Life Overseas

Long time since I peeped into blogging!
Yet, thought of sharing some of my recent ‘me and my life’.
Like anyother person, I was too much excited when I was given the onsite opportunity in my project. It has been 8 months since I came here to Norwich, UK. The fascination for west and money did not spare me too. But what made me write such an article? Here goes…

If you are a person who would like to lead a peaceful, no-tension life(apart from work) then overseas is the best place for you to live. A lot of comfort, everything organised, a lot of money what else you would expect? But for a person like me who loves crowd, social life, challenges in day to day activities, the wrong place I have landed in.
Let me give you a brief agenda of my day to day life here.
Weekdays
I wake up, go to office, Work, lunch, return back, browse, eat, sleep.
I wake up, go to office, Work, lunch, return back, browse, eat, sleep
I wake up, go to office, Work, lunch, return back, browse, eat, sleep
I wake up, go to office, Work, lunch, return back, browse, eat, sleep
I wake up, go to office, Work, lunch, return back, browse, eat, sleep
Weekends
I wake up late in the morning, browse, watch movies, sleep
I wake up late in the morning, browse, watch movies, sleep
It pains even for repeating the text here, then how much pain you can imagine to do the same monotonous things everyday! But that is what life here. Ofcourse you can question me back why don’t I roam out! yes I can, but for how many days and how many times?

In what way this life is different from your life in india? I would say life led when you are in India with your family has some real ‘life’ in it. Not knowing what’s happening in my family, not able to join in any of the family get togethers, not getting the exact news even when someone falls sick…. is really a pain. I have to assume myself always that everyone is fine there. Even if someone is unwell, they think I may get disturbed and news doesn’t reach me!
I came across a Railway staff in London station who is an Indian(who was!!) He has been settled here for more than 10 years. He said proudly “I go once in three years to India to meet my parents”. I was literally shocked. Is that an acheivement? Life is just one and if you cant spend that with your loved ones then what for you should live? I apologize if I am too harsh!

One more incident that disturbed me. One of my colleague who is there at onshore for more than 4 years… happily. All of a sudden to everyone’s shock he sent a mail to the managers saying he wants to return to india permanently.Then we came to know that his mother was sick for quite a while. Din’t he knew this 2 years back? that he has to spend time with his family more and whats the point in running down to India to see when some one’s ill? What about the happy moments you have missed to spend with them all these days??

Money is not everything! These 8 months of loneliness has taught me that!
Life does not have any real ‘Life’ here. Hunt for something more that will keep you ‘alive’ !!

Snow in UK

Long time since I blogged. Yet have a lot to pendown now.

Last few weeks I experienced the first and worst snowfall in UK. Especially after my return from Chennai. I get up everyday in the mroning opening my window screen and ofcourse I never get disappointed as I am always gifted to see a beautiful snow white city. The first few days were very exciting walking and watching snow! But take my words, slowly snowfall brought a lot of pain than enjoyment. It is quite difficult to walk on roads when the snow becomes quite heavy. You wont know the glassy ice on the road hidden and we slip and skit badly when we don't have a proper shor/boot. I had experienced quite a lot of times, skipping and falling down repending 'why dint I wear a better shoe!'. In the first few days of this white scenes, I clicked a lot of pictures with my Camera. But slowly even that started giving a lot of pain, not allowing me to stand out in snow even for a few minutes.

One more big disadvantage is that, you can never go out to the city for shopping or even just to roam about. You need a glove, thick jacket and all other accessories that will keep us warm but that doesn't still really make you enjoy your walk out. Snow is always heaven to watch but hell to commute as one of my firend commented1 very true.

Now I am jus fine with some positive temperatures in the weather scale. Atleast I can go out and walk happily without a hand glove! And this becomes very important when you have planned a trip somewhere. yes, this month to Paris! Hoping to have a better time.

Chennai Next Week!

Quite excited thinking about my trip to Inda next week. Atlast finished my breath taking purchase for each and everyone in the family. Its a long list. Managed to find some time to pack all the stuff in my big suitcase and all get set for a go! Wooo hooo .. :)

Waiting for dec!!

