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To the one or two lonely readers out there, who most likely accidentally bumped here or the faithful followers who intentionally came by.

HOWDY?

It’s funny how the world works sometimes – and funny how it doesn’t (at a personal level). There was a time, when blogging was fun and interesting and motivating. When social networking came by – the mode of communication changed, small tidbits that went on a blog came by as ‘status messages’ or wall posts, but on a blog, I could somewhat control the publicity of the posts or opinions.  So I was more truthful or opinionated or open, but facebook posts took away that liberty, everybody saw it – I could make it private, but privacy became complicated, friends, acquaintances and family members, and colleagues. Unfiltered language and posts, with strong opinions generated immature or unwanted responses and I became conscious of the image I may be projecting, but the opinions also gave away personal details to facebook friends, most of them friends in the network by choice, some of them by courtesy.

Life has gone on, offline from the network – things that would have been considered extremely interesting have happened, only – I have grown out of it. Some things don’t carry the same charm anymore – unfortunately. But life is as interesting as ever, new friends, old friends, back in touch friends. An extremely pleasurable road trip along the pacific coast with siblings, and only siblings. No spouses or kids, and driving randomly to a pizza place off the scenic highway and encountering the most delicious pizza in a long long time, extremely lucky to have such a time out with siblings after growing up into adults. This will be one worthy memory for a long long time.

Work has been great, very motivating and very addictive – so much so that there’s anxiety over using vacation that I will lose if I don’t use. Makes me wonder if this is good or bad. Good I think, for a few more years.

The quest for learning is still there – so all is good. Technology has been immensely magical, ipads, Kinects (hacked kinects), wiki leaks, movies, apps, plugins and Katy Perry. [Gosh, she is B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L. and such a lovely, personally uninteresting, tattoo - 'Anugachcati pravaha' (apparently, means go with the flow). Why do celebrities get tattoos in a language that 99% of their fan's don't understand? Is it a marketing ploy?]

Ok, coming back to technology – makes me want to be born 200 years later, just to see how we would use technology in normal days then. And then again after a few hundred years later, and again and again. Well, I guess technically...it is possible for me.

Skiing season coming up, and hopefully this year will be better than last year (still learning), cricket league in summer was fun (lost all matches except one), softball league was fun and getting my ass kicked in squash leagues this month and the next few. Physically fit, but need to urgently change wardrobe after losing about 2-3 waist sizes, I wish rest of the body didn’t lose any fat – but alas. That’s not how it works.

So hopefully this will be a comeback post, and there will be weekly updates. So drop in a line, OK?