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After a lot of reluctance I am pushing myself to revive the journal writing, this time though I am going to use a self hosted Wordpress on my site at http://tariquesani.net/blog/. Yes the URL says blog but I essentially want to keep this as a journal. No! I do not want to revive the journal vs. blog flame wars.

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Saturday I wrote to someone
(06:47:09 PM) Tarique: life SUX - it is weekend and I am dreading it

After the *adrenaline and endorphin high* from foss.in of the past week waning, I was feeling kind of lost... Had planned to hook up with some friends to go a nearby village and see the Bar-headed geese but that fizzled out. So decided to sleep late ( Read more... )

Finally it happened... the first barbecue party at the new home. While such parties were a norm almost every third week through out the winter at the old place it was just not happening here ( Read more... )

I had mentioned that 40 is considered a watershed and many who have crossed it still say "It feels no different ( Read more... )

"Modern day Americans are often trapped in lousy, disappointing, soul crushing careers. If they are not divorced already, their marriages are on the rocks. They live far outside of their means, rack up thousands of dollars of debt, and then they work overtime to pay for the toys they never have time to play with. They dedicate their lives to ( Read more... )

Woke up early yesterday morning despite a late night on Saturday and sat at the doorsteps waiting for the newspaper, perhaps it was sub conscious realization that there are very few Sunday mornings that I will get here now perhaps a couple more ( Read more... )

Once you promise you have to...  the little girl chimed , She was one of Aasim's friend asking for his bicycle for herself to ride. The sincerity with which she pleaded stuck with me ( Read more... )

Today, after lunch, myself and Swati decided to explore the neighborhood of the new place. As I have written earlier it is surrounded by rich birding ground ( Read more... )

After nearly 3 weeks of grueling 18 hour days, yesterday was a day when we did not have things lined up to be completed before the day end... in fact we had nothing lined up ( Read more... )