Sunday, June 05, 2005

Confessions of an idle mind(from the deep forests of Assam)

Well its not my home..I wish it were..its a very desolete hinterland called Kajiranga, home to the one horned rhino..u know what... am helpling out some uncle of mine who is making a documentary on the endangered species..the ones who are not glamorous enuf like the cheetah,killer whale or the polar bear to be featured on Animal Planet but still are on the wrong end of the wrath of human expansion and are facing extinction..its juss his effort to create some awareness on these last vestige of flora and fauna(the laughing gibbon, the pygmy hog among a few) before they are lost in time...
Its a pity that probably its gonna be telecast at a time when it will have minimal audience; when most of us will be either watching the latest episode of some US sitcom or kahani ghar ghar ki types or busy partying in a Hyatt pub..but for want of anything else to do have decided to juss explore the terrain...
And hey before u think i am doing some fundoo management of resources and team building exercises of the crew(not that i claim to be good at it either) lemme tell u all the comfort and gyaan is out of the window..its like we have to lift those gargantuan cameras and film rolls and walk in murky waters thru reeds that are strewn across what the local people call 'palakh' and if my english serves me right is called a quagmire..i myself got dragged down waist deep a couple of times but the local guides are arnd to ensure that i live to see the local trains of mumbai..so here i am writing this piece at this hour:))...
And juss to reiterate sthing again..its the closest i can get as of now to my dream of being a National Geo xplorer...but at times i think its too tough and boring also..not at all comforting..more on it later...
About a desk job being boring lemme say the answer to that will come from my end in a few months time..if i dont burn out and fade will let you knw the mantra to success in corporate boredom :P....hmmm
Now that the burden of doing an MBA is out of the picture, probably u will find out a more open sort of person in me..I am like a siphon..very hard to draw out stuff in the beginning but when i do really am juss like the hansel and gretel or tom and jerry show.. too uncomplicated, can read my mind netime....
And hey about ppl being born professionals well gosh yes..mere batch main there were some fellas who were like..Good Lord..seedhe donald trump or amurdoch khandan se lagte the..hahaha..but its nice to see ppl motivated in doing things...am most of the time demotivated with most things arnd me so nice to see change arnd me and all..lets see where my karma comes from..will play the waiting game here...And about having the best time of my life..yup in some sense..but was scared to the hilt at times cause our forest reserves are poacher ridden..so bach ke rehna padta hain..rest is ok..juss the occasional sickness due to bad weather and torrential rains in the forest..but am nowback where i can see more four wheelers than larks, so i guess am in safehands now..hurrah..only to have lung probelms due to the carbon particlesinhaled frm buses and autos :-))

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