Living the dream. One day at a time.

I oh so hate sunday nights, and more after getting a fantastic four days holiday. It was indeed a much needed break, and now I am all set to finish my deadlines :). Friends from Syracuse had come over for thanksgiving and we had a total gala for full four days. We did all the possible fun things and loved them all, from shopping, cooking to visit to Aquarium, everything was just perfect. Loved Abhi for his non stop nonsense, Ashish for his witty dialogues and Shiny for his style (After all it’s one time investment ;)). The visit to New England’s Aquarium was a great experience, the fishes were absolutely spectacular, especially the gang of penguins was an eye candy. I have so many pictures to post but I think I should make a new web page for all my pictures and put them organised.

(This is me with the Moon Jelly fishes at New England Aquarium, the fishes were absolutely gorgeous)

(Penguins scratching each other)

Heard my dear niece’s voice for the first time, this 5 day old angel is the cutest thing I have ever seen.The baby girl is a total replica of my sister and her hair is exactly like mine :), pat pat baby girl !

I am on cloud 9 today :). My sister delivered a healthy baby girl, how I miss being with sis and the baby! I am so dying to take the little angel in my hands, just spoke to the baby’s father and could feel the excitment and pride in his voice (which was so unlike Nitin). It is absolutely an amazing feeling to have an angel in the family, we had been waiting for this day for so long.

This is how Neha makes this place home for me :). Can’t thank god enough for giving me so many reasons to value life more!

I am overloaded with work and need a break, exhausted physically and mentally. Can someone forward one month from today and take me in my bedroom back in India? It’s hardly a month left for my India trip back with my family, but now I’m getting impatient as the D day is approaching. I was so busy all this while that I almost forgot that I have a heart and it demands a bit a of attention. I took immense efforts to push back the feeling of being homesick, kept my mind and body so busy that when I lie in bed I can think of nothing else but to sleep. But now when I sit back and think about what has passed and what is coming ahead, I feel I need attention, a lot of pampering rather. After all I can’t always carry my usual “I am a heartless stone” tag with the same grace !

My favorite paragraph from my favorite book, ‘Notes to Myself’ gifted by my favorite friend, the book which made my journey from India to Boston a much better experience:

As I look back on my life, one of the most constant and powerful things I have experienced is the desire to be more than I am at the moment -an unwillingness to let my mind remain in the pettiness where it idles– a desire to increase the boundaries of myself –a desire to feel more, learn more, express more–a desire to grow, improve, purify, expand. I used to interpret this inner push as meaning that there was some one thing out there that I wanted to do or be or have. And I have spent too much of my life trying to find it. But now I know that this energy within me is seeking more than the mate or the profession or the religion, more even than pleasure or power or meaning. It is seeking more of me; or better , it is, thank God, releasing of me.

Notes to Myself

My struggle to become a person, Hugh Prather!