In Midst of Festivities

Its festival season!

Diwali is around. Everyone is happy. Monday, the 27^th is a holiday. All are going home. But here I am, mitigating or more of, helping to mitigate collisions! (Referring to my project:))

I am not at all being boastful out here, but I should confess that, the term which many software engineers dread of, the term “BENCH” is something, that I have never got to experience. I am sure, no one in my team would ever complain of not having work. May be I am missing out experiencing something, am I?

I would prefer not, still. 

Getting back, we are drowned in issues. Each one pops out of nowhere when we are just about to get back to normal work. Issues are good. They help you to learn more and deeper into what you are doing, and how exactly it should be done and all, but it takes a hell lot of time from you that, it becomes hard to find time out to do your regular work. The bottom line is, the team ends up kind of working 24 X7.

In the middle of all this, people are busy wishing “Happy Diwali” to whomsoever around and bidding adieu for a much awaited vacation. 

I just want to get out house (of office!). We four of us have planned on a trip and I am raring to go.

My parents are angry with me over the trip plans. All they want me is to stay home and take rest. Of late I was tripping hard and getting caught with cold and other unhealthy situations. Their concerns are very much genuine, but I just can’t let this trip go. 

I was thinking about it myself. It’s been a year in Bangalore and I have seen and been to more places than aunty at home. She keeps complaining about me not staying at home when Binu (her daughter) comes. Either there would be classes, or I would have gone to native or there would be a TRIP.

 

I have discovered myself, that its one thing I enjoy doing other than writing, reading, talking and sleeping. Now, that’s pretty a saturated list. I do not feel even a pinch of boredom even after exhaustive doing of any of this!!! 

This time, I was visiting the Banergatta National Park. I am not planning on writing anything about that visit as my good friend GMW has agreed on penning the travelogue as his first blog entry. I am so very sure, that it would be sumptuous read.

We had with us two great, creative, naturally talented photographers. We got to be part of some technically sound pictures. In between, we also got to witness some lavish cursing too, from one of them, as he dint possess an SLR as the other did. 

We were lazing around seeing the animals and wondering how simple and uncomplicated their life is!

It is so easy for them. They just have to get up, have something during the day, just lie like that in the cage, or just laze around in the open, at times strike a pose or two and then again doze off. No work to do, no commitments to make, no one to report to. They don’t have to make money to feed their children, never have to fill their bank accounts or drop cheques!

The one thing that they may be lacking is freedom but that too is there in these national parks. They are left out in open. So, I guess there’s nothing to complain about. Good food, enough freedom and great life. All the more, getting pictured too. People pay to see them!

But sad that they do not have brains to realize that, had they, they would not remain animals, don’t they? Strange:) 

This vacation time has been till now one with animals and wildlife and getting to know more about Earth.

I am seeing ‘Planet Earth’, the series from BBC. It’s a comprehensive documentary series covering almost everything on earth, from the poles to mountains, from caves to deserts, jungles to shallow seas and what not. I have just started to watch them and look at me; I cannot stop writing about it. 

I am mesmerized by the lucid narration of David Attenborough. Every single still in this motion picture is classic stuff. The chase being the best, where the technique of filming coupled with rich photography skills and some amazing soulful narration has made it exhilarating. One cannot stop wondering the amount of pains taken to make such a great informative and all-inclusive, widely accepted series of documentaries. It would have been so much of an adventure in itself and all the more of fun, pleasure, contentment and satisfaction. 

The cinematography is awesome, be it the penguins of the Antarctic, the polar bear of the Arctic, the cherry blossoms of Japan during the spring time, the wild dogs chasing the impala, the puma of the Andes, the Rockies, the Karakorum, the snow leopard or the Grand Panda of China. 

I am quite sure that as I continue to watch them, I would be more eager to write about them, which I would love to:) 

Signing off for now but promising with more of the “Planet Earth”:)