Saturday, November 26, 2011

25th November 2011, Black Friday

 Thanksgiving is a very important part of American culture. Black Friday is considered as the day after Thanksgiving day. For what reasons, it is considered as Black Friday, I did not find out yet, but for me, it was a day to never forget.

 Have come to Florida for Thanksgiving weekend. Spent most part of Thanksgiving day on beach, playing american football and making sandy mountains with tunnels in them. It was a wonderful day yest. Today, we decided to do all the Black Friday shopping, we have come to Panama City, Florida and the malls here are pretty good. Bought something from almost every store here, good deals for Thanksgiving! No! did not buy any electronics, mainly some clothes.

 Then we decided to go jet skiing. Last time had done that in Patayya, Thailand, its pretty simple, until we realized the might of the water, especially when it is the ocean. We had rented 2 jetskies , 90bucks for 2 hours of jet skiing seems lot of fun and yes it was lotta fun indeed, I even touched 35mps on my jet ske. After around one hour, tragedy struck. I was driving mine with my sister sitting behind and my brother-in-law was riding with my mom behind him.

 They somehow lost the balance and the jet ske toppled in the water, sounds non-threatening, untill you add three factors, first no lifeguards, second they dint know swimming, and finally it was the ocean. I was in my jet-ske and felt like jumping and trying to help my brother-in-law, my mom was saved by other jet skiers. I felt like jumping in the ocean to save my brother-in-law, but my sister said no to me as that would result in imbalance of our jet ske and was very risky.

 Finally a  bunch of folks with a motor boat saved my brother-in-law. It was an experience to remember. I did topple around three times in canoeing a couple of months back, but that was in a stream of river, this was the ocean and today we experienced its might!

Friday, November 25, 2011

From FloRIDA!

Having a mixture of feelings now. Yes I am in Panama Beach City, Florida with family and having a ball of a time. The sad part is I withdrew from my Masters study and will be heading back home soon to start from  scratch. I hope my previous experience would help me, but I want to enter the field of development for a while, from a support and administrative domain.

Leaving for India in December 1st week, as I reflect this year 2011 of my life, it had a mixture of everything. I quit Infosys job for Masters studies, came to US and enjoyed a lot with family, visiting lots of places and the goal was to stay and study, complete Masters program.

They say there two ways to live life. One is to let it happen and other is make it happen. I tried to follow the latter and did not work out so well for me. The let it happen schema was what I was living at Infosys, it was not bad, just not good enough. I realized that may be, I am not good enough, Masters program from Purdue School of Science proved too demanding and strenuous for me and I had stop it as my health was getting affected.

Right now as I am sitting in DaysInn, beach facing hotel in Florida, I have realized, choosing your destiny is a tough task and should be done carefully.It requires a lot of hardwork and persistent patience. For now I am going back to let it happen. Have No clue, what job I will get, how long will it take to get one either? I am not depressed, may be a bit sad,however, astonishingly I am a bit excited too, what’s next!!!