..with friends surrounded..

Land in US with a job and you will be faced with this question for sure in the first few months itself - so, do you have plans to go back? After almost seven years, I still don't have a concrete answer. Yeah, I will at right time - thats what I think and thats what you will hear from me if interrogated. A very close friend of mine decided to close his chapter here after several years and go back for good. I worked with him for just too long to believe that he wouldn't be around anymore.

We interacted with each other probably more than our better halves on a daily basis (No, we are not gays, not that anything wrong with that). Meetings, design discussions, collaborative coding, debugging sessions, there wasn't a single problem that would go unresolved. I could always walk into his cube for nothing and he would have time for me. It just felt good to be able to look upon someone for anything and everything.

Ah, coffee, it will never taste the same again. We blabbered every alternate day over coffee and it was mostly complaining and cribbing. One of the few good coffee companies I will ever have.

Satish, you know how bad it is to deal with a void pointer, I would never be able to type cast it to anything else. Wish you good luck and wish we cross the same road again.

Paper, Pen and Perfume

I don’t quite remember the occasion, when Dolly gifted me this pen. It is a pen with a built-in perfume applicator, a perfume pen. I wasn’t sure what to do with it. We don’t write letters anymore, we are the email and IM people - smileys, lol and ttyl. I can now only imagine what it was like to write to someone close.

It all starts with the paper. I would slip it between fingers, feel the texture, give it a rub, tickling the somatic sensation. I would also pick a suitable color or even a plain white with a thin cyan border. It has to be ruled, or it will be hard to align the sentences.

And the pen, have you ever used those carved out of thin bamboo wood? You have to dip it in the ink and write in 36 size font. It helps improve the handwriting. But I just loved those fountain pens. I had bought a pricey one for my 10th exam. It used to glide like a paper plane in thin air. I kept two extra nibs, just in case. But, now you can get all kind. The gel pen, the ball pen, the pilot pen, multicolor and even the one which will give that bright sparkling effect. But the paper will still probably be most pleased with the ink pen.

I never had a perfume pen though, could have definitely used on few occasions though:-) Spray a bit after you are done writing and what a treat for the olfaction. Dolly, I have either used up or dried up all the perfume in that pen, can I get another one? Also, could you pick something which is subtle and a little masculine?

About Dolly:
Dolly is a jindadil (spirited) person. Every single time I am at hers, she will ask for coffee, make at least 4 different cuisines and finally serve sundae to end the feast. I will end up having an equivalent of 1000 calorie. But, somehow I cannot stop myself; it all just so much feels like home.