Merry Holidays... Merry Christmas...

Today, my first day of "Happy Holidays"!! Yes I have 13 days of off from work and pressure !?D! Starting today...ooops! Already a day is gone :( Initially I was not sure if I will be getting this off, but when spoke to my manager y'day he asked me to take off and come charged for new challenges next year!! I guess this was the first time I spoke to him with a wide smile on my face... an involuntary smile of happiness and joy was on my face and excitement in my heart, when I heard him telling this! Though I did not have any major plans for this off, the very thought of not having to work for whole of almost 2 weeks made me give him a big smile! A bonus vacation… just after a month of my India trip, what else one can ask for?

As usual to start of the holidays... did not get up early in the morning, though I was up by 8, but whiled away time sleeping just like that in half sleep and half awake state! By 10, I started hearing noise from my stomach and at last hunger won over laziness and got up to realize that there is nothing readily available to eat! No fruit, no bread, and no cereal everything has gotten over. Luckily found a cup of Yoplait, a strawberry flavored yogurt! Morning does any one would like to eat that? No way... though I ate 2-3 spoons of it to re-fuel myself and stopped to explore the kitchen for some thing which could become my quick breakfast! nothing other than "poha" caught my eyes... saw there was just one potato left, and fresh curry leaves, green chilies, onions, pea nuts.... all the required ingredients to make a perfect aloo-poha... yummy it was ready in less than 15 mins and it was full of tummy!!

Then now any one is wondering how am I back to blogging after a long long gap? The very first reason is that... I had stopped using my desktop, which always sat in my bed-room and started using lap top all the time sitting in living room! I guess sitting in living room never gave the privacy to my thoughts when ever they tried come out...and other reason being I’m not spending time with myself...I’m on the run all the time! Today first thing I did was, get a table and chair back into my bed room, have laptop installed onto this table and got back the feeling of using the desk top!! No not really :) its just sitting in the room is what that gives me all the clarity to thoughts... and hence is this post today! And that’s how my afternoon went off ... setting my table and tiding up the room!

Then came evening, watched Gajani as planned, first day's show not first show though! And a dinner at friends place and bit of chit-chat and then thought of heading back home! It was almost around 11:30 did not realize how time just flew... but some how when I stepped out of the house, my sleep had gone! There were rain drops on my face and eyes and this cold breeze of Dec pushed my drowsiness to back seat and brought myriad thoughts to front seat! As I buckled my seat belt, turned on heater and started the car towards home... road was pretty much deserted... just one or two cars on the road hear and there and well decorated and brightly lit historic El-Camino Real in its majestic form...as I started driving, started enjoying the drive and did not feel like going home... just continued without making a right turn for my home! Crossed Mary then realized that its Marry Christmas tomorrow... and today is Xmas eve... no wonder! Everyone must be at home with their family and friends and is the reason for these empty road and drive. I crossed couple of roads ahead and then reached Castro of mountain view, but this drive was not enough for me and did not feel like taking a U turn... again went ahead for few more miles...it felt very nice, calm, quiet and serene... a feeling not wanting anything and a feeling of contentness... by then realized its already crossed 12 and a baby Jesus is already born...somewhere... "Happy Birthday to you Jesus" I whispered to myself... and at last took a U-turn, heading back home. By the time I parked car it was 12:40 AM. I got down from the car and walked towards home... there were no drops on my face...there was no rain... a cold wind was blowing and trees were dancing to the choreography of the breeze flowing between them...