Oh I am very much excited thinking about my vacation to Chennai in December. But have a long list of things to be shopped before coming there! The best time in west is the christmas time but I will be missing it anyway. I will be celebrating my christmas as my first anniversary with my family. So I don't mind missing christmas :).

Have to start my full fledged shopping from next weekend. Just a month more! Wow..

Long awaited trip!

My long awaitedtrip to Dorset and Brownsea Island came to an end. I wont forgive myself if I don't pen down it! Here it goes..

It was a saturday morning, temperature was around 5 deg with a slight drizzle at 5 AM. I got up, refreshed and booked a taxi to Norwich station. My roomie Bobby and his friend Satya joined me for the trip. We took a train to London waterloo. I was already exhausted and tired of the busy week, that made me to take a deep nap for a couple of hours and that assuaged all my body pain. We reached Stratford and took a tube to London Waterloo. If you haven't heard of Waterloo in London, Bourne Supremacy Matt damon would have roamed in the station for half of the movie! After 2 hrs of travel we took a train to Wool from Waterloo. Oh that was 3 hrs journey. I felt how am I gonna sit for another 3 hrs! gosh.. But you know it was drizzling continuously outside with mist covered fields, I enjoyed the ride very much.

We reached Wool at 12:15 PM and took a cab to my destination Dorset.Let me give some insight about the place. Its the Southwest tip of England having a Fantabulous sea shore! Lime Stone Cliffs, Pebble beach and strange shape of rocks. The place is exactly called as Durdle door due to the door shaped opening in the rock you find there. I took out my DSLR and started clicking whatever I see around. What an amazing fucking beauty it was!! For a minute I thought I had achieved everything in life. The place impinged in me with such a feeling. These are some of my clicks.

We spent around 2 hours there and then we went to the nearby hill called Lulworth. It was just an extension of Durdle door treating our eyes with more beautiful views. Mother nature was at her peak of beauty in that place. It was so windy and frivolous I was almost pushed down to ground a couple of times. I clicked as many pics I can.

After that we reached to Bournmouth a coast city where we had booked our hotels. Oh that was a bad experience searching for my hotel. It was hidden somewhere in the interior that made us walk nearly for an hour and a half. I was damn tired my legs and body were begging for rest since I exploited them the whole day! We found the hotel at last, refreshed and went to a Indian Hotel and finished our dinner. that night was the deepest and peaceful sleep in my life after a long tiresome day. Ofcourse an unforgettable day.

Next day morning we got set ready to brownsea Island. My long awaited dream for any Scout! Brownsea Island was the place where the first experimental camp held and that paved the path for a movement called scouting. Being a passionate Scout I always wanted to visit the place once. So we went to poole harbor from Bournmouth after having some bread and egg for breakfast. Poole Harbour is the Second largest natural harbor after Syndney. Such a wonderful place. We booked a ferry and it was a 20 mins boat ride to Brownsea Island.

We reached the place after a few mins of travel in the boat(Ferry would be better) and started walking inside. Since the place was of prime importance to me and one was of the Life time visit I had to click every single rock I saw there. Again a very beautiful Island that would attract a quite of tourists!

We walked into the Scout Trail where we saw the Scout Commemorate Stone and Baden Powell Outdoor centre. I shopped all valuable Scouting accessories which I will never find in India. We took a quite few snaps in there and we tried to climb a few small cliffs but that was done meticulously so as to avoid any accidents! Time was around 4 pm when we took a ferry back to poole Harbor. I had some snacks in McD and got ready for 5 hr trip tp Norwich. Uff... that was a too long journey to take anyone's excitement and energy! and we reached home at 12 Midnight in that cold weather. My cozy bed was awaiting for me..

A trip that deserved to find a place in my personal diary! Amigo..!

Next post - no time!

Oh yes I am yet to write my trip to Dorset and Brownsea!! Jus not getting enough time and mood to pendown. Releasing soon!! :)

Alcoholic Treasure hunt!

What a day.. Bravo!
Started with Murderers.. then Coach Makers, traffors Arms, the Surrey house, Henry's and ended up in Bedford! I enjoyed it to the core and ofcourse I was educated about all good pubs at Norwich.!!
Photos awaiting to get uploaded!!.. :)