Inertia

Incredible inertia. That's what is happening to me these days. What is it, I wonder? Is it laziness? Boredom? Am I just not excited enough? What is it? I really can't seem to figure out. Whatever it is, I really gotta shake it off. I really want to make Liberia happen for me.

O, and in case you were wondering, I didn't go to the TED video thing on Wednesday. And I also did not go to the mapping party yesterday. Why am I doing this to myself? If there is enough entertainment / amusement / excitement around, why am I not accessing it? Is it the guilt of not having accomplished enough that is making me deprive myself? Or is it the deprivation that is making this inertia happen?

Could think of that one till the cows come home.... :)

Iss Sheher mein....

I listen to 'sheher mein, hun main tere', the song from Rockstar, as I sit at my laptop and contemplate (nay, fantasize) about going to tomorrow's TED talks session at Ushahidi. The child in me says I'll meet interesting people. I'll make lasting friendships. I'll finally meet some nice people here. But the adult in me knows, I might not even go for it. I'll let you know how it goes. I must get out of this compound. Its getting suffocating. The same people everyday. Night and Day. You live with them. You work with them. This is what happens when work and home are in the same building, nay, on the same floor.

So, well, my first post in a long time. First post from Liberia, from Africa. And I don't have anything interesting to report.

Kenyan Giraffe

Or, do I? Actually, yes. Upar dekho. Thanks to Kenya Airways, who decided to take off from Mumbai 3 hours late, I missed my flight onward to Monrovia. And had to spend 2 days in Nairobi. And it is there that I got to go to the Nairobi national park. And we saw giraffes, zebras, wildebeests and lots of other animals. Pity we didn't have a good camera. the E72 served its purpose though. Not bad, that photo above, is it?

But since then? Nothing interesting to report. We've just been vegetating intellectually. Not that we haven't been doing anything at all. Work-wise, life has been busy. But aside from work, there's hardly anything we have done this last 1 month plus that we have been in Liberia. Its high time we do something. Kuch kiya jaaye, kya boltaay?

A day in the life of......who else? Me....

So well, another day today. Came to work, made a presentation, met a minister.... Yeah! Today we met a minister! Imagine! We were at the residence of the Home Minister of one of India's western states. So, yeah meeting a Minister, going to his place, speaking to him, shaking hands with him, you'd think its not so big. And you're right. It isn't. It was a HUGE letdown! Its like meeting any other person, only you don't understand what this one is mumbling (hehe..)

And yeah, did I tell you what I did yesterday? I had my extremely belated birthday party at this cool place in town. Well, yeah, it set us back a bit (actually, quite a lot) in terms of money, but it was good fun.

Musings for the day: Sometimes I think, why do people work? To earn a living, right? But why should one earn a living? Is money necessary beyond a point? Shouldn't we all just go back to depending on our parents? Well, yeah, I know what you'll say. Another rich spoilt kid. Yeah, so? I don't care what you think. All I know is that I'm not one of those rich spoilt kids and I still feel that way. Wonder what the really rich spoilt kids would be feeling when thrown into the real world. Maybe they would be coping better. Because, unlike middle-class kids (like moi), they wouldn't have delusions of being able to handle the big bad world on their own...

Hello Blog!

So, here I am, blogging for the first time. I have been postponing this since a long, long time. People tell me I should've started this a century ago. But, what is the point of starting something that you cannnot maintain? Or continuously update? But then, I figured, that blogging would be a release. An outlet for whatever is happening to me presented to this wide-open cyberworld to satisfy their urge for easy voyeuristic pleasures.

Remember how when we were kids, our English teacher used to tell us to maintain a daily diary? Did you ever get down to actually doing that? I always wanted to, but never did. Maybe this is a way to do that. Only difference is that it is for an audience.

Anyways, enough for the first post. Hope this blog prospers, flourishes and makes me a world-renowned writer one day! Amen to that!