My Life...My stories

Disclaimer: This is a true work of fiction and any resemblance to anyone living or dead is just purely coincidental. I mean it this time ! 3 hours in bus, 1 AM at night and not once have I dozed off. Not because I didn’t try, but because even sleep has decided to leave me alone today.  Her shortest smile used to make me forget the worst dreams, but today her smiling face has dragged me to the graveyard. How ironic, it is the best memories that can hurt the most. Only if I had a delete button that could remove all memories of her.  ZZZZzzzzzzZzzzzzZZZZZZzzz   … What is that? I looked at the adjacent seat from where the sound came.  It sounded like a lion’s roar, but the snoring man in the next seat didn’t look like one. He continued to snore like an old rusty diesel generator and others in the bus turned towards me as if I was responsible for disturbing their sleep. Hello…., I don’t know him! I wanted to tell them. They continued to stare and I was left with no...

--> Short Note: Life in Second Gear is about my first job which never got a place in any of my CV’s. But yet, it was beautiful and taught me some great lessons in work life. Hope you will enjoy. This was sometime in the mid of 2004, when I was spending my last days at college. Everyone in my batch including me was anxious about our future. Our whole intent of joining NTTF, was its high reputation pertaining to job placements. The talk of the town was – “anyone graduating from NTTF, will definitely get a job in Singapore or Australia”. But then, reality bites! We soon realized the naked truth that this 50 year old institute does not carry its ancient glory anymore. Except for one interview call from “iSeva”, a call center, no other companies came by. One day, our in-charge Murukesh sir told us about some openings for computer hardware technicians, in Benz Computers. My interest was always into programming and had never thought of starting a career in computer hardware. But...

Steve Jobs, I heard this name for the first time 10 years back. I was reading an article in one of the Electronic magazine about a person who happened to be the co-founder of Apple, tasted success at the age of 22 with his Apple 2, introduced mouse, fonts and graphical interface to the world, millionaire at the age of 23 and soon thrown out of his own company. How insane !! being thrown out of your own company by your own appointees. I couldn’t digest the idea at all and was trying to feel how he would have felt that day. When I read on, I was inspired the way he sold all the shares of Apple except for one, how remarkably he found two new companies, how one of his companies NeXT was bought by Apple at a time when Apple was in the verge of a collapse and finally how he became the CEO of his own company yet again. I would not have believed the turn around of events if it was a part of a movie. But then I was reading about a live person and ever since then I was a huge fan of this great...

Disclaimer: This is a true work of fiction and any resemblance to anyone living or dead is just purely coincidental :P A Sunday morning in Bangalore, cold breeze was caressing my bare legs and the rest of me was cuddled inside the warm bed sheet. It was such a good feeling and I extended my hands to hug the pillow lying next to me. “ Ooouuuch …”, something hit hard at my wrong place and nothing could stop me from screaming. “Get your hands off me “, shouted Glen. It took few seconds for me to realize what was happening. “For the past one hour I am dealing with your alarm and now your elephant hands. Get away from me”, Glen continued. Being a bachelor and staying with friends for the last 8 years such “kick starts” in the morning were usual.  “What? The alarm rang? When?  How come I didn’t hear? “, I responded. I have a movie date and I didn’t want to be late this time! God knows when was the last time I have ever watched a movie from its start. More impo...