Blogging by the sea...

This one comes in after a rather long gap from my last blog, which was at the end of last year. There are two possible ways of explaining this hiatus and I know that many of you must have been waiting more impatiently for this blog post than I have been waiting for the next book of the Shiva Trilogy (Its brilliant and honestly, I think it’s the next best read after my blog…no, I am dead serious…it’s that good! Well done Amish Tripathi). The first way to explain this break is a possible ‘blogger’s block’ that many other esteemed bloggers of our times and past have gone through many a times in their lifetime. But, I’ll go with the second one since it’s a bit more pseud that (even :-)) the first one! And that is that I’ve been too busy!!!

Yus Yus Yus! Ladies and Gentlemen, you are guessing it absolutely right…I no longer work in Accenture :-). I joined a young strategy consulting firm called Auctus Advisors earlier this year and have been working quite a bit over the last few months. There you go! I’ve laid it out in a plain and no frills way that I’ve been busy… not on facebook, not through concocted status updates of how you’ve calls and meetings all day and all night and how you’ve been travelling the world for work and how “Oh! I don’t have a personal life now”…just the way a proud and honest pseud would!

So yeah! These days I am working on a project down here in Maldives and would be here for a few months to come. Beautiful country, this one and an interesting place to work. For instance, I stay on one island and work on another…take a ferry (known here as a ‘Dhoni’) from across the road from my hotel and am at work in 8-9 mins sharp…quite a change that one from staying in Ghaziabad and crossing state borders to get to anywhere of any significance for work.

The other part that I like about this place is of course the sea! (I know it’s the Indian Ocean but bhavanaon pe focus rakho yaar!) I love the sea!(arrey baba! I know it’s the Indian Ocean but bhavanaon pe focus rakho yaar bhaavanaon pe!). I love the fact that I wake up to the sea and can just walk and sit by it anytime I want. It’s been called many things many times by many people… majestic, furious, vast, intense, calm…and much much fancier things by much fancier writers and poets whom I haven’t cared much to read but what strikes me the most about the sea is that its very obedient. Yes, you read that right…I think its obedient(now that was a very cliché’d way of expressing that or what ;-))…and that’s what strikes me the most about it. Wave after wave after wave after wave reaches the shore with almost uniform regularity, each one travelling thousands of miles after its been pushed back after hitting some other shore at some other place and it just travels again all the way to be pushed back from another shore at another place. It just goes on doing its job forever without ever questioning the purpose of its existence…we do! (No sir! I do not remember my geography lessons from 8th grade and I don’t plan to revisit them. I am happy being a ‘beach chair philosopher’ without questioning the purpose :-)).

Lastly, (and I know that word came as a welcome relief to many (most) of you who’re generally forced to read my blog :-)) being an Islamic nation, I am towards the end of a 5 day break for Eid and since I couldn’t fly back to India for some reason, I decided to come out to a resort close to Male’. To stay true to the pseudo theme that’s supposed to be running throughout this post, 5 star property hai :-)and to stay true to the honest pseudo theme, I was offered pretty cheap rates since I am an expat in Maldives :-)But damn these terrible Hindi movies…especially Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara! I loved the movie when I watched it each of the three times that I did. But because of that stupid director Zoya Akhtar, I couldn’t do scuba diving. But what she didn’t tell about diving in that movie is that they don’t let you dive if you don’t know how to swim. If Hrithik was afraid of entering water, he clearly wouldn’t have been a swimmer and wouldn’t have been allowed to dive. So that entire part of love shove wala connection happening with Katreena Kaif during the dive wouldn’t have happened. Anyways, if she would’ve made it clear in the movie that non-swimmers aren’t allowed to dive, I might not have come out to this place and would have rather saved some money…KLPD!

No, but it’s been a great few days here in this beautiful property all by myself by the sea most of the time either chilling or reading or working (yeh sarasar sach hai my lord!) and I’m pretty happy that I came over.

At that note, this is Jatin Gulati signing off for this post from a “aah! So lazy and comfortable beach chair” in a “damn! Such a luxurious resort” on a “Oh! So such a beautiful white sand” beach next to the “very obedient” Indian Ocean!

Peace! (Inspired by Vishnu Karthik!)

-j