K, I love u!

Being alone is so hard, no one can tell that better than me. I m in States for now almost 4 weeks, away from family and friend.  I m living in Santa Barbara downtown and this place is full of restaurants and pubs. Evenings are great – lots of beautiful people around, it feel like love is in the air. So that’s all the more reason to hate being alone. I m missing my wife, which I always do when she is not around, but this time it’s different.  Usually she is the one who is on the move, and I wait for her at home. This time there is a slight role reversal – she is at home and I am away.

The only good thing being away from her is that it constantly keeps reminding me how important she is in my life, and how difficult is life without her.

“Almost Single” The Book by Advaita Kala

To start with this is a girly book, but that doesn’t mean that boys cannot read this. It is a girly book, so definitely girls are going to like it. As for the boys – if you want to start a career like what Will Smith did in Hitch or Salman Khan did in partner for living, then this book is a good starting point. You will know a lot about what women thinks and why they do what they do.

‘Almost Single’ give you more insight into the world of single women and that too nearing thirties. There are some interesting facts about relationships as well in the book – like at one instance the lead character describes that the divorced men marrying for second time try harder to succeed the marriage second time, so marrying a divorced men is always good.

The book & author.

Friends forever

My childhood friend Riha is truly an amazing person. I guess she must have been the first girl I have known or talk with. Knowing her for so many years, I should have remember her birthday (, which was on 12th Jan) but I forgot to wish her, an imagine how bad I am that I forgot even the date of her birthday. Finally I remembered to wish her, which was on 15th Jan, she was angry that I wished her on a wrong date.

Now there are no excuses for not wishing you best friend on her birthday. So I thought that for the rest of the year I am going to wish her on 12th of every month.

She is not in India currently, so this blog entry is dedicated to her.

Happy birthday RICHA!!

Keeping relations alive

Man is a social animal. I sometimes wonder how it shall be if I have to live alone, with no one around me to talk, no one to socialize with. The very thought of this scares me. I believe that relationships can be broadly divided into two:

- One, the relationship that is built in school, colleges, with your course mates, and
- Second, relationships that you build as a professional.

We hop from city to city (especially in IT), from one job to another, making new friends all the way. Now maintaining the old relationships are really hard, especially when we move to a new city and are too busy with our day to day life. Relationships are easy to break, but difficult to build… When we leave a city, we leave behind the relationships those were build over the years. Well, we try to maintain them for some time, but as we get adjusted to new place & new life it becomes hard to keep in a regular touch. Relationships are directly proportional to the amount of effort we put in maintaining them. As the physical distance grows, we have communication gaps. This gap later becomes a black hole… that can only be filled if we keep our self in contact, be in touch regularly, which is a two way communication.