Here goes another one!!!

A decision made. Executed it. Another made. Plan to execute it next year. Well here is a toast to what has been so far an exciting and adventurous year. So far it has gone according to plan.

To tell the truth I always hated to have a plan and I always tried to stay away from people who has the plans till their death drawn in a pile of bullet points. But here I am trying to plan my next year. But this is not something I can leave for chance. So I better plan it.

Even though personally a new year made no much of a difference, it always brought along with it a sense of excitement. Something new to look forward to. At least psychologically. So this is a toast to a year gone, and another toast to the new one coming up. Now let me get some sleep!!

Non Existent Destination

So here I am after a gap of long, almost, 2 years giving blogging yet another shot. The last post was when I was in San Francisco back in 2009. This time, I am writing from another Non Indian place, from Manchester, a city in the North West part of England.

So what am I doing here. Yes, I have been asking that question myself for the past 5 years, irrespective of where I was at each point of time. Each time, I try to convince myself that I am gonna do something different. Come on man, all I got is one life. DO something with it. And after each attempt, I end up asking the same question. Is this what I wanted? I know sound confused, but I have come across a few like minded people. Some even give me a term for it - Mid Life Crisis. Given my age of 27, I am almost nearing what I wish to be my middle age. But is that this? May be, may be not, may be that I dont want to accept the facts.

Coming to the question of what I am doing in this part of the world. After 5 years of toiling hard for a software company(literally), I decided to give myself a break. I decided to take the adventurous route of a being a student once more. I enrolled myself into a Masters in Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Why did I chose UK? Because my GATE score got sunk in a state full of Computer Science Engineers. More than 7 lakh Computer Science Engineers wrote GATE in the year in which I wrote the exam. If you throw a stone into that crowd, it does not even stand a chance to hit the ground. So I decided to chose a different path, but my 'different' path was not so much of a different path for Indians I guess. My class here in Manchester has got a fair bit of Indian flavor to it. So much for the 'different' thinking.

So once I came here, I settled down, took a deep breath and went on to do my studies. I knew this is what I wanted. But after the end of the first Semester, when the predicted 'white' christmas is to dawn upon us, I am left contemplating - Is this all what I wanted? Where do I go next? Is there anything called a destination in life? Or the existence of a destination in life is so non-existent? Am I following a Non Existent Destination ?