I am not putting down Tamil movies... I love a lot of them... That’s not the point here... The point is the difference in taste...

I have really come to dread the weekends. Sitting alone in my house, not wanting to visit my colleagues... Not knowing what to do... Life has become restricted to just 7 activities.
Eat, sleep, work, gym, book, blog, movie...

May be you can call them the 7 habits of highly choiceless people...

Oh yes, there is this 8th habit as well..

Listening to music...

I should patent this 7-habits + 8th habit model and write a book (actually 2 books) on it à la Stephen Covey.... Anyway let’s not digress...

At this point my situation is slightly tragic yet acutely amusing – I am able to relate more to faceless pseudonymed online people than I am with actual people I meet daily. Maybe this is what the whole “Life-is-tragedy-in-close-up-but-comedy-in-longshot” thing is all about.

Well... Full stop.... I guess it’s nothing much... I guess it is just the “Sitting-alone-on-a-Sunday” syndrome... And I know there are much bigger problems... I know people are still dying due to AIDS... I know women are still being treated as slaves by men in some places... I know men are being treated as slaves by women in many places... (What did you think? Avlo seekaram aan vargatha vittu kuduthuduvena, enna? :-)) I know poor pandas and polar bears are dying needlessly everyday... I know Sachin Tendulkar is still not getting his due from a thankless nation... I know Sonia Gandhi still pulls the strings... I know Andre Agassi has recently revealed that he wore a wig (Man! For all the money he had he could have had a hair transplant everyday...)

When compared to all of the above my problem of boredom might pale in comparison... So what? This is my blog and I shall make a BIG deal out of my problem here... Period.