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  • day did end…

    So yesterday, it was actually not that good a day…

    it ended with a terrible backache… thankfully a pharmacy was nearby and i could get a couple of painkillers before i slept… much better now…

    Lets look at the good things too for yesterday…
    ~ Got two new line items to take care of, at work…
    ~ I got bread, and jam and honey for breakfast…
    ~ I downloaded a movie… hindi 😀 ye ye … and i will watch it soon…
    ~ I found out that the Horley Library is open till 2000 hrs tonight, and I am going to find out more today…

    so… its not that bad… the back is hurting though for some reason still…

    God bless…

  • 🙁

    I don’t remember the last time I broke something… i usually am careful with things that are breakable… well.. not talking about hearts here 😀

    but i broke a beautiful lamp that Abhishek had in his room 🙁 i hate the feeling…

    one it was a beautiful lamp…
    two it was a very pretty lamp…
    three it was a gift to him..
    four i was not careful, which i usually am…

    I am sorry Abhishek… i am really sorry 🙁

  • Random first day in an unknown city…

    First day at office has been pretty excitingly dull so far…
    I was wondering about how I would I reach office and find the people etc… But this is how it went…

    Walk out of the house…
    Walk for about 2 minutes to the bus stand…
    Take the # 100
    Sit in it for about 15 minutes…
    Get out of the bus… cross the road… and get into the office…

    Total travel time approximately 20 minutes, including the wait…

    BT office is a nice huge building next to the Gatwick Airport, in the Gatwick City Place… so far I have seen about 25 planes landing at various times… Easy Jet, Zoom, Flybe, XL, VA, ThomasCook.com etc have been the names I saw today… they are local airlines flying inside Europe and UK… and very nicely painted aircrafts…

    I have a lot of documents to read in the first few days and then get down to making a lot of documents in the next 8 weeks of my stay…

    Had a nice Indian meal in the office… Angoori Sabzi, Chana Dal, Rice, and Naan (yea… they called in a naan, but it actually was a pancake, not sweet though), some sweet chutney… interesting food… and very very filling… The last time I came to UK, I had loads and loads of juice, … almost a litre of it everyday… I am on my way to do a repeat of the same… At least a litre of juice a day…

    Looking forward to the weekend, so that I can get back to a place, I used to call Home thanks to Abhishek… Sad he is going to India while I am here… that wastes my three weekends… but its ok…

    More later…

    I can anyway post it only when I get back home… I still don’t have internet access in the office… it would take me a while to get a BT laptop… maybe a few weeks… who knows 😛 till then.. Offline scribbles and posting the evenings…

    Took a different bus route back home… and got down at a place called Horley Town Center, about 10 minutes away from where I am putting up… what a lovely place it was… nice shops lined up, oh.. and two huge malls Waitrose, and one more… bought myself some more food, some fruits… my dinner salad… and walked back home…

    One more door that brought smiles to my face were of a library called the Horley Library… it looked big and pretty inviting… I will have to figure out how to find it open as it closed before my work finishes for more of the days… lets see…

    Calling it a day now… May God be with us…

  • Another Chapter in the book…

    A few days ago, I was wondering that evening, how would it feel to be inside one of those cars…

    the biiiiiiig, black beast… or should we say the beauty…

    and i laughed the thought off saying that the police walas in the UK drive this.. cheap ones 😀

    Li’il did I know that God Uncle had planned a nice surprise for me… for when I got out of the airport today in London, my car was a BMW 550D

    and all i could say was wow !!! loved that one hour drive in the baby…

    for people who don’t know the car…

    This is the same car that is featured in the POWER ad for HP…

    and a few pictures…

    (Pictures courtesy : BMW UK Site)

    I met Alan, the landlord, who seems to be a very warm and helpful guy… and then Hue who is a photography freak himself and shoots on transparencies and negatives…

    Yet to meet the rest of the people in the house… living with all firangies should be a different experience… hindi mein baat karne ko koi nai hoga lekin 🙁 lets see…

    Also went out for a walk.. it was nice and chilly… i can see where this weather is going from here… i am sure i will love it…

    I saw a movie called Evan Almighty today in the flight… remembered a few lines from it… would like to write them down so that i can come back to them…

    When you ask God for courage, he does not give you courage but an opportunity to show courage…

    When you ask God for love, he does not give you love, but an opportunity to be loved…

    and so on…

    God bless…

    and thank you God for being so nice to me and giving me so many opportunities… and I love you…

  • jeans…

    Variety is the spice of life they say… but when it comes to buying jeans… i cannot like anything other than the regular blues and the blacks…and at the same time, i see people wearing all sorts of strange colors with graffity, paint work, and what not these days…

    Talking about jeans.. is the jeans who hold girls better in them now? or do the girls these days actually are in such amazing shape which jeans accentuate? no idea… but something has happened for sure…

    oh.. and i bought a pepe finally again… i remember my two favorite pairs were a levis 501 button fly and the pepe comfort fit… both of them retired after they literally gave up… but i loved them…

    and i need to be back in shape too… the tummy is crying for help… and me for some motivation… huh… aise to nai chalega !!!

  • OM again…

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    prashant, originally uploaded by gauravkun.

    Picture clicked by Gaurav… my photography guru !!!

  • OM

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    OM, originally uploaded by ~OM~ ॐ "FoTo-SoFiCaL" Bhardwaj.

    This took me a while to make… but it was nice collecting the shells and then making my favorite symbol and my favorite sound in the universe…

    For all these hours when i was making this, I did not think about anything else… strange how some things can bring you peace…

  • white light…

    The Glass Windows of my room rattling every few seconds…i can see a lot of white light outside… coming on every few seconds…

    and then i hear a loud… rather very very loud roar of the clouds…

    and again the windows rattle…

    scary…

  • Chai ki Dukaan….

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    Tea Time…, originally uploaded by ~OM~ ॐ "FoTo-SoFiCaL" Bhardwaj.

    I hope to collect these shots and keep them here… for my chai ki dukaan whenever it opens 🙂

  • …

    Its a strange feeling to be very close to someone and be far away from her at the same time…