Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Life in Arcturus

Arcturus is a star which receives mention in the Star Trek series as a planet which is on the borders of the Klingon, Romulan and Federation which serves as a black market for all 3. Arcturus is actually a desert with dwellings. Each dwelling is self sufficient and protected by a force field which protects the inhabitants. However leaving the forcefields is fraught with danger due to the sudden storms.

I believe it was the shock of realizing that my first vehicle would have a Haryana number which probably numbed my senses. Otherwise I wouldve realized sooner that I would be residing in earth's very own Arcturus. Just think about it. Gurgaon is this dusty place which has climate that alters between 2 and 52 deg celcius. People mostly live in complexea and each complex has it's own power back up and loads of security guards. The odd chance you walk out for a stroll you could be frozen/burnt or robbed or maybe all three :D.

Anyway Gurgaon has been kinda nice to me courtesy the time of joining which happened to be right between summer and winter. My weekend plan for Gurgaon was to head out to Shimla/Dehradun having friends in both places. So I was naturally elated to be in Mussourie for this group building exercise in GSK my new organisation. I didn't click too many pics but made some new friends and really enjoyed the natural beauty.

BTW the best reaction of my transfer came from my aunt who really couldn't understand the big deal about me going to Goregaon(which she thought was Gurgaon) :D.

Life here is going to be interesting.

Luv,

Pranay

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Evolution is a messy business. And changing the tools that people use is not the hard part — changing the way people think and the culture they work in is the hard part (in some cases, it may even be impossible).


A wise and prescient move ...congratulations. ... Good choice too..Sounds like you're going from one challenging, but exciting environment to another.
A nice change :-) Onward!
So here's to your continued success and ability.
I wish you good luck and may your gods be with you!
I've always enjoyed reading your writings;
I hope you have time to continue writing posts for your blog, especially of your travels....and ofcourse the photos.

Pranay Rao said...

Thanks. Will try and continue my blogging and of course will defly continue my photography. Nice to know that someone likes what I write:).

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