Life logger #1

There are a lot of things, both good and bad, that have happened since I logged out from wordpress last time, just that I haven’t penned them down. Good things first. Did I tell you that I got a bike? Yeah, a black honda unicorn. And did I tell you that I managed to ride 1700 kms in 75 days without any accidents or curses from co-riders? Riding it on the highway brings so much pleasure that I completely enjoy riding on the stretch from Chrompet to Guindy which takes about 20 minutes. After that, riding through Saidapet and Nandanam becomes a pain with lot of signals, slow movement of traffic, and people crossing the road whenever they like, showing palms as if they belong to Congress. Anyway I reach my office in 50 minutes by bike (compare it to 110 minutes byMTC).  So, after 4 years, my MCWG/LMV license found a purpose to serve other than being identity proof for SIM cards I learned to ride only after getting the bike but people haven’t stopped teasing me commenting about my speed. But I would never compromise on safety and fuel efficiency(mileage) for speed, especially after witnessing so many bad drivers out there !
One more surprise was that my good friend and college mate rave has shifted his house to Tambaram Sanatorium reachable in just 10 minutes from my house(of course, in bike) Went to his house last week end and met him. Expecting to meet him more often !
Time to list the bad things -  Fire Accident The place was just 4 houses away from my house. The baby’s mother also died few days back, after spending nearly 2 weeks in hospital. This bizarre fire accident had a deep impact leaving me sleepless for days.
My mother’s health is still on the decline. Right from my childhood and  society even up to my college days, she used to be hyper active doing ten different things at a time. It is very sad to see such a person now becoming very passive, fighting against heart problems and low BP, chronic neck pain adding to the list. As she feels a support in me, I once again realized the importance and significance of that one decision which I took in haste – leaving Bangalore and hence Veveo (they were paying me a hefty salary) to come back to Chennai. It  happened to be one of the very few right decisions I’ve taken in my life.
Amidst all these, the urge to bring some changes in the society never left me. Recently, I joined BHUMI as an experiment. There are a number of reasons for why I wanted to try BHUMI when there are hundreds of NGOs. May need a separate post for that. But right now, no comments about it. I’ve to wait and see how different is it from NGOs, to what extent the words are translated to action and how significant is the change it brings about.

More things are there to write, especially about things I’m doing at HeyMath!  So in all probability, I won’t take much time to be back